GatorBait19 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Games that you use to love playing and now you look back and see how boring they really were or that you really miss it for me it was the Oregon Trail pretty much you went from NY to the west and set up your life, along the way you faced challenges and other sorts on your way man I loved that game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHK1978 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I was playing Aerobiz for Sega Genesis (Yes my Genesis still works nearly perfectly I might add that is more then I can say for my XBOX and XBOX 360.) the other day and man is that game fun. Yeah the graphics are very outdated but that does not detract from the game being fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 There really aren't many games that I would feel are "outdated" or ugly. I was never a fan of cool graphics and am sad to see how today's games sometimes relay so heavily on the graphics that there's nothing behind them. Whenever I read a review of a game that has 10 to 20 hours of gametime and no replay value, it pisses me off. Games I love to this day: 1.) Settlers 1, Amiga 1200. The best there ever was. It had such unique look and I've spend hundreds and hundreds hours playing it. Probably one of my favourite games ever. Used to play this on hotseat with my little brother, man those were the days. 2.) WWF Attitude, PSX. The first wrestling game I ever bought. And I hadn't watched wrestling prior to buying this, I just read the review of the game on a magazine. I loved it and the game is really responsible for my interest in wrestling as it started it all. Still think that it has the best game mechanics since you don't have to grapple in order to make a move (I don't know how it is in newer games since I haven't played anything new, my latest this kind of games would be FPW2 and No Mercy on N64.) 3. Civilization II, PSX. Another one that I spend countless hours on. And I learned english and history from it since I actually read the profiles and information on the technology and such. It's always nice to take a nostalgic trip to past once in a while.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GatorBait19 Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 when I said out dated, I meant like games you haven't played in forever and you just come across it and you're like, what the hell, why did I stop playing this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladamire Dracos Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Games that you use to love playing and now you look back and see how boring they really were or that you really miss it for me it was the Oregon Trail pretty much you went from NY to the west and set up your life, along the way you faced challenges and other sorts on your way man I loved that game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game) Hey GatorBait, Westward Trail is a free-to-play browser based version of Oregon Trail. I used to play Oregon Trail all the time at school growing up back in Ohio. The irony of that now is not lost on me. For my part, Maniac Mansion (Commodore 64 or NES version) and River City Ransom (NES/Wii VC) are two of my all time favorite games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHK1978 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I love the Civilization games! I am sitting in front of the first three as I type this. I also would like to add the Sim City and Sims games to this as they were always great fun. And the original Tropico, I got it for free and I love the game. You basically run a Banana Republic and the game has a wicked sense of humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACCBiggz Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Oregon Trail. I remember going to this like RV type thing outside where they had a few Apple's back in like 1994-1995 with Oregon Trail on those big discs. You had to do a few math exercises on the computers first and then could play. Eventually they got a computer room with Windows and floppy discs... Oregon Trail was a favorite again; until... the internet. Then we surfed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tristram Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 It's funny, this thread is up at another forum I post at... Test Drive: Duel The Cycles Indianapolis 500 Police Quest series Quest for Glory series Leisure Suit Larry series Kings Quest series Black Cauldron ...I loved the old Sierra games Railroad Tycoon... its funny, I was in NYC recently and I saw Cornelius Vanderbilt's statue out the back of Grand Central and JP Morgan Building around the corner and I'm thinking... Railroad Tycoon icons. Yeah baby. Takedown Wrestling Centurion Defender of Rome Theme Park Battle of Britain So many of these games had wicked cheats, or little hidden ways around things. In Theme Park I remember you had to negotiate with the unions when they wanted pay rises for their employees and it'd be like two hands trying to connect with the left side behind the less, and the right side being much more pay. You'd go a long way out, and then haul your hand back and all of a sudden you had the union accepted a pay cut. Good work, douches. Or Battle of Britain, you'd take control of a German bomber, and then turn back for Germany instead of doing the bombing leaving your mates for dead, and then the Brits would come after you and you'd sit in gunner position and flog them. You'd parachute halfway back across the British Channel and for your efforts get the equivalent of the Victoria Cross. Or Indy 500, you'd do like a 10 lap race. But instead of going forward, you'd turn around and crash everyone else out and then mosey on at a very comfortable pace to win easily. Railroad Tycoon though had the best little hidden extra, you'd buy up heaps of Powerplants with many you didn't have, and all of a sudden the game would go troppo, so you'd have $30,000,000 in debt, but all of a sudden the game recognised it as cash reserves. So all of a sudden you had a load of powerplants and cash to do whatever you wanted with. I love trawling the abandonware sites, without necessarily downloading any of them just to remember those wonderful times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsmeister Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Premier Manager 3 Player Manager 2 Extra Settlers 2 Transport Tycoon WWF No Mercy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHK1978 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I remember Centurion Defender of Rome! I hated that game at first but grew to love it over time. In fact that is how I found out that France used to be called Gaul! Railroad Tycoon was another great game as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesterx7769 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Theme Hospital, I was quite addicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eayragt Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Or Indy 500, you'd do like a 10 lap race. But instead of going forward, you'd turn around and crash everyone else out and then mosey on at a very comfortable pace to win easily. Guilty as charged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderndaywarrior Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Man,there's a ton of games I loved,and still do......Wasteland,the Bard's Tale series and most of the D&D Gold Box games on the C64,as well as a good chunk of the NES/SNES/Genesis library of games...the other kids can have all the bells and whistles they want,I'm still happy playing Columns and the original Metroid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMcFly Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Gravitar and Space Invaders. Nuff Said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capelli King Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Space Invaders. Nuff Said Man you must be my age, i used to love that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyde Hill Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 X-Com aka UFO probably the first pc game I fell in love with. Also a shout out too Aerobiz started my love for management/bussiness games. Tropico/Civ are also favs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderndaywarrior Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I remember playing quite a bit of Aerobiz(good game) and Darklands(one of the first sandbox type games i can remember) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Casey Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 X-Com aka UFO probably the first pc game I fell in love with. Amen to that. Never really got into the sequels, but UFO was - and is - nearly flawless. One of the all-time great games, still runs on modern PCs (Patched - as it's abandonware you can find it fairly easily) and the only game so good that I've willingly paid for it three times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condors Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 still play x-com pretty fequently games i miss: miss tunnels of doom on ti994a autoduel on apple II bandit kings of ancient china on nintendo uncharted waters on genisis old games i still play or want to play warlords 3 dark lords rising, heroes of might and magic, might and magic, wizardary, bards tale, wasteland, master of orion, master of magic and lots of others that i am not including Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slack Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Guilty as charged Isn't that a Dewey Cox song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Edwards Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 i would have to say Age of Empires and FF7, can't seem to find AOE anymore besides illegaly but i just download FF7 the other week off of the PSN and started to play that game again just got out midgar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comradebot Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 X-Com aka UFO probably the first pc game I fell in love with. Also a shout out too Aerobiz started my love for management/bussiness games. Tropico/Civ are also favs. My GOD I love those games. Well, the three originals anyways, particularly the first. I remember going to Mars and thinking "I wonder which of my most awesome agents are gonna die here?" Turns out only a handful of nobodies who were part of the "C" team I had. Meanwhile, my main again (a super badass German guy) took out the entire final room's worth of aliens all by himself. Love that the original three X-Com's are all available on Steam. Lord knows I missed those games, and still play them today. I honestly miss alot of the old Maxis games, particularly the usually superior versions for the SNES. SimAnt and SimEarth were fun ways to waste a few hours when I was little. SimAnt in particular. I have to think a modernized version of the game would be legendary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgriff3029 Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 Baseball Stars on the Nintendo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpion Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 without getting into the old school stuff I grew up on, I'll just mention the game that brought my friends and I the most entertainment: Golden Eye imho, its still the best first person shooter ever developed. We played it for 5 or 6 years when i was on camp staff, even as newer games came out it was still the most popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrestleManiac Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I used to love Crystal Castle on my dad's Atari when I was younger. A football game called Striker (which nobody seems to remember and I'm not sure if it's real of I dreamed it!) on my Amstrad CPC 464. Phantasy Star on Master System II and Streets of Rage 2 on Mega Drive, which I now have on Xbox 360. Double Dragon on NES. Resident Evil on PS1. Fable on Xbox. WWF No Mercy on N64. Rome: Total War and Championship Manager 3 on PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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