Question tiem!
What is your favourite old game? I have had an urge last couple of days to play a Sherlock Holmes point and click game and was hunting for it and stumbled across Seymour Goes To Hollywood which I suddenly have an urge to play too (not to mention the Dizzy games!)
Use your brain meats to think of other old gayms you should play again (Also found a Sam and Max adventure which is apparently abandonware so I will probably be giving that a crack too )
I don't think Sam and Max is abandonware Fabbles, fairly sure in fact given developers still exist and there's been recent updates to the series.
Still, it's great so play it!
As for my favourite old game - old rpg's such as Fallout and Baldur's Gate. I play them once or twice a year. I did start Dungeon Keeper 2 not that long ago and then forgot all about it because it doesn't grape my squildo as much as the first one, DK was better than its sequel.
I played through a load of old shooters like quake and doom recently, they just look too shit to put up with sometimes. But it was worth it to run all the way through from the originals to the latest incarnations.
My favourite, oldest game is Bomb Jack. It was the first game I played so much that I ended up dreaming about it. But before I went to bed that night my parents let me watch Alien. So in fact I had nightmares about aliens chasing me in a Bomb Jack world. Although that hasn't stopped me loving both. Just not together or at the age of 12.
After that it has to be R-Type. I still play it occasionally and still can't get passed the giant ship level.
So many choices. I've revisited a number of point-and-clicks, as they seem to age quite well. Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Beneath a Steel Sky, and of course the Monkey Islands. X-Com/UFO also still has massively appealing gameplay, but it runs like a dog on modern machines and the UI is pretty clunky by today's standards.
I'm actually downloading the now freeware Mechcommander 2 at home, so that gets my vote today.
Dog Pants wrote:X-Com/UFO also still has massively appealing gameplay, but it runs like a dog on modern machines and the UI is pretty clunky by today's standards.
I has an Amiga with it on, I also has an Amiga Emulator with it on, and it does not run like a dog on the emulator.
Does Simcity 4 (2003) count as old enough? It fell onto my computer during the LAN and as you can tell from my XFire profile it's been keeping me busy all week. Bloody thing.
Anything from 1999-onwards I haven't played yet still seems like something I just haven't got around to yet. I bought Anachronox and Septerra Core this week, along with three PS2 games. Perhaps I'll draw a line in 2010, but I still like to check out the origins of games.
There are so many I've missed and I always think I'll catch up one day, but never do. The PSP/DS promise reliving so many of the earlier console classics, but unless I actually have to play on them, I rarely do.
That leaves little time for replay of classics, but I know I'll periodically find 50 or so hours each for my Dreamcast beauties now and again.
I think I've admitted my C64 games are finally dead, though I still can't bear to dispose of my MegaDrive collection. Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition NTSC is still my most expensive game purchase to this date (£90) and I haven't played a purer beat-em-up since. The emulations and 360-arcade versions are just wooly and meh, and Mortal Kombat was always a slug in comparison.
friznit wrote:Does Simcity 4 (2003) count as old enough? It fell onto my computer during the LAN and as you can tell from my XFire profile it's been keeping me busy all week. Bloody thing.
During the 2007 summer period away from Uni, I played Sim city from 10am till about 9pm nearly every single day. I was hooked after I actually managed to maintain a city for the first time ever.
I had to uninstall it just to stop me from playing it.
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oh god this.
