I'm curious as to what 'oldies' you enjoyed; I'm asking because I currently playing Commandos 1 and it's great fun! Much more fun than many recent titles I played.

I'll list some of the ones I enjoyed myself:

- King's Quest VI
- Gabriel Knight I & 2
- Quest for Glory II, III and IV
- Monkey Island I, II, III
- Full Throttle
- Sam&Max
- Loom
- Day of The Tentacle
- Dynablaster
- Alley Cat
- Dragonsphere
- Laxius Power I, II, III
- Wonderboy
- Goldenaxe
- Street Fighter II
- Super Mario Brothers I, II and III
- Lighthouse
- Anachronox
- Double Dragon
- Oni
- Commando's
- ...


So what's your list?

- DOOM1 & DOOOM2
- Dune 2
- Keen
- Mortal Combat
- M.A.X

Owww yeah! How could I ever forget Commander Keen?

And Dune belongs to my list too, but the original one. Never played Dune II.

Dune & Dune 2 are very similar, like doom & doom2
What about 'Prehistotic'?

Oh... there are some nice memories...
- Hanse
- Commando
- Pacman
- Kaiser
- Patrizier
- Marble Madness
- Rambo
- NHL94
- Sam&Max
- Mokey Island
- Elite
- Tau Ceti
- Turrican I + II
- Mission Impossible
- Bruce Lee
- Barbarian
- Little Computer People
and so on and so on...

Here's mine:

Quake 2 and its addons
Unreal Tournament
Madden99 /2000
NHL 2000 / 2002
Need for speed
Sim City
Rainbow Six Eagle Watch
Some old baseball game I can't remember the name of, but thought it was great on windows 3.11

Monkey Island
Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis
Xenon 2 : Megablast
Turrican
Zool
Robocod
The Addams Family
Dune and some more I can´t remember

Oldies include

Doom 1 & 2
commander keen
Masters of orion
Tower Assualt
Dune
lemmings
xcom

ahhhhh good times!

The original Zelda game on the nes. I know it isn't a pc game but wow, It is sweet. Also Scorched Earth, as well as the old school 80's Wheel of Fortune and Jepoardy!

Oooh, I almost forgot:

California games! ^^

Definitely the ones mentioned so far, but another I played that was really cool was "Future Wars".

These I Love: Lemmings, Chip's challenge and Zelda.

-G

Don't forget Grim Fandango.

Grim Fandango and ... Ghost's n' Goblins and BomberJack!

BTW: I found a CD with 500 C-64 games for PC for 5 bucks. I will install that on my girlfriends PC (She still uses WinME. ) and see if I am still able to play some of those funny games.

The best game included there: FROGGER!!!

Battlezone 1 (from 1998) wasted far too much time and money on that game. Never really seen anything since in the first person strategy genre that compares and the follow-up was disappointing.

Bump

King's Quest - any of the early ones (up to V)
Space Quest - I & II
Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D
Descent - 1,2,3
Freespace - 1,2
Cyberia 1 & 2


I don't know if those last three are "oldies", but they're freakin' awesome anyways

Is that "Cyberia" or "Syberia"? Cause both exist.

my first console games were on the atari with space invaders, asteroids, frogger, and pac-man. they were fantastic. on the compy, there was some weird bass fishing game that my cousin had that i loved. but we also played sim city all the time. i also play doom and the original wolfenstein, but they always made me sick after about 2 hours. on a mac i also played this game called spectre and pong.

good times.

Cyberia...

Of course Doom and Doom 2
Pacman (I have an awesome clone on my pc)
Then there's Myst,Riven and Exile (Totally addicted)
and Starcraft and Brood War.
And to an extent Warcraft II but not as much as starcraft.
And back to the old days with Good old LodeRunner

Pong.

Pacman
Space Invaders
Space Quest Series
Kings Quest Series
Donkey Kong
Heroe's Quest / Quest for Glory
Sonic the Hedgehog
Super Mario Brothers
Monkey Island Series
Beneath a Steel Sky
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Tetris
Alleycat
Monty's Revenge
UFO
Amazon
Wing Commander I & II
Day of the Tentacle
Mortal Kombat I
Goonies
NBA Jam (the megadrive version)
TMNT 1
Metal Slug
Cool Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja
Street Fighter
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Cop
etc. etc.

I could probably go on all day. I've owned any number of PCs since the 8086, spent many hours in arcades and I had an old Atari system with Tanks and really old stuff that I bought second hand when I was like 9 years old. A friend of mine had a ZX and I also bought an old Tandy 200 laptop that was already ancient when I found it. I hand-coded some games on there, but soon lost interest lol (reading through bible-thick reams of code and hacking them in before playing - and then losing them - is not my idea of fun).

I also had a NES, a Master System, A Megadrive (known as Genesis in America), A Sega Nomad and then I skipped the 32 and "64" bit phase and went straight to the Playstation 1, the the GBA and then the PS2, all the while upgrading my computer and playing on that too.

I've been a gamer since I remember. Now I'm restricted to my Powerbook and my PC (when it's not in a million pieces) and I'm seriously considering getting a Nintendo DS Lite... when the Wii comes out I will get either that or an XBox 360. I just wish I had more time for my oldest hobby

Ooh ooh - Dune (the strat game)... and and Doom I and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and....

UFO: Terror from the Deep [1]
UFO
The Incredible Machine


i once played a sharewaregame that called somewhat like 'gearheads' which was pretty addicting. the premise was you have a chessboard like playing field and then you unleash a variety of wind-up toys to get to the other side. each toy has its own strengths and weaknesses (great power but slow, fast but too easy to push, moves in zigzag pattern, etc.). my brother and i had a blast making pileups in the middle of the board.

anybody know what exactly is the name of that game? gear and head reveal too much hits on google. :(

[1] I like drilling lobstermen.

ciao!

For me it goes something like this -

DooM
DooM II
Final DooM
Quake + SOA, DOE Mission Packs
Quake II + TR, GZ Mission Packs
Quake III Arena + Quake III Team Arena
Descent
Descent 2
Wipeout 2097 (You may know it as WipeoutXL) Perhaps the best racing game EVA


I find it hard, well actually, I find it impossible to play any game that isn't in the First Person view, not just Shooters, any game, be it a racing game what ever, if it's not in First Person View I won't even consider it. I've tried lots of games, Half Life series, Unreal Series, Far Cry, and on and on, but they don't last long, I don't even bother finishing most of them, I always find myself returning to the Quake and DooM series of games. They just have the feel, the gameplay, the fast action that I like, too me nothing else comes close, they give me what I want.

Of course I would put DooM3, DooM3 Roe, and Quake 4 in there, but that may not fit in with 'Oldies' theme

How about Gobliiins I and II?

free download at HOTU (home of the underdogs)!

1. http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Gobliiins+1
2. http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=463

Anyone else play this?

Also, I loved Alleycat and Beast, my first 2 games I ever played...

Ooooh, where do I start.....

Double Dragon
Final Fight
Street Fighter (in particular II)
Eternal Champions
Streets of Rage (1-3)
Mortal Kombat
Sonic the hedgehog
Golden Axe
Forgotten Worlds
Bomberman
Shinobi
Super Mario Bros
Zelda


Will add more as i remember them

pffft, people with gaming consoles. what a waste! back in the day I only had a computer! no consoles were allowed in my house, and i prefer gaming on a computer anyways

I'm sure there were/are quite a few cool games available for console that aren't available for PC though...

On the BBC: Revs, Thrust, Elite, Jetpac, Citadel, Monsters, Chuckie Egg
Archimedes: Interdictor (fantastic flight/attack sim)
Arcade: RType2, Sega Rally
PlayStation: Wipeout (the first one, not 2097) especially linked up 2-player, Bubble Bobble (like Frozen Bubble), Micro Machines
On the PC: Just the usual Doom, Quake and Descent, although there was a patch for Doom which turned it into something out of the film "Aliens" which was verrrry scary...

the big issue for us was that i was a kid and mom and dad bought me video game consoles. they didn't cost $2000 at the time and were far more movable. even when they bought a computer, they didn't trust me on it for about 2 years. they thought i'd break it. silly parents. in retrospect, i can't blame them.

Console gaming just feels right. Relaxing on the couch is a more logical place to game (which is for relaxation... with me anyway) than sitting upright in an office chair.

I've always played games on anything that can do it - computer, console, arcade... even on my iPaq, mobile phone and iPod... but a console is the preferred platform.

Some more I've remembered:
Commander Keen
Duke Nukem
Final Fight
... I had a fighter game with robots on my 386... can't remember the name... it rocked.
Loom
4x4
California Games
Skate or Die
Search for the King
Macross
Top Gun
Prince of Persia

ha...sitting upright. that's why you get a comfortable, leaning chair!

Still don't beat the couch bruv

This may show my age, but I used to enjoy arcade type games on my PC including:

Raptor
Flying Tigers (I and II)
Overkill
Epic Pinball

All are playable using dosbox on linux, but the speed of some of them is too slow to be enjoyable. The mindless shooting was very relaxing.

Some windows games that were fun include:

DX-Ball
Full Tilt! Pinball (cutdown version was in some versions of Windows)
Shanghai Dynasty

I also enjoy playing some of the arcade games that are emulated under MAME (galaxian, gyruss, 1941, puyo puyo, truxton etc) , and of course I own all of the ROMS. ahem. The Metal Slug games were a lot of fun but are not playable under recent versions of MAME.

Not advisable when the keyboard and mouse are used. It's ok relaxing with say a joypad, complicate things and you really need to sort yer posture out.

Anyway between consoles and PC's both have their merits.

I would rather be playing a First Person style or strategy game on a PC, but absolutely hate doing so on a console, sorry but the whole mouse and keyboard combo beats a joypad ands down in this instance.

But when it comes to your traditional beat-em ups/action/platform/sports games consoles win hands down. Okay yo can get a joypad/stick for a PC, but IMHO, they don't compare in quality terms with say a joypad on a playstation, or a megadrive, etc.

I totally agree. I have tried playing FPS' on a console and it just doesn't work, except on the DS where you can use a thumb-stylus to look around, works very well

I stopped enjoying strat games so much a while ago but I still like FPS' and I love World of Warcraft - couldn't play that on a console though, need a keyboard for chatting and stuff.

The best control pad I've used imho is the Playstation dual-shock controller. It's a pity they've dropped that design for the PS3 - yet another dumb decision by Sony. The Xbox 360 controller is nice and I can't wait to see if the Wii lives up to the hype.

Back on topic: I have MacMAME loaded on my powerbook and I have found some rad old ROMS. Been reliving Ghost & Ghouls, Final Fight, Bubble Bobble and some of my other old arcade favourites

speaking of ROMs - I'm an avid Castlevania fan. I don't know why, but that series of games is just freakin awesome. i need an SNES emulator for my macbook.

oh yeah, and a game i forgot to mention earlier (and i have no idea why, 'cuz it just rocks):
The Black Cauldron

ditto! i spent hours with castlevania ii on the nes. what a great game. man i miss my old nintendo.

i've got to give props to the xbox 360 with gotham project racing though. man. what an awesome driving game.

Speedball 2
Sensible Soccer (lots of different versions)
Kick Off 2
Syndicate
Cannon Fodder 1 & 2
Supercars 2
Shinobi
Wonderboy in Monsterland
Spy vs Spy
Secret of Monkey Island
Barbarian
F15 Strike Eagle 2
AH-73M Thunderhawk
It came from the Desert 2
Lotus Turbo Challenge 1,2 & 3
Populous 2
Utopia
Cabal
North & South
Alien Breed
Pinball Dreams & Fantasies
Dynablasters
IK+
Pang
R-Type 1 & 2
Xenon 2
Microprose F1 GP
Super Off Road
Aliens
Italia 90
Virus
Tekken
Wip3out
Command & Conquer
Mario Kart

That's a 'few' of them

Ok, there's been many good games, but really on top were:

- Elite (THE best game for many, many years.)
- Silent Service I+II (Aaah - the destroyer's coming!)
- Civilization (*Real* strategy, no bustling action game on maps AKA "real time strategy".)
- FATE - Gates of Dawn (Biggest CRPG I've ever seen or bought with only very best awards, but economically a loss - sad story.)
- UFO - Enemy Unknown (Addictive from the beginning even before having the first small squad.)
- Ports of Call (Are there still people playing computer games together, i.e. not online but in front of the screen?)
- Pinball Dreams/Pinball Fantasies (Why there's no good pinball game today?)

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