Your 3 fondest PC games memories.
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Oh yes! How could I have missed Civilization, and SimCity too? "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
Always fun to play a little Joust, but don't kick your machine like you're in the arcade! :laugh:
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I'll give 5, in chronological order: The original Tetris. (It's still the best version!) Descent 3. (This was the first first person shooter that really really hooked me. For me, it was the first that showed what really was possible. This was also the first computer games my kids really started playing in earnest.) No One Lives Forever. (No game before or since has quite matched the pure joy of this game, though World of Warcraft comes close.) Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun. (The first strategy game that hooked me. My kids and I still occasionally play it to this day.) World of Warcraft. (I was skeptical, but my oldest son really wanted it. He saved some money, I built a faster computer and we bought it. I created a character and next thing you know I'm totally hooked. So hooked, I went from playing through a new game once a month, to playing through only three within the last fifteen months [Including Doom 3, which sucked, and Half Life 2, which was decent.]) [EDIT: I should add that my truly fondest memories aren't the games themselves, but how excited my kids would get, and still get, when I play them. My youngest son especially loves to sit next to me and just watch and help. We made a good team. I can't count the times I'd be standing in a virtual room scratching my head as to what to do next when my nine-year-old son would impatiently tell me the solution to the puzzle. Some fathers connect with their boys through baseball, I do so through computer games. So, anyone who mocks computer games can just go to hell as far as I'm concerned.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
Defender, Kaboom, and Grand Prix on my old Atari 2600 (not exactly PC but hey), back in the day :-D
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Always fun to play a little Joust, but don't kick your machine like you're in the arcade! :laugh:
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Yes! MAME is quite cool. My little brother and his friend have been building a MAME cabinet for the past couple months or so :-D
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Gosh...my fondest memories dated waaaay before (but not before you Amiga and Commodore owners out there). RPG Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate Might and Magic IV (I think that's the best of the classic I-V) Ultima V and VI: The False Prophet, I'd say VII is the pinnacle of Ultima. Strategy Sword of Aragon Romance of Three Kingdom I-III Civilization Simulation SimCity & SimCity 2000 Railroad Tycoon Theme Park Adventure Monkey Island Loom Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis (all these by LucasArt). There are plenty more that I've forgotten, but those gems above will do ;). (Ok, the total is much more than three...but I can't help it :-O) "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia -- modified at 2:34 Thursday 20th July, 2006
Edbert P wrote:
Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis
This was a great game. So good, a few years ago, I bought the latest Indiana Jones game. It sucked. Badly. What a shame. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Yes! MAME is quite cool. My little brother and his friend have been building a MAME cabinet for the past couple months or so :-D
Nice! :cool: The keyboard doesn't quite cut it on some of those games where you need 2 joysticks, like Robotron.
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Nice! :cool: The keyboard doesn't quite cut it on some of those games where you need 2 joysticks, like Robotron.
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Steve Echols wrote:
The keyboard doesn't quite cut it on some of those games where you need 2 joysticks,
Last time I talked to my little brother, they were having an argument over the control pad. I stepped in and suggested not to go overboard on the buttons like you see on some of the MAME cabinets out there.
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
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Steve Echols wrote:
The keyboard doesn't quite cut it on some of those games where you need 2 joysticks,
Last time I talked to my little brother, they were having an argument over the control pad. I stepped in and suggested not to go overboard on the buttons like you see on some of the MAME cabinets out there.
That's a tough one, but I would think 2 joysticks, 4 buttons and a trackball per player would suffice for most games. Of course, I'm old school - those new fangled XBox/PS controllers just blow my mind! And then, having said that, my keyboard has 101 keys, so who knows...
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Always fun to play a little Joust, but don't kick your machine like you're in the arcade! :laugh:
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Metal Slug? Snow Bros? or the classic Altered Beast? :-D "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia
Haven't played any of those, but I'll check them out (during compiles of course :))
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
1. Playing Elite on my Amstrad PC1512 - I spent hours playing this 2. Star Wars: Dark Forces - The level where you were wandering around Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer, so atmospheric you believed you could turn a corner and run into Vader. 3. Civilisation - The first time you play it properly and you lose the entire day and night to the game. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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That's a tough one, but I would think 2 joysticks, 4 buttons and a trackball per player would suffice for most games. Of course, I'm old school - those new fangled XBox/PS controllers just blow my mind! And then, having said that, my keyboard has 101 keys, so who knows...
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Steve Echols wrote:
That's a tough one, but I would think 2 joysticks, 4 buttons and a trackball per player would suffice for most games.
That is what I suggested to my brother and his friends. Awww hell, what do I know, I am so old school that when I first started playing PS2 games, I had to get used to all the buttons on the controller :laugh: :zzz:time :) Paul
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I know you said Age of anything, but are you only referring to the ES games, or do you like other stuff such as Age of Rifles as well? Cheers, Vikram.
"I am not Jesus and will never be. The fact is I was a piece of cr*p till I found Him." - Paul Selormey.
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
Here I'm taking "PC" to mean "Personal Computer" not "Wintel box" - I haven't really played many PC games recently, it's mostly consoles nowadays - far too expensive to keep up with the upgrades to play the latest games! Fish! by Magnetic scrolls - a great text adventure I spent hours playing back on the ZX spectrum, and again for more hours on the Amiga when I got a better version of the same game with extra graphical goodness The Secret of Monkey Island (Amiga again) - no intro needed, I think! Frontier (Amiga yet again) - somehow I managed to miss out on the buzz of Elite the first time round, but I ended up really hooked by Frontier, flying the universe with my tricked out Viper :) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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Fallout (I love this game, first RPG that made me crazy) StarCraft (I used to stayed up all night and played on battle.net) Diablo 2 (the reason I signed up for DSL, the fastest connect I could get at the time)
Final Fantasy VII. Best RPG ever. Heroes of Might and magic 2. AI for this game was great. Its better than most people. Starcraft.
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Yes! MAME is quite cool. My little brother and his friend have been building a MAME cabinet for the past couple months or so :-D
Do you have to buy game cartridge for the machine? I read somewhere it used to cost $200-$300 a game. And someone came up with a CD-version of MAME but I don't know whether it's publicly available or not. "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - Ross Edbert Sydney, Australia
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I know you said Age of anything, but are you only referring to the ES games, or do you like other stuff such as Age of Rifles as well? Cheers, Vikram.
"I am not Jesus and will never be. The fact is I was a piece of cr*p till I found Him." - Paul Selormey.
I prefer ES , but Once I played a game called TZAR - The Burden of the crown It's not from ES but was excellent.What I played was a demo version :(.. Now I'm really not getting time to sit for games. Soon I'll free myself up and start collecting the games again. :cool:.. You know , I played very little campaigns in AOE3 and too little AOM.. they are cool, but something in AOE-II Conqueror attaracts me the most. I never get enough of it :). I love the spanish civilization.. and you? and you still play games at home?
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