Your 3 fondest PC games memories.

[Simon Capewell]

I could never cope with the full-on 3d that Descent plunged you into. Give me a floor to stand on, dammit!

[Chris Losinger]

Ultima III Tomb Raider II Unreal Tournament - spent many many hours designing levels Do the chickens have large talons?

[Dan Neely]

Edbert P wrote:

Sword of Aragon

This game had a very good opening, but unless you tried to occupy the giants/titans cities the 2nd half had very underpowered opposition. IT wasn't really long enough either. :-/ My top 3: Moo1 Sim City 2k Stars!

[Roger Wright]

1. PONG - I spent many hours in a coffee shop with one of the designers sketching and analyzing circuit designs and trying to get video rates up to an acceptable speed. That was nearly impossible, and was one of the most important features of the game, as the TTL technology at the time was first generation - slow, noisy, and power hungry. The folks at DGI finally whipped the problem, and began the revolution. Me, I just had a blast brainstorming designs, drinking coffee and beer late at night in their factory in San Dimas with Dan, playing the prototypes and fiddling with ideas. 2. Space Invaders - Played on a HP dumb terminal at General Dynamics using code on a cassette tape running on the terminal's internal microprocessor (a Z80, IIRC). Many a great missile test system design grew from the mix of frenzied bouts of creativity and periodic vegetative states induced by the game. 3. Centipede - The epitome of video games in its day, it was the fastest moving game I ever played for any length of time, and proof that the challenges PONG faced in its time were finally overcome once and for all. I still love a good game of Centiede, when I can find it. Since then nothing has impressed me enough to want to play, though, but the new stuff is truly awesome by comparison - all of them. "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Sudoku DX-Ball 2 DX-Ball 1

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[brianwelsch]

I used to love playing this game called Protector on the Atari 800. My friend and I would stay up late carrying people to safety under our space ship. It was sort of based on Defender, but less "arcadey". Protector II[^]: was basically the same, IIRC. Man, there were a lot of games I used to play, but Necromancer[^] probably ranks up as one of the best. Of course, it would probably suck today, but I loved wasting my time with it. I remember spending days on end playing Civilization when it came out, too. BW

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[Jerry Hammond]

Zelda Civ Starfleet Command

"The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key, so help me Codd"

[Andy Brummer]

It can't have been as bad as the origninal: http://indianajones.ugo.com/games/raiders_of_the_lost_ark/[^]. That game was horrible.

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[daniilzol]

1. Myst - there were many quests especially from Sierra like Space Quest (5) or Larry or King's Quest that were relly really good, but Myst stood out of them because of its otherworldly atmosphere. Very fun to play, although I must admit I cheated once on the clock (or whatnot) island to get through the railway system. 2. Quake - I might have written Doom or Duke Nukem 3D or Blood, but quake was the first game where I actually played multiplayer. There is nothing like playing Quake with you buddy via direct modem connection on nightmare difficulty level when at times all you have is a frigging axe. 3. Need For Speed 1/2 - simply for the amount of time I spent playing those. I hated the AI though because of 'unfair advantage' it would give itself in the form of faster machines, it would always gain on you sooned or later if it managed to fall behind. Stupid... Often the only time to win was to knock the car out just before the finish, otherwise you'd just fall behind despite the fact you've been driving exactly the same car as computer.

[Jon Yarberry]

Just three? hmm... I still like playing some of the old BBS games like LoRD and a few others. ;) Can't forget MUDs either. I tend to play the Discworld MUD a lot. And for the third: Half Life 1/2 - I thought both games made user of good story and the technology they had available at the time.

[Tim Kohler]

Doom and Doom 2 Diablo Mega Mud (I think that was the name of it) -- the text only thing on bbs's Man I loved those

[dandy72]

> I think Civ2 was the best. Civ3 and Civ4 were dissapointments I'm totally with you. Civ2 is the only game that got me to play overnight (eg, 'til 7:00am). Naturally when 3 came out, I was first in line to buy it...and I only fired it up maybe half a dozen times, but I could never get into it.

[Mathias B]

- Giana Sisters (ok, I know it's a Commodore 64 game, but it was great though) - X-Wing (that one was the first game I played till the end - back at this time, the game was totally amazing ;-) - Silver (greatest adventure I ever played)

[Andy Brummer]

Steve Echols wrote:

StarFlight

Man I loved that game. I played it on advanced Tandy 16 color mode though. I remember being impressed that they used some fractal type algorithm to generate terrain for the hundreds of planets you collected resources on. :-D

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[dandy72]

The thread's already this long, and I haven't seen a single mention of a Sierra quest series? Space Quest, King's Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry...am I that old school? :~ I'll have to add Civilization 2, the original Age of Empires... I'm also guilty of spending way too much time with The Sims, but I mostly prefer experimenting with house building...it really is a poor man's [brain dead easy] home designer. :-) Also, my list would never be complete without mentioning Operation Flashpoint. The game's ancient by now (2001), but (IMO) nobody's managed to come up with better gameplay--I still play it to this day. It single-handedly managed to convince me that every other FPS game out there sucks. :-D

[Tim Kohler]

:laugh:

[Miszou]

If you liked Wing Commander, you might like Freelancer[^], although it's more like Privateer than WC...

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[Miszou]

Finally someone mentions Ultima! I started with Ultima V, so you're slightly cooler than me I guess ;)

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[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

Outpost freddy pharkas frontier pharmacist Kings Quest V What a surprise, they are all from sierra! A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane

[Blake Miller]

LoadRunner on the Macintosh 512 KE The very first Civilization on the PC - Now I loathe Civilization III and IV - something is missing ... The first Railroad Tycoon on the PC - Now I like to play Railroad Tycoon III Currently: Railroad Tycoon III SimCity 4 Dungeon Siege II I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan