Your 3 fondest PC games memories.
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Ultima III Tomb Raider II Unreal Tournament - spent many many hours designing levels Do the chickens have large talons?
Finally someone mentions Ultima! I started with Ultima V, so you're slightly cooler than me I guess ;)
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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)
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
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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)
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
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Personally - I think Civ2 was the best. Civ3 and Civ4 were dissapointments. --------------------------- 127.0.0.1 - Sweet 127.0.0.1
I agree. I played the DooDoo out of CIV II. Civ III got shelved after about 2 days, and then I tried Civ IV - well, I WON'T be buying Civ V. Civ IV got shelved after about 4 hours! I really liked the Civilization : Call to Power version of the game. I keep a Windows 2000 drive alive just to play that game! It uses some strange video system that won't work on Windows XP and you have to pay like $25 to get the driver for Windows XP - no thanks. I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan
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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
Roger Wright wrote:
PONG
My first year of college was 1972 at San Diego State. The student union there had what I think was one of the first Pong machines and my friend Tom and I quickly became the campus gurus at playing the game (needless to say I did not attend class much that year!). Whenever we played a fairly large crowd would surround us and cheer us on. It was a great ego boost! Thanks for allowing me to remember that; those were great times... Later I had an Atari 800 and one of my favorite games for that was Journey to the Planets. You had to land a spaceship on each of several planets and solve a puzzle, generally involving finding and retrieving something of importance. If you did that and survived you could take off and go to another planet. I never solved all the puzzles so I don't know what happened if you got them all... 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse -- modified at 12:35 Thursday 20th July, 2006
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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
I used to play Eamon on the Apple II I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan
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Finally someone mentions Ultima! I started with Ultima V, so you're slightly cooler than me I guess ;)
Miszou wrote:
I started with Ultima V
V was a lot fancier than III. III was pretty primitive - i played it on my C64 Do the chickens have large talons?
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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
Blake Miller wrote:
Now I loathe Civilization III and IV - something is missing
i think it's just buried. i liked CII and CIII i played CIV for about 30 minutes before decided i didn't want to hassle with it - too much stuff popping up, too many graphical distractions. Do the chickens have large talons?
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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)
- Quake 2) Red Alert 3) Grand Theft Auto (network play was wicked. I'm not a fan of any of the sequels tho') Also great: Total Annihilation Dungeon Keeper Quake 2
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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)
need for speed all warcraft tomb raider series empire earth aoe :):)
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