Old-school video games

[Atropine Mama]

I recently got re-addicted to Lode Runner. Yup, the old Apple IIe version. One hundred fifty-five levels of pure, unadulterated physics-free bleepity bloop goodness. I've played it through, oh... about three dozen times in the last month. I'm easily amused, I know.

What other good shit is out there that makes you nostalgic for your floppy disks and Atari joysticks?

[Keeper of Secrets]

There are a couple of games. There was an OLD and impossible to win game called 'Alien' based upon the movie. It was for my C-64. Really fun but I never could save more than three people.

Also, as was brought up in a different post (accidentally) I really loved Wasteland and would really be happy if someone could tell me how to find a copy that would work on my system.

While not as old, I always get warm inside when I think of Master of Magic.

[Brynja]

Grey Flannel- some game for the ibm we had. You tried to climb the corporate ladder :)

[there_is_no_bob]

Not exactly old, but I've been playing a lot of TOME (http://www.t-o-m-e.net/main.php?tome_current=0) lately.


Its a rogue-like game.

[Pigs in Space]

TOME looks cool.


I am actually considering playing privateer again - it's been remade here: http://wcuniverse.sourceforge.net/
Damn it's a good game.

Also, and while not old at all, this is free and looks cool:
http://www3.kingdomofloathing.com/
Wikipedia explains it best:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Loathing

[azrael]

dammit, this makes me jones for nord and bert, but apparently no one has updated the old text game for a modern operating system, and I don't have a legacy box anymore:(

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[Prorpger]

Wasteland. I don't need any of the knock off Fallout shit. I bust out my wifes Apple IIe once every few years and play thruogh the game. It is wonderful to say the least.

One of my top five video games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_%28computer_game%29

[Dawnstar]

The games that I played on the old Commador 64 are games like Jump Man. I would spend hours playing that. As well as Qix was one of my favorite. I miss those games.

[Atropine Mama]

I miss the old, real, Apple version of Snake Byte. There's never been another like it since.

[Lady Fury]

Lode Runner was one of my favorites growing up. I loved making my own levels and then trying to figure my way out of them a few weeks later.

[Limper]

Sword of Aragon on the Amiga was awsome.

[dmmagic]

All of the games I play are old school -- basically nothing after the SNES. I pla a lot of Jumpman, Jumpman Jr., Ultima, Choplifter, Police Quest, Space Quest, etc, etc.

LOVE those old games.

[Atropine Mama]

There are times when a lolcat just says it all.

[Dacke]

I still sometimes fire up a NES emulator and play some Metroid. That game really was groundbreaking, what with the non-linear nature (where you had to go back and forth in order to find and kill the bosses), hidden stuff, and so on. Also, the twist ending if you finish it fast enough (Samus Aran is a chick, and she looks hot in a bikini (at least by 8-bit standards))

On my C64 (technically a C128-D, but it spent about 99% of its time in C64-emulation mode - the D meant it had a built-in 1571 disk drive), I have fond memories of an RPG called Dragon Wars (made by Interplay - it might have been the first one they published on their own, but I'm not sure). I've even pondered using the start of the game's plot as the start of an RPG campaign some day - the PCs are unceremoniously dumped in a ruin city that serves as a prison for dissidents and such, and lies isolated on an island.

Another C64 game I had lots of fun with back in the day was Wizball, which was a cooperative 2-player game. One of the players was the main one, while the other controlled "cat", a ball that accompanied the main character. The Cat's primary purpose was to collect color drops from a certain type of monsters, and when you had collected enough of the right colors, you got sent to a bonus level, and when you came back you would have filled in the level you were on with a color. When you did that three times, the level in question were completed.

[Harry]

What other good shit is out there that makes you nostalgic for your floppy disks and Atari joysticks?

Well, I missed out on the video game revolution, but....

[Enk]

I'll see if I can dig up a copy of Wasteland from the Interplay Compilation I picked up years ago. It'll play on a XP system, but the text speed will be wonky unless you use Mo'Slo or something similar.

if I can find it, soon you will be exploding those mutant bikers like the blood sausages they are.

[TiQuinn]

Warlords for the old Atari 2600 rocked like few other games at that time did. You could play it with up to four players using the old paddle controllers. Each player had a castle in one of the corners of the screen, with a shield that they controlled. Behind the castle wall was your king, who you had to protect. The game from there was essentially like Breakout, with a ball that would bounce around and knock down blocks in your castle wall. The shield could deflect it or it could catch it and fire it quickly at another player.

Fun, fun game. I loved my Atari. Still the best system I ever had when I think about how many hours I played that, Pitfall, River Raid, etc.

[pandiculator]

Warlords for the old Atari 2600 rocked like few other games at that time did. You could play it with up to four players using the old paddle controllers. Each player had a castle in one of the corners of the screen, with a shield that they controlled. Behind the castle wall was your king, who you had to protect. The game from there was essentially like Breakout, with a ball that would bounce around and knock down blocks in your castle wall. The shield could deflect it or it could catch it and fire it quickly at another player.

Fun, fun game. I loved my Atari. Still the best system I ever had when I think about how many hours I played that, Pitfall, River Raid, etc.


I freaking love Warlords.

In more recent gaming, Freespace 2 has been seeing a lot of time from me as of late. I'm a joystick junkie at heart, and FS2 sets the bar for the space opera. Helping it is the FSOpen project, which is taking the game to new heights graphically.

/shamelessplug

[Darth Flatulent]

Warlords for the old Atari 2600 rocked like few other games at that time did. You could play it with up to four players using the old paddle controllers. Each player had a castle in one of the corners of the screen, with a shield that they controlled. Behind the castle wall was your king, who you had to protect. The game from there was essentially like Breakout, with a ball that would bounce around and knock down blocks in your castle wall. The shield could deflect it or it could catch it and fire it quickly at another player.

Fun, fun game. I loved my Atari. Still the best system I ever had when I think about how many hours I played that, Pitfall, River Raid, etc.

I 've got that on one of those plug 'n' play controllers. I just showed my kids how to play it last week. Good times.

[EhtoZed]

I still sometimes fire up a NES emulator and play some Metroid. That game really was groundbreaking, what with the non-linear nature (where you had to go back and forth in order to find and kill the bosses), hidden stuff, and so on. Also, the twist ending if you finish it fast enough (Samus Aran is a chick, and she looks hot in a bikini (at least by 8-bit standards))Yes! I'm now playing the new Zelda game and the original is another that would be fun to play again. So would A Link to the Past. I wonder if both those would be available for download on a Wii?

[Lisa Nadazdy]

From time to time I pull out The Atari Collection 2 for the original Playstation, and play some Gauntlet. I wasted many a quarter on the beast. :)