What is your favorite old game ?
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oh as a kid I loved them all. Zaxxon, Flimbos Quest, Wonder Boy, Green Baret, Commando, Cauldron, Boulder Dash, Death Lord, Summer and Winter Games, Skate or Die, Bard's Tale.... There is no end to the list. I loved almost all games I had on the c64.
Sweet old memories!
Sweet old memories!
damn. i thought that thread would be about vintage pc stuff.
my list of c64-faves is endless.
'think creatures 2 would be currently topping that list in a way.
my list of c64-faves is endless.
'think creatures 2 would be currently topping that list in a way.
can't list c64.. too many awesome games.
pc.. perhaps tyrian, pinball illusions, civilization..
pc.. perhaps tyrian, pinball illusions, civilization..
alley cat
Arcade : Pooyan, Gyruss
C64: Forbidden Forest, Boulderdash 2
Amiga : Virus, Battlesquadron, Rodland
PC : Raptor
C64: Forbidden Forest, Boulderdash 2
Amiga : Virus, Battlesquadron, Rodland
PC : Raptor
Hmm,. it's hard to answer: Today I like and still like Doom1-2, Duke3d, Blood, Unreal Tournament, Baktinet, Liero, Action Supercross, Metal Slug, Contra in gameboy, snes and mega drive, Castlevania 2 on gameboy, Castlevania on SNES (4?) and perhaps some more. Best adventure game (even if adventure games are not in my favorites because I play them only once or thrice) for me is Indiana Jones and the Fate of the Atlantis.
On the CPC I liked and still like some of them: Chucky Egg, Fruity Frank, Arkanoid, Ikari Warriors, Commando, Target Renegade, Batman the Movie, Rick the Dangerous and the ones from sceners like Megablasters, Zaptballs and Blackland and hundreds of other that I just can't remember right now and I will come back and say "How the hell did I forgot this!". Donkey Kong on CPC was a good game, but didn't made it in my favorites perhaps because I was loosing easilly and got annoyed by that :P Prehistorik 2 was one of the best technically games for CPC+ but I didn't played it that much..
Now, I was mosty hot with Baktinet (Uh,. just see my highscore! www.bakti.net), but I wanted to code more frequently and so I deleted it among with all my other games HD in my current PC in Karlsruhe. Hehe :)
On the CPC I liked and still like some of them: Chucky Egg, Fruity Frank, Arkanoid, Ikari Warriors, Commando, Target Renegade, Batman the Movie, Rick the Dangerous and the ones from sceners like Megablasters, Zaptballs and Blackland and hundreds of other that I just can't remember right now and I will come back and say "How the hell did I forgot this!". Donkey Kong on CPC was a good game, but didn't made it in my favorites perhaps because I was loosing easilly and got annoyed by that :P Prehistorik 2 was one of the best technically games for CPC+ but I didn't played it that much..
Now, I was mosty hot with Baktinet (Uh,. just see my highscore! www.bakti.net), but I wanted to code more frequently and so I deleted it among with all my other games HD in my current PC in Karlsruhe. Hehe :)
Best RPG for me is Eye of the Beholder 2.
Ohhh,. and Civilization, how could I forget that!!!
I don't say that CIV is an RPG but that's how it seems in the raw. Also,. I meaned my games folder and not my games HD.
I liked also the whole community in DOOM. I visit sometimes the site www.doomworld.com. Some WADs from the best authors tried to trick the DOOM engine into doing things that are theoritically not possible (like windows over windows, bridges where you can go through and below, riddles, graphical enchancements and so on). And I am not talking about Doom MODs but plain WADs running in the classic versions of Doom and also without using Dehacked to change contents of Doom.exe. Some WADs are trully amazing visually for what the doom engine could do and I stare many times at some places instead of killing monsters. I created some lame WADs and changed sounds or graphics too when I was at high school but then I found the demoscene and so I didn't had time for DOOM editing anymore..
I liked also the whole community in DOOM. I visit sometimes the site www.doomworld.com. Some WADs from the best authors tried to trick the DOOM engine into doing things that are theoritically not possible (like windows over windows, bridges where you can go through and below, riddles, graphical enchancements and so on). And I am not talking about Doom MODs but plain WADs running in the classic versions of Doom and also without using Dehacked to change contents of Doom.exe. Some WADs are trully amazing visually for what the doom engine could do and I stare many times at some places instead of killing monsters. I created some lame WADs and changed sounds or graphics too when I was at high school but then I found the demoscene and so I didn't had time for DOOM editing anymore..
Wrong! Ugh!!! "And I am not talking about Doom MODs" should be "And I am not talking about Doom ports"
ctrl-v: "And I am not talking about Doom MODs but plain WADs running in the classic versions of Doom and also without using Dehacked to change contents of Doom.exe"
Optimus: could you please give a few examples of these WADs? I've never seen anyone being able to do some real fake 3D with the Doom engine, so always interesting to see what crazy people do with it!
Optimus: could you please give a few examples of these WADs? I've never seen anyone being able to do some real fake 3D with the Doom engine, so always interesting to see what crazy people do with it!
It would have to be between Monkey Island and Harlequin on the Amiga.
PREHISTORIK
4D SPORTS DRIVING
SKATE OR DIE
INDIANA JONES I
4D SPORTS DRIVING
SKATE OR DIE
INDIANA JONES I
{OdS}: Yep, I'd like to present some of these crazy WADs to sceners :)
Seems,. that it's harder today to download DOOM stuff. From Doomworld, there are some downloading links in servers like 3Dfiles or so but usually don't work (My brother says they don't work either in Germany most of the times, because of too much trafic or so..)
My alternative sollutions was the idgames ftp. Here is a list with the idgames ftp mirrors. Surprisingly, some I tried doesn't work too, but the Greek one I was always using does!
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/doom/FTP-WWW-sites
So,. i will probably point to the files in the greek one and then if it's slow (I think it must not that much for the small files) you can try with another server.
My favoritest Megawad was definitelly Requiem.
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/requiem.zip
Done by some of the best WAD authors, especially the stages by Iikka Keranen (I know that he left the Doom scene and working in John Romero's company later as a level editor for Anachronox) which features the bridges effect! Neat elevators, horizontally opening doors and other neat tricky stuff (I know with which tricks some of these things might have been achieved), among with new textures and graphical enchancements to make it so cool. Or also his conversion of a Quake stage in one of the secret level with a very tricky second floor. Stages to definitelly see are 3, 8, 13, 24 and perhaps much more I forget. In 13 you will see the town with the bridges trick. And see the secret level too..
My absolute favoritest pile of 4 levels is ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/levels/doom2/p-r/phobos2.zip. He gets the names of the 1st four levels of Doom1 (Hangar, Nuclear Plant, Toxin Refinery, Command and Control) but giving them a more humanlike feeling. You begin in an airport in Mars with a tower, place to get the bags, scrolling text, souvenirs, an airoplane ascending (near the end), you teleport inside the airplane, you hear it's sound (some fake sound by using elevating floors outside the map and near the plane). Then you see a true nuclear plant with a tower, you climb wooden ladder, inside broken pipes (like duke nukem), up and down, many impressive visual effects, then more I can't remember. Some impressive huge graphics of electric towers, a tower elevator where you can see around through a cage,. can't explain now, it's the best WAD ever for me!!!
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/levels/doom2/d-f/fortune.zip
This is done by a girl, I featured her WAD in my female geeks website once. It's not as technical as others, but features some nice architecture and even a riddle (easy, but you don't see such nice ideas on Doom wads). A very hard WAD. You have to search a lot and some things are uhh. I learned that she was also working as a level editor for a game company.
There are more. I forget WADs where you can break glasses, or the one where the explosion from the Romero head is being used in a tricky way. You see a building of Microsoft behind some fence but you can't reach it. You only blow some barrels close to the building, which blow other barrels like Domino, probably hitting the Romero head (Is teh Bill Gates head there now? :) behind some wall you can't see. The effect you see is that you have blown M$ building, because you just see explosions upon it!!! Tricky :)
Or there was a very beautifull stage of the university of the one who did it, with own textures and sky, wow! Or one where they can see in a large pannel the leader (the spider mind) animated.
I like the detail of all these WADs, precise use of textures or the architecture as they call it in Doom reviews. It's not anymore random corridors but more human like things, very carefully builded. Most of this are also needing to just change gfx, sounds, and use them in a clever way to produce new things never been seen before!
Uhm,..
I remembered these three here:
http://www.doomworld.com/ricrob/doom2.shtml but the links didn't worked. I downloaded then from idgames ftp. Perhaps there are more here. There are more classic,. I almost forget a very huge detailed stage inside pyramids and so, very moody, to the theme, extremelly detail. So extremelly details that would crash DOOM if you tried to save! =P
Then BOOM came, for some of them who were buggy because they well hell of detailed..
And all the other engines. But the most fun for me was with these tricky WADs..
If I remember more, I will write..
Seems,. that it's harder today to download DOOM stuff. From Doomworld, there are some downloading links in servers like 3Dfiles or so but usually don't work (My brother says they don't work either in Germany most of the times, because of too much trafic or so..)
My alternative sollutions was the idgames ftp. Here is a list with the idgames ftp mirrors. Surprisingly, some I tried doesn't work too, but the Greek one I was always using does!
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games/doom/FTP-WWW-sites
So,. i will probably point to the files in the greek one and then if it's slow (I think it must not that much for the small files) you can try with another server.
My favoritest Megawad was definitelly Requiem.
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/levels/doom2/megawads/requiem.zip
Done by some of the best WAD authors, especially the stages by Iikka Keranen (I know that he left the Doom scene and working in John Romero's company later as a level editor for Anachronox) which features the bridges effect! Neat elevators, horizontally opening doors and other neat tricky stuff (I know with which tricks some of these things might have been achieved), among with new textures and graphical enchancements to make it so cool. Or also his conversion of a Quake stage in one of the secret level with a very tricky second floor. Stages to definitelly see are 3, 8, 13, 24 and perhaps much more I forget. In 13 you will see the town with the bridges trick. And see the secret level too..
My absolute favoritest pile of 4 levels is ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/levels/doom2/p-r/phobos2.zip. He gets the names of the 1st four levels of Doom1 (Hangar, Nuclear Plant, Toxin Refinery, Command and Control) but giving them a more humanlike feeling. You begin in an airport in Mars with a tower, place to get the bags, scrolling text, souvenirs, an airoplane ascending (near the end), you teleport inside the airplane, you hear it's sound (some fake sound by using elevating floors outside the map and near the plane). Then you see a true nuclear plant with a tower, you climb wooden ladder, inside broken pipes (like duke nukem), up and down, many impressive visual effects, then more I can't remember. Some impressive huge graphics of electric towers, a tower elevator where you can see around through a cage,. can't explain now, it's the best WAD ever for me!!!
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/idgames/levels/doom2/d-f/fortune.zip
This is done by a girl, I featured her WAD in my female geeks website once. It's not as technical as others, but features some nice architecture and even a riddle (easy, but you don't see such nice ideas on Doom wads). A very hard WAD. You have to search a lot and some things are uhh. I learned that she was also working as a level editor for a game company.
There are more. I forget WADs where you can break glasses, or the one where the explosion from the Romero head is being used in a tricky way. You see a building of Microsoft behind some fence but you can't reach it. You only blow some barrels close to the building, which blow other barrels like Domino, probably hitting the Romero head (Is teh Bill Gates head there now? :) behind some wall you can't see. The effect you see is that you have blown M$ building, because you just see explosions upon it!!! Tricky :)
Or there was a very beautifull stage of the university of the one who did it, with own textures and sky, wow! Or one where they can see in a large pannel the leader (the spider mind) animated.
I like the detail of all these WADs, precise use of textures or the architecture as they call it in Doom reviews. It's not anymore random corridors but more human like things, very carefully builded. Most of this are also needing to just change gfx, sounds, and use them in a clever way to produce new things never been seen before!
Uhm,..
I remembered these three here:
http://www.doomworld.com/ricrob/doom2.shtml but the links didn't worked. I downloaded then from idgames ftp. Perhaps there are more here. There are more classic,. I almost forget a very huge detailed stage inside pyramids and so, very moody, to the theme, extremelly detail. So extremelly details that would crash DOOM if you tried to save! =P
Then BOOM came, for some of them who were buggy because they well hell of detailed..
And all the other engines. But the most fun for me was with these tricky WADs..
If I remember more, I will write..
Commander keen 4
alltime favourites: giana sisters, rick dangerous
current favourite: head over heels
current favourite: head over heels
Optimus: thanks for the links, I'll download as soon as I can, and play the stuff with the Doomsday engine (http://www.doomsdayhq.com, sorry no hyperlink -> webscence here), this good old Doom definitly RULES!!!
Uh... Sometimes my brain doesn't work anymore... Doomsday engine here!
Snipes, a game from 1981 for the original IBM PC, by Novell (!!!), the first network deathmatch game ever!
I very fond of isometric engine games. Do you know some of them ? What's you favorite ? (Gender Wars not bad? by the way)
Rainbow Island and James Pond were my favourites on Atari.
Way too many to list. Elite, Paradroid, and Giana for those that have modern updates (: Speedball, Ballistix, hell anything Psygnosis did, well ok there was like one that sucked, but I forgot it. Mostly tho I loved the intros more than the games on most of them.
Contra 3 : the alien wars is still my favourite followed closely by Super Castlevania 4 both on SNES.
