Hi everybody. I got out my N64 today and started playing some of my old favourites, and I was wondering, what are your favourite classic/retro games? I sorta started with the 64 cause of various things so I'll start with my list.
-Zelda: Ocarina of Time
-Pilotwings 64
-StarFox 64
-Zelda: Majora's Mask
-007 Goldeneye
I want to hear what you guys remember playing fondly and would even dig out and play some more to play. My 64's in nearly manufacture condition, and most of the controllers are too.(I don't like the wording of mint conditionti because only money is minted, in my opinion)
Right now as I post this I'm playing Pilotwings.
Thanks for moving this.
I don't play Spectrum games as much as I used to, but I still play these fairly regularly:
Alchemist
http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/alchemist
Monty on the Run
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_on_the_Run
(The score on the C64 port is utterly awesome. It has also been adapted for rock trio, and there was also at least one rendition for chamber quartet.
Screenshots and stuff can be found here:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/monty-on-the-run
Project Future
I don't think I've ever actually played this to completion, but it made quite an impression on me.
http://www.crashonline.org.uk/14/projfut.htm
Terminus
This was quite enjoyable. Basically it was a prison breakout. You have four characters, each of which has a completely different set of characteristics that are needed at certain points throughout the game.
Two of them have jetpacks, one of them can climb up walls but not fly, one can only bounce, etc etc.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/terminus-the-prison-planet
I've completed it at least three times. I'll have to give it another go soon...
**EDIT**
It is worth mentioning that if any one character ran out of energy, they died and you couldn't swap to them anymore. I remember many exploration sessions where I gradually lost each member of the team until I was left with the bouncing-ball guy, who was very difficult to control.
JSW
Oh how many years I wasted on this game as a kid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Set_Willy
Pogo Joe.
My favorite retro game is Banjo-Tooie. One of the few sequels that actually improved on the original, and still a lot of fun to play. It was also the first video game that I bought with my money, so it's got that extra little bit of nostalgia factor.
I don't know if they count as retro, but they're classic in my opinion.
"Battlezone" and its sequel, "Battlezone II: Combat Commander."
And if anyone else on these forums has played this game, I will be very surprised.
I love retro-gaming.
I recently got some parts from a place online to repair and clean my old NES. Now it runs like new. In fact over the weekend I ran through Super Mario Bros. 2. I've got a drawer full of old NES games that we've collected over the years.
On my SNES though, I've been playing EarthBound a lot. With the upcoming patch for Mother 3, I gotta do something to fill the void until it arrives. I've also gotten through the (emulated) prototype english version of the original Mother. There's also a bunch of old SNES games that I've bought over the years.
When Metroid Prime 3 was about to hit shelves, I spent a weekend playing the original Metroid on the NES, Metroid 2 on the GameBoy, Super Metroid on the SNES, Metroid Fusion, and Metroid Zero Mission on the GBA, all with the original cartridges.
And speaking of the GameBoy, I've got all my old GB and GBC cartridges. I even still have a Super GameBoy for the SNES. And it still works.
I've even got a Virtual Boy.
And since I got DOSBox to finally work on my computers, I've been breaking out the old DOS games, like:
Stonekeep
Biomenace
Bioforge
System Shock
Warcraft Orcs and Humans
Warcraft II
Companions of Xanth
Jazz Jackrabbit
Xenon 2
The Elder Scrolls - The Arena (the first game in the series)
Raptor Call of the Shadows
Blood (which is One Unit Whole Blood, including Cryptic Shadows)
Innocent Until Caught
Innocent Until Caught 2: Presumed Guilty
And then there's all the SCUMM games I've got running under ScummVM.
Beneath a Steel Sky
Broken Sword 1: The Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror
Day of the Tentacle
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Full Throttle
Gobliiins
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb (a great furry game!)
Loom
Maniac Mansion
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer 2 The Lion, The Wizard, and the Wardrobe
The Dig
The Secret of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island 2 LeChuck's Revenge
Zap McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
I should also mention that I've also got most all of the Duke Nukem 3D expansions. And I've got the full Doom, Heretic, and Hexen suite running under ZDL.
Also, there's Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny. I'm also trying to locate the Commander Keen games too.
Out of all the games I've seen growing up, from the C64 to the Amiga to beginning of the IBM PC.... though I never did figure it out as a child, seeing the term retro games has given me a sudden urge to somehow magically find and replay Carrier Command. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Command)
Wow, I'm really glad I started this thread. This is exactly what I was hoping would happen. It's nice to see the different generations of gaming that each of us started with, Jay and I must be pretty close together in age, although I think I mostly depended on birthdays and Christmas for my games, my dad liked playing them with us so he'd just get them sometimes though he doesn't care for FPSs.
For games older than N64's generation I have to go back a little further, though not a whole lot.
-Commander Keen 4 "Secrets of the Oracle"
-Commander Keen 5 "The Armageddon Machine"
-The Secret of Monkey Island
-LOOM
Um, lemme think.
I'm with you for Starfox 64 and for Ocarina of Time, for sure. Final Fantasy IX is a favourite. I've been failing dismally at trying to play the classic Mega Man games, and I'm really liking them. Uh, Pokemon R/B/Y counts, yes? That's my favourite set out of them all. Is the first Super Smash Bros. retro enough?
I can't believe I nearly forgot Chrono Trigger, which is the sexiest game ever.
There's got to be more, but I can't bring them to mind. Hm.
All you kiddies are making me feel old. Props to Janus for C64s and Amigas, I remember a time when I could write my own games in Turbo Pascal... things were simpler once and disturbingly fun.
My favorite game of all time is only goes back to the 90s, Master of Magic (Microprose). Other wise there is the old Zork Games, Forbidden Forest... M.U.L.E., Mail Order Monsters... original Gauntlet... Archon... Racing Destruction Set...
Arrgh!! *Goes looking for ROMs*
Excellent, and I think old enough is prior to PS2, Xbox and GCN. Mostly because of the rate at which games are becoming more complicated.
Quote from: Azlan on August 01, 2008, 01:33:48 AM
All you kiddies are making me feel old. Props to Janus for C64s and Amigas, I remember a time when I could write my own games in Turbo Pascal... things were simpler once and disturbingly fun.
The most obvious thing I always remember about my days with the Commodore Amiga is the fact the number of copied games going around far outweighed the legitimate. We had disk boxes FULL of copied games and programs. No one cared about enforcing copyright back then, at least in the land down under.
Quote from: Janus Whitefurr on August 01, 2008, 08:55:21 PM
Quote from: Azlan on August 01, 2008, 01:33:48 AM
All you kiddies are making me feel old. Props to Janus for C64s and Amigas, I remember a time when I could write my own games in Turbo Pascal... things were simpler once and disturbingly fun.
The most obvious thing I always remember about my days with the Commodore Amiga is the fact the number of copied games going around far outweighed the legitimate. We had disk boxes FULL of copied games and programs. No one cared about enforcing copyright back then, at least in the land down under.
I don't really have any idea, but I think that it was also highly prevelant here in the states and yay another Aussie I have met online, sorta!
what a coincidence...
I was just playing the NES megaman games...
6 is definitely under rated... love its music.
Well, I don't know why I'm thinking of them, but way back when I was a kid and we had a crappy little windows (the kind you needed to type in F2 and a game title to play anything on), my brother and I had two games we really liked: 3-D Dinosaur Adventure and Undersea Adventure. We also really loved the Lemmings game. But these are from way, way back.
On our old SNES (which we still have and which still works), I always loved watching my brother play Mega Man X, Starfox, and Super Metroid. My favorites were the Aladdin game, Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Zombies Ate My Neighbors (though it did freak me out a little) and Kirby Super Star.
N64... Super Mario 64, Pokemon Snap, Wave Race, Chameleon Twist, Silicon Valley, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Starfox 64, Starcraft 64, Pokemon Stadium, Mario Party, Kirby 64, and Super Smash Brothers.
Sega Genesis 3 - Sonic the Hedgehog. My favorite Mini-Game = Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
And lastly, Playstation ... Spyro the Dragon and the Sly Cooper series.
A plus here is that we never throw out any of our old systems (except the Playstation. I think we still have the Sega Genesis 3 somewhere). We still play a bunch of those games, but the computer ones got too old and scratchy.
Quote from: Black_angel on August 03, 2008, 11:13:02 AM
We also really loved the Lemmings game. But these are from way, way back.
Way, way back? .. two ways :< Way to make those of us who played Ataris and C64s, even before our Amigas, feel even older (I guess lemmings was PC too).
First i'll lift up my cane and give a woo-hoo Amiga back to Janus and Alzan.
Now I'll list some classic games from the coin op / atari age: Joust, DigDug, SpaceInvaders, Centipede, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Q-Bert.
'Zork' was mentioned, I see your Zork and up you the Infocom text adventure library (Zork, Spellbreaker ect.)
And yeh Lemmings.
Now go back to your 'old' playstation games yah wippersnappers and git off mah lawn!
Quote from: rt on August 03, 2008, 08:06:57 PM
Now I'll list some classic games from the coin op / atari age: Joust, DigDug, SpaceInvaders, Centipede, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Q-Bert.
Hey now. Don't think I don't appreciate truly old-school games. My uncle had an Atari in his office while he was in college, we played it whenever we went to my Nana's house. I liked Frogger and Asteroid best, and I stunk at Centipede.
Quote from: rt on August 03, 2008, 08:06:57 PMNow go back to your 'old' playstation games yah wippersnappers and git off mah lawn!
Peh. Have some pity for us, Gramps; we've been forced to sit back and watch as our games age too fast for anyone to comprehend. I can vividly remember a Game Boy Pocket commercial, how excited all of us were when Game Boy Color came out... and the first time I went to Blockbuster and discovered that they'd stopped renting out SNES and N64 games. :cry
Now I need to play American McGee's Alice to feel better.
Quote from: Black_angel on August 03, 2008, 08:24:31 PM
Peh. Have some pity for us, Gramps; we've been forced to sit back and watch as our games age too fast for anyone to comprehend. I can vividly remember a Game Boy Pocket commercial, how excited all of us were when Game Boy Color came out... and the first time I went to Blockbuster and discovered that they'd stopped renting out SNES and N64 games. :cry
Agreed, thanks to Moore's law games just get more and more complex and push the old stuff further back faster and faster thanks to the breakneck pace at which the tech advances. Not that I'm assuming our friends who were old enough to remember the C64 or Atari 2600 as a fond childhood memory aren't aware of this, though their being the same age as my dad puts another spin on how I look at this, though my dad's pretty young for how old I am.
Quote from: Black_angel on August 03, 2008, 08:24:31 PM
Peh. Have some pity for us, Gramps; we've been forced to sit back and watch as our games age too fast for anyone to comprehend. I can vividly remember a Game Boy Pocket commercial, how excited all of us were when Game Boy Color came out... and the first time I went to Blockbuster and discovered that they'd stopped renting out SNES and N64 games. :cry
For me, the moment was when I saw a sign in a Gamestop saying that they were no longer accepting N64 cartridges... I may only be 20 years old, but that was a kind of sad moment. The N64 still has some of my favorite games on it.
:giggle Sorry I had to go all "grandpa" after seeing "way way" back as if the game was in the time of dinosaurs.
While the games are getting more and more complex, and purdier and purdier. I do find the some of the retro systems still look quite good for there 'computing age'. Some amazingly good. Though I guess those who grow up with PS2/XBox will think they look terrible. [Can't resist the .. "if they were old enough to post" comment]
Now back to the listing of the games. "Retro" games i'm playing now (cause I didn't have the Nintendo systems)
Final Fantasy. Up to number 6 right now and loving them.
Zelda. They were a bit easy, but I liked the top down 'link to the past' and 'links awakening' more than Orceana so far.
Also trying the various Mario games.
Going to have to look for more soon.
Quote from: Ryudo Lee on July 31, 2008, 10:48:48 AM<big list of oldschool PC games>
this reminds me how much I miss the time when PC gaming didn't sum up with hiding behind crates and shooting dudes with an sniper rifle or pointing where your army is supposed to go.
Man, those were REAL games, not this current overload of FPS and RTS games that play the same. (yeah there's good stuff like WOW, but that's minority :< )
btw, you can get old Id Software games on their steam page:
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=find&developer=id%20Software
Yeah, I bought the id pack. It's a nice collection. It's missing Heretic 2 though, but I don't think that was made by id.
Quote from: rt on August 04, 2008, 09:58:27 AM
:giggle Sorry I had to go all "grandpa" after seeing "way way" back as if the game was in the time of dinosaurs.
While the games are getting more and more complex, and purdier and purdier. I do find the some of the retro systems still look quite good for there 'computing age'. Some amazingly good. Though I guess those who grow up with PS2/XBox will think they look terrible. [Can't resist the .. "if they were old enough to post" comment]
Now back to the listing of the games. "Retro" games i'm playing now (cause I didn't have the Nintendo systems)
Final Fantasy. Up to number 6 right now and loving them.
Zelda. They were a bit easy, but I liked the top down 'link to the past' and 'links awakening' more than Orceana so far.
Also trying the various Mario games.
Going to have to look for more soon.
You want bad?
Supposedly there was this twelve year old, probably thirteen now, who reviewed Goldeneye. He said the graphics sucked and that the story seemed like it was written by a second grader and tacked on. After hearing that I wanted to take a bat to the little ass. But I know my sister, same age, would pull the same crap pretty much which stayed my impotent rath. After all, I didn't have the tween in question to pummel mercilessly. Then there's the whole taboo about hitting children and basically my anger petered off, eventually ending with, 'Meh, stupid kid, what does he know, he's used to this flashy stuff now.' and it made me feel old. Me! I'm only friggin 20! Gah, I hate that.
You know, I never much cared for Goldeneye either. Being a PC gamer, I was used to the mouse and keyboard controls of PC shooters when I first picked up Goldeneye.
I hated the game right away, more due to the awful N64 controller than anything else. The rest seemed well-balanced and decently made for what could be done with the N64's limited hardware, but that controller ruined the game for me.
Uh....
Star Control 2
Jazz Jackrabbit
Fantasy Empires
Golden Axe (all of them)
The Lost Vikings
Metal Slug
Battletoads
Chrono Trigger
Blackthorne
Adventures of Dr. Brain
Worms
Burger Time (Our vision, your vision)
Bubble Bobble
Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Those all just randomly came to mind. I'll let you know if anything else.
For me, SNES is "retro" because of my age. It was the saddest day of my life when I asked my friend Cam if he wanted to play Golden Axe later while I was at Gamestop, and the 13 year olds next to us asked us if that was some new game for the PS2.
Seventh Cross Evolution
Sonic the Hedgehog 1
Mario Bros.
Star Wars Demolition
Phantasy Star Online
Shining Force
SEGA ROCKS!
CURSE THE OTHER SYSTEMS FOR OUTDOING THE DREAMCAST AND STEALING THEIR IDEAS! If you look, Dreamcast came first in that specific shape that you see in controllers nowadays. That's the thing with Nintendo and Sega, everybody steals their ideas. The N64 was the first system with a joystick. Dreamcast, as I said, had the shape of controllers nowadays.
I've been playing the original NES Legend of Zelda a bit over the past couple of days. And then I found out about a Windows port of the original. www.zeldaclassic.com And there are custom quests too. It's a pretty nifty spin on an NES classic.
Having gone to all the trouble of getting these screenshots, I have to nominate this as a classic game. Imogen, 1986. Probably one of the more twisted adventure games out there.
The wiki entry is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_(video_game)
...in short, the player has to solve a set of puzzles in a map made of about 3-6 interconnected rooms, in order to get a teleport crystal which will take them to the next map. When all 16 maps are completed, the game is won.
The player is able to transform from a wizard (who can use objects) to a monkey (which can climb ropes) or a cat (which can jump far). There is a limited number of transformations for the entire game, after which you're stuck. It is not possible for the player to die.
What the wiki doesn't mention is the nature of the puzzles. In order to win the player gives Destania a run for her money. I can't quite remember how many babies have to be disposed of, but there are at least three. The win32 remake from a couple of years ago watered it down considerably, turning the babies into jelly babies and so forth.
Here are some screenshots from the raw, non-politically-correct BBC Micro original.
(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/games/imogen1.gif)
We need that balloon. How do we get it? (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/games/imogen1.gif)
(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/games/imogen2.gif)
Murder is never the answer (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/games/imogen2.gif)
And now, to avoid flooding the thread with images, I will just link to the other screenshots, from 'Hamster Jam'.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/games/imogen4.png
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/games/imogen5.png
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/games/imogen6.png
Also, Keaton found someone playing through that very level:
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=OHDLBRaugLM
Okay, question, has anybody ever even heard of the game that's first on my list? I seem to be one in one people who know about it.
Quote from: Rakala on August 14, 2008, 08:11:08 PM
Okay, question, has anybody ever even heard of the game that's first on my list? I seem to be one in one people who know about it.
Sorry, never heard of it. Then again, I'm not exactly a "hardcore" gamer (the only thing I'm hardcore for are a handful of series, and that's it), so I probably would never have heard of it.
Tapewolf, unless it's a moderator issue, I say images away! I don't know if this qualifies as 'my thread' but I'm certainly glad I started it. If it's a mod issue I'll respect that, don't want to be unreasonable towards them and their obviously ridiculously strenuous task (No Sarcasm) of herding us all.
Anyway, someone mentioned The Secret of Monkey Island series, I wish I'd mentioned that one, especially after watching a particular movie that reminds me of it especially. Anyhoo, keep up the awesome posts everyone! This is wicked fun!
Okay, Seventh Cross Evolution is the oddest game in the world. You start out as a simple protist, a single celled organism. You have to slowly eat and work your way up to the Origin status. As you kill a few creatures you can finally evolve. Each creature is broken up into four parts. Head, Arm, Body, and Leg. There are a total of 30 creatures, but there's no way to determine which one you'll get. The 30th is Human, but humans are actually not the strongest, they are just the best spell casters. Yes you cast spells. If you have a Dreamcast see if you can get a copy. It's a strangely fun game, it's mostly combat based yet the combat isn't great but somehow it's amazing. Uh.... are spoilers allowed here?
Hmmm, that's tangental, but I think we can work with it! Folks! Obscure games! Wierd games! Stuff that qualifies as a diamond in the rough.
Odd games? I'd have to get out the disks, but back in the days of floppies and manuals I'd occasionally inhereit disks w/o any instructions and the occasional demo. Some were just a bit odd, but add the "what am I supposed to do?" factor, and it multiplies by 10 in some cases. Others it just multiplies the fun :)
One demo / shareware pops to mind. IIRC "Project Buzzbar" you are a little space ship, shoot the bad guys, and pick up wayward floating astronauts.
I also recall a mortal combat knockoff with the guys replaced by fruit.
Quote from: Jer-oh-me on August 22, 2008, 05:32:20 PM
Hmmm, that's tangental, but I think we can work with it! Folks! Obscure games! Wierd games! Stuff that qualifies as a diamond in the rough.
I'll nominate Shadow of Destiny/Memories (depending on your locale) for PS2 as a diamond in the rough game, though not a 'classic' in the old sense.
The entire game revolves around trying to prevent your own death after being given the power to travel back in time. Each time, the situation changes, and a plot begins to develop involving the main character and who he sees and meets. Fairly simple and short game otherwise, but ridiculously fun.
Okay, in the Seventh Cross Evolution booklet it clearly says there is no end to the game. However I was highly surprised when I found both a story and an ending. To start, there are several ages you go to in evolution. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and then mammals. Now and then throughout the game you see this angel looking girl flying around shooting animals with lasers. She shoots any animals that are in the wrong stage of evolution for the many different areas. After you beat the boss in the mammal area, a huge ship appears and you see a human woman in loincloths on the ground which the angel is trying to kill. You kill the angel, and then get abducted by futuristic humans. Turns out our world ended sometime in 2006. Some red mist came out of the Arctic circle which caused a diseas and killed lots of people. There were 2 groups of people, those who wanted to go to a different planet, and others who decided they would release protists who would evolve to be immune to the disease, steal the genetics, and implant them in humans. Also the Earth is sentient. This comes out of nowhere. There are 2 endings, the human ending and the creature ending. In the creature ending, you end up going against the planet's wishes and saving the humans in a manner. You save the kids or something. The human ending is the ship crashes, the human woman in loincloths you saved puts a loincloth on you, and you go on to make another society. Game over. This is the game as much as I understand it. The plot makes about as much sense to me.
Since we are now on the subject of obscure games, try out Battlezone. Or Battlezone II. They were easily the forerunners of the hybrid RTS/FPS. And the story for the first game wasn't half bad, either. The second game changes a little of the story from the first, but it's still good, and there is a host of mods that are either in development or have been released for it, most of them being extremely well made.
Okay, I must ask, since nobody else has seemingly ever heard of this game, but has anybody heard of Shining Force or Shining Force II?
I've played Shining Force in a Genesis collection pack I didn't know that there was a second one.
King dies.
That textbox line made me laugh to no end.
I tried to write about this game, but didn't get very far. But, if you want an obscure title, then Uplink Hacker Elite (http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/) is it. It's a hacker simulator, written by the same guys that made Darwinia and Defcon. I first located it on GameTap, of all places. But GameTap has an old old version that's prone to crashing, so I went and got myself an actual copy of the game. There's some mods out there for it, but most only work on older versions of the game. Except for one, called Onlink, which is becoming a melting pot of a bunch of different mods, plus some original stuff too. They also put out an unofficial patch which fixes some things that Introversion didn't.
I played music with Uplink once. I did it by getting a mod that, when selected, automatically bounced your connection between however many servers were on the map before connecting to your target server. When the map has upwards of fifty to sixty servers, it gets rather orchaestral.
So, Ryudo, which was easier for you? Saving the internet, or destroying it? ;)
Saving it. I like being able to continue playing the game after finishing the story. But even after the story's over, I keep dropping Revelation on servers I get commissioned to destroy. :3
Quote from: Jer-oh-me on August 28, 2008, 11:48:02 AM
I've played Shining Force in a Genesis collection pack I didn't know that there was a second one.
King dies.
That textbox line made me laugh to no end.
There is a second one which is much better for several features. Random encounters, a sort of exploration, and KIWI!
http://sf2.shiningforcecentral.com/pages/characters/kiwi.html
My brother found a shining force collection for Sega CD, on which I've never seen any of the games elsewhere. All the games were quite good and stories from the 1st two intertwine in the 3rd.
Ever since I helped a kid do some stuff on Super Mario World near a year ago I've wanted to play that more than most everything. And soon I might have time to play. :januscat
Well, they partially intertwine in the second one, but only barely. If you talk to villagers you find out in 2 you find out that all the humans in the game, ALL of them, came from the continent that the first game took place on.
I've never played the third. I'll have to find it somewhere. Was it just Shining Force 3 or did it have a special title?
I'm mostly a PC gamer myself, but my old/retro/classics that I have fond memories (and still play occasionally)
Lords of the Realm 2. First game I can recally which had that mixed turn based strategy and real time combat in a medievalish army setting. Paved the way for things like Rome, Total War.
Dune 2. First real RTS. 'nuff said.
Ultimas 1-7 and Underworld 1 and 2 Come on, they really kinda started the CRPG theme. Too bad EA botched the series royally.
Wing Commander and sequels Anyone remember the joy's of space flying and dogfighting with the cats?
Master of Magic I was a MTG fan, and when this came out I was instantly taken aback at how clever it was. It's more than just a ripoff of the card game (Actually, it was in design before MTG was released) and I'vfe yet to see a strategy game that managed to balance so many gameplay elements so perfectly.
X-Com Is X-Com. Maybe a bit light on the replay department, but come on, that was an incredibly fun game.
Planescape: Torment Maybe not quite old enough to be called a classic, but I've never seen a game where character development was such an integral part of the RPG. I've yet to see any RPG campaign, either on computer or Tabletop, beat that one out. TNO FOREVER!!!!!
Finally, there was this odd little puzzle game called Chip's challenge. I got it when I was like 6, (because my parents wanted a non-violent game) and I must have spent nearly a hundred hours cracking the 150ish levels. It was (insert expletive of choice) awesome, and I have *NEVER* played a puzzle game as good. Not even Portal.
I remember Chip's Challenge! That was one of the first games I ever played. Damned difficult if you're only 6 years old, though. I think it would be very interesting if they were to remake Chip's Challenge using modern graphics. But they won't. :(
Quote from: VSMIT on September 07, 2008, 06:31:37 PM
I remember Chip's Challenge! That was one of the first games I ever played. Damned difficult if you're only 6 years old, though. I think it would be very interesting if they were to remake Chip's Challenge using modern graphics. But they won't. :(
If it makes you feel any better, they'd probably ruin the remake somehow.
Ya know, for some reason that actually doesn't make me feel better. Actually makes me feel a bit worse. :cry
Quote from: VSMIT on September 07, 2008, 06:35:36 PM
Ya know, for some reason that actually doesn't make me feel better. Actually makes me feel a bit worse. :cry
Awww, I'm sorry VSMIT. :hug Maybe it's a game that's perfect the way it is, and there's no way to improve it aside from improving the graphics.
As it is, my first video game that I clearly remember playing is some stupid interactive adventure version of Around the World in Eighty Days, where you had this little tool kit of art objects like a pencil and an eraser and a spray can and stuff like that and you used these to manipulate the environment. It was pretty fun, and the disc had The Jungle Book and Peter Pan games like that on it too. If only I could remember it's name...
The very first game I ever played was Duck Hunt.
Yes, I kept trying to shoot that dog.
Did you ever succeed?
Nope. But that never stopped me from trying!