Old Favorites

[thegayhare]

I recently started playing around with some of my older genesis games and I'm having a lot of fun.

one of the games I've been playing is called "The Ooze"

Its a fun little underrated game in which you play the hero a scientist out for revenge after his boss tries to kill him.  The murder attempt instead turns you into a sentiant puddle of green slime.  The game is alot of fun and quite advanced for a 16 bit game with alot of code dedicated to the oozes fluid dynamics.

The other game I've been playing is the first Toejam and Earl game.

sure it's a bit corny with it's cartoony rap theme but it's a lot of fun especially with the perspective of two aliens looking at earth culture.  the fact that most of your enemies arn't evil, just boring and lame is a lot of fun. I particularly love Toejam  He's a cool little 3 legged alien.

so do you folks have any older games you still love to play

[xHaZxMaTx]

Super Mario RPG and Super Mario Kart.

[Dannysaysnoo]

Young Merlin.


Google, futhermucker! use it!

[Ryudo Lee]

I currently have Super Mario Bros 3 stuck in my NES and Super Metroid in my SNES.  I have a drawer full of old NES, SNES, and N64 games, and a couple of folders storing my old original GameBoy carts.  Every once in awhile I'll get nostalgic and fire one of those old systems.  I haven't played Super Metroid in awhile, now that I think of it.  I think I'll give it a run-through when I get home.

[Kitsune Ascendant]

Many of the games I love are from the snes era for consoles and dos era for pc games.
Tyrian's hands down the best top-down shooter I have ever played. four epidosdes, hundreds of levels, and a customization/upgrade system that is highly varied. The story can be followed or ignored as you want, bonus/secret levels are plentiful, and all the levels are made of win and awesome. Did I mention super arcade mode? Well, there are special modes that let you use ships and weapons that you can't get in the normal story or arcade mode, and they're also filled with win and awesome.

Then, there's heretic. Doom with a few upgrades, a brand new set of weapons, an (albeit simple) item system, and a rockin' medieval setting with some of the most awesome enemies and level designs I have ever seen.

One must fall deserves a mention here. It may not be the best fighter, but it's definitely good. ten pilots, ten highly varied robots, arcade and tournament modes, and some wicked special moves.

Jazz jackrabbit... well, it's awesome. It's a platform shooter with some of the most colorful, varied, and downright fun levels I have ever seen. The weapons aren't phenominal, but they are good. six episodes times three worlds per episode times three levels per world=54 levels of pure win. Oh, and the bosses are awesome as well. One per episode, highly varied, and awesome.

The console games really don't have as much, but there are still a few. My favorite, hands down, is super metroid. That game just rocks. It's a platform explorer with a wide, sprawling map that has plenty of secret nooks and crannies and lots of variation, cool weapons, awesome bosses ('specially mother brain's final form), varied and interesting enemies...It's really no wonder that most fans of the metroid series rate this as the top game.

[Fresnor]

It's been a while since I've played some of the older games.  Personal favorites though are Altered Beast, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Contra.  Every once and a while I still pull out FF1, too.

[thegayhare]

Another good older game I've started playing again is called A Haunting.

You play the ghost of a kid who was killed on a defective skateboard.  and your going to get your revenge by haunting the president of the toy company who made the defective boards.

You hauant him and his whole family.  They can't see you so you interact with the furnishings in there home.  Your goal is to scare them enough to send them screaming from there home.

there are 4 family members, and 4 differnt houses to haunt.

there are a couple of different types of haunting objects.  the basic type is the booby trap type.  you leap in and out and then the object buzzes to get there attention.  once the family member walks over to it the effect is tripped, these effects can be any thing from hands reaching out of closets, to bloody words on the wall, to ghastly pits leading to hell.

The other type of object is the direct possession sort. to posses the object and then you can direct it's motion. Causing an object to chase some one around a room, Aiming the knives launched from the butcher block, or even selecting targets for the poop flinging deamon of the toilet.

It's a ton of fun just to see the differnt efects

[NDDR]

for the megadrive aka genesis, ecco tides of time, eternal champions, rings of power.

nes, final fantasy 1-3.

snes, soulblazer, tenchi muyo.

[Ryudo Lee]

soulblazer

Alright, another Soulblazer fan!  I've got that game down to a science, man.

...

Now I need to play it again.

[Tezkat]

An older (2001 vintage) PC game that I keep reinstalling is a space station sim called Startopia. You get to build these cute little cities, run alien brothels, crush your competitors through miltiary force... what's not to like? It has just the right mix of gameplay and humour to stand up to the current crop of games. And it looks gorgeous in 1920x1200.

I often go back to the Mechwarrior series as well. There hasn't been a decent new mech sim for the PC in years.


Sometimes I wish I hadn't given away my old consoles... lots of good times were had on those things.

[Silver Pomeranian Genji]

My old-timey favorites include, but aren't limited to: the old Sonic the Hedgehog games (up to 3D Blast), the pre-GBA Pokémon games (Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Stadium and Stadium 2) TMNT 4: Turtles in Time and Paper Mario for the N64. Those games ruled.

[Dannysaysnoo]

Young Merlin on SNES. that was a great game of throwing stars at giant ants...

[bill]

Final Doom.


It is really hard 

[Sunblink]

Monster Rancher 2. It's not really a "classic" game, but it came out when I was getting into the PlayStation. I still love playing that old game, even over the newer Monster Rancher sequels. It has the least amount of glitches and the most monster breed varieties. I adore seeing what kinds of monsters are in my CDs. I've gone through almost all of the ones in my house.

An old PC game I really like is Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. It's a lot of fun.

~Keaton the Black Jackal

[Arcalane]

An older (2001 vintage) PC game that I keep reinstalling is a space station sim called Startopia. You get to build these cute little cities, run alien brothels, crush your competitors through miltiary force... what's not to like? It has just the right mix of gameplay and humour to stand up to the current crop of games. And it looks gorgeous in 1920x1200.

My god, so I'm not the only person in the universe who's played it.

Old favourites of mine have to beee... Metal Fatigue, X-COM, Warzone 2100, Dungeon Keeper I/II, Space Empires 4... oh, the list goes on.

[Tapewolf]

Let's see - on the PC, Doom  (with the Blessed Engine), the Ultima series, System Shock, Simon the Sorcerer and various other point-and-click adventures from time to time (LOOM etc).  For Windows, Thief 1 and 2, and System Shock.  I have the shareware version of Jazz Jackrabbit although to be honest I liked the music (and the technical prowess of the engine itself) more than the actual game.

I have a whole load of BBC Micro games which I really should revisit - I've played Imogen fairly recently, but it's been a while since I've played Citadel (>100 rooms, packed into about 12k of memory with no disk swapping!).

On the ZX Spectrum, the oldest game I've played with any regularity is Alchemist (1984), where the player was able to shapeshift between human and eagle form.  I've played Phantomas (1987) a few times as well, but there are a bunch of others that would be cool too... Dan Dare (1986), Manic Miner (1983) and so forth...
[Goes all teary-eyed and nostalgic]

[Cogidubnus]

Perhaps it's not old old, but Morrowind will always have a place near and dear to my heart. The sheer atmosphere of that game is what makes it - oblivion is nice, but it simply can't compare to the first time you walk through Sadrith Mora, or the first time you're caught in the ashstorms in Ald-Ruhn.

The first game that I ever really came to adore, though, was Breath of Fire 3 - to date, the only game to make me cry. I still think that the story was amazing for what the game was, and at the time, it was the easily the best-written game I'd ever played. Perhaps this says something about my standards (admittedly I mostly played megaman games), but even now I still think it's not bad. The battle system, RPG and turn based, was still always fun to play - instead of a seperate battle screen and overworld screen, battles would simply freeze the surroundings for a bit as monsters came out of the woodwork, somewhat like Chrono Trigger.
The real fun part about the game was the main character's Dragon transformations, based on a genetics system. Select a gene, and you could become a dragon, and you could combine them up to three at a time. Find different genes, and you can make different dragons - they ran the gamut from Fire to Eldritch to Behemoth to Trance to Failure, and I think there were more than twenty in all. Finding the hidden combinations was one of my first forays into the internet.

Megaman has always been good solid gameplayin', in my opinion. I don't think much needs to be said about that one. Many a morning was spent playing Red Alert with my cousins as well, each of us desperately pointing out to the others that silos were needed. If not that, there was always Commander Keen to pogo around with.

Good times...

[Tapewolf]

Perhaps it's not old old, but Morrowind will always have a place near and dear to my heart. The sheer atmosphere of that game is what makes it - oblivion is nice, but it simply can't compare to the first time you walk through Sadrith Mora, or the first time you're caught in the ashstorms in Ald-Ruhn.

Yeah.  Perhaps it's because it's still in the shops for a platform that currently exists, or perhaps it's because I only bought it last year, but I had a hard time thinking of it as an old game.  Otherwise, it would definitely have been in my list.

[bill]

I just got back into playing Worms Armageddon after a 5 year hiatus.

I have no idea why I stopped, oh god addictive

[Alteisentier]

My god, so I'm not the only person in the universe who's played it.

Old favourites of mine have to beee... Metal Fatigue, X-COM, Warzone 2100, Dungeon Keeper I/II, Space Empires 4... oh, the list goes on.

For gods sake Arcnub. You didn't say Star Control 2 *Frumple!*

But where to start..

A mind forever voyaging, Alien breed, Arcon Ultra, Masters of Orion, Mech Warrior 2, Command and conquer, Arc Fatalis, Bahamt Lagoon, Beneath a Steel Sky, Battlezone, Battlezone 2: Combat commander, Hostile waters, Black throne, Beyond good and evil, Soul reaver, Legacy of kain. Spin Doctor, Chaos overlords,  Elevator action, Creatures, Crusader: No Regret, Dagger fall,  D.R.O.D, ADOM, Rouge,  Descent, Dragon wars, Dungeon keeper 2, bards tale, Fantasy General, Terranigma, Secret of Mana ,Rampart, Meglomania, Secret of Evermore, Freespace 2, X, Home world, Gabreal Knight, Galactiv Civilizations, Sacrafice,  Gauntlet II, Syndicate,Prince of persia,  Gothic, Earth worm Jim, Gun start heroes, Grim Fandango, Guilty gear, I have no mouth but I must scream, The incredible machine, The dig, Day of the tentacle, Monkey island, Interstate 76,River city ransom,  Shogun total war, Jet set willy, LEMMINGS!, Crystal Mines II, Gates of Zedicon,  Alone in the dark, Malcoms revenge, Loom, Lode runner, Ugh, The magic candle, Little big adventure, Maniac Mansion, Masters of magic, Metal gear solid, Metal gear, Sim City, Cyber Storm, Montezumas Revenge, Drug Wars, X-Com,Neuromancer, The lost vikings, Odd world, Outcast, Scortched Earth. Planescape, Pirates gold, EDEN, Zork zork zork.

I give up, too much to remember.

[Vidar]

Gunstar heroes: the only game on the Genisis I liked, and I liked it a lot.
snes: Super Contra 3, Super Castlevania 4, Zelda 3: Link to the past
nes: Life force: Salamander
Game boy: Zelda: Link's awakening

[pyrohamster]

Pc: DOOM2, Time Commando, Red alert, Rollercoster tycoon 1.

GB: pitfall, Jurassic park, some other 3rd thing

and of course for its no-make-senseness: boy and his blob

[Gareeku]

All the old Sonic games for the Genesis/Mega Drive (used to own the whole lot. I think i'll still got them somewhere), old classics like the Fatal Fury series, the Art of Fighting series , the Streets Of Rage series, the Final Fight series and of course the Street Fighter II games.

Also got to love the super mario games too and, while they're not that old, the old Tomb Raider games.

[Boog]

Old gets a bit tricky to define for a certain age group, but you gotta love Tactics Ogre for the GBA. Vastly underrated strategy game that I don't think is ever gonna run out of replay value for me.

[pyrohamster]

My 2nd most old favorite was the neverhood, with its claymation gameplay and awsome puzzles
and my all time favorite is red alert 2 (it old, 7 years)