old computer games

2006-05-11 09:09:07

#1

G3|Genius: Pope of BF2s; +355|6884|Sea to globally-cooled sea

I was reading another thread about what is the oldest computer game you still play, and it lead me back to my childhood when my family got our first computer.

I remember at the time being fascinated by the games my dad played...on the old Green and Black CRT monitor...it was probably 9", but boy was that thing awesome.

Feel free to remind me of other super old games for the PC!

2006-05-11 09:10:53

#2

RDMC: Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!; +736|6823|Area 51

Why isnt there the option of like ''wasnt born back then''?

2006-05-11 09:11:44

#3

tupla_s: .; +455|6850|Finland

I played some cool car game on the Green/Black screen... It was awesum then

And the computer had to be started with a key

Last edited by tupla_s (2006-05-11 09:13:21)

2006-05-11 09:15:47

#4

Marconius: One-eyed Wonder Mod; +368|6952|San Francisco

Windows 3.1 waaayyy back? What about the Commodore and Amiga? They had scores of games before Windows was released...

2006-05-11 09:16:13

#5

HeavyMetalDave: Metal Godz; +107|6916|California

I remember the original castle wolfenstien, on I think Apple.

It was two colors, overhead view. I swear that it said "commrade" when you pointed your gun at the enemy.

I think that was 1984.

2006-05-11 09:25:42

#6

uber73: Member; +188|7010|Brisbane

i was / am a c64 player...
anyone wamma pm me for nostalgia, feel free...

guess u need to be in yer thirties as a minimum requirement for this tho

2006-05-11 09:29:45

#7

Fredrik: i hate you all; +201|6907|Norway

Anyone remember Captain comic? Ducktales?

2006-05-11 09:31:46

#8

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7087

F-15 Strike Eagle in '84. Green and white an black. That's it. Targets were triangles on the ground and triangles in the air.

Last edited by CC-Marley (2006-05-11 09:33:06)

2006-05-11 09:33:26

#9

daffytag: cheese-it!; +104|6833

IM 18 my earliest pc game was commander keen, not sure what one though. I loved it though.

2006-05-11 09:35:18

#10

kanctil: Member; +13|6898|Milford NH

How bout Jupiter Lander? Oh and what was the Olympic One, Track and Field? You had to bash the Joystick back and forth wicked fast like you ewere having a seisure or something. Back in the days of one button joysticks and 5 1/4 floppy's that were actually floppy. I think Jupiter lander was actually on cassette. I remember getting magazines with pages and pages of code we had to enter ourselves, and woe to you if you missed a comma!!!

2006-05-11 09:40:27

#11

kanctil: Member; +13|6898|Milford NH

HeavyMetalDave wrote:
I remember the original castle wolfenstien, on I think Apple.

It was two colors, overhead view. I swear that it said "commrade" when you pointed your gun at the enemy.

I think that was 1984.

used to scream ACHTUNG!!!! as well when an enemy spotted you, used to almost make me wet myself every time.

Remember Wolfenstein 3d? A guy I knew modded it so that the guards lokked like lawnmowers, then modded their sound to be a clip from a phil collins song, so they would say "i'm just a lawnmower" over and over again.

2006-05-11 10:07:22

#12

BellusEndus: Make love not war; +59|6881|Edinburg

first game i ever played was Risk on an old mac classic II, played a few on the atari but was too young to be any good, first PC game was the original Civ, still play Civ2 when the urge takes me - best game ever made for the PC!! Civ3 was pretty shit, completely different game play to 2 but they did pretty well with 4.

EDIT: not forgetting duke nuken 3d!!!

Last edited by BellusEndus (2006-05-11 10:08:49)

2006-05-11 10:39:08

#13

Kung Jew: That one mod; +331|7003|Houston, TX

kanctil wrote:
used to scream ACHTUNG!!!! as well when an enemy spotted you, used to almost make me wet myself every time.

I remember that scaring me to death. Even worse were the SS guys with bulletfproof vests. Thank G-d they put grenades in that game.

KJ

2006-05-11 10:54:40

#14

Smaug: This space for rent; +117|6835|Arlen, Texas

All the Infocom games, Zork, Planetfall. Anyone remember the text adventure for Buckaroo Banzai? Had 'graphics' and everything.

2006-05-11 11:56:03

#15

Prodie: Moderator Emeritus; +270|7032|Nova Scotia, Canada

Anyone remember Jump Joe or Hard Hat Mac?

2006-05-11 12:56:11

#16

Kung Jew: That one mod; +331|7003|Houston, TX

Prodie wrote:
Anyone remember Jump Joe or Hard Hat Mac?

Hard hat mac....

With those hot rivets that killed me as they bounced by? I remember...

Was it Jump Joe? I remember Johnny Lightfoot. Acrobat guy? Oh yeah.

You are standing on a path near a house. There is a mailbox here.

Prompt: C4 the mailbox <enter>

You place C4 on the mailbox.

Prompt: Hide behind house <enter>

You hide behind the house.

Prompt: wait <enter>

Time Passes....

Along comes a shady looking character. He pauses at the mailbox, then begins to peek inside.

Prompt: activate detonator <enter>

Click. BOOOOM The mailbox explodes and obliterates all traces of the thief who dies with an obscure "what happened" look.

There is an unlocked egg on the ground here next to a smoldering hole.

KJ

Last edited by Kung Jew (2006-05-11 12:57:04)

2006-05-11 12:59:40

#17

Viper38: Member; +118|6928

Original version of Sid Meier's Pirates - had it on both the Amiga and PC - still play the original every now and again.

Oh and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, that game was awesome

Last edited by Viper38 (2006-05-11 13:01:15)

2006-05-11 13:36:35

#18

Darth_Fleder: Mod from the Church of the Painful Truth; +533|7064|Orlando, FL - Age 43

How about Wizardry?

2006-05-11 13:41:45

#19

Kung Jew: That one mod; +331|7003|Houston, TX

Darth_Fleder wrote:
How about Wizardry?

Ohh good one.. forgot about that gem.

Anyone remember tycoon and lemonade stand on the ][e?

KJ

2006-05-11 13:46:44

#20

DeadJim: Member; +19|7006|Valencia, California

Kung Jew wrote:
Darth_Fleder wrote:
How about Wizardry?
Ohh good one.. forgot about that gem.

Anyone remember tycoon and lemonade stand on the ][e?

KJ

Oh...My...God... I feel so old.... I was gonna post my recollection of Hack, the old ASCII based Unix game - but now I have nothing but images of Star Trek on the old TRS-80's flashing through my head...

And heres one for a flashback (Requires Java). Remember when this was a $.50 game?

http://www.javagameplay.com/WarZone.html

Last edited by DeadJim (2006-05-11 13:52:14)

2006-05-11 13:57:13

#21

Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7068|Nårvei

All the Sid Maier games:

Pirates was definately the best.

And summer games, winter games, chucky egg, boulder dash, exploding fist, silent hunter ...

Commodore64,Amiga and my first commodore PC10 (with an awesome 10MB harddrive)

Wait behind the line ..............................................................

2006-05-11 14:48:00

#22

Ty: Mass Media Casualty; +2,398|7033|Noizyland

Anyone played Paganitzu? That was awesome but they made the last level actually impossible so you couldn't finish it.
I also played Sid Meir's 'Colonisation' which was the predecessor to civilisation.
Anyone played "Alleycats"? That was an awesome game too, aside from the fact that there was no point whatsoever to the game.

[Blinking eyes thing]
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/tzyon

2006-05-11 14:52:29

#23

Horseman 77: Banned; +160|7095

Chuck Yeager' S Advance Flight Trainer. Pong ! Had Fist fights over Pong in Bars. I am next fuker! Fuk you ! oh Ya etc..

2006-05-12 12:06:56

#24

Darth_Fleder: Mod from the Church of the Painful Truth; +533|7064|Orlando, FL - Age 43

DeadJim wrote:
Kung Jew wrote:
Darth_Fleder wrote:
How about Wizardry?
Ohh good one.. forgot about that gem.

Anyone remember tycoon and lemonade stand on the ][e?

KJ
Oh...My...God... I feel so old.... I was gonna post my recollection of Hack, the old ASCII based Unix game - but now I have nothing but images of Star Trek on the old TRS-80's flashing through my head...

And heres one for a flashback (Requires Java). Remember when this was a $.50 game?

http://www.javagameplay.com/WarZone.html

Speaking of old Trash-80's, I used my CoCo64 to play one of the first MMOG's on Compuserve....Megawars I and Megawars III. $6.00 an hour it was to play at 300 baud. That burnt some cash!

2006-05-12 12:10:29

#25

My_pet_squirrel: Have you seen my nutz?; +126|6878

My favorite game not really really old but it was THE ORIGINAL duke nukem omg i played it day and night on my old IBM =p

Empire	7%	7% - 7
Chopper Escort	6%	6% - 6
Moria	2%	2% - 2
Paratrooper	9%	9% - 9
Sid Meir's original CIVILIZATION	31%	31% - 29
Check here if you played a game that was only 2 colors	41%	41% - 38
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