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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JB42 on September 29, 2004, 01:41:44 PM
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I was just browsing the web when I came across an article about Wolfenstein 3D. I thought to myself " Wow, I remember when that came out. It blew me away.". So then I began to think of what game just floored me the most when it came out. Not just graphics or gameplay or plot etc......... I mean as a whole.
The first one that came to mind was the Star Wars game were you were Han Solo in training. I forget the name. Then all of a sudden, like a shot out of the blue, a blast from the past if you will, it dawned on me...............
RESIDENT EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man that game was of the hook. Killing, Strategy, Problem Solving. The game had it all. I remember playing for 35 hours straight, me and a friend trading off while the other cat-napped. IMHO, best break-through game ever.
What's Yours?
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Deus Ex
Lode Runner
Metal Gear Solid
Aces High
no particular order
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Digger died for our sins.
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The original Harpoon.
Air Warrior.
Aces High.
Chronlogically speaking only.
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For me the hook was AW and "SWOTL".
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"Breakthrough"?
I'd have to go with Wolfenstein3D or perhaps Civilization. But W3D defined the genre that about 30% of the games on the market fit into, that category did not even exist until then. Another that created a genre/category would be Warcraft, but I never cared for RTS that involved resource aquisition.
BTW, I bought Wolfenstein3D for my kid to play on his gameboy, it looks and sounds EXACTLY like the original :D
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Subspace (http://www.subspacehq.com/)
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UnReal.
-SW
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ill add Age of empires also.
many many wasted hours building a civilization.
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The PC games I consider the best (obviously everyone's list is going to be different):
Air Warrior 1.2/AWFW--the best ever. Period. I'd still play it if it was available. Was doing in the '80's basically what AH is doing today.
DooM/DooM2--King of FPS (none of this doom3 crap, either). Still superior to any new standalone FPS. Co-op mode was brilliant.
Warcraft II--First really good RTS
Age of Empires 2--First RTS that was better than the above; I still play it unlike all other games on this list
Counter-Strike--best online FPS ever
J_A_B
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Originally posted by Curval
The original Harpoon.
Yep, for me it's between that and Civilization.
-Sik
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"Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" - the first flight sim for the personal computer to have clouds that you could hide in/behind.
"Star Wars" in the sit-down cabinet with tinted glazed cockpit. Awesome way to shut out the outside world.
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Red Baron!
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Doom.
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Warbirds 2.something
Falcon 3
Grand Prix Legends
Doom
StarCraft
Diablo 2
Thief
X-wing and Tie Fighter
Jedi Knight
All the above game got me into a particular genre and held my attention for a long time. I played warbirds at $2/hour for years and could care less about the bill at the end of the month it held my attention more than any 3 of the above. But it burnt me out on flight sims though, played aces high for a while but it never had the same fun factor for me.
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pong
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That horny guy Larry game.:cool:
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Originally posted by Regular
That horny guy Larry game.:cool:
leisure suit larry?
new one coming out, i've played it and its pretty damn fun :D
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Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck's Revenge - simply amazing game
Sam and Max Hit the Road - funny as hell
Tie Fighter - amazing campaign mode and great story
Aces High - blew me away first time I played
One of those based on enjoyment/hours spent playing.
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I remember wasting a ton of quarters in the original Pac Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders.
I also loved Lode Runner and Gato (a sub game) in their day.
However as games evolved I found I had little interest in playing any of the new arcade games like Super Mario or Tetris or whatever.
Now I have no interest in anything but a few online flying sims.
Simplier was more addictive it seems.
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Astroids
AWDOS
Fighter Duel
Some Microprose AH64 chopper game tha I played for hours on end on my amiga 500
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all of Sierra's "Space Quest'", "Hero's Quest" series..
and of course, the ones that really blew me away ....
System Shock I
X-Com: Enemy Unknown
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The original Doom. I still have an old computer at home to play it on from time to time.
Star Wars X-Wing vs Tie Fighters. Excellent
Star Wars Rebellion. I still play this one.
Unreal Tournament. Benn playing this one long than any other game I ever had. Let's see,..7 years I think.
Aces High. When I get to play I have a blast.
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Skuzzy, you ever check out http://www.TheThirdReich.com ? It's a mod for UT.
But I'd have to go TTR for UT.
Then Doom.
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i bet Skuzzy is one of those Number guys
5463673:D online
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Cannon fodder
Sensible soccer
Zelda: a link to the past
Final fantasy 7 (whole series is great)
Theme Hospital
Tie fighter
Those are just off the top of my head. I played all these games to death before i moved on. So many happy memories....
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Interstel's Empire. The forerunner of the Civ series that made me buy my own computer in the late 1980s. A real "time accelerator." It's 11:00 am one minute and 4:30 am the next.
Charon
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Single player
Elite- C-64
Dungeon Master- Atari ST
Empire- Atari ST
M-player?
Doom
Seawolf 688 attack sub
IKON
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I forgot about 688 Attack Sub. That was awesome.
I can't believe I'm the only one who mentioned Harpoon.
When I first played it, it was almost a religious experience.
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HT's first child WB, nothing can beat the practice arena. Instant formation drops of twenty five B17's a mere five mins from the enemy's base. Watching the fighters attempt to break thru the auto gunner. Synced carpet bombing of the enemy base with 100 lbers, twas sweet.
You could fly 20 missions an hour.:aok
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Originally posted by Charon
Interstel's Empire. The forerunner of the Civ series that made me buy my own computer in the late 1980s. A real "time accelerator." It's 11:00 am one minute and 4:30 am the next.
Charon
Very addicting game...
The current version is EDIE Empire deluxe internet edition.
plays as good as the origonal Interstel empire!l
IKON
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Best Game Evar?
Perfect Dark for Nintendo 64, Spent many of Drunken Nights putting holes in my college buddies with really cool guns.
Best PC game Evar?
Thats tough, Aces High, Combat Mission (All three), European Air War. I still play EAW, when I'm extremely bored.
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tiger woods golf 2003
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Originally posted by Rude
Some Microprose AH64 chopper game tha I played for hours on end on my amiga 500
Gunship 2000! I used to love the hell outta that game.
Also used to love Fighter Duel Pro. Was the first PC flying game I played against a human opponent.
The Amiga was a pretty cool platform back in the day.
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battlefiend 1942
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http://sdl-sopwith.sourceforge.net/
my frist flight sim .... by far one of the best :D
(http://personalpages.tds.net/~danq/images/sw.jpg)
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I could give a huuuge list, but Tetris was the first that popped up :)
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Civilization
...-Gixer
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Ultima Underworld was a leap forward in 3d, first person perspective games...this was late eighties, no pauses between scenes...just smooth 3D all the way. Still have that game, DOS.
Nothing was close to it.
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UFO - X-Com (I & II)
Jagged Alliance II
Harpoon I
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Close Combat Series (Especially #2 and #3)
TIE Fighter and X-Wing
Rebel Assault
Rogue Squadron/Leader
Aegis Tatical Cruiser
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Air Warrior
Red Baron
Day of Defeat
OK guys, no one here mentioned.....
ACES OF THE PACIFIC and ACES OVER EUROPE!?
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best evar? to many to count but i spend alot time playing this games.
There are new versions out today, but at the time they came out
they had a huge impact IMO.
early '80
Missilie Command
Burried Bugs
late '80
Flightsimulator
Interceptor
early '90
Rick Dangerous
Pilot Wings
Need 4 Speed
late '90
Grand Prix Legends
Half Life
Flying Circus
Aces High
today
a MMOG playing in WW2 theatre ;)
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Quake {the original}
Operaton Flashpoint
Raven Shield
GPL
Any WWII genre {Return to Castle Wolfenstien, MOHAA, COD, BF1942 and Red Orchestra}
WWII Online
AH
IL2
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Arcade:
Williams 'defender' (childhood memorys standing on a box in the arcade)
Nemesis
PC:
X-wing
Doom
Operation Flashpoint (My all time fav)
Aces high
Console:
Mario 64
Gran Turismo
metal gear solid
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Doom
M1 Tank Platoon (The original)
Wing Commander 1 & 2 (Didn't really like the next bunch)
RTSigma, I'll throw my vote with the ACES Series, played those things non-stop for a long time.
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Probably the one game I'd have to choose is Dungeon Master I played on my Amiga. First game that really had me addicted.
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Silent Service (on C64 and Amiga).
Civilization, Operation Wolf, Elite, Wings... and Blue Max! :)
Gotta add Nethack.
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Fallout's great grand daddy ---> Wasteland!
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The Metroid series.
Those are the games that made me realize that video games are another form of art.
Aside from exercising our puzzle muscle, a great game should be good musically, visually, literally and emotionally.
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System Shock
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Your all forgetting,
The game that started it all
PONG
My other great Games
Commodore 64
Any of the "Games" series
(Surfing in California games was my fav)
Also "Gunship"
Amiga
Wings (WWI sim with storyline)
Their Finest Hour
Feindish Freddie
Battlechess
PC's P100- today
Warcraft
AW
AHI AHII
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Originally posted by IK0N
Seawolf 688 attack sub
The first multiplyer PC game I ever played, even bought one of them new fangled 1200 baud modems for it. It was a beyatch to get it to hook up but once you did it was really fun.
Thanks for the tip on "Red Orchestra"! I am downloading the mod for UT2004 right now :D
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X-COM UFO
Transport Tycoon
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Half Life
Doom 1 and 2
Aces over Europe
Close Combat 2,3, and 5 (1 and 4 plain sucked)
the original Command and Conquer
and I'm surprised that no one mentioned Duke Nukem 3D!
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Best three games ever for me, were:
X-COM: UFO Defense (The original in the series)
Civilization
Gary Grisgby's Pacific War
Ah, the early-mid 1990's. Those were the days.
*sigh*
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Originally posted by Suave
The Metroid series.
Right on!
Im 17 hours into Metroid prime, and I'm stuck trying to fight the Omega Pirate, So I'm still pretty far from beating it, Think I'm 60% finished.
I was looking for cheats, In one it says you must beat the game in two hours...:rolleyes:, to unlock the game in Hard Mode :eek:
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Anyone remember Defender on Atari. I loved that game.
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Space invaders and Pong of course.
That purple plane game Mane showed.
Blade Runner and Double Dragon also on Amstrad.
The first Doom without sound card, at first.
Out of this (or Another) world and Flashback, and Metroid on SNES.
When I saw a preview for Warbirds on a mag. Didn't get to play online flight sims till a few years later, but those images hypnotized me right away.
Chuck Yeager's AC for a while.
And the Wing Commanders :)
And Gato :) forgot about that one...
System shock 2 and Final fantasy 7.
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Being as I was 6 when we got our first computer and I needed simple games (what was complicated back in 1990?) F-19 Stealth Fighter took up all of my time. Then we got a rip roaring P75 upgrading from our 286. AW4W without a doubt was my introduction to online gaming.
So far we have:
F-19 Stealth fighter
AW4W
Then the first game I played online addictively:
Descent I and II *spent over 4 months at 3 hours a day playing*
Legends of Kesmai *was a simple RPG that none of the big MMORPG's can match for fun*
And then of course I was blown away most of any game by Civ III. It's taken more time from me than any game ever has before or since.
And then there is Halo, best console game ever, 16 player 4 xbox lan games at my friends house usually ended in drunken fights, I loved it.
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Fallout / Fallout2
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Fallout / Fallout2
Excellent games
Charon
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Ooops an alibi round......
Sid Meir's Pirates
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XCOM
Xwing
Age of Empires
Deus Ex
Half Life
AH
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I guess I've played or own just about every good first-person shooter game. All of the MoH editions, most of the Battlefield 1942 editions, the Clancy games and so on.
However, none of these come even remotely close to Call of Duty. This is the current gold standard IMHO, especially if you are into WWII infantry combat games. When TechTV reviewed it they offered one over-riding comment. "Buy this game!"
Call of Duty was developed by Infinity Ward; a newly formed studio including 22 of the individuals, and all of the production leads, who developed Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
Don't forget to pick up the expansion pack too.
My regards,
Widewing