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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wanker on May 15, 2003, 02:14:50 PM
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Ok, let's take a stroll down memory lane. Give us the game that floored you, made you give up sleep for days or weeks at a time, or otherwise helped you forget your troubles and totally immersed you in it's world.
My vote goes to....
X-COM: UFO Defense (1994)
What a game! Defending the earth from aliens, what could be more rewarding? It had it all: Strategic depth, a strong tactical aspect, good graphics, very effective sounds, characters that you cared about and cried when they died. You could even name your characters(I named all mine after porn stars).
One of the few games I ever played all the way through to the end. Close runners up would be 1991's Civilization and the original Red Baron.
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1.) Civilization
2.) Half-Life
3.) Sim City
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Agreed banana, XCOM-UFO Defense has to be one of my all time favorites. Heck even my wife (girlfriend at time game came out) loved the game. She particularly liked the cute little Sectoids, and the neat sound they made when ya blasted them. :)
I hope the next XCOM they are working on will be very similar to the old one, with just enhanced graphics.
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When I was in college, I worked for JC Penneys in a mall and I would spend my lunch money on a slice of pizza, then blow the coins on "Star Wars" that ran on one of those sit-down enclosures with dark tinted glass and speakers mounted behind the seat. The game was a slow-seller for the arcade so it was pushed back into a corner where nobody hardly went. It was like having my own private X-Wing fighter.
I've never experienced that much bliss in a video game since, though I did come close the first time I played "Hornet" on a buddy's Apple II - my first taste of an at-home flight simulator. I went home that night and began my campaign for a computer. When I finally got one, the first piece of software I bought was "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" which came with 3 other games (can't recall their names but I think one of them had to do with SEAL teams).
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I remembe X-com, I think I still got it around some where..oh man..never got too far..
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Asteriods...
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Ya, X-com hits right up there by the best games ever!
Heres an trip down memory lane! School Daze on C64! someone here has to have played that :D
Wing Commander 1 also was revolutionary hehe! theres lots really...
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hehe, I preferred X-Com: Terror From the Deep over UFO Defense, even though the underwater "physics" were pretty lame. Mind control was fun, and evil when done on you. lol.
Even so, I'd say Wing Commander was my fav computer game of all time. Followed by Civ. Daggerfall gets honorable mention. That game was just soooo cool, especially becoming a werewolf or vampire. The quest to cure your lycanthropy was terrible. You had to do something completely dispicable to rid yourself of the disease. Thankfully, it was just a game! ;)
Oh yeah, gofaster, I plunked lots of quarters into that wire framed Star Wars game. Definitely one of my all time favs for quarter driven games, along with Space Ace and Cyberball. :D
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Karateka on a IIe.
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and Tetris.
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This is an English all-boys school with a difference. You play Eric, our hero, who must defend himself from all that school has to offer, lines, snooty teachers, bullies and have his own fun of course. This works pretty much like a normal school. You have recess and lunchtime where the students are free to do their own thing, provided they stay out of classrooms and staff rooms, this is of course when students are most likely to pick on each other. When the bell rings a subject and class room indicator will appear in the box at the bottom of the screen and you are expected to attend, if you choose not to and are caught you will be given lines. Features of the game include being able to write on the classroom blackboards during recess or before a teacher gets to class, this however will incur a punishment if you are caught or 'dobbed' in by another student, being able to knock out other students with your fists and also jumping up and down in front of someone you dislike with your finger (you know which one) in the air. My favorite though is the peashooter. You can knock over any student tall enough with this but be warned they can do it straight back and the teachers don't particularly like seeing their students on the floor "LINES!!!". Teachers themselves can also be knocked over, you are even encouraged to do this as shown by the various shields on the roof. If you can time it well enough you can knock a teacher over, and bounce another pea off their head while they're down activating a shield directly above them and giving you extra points. Just for goodness sake don't let any teacher see you while doing ANY of the above, they don't take too kindly to it, and after too many lines you are asked to leave, which I feel is just a nice way of saying "expulsion".
An whole whooping 30 KB download! i djust love GOOGLE!
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ROFLMAD!
Yes im drunk today :D
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Originally posted by banana
Ok, let's take a stroll down memory lane. Give us the game that floored you, made you give up sleep for days or weeks at a time, or otherwise helped you forget your troubles and totally immersed you in it's world.
My vote goes to....
X-COM: UFO Defense (1994)
What a game! Defending the earth from aliens, what could be more rewarding? It had it all: Strategic depth, a strong tactical aspect, good graphics, very effective sounds, characters that you cared about and cried when they died. You could even name your characters(I named all mine after porn stars).
One of the few games I ever played all the way through to the end. Close runners up would be 1991's Civilization and the original Red Baron.
I worked with a guy in Tooling at the time that was single and took all 3 weeks of his vacation off just to play that game 18 hours each day...thats ALL he did on his vacation, Get up, play Xcom, eat, ****, play Xcom, **** again, play more, eat, sleep 6 hours, rinse...repeat.
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Elite! :cool:
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Last Ninja! LOL!!!!
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Who is old enough to remember that quarter run football game with the big ball you spun to make your guy run faster? Used to be a real hoot after several beers.
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Harpoon II
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Who is old enough to remember that quarter run football game with the big ball you spun to make your guy run faster? Used to be a real hoot after several beers.
I'd always pinch my hand on those rollers. they scared me.
hehe, I was also like 4 or 5 at the time. ;) This is the one with the X's and O's for your "team" right???
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Ultima 1
Yes its Ultima Online :D
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LOL banana!
I was listening to Jim Rome the other day and he was ranting about a Snowboard Company putting Porn stars on their snowboards and marketing these boards to 13 year olds.
In the middle of this rant, Rome says quote "What's next, Ron Jeremy on lunch boxes.....with the tag-line, stuff your meat in this box..."
Don't ask me why, but the first person I thought of was banana!
***End of Hi-jack.
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AND THE NUMBER ONE OF ALL TIME!!!
ACE OF ACES!!!
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most wasted time....guadalcanal campaign on the apple IIe, along with Kampfgruppe......ahh good times.
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Zaxxon!
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I found an site that is too good to be true lol!
I will stop now :D
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Falcon 3.0 absorbed me for the longest time, especially after "Operation Fighting Tiger" expansion came out. When I finally had a reason to buy a computer that even my wife couldn't refute (grad school, MSEE), I went out weeks before I got the computer and bought Falcon 3.0.
From my Atari 800 days (am I dating myself), the best game I had was "M.U.L.E"...spent many a late night and six-pak of MGD (hey, I was on a budget!) playing that with buddies from work.
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Originally posted by Sabre
Falcon 3.0 absorbed me for the longest time, especially after "Operation Fighting Tiger" expansion came out. When I finally had a reason to buy a computer that even my wife couldn't refute (grad school, MSEE), I went out weeks before I got the computer and bought Falcon 3.0.
From my Atari 800 days (am I dating myself), the best game I had was "M.U.L.E"...spent many a late night and six-pak of MGD (hey, I was on a budget!) playing that with buddies from work.
I can remember that if you got Falcon 3.0 to work over a modem with a friend (with the sacrificial chicken) you got your masters degree in Networking. ;)
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Originally posted by Sabre
From my Atari 800 days (am I dating myself),
I actually upgraded from an Atari 400 to an Atari 800. Remember the data backup - casette deck?
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XCOM was an amzing game. But I can't believe no one said:
1) BoB - Their Finest Hour
2)Battlehawks 1942
3)Empire (holy crap I played the hell outta that one!!)
4)688-Silent Killer (or something like that, GREAT sub game)
5)Castle Wolfenstein 3D
6)Red Baron II (Hehehehe...just kidding!!! The original is my all-time favorite FS)
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
4)688-Silent Killer (or something like that, GREAT sub game)
No way! "Silent Hunter" was the greatest sub game ever! I still play it when I'm not flying vs taking the time to learn "Silent Hunter 2".
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my favourite game was probably one fo the following: -
- Original Red Baron
- Original B-17
- Flying Corps Gold
- Their Finest Hour
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...there is one and only one King of all computer games:
Nethack
No graphics, no multiplayer. Just infinite possibilities and mind-numbing challenges. Truely addictive.
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There's so many...
Sublogic Flight Simulator (the father of all PC flight sims)
Falcon series (first "electronic battlefield" sim)
Indy 500 (Papyrus) (first racing game with hard core physics model)
Wolfenstein 3D (the original FPS, proto-Doom)
Operation Flashpoint (first true combined arms first person combat game)
Combat Mission (first physics based strategy game)
Earl Weaver Baseball (first physics based sports sim)
EA hockey and football series (consistent innovation and brilliance)
Dale Addink's MMOG flight sim series. Not the first but IMHO the best of the breed.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
4)688-Silent Killer (or something like that, GREAT sub game)
It was just 688 Attack Sub if it's the one I'm thinking of. It was a great game.
Harpoon, the original, was my first real "love". The first day I got it my roomate and I pulled an all-nighter.
SWOTL was the first flight Sim that really sparked my interest.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I worked with a guy in Tooling at the time that was single and took all 3 weeks of his vacation off just to play that game 18 hours each day...thats ALL he did on his vacation, Get up, play Xcom, eat, ****, play Xcom, **** again, play more, eat, sleep 6 hours, rinse...repeat.
In a recent post I recalled a night of throwing up after drinking Black Zambuka. My rommate at the time was playing XCom all night and laughed every half hour when I emerged to head toward the toilet to barf.
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Originally posted by Horn
Karateka on a IIe.
DING DING DING :D:D that dmn bird messed me up sooooo many times.
also:
Lode Runner on IIc
for modern PC's:
Deus EX
Age of Empires
Myst
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X-com
Harpoon
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Red Storm Rising (C64)
Silent Hunter (C64)
Battle of Britain (IBM)
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffee (IBM)
Civilization (IBM)
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Wing Commander
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Who is old enough to remember that quarter run football game with the big ball you spun to make your guy run faster? Used to be a real hoot after several beers.
I do I do I do! :D
When I was a wee lad like 9 or 10 years old that game came out at the arcade. My dad and I used to play it :) Never failed that I'd end up getting the skin from my hand caught in between the ball and the table and get a huge blood blister :D
X and O's :)
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defender
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Who is old enough to remember that quarter run football game with the big ball you spun to make your guy run faster? Used to be a real hoot after several beers.
I still have the blood blisters from my hand getting pinched by the ball as you spun it.
Ack-Ack
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Civilization III
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Ultima Underworld was pretty impressive.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I can remember that if you got Falcon 3.0 to work over a modem with a friend (with the sacrificial chicken) you got your masters degree in Networking. ;)
LOL!
I hooked mine up directly to my bothers computer via serial port cable through our bedroom walls. Had to get tech support and patch so planes would start out withing 1000 miles of each other.
That was an awesome game though.
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Half Life 2
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Janes Longbow/Flashpoint Korea/Longbow2 was the big intro into PC simulations for me. Loved that sim.
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I forgot to mention F18-Hornet on Amiga, the 1st plane sim I played. I was doomed from that day on.
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Scorched Earth
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Castle Wolfenstein
BOB
SWOTL
Wing Commander Series
Gato (MAC)
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#1:Panzer General 2
#2:Battlezone
#3:European Air War
#4:Half Life
#5:CMBB
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Ultima5
castle wolfenstien (the pre 3d 1984 version)
Gunship
I think I wasted an entire year between those 3 games when I was a kid.
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ultima underworld! It rocked the dungeons where so cool, I still do not think they have been topped, even by games like morowind and EQ. Fantastic game.
Wing commander one. What a visually stunning game that was for its time... Lol I hade to make a boot disk to get it to run on my 386/25 lol Origin sucked for memory management.
their finest hour Hours and hours on this one and secrets... nothing like getting 10 kills in a mission in a 110!
Fallout. Fantastic, great story, great tongue and cheek sense of humor, great interface!
Wasteland. What a great game for its time, I still remember making copies of disk 4 over and over on my apple 2 so I could get the power armor from the one temple for my whole team.
and Xcom.... man the first time you whole team got nuked by a blaster bomb just sucked! Or the first time one of your team got turned into an alien, the fire spreading through fields was awesome too..... I want to play it again!!
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Falcon 3
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i do beleive that beer wars is the best game of all time...
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All time classics: Digger.
Tactical: UFO: Enemy unknown.
Sim: WB/AH
Card game: Marriage (Russian "preferance" game)
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Wing Commander series. I just through out 3 large garbage bags full of old DOS games. I hated doing that. All my WC games..and many, many more.
Carmagedon was a hoot!
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Skuzzy!!! I woulda taken those bags off your hands!! Just to go through them and see all the old games that my dad probly played.. I still got doom on floppy somewhere around here..
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Too late. The garbage guys picked it all up today.
Must have been 50-60 titles in those bags. Lot of those games I really miss. A lot of fun.
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Missile Command
GORF
Asteroids
Civilization 1 & 2
Harpoon
The Computer game I had was Hemarabi for the trash 80
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Civilization
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Baldur's Gate
Jumpman on the C64
Quake 2 (online)
Ghost Recon
Tombraider
Homeworld
Civ II
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BLAST...I HATE YOU SKUZZY...i would have loved those old games...
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Ultimate Time Waster: Diablo 1 and 2
Best Time Waster Classic: Doom Series
Honorable Mention: Stonekeep