The Best Computer Game of All Time?

[funkedup]

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.

[Curval]

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.

[Curval]

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.

[JB73]

Originally posted by Horn
Karateka on a IIe.

DING DING DING :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

[Saintaw]

X-com
Harpoon

[Bodhi]

Red Storm Rising (C64)
Silent Hunter (C64)
Battle of Britain (IBM)
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffee (IBM)
Civilization (IBM)

[Dune]

Wing Commander

[Udie]

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!

 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

 X and O's

[Gadfly]

defender

[Ack-Ack]

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

[muckmaw]

Civilization III

[NUKE]

Ultima Underworld was pretty impressive.

[NUKE]

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.

[Nath[BDP]]

Half Life 2

[Yeager]

Janes Longbow/Flashpoint Korea/Longbow2 was the big intro into PC simulations for me.  Loved that sim.