I was an avid PC gamer ever since I used to play QBERT, FROGGER, ALLEY CAT, DEFENDER OF THE CROWN, and so on on 5 1/4 inch floppies.
I am talking about games from 1982-2000. The classic PC Gaming era.

Here's some classics I've played recently: CARAMEGEDDON (1st one), LORDS OF THE REALM 1 & 2, RED BARON II, MICROSOFT'S CLOSE COMBAT, HERETIC, DESCENT, AGE OF WONDERS, ALBION, MYTH (not myst, MYTH - great fucking game), and SHADOW WARRIOR (who wants some wang?)

I know there's more people that used to play such games, so if anyone has actual copies and would be willing to trade / rip, whatever, let me know. I've still got a bunch. List some other classics.. there's so many of them.

I must also note that I still have just about every demo cd from PC Games, PC Gamer, and PC Accelerator magazines from the 90s if anyone wants to check those out.

Besides the obvious classics like Duke Nukem, DooM, Wolfenstein, I also used to play Thief a whole lot.

they need to put Carmeggedon out for 360

Only software rendering is real. It was such a big deal when the games slapped "3DFX!!!" on their boxes.
I kind of saddens me how PC Gaming is dying. Most Gamestops only have a tiny shelf with the PC games on it. Not only did they downsize the size of PC game boxes around 2000, but they've treated them like they're pieces of shit.

Fuck you, new age console gamers. Taking over PC Games.

The first Carmeggedon is so fucking classic.
I love how they had Demanufacture by Fear Factory on the soundtrack haha.

PC gaming will always be a better experience than console gaming. Aiming with a mouse and keyboard is 10000000000x better than aiming with a controller. The graphics always were and always will be better on PCs. I mean, %99 of console games are still developed using PCs which automatically means the computer is better.

backed 100%.
although some argue that 360 and other consoles run "smoother" than PC games today, it's safe to assume that with an upgraded PC, it will blow it out of the water. the videocards right now are better than the ones in the consoles.
I mean, I wouldn't even call them consoles anymore. 360 and PS3 are pretty much PCs themselves.

Those are all classics. But uh, Monkey Island anybody? eh? eh?

"You fight like a dairy farmer"
"How appropriate. You fight like a cow."

Good times.

Absolute essentials:

Darklands - Party-based RPG set in a pseudo-historical Germany during the time of the Holy Roman Empire. One of the few electronic "RPGs" to be heavily influenced by actual old-school tabletop RPGs, in that it's almost completely open-ended - you set your own goals and your actions influence the game world. Plus it has the cult of Baphomet, so win.

Do you have a copy of Darklands?

No, but Abandonia does. Also, spells? Fuck spells. Clerical prayers and ALCHEMY. YEAHHHHHH.

That's your only essential? Fuck.

Remember when every game Sierra put out was awesome? 94-97. That company was great during those years.

Shazzbot anyone?

X-COM UFO DEFENSE OR YOU ARE A PUSSY

WORMS: ARMAGEDDON FTW

X-COM TERROR FROM THE DEEP OR YOU ARE A SLIGHTLY SMALLER, LESS WET PUSSY

haha, UFO defense was such an awesome game. So was Worms. I only had Worms II but Armageddon was better than that. That game is so fucking fun online

fucking lemmings and commander keen

SLIPSTREAM 3000

what the fuck is shazzbot? I don't remember that one.

Tribes

I used to spend hours playing Flight Simulater 95

ahhh. Tribes.. haha.
Remember Jazzy JackRabbit or whatever the fuck that game was? It was a side-scolling game, but with better graphics than SNES and Genesis.

Oregon Trail
the entire Worms series
Command & Conquer

i still play red alert

I love all the old FPS games like Wolfenstein 3-D, Blakestone, Doom and Duke Nukem. I was also big into Warcraft 2 when it came out and all and I mean ALL the Sierra made Leisure Suit Larry games were the absolute shit. My brothers were big into the Kings Quest games but I always hated the RPG games. I just can't get into them.

But I digress. To me consoles were always better for gaming because thats all they were/are used for. I don't get the whole "mouse's are better for FPS games you poser!" argument. I used to play FPS games all time on the computer and I play them all the time now on my 360. A controller is better. I fucking said it.

OH NO YOU DI'NT

I don't mind using a controller but always prefer a mouse.
I'm way more accurate with a mouse.

I loved the command and conquer games... I still play red alert too! Fucking classic game, way better than warcraft!

Mouse/Keyboard has always had advantage over a standard controller for FPS games. If todays FPS games were cross platform compatible I'm sure most PC users would own all of them.

Haha - screw you buddy, I'm posting on a phone, here. Wait 'til lunch.

Also, the Golden Age of PC gaming definitely starts in the 70s and ended around '89 or so. The 90s (i.e., the shareware era) would be the Silver Age. (No less awesome for that, though.)

PC gaming will never die. Consoles have gained popularity because overall it's much cheaper and no computer knowledge is required. I have no problem playing FPS games on a console, but FPS and strategy games belong on the PC.

Most multiplatform games are inherently better on PC - that's the platform they were developed on after all.

The only downside is that if you're playing console games on the PC mouse aiming eliminates any challenge they had. I had San Andreas for the PC and did not die during a single mission, and the gang turf wars were so easy that whenever I wanted more ammo I'd do those instead of going to Ammu-nation.

Console to PC port = FAIL

QFT

Just look at GTA4. What a fucking disaster that was.

Kinda backs up the mouse>gamepad argument. I remember being so psyched to play WH40K Fire Warrior (nerd that I am), only to find it was a direct PS2 port, and therefore had about a 3rd grade difficulty level when played on a PC. I got too bored to finish it.

If I still had a PC I'd still be playing Red Alert 2. Paratroopers. FTW.

The Golden Age does start in the 70s.
My favorite era of PC gaming is from 1991-1998. I think the best games (most innovative by today's standards) were released in that timeframe.

here's some more classics:

-Rainbow Six (the original)
-System Shock 1 & 2
-Age of Empires 1
-Daggerfall (fuck you, Oblivion)
-The Neverhood (FUCKING CLASSIC CLAYMATION GAME!)
-Quake 1
-Thief
-MDK
-Need for Speed 1 & 2
-CHIP'S CHALLENGE
-SKI FREE
-Klik n' Play (design your own games)
-Sim City 2000 (city copter 1 reporting heavy traffic, mother fuckers)
-Sim Farm
-Civilization
-XCOM games
-Hexen
-Blood
-Redneck Rampage
-Outlaws

SimWorld and SimAnt ruled, too.

"System Shock 1 & 2 "

I need to check out these games. These was the first games the Bioshock dudes were producing before said game. Said game is also the fucking shit.

only old school Mac RPGs are real..

Exile I, II and III
Realmz
Warlords I+II
Escape Velocity
Warcraft
Diablo

Oops - SimEarth. My B.




I bought my dad both these games, and he still plays them on the regular.

I've got to hunt down my System Shock 1, but I do have an .iso of System Shock 2. It came out around the same time as Halflife, so it was immediately looked over. It's a sick fucking game.. very dark and brooding, almost like Doom3 but with way more RPG touches. It's not the best "action" FPS, but it's more along the lines of a sci-fi horror game.

And as for as Mac goes, I think I remember playing Realmz. Wasn't that the turn-based game with an overhead view?
Steve- it somehow disturbs me that your father plays Redneck Rampage.

Sid Meier's Colonization - Hidden gem. This one never got the exposure it deserves, I think. Right on the heels of Civ2 (with nearly the same graphical style), this is basically Civilization on a zoomed-in level - specifically, the colonization and/or raep (NATIVES, LOL) of the New World. You pick one of 4 European powers - England, Spain, the Netherlands, and Franceland - each of which have their own special ability. England generates new immigrants faster due to religious persecution, Spain fucks up the natives easier, the Netherlands has some trading crap, and France generates native tension slower.

You start the game just off the coast of the Americas with a small ship loaded with one free colonist and one soldier. You set up a colony, meet and/or raep the natives, trade with the mother country (or the natives, or the foreign powers later in the game), and deal with the other colonies.

The main points where this gets more involved than Civ are colonist specializations and resource management. You can get occasional population increases from having excess food, but most of your colonists come from the mother country - the faster you generate church bells (build churches and assign preachers), the faster they show up at the dock. Some come with a specialty (farmer, ore miner, statesman, etc.), others are "free colonists" ready to be taught one (either at a schoolhouse/university or by friendly natives), while still others are indentured servants or even convicts (unskilled at anything other than working outdoors, but can be converted to free colonists with education). If you establish missions at native villages, eventually natives will join your colonies - they suck at industry but rule at farming and fishing. A free colonist can do any job, but not as efficiently as a specialist.

Resource management is huge - you don't just generate generic "income," you have to make or trade for whatever you need. You can buy stuff from the mother country, but the point of the game is to declare independance, and the more you buy at home the more they have to spend on soldiers. Also, the tax rate goes up the more you sell - the only way to stop this is to declare a [INSERT TRADE GOOD HERE] party, where you d00dz dump a cargo of whatever it is in the harbor, the tax rate goes down, the mother country refuses to sell you that stuff until you pay back taxes, and rebel sentiment goes up.

AND SO ON AND SO FORTH - INVOLVED GAME IS INVOLVED, LOL

Another game:

POSTAL , the original.

Banned in many countries due to its senseless violence. It opened up the doors to various other violent games, such as GTA1

you guys are a bunch of faggots who have no life and ur music sucks

COLOSSAL CAVE ADVENTURE MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!?

That Colonization game sounds good. I remember hearing about it but never played it. Sounds like it's a lot of micro-management.
Anyone remember that fucking game that came with the Windows 95 Installation disc? What the fuck was it called??

My girlfriend asked me about the Illuminati after we saw some faggy trailer for that gay Angels and Demons movie and I immediately told her the entire plot to Deus Ex through the first ten minutes of Coraline.

Deus Ex>>>>>Almost Anything

Ski Free

haha, that came with Microsoft's Entertainment pack.. Chip's Challenge, Ski Free (fuck that Yeti who used your pole as a toothpick), and shit, I can't remember what else.
This 3d maze battle type game was actually on the windows 95 disc along with a Weezer video.

Deus Ex should be added to the list of classics as well.

DEUS EX and THIEF
and the sequels all sucked.

FUCK YOU, SKI FREE. FUCK YOUUUUUUUUU

FUCK YOU CHIPS CHALLENGE. that game was so fucking long

arillius is on a posting spree

the thing I rely on at work is busted but they JUST fixed it.. back to work.

We were talking about this one at the last 2600. That and Blitzkrieg. Must source...

Great game.

OH MY FUCK YES

Me and the guitar player in my first band used to spend HOURS rocking hotseat multiplayer on that game.

Pool of Radiance - The first AD&D PC game, and the only First Edition one. Shit was hardcore - if you could finish this without multiple saveloads, you were the fucking MAN. (Or at least as the man as you can be wearing a pizza-stained Batman t-shirt in your mom's basement.) Launched the bazillion-selling Gold Box series. I own the pen-and-paper module based on this and have been dying to run it for a decade or two.

is that Scorched Earth?

hahaha good times with that.

At least one version of it was, yeah. I've also seen it distributed as TANKWARS.

Freecell

alright, I'm at home going through some of my games. Here's some more games:

-Fallout 1 (KVLT CLASSIC)
-Virtual Springfield (A MUST FOR ANY SIMPSONS FAN)
-Starcraft (no idea how i could forget this. it's in my top 10)
-Solder of Fortune
-Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness
-Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
-King's Quest
-The Secret of Monkey Island
-Terminal Velocity

You should totally join my Freecell clan. We're super 1337.

Nice try n00b, I only play Hearts

OH SNAP

Here's some more I have on my computer if anyone remembers/wants them:

...and I just realized I have that Colonization game. And Darklands. HAHAHA

Upload the folder of shemale porn

Actually fuck all that noise about shemales. I want Pirates Gold, that game used to get my dick hard enough to cut diamonds.

I need to go to bed RIGHT NOW before I go to abandonia instead...

haha, go to your abandonia. i'm still interested in trades/rips.

my copy of carmageddon is on a hard drive that just died :(
also, nothing beats dig dug.

Can a brotha get a copy of Descent? we totally played that on network in high school.

I was excited cause I thought I found a copy of descent. it ended up being the movie. lame. descent II was weak from what I remember.

Descent I and II (see bottom of thread)

Alleycat - Hands down the best stray cat simulation on the market.

Rev I could rip my Carmageddon copy if you want it.
I'm sure you can DL it now..

Dude, don't even get my started on AlleyCat. That game was so sick. The cheese maze? The giant goldfish bowl? The fucking dogs? Game had it all.

I hated the damn fishtank. Anybody here spend much time playing BBS games? (Conservationist, I know you know what's up.) Trade Wars? CircleMUD? Bot Battle (or whatever that robot fighting game was?) Fucking COWS?

Carmageddon (see links at start of thread)

Carmageddon is such a fun game. Anyone that has played any of the GTAs after the 2nd but has not played Carmageddon 1 should try it immediately.

Duke Nukem
RedNeck Rampage. (How cool would that game be now with today's engines?)
Castle Wolfenstien (The version which was a Berzerk/Frenzy style instead of the 3d version later on. )
Descent 1-3
Dues EX

You have just been pm'd

a/s/l

WARLORDS III

Red alert 2, age of empires 2, diablo 2, warcraft 3 where all staples of my childhood

age of empires 1 > age of empires II

I liked II wayyy better. gameplay seemed a lot more refined and quicker paced. AOE1 just moved too slow and the population limit of 50 was reeeeeeeeally annoying.


Oh yeah and i can't beleive i forgot

POPULOUS 3

haha yea. AoEII had way more variety too. Damn, I might have to reinstall tonight.

anyone want to get some baal runs in before useast resets?

Decent
Doom
Rise of the Triad
War of the Gods
Some random ass Robocop game that Peter Blue had
NUMBER MUCHERS

What's that game where you control a guy who has a bomb strapped to him? And the room rotates so you have to spin the room around to get the guy to the key to unlock him or something like that. I remember playing that game constantly.

Also this old old game i remember playing at my neighbors house on his ancient IBM from 1993 or something. It was sort of like a board game/RTS where you controlled these cone shapes and somehow a tornado worked into the plot. Haha i would fucking love to find that game but have no clue what it was called and can barely remember anything about it other than cones and tornadoes.

I started a battle.net server and am distributing sc with a registry hack for windows and mac (it runs in wine too)... I play with 5-10 people almost every night. let me know if anyone is interested (WE have voice chat on mumble also.)

by sc i mean Starcraft if anyone is interested

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holy shit i forgot about Rise of the Triad

drop that sc biz and play some D2 with me

i have a little group of people i games with... we need a few more we play ET and SC.... we usually play from like 10pm to 3am .

never played D2 although it could stand for alot of diff games I may have played

oh diablo?

diablo/diablo 2 works on my bnetd server but Ive only played it a few times...

I used to play SC (BroodWar) on battlenet all the time.
I'm probably a bit rusty now. I couldn't take getting backstabbed by koreans anymore.

dertoxia-those ring a bell

ill pm u guys with some infos

It's quite funny.

This thread is full of games that blow away anything PS3 or Xbox has to offer. Maize eaters.

LOzl

This is all that I've been playing lately.

Came in here to laud Jazz Jackrabbit. I see aril got the title wrong but still glad to see it was mentioned. Jazz was a fucking pimp.

Jizz Jackrabbit

Even though Jazz was a ripoff of Sonic, he was way cooler.

lol posbleak, weren't we talking about that game recently? Best RPG of all time.

Mindmaze made me the YDKJ! destructive force that I am today

Only constructing island ecosystems populated entirely by dogcows was real:

one of my fav games ever...even the totally homo xbox version was fun.

not PC, but still a classic game


bennyhillifier

For the past hour I've been obsessed with trying to find this math game that came out in the late 80s that took place in a really fucked up haunted house. I think I might be imagining it though.

Sesame Street game, right?

Pffft, Deus Ex? Any game with polygons is false.

life is good

MAGIC

FUCKING

CARPET

Oh shit! Forgot about that game. That game was awesome.

Dude!!! I thought I would never find this game again. I couldn't think of the name. Thanks.

Can't stress enough how much this game is a must have for simpsons fans. I will literally burn it and mail it out if I have to.

Myth, best game ever.

yea I wish I still had it. Used to have SO much fun leveling journeymen

KNIGHTS & MERCHANTS

A few that I played back in the day:
King's Quest V
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
Red Baron
Centurion: Defender of Rome
LHX Attack Chopper
Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0
Hyperspeed

playing lords of the realm 2 now.

Good topic

Been playing
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Fallout
Fallout II
Fallout Tactics
Quarantine
Nethack
DOOMRL
Doom II
etc

Deadly tide
Fate of atlantis
Starcraft

Fallout 2 is by far one of the best games ever made.

STREETS OF RAGE

Alpha Centauri was another great game. I loved how you could customize the crap out of your own units.

Another one I used to enjoy was Syndicate. Fun tactical strategy game with somewhat cool graphics and relatively open-ended gameplay.

ALso, anyone remember MDK? You were a weird pointy headed black alien guy. Just a third-person shooter, but I remember having a lot of fun with it.

FUCK I wish I still had all this shit.

alpha centauri fucking rules. i've actually never played syndicate but always heard about it. there was a remake of MDK recently but i never played that either. dude all this is easy to steal online if you weren't such a n00b. also http://www.gog.com/ has all these games for ~5.

they don't come with the massive cardboard game boxes though =[

ITT: ark hurts my feelings AGAIN :C

Thought I'd already posted in here. RED FACTION

This time, I will actually show some love for gaming.

First off- why did Origin Systems have to sellout to EA. Fuck you EA.

Wing Commander Series
Privateer Series
Ultima Series (best RPG games ever and I will fight about it. Even VIII and IX)
Ultima Online (best MMO ever)
Crusader series
System Shock
Bioforge


Also - Lucasarts

The Star Wars flight sims alone were beast.

Which leads me to - WHY DO GAMES SUCK SO BAD NOW? STOP HOLDING OUR HANDS.

This is pretty much always the answer.



ITT: Mass Effect 3 has a "skip all the boring combat and exploration, just click through the story" option, now. For real.

origin systems isn't ea's origin service. totally different.

also THERE WERE PLENTY OF SHIT GAMES BACK THEN TOO.