Halx

This weekend, I decided to install Diablo 2 and experience the mind-numbing simplicity once more. I enjoyed playing as the Necromancer and having an army of skeletons do all my work for me while I just focused on looting.

Anyone else get nostalgic with some old game recently?

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Redlemon

Funny, I just read about Parchment earlier today - a web-based Z-code interpreter for interactive fiction. I think that's older-school than yours.

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hannukah harry

i'd kill to play some Trade Wars, BBS-style.

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xepherys

I actually did the Diablo 2 thing not long ago myself. It was fun, but only for a few days. I find that nostalgic gaming is sometimes best left nostalgic.

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Jinn

I went back to play EverQuest (the original) this weekend. They gave everyone with an inactive account free play until the end of July. It was a bit nostalgic and fun, but I hadn't played since 2002. I started in 1999, and wow, is it a different game.

I should've left it nostalgic, too, because now all I can think about is "why did i ever play this game?"

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Siege

Once in a while i'll play old SNES rpgs, man did those games kick ass...

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Baraka_Guru

As soon as I get a proper wireless router, I'm going to fire up the Wii's Virtual Console. Now's my chance to play that TurboGrafx and Neo-Geo I never had!

Other than that, my most-played game right now is an online module of Neverwinter Nights. Six years is old-school enough in gaming, right?

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Cynthetiq

I recently played Warcraft III and Frozen Throne... fun game. I never finished it the first go round... and I didn't finish it this round either.

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tooth

Went to a local pawn shop last month and picked up a Gameboy Color, plus Pokemon Gold and Silver.

Not to mention, my original NES still gets semi-regular use at our house. The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. rule as far as my kids are concerned.

How's that for Old School?

Redjake

Played Starcraft all the way up through the human campaign. That game is hard as fucking hell, but once you are used to the graphics (they sucked at first, but then I got used to them), it's mind blowing at how good of a game they made back in 1997. The game is still mindnumblingly hard, to the point of me quitting after the human campaign.

I had never even touched the game until this point in time!

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stevie667

I tried to play soldier of fortune yesterday, but apparently it doesn't want to install on vista, and i feel bummed.

I wanted to blow of limbs, set people alite and explode them with microwave weaponry after emerging from the ceiling like ninjas ghost damnit!

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rlbond86

Technically it's still in development, but I play NetHack all the time. It's been around since 1987, and it's about as old-school as you get. I actually just won for the first time.

CinnamonGirl

I had an intense desire to play Baldur's Gate 2 and Warcraft 3... but I haven't played either of them recently (if I had the disks, I totally would.)

I got super-excited the other day when I thought I'd found my old King's Quest Collection... I was all set to play 4, 5, and 6. Alas...it wasn't the right cd.

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Apokx

Just happened to install this last night. I never bought ToB though, so its just Shadows of Amn.

m0rpheus

I've got a few.
I recently replayed through Starcraft's single player missions, and I will toss in Alpha Centauri all the time.
The other one is that I play Legend of the Red Dragon daily.

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milkyp

Counter Strike 1.6 every now and then is always a good time.

longbough

I'm certainly nostalgic for old school games.
I recently played Final Fantasy 7 and it was fun!
Now I'm looking to play arcade game classics from the 80s like Tempest, Star Castle, Gyrus, Zaxxon, Qix, Defender, Phoenix, Crazy Climber, Kangaroo, Berzerk ...
Anybody know of any sites where I can download ports of these games onto PC?

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Seanland

I played Simfarm! =) and Simcity 2000 ... out of my excitement for Spore =D

CyCo PL

I played through Ninja Gaiden 1 recently... one of the hardest games I've ever played. It wouldn't be nearly as hard if the game weren't broken and badguys didn't infinitely respawn if their spawn point was scrolled to the edge of the screen.

telekinetic

Alpha Centauri, Moonbase Commander, Total Annilation. Ah, good times.

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CinnamonGirl

I don't remember ToB being all that exciting. It DID let you stretch the game out a bit longer, though, of which I was a fan

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Destrox

I'm not bashing or anything. But its always fun to see one persons "Old School" to another.

I enjoy a re-living of Quake 2 every once in a while, and constantly keep UT installed.

Other than that I always love going back to playing a little Worms II here and there.

I could go back furhter, but that would require Emulation or owning consoles I no longer have.

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shakran

y'all don't know oldschool.


This:



Is old school.

I mean hell the main character's even dead!

Zodijackyl

I enjoy SNES games regularly when at school where we have one set up.
As far as Diablo 2, I never really stopped playing, the ladder was reset recently so online play is a good option.

Catdaddy33

I bought the id pack off Steam which had all the Doom and Quake games, and I must say even with the 1990s graphics Doom 1 & 2 still holds up. Now if I could only find the mods again..

shakran

is it bad that i still remember the cheat codes to Doom, what, 13 years later?

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Cynthetiq

I'd be calling you master OG if you knew the easter egg for Atari 2600 Adventure off the top of your head....

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PonyPotato

I've been dying to play The 7th Guest for ages now. I found the discs at home and Crompsin will hopefully be able to install them on his old old gaming laptop sometime this weekend.

(For perspective: the game came out in 1992. I was 7 years old at the time and obsessed with it for an unhealthy amount of time - the puzzles were VERY challenging for me at that age.)

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CinnamonGirl

oooooh, 7th Guest... I played the demo, but didn't have my own computer at the time... I wanted to basically move into my uncle's house until I played it through. I'd completely forgotten about that one.... *adds to list*

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shakran

i'm fuzzy on it, but you took an invisible something into a room and it vanished a wall to reveal a vertical credit scroller.

Can't remember what it said, what the object was, or where the room is though

shoegirl

I LOVED this game. I still have it too... I might just bring it out and see if it still works. I have the 11th Hour which was also just as enjoyable.

Great idea!

Leto

Very good!

I would also like to submit the following as old school. A console for this was received by myself & my brother for Christmas in ohhhh let's see, 1877? Haha... 1977 or thereabouts. It was promptly hooked up to our 14 inch B&W Zenith TV in our room.

I think it contributed to a decline in my Grade 13 grade average and subsequently my application to Western for Life Sciences, explaining how I became a computer programmer rather than a dentist.

Ahh Pong, so influential.

Catdaddy33

There was an invisible dot in one of the mazes, you have to use the bridge to get to it I believe and while holding the dot it lets you pass through one of the barriers on screen and shows the name of the game designer.

shit that makes me feel old...

PonyPotato

As of yet.. unable to get it working. Doesn't work in DOS on Crompsin's old Win95 machine, doesn't work in the DOS 6.22 virtual machine I created using Parallels on my mac (Parallels doesn't currently have any old sound drivers supported, ugh!). We're going to try it on an ancient machine sometime soon, hopefully it will work! I've spent about 4 hours trying to get it running so far.

I never played the 11th hour.. is it much different from T7G?

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DonnieBoy

If anyone finds a good version of M.U.L.E. I can play let me know... I loved that game... back on my commadore64!

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biznatch

I like Dungeon Keeper. It's not that old, but it has a nice retro feel and is a lot of fun.
As for Counter Strike, i tried going back to 1.5 and 1.6, but after trying Source, it's impossible for me.

I bought myself an adapter so i can plug in my Dual Shock 2 (I find it's the most versatile controller for different consoles) and downloaded NES, SNES, and N64 emulators...Goldeneye's back! Zelda LttP and OOT ! Perfect Dark.. SMB3, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, Street Fighter...and on and on....So awesome.
it made me chuckle last time I did this on an airplane, the kid next to me was watching the whole time and thought all those games were really cool, even though before his time(I let him play a bit too).

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shakran

Dungeon keeper! Oh I remember that game. Hilarious and evil.

Byrnison

Not quite as old as Pong, but damn close :

spindles

It is not as old school as some things mentioned here, but I dusted off my "Age of Kings" disks last week. Ahhh - some nice reminiscing

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Bilbert

Quake
Doom
Castle Wolfenstein
Gunship
Strike Eagle

Hundreds of hours wasted on that old Atari 130XE; happy times.