Old PC games you still play - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

wario · 07-30-2003, 08:38 PM

Just wondering what old PC games are still in your game rotation. And how do you manage to play these outdated games on high end systems.
Me? I still occasionally go back to the AD&D Gold Box games. The games like Pool of Radiance (original), Curse of the Azure Bonds, and Secret of the Silver Blades. The first one came out in 1988. XP won't run these, but I've still got my Win 95 233 MHz to run these games.

Atomsk · 07-30-2003, 10:28 PM

Master of Orion 1 and 2 (mostly 2 since its a updated version of 1) Starcontrol 2 (best rpg/action game ever) Starflight (on occation) D/generation, every ultima game on occation but ultima 7 is my favorite. some crazy old games like black magic and below the root. those you need an apple ][ C emulator to play. but its worth the hassel for sure.

ducati999 · 07-30-2003, 11:15 PM

every now and then i will go through the original duke nukem side scrollers....and the other apogee, epic side scrollers like jill of the jungle and jazz jackrabbit....

bobbles · 07-31-2003, 05:16 AM

The tetris game from "Best Of Windows Entertainment Pack"

(and ski free) :S

TerraFORM · 07-31-2003, 06:11 AM

I've still got a few old ones---Quake 1 and 2, Turok, Forsaken (excellent, btw), Interstate '76. These aren't that old but are my oldest.

Krycheck · 07-31-2003, 06:41 AM

Action Quake 2 although it's been a few months since.

MPower · 07-31-2003, 01:33 PM

Stars! and scorched earth. I do have an old board/computer combo game from '88 I sometimes play when friends are over.

Caphreak · 07-31-2003, 03:34 PM

wow, i must be young. Old computer games to me are like Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn (the original, not sun) and F-117A...

TerresqueÜ · 07-31-2003, 05:46 PM

Diablo 1...

Dmala · 07-31-2003, 07:15 PM

Nethack
http://www.nethack.org

Gotta love those ASCII graphics.

t3m3st · 07-31-2003, 07:40 PM

Ski Free ROCKS!!!1
Also, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Police Quest, Wolf3D, and good ol' Doom

acidburn · 07-31-2003, 07:46 PM

Still love Descent: Freespace....
Might not be all too old to you all, but I have yet to find a flight game that compares to this...

charlesesl · 07-31-2003, 08:01 PM

Thief I: the most unique fps i ve ever played (hate the zombies)

Spritebox · 08-01-2003, 05:03 AM

Baldur's Gate II....Counterstrike...Snood...poker?

Rav · 08-01-2003, 05:08 AM

Ski Free huh? That's pretty old school...

I still play this stupid executable game, "Snowcraft"...3 little kids vs a bunch of a elves shooting snowballs at each other, it's pretty entertaining...I'm pretty sure download.com would still have it yeras later...

CS is still a favorite though!

Zargix · 08-01-2003, 05:18 AM

Nethack
X-Com
System Shock
Doom

although recently, all i've really played is WC3: Frozen Throne

obediah · 08-01-2003, 06:55 AM

I pull out the oldies every once in awhile

X-Com
MOO II
Alter Ego ( on C64 emulator)
Ultima Underworld
Gold Box Games

djtestudo · 08-01-2003, 07:11 AM

The greatest computer game ever to be used in school...OREGON TRAIL!

Empty_One · 08-01-2003, 11:08 AM

gl_quake

kel · 08-01-2003, 01:00 PM

The definitve helicopter combat sim. Nothing has come close to it since then. Sadly... no one left to fly as my wingman or be my copilot... but then again no one wants to be stuck in the front seat...

tavis26 · 08-01-2003, 01:33 PM

its all about "Jones in the Fastlane". oh, and Kings Quest VI

Gothmog · 08-01-2003, 01:50 PM

StarControl 2 (StarControl - Timewarp - Bitchin' remake, networkable!)
Loom, Monkey Island 1, 2, and The Dig (ScummVM - Plays old LucasArts Games)
Slash'em (My favorite nethack variant - Slash'em Page)
Ultima VII & Serpents Gate (Exult - 2K/XP emulator for U7 engine)
Paradroid (Cool clone called Freedroid)
Jumpman (Few win32 clones here: Jumpman Lounge)
Abuse (Get your Win32/Linux versions here.)
Trailblazer (God I loved that one on the C64. Win32 version here.)
Turrican (Another brilliant C64 classic. Win32 version here.)

Other NEW variants on older games.
Crimsonland (Always felt like a derivative of Abuse to me. D/L it here.)
Decker - Nethack cyberpunk style!

Well, I hope you try some of these out for yourselves! They're all pretty damn good, IMHO.

portwineboy · 08-02-2003, 05:51 PM

MOO2, Harpoon2, Blade Runner, Doom.

I'm old. What can I say?

drawerfixer · 08-02-2003, 06:10 PM

Myth TFL

Running over 6 years now.

Brentski · 08-02-2003, 06:15 PM

Lords of the Realm II and Silent Service

Same Guy · 08-02-2003, 06:26 PM

Oh god theres some good old games in here
xcom
starcontrol ii
moo
pools of radiance...

noone mentions
warlords 2
that was a classic... many a hotseat game was played...

who said oregon trail - i'm gonna kick your ass

that game sucked... though i do miss takin down the occasional
buffalo

mustang91 · 08-02-2003, 07:35 PM

Where's 'Betrayal at Krondor'

My favorite non-Bioware RPG to date.

Explosive · 08-02-2003, 07:47 PM

Kings Quest 4 and all the LSL games

H12 · 08-02-2003, 07:48 PM

I wish I still had my Duke Nukem game, or I'd have it on this computer. Man, nothing tops Quake 1 though...I love that game!

LNCPapa · 08-02-2003, 09:08 PM

I still play Quake I regularly - especially with Tenebrae and glQuake making it so beautiful.

striderkevin · 08-05-2003, 01:12 AM

Command and Conquer.

stinkynutz · 08-05-2003, 05:34 AM

x-com
myth2: soulblighter

calixstus · 08-05-2003, 10:06 AM

i still play Sid Meier's Pirates- its gotta be late 80's
and it still rules!

Mr. Mojo · 08-05-2003, 10:25 AM

<b>Tribes!</b> - i play at work, when i can. Still a great jump in-jump out game.

fartre · 08-05-2003, 05:55 PM

Jedi Knight 1, star control 2 and the original silent hunter...

such a pain in the ass getting them to work in winxp though

Oh yeah, leasure suit larry!

spoonbill · 08-05-2003, 07:52 PM

Pirates, good.

X-Com, better.

Civilization, best (can't believe I'm the first to mention this one).

killerjoejoe · 08-05-2003, 09:47 PM

Myst 1
FF7
Pharaoh
and best of all....NOX!

mute76 · 08-06-2003, 10:39 AM

I'd still play Duke Nukem 3d if anyone else still did. Best FPS of all time.

shAzb0t · 08-06-2003, 03:35 PM

another myth player? i'm impressed...Ya Myth:TFL as well. I got duke nukem in a pcgamer and played through it, oh the memories

Vyk · 08-06-2003, 04:07 PM

X-Com, Starflight, Bards Tale 1-3, Master of Orion, definitely the Gold Box Dungeons and Dragons games.

I have a copy of Bards Tale II for the PC but the music for it is so much better on my Commodore 64 emulator

07-30-2003, 08:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
wario Insane	Old PC games you still play Just wondering what old PC games are still in your game rotation. And how do you manage to play these outdated games on high end systems. Me? I still occasionally go back to the AD&D Gold Box games. The games like Pool of Radiance (original), Curse of the Azure Bonds, and Secret of the Silver Blades. The first one came out in 1988. XP won't run these, but I've still got my Win 95 233 MHz to run these games.

07-30-2003, 11:15 PM	#3 (permalink)
ducati999 Crazy Location: USA	every now and then i will go through the original duke nukem side scrollers....and the other apogee, epic side scrollers like jill of the jungle and jazz jackrabbit.... __________________ Twist of the wrist

07-31-2003, 06:41 AM	#6 (permalink)
Krycheck Sultana ruined my evil persona Location: Los Angeles	Action Quake 2 although it's been a few months since. __________________ His pants are tight...but his morals are loose!!

07-31-2003, 05:46 PM	#9 (permalink)
TerresqueÜ Hiding Out	Diablo 1... __________________ Say yes to the 'Tilted Roleplaying' Forum http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1932&highlight=petition

07-31-2003, 07:40 PM	#11 (permalink)
t3m3st Vroom! Location: Toronto	Ski Free ROCKS!!!1 Also, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Police Quest, Wolf3D, and good ol' Doom __________________ I do it for the rare drops

07-30-2003, 10:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
Atomsk Crazy	Master of Orion 1 and 2 (mostly 2 since its a updated version of 1) Starcontrol 2 (best rpg/action game ever) Starflight (on occation) D/generation, every ultima game on occation but ultima 7 is my favorite. some crazy old games like black magic and below the root. those you need an apple ][ C emulator to play. but its worth the hassel for sure.

07-31-2003, 05:16 AM	#4 (permalink)
bobbles Crazy	The tetris game from "Best Of Windows Entertainment Pack" (and ski free) :S

07-31-2003, 06:11 AM	#5 (permalink)
TerraFORM Crazy Location: Virginia	I've still got a few old ones---Quake 1 and 2, Turok, Forsaken (excellent, btw), Interstate '76. These aren't that old but are my oldest.

07-31-2003, 01:33 PM	#7 (permalink)
MPower Psycho	Stars! and scorched earth. I do have an old board/computer combo game from '88 I sometimes play when friends are over.

07-31-2003, 03:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
Caphreak Insane Location: Ames, IA	wow, i must be young. Old computer games to me are like Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn (the original, not sun) and F-117A...

07-31-2003, 07:15 PM	#10 (permalink)
Dmala Upright	Nethack http://www.nethack.org Gotta love those ASCII graphics.

07-31-2003, 07:46 PM	#12 (permalink)
acidburn Upright	Still love Descent: Freespace.... Might not be all too old to you all, but I have yet to find a flight game that compares to this...

07-31-2003, 08:01 PM	#13 (permalink)
charlesesl Psycho	Thief I: the most unique fps i ve ever played (hate the zombies) __________________ It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. Dr. Viktor E. Frankl

08-01-2003, 05:03 AM	#14 (permalink)
Spritebox Insane Location: Charlotte, N.C.	Baldur's Gate II....Counterstrike...Snood...poker? __________________ it's all nice on ice alright and it's not day and it's not night but it's all nice on ice alright

08-01-2003, 05:08 AM	#15 (permalink)
Rav Upright Location: Connecticut	Ski Free huh? That's pretty old school... I still play this stupid executable game, "Snowcraft"...3 little kids vs a bunch of a elves shooting snowballs at each other, it's pretty entertaining...I'm pretty sure download.com would still have it yeras later... CS is still a favorite though!

08-01-2003, 07:11 AM	#18 (permalink)
djtestudo Baltimoron Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD	The greatest computer game ever to be used in school...OREGON TRAIL! __________________ "Final thought: I just rented Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Frankly, it was the worst sports movie I've ever seen." --Peter Schmuck, The (Baltimore) Sun

08-01-2003, 11:08 AM	#19 (permalink)
Empty_One Addict Location: Milwaukee, WI	gl_quake

08-02-2003, 06:10 PM	#24 (permalink)
drawerfixer Stonerific Location: Colorado	Myth TFL Running over 6 years now. __________________ They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

08-02-2003, 07:35 PM	#27 (permalink)
mustang91 Upright Location: Cleveland, OH/Athens, OH	Where's 'Betrayal at Krondor' My favorite non-Bioware RPG to date. __________________ "I'm desperately not trying to feel the early, preconceived notion of love that only exists in top 40's pop songs." "He who wants money, means and content are without three good friends." - Shakespeare "...like Vietnam, or those bands that never got over the fact they opened for Nirvana, I never got over her." -Nick Hornsby

08-01-2003, 05:18 AM	#16 (permalink)
Zargix Crazy Location: Everywhere, Simultaniously	Nethack X-Com System Shock Doom although recently, all i've really played is WC3: Frozen Throne

08-01-2003, 06:55 AM	#17 (permalink)
obediah Crazy	I pull out the oldies every once in awhile X-Com MOO II Alter Ego ( on C64 emulator) Ultima Underworld Gold Box Games

08-01-2003, 01:00 PM	#20 (permalink)
kel WARNING: FLAMMABLE Location: Ask Acetylene	Janes longbow 2 The definitve helicopter combat sim. Nothing has come close to it since then. Sadly... no one left to fly as my wingman or be my copilot... but then again no one wants to be stuck in the front seat... __________________ "It better be funny"

08-01-2003, 01:33 PM	#21 (permalink)
tavis26 Upright Location: Seattle, WA	its all about "Jones in the Fastlane". oh, and Kings Quest VI __________________ "Why can't I ever see the god damned sailboat!?"

08-01-2003, 01:50 PM	#22 (permalink)
Gothmog Psycho Location: Angband, Middle-Earth	Oooh... I love these threads StarControl 2 (StarControl - Timewarp - Bitchin' remake, networkable!) Loom, Monkey Island 1, 2, and The Dig (ScummVM - Plays old LucasArts Games) Slash'em (My favorite nethack variant - Slash'em Page) Ultima VII & Serpents Gate (Exult - 2K/XP emulator for U7 engine) Paradroid (Cool clone called Freedroid) Jumpman (Few win32 clones here: Jumpman Lounge) Abuse (Get your Win32/Linux versions here.) Trailblazer (God I loved that one on the C64. Win32 version here.) Turrican (Another brilliant C64 classic. Win32 version here.) *Other NEW* variants on older games.** Crimsonland (Always felt like a derivative of Abuse to me. D/L it here.) Decker - Nethack cyberpunk style! Well, I hope you try some of these out for yourselves! They're all pretty damn good, IMHO. __________________ Lord of the Balrogs, that's who. Last edited by Gothmog; 08-01-2003 at 01:54 PM..

08-02-2003, 05:51 PM	#23 (permalink)
portwineboy Master of No Domains Location: WEEhawken, New Joisey	MOO2, Harpoon2, Blade Runner, Doom. I'm old. What can I say? __________________ If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran.

08-02-2003, 06:15 PM	#25 (permalink)
Brentski Banned Location: Texas	Lords of the Realm II and Silent Service

08-02-2003, 06:26 PM	#26 (permalink)
Same Guy Crazy Location: Hawaii	Oh god theres some good old games in here xcom starcontrol ii moo pools of radiance... noone mentions warlords 2 that was a classic... many a hotseat game was played... who said oregon trail - i'm gonna kick your ass that game sucked... though i do miss takin down the occasional buffalo __________________ Thank you, come again.

08-02-2003, 07:47 PM	#28 (permalink)
Explosive Banned	Kings Quest 4 and all the LSL games

08-02-2003, 07:48 PM	#29 (permalink)
H12 I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning! Location: K-Town, TN	I wish I still had my Duke Nukem game, or I'd have it on this computer. Man, nothing tops Quake 1 though...I love that game! __________________ "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle

08-02-2003, 09:08 PM	#30 (permalink)
LNCPapa Crazy Location: Notre Dame	I still play Quake I regularly - especially with Tenebrae and glQuake making it so beautiful. __________________ No mercy for the bandwidth impaired

08-05-2003, 01:12 AM	#31 (permalink)
striderkevin Crazy Location: Can't tell you, then I'd have to kill you.	Command and Conquer. __________________ "A false life is equal to death. Be your true self" -Strider Hiryu

08-05-2003, 05:34 AM	#32 (permalink)
stinkynutz Insane	x-com myth2: soulblighter

08-05-2003, 10:06 AM	#33 (permalink)
calixstus Upright	i still play Sid Meier's Pirates- its gotta be late 80's and it still rules!

08-05-2003, 10:25 AM	#34 (permalink)
Mr. Mojo Addict Location: NYC	<b>Tribes!</b> - i play at work, when i can. Still a great jump in-jump out game. __________________ When I jerk off I feel good for about twenty seconds and then WHAM it's right back into suicidal depression

08-05-2003, 05:55 PM	#35 (permalink)
fartre Tilted	Jedi Knight 1, star control 2 and the original silent hunter... such a pain in the ass getting them to work in winxp though Oh yeah, leasure suit larry!

08-05-2003, 07:52 PM	#36 (permalink)
spoonbill Tilted	Pirates, good. X-Com, better. Civilization, best (can't believe I'm the first to mention this one).

08-05-2003, 09:47 PM	#37 (permalink)
killerjoejoe Tilted Location: CANADA!!!	Myst 1 FF7 Pharaoh and best of all....NOX! __________________ [Insert Boobies Here]

08-06-2003, 10:39 AM	#38 (permalink)
mute76 Psycho Location: Anywhere but here	I'd still play Duke Nukem 3d if anyone else still did. Best FPS of all time. __________________ What the fuck is "wtf"?

08-06-2003, 03:35 PM	#39 (permalink)
shAzb0t Psycho Location: whereever my portable hard drive takes me	another myth player? i'm impressed...Ya Myth:TFL as well. I got duke nukem in a pcgamer and played through it, oh the memories