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holyheathen Level 8 
BedouinPosts: 9 |
Nostalgia for your Friday. What were your favourites? Dune 2. This game got me hooked on RTS's and paved the way for WarCraft, StarCraft and too many nights on BattleNet. Laura Bow, Police Quest, Might & Magic and the King's Quest series. Oh, and X-com although I can't recall if this was on diskette or not. Must go take Geritol now. |
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pixielo Steward  Level 20 
VigilantePosts: 3135 |
Zork |
nieman Level 18 
DestroyerPosts: 880 |
I hear ya on the Warcraft. We went without a computer during the 3.5 floppy days. We had a hand-me-down Commodore 64, though, we had the 5.25 disks for though. Those were fun stuff. Don't remember many names though. Real basic games anyways. Spy Hunter, heh... that's a classic. When we got our PC it was Windows 95, so cds for us. The only floppies we had were occasional hardware drivers or system disks. |
czarchron Level 10 
BenefactorPosts: 366 |
My favorite floppy disk game from the 90's was Apogee's Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. I just Googled it. OMG you can play DOS games online!!! *runs off to play*
*half an hour later*
(Well when I was a kid... they had these high-tech things called: books) |
greenwashcloth Level 9
BedouinPosts: 128 |
Master of Orion! Circa 199..3? I forget who the publisher was. Silicoids FTW, obviously. Either that, or the Psilons |
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pixielo Steward Level 20
VigilantePosts: 3135 |
OMG...how could I forget Tetris? Or Leisure Suit Larry? Oh yes...5.25" floppies were it! |
uselessness Level 14
BedouinPosts: 481 |
Monkey Island I and II were (and still are) the best games ever! I also loved Oregon Trail and Word Munchers. I seem to recall some other educational game where you learn math by chasing down crooks in a big hotel, or something, but the name eludes me. Also, if there's any old Mac-heads around this thread, Scarab of RA was something amazing. I still have it, and I'm looking for a way to get it to run on my MacBook. Edit: How could I forget SimCity? Hawesome. |
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holyheathen Level 8
BedouinPosts: 9 |
Flippin' hell, all these great games being mentioned ... now I'm going to have to install a DOS emulator and start playing all these old games. o.O |
bleys Level 16
BenefactorPosts: 15 |
I agree on the Monkey Island games - there is lot of them in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies - also Simon the Sorcerer, Tunnels and Trolls (Crusaders of Khazan), the Sorcerer 101 etc games. Most these were DOS games, I remember doing a lot editing in autoexec.bat and config.sys to get them to run.
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shyiskhar Steward  Level 17
DestroyerPosts: 1332 |
I'm with you on the Dune 2. And the Zork (Duh). In fact most of the old text based games were awesome!
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philharmonic Level 12
BedouinPosts: 18 |
Monkey Island was definitely the best ever. Fans of LucasArts will want to check out http://www.scummvm.org/ |
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salmontickler Steward  Level 19
VigilantePosts: 865 |
Frogger |
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salmontickler Steward Level 19
VigilantePosts: 865 |
Daley Thomsons Decathlon on Atari the 1500 metres was an absolute killer (moving joystick from left to right as fast as you can) Mind you, I was young then and the action meant nothing to me......... |
mmmpi Level 13 
SeerPosts: 345 |
Monkey Island, Zork, Loom, and Dark Castle for the mac! |
meraxes Level 12
VigilantePosts: 132 |
Elite, Academy and The Bards Tale for the Amstrad. |
starryice Level 15
BenefactorPosts: 420 |
Kings Quest I-IV
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. Just started listing off some of the ones I remember playing the heck out of. |
juroc Level 11
BedouinPosts: 34 |
BASIC Wait. That wasn't a game? |
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shyiskhar Steward Level 17
DestroyerPosts: 1332 |
The powers at PMOG forgive me, But the amstrad came with a version of basic.. (Dang, you remember the fun to be had... You had to sit and type in run "whatever" to make games load... man... those were good times) I spent months slowly designing my own operating system, with its own commands and everything.
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chris2718 Level 10
DestroyerPosts: 181 |
The Black Cauldron - First PC game ever for me. Dune 2 - Phenomenal Police Quest Series - Lost a lot of sleep due to that one. Rise of the Dragon - Great story. I loved when it was ported to Sega CD. Oh the memories. The old cliche "They don't make them like they used to." is going through my head right now. |
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chris2718 Level 10
DestroyerPosts: 181 |
FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE! Some Old School Dune 2 Nostalgia Goodness: |
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holyheathen Level 8
BedouinPosts: 9 |
Awww, man! Now why did you have to go and post that link?! **shirks off more work** |
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chris2718 Level 10
DestroyerPosts: 181 |
Yeah this thread has lead to a lot of time wasting. Too many memories of too many great games. |
mordicai Level 10
SeerPosts: 47 |
PC Master of Orion! X-wing! Doom! Com64 Buck Rogers! Ghostbusters! |
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shyiskhar Steward Level 17
DestroyerPosts: 1332 |
Master of orion 2, is permanently installed on my computer. Whenever I get bored I fire it up. It's always good for a quick run through. It being turn based means I can stop whenever I need to to do important things too! |
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chris2718 Level 10
DestroyerPosts: 181 |
After mulling this over some more I must add The Oregon Trail and Beneath a Steel Sky. |
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