Scorched Earth
and
Dinosaur Safari
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/93...ur+Safari.html
My two favorite computer games we used to goof off with at school other than Oregon Trail. Please tell me I am not the only one who played these?
So name your favorite old school computer games and someone tell me where I can find Dinosaur Safari that will run on Windows 7 or 8. We tried getting a game disk of it a few years ago and it kept crashing on our PC. 
Moved Cafe Society --> The Game Room.
I still occasionally dust off Scorched Earth, myself. I think the best thing about it were the abusable glitches: You could drive your tank straight through a mountain, or through the air, if you knew the tricks.
Haha Yes!
My favorite part of the game had to be the little talk bubbles before you shot or when a tank died
“Join the army, see the world they said”
Scorched Earth may well have been my first PC game addiction. It’s been more-or-less perfected in the Worms series, IMO, but I LOVED that game! My friends wanted to play Doom (this was about 1992 or '93), but I wanted Scorched Earth!
Wasteland. Classic.
The Ancient Art of War and it’s equally awesome sequel, The Ancient Art of War at Sea. There was a 3rd game in the series, The Ancient Art of War in the Skies, but I never played that one.
Star Control 1 and 2. Great space combat games, and the 2nd had some elements of exploration and resource-building.
I was a big fan of the Bard’s Tale series, and I also loved the Sierra On-Line Police Quest games.
Star Control 2 is now available free on multiple platforms as The Ur-Quan Masters.
Nice. I’ll have to check it out.
The version I played on PC, all of those phrases were contained in a text file which I used to edit and put friend-specific insults into the game 
The second link only shows me a bunch of screenshots from the old KGB adventure game, which is another interesting one.
I was actually just thinking how that would have been a great setting for a LA Noire spinoff. The detectives in LA Noire behaved like secret police most of the time anyways, so it would work great. Plus, since the Soviets built copies of 1940’s American cars for decades, they could recycle the car models.
Best fucking god damned video game ever made. I have played through that game more times than I can count, and it never gets old.
As far as other old timey computer games I loved as a kid:
Thexder
Hugo’s House of Horrors (and the two sequels)
The 2004/5 “remake” of The Bard’s Tale (with Cary Elwes voicing the Bard) also includes copies of the original The Bard’s Tale 1, 2, and 3. I recommend against getting the physical copy of the game as it doesn’t play on modernish versions of Windows.
Ah, but how do I get a new copy of The Bard’s Tale Construction Set? 
“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a DEATH’S HEAD!”
And then the entire level, including the shooter, vanishes in endless explosions. 
Yep.
I always found the book with the “paragraphs” a nice way to get around the expense in size it would have taken to include all the fixed conversations in the game itself.
Man, I used to LOVE these two. War more than War at Sea though.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to play Civil War Generals II for years.
I’m also a big fan of Star Control II; great game.
Syndicate and Populous; played them both like crazy way back when. Both are now available on Good Old Games for the nostalgic, by the way.
Killing Time. Very cool and atmospheric; my mother also liked playing it.
Dungeon Master. Played that to death.
SunDog: Frozen Legacy This too.
I had a game maybe ten years ago called Carnivores that looks very similar.
But also on the dinosaur theme, I still play Dino Eggs on a Commodore 64 emulator.
Rocket Ranger gets my vote. It has busty heroines, jetpacks, and a hidden Nazi moon base! Not to mention a decoder wheel you need to complete the game.
“Tell us about the rocket pack or THE GIRL WILL SUFFER!”