Plays fine in Compatibility Mode.
I played plenty of Scorched Earth as a teenager (against the computer). Not as much as the original Civilization, but still plenty.
Am I really dating myself if I say Rogue? That’s back from the DOS days on a text only screen. The early Windows game I really liked was Dig-Dug. I think that was its name. It was more of an arcade Pac-Man type game though.
When we were little my brother and I would play a couple of games called Sopwith and Castle Adventure. Look at those awesome graphics!
Adventure for the Atari 2600 was great fun.
The version of Rogue I played was more advanced, but still fun. I also played Dig Dig on a non-arcade system. Joust was another good one I played first in arcades, then at home. Don’t recall the system that had it though.
I love Fool’s Errand.
Heaven And Earth- A fabulous collection of puzzles
Archon- When you move a piece to a square you don’t automatically take it. You actually have to fight for it. The updated Archon Ultra may be the best video game ever made.
Anyone ever play an old point and click adventure game called Flight of the Amazon Queen? It was just as great as the classic LucasArts games, superior in some respects. It was just an amazing game, funny as hell, and was just hard enough to make you think but not as hard as to frustrate you
Another I enjoyed (played through more than once) Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony.
I have. A lot of fun and as you said, very much along the spirit of LucasArts.
Oh, Scorched Earth was a classic. I remember playing some predecessor to it (similar type of artillery shooting game on random landscapes, but not as varied weaponry) back in the mid-80s on the C64, and it was fun even in that incarnation.
My favorites were the Lucas Arts games: I loved Maniac Mansion and Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
Does anyone remember The Sentinel/The Sentry? Quite an original 3D puzzle type of game. Hard to explain the mechanics in a nutshell, it’s a somewhat abstract and surreal but, trust me, it’s amazing. This Youtube video helps explain it.
Flight of the Amazon Queen is available as Freeware for the ScummVM game interpreter (along with Beneath a Steel Sky and others). I see it now supports Diskworld I and II
- I see some digging of CDs coming up.
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My favourite computer game of all time: Neuromancer
Hey. Thanks everyone for pointing this one out. I vaguely remember hearing of Star Control, but never played it. I downloaded Ur-Quan Masters last night, and, so far, this really looks like a lot of fun and is shaping up to be a great game.
Doom II.
With the M16 patch.
Oh, and how can I forget the work of genius that is Archon: The Light and the Dark.
I loved Temple of Apshaii. It had the neat book to describe the rooms. And I still hate slime-molds.
I’m too old for the games listed here. My early computer games were Star Trek, Hunt the Wumpus, and Tic Tac Toe.
The old Infocom text adventures, especially the Zork games and the Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Spent hours on Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord at home and in the school library. At home played on an IBM PCjr with 64k, but we had expanded that all the way to 128k. Woo hoo!
At school, ran it on an Apple IIe. It was a single player game so there’d be one person playing and probably 6-8 of us watching over his shoulder.
Two other great DOS games, the original *Panzer General *and TIE Fighter CD-Rom.
Still play Panzer General on DOSbox but just get annoyed trying to play TIE Fighter. Seems like something in the way it is coded keeps it from recognizing joysticks on today’s computers and flying a Tie fighter with a mouse is almost impossible (and just plain wrong).