# Videogames you think you're the only one who played **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 3, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493 "2019-03-03T18:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/82 "2019-03-08T01:56:38Z")
I played hitchhikers on an apple2e ……no one in the computer lab goy very far and we had a hint book but you used some weird marker pen on it and some other idiot used a normal marker and messed it up ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/83 "2019-03-08T01:59:46Z")
Re: hitchhiker’s be sure to take the junk mail ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/84 "2019-03-08T02:00:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Or, for that matter, which generals are genuinely smart and show good initiative, so you could send them to the more distant fronts where the information lag is longer, and trust that they’d still do something useful. Yeah exactly, you could add a kind of RPG-ish, Sims-ish people management layer on top of your run of the mill shooty mans simulator. Don’t think I’ve seen it done in a game (outside of the general tags of the TW series, but those don’t change the AI or really how you use them from game to game, just “+5% when fighting left-handed people wearing yellow clothes” or somesuch) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/85 "2019-03-08T02:23:14Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > On the PC - [Under a Killing Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Killing_Moon) I played almost all of the Tex Murphy games. [Did you know they made a new one?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/261510/Tesla_Effect_A_Tex_Murphy_Adventure/) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/86 "2019-03-08T02:37:55Z")
Anyone remember [Myth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth%3A_The_Fallen_Lords?wprov=sfla1)? Or how aboot [Another World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1)? It was a bit frustrating in the beginning but I remember it being a pretty decent story. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/87 "2019-03-08T02:41:37Z")
I’m going to say [Below The Root](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Below_the_Root_(video_game)), a 1984 game that I played on the Apple. It was a side-scrolling exploring/quest RPG that I was completely fascinated by. My friends and I even developed some rules to turn it into a tabletop rpg. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/88 "2019-03-08T03:02:22Z")
I played [Lemmings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)) to the point where my parents sent someone to check in on me, but I can’t find anyone else who admits to playing it. It’s a catastrophic time-suck, don’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/89 "2019-03-08T03:15:30Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I played almost all of the Tex Murphy games. [Did you know they made a new one?](https://store.steampowered.com/app/261510/Tesla_Effect_A_Tex_Murphy_Adventure/) And yet [another one](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poisoned_Pawn) is coming out in a few months, for your continued Tex Murphy fix. Tex would be about 65 years old by now. The only one of the new batch of posted games I haven’t definitely played is Myth. By the way, when you wanted to develop some rules for a _Below the Root_ RPG, I assume you consulted the original trilogy of books? Because it’s not completely obvious what the background is looking strictly at the adventure game. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/90 "2019-03-08T03:19:13Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Or how aboot [Another World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1)? It was a bit frustrating in the beginning but I remember it being a pretty decent story. I played the DOS port of it under the title _Out of This World_. Looking back on it, I would describe it as minimalistic, but compelling. (I would also wonder what role it might played in inspiring _Half-Life_.) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/91 "2019-03-08T04:00:30Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I played [Lemmings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)) to the point where my parents sent someone to check in on me, but I can’t find anyone else who admits to playing it. > > It’s a catastrophic time-suck, don’t do it. Oh, no, Lemmings doesn’t belong in this thread. I’m sure many of us here went hard at this one. I had it on at least two platforms. Holy shit, but that was computerized crack. No wonder nobody admits to playing it! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/92 "2019-03-08T04:04:48Z")
Yeah, I’ll own up to playing lemmings way too damn much. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/93 "2019-03-08T07:05:41Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Yeah, I’ll own up to playing lemmings way too damn much. There is a case to be made for lemmings being up there with the very greatest games ever made. Certainly a massive seller and I wasn’t aware that people wouldn’t admit to playing it. Certainly I did, across many platforms. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/94 "2019-03-08T07:08:24Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I played the DOS port of it under the title _Out of This World_. Looking back on it, I would describe it as minimalistic, but compelling. (I would also wonder what role it might played in inspiring _Half-Life_.) I somehow owned it and the sequel on 2 or 3 platforms … I thought flashback was better personally ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/95 "2019-03-08T07:46:57Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Oh, no, Lemmings doesn’t belong in this thread. I’m sure many of us here went hard at this one. I had it on at least two platforms. > > Holy shit, but that was computerized crack. No wonder nobody admits to playing it! 😉 I actually didn’t like _Lemmings_ and only played a few levels before abandoning it. (_The Incredible Machine_ was more to my taste.) I can see how people could have obsessed over it, though. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/96 "2019-03-08T07:54:10Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I actually didn’t like _Lemmings_ and only played a few levels before abandoning it. (_The Incredible Machine_ was more to my taste.) I can see how people could have obsessed over it, though. Oh believe me. I didn’t like it either. That means nothing to obsessions. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/97 "2019-03-08T09:10:33Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Anyone remember [Myth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth%3A_The_Fallen_Lords?wprov=sfla1)? > > Or how aboot [Another World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1)? It was a bit frustrating in the beginning but I remember it being a pretty decent story. I remember both ! And I wanted to love Myth because it looked so cool and the notion of an RTS game without any faffing about with base buildings or harvesters etc… was pretty novel at the time but I sucked at it so very, very hard I gave up. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/98 "2019-03-08T09:20:16Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Anyone remember [Myth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth%3A_The_Fallen_Lords?wprov=sfla1)? > > Or how aboot [Another World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1)? It was a bit frustrating in the beginning but I remember it being a pretty decent story. I tried to play Another World a couple times. I remember I couldn’t make it past the third screen or so no matter how hard I tried. I think that the same developers made the [Greatest Game of All Time](https://youtu.be/9HkDeyaPKCg) later though. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/99 "2019-03-08T11:25:08Z")
[Tass Times in Tonetone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tass_Times_in_Tonetown), which was just…weird. Don’t think I’ve heard anyone else mention it since I played it. > [@snfaulkner](#): > > Or how aboot [Another World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1)? It was a bit frustrating in the beginning but I remember it being a pretty decent story. I recall that; it’s actually available on GOG in fact. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/100 "2019-03-08T11:35:34Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Re: hitchhiker’s Well, yeah - take _everything_…including no tea. In fact, at one point in the game you can drop the “no tea” and pick up “tea” and then pick up “no tea” at the same time. I can’t remember what goal this paradox achieves but it’s important and pretty nifty. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/101 "2019-03-08T14:52:30Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I somehow owned it and the sequel on 2 or 3 platforms … > I thought flashback was better personally Flashback was better, agreed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493.md?page=6)