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Monkey Island. For you fellow shameless Monkey Island geeks, here is a website that has Monkey Island icons & wallpapers.
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Ultima 7
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Diablo II
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned the first Wing Commander yet. I was also a big fan of Privateer.
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Simcity
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Doom/DoomII
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Grand Theft Auto (or if you were playing GTA London, Grahnd Theft Awto)
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Sonic the Hedgehog/2/3/& Knuckles
D&D - Eye of the Beholder
Ultima Underworld 1 & 2
Wing Commander 1 & 2 (with optional voice pack!)
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
X-Com
Myst
Simcity
Maniac Mansion (put hamster into microwave… boom!)
Wizardry 1
Grim Fandango
Rogue Spear
Half-Life
Thief 1
Holy crap, I can’t beleive no one has mentioned Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games. That was the first PC game I have ever played. The replay value is limitless.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Used to drive me crazy with the text puzzles. Don’t know how many times I had to play until I remembered to bring the stupid mail with me.
StarFlight - Best game ever. Heck, I’d still play this if I had a slower computer I could get it to run on. 4 years in development. Hundreds of star systems, literally thousands of plantes, and clues to lead you on your quest to save the solar system. Great game…sigh.
Another vote for SimCity original, and Civ I & II.
Also: Zork, Bard’s Tale I.
Autoduel was good, though I’d love to see it updated to a FPS (driving), MMORPG version.
Ultima IV.
Kaboom! (Activision, on the Atari 2600.)
Nethack, which I still play…
Might & Magic III, which I’ve never come close to finishing but which I still pick up every now and again (it’s just so goofy)…
And Prince of Persia, one of the few games which I have completed. Also one of the few which has caused me to yell out verbal challenges to the computer (“Jafar!!!”)
Flashback for the Sega Genesis.
I bought my first PC in order to play the sequel, Fade to Black.
Railroad Tycoon of course!
I can’t believe no one has mentioned M.U.L.E. yet. I still own an Atari 800 and four joysticks so I can play this.
Quake 2 and Half-Life.
Man, the first time that head crab jumped out of the dark in the tunnell, I nearly plotzed!
Funny how we all have different definitions of “classic”, regarding time frame. I like to pick the release of DOOM as the watershed that borught out the “modern” gaming era. Obviously, age has a lot to do with this.
I can’t believe only one person mentioned Star Con II.
The scene: a house, we can see a garden through the window but our hero, estilicon a dashing young fellow of 12 is boringly inspecting his newest game, the expression on his face is absolute despair as he remembers the last couple of games he played…
Estilicon: Uhmm, horrible game it looks like another space invader kind of shit…
(enters mother, she is a middle aged woman with an attitude)
Mother: Estilicon time to brush your teeth and say your prayers.
Estilicon: a minute dear mother… (to himself) wait a minute, that are nine planets, I bet the third one is earth… Let’s see what happens…
(8 hour laters)
Mother: Estilicon!!! I can’t believe you spent all night in that stupid machine bla bla bla bla…
(after 5 minutes of discussion)
Estilicon: (pulling up a revolver) DIE BITCH!!! DIE!!!
Ok, that didn’t really happen that way but I tell you, you can always be adopted by another person but classic games are rare.
Half Life, Doom may have started the trend, but Half Life revolutionized FPS games. Also, Team Fortress Classic and Counterstrike have been the some of the most player online games for years now. New mods (like Natural Selection) are still coming out.
Many of the conventions introduced by Half Life are still used.
No One Lives Forever 1 & 2 were tremendous fun as well.
The version of Sr Trk that was used as of of the demos for the TRS-80.
To explain, yo are a starship captain, using sh***y weapons destroy the bad guys. Don’t hit the self destruct button (or cancel it quick). Don’t run into a star.
The version of Sr Trk that was used as of of the demos for the TRS-80.
To explain, you are a starship captain: Using sh***y weapons destroy the bad guys. Don’t hit the self destruct button (or cancel it quick). Don’t run into a star.
I enjoyed Sid Meir’s Colonization almost as much as Civilization. It had more stuff going on.
I also enjoyed all of the “Gold Box” SSI games (Badtz Maru mention Pool of Radiance already), especially Pools of Darkness.
I liked Doom 2 a lot. with cheat codes. Sit in the end room and watch the monsters keep multiplying til your computer crashed. funfun.
also I was rather disappointed when Mom told me I couldn’t try out A-Train again, cuz it was too old for the computer, it needed dos or Win3.1