# Your Favourite Retro Video Game (Best For its Time) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 12, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883 "2025-01-12T20:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883/61 "2025-01-14T21:25:45Z")
Loved Wing Commander, probably spent about as much time playing it as I did Aces of the Deep. I also played Wing Commander:Privateer a lot. Though I never went in for the main story line of that one. ---
**Author:** ![frognot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frognot/32/8752_2.png) [@frognot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frognot)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883/62 "2025-01-17T13:41:03Z")
Haven’t played LOTRO in a while but last played on Arkenstone (after Windfola closed down). ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883/63 "2025-05-02T06:12:05Z")
Space Wars Arcade game, sim. To Pong ---
**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:** [May 2, 2025, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883/64 "2025-05-02T08:18:33Z")
[Dungeon Master](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_(video_game)) was another favorite of mine back in the day. I still recall how one creature (apparently [officially](http://dmweb.free.fr/games/dungeon-master/solutions/creatures/#oitu) called an “Oitu”) got the family nickname Critter because that’s what my mother called them when she saw them. And I liked the feel of casting spells by linking magical symbols together. The [King’s Field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Field) games, or rather the ones released in America. Most never made it out of Japan, apparently. One detail I liked was that just about every place and object in the game had lore for itself that you could use a magic mirror to find out. Also the large labyrinths full of traps were fun to explore. And the music was good. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883/66 "2025-06-29T17:50:19Z")
_Jane’s USAF_ and _DiD F-22 ADF_ fighter jet games in the 1990s. IMHO, _F-22 ADF_ still beats nearly any fighter jet flight sim today in terms of its simplicity, AWACS gameplay, intuitiveness, and realism for its time. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883/67 "2025-06-30T03:22:39Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > I might actually fire up a career with all of the realism turned down. I wonder what happens if you sail into Kiel one last time after May 8th, 1945. I know you can’t affect the outcome of the war. I’ve had careers where I’ve sunk more than the total tonnage the Kriegsmarine sank, I still can’t live past about August 1943. I kind of wonder if the oom-pah band will still be there. Heh, I did the opposite. I kept the realism on 100%, and did the normal gaming thing of returning to my last save point each time I was sunk. When I reached April 1945, I tried to be stingy, and stay out on patrol until May 8th. But I found a convoy on sonar, and so I tracked and attacked them. I screwed up while tangling with 3 escort vessels, and after I sank two, the thrid sank me on April 17th, Apparently when you’re sunk that late in the war, you get a freebie. I was awarded with a cinematic scene of my sub pulling into what appears to be Bergen, Norway (my last home port), with no oom-pah band or any greeters at all. Then you get a screen with a nice letter from Donitz saying you’ve done great, your next orders will come from the Allied Command. Oh, I am so happy to be done with this time sink of a game. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883/68 "2025-07-13T06:59:01Z")
Still a fan of Angry Birds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-retro-video-game-best-for-its-time/1012883.md?page=3)