Old, Forgotten Favorites

[paulewog]

So, what're your old favorite games? Don't answer iwth something like "Quake 2." I mean REAL old games.

Mine HAVE to be Monkey Island 1. That's the top. I loved that game still do

 

[micro]

Atari Asteroids, river raid, starwars empire strikes back
texasinstraments (I cant rember the name but there were always spiders chasing you!)
Nintendo rc pro am, Dragon warrior.

 

[Charles Darwin]

The original Duke Nukem, classic pong, old school Frogger and Scoarched Earth (SE being the best of those)

Afterthought: Anyone know where i can download some nice old shareware games?...

 

[Mr_Coffee]

Scorched Earth was pretty intense. The red tank > other tanks.

I remember playing Yar's Revenge, Missle Command, ET: The Extraterrestrial (yes, I actually played and enjoyed this game, which is hailed the worst game of all time :/ )... But I remember Contra, TMNT 1 & 2, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, the Megaman series, Adventure Island, Blaster Master, River City Ransom, Double Dragon 1 & 2: games from the NES days a lot better.

*Opens up NES emulator with extensive library* :o

 

[Radio-Free Gnosis]

ET?!?!? Are you mad?

Raiders of the Lost Ark (for the Atari)
Combat! (one of the greatest games ever)
River City Ransom
Ninja Gaiden

 

[Isair50]

I like Shark! Shark! (Intellivision), Astrosmash(Intellivision) and The Original Super Mario for NES. I am only 15 and most people my age that play video games don't like the classics like I do.

 

[Mr_Coffee]

ET?!?!? Are you mad?

I know. I wonder if it caused any permanent effects on my brain. I was only about 5 when I played it.

I never had an Intellivision, but I remember playing Pitfall, Q-Bert, Frogger. Good times.

It's good to see that some young-uns respect old-school games, I don't think many of them realize how much different videogames were before the 3D revolution.

 

[mbuc]

I grew up with an Atari 2600 and had a pretty nice library of well-known games and a few so obscure I can't even remember them myself. Arcade games from the early eighties were a lot of fun, too. Life was good back then.

 

[Kelly]

The little known "Dreadnaught Factor" for Intellivision. A top down shooter where you assaulted HUGE, Star Wars star destroyer sized spaceships in attack run after attack run until you had knocked out all it's defenses.

 

[Durelen]

OOoo... Star Castle! I was just tall enough to see the screen
Time Pilot
Zork
Castle Wolfenstein (not the pc version, the first 2D version)

 

[Noddingdog]

What about Xevious... what a game The original SMB goes without saying, and Pacman is an (ok, not so forgotten) classic.

 

[Rechtgläubig]

Mine are the SSI Forgotten Realms games:

Pool of Radiance
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Secret of the Silver Blades
Pool of Darkness

and the Dragonlance ones:

Champians of Krynn
Deathknights of Krynn
Queen of Darkness

I also really loved Wasteland!

Other awesome games:

Sentinel Worlds - Future Magic
Ancient Art of War
Ancient Art of War at Sea
Alien vs. Predator (Atari Jaguar)
Strike Fleet
Panzer General
Mail Order Monsters
Legacy of the Ancients
Battletech - Cresent Hawk's Inception
Might and Magic - Clouds of Xeen + Darkside of Xeen (they combine into 1 huge world)


Good stuff! All of it!

 

[razorsword89]

I liked some of the old NES games like Gradius, Mike Tysons Punchout, and course Mario.

 

[paulewog]

Eh, I meant more PC games, but that's ok, hehe. I loved TMNT for Sega Genesis. Also, the Buster Bunny one... er... Looney Toons... what was the name of that... I forget now. I played that a lot. And also Spiderman (for Sega).

Original Duke Nukem I played that a lot, hehe. I had a lot of old DOS shareware games. Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (this was a funny game, hehe), and also Loom. Loom was cool, and nobody knows about it. I loved that game. Still do actually. Thos were all Lucas Arts games. I also had Commander Keen, that game was awesome, hehe... and Skunny, that was an interesting game. Save Our Pizzas! hmmm and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure... Raptor: Call of the Shadows ....

Monkey Island 1 had to be the best though. Man, that game is just awesome. If you haevn't played it, you really should.

 

[paulewog]

oh... and Jill of the Jungle! And Hocus Pocus.

Man, I had a lot of those games....

Hmmm Exile I/II/III was fun, but *nobody* will know about that game. www.spiderwebsoftware.com - the original Exile 2 I found on a shareware CD. I loved it, hehe. My friend ended up buying it, actually. Awesomely fun game, for some reason.

Castle of the Winds was kinda interesting too... hehe.

 

[AcousticHxC]

Buster Busts Loose. Ya I had that. One of the first games I beat. Ah, the memories, back when I was little...like...a few years ago...*cough* anyways...A lot of the old text adventures are fun now. Like The Lurking Horror, and someone mentioned Zork (couldn't get very far but it was a good game non-the-less lol). And Turtles In Time. No one who played that can forget it. Most of the stuff from before then was before my time, so I've only played emulators. I remember a loooong time ago playing some of the dying NES and Genesis games though when they were still semi-popular.

 

[Brian]

I love Mappy and Galaga 3. I got the second Namco Museum for PSX just for them, though Galaga 3 is called by its original name of Gaplus in it. Galaga 3/Gaplus is a sequel to Galaga where you can capture the aliens make them help you instead of them capturing you. Mappy is a platform game where you bounce on tramploines to get to higher areas and try to get all of the collectable objects in the stages while avoiding the cats.

I also love Galaga '88 (aka Galaga '90 for the US Turbografix 16).
Galaga '88 is an updated version of the original Galaga where the aliens can capture you when you have two ships at once. If you get you ships back, your ship will become a big ship with more powerful ammo. Galaga '88 also features scrolling levels with bosses and attack formations in the middle of them, though it has the usual attack formation stages too.

 

[fdldd]

I used to play Atari's River Raid, I loved that game! The first arcade game I loved to play was Space Invaders I think it had just come out, now don't want to date myself, but I think that was 1978. Then there was "Raid on Moscow" on one of those obsolete commodores, I think when my parent's sold their house a couple years ago they gave it away to the Smithsonian! lol

 

[Charles Darwin]

the King's Quest games were all great.

 

[Colabomb]

I like Shark! Shark! (Intellivision), Astrosmash(Intellivision) and The Original Super Mario for NES. I am only 15 and most people my age that play video games don't like the classics like I do.

16, and a classic lover.

I was just playing SMBs3 on NES the other day, and I still play genesis too!