Older Computer Games

[truckingpete]

I remember playing Oregon Trail...the original with the green and black screen!!! Also, the Incredible Machine was awesome.....hmm, now I want to find the latest copy!!!

(goes google the incredible machine)

 

[Clam Spammer]

"Even More Contraptions" is the one to get. All the TIM games between TIM2 and EMC have the same levels . This one has entirely new content though. There's Incredible Toon Machine too, but I haven't played that.

 

[King Flevance]

Depends on what you consider old. Here is a list of games that I play that are out of date:

Sim Ant
Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 3
Railroad Tycoon 3
1503AD
Diablo 2
X-Com CE (although I recently lost my disc )
UFO Aftermath (my sorry excuse for a make-shift fix... It's pretty decent though)
Port Royale
Civ 3
Age of Wonders 2: The Wizards Throne
Rise of Nations
Arcanum
Tropico 1

As you can see my collction doesn't stretch back too far. I didn't start up as a PC gamer until about 1996-97. As consoles were cheaper back then.

 

[King of Town]

I wish sim ant were harder, if you're not careful your colony will take over the yard without you having to do anything at all.

 

[King Flevance]

Yeah. It was such a good idea for a game but targeted for kids. But even so, its still fun to put in and play around with some days.

 

[MrPopov]

I too would like to see a Sim Ant remake, except maybe not by the new Maxis

EDIT: aww man sorry for the necro I got lost when I was searching the forums and really wanted to post about Sim Ant

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The new Maxis would probably have unrealistic 3D graphics and a million expansions for it....

 

[Lade]

Captain comic!!!

 

[Harbringer]

I revently tried to replay SIMearth, and I still suck at it.

One game however that is way old, but I still play quite often and is still one of my favorite games of all time easily, is "Wasteland". It was a post apocalyptic RPG that came out in 1987. It was a top down view, unlike other RPGs at the time that used the unwieldy first person view(It may sound better, but with the game engines of 1987 you spend more time trying to figure out where the hell your standing then actually playing the game). It was awesome, it had a lot of charector, and was super realistic.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I wish they'd do a remake of SimCopter, with the same gameplay but much better graphics and not so many crashes.

If I knew how to skin SimCopter I would. Then again, the ugly distorted people are just brilliant!

 

[carmen510]

Oregon Trail 2 was one of my favorite old games.
Carmen Sandiego as well, that was actually the basis for my username.

And don't forget anything by Blizzard, basically one of the only companies I trust to make a great game everytime.

 

[Death_Machine]

And don't forget anything by Blizzard, basically one of the only companies I trust to make a great game everytime.

Blizzard is great, but they're getting too damn greedy. I pay for the game when I buy it & don't pirate it, I shouldn't have to pay to play after I buy it. (WoW anybody?)

 

[carmen510]

Paying for MMORPGs is perfectly reasonable in my opinion. Servers, while getting cheaper as technology improves, still aren't that cheap. Also, Blizzard does need to get paid for improving the game content so much. Although I would agree that $15 a month is a bit steep. Halving that rate or even reduction to $10 a month would seem more reasonable in terms of comparable RPGs, although

1) Blizzard won't risk losing profits to gain more players, they already are the biggest MMORPG out there.
2) I don't know their finances, and they need the money for Starcraft II and Diablo 3.

 

[Zelig]

Blizzard is great, but they're getting too damn greedy. I pay for the game when I buy it & don't pirate it, I shouldn't have to pay to play after I buy it. (WoW anybody?)

That's the type of game WoW is, if you're not into that, I just wouldn't play it.

Far more aggravating to me is some of the other stuff they're doing. (No LAN play in Starcraft 2)

 

[mech654]

I love playing DOS games. Unfortunately my mom threw out my DOS games. These are the games that I remember very well: Commander Keen( I think episode 4), Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destin, Overkill, Earthseige, Crystal caves and Silent Thunder. At the time Serria was of my favorite game companys.

 

[MrPopov]

I remember some really really old dos games. Red Storm Rising I think had some of the best gameplay I've seen for the time. It featured free-form gameplay on a strategic map with changing borders and conditions based on what targets you attacked and your success/defeat.

Time progressed as you traveled the Northern Atlantic searching for targets triggering news events such as the Soviet assault across NATO territory. New technologies were also unlocked such as more powerful submarine vessels, better torpedoes, tomahawk missiles, but also new anti-submarine weapons such as improved helecopters.

 

[Racsoviale]

The Aliens Vs. Predator games. I know they are not that old but damn the first one was creepy. To this day I have not tried a game packed with so much atmosphere, the second one had a truly magnificent storyline(we were a few who had hoped that would have become the plotline in AVP the movie(we were sorely dissappointed)

 

[King Flevance]

Paying for MMORPGs is perfectly reasonable in my opinion. Servers, while getting cheaper as technology improves, still aren't that cheap. Also, Blizzard does need to get paid for improving the game content so much. Although I would agree that $15 a month is a bit steep. Halving that rate or even reduction to $10 a month would seem more reasonable in terms of comparable RPGs, although

1) Blizzard won't risk losing profits to gain more players, they already are the biggest MMORPG out there.
2) I don't know their finances, and they need the money for Starcraft II and Diablo 3.

I used to play a game called Anarchy Online that costed 100 bucks for the whole year. Which came out to like 7.95 a month. I basically ended up using 2 accounts on it. But basically that game spoiled me on MMOs. Now I see MMOs charging 15 bucks a month and if you pay for 6 months you only save like 5 bucks if that. Now I can't pay 15 bucks a month for an MMO anymore.

 

[Harbringer]

Wow pulls in around seventy million dollars a month for blizzard, they aren't hurting for money. Most games don't make that much money in there whole life cycle. Period.

 

[Death_Machine]

^ Thank you very much.