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Post by silverdragon on Aug 6, 2014 8:40:55 GMT
My Kids have started asking about Old Games, ... I dunno, perhaps its boredom.....
Ok, there was of course the classics, but beyond Packman, my Memory is a little Holy... no, I dont mean religious, I mean you could drive my works truck through some of the gaps....
Right, can we have nominations for the top 50 greatest games of all times around the turn of the century.
As in, must be more than 10 years old.... I want to avoid latest craze games, I want games tried and tested and remembered as epic?...
I would prefer to avoid if you can all Uber- Violent Call of Duty Halo beat-em-ups mass war games...
I am looking for the non violent pass the time of day thinking games?...
Maybe some mild violence.
I nominate the following...
Elite.
Tetris.
Ghostbusters.
Burnout Three, take-down...
Need for Speed original.
a little help here?...
You can go MUCH older if you want.
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Post by Cybermortis on Aug 6, 2014 13:13:04 GMT
Midwinter - one of the very first 'open world' games ever made.
Fallout and Fallout 2 (1997/8)
Baldur's Gate (1998) and Baldur's Gate 2 (2001) - both are now available as enhanced editions, and the first game is available for tablets.
Street Fighter 2.
Manic Miner
Wing Commander series. (The main series, not the privateer spin offs)
Civilization (The first two) Likewise the first two Sim City games. (These franchises are of course still being developed)
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Post by the light works on Aug 6, 2014 14:53:17 GMT
Lemmings
Bombuzal
Zany Golf
I'd have to fire up my old, old computer and see what else I had.
Lode Runner
all of these are episodic sorts of games, rather than long term campaign games.
there were also the AD&D Gold Box games
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Post by the light works on Aug 6, 2014 14:53:57 GMT
if you want to go REALLY old, there's always Pong.
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Post by Cybermortis on Aug 6, 2014 15:37:47 GMT
X-Wing and the later sequel Tie-Fighter
Pac-Man
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Post by silverdragon on Aug 7, 2014 9:04:16 GMT
Yep, keep 'em coming......
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Post by Cybermortis on Aug 7, 2014 10:56:18 GMT
R-Type
Monkey Island series (Still in production/development)
Leisure Suit Larry series (May or may not still be in production/development)
Dreamfall series (The original came out in 1999, the sequel in 2007 and a third game is under development)
Master of Orion (The first two, the third is well worth pretending never existed)
Gauntlet (1985)
Asteroids
Space Invaders
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Post by kharnynb on Aug 21, 2014 22:20:09 GMT
Sam and max, both original and the later series.
Dungeon keeper
Alpha centauri
Warcraft 1,2 even 3
Diablo 2 and lord of destruction(skip 3 it's bad).
Many more available at gog.com if you prefer not messing too much with crappy conversions yourself.
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 21, 2014 22:41:25 GMT
Did anyone mention Donkey Kong or Mario?
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Post by Cybermortis on Aug 21, 2014 22:48:14 GMT
Gog might be a good place to point your kids at if they want to see some older games - you actually get several old games for free if you sign up and they occasionally have offers where you can get free or heavily discounted games.
Come to think on it I think quite a few of the games on the above lists are available (The Fallout games are no longer available alas). All the games are DRM free, so you can download them and then put them on another PC if you so choose.
The games on gog usually come with everything you need to play them on newer machines, along with patches etc. But having said that not everything is A; Worthwhile or B; Actually playable on newer PC's, some games have badly dated beyond just graphics.
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 21, 2014 23:32:39 GMT
Of course, there were the games I played as a kid (and teenager)
No electricity required
Chess
Checkers
Chinese Checkers
Monopoly
Clue (many hours playing this one)
Scrabble (I was really bad at it)
Battleship
Risk
Sorry
Dominos
Chutes & Ladders (played this one with my kids)
Mousetrap (really stupid)
And then the real action games
Marbles
Jacks
And let's not forget all the card games
Poker, Black Jack, Crazy Eights, Rummy, etc.
Solitaire (it was NOT invented by Microsoft)
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Post by mrfatso on Aug 22, 2014 10:07:09 GMT
I like the Close Combat games, A Bridge Too Far, Russian Front, Battle of the Bulge, and Invasion Normandy, but not the FPS First to Fight, the first ones where top,down squad based strategy games like similar to Board games like Panzer Leader and Squad Leader by Avalon Hill.
Rebelstar Raiders, that lead to Laser Squad and XCom eventually.
Panzer General
Lots of other I like are already in the list.
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Post by Lokifan on Aug 22, 2014 13:29:56 GMT
Maniac Mansion Grim Fandango Any of the old Infocom games: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the Zork series Bureaucracy Some games are available at archive.org: archive.org/details/classicpcgames |
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Post by kharnynb on Aug 22, 2014 19:43:13 GMT
Gog.com has ea classics on sale this weekend, some really good classics.
All the wing commanders.
sim city 2000 and 4.
dungeon keepers
alpha centauri
syndicate
etc.
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Post by wvengineer on Sept 8, 2014 11:39:59 GMT
Command & Conquer and Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Half Life (you can include Counter Strike in here)
Final Fantasy VII
Grim Fandango
Tyrain
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Wolfinstine 3D
Doom and Doom II
Descent
Duke Nukem
Commander Keen Series
StarCraft
Myst
Mech Warrior
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Post by silverdragon on Sept 9, 2014 12:24:16 GMT
Thanks for the suggestions, can we put a UNDER 18 age rating on any others please?...
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Post by kharnynb on Sept 11, 2014 7:14:07 GMT
none of the games listed so far are particularily racy/violent as such.
Gog.com has pegi ratings listed.
Btw, as a 6 year aniversary, gog is currently selling a lot of games for cheap, rotating titles on a daily basis
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Post by Cybermortis on Sept 11, 2014 9:40:00 GMT
Leisure suit Larry is the only game series I can see listed that is 'adult' in content, although that may be pushing the use of 'adult' in terms of maturity. In that case it is down to the innuendo and occasional topless scenes rather than the language used in the games.
Doom and Quake might be considered more adult due to the blood and guts angle.
Much would depend on how old and mature your kids are. Doom, the more violent of the three/four games listed about might be a little to scary for kids under 12 (my cousin and I screamed like small children when playing Doom 2, opening a door and having a large demon jump out is kind of scary - and we were in our late teens at the time). The Larry games are probably not suitable for those under 15 (I think some of the earlier games are rated 18 the rest 15). But I'd say that any fairly mature 15 year old isn't going to get perverted by them - I think I was 15 when I first played them.
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Post by mrfatso on Sept 11, 2014 15:14:30 GMT
I forgot
Lords of Midnight
Doomdarks Revenge
Attic Attack(sp?)
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Post by the light works on Sept 11, 2014 16:02:17 GMT
I burned many hours in the 90s on a conquest game called "Spaceward Ho" turns out there is a newer version available. www.deltatao.com/ho/ (I make no claims about the new version being as fun as the old version. I haven't played since my computer shelled to Windows from DOS) |
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