Classic Gaming

[Someone who does Something]

Classic games will always be my favorites, they were all unqiue unlike now where 75% of the games are COD clones, discuss classic gaming here.

Like this guy or girl said about quake:

Companies can make games with real-like graphics and action-packed gameplay, but nothing will ever beat this game.

Here's a few vids:

Quake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et3UByMSmg4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp4MbfvvmZI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZe8P3E4Bnk

DOOM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhkEomP5h0g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG_d7rvuz7s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3G-S3drso

Half-Life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQF6F179bU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCtXJq4pRqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovVzXyRXBY

[vonhorz]

Quake is just a soft version of Doom which sucks less. And just to mention it....Quake 4 was the best quake till now.

Ego-shooter are quite new though compared to "real" classic games like fancy point and click adventures.
Im not sure if a bunch of (okay classic) shooters are a good example for "classic". no offense. I love the idear of this thread and yes in parts i definetly agree with the statement that games were better off without fancy graphics.because back then they had a good STORY ;D. All I say is secret of Mana/Evermore haha^^

[Blackcat]

Quake was made years later than Doom, Doom was quite fun in its time...

[Gabya]

I like to play old CRPGs from time to time. NOX, Arcanum and Baldur's Gate are my personal favorites. What i like about the latter of the three is that the character creation in based on AD&D and is thus incredibly open to any character you want to build. I miss that. NOX had a great story and great humor though, just seeing the intro will tell you the story, Installing the game tells you the rest.
In summary, I miss advanced RPGs. The console ports bethesda and bioware are releasing today are fun, but give nowhere near the feeling of accomplishment i felt when my party took down the final boss in Arcanum or when I defeated Hecubah in NOX.

NOX intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVm86e_aic

Arcanum trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ImMBWGc_w

Baldur's Gate trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBTRIsAhGE

[Anonymous]

uhm some of the games i'm going to post here will need google'ing by people that are younger.

sim tower and sim city 3000

Colonization

Worms

Jazz Jackrabbit

are ones i play from time to time

[Someone who does Something]

I know of all of those games,  I am a very very retro gamer.
P.S. Jazz Jackrabbit  is freaking awesome

[Mr.NoName]

Aw, Worms.. I haven't played that game in ages.. I have some fond memories of that game when I was younger 

[vonhorz]

Lemmings , Command & Conquer: red alert , Ultima online-games

[Blackcat]

I love the first Jazz Jackrabbit  game, I was so mad when I couldn't play it in windows 98, but then years later I found doxbox and could play it again...

I had the dos lemmings, and I must still have the brick gameboy one somewhere, right now I play Pingus, cause its free and besides I use Linux.

[cabbage]

  eh? surprised to see some of these games are now considered 'classic' or 'retro' (feeling old these days; time flies!)

Nice picks, tsuneko. How about Civilization too? Populous?

I think I spent the most time playing point-and-click adventure games on my PC back in the day. King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Maniac Mansion, etc. I still love them, what a great genre!

I recall playing a lot of stuff I got on Happy Puppy (anyone?) too--not to mention otakuworld. Hunt the Wumpus ate up way too much of my time, hehehe. and the odd MUD for good measure.

guess i probably played more console games than PC overall, though

[Someone who does Something]

Guess I should mention the Bulid Engine games, "most" of them were amazing games!
Duke Nukem 3D

Shadow Warrior

Blood

WW2GI

NAM

The last two are beyond awful.

[Blackcat]

Ah of course, the first monkey island game, skip the cd/dvd remakes and just stick with the last version that has the stump joke, why? Because that joke gets referenced in monkey island 2 and in monkey island 3. Maybe also in Tales of Monkey island, I haven't played that one.

Also, Sam&Max hit the road is pretty damn funny...

[Someone who does Something]

Ah of course, the first monkey island game, skip the cd/dvd remakes and just stick with the last version that has the stump joke, why? Because that joke gets referenced in monkey island 2 and in monkey island 3. Maybe also in Tales of Monkey island, I haven't played that one.

Also, Sam&Max hit the road is pretty damn funny...

Yep, lucasarts made some of the best games in the 90's/80's.
Case and point, Dark Forces 1 & 2
DK1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1qrAi3gL0
DK2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iCZil4F1Z0
But the adventure games are soooooo much better.

[Anonymous]

people are also forgetting Discworld II.

that game got me through college in the late 90's

amazing.

[Blackcat]

people are also forgetting Discworld II.

that game got me through college in the late 90's

amazing.

discworld II was funny, but also very bad programed

[Someone who does Something]

Why, buggy as heck???

[Anonymous]

you did need windwos 98, and a specific sound card to play it properly, but it worked fine on my system.

you can find it also for the ps1, which was a bit better that the pc version.

some versions of the game were tough to complete, due to one of the clickies you needed being tiny, and hard to get.

neko

[rcom88]

Honestly, the older I get, the more I flock back to classic games. As I type this, I'm thinking about games like Donkey Kong Country 2, Final Fight 3, Super Mario World, Earthworm Jim 2, Super Mario RPG, Knights of the Round, Super Mario 64, and Mega Man 7.