Gaming Classics!

TheNerple · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Gaming Classics!

King's Quest was a pretty sweet game in its day.

Megamagoi · Guest

The first two "arcade" type video games I ever played were Pong and a two player tank game with two dimensional video and a maze around which one had to navigate to get at the enemy tank.

AOL had a proprietary, text based sci-fi game involving inter-planetary travel (within our solar system), puzzles, etc. I can't remember the name of it now.

My first PC RPG game was Wizardry's Crusaders of the Dark Savant. I played it through to the end several times using different characters. There were four variations on the ending, and I did all four.

Abinsuran Autishzaar · Guest

My fave ARCADE games:

Pac Man - 'nuff said.

Arkanoid - this game was pure zen.

Double Dragon - 1st arcade game to finish on a quarter.

Rastan Best barbarian PC game. (though a cheap Conan knock-off to boot!)

Operation Wolf - wasn't this the 1st arcade game with a gun you could fire? This kicked so much arse.

NinjaGaiden and Shinobi - It was the 80s. And there were ninjas. Hence, these were cool games.

Rolling Thunder - You jumped between floors and doors and shot people. It was more fun than it sounded.

Street Fighter 2 - HAAAUUUUKEN!

VamprissX · Member Joined: 07 Dec 2001 Posts: 264

Rastan rocked too! I have collected almost all of those old coin games over the years using a PC arcade port called MAME. Currently I have about 300 games for it including ALL the original Atari games and most of the old cool Arcade coin games including the ones Abin mentioned along with:

Mrs Pac-man

Xevious
Zaxxon
Yie Ar Kung-fu (really proud I found this game. It took way too many of my allowances when I was younger!)
Robotron
Qix
Moon Patrol
Golden Axe
Elevator Action
the list goes on, but those stand out in my mind right now.

Nice to see others enjoyed the classics too - look up MAME if you want to take a trip back in time

!

Liz (Vamp)

BonlainyT · Member Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 3942

These some of my favorites from college, I need to get MAME and these:

Xevious (probably my all time favorite arcade game)
Qix
Moon Patrol

Tryunn · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: Gaming Classics!

I had Pac-Man fever for years

DalamyrT · Member Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 58

My first real computer was an Amiga 500 - so the first real adventure game for me was "Eye of the Beholder" - loved it! "Eye of the Beholder 2" was also pretty good. I'm still trying to find a good version of "Lemmings" for the PC - that one was classic -- and damn addicting, too.

Dalamyr Thunderblade
51 Paladin

VamprissX · Member Joined: 07 Dec 2001 Posts: 264

Finally beat that damned wizard in Dungeons of Daggorath!! Woohoo! I have conquered a game made in 1983! Bow your heads! :lol

I guess I have to go back to work now. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo................

Liz (Vamp)

BonlainyT · Member Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 3942

heh heh Nice job Vampy, you show those dang wizards!

Whizbang Dustyboots · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:00 pm Post subject: Re: Gaming Classics!

I still play Zork Zero once in a while. Great hybrid between adventure games and RPGs. Basically a one person MUD. Lots of fun, even if the final encounter is buggy (to put it mildly).