Old School Computer Games

[gk2400]

How about Pirates on C-64
Also Three Stooges & RocketRanger
Great Games

[swede123]

What was that C-64 sports game called, where you'd surf, skateboard, hacky sack, and what-not? That game was lots of fun.

Swede

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Tunnels of Doom and Parsec on the TI-99/4A

[gumpzilla]

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Home of the Underdogs is a great place. Tons of abandoned games for free. I think they have all the old Infocom titles, many of which I actually played on a TRS-80. They are still great! There a ton of other abandonware sites (GOOGLE it) that have some classics as well.

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Underdogs is an awesome site, I highly recommend it.

Two old games that I'd recommend that you can get there are Dungeon Master and Sundog. Dungeon Master is incredibly good looking for a game that came out in 1985 or so and is still a blast.

[TheMainEvent]

Anyone else miss all the old lucasarts adventure games?

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Bard's Tale

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You face 99 Berserkers, 99
Berserkers, 99 Berserkers,
and 99 Berserkers!

The Berserkers Advance!

The Berserkers Advance!

The Berserkers Advance!

[dibbs]

Was always a Day of the Tentacle/ Sam and Max hit the road fan.

[swede123]

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Anyone else miss all the old lucasarts adventure games?

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I freakin' miss Lucasart's greatest games ever: X-Wing and Tie Fighter. Damn, those were awesome. How cool would it be if they did a new update of those games, with new graphics and all that but the same basic game play. That would kick ass.

Swede

[dibbs]

exactly my thoughts. Day of Tentacle, Sam and max were incredible. there were others I forget them now though.

[fnord_too]

Some random thoughts:

If you are not familiar with MAME, check it out. Emulator for old arcade games, you can run the actual games if you can find a download of the ROMS (and IIRC, that is an easy thing to do. DAPHNE is the same thing form laser discs, but I never really got that working. Now that I think of it I need to....)

Someone out there hosts all the old Infocom games (at least as of a couple of years ago). You hit his site and play them provided no one else is using the license for that particular game.

Damn you to hell, I only ever played Marathon 2 of the series, and now I see I can play all three for free (which is going to be a huge, unavoidable, waste of time for me). Marathon 2 I recall as being about the best in that genre, though that may just be memory glorifying it. My memory has it blowing the hell out of Doom 3 for playability and entertainment.)

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Oh yeah, all the old Wizardry titles came with wizardry 8 when I bought that like 5 or 6 years ago.