cherd84 Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 The Console History thread got me reminiscing yesterday. I got my first PC circa '99 and was mulling over games that took up a lot of my time. Here's the first few that spring to mind. Unreal Tournament Deus Ex SWAT 3 Age Of Empires Shogun Total War Homeworld Champ Manager 01/02 (still around with data updates for this season I believe) What were your faves?
DalekSec Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 My Personal favs when I was a kid on PC Age of empires 2 Carmaggon Diablo 2 (I was 5 playing an 18 rated game, what you going to do? sue me) Warcraft 3
hallb15 Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Showing my age now: Star Wars X-Wing and the vastly superior follow up X-wing vs Tie Fighter Doom Doom 2 Wolfenstein Null modem cable anyone?
DalekSec Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Showing my age now: Star Wars X-Wing and the vastly superior follow up X-wing vs Tie Fighter Doom Doom 2 Wolfenstein Null modem cable anyone? I forgot doom!! I was playing these games when I was a wee kid!
Dos_Box Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 If we draw a cutoff point at say the year 2000 then: Command and Conquer Red Alert X-Wing Alliance Unreal Unreal Tournament (still a cracking game today and in the process of being remade) Half Life (play it all the way through about once a year still!) X-Wing vs Tie Fighter
Arreks Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Homeworld was a fav. My most played old games were the Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds games and then Command & Conquer games. Later on SWG (I was really into Star Wars not gonna lie).
hallb15 Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 I forgot doom!! I was playing these games when I was a wee kid! IDKFA!
thimon Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Uplink was an early PC favourite of mine https://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/
Tesla Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) I've always dipped in and out of pc gaming, never had good solid rigs to play games on...saying that. Red Alert Sims Roms Doom/Heretic? (can't remember name) Half Life Various Championship/Football managers Edited February 4, 2016 by Tesla
sted Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) duke nukem 3s think i probably spent longer in level editor than playing various command and conquer games (like the first dos one where the ai was so dumb you could build sandbags up to the enemy base and then block them in so they couldnt attack/harvest voyager elite forces doom/quake carmageddon gta 1/2/london x wing alience and various prequels were some of my favourite and had the silly expensive (relatively for me as a kid/student) joystick that had a twist grip for rudder control and a throttle secret of monkey islands 1/2 leisure suit larry used to at one point take the pc (and prior to that amiga/atari) to a pub on a wednesday evening and a load of us would play serial link/lan games oh the joys of 10 base 10 networks and terminators but at least they were easy to extend / modify on the fly Edited February 4, 2016 by sted
edmokeski Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 I suppose mentioning Zork or Zaxxon is going to seriously date me? All those old Sierra "Quest" games took up hours of my childhood, and Blizzard's early games when I was in uni. Now, if I can't play it on my phone on the Tube, then I sadly probably haven't got time for it.
CamelMan Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Ultima Underworld Wolfenstien / Doom / Duke Vampire the Mask. Syndicate Xwing / Wing Commander series Frontier Elite XCom Enemy Unknown Settlers too many to list!
cherd84 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Posted February 4, 2016 Half Life (play it all the way through about once a year still!) I can't believe I forgot Half Life! "They're waiting for you Gordon....in the test chamber."
DalekSec Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 I can't believe I forgot Half Life! "They're waiting for you Gordon....in the test chamber." HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED GUYS!! *sobs in self pity*
protocol Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Some already mentioned, some not: Quake Doom Unreal Tournament Duke Nukem 3D Age Of Empires series Settlers Championship Manager Monkey Island Grim Fandango Day Of The Tentacle Syndicate Sim Theme Park Sim Hospital Rollercoaster Tycoon Sam & Max Broken Sword Cannon Fodder Sensible Soccer GTA 1 & 2
soapyfish Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Syndicate, Special agent SAM, kings quest 1, 3D Demon, Populus,
GuyJD Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 We set up a Unreal tournament server at the college I was at and my fellow BTEC friends and I would play that in the programming lab instead of learning how to program in Cobal, time well spent me thinks.
pscott Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) Most originals have been mentioned, but gonna add a few Sensible Soccer (Sensible World Of Soccer as well!) Goal! FIFA 97 (Indoor football was intense) Sampras Tennis Kick Off Series Best for Last Geoff Grammond Grand Prix Geoff Grammond Grand Prix 2 Geoff Grammond Grand Prix 3 Geoff Grammond Grand Prix 2000 Geoff Grammond Grand Prix4 That man is a genius! Edited February 4, 2016 by pscott
CHR1S Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Descent C&C Stunt Car Racer Civ Wolfenstine Supercars 1 & 2 to name but a few
sted Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Best for Last Geoff Grammond Grand Prix Geoff Grammond Grand Prix 2 Geoff Grammond Grand Prix 3 Geoff Grammond Grand Prix 2000 That man is a genius! can remember playing one of those on the amiga in an online league (when playing you had a statistics logger running that recorded the race) and post off your results no driving aids 100% race distance lol
LeMarchand Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 It's going back some way, but the first few to spring to mind are: Phantasmagoria Noctropolis Quantum Gate Homeworld Little Big Adventure 1 & 2 I'm sure there are many more! I keep buying ones that I wanted to play but couldn't afford or had but fancied playing again when I see them on sale. Unfortunately now I have the money to buy them I don't have the time to play them!
Tesla Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Descent C&C Stunt Car Racer Civ Wolfenstine Supercars 1 & 2 to name but a few I used to play Stunts, which was similar to Stunt Car Racer, good times.
sonofsanta Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 (edited) Games that stole the most time: Duke Nukem 3D and the build editor. I even bought a book on it from The Works or similar discount bookstore. I still have the theme tune as my ring tone (the proper MIDI one, not the Megadeth cover, as wonderful as that version is). Red Alert, including hours spent tweaking rules.ini. I intend to set Hell March as my ring tone when I get round to tweaking it in Audacity to shorten the intro Theme Hospital has probably been played through a good dozen times. Dungeon Keeper almost as often. Stars! You could never have a monitor big enough. I knew the map of GTA1 off by heart. And I had the Monkey Island trilogy in one big box that I got cheap from PC World because it had been water damaged. The smell of paper gone mouldy from water always reminds me of the Monkey Island 3 manual and takes me straight back to days of El Pollo Diablo and friends. Edited February 4, 2016 by sonofsanta
3s-gtech Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Unreal Tournament (still installed) Half Life (still installed) Counter Strike (still installed) Need for Speed 3 and 4 (still installed) GTA 3 (still installed), VC and SA I like playing my old games, so they're all installed and working on my Windows 10 machine.
Dos_Box Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED GUYS!! *sobs in self pity* Link or it didn't happen. It's not happening, is it
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