Classic Games

[Jintor]

What is considered a classic game, nowadays? I just finished Beneath a Steel Sky, which was pretty awesome considering it came out probably before my birth, and I want to see what you've played/you're playing/etc.

"I... am LINC..."

 

[VictimOfScience]

Well, anything you can play with ScummVM is classic for sure, likewise any games you can run with DosBox. Anything pre-1994 or so is classic in my book, but your book may vary depending on your age and how long you have been playing computer games.

 

[Cormeh]

Ohhh... Last Ninja 2 for the Atari, or Midnight Resistance.

 

[Raziaar]

Scorched Earth.

 

[Ren.182]

A classic game for me is something that is fun, got a nice story or just and awesome game. And it has to stand the test of time (not get old no matter when you play it).

 

[Gargantou]

Holy shit, Jintor, you're 11/12?
Beneath A Steel Sky released in '94 so..
Or well, the original Amiga vers released in '93, but that makes you still 12/13.

 

[Vegeta897]

Nintendo was around the time I started playing video games.
We had Mario/Duckhunt, and some Megaman's. Oh, and BLASTER MASTER!!!

Although, I'm told that I was even younger when we got an Atari. And they said I messed up the wires Hey, I was probably not even old enough to talk back then. I guess that's why I'm so against consoles these days

 

[JellyWorld]

I wish I could find Secret of Monkey Island somewhere :/ That game rocked.

 

[Xune]

Speedball 2 on the Amiga 500. I broke so many joysticks playing that game.

 

[VictimOfScience]

I wish I could find Secret of Monkey Island somewhere :/ That game rocked.

You can find it on eBay if you look for it or certain Lucasarts classics collections or Monkey Madness and the like. Good luck--it does rule, along with the 2nd one which kicks even more ace! :thumbs:

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Little Big Adventure II, never played the original, but great story nonetheless.

The original Dungeon Keeper was ace as well, they were able to catch the atmosphere perfectly, they destroyed that feeling in the 2nd game

 

[$kelet0r]

space invaders - never gets old


well maybe after 100 levels but still :E

 

[dfc05]

I've been playing a lot of Populous. 1989. Even though it's basically just a lot of raising and lowering the terrain (or making earthquakes/floods/volcanoes, which are actually just more disastrous ways of raising and lowering terrain), it gets really addictive.

Last summer I played through King's Quest V (came out in 1990). I seriously think that game is impossible without the walkthrough. You have to find your way through this huge desert without dying, and your character walks SO SLOW. I must've spent hours in that desert before I finally gave up and looked up the walkthrough. And the way you "solve" the puzzles is so random that it doesn't even make much logical sense.

Sometimes I'll play Defender (1981) on the Atari emulator, but it's just not the same on PC.

 

[Solaris]

Operation flashpoints pretty cool.

 

[Ennui]

for me, classics are wolfenstein, doom, x-com: ufo defense, mario, scorched earth, kings bounty, etc. stuff i played when i was five or so.

 

[Zeus]

Try wild arms (the first one), FF7, breath of fire 3, those are some old rpgs I really liked and theyre classics to me.

 

[Jangle]

I've been playing a lot of Populous. 1989. Even though it's basically just a lot of raising and lowering the terrain (or making earthquakes/floods/volcanoes, which are actually just more disastrous ways of raising and lowering terrain), it gets really addictive.

Wow, was it really that long ago? I loved Populous

 

[Jintor]

Holy shit, Jintor, you're 11/12?
Beneath A Steel Sky released in '94 so..
Or well, the original Amiga vers released in '93, but that makes you still 12/13.

Gah, I'm 14. I was guessing at when it was released... I thought the late 80's or something :/