Old PC games you still play (or wish you had so you could)

[dubfan]

Anyone remember a really old DOS game called "Sleuth"? You played a detective solving a murder at a mansion, and it had ASCII graphics. It was kind of tough because if you weren't quick enough about solving it the murderer would end up killing you. Also you could pick your own names for the characters, which always provided plenty of fun...

[Dockside]

Another old favorite - Dark Seed. It had great graphics, with artwork by H.R. Geiger. Creepy music and great little in-jokes on the tombstones in the cemetary. But it was one of those annoying games if you missed a clue you just kind of hung around till the game expired and you lost.

[blueman_fan1]

I'd like to be able to play Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness. !!! It would be cool if they would redo ones like that for the newer computers! Old Command and Conquer also was cool!

[Ninjahedge]

WC2 was fun, but the pathfinding was HORRID. (jub jub!).

I remember sending out whole hoards of people to attack, and having them arrive as a single file line only to be picked off by the AI defensive structures.

:P

[blueman_fan1]

Originally Posted by Ninjahedge

WC2 was fun, but the pathfinding was HORRID. (jub jub!).

I remember sending out whole hoards of people to attack, and having them arrive as a single file line only to be picked off by the AI defensive structures.

:P

Jub jub: me got throw ax for you...
The thing with that game was that there was a key to each scenario. What I mean (not an actual key but way that you handled one particular part of the scene and once you did one particular thing that the rest of the scenario was easy..I don't know if this makes sense to you or not...

[Ninjahedge]

Yep.

The AI was relatively simple. MOST of the levels were, sit tight and wait out their rushes until they had no more resources, then use siege weapons to destroy their holdings.

The hardest part was figuring out what you needed to build and when to be able to survive. Starcraft was the same thing.

I kind of liked other games like Total Annhililation because of the ability to produce your own resource producers after a while. I believe with the addon packs, once you started building fusion plants and the like, materials were less of a problem to aquire.

But that also made it so the AI could keep sending guys in waves until YOU started counterattacking. It was the same basic premise, but at least it wasnot a "ride the storm out and clean up afterward" battle plan....

[blueman_fan1]

I'm not to much into the new games coming out, there is just something about the older games that I like! WarcraftII was one of them but also I like the old Command and Conquer up until Red Alert, then that pretty much ended for me after that. Also Starcraft was cool, Age of Empires. Total annaliation was ok. Oh I forgot about this one, I had ahold of it then I don't know what happened to it: C&C Soul Survivor.
I remember staying up late playing over the modem a friend of mine the first Command and Conquer. We'd stay up until 3:00 in the morning playing! I miss those kind of games to. Now all of the games are over the internet...blahhh

[Ninjahedge]

For TA, you needed to Dl the custom units. TADD had about 100 different custom units to play with, some more balanced than others.


It was always fun to make the Krogoth!!!!

For me, the first modem game was DOOM. Complete at blocky resolution and complete unfair lag advantage to the host!!! It was a blast to play that on two Playstations with a link cable!!!

[wanneroo]

7 cities of Gold is a classic and still playable game.

Any of the Microprose games are still playable.

When I finally moved to a PC in 1995 or so, Duke Nukem and Tie Fighter were pretty good.

[kygman]

Originally Posted by cool rob

Gotta be:

Leisure Suit Larry's
Kings Quest
Wolfenstein 3d

oh and don't forget the classic.....

Oregon Trail!!!

I know I'm replying to an old post but I found Oregon Trail at Best Buy last month for $20, Still enjoy playing with it, but I hate dying of cholera out in the middle of nowhere! lol