Best vintage video game thread
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Yep. Ed209 was at the end of the first level and he always killed me.
I got lucky the year i got my sega cd was the first year (i might have been a jr in HS if that) in all my years of going to school that we actually canceled for snow. It was the bad blizzards we had in the mid 90s. It was the first one so it had to be 94-95 maybe but it was such a massive deal that it was actually canceled that i got to stay home and game all day. Oh let's not forget Snatcher for the sega cd even if it wasn't as good as the japanese PC version (which i can't find) and the later reissues in japan.
Solo4114
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You can get Beneath a Steel Sky for free from gog.com. (Good Old Games) They have Syndicate for, like, $2, too. Lots of really cool 90s games, all run properly through a DOSBox front end that you don't have to tinker with.
Syndicate...I loved the concept, but hated the real-time aspect of it. I've always hated real-time games with the exception of the Total War series, and even then, I find the camera controls frustrating. But anyway, you can get a lot of these old games on gog.com. Cheap, too.
There was a Robocop game for NES, but it always pissed me off how fragile Robocop was. Like, punks plinking away at him actually did damage to him. Plus, for most of the first level, you could only punch them.
Similar story for the arcade game.
By the way, folks, when it comes to arcade games....MAME. And that's all I'm saying about that. Google it and thank me later.
The Rock-a-who
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I was fortunate enough to get a Starpath Supercharger for the Atari 2600. Great games for that expansion system.
Phaser Patrol was about the closest thing you could get to playing an arcade quaility Star Wars type game and Dragonstomper was a fantastic Dungeons and Dragon's RPG game. (Sorry, love to Adventure, but this was so much better)
Phaser Patrol was about the closest thing you could get to playing an arcade quaility Star Wars type game and Dragonstomper was a fantastic Dungeons and Dragon's RPG game. (Sorry, love to Adventure, but this was so much better)
The Rock-a-who
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I have ALWAYS loved vector graphics. Something about it.
A shame it died out in the 80s...
But I still have my Vetrex!
I think that was 93-94. I was a senior in high school and we had like three days of school, most of which were half days, between Christmas break and February 1st. It was awesome.
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Yeah i thought it was that and then in 95-96 it was really bad too because when downtown pittsburgh thawed out it was enough to flood the streets and the Art institute had water damage in the basement 4' deep when i went for a school visit. I remember that because i was on crutches at the time.
One of my favorite games was Below the Root. It was available for the Apple II series of computers in the mid 80's. It was a great adventure quest type game. It was based on the Green Sky Trilogy by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and I believe that the game was considered to be an official sequel to the books. The game was developed with story input from the author. I spent many hours playing this game but I never made it to the end. In the early 2000's, I found a downloadable version of the game that could be played with an emulator. Still, I never finished it. Good memories.
Other honorable mentions are Castlevania II: Simons Quest, Super C, Double Dragon, and Lifeforce.
Other honorable mentions are Castlevania II: Simons Quest, Super C, Double Dragon, and Lifeforce.
One of the best things about older games is that beating them was often an accomplishment.
Now games are ranked as to how long it takes to beat them (hours of gameplay), but then? They were ranked on whether or not you COULD beat them!
Now games are ranked as to how long it takes to beat them (hours of gameplay), but then? They were ranked on whether or not you COULD beat them!
:lol
To beat Last Crusade on the NES my brothers and I would take a polaroid of the grail diary screen before walking through the maze to get to the last section.
Remember when you could hook your NES up to a vcr and record yourself beating the games? lol It was better than having to wait for 2 weeks to get the pics back. I almost won a competition in 2001 with one of the Kingdomheart games where you had to beat the super secret badguys and send in a vid. Woulda been easier if i had capture card as the vcr was really crappy by that time.
Kerr Avon
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The Sierra Online Hero Quest series, renamed "Quest for Glory" series. You started off with the first game as a brand new adventurer with almost no skills. Could choose a class as a Thief, Wizard or Fighter and depending on what you selected you had different ways to beat puzzles. When you beat the first game, you were prompted to export your character which when the next game came out you could import it and carry over all your skills and equipment. By the fifth game, depending on what class you started off with, you had the opportunity to become a Paladin, Archmage, or head of your own Thieve's Guild. You also through all of it had a developing story of a missing Archmage called Erana who you could even bring back from the dead and marry, finding the elusive Blackbird (Maltese Falcon) and become king of a country after defeating a dragon.
They don't make games like that anymore.
They don't make games like that anymore.
It amazes me the output that Sierra had in such a short amount of time.
http://www.sierragamers.com/
http://www.sierragamers.com/
Metaluna mutant
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Yep Adventure was and still is a hoot. I think that, Pitfall and River Raid ate up my 7th grade free time.
In the 90s, Xwing & Tie Fighter and Star Control 2 were the ones I loved the most.
Enjoy the *Sauce!*
rodneyfaile
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