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favorite early computer games

Helix said:
i was thinking this morning about early computer games that i used to dig when i was a kid.

model : TRS 80
era : 1983ish
Oregon Trail
B52 Bomber*

*i can't find evidence that this game exists, so it might have been locally programmed. basically, you flew a monochrome pixellated plane over a monochrome pixellated city dropping pixels until the pixel buildings were gone or you ran out of fuel.

model : Tandy 1000
era : 1990 - 1993
Space Quest series
King's Quest series

model : CompuAdd 386
era : 1990 - 1994
Populous
Ween : The Prophecy (i think that i played this one on the 386, but probably also on my first Pentium.)
Wolfenstein 3D

the list is fairly long, but those are some of the the standouts. what are your favorites?
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Blue max- commodore 64
Oregon trail apple 2- you died of dysentary
Oregon- apple 2- the original oregon trail, but you had to type bang fast as an animal crossed the screen because it was so archaic.
Uiltima series 1-7 - These were very in depth rpg games, except the first one which had almost no dialog and was created by a guy mashing star wars and dungeons and dragons into one game, but was groundbreaking for the 5150 ibm and the early apple two.


Ultima underworld- older than wolfenstein 3d, yet allows swimming, jumping, climing, and looking at different angles, as well as food and sleep management and weapon durability. This game lost to wolf 3d because even though it came out first, it required a 386 with extended memory, while wolf could run on an old 286 which many still had in 92.

doom- nuff said
Duke nukem 3d- best dos era fps
warcraft 2- the rest of the warcraft series can not hold a candle to it, seriously you can make seals explode by clicking on them too much
Diablo- early windows 95 game, by todays standards the game is very dated, but then it was groundbreaking. The best part was the music and the environment meshed together into a demonic feeling that made the game experience, later diablo games improved graphics and gameplay features, but that darkness in the atmosphere faded with it's sequals.
 
Carjosse said:
All of those are older than me.
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Not my fault you got to miss out on the awesomeness of the atari 400-800 computers, or the commodre 64 or vic-20, or the tandy trs 80 coco computers, or the old dos computers.

They were fun for their day, and up until the mid 90's it was common to see people with old computers like the c-64 or old tandy's and even 5150's. They bit the dust when internet access became more viable and computers dropped in price. They were fun games and what made those old games fun was the amount of exploration and imagination needed to play them, no handholding, no walkthroughs then, just plain and simple get owned until you find your way past it.
 




 





 
This (for the VIC-20) was the best version of this game on any system, including the C-64's version. Best when played with an Atari paddle controller.

 
Tunnels of Doom on the Ti-99 and Star Trek on the TRS-80 spring to mind. Text adventure games on terminals at college.
 




 
The first 2 games I played were Spy Fox and The Sims on PC. Can't quite recall which came first. After that, when I was 10 years old or so, I got my first console, a PS2. I played on that until I turned 15.
 
Gaius46 said:
Yeah I remember Asteroids too. Another fun game. My wife's favorite was Galaga. She pumped God knows how many quarters into that one at the arcade.
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Loved Galaga. When I first went to college in early 80's that game was in the Commons, played all the time. As Gina, my PC game was Wolfenstein.
 
Gaius46 said:
Yeah I remember Asteroids too. Another fun game. My wife's favorite was Galaga. She pumped God knows how many quarters into that one at the arcade.
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Galaga was big about the time I was in grad school. The other big games were Stargate, Defender, Joust , Pacman and Frogger. the one game I was able to constantly set machine records on was wolf pack since it was exactly the same skill as skeet shooting. I sure wasted a lot of quarters 35 or so years ago and where I lived in Ohio, a local mall had an arcade that one of my brothers and I hit constantly during Christmas Breaks

another good one was called, IIRC Battle zone where you were battling tanks. the last one-one my brother ruled-had various levels where you fought off attacks on a diagram that looked like a DNA cell-normally a black screen with a red diagram-if you got beat and put a quarter in within say 30 seconds you could start at the level you were "killed on" without climbing the levels again. IIRC it was called TEMPEST and it was highly addictive.
 
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TurtleDude said:
Galaga was big about the time I was in grad school. The other big games were Stargate, Defender, Joust , Pacman and Frogger. the one game I was able to constantly set machine records on was wolf pack since it was exactly the same skill as skeet shooting. I sure wasted a lot of quarters 35 or so years ago and where I lived in Ohio, a local mall had an arcade that one of my brothers and I hit constantly during Christmas Breaks

another good one was called, IIRC Battle zone where you were battling tanks. the last one-one my brother ruled-had various levels where you fought off attacks on a diagram that looked like a DNA cell-normally a black screen with a red diagram-if you got beat and put a quarter in within say 30 seconds you could start at the level you were "killed on" without climbing the levels again. IIRC it was called TEMPEST and it was highly addictive.
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I forgot about Tempest. What a great game.

You can play it again on your browser, too, along with Millipede and Battlezone

Play Atari Tempest - IGN Play Atari Battlezone - IGN

I remember a game called Bi-Plane. The game wasnt that great, but we found if we scuffed our feet around the rug at the arcade, we could generate static electricity and generate a shock when you touched the joystick. This would magically start the game up as one player. Saved a poor middle schooler like me tons of quarters in the late 70's... when a quarter could buy you a candy bar.

 
Threegoofs said:
I forgot about Tempest. What a great game.

You can play it again on your browser, too, along with Millipede and Battlezone

Play Atari Tempest - IGN Play Atari Battlezone - IGN

I remember a game called Bi-Plane. The game wasnt that great, but we found if we scuffed our feet around the rug at the arcade, we could generate static electricity and generate a shock when you touched the joystick. This would magically start the game up as one player. Saved a poor middle schooler like me tons of quarters in the late 70's... when a quarter could buy you a candy bar.

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great post-thanks

what was funny was that the arcade would have a free day once a month (probably to "hook" more addicts) and I remember I never could score worth a crap on those days because I didn't have a quarter at risk.
 
Threegoofs said:
I forgot about Tempest. What a great game.

You can play it again on your browser, too, along with Millipede and Battlezone

Play Atari Tempest - IGN Play Atari Battlezone - IGN

I remember a game called Bi-Plane. The game wasnt that great, but we found if we scuffed our feet around the rug at the arcade, we could generate static electricity and generate a shock when you touched the joystick. This would magically start the game up as one player. Saved a poor middle schooler like me tons of quarters in the late 70's... when a quarter could buy you a candy bar.

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I played Tempest not too long ago in a bar which has walls full of classic arcade games. Was surprised at how well I did entirely on 30-year-old muscle memory.
 
C64 (before the 128)

Ultima IV

A cloth map! :)
 
I had Omega on the Commodore C64. Really liked it.
 
The games I played quite a bit on the C64 besides Omega were Beach Head, Boulder Dash, Colossus Chess, Earth Orbit Stations, and Load Runner.

The Amiga had the best games for it's time when it came out!
 
Hugo's House of Horrors was always my favorite

 
I'm not as old as you people, my first games were HeXen, MDK, Rise of the Triad and Terminal Velocity. Also, anything by LucasArts, they used to make damned good games.
 
Commodore 64. I used to play the hell out of the Barbie game and TGIF.

Of course all those old apple and IBM games and one of my friends had this really old computer, I can't remember what it was, but it had this awesome drawing game that we used to play a lot.
 
spud_meister said:
I'm not as old as you people, my first games were HeXen, MDK, Rise of the Triad and Terminal Velocity. Also, anything by LucasArts, they used to make damned good games.
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Dark forces?
 
I used to have boxes full of pirated Commodore games....fun times.
 
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