Old Video Games are the best.

[Melonfish]

Just been playing some Ascendancy man do i love that game.
then again i'm a big fan of the older 4X games, especially K240 on the Amiga.
i find myself going back to Ascendancy time and again, they've recently released it for the iphone but i'm dying for them to do an android version.

was going to play some oblivion before but i honestly couldn't be bothered with all the rigmarole so i stuck Hero Quest on instead. EPIC game, i even had the board game

what's your fave old Video game and why?

 

[Sittingduck]

Does Goldeneye on the N64 count as old?

 

[cisamcgu]

"Elite" on the BBC micro - it didn't get any better than that !

 

[beanzontoast]

"Elite" on the BBC micro - it didn't get any better than that !

+1. Oh how I longed for an ECM unit...

For some reason I find hard to understand now, I played Tomahawk on the Speccy for way, way too long. Way, way, way in fact. A fine helicopter sim though it was (especially after playing the ZX81 Flight Simulation 'game' - now there was a case of the expectation not matching up to the experience!), it was a creature of its time.

The Amiga was a great machine too. I went through an A600 and an A1200 and my kids grew up sharing the consoles with dad! Superfrog anyone?

 

[wiggydiggy]

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what's your fave old Video game and why?

Now then so many to choose from, but I'll limit to....

Worms - Hours of fun that was only bettered when we found you can create your own levels from a picture you drew in DeluxePaint, hilarity ensued!
Super Skidmarks 2 - 8 madness player racing cars, or hook a caravan up to the back of cow.
Frontier Elite II - Lost thousands of hours on this game, literally had no ending and I played until the computer broke.

I dont agree old video games are the best as I did live through the 80's and the number of abysmal games that broke my fragile child heart are numerous, but I have many fond memories of the best of them.

And yes SUPERFROG is awesome, so awesome in fact I downloaded and still listen to all the theme music from it

 

[Fnaar]

Don't know about video games as such, and I'm really not a games person, but some years ago I shared an office with a colleague who was also very good friend. It just so happened that the organisation we worked for allowed us a lot of freedom in terms of organising our time. We organised it so that every fifth week, we were 'busy' 'developing' things. What this came to mean, in practice, was that we would spend the entire week shut in our office, 9-5, playing Doom, Civilisation and Wacky Wheels. We became very good at all of these

and whole days would pass with us basically doing nowt but improving our skills in these games.
We had files and paper etc out on the desk in case anyone walked in on us, and were brilliant at quickly reverting the screen back to a document, and dropping into some inane conversation loosely related to our work.
Happy days! This lasted for about a year and a half, I guess, till he moved on.

 

[beanzontoast]

Doom was / is excellent. Still have a PS1 lurking in the house and though we got rid of most of the games for it, Doom and Final Doom are staying put. I plugged the PS1 into a 37" flatscreen tv the other weekend for the first time ever and spent a happy couple of hours defending the good from evil!

 

[wiggydiggy]

............. quickly reverting the screen back to a document.............

It wasnt uncommon for some old games (Leisure Suit Larry as an example) to feature a 'Boss' key which when pressed brought up some random spreadsheet and charts, of course you couldnt return to the game without loading an old save though

The Lan Party is still strong I believe but not as much so these days with the ability to have stable internet gaming.

 

[Fnaar]

We just used ALT+that key with 2 arrows on it, and had the volume turned down, so you wouldn't get any noises from the games.
Tried to play Doom some time later (at home) with the volume up, and found I just couldn't !!

 

[wiggydiggy]

Alt + Tab

I'd say this is the most used key combination in an office

 

[gregsid]

I still have my Acorn Electron and 50+ original games from 1983/4. Recently plugged it all back into a CRT TV. Got a FANTASTIC quality picture through a new BBC Micro SCART lead. Every pixel positively glowed!Great games on it too, including some blatent arcade clones; Meteors (Asteroids), Monsters (Panic), Snapper (Pacman) and Killer Gorilla (Donkey Kong) to name a few. Amazing how so much instantly playable and beautifully crafted games could fit into such TINY amounts of memory. The days of real coding when programmers could "touch the metal". Not layers and layer of APIs and SDK garbage nowerdays...

 

[BSRU]

I spent/wasted many hours playing Defender.

 

[calibanzwei]

Star Control on the Megadrive... although I no longer have the console, I can't bring myself to part with this one particular cartridge. Lost many, many an hour playing this...

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Star_Control

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=tmk46DzCcak

EDIT: My lot still now and then get together for a LAN - nothing like games + beer

 

[buddha]

I wasted many hours playing pac-man and omega race on the Vic 20.

Thanks to this thread, I've just downloaded a Vic20 emulator, and started to write a program. To my surprise I still remember the old POKE addresses for things like volume, sound channels, screen modes etc.

I can see more hours being wasted now ...

 

[wiggydiggy]

Star Control on the Megadrive... although I no longer have the console, I can't bring myself to part with this one particular cartridge. Lost many, many an hour playing this...

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Star_Control

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=tmk46DzCcak

EDIT: My lot still now and then get together for a LAN - nothing like games + beer

Star Control was an immense game, was great fun 2 player trying to strategically choose the right ship to attack the other person with