>>8763556

>>8763567
Bitch, I'm on a horse.

We will start with the Gold Box games. ANCIENT stuff, but wonderful in its simplicity. Death Knights of Krynn. In the first game, Champions of Krynn, you helped beat back an evil army, their plot to corrupt more dragon eggs, and generally won the day.

In the start of the second one, you attend a memorial to an important NPC who died in the first game. The game starts with his undead body riding a dracolich into the party and shouting that all was for naught, for now Lord Soth is gonna fuck you up royal. The entire game has a twisted, macabre feel from then on, and you REALLY feel like like undeath is coming...

Plus, at the end of it, you actually kill Lord Soth, and while it is hard enough that I never actually beat it, well, Soth ended up in Ravenloft *somehow*....

post this on /v/ you insufferable faggot

>>8763605
Y'know what, here, I'll just chuck the image up.

>>8763598
>>8763567
Discuss them, preferably. This is a quality thread, so more is better.

>>8763605
You'd better talk about Might and Magic.

>>8763556
Source on that?

Also, MANHUNTER. Anybody ever play this?

Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic.

That is all.

>>8763567
Is that the one with the fucking robots from nowhere at the end, where your hero winds up stabbing a dragon and sinking?

>>8763622
Speaking of Might and Magic, I was trying get the TurboGrafx version running on an emulator, but I don't know how.

>>8763556
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, right? Nice AD&D refluff.

>>8763598
The Langrisser series was great.

>>8763608
I assure you sir, I am quite sufferable, and yet, everything I have posted is a TSR product! I belong here far more than planes or porn.

The next game is actually my first PC game ever. It was Secret of the Silver Blades, another part of the Gold Box series. It turns out there were several runs of Gold Box games, one in Dragonlance, one in Forgotten Realms, and a few stand-alone ones.

SoSB takes place in a remote section of FR, since I've yet to hear of it. But the game is wonderful, and a little amusing, since the very start of the game, you are plucked naked from the sky and dropped down in front of a well, because the villagers had wished for heroes.

You can later even use their wishing well for your own personal use. After you beat the dragon guarding it of course. It was my first game, and scared the hell out of me.

And the BBEG was a lich frozen in ice at the spine of the world, so fuck you WoW. Also included the only confirmed use of Chainmail Bikini I've ever seen, from Vala there. Also a dwarf named Derf. Haha!

No one ever talks about this game, anywhere.

>>8763698
>>8763638
Indeed, Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday for the PC. WONDERFUL game, WONDERFUL setting. Yes, Buck Rogers, is a wonderful setting. An interesting mix of pulp and grimdark. I personally YEARN for the day I could run a game in Buck Rogers.

And no, not a D&D refluff. It actually had its own box set. It used almost the same system, but it is its own system, much as Gamma World is.

OP is Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday. Amazing if not unforgiving game.

I know this is 96, but this game is basically a computer version of /tg/ down pat. The game plays like a mix of a card/strategy/board game. It's abandonware now, and you can find it abandonia, and it seems to run fine on more recent OSes, it just can't be windowed despite having the option and runs at really low res and fullscreen.

>>8763748
Every time I mention it in the past, somebody on /tg/ decided to play it. Maybe you'll have the same effect.

Image is an old favourite of mine.

>>8763718
It's a shame I can never get the patches to work. I want to try the other games beyond Warsong, since I heard they're just as good.

Screenshots say they've got a lighter, more anime tone to them, though. Shame.

>>8763748
Funny you should say that, since neither you nor >>8763649
>>8763638
>>8763567
Are talking about their games either. You cannot just post a pic and leave it at that.

Finishing off the Gold Box series is Dark Queen of Krynn. The sequel to Death Knights of Krynn, the game ramps up dramatically the stakes. One of my most favorite parts is where a flight of dragons are attacking a city... and you fight them off, almost single handedly. Granted, you have a fabled Dragonlance, but only one... of course, the game caps your level at around level 40 for thieves, so you are veritable forces of nature on your own.

Also a massive graphical update.

>>8763567
>>8763724
Mine says "Role Playing Game" right on the box! Of course it is more of a wargame/adventure game like Chainmail or the original D&D.

Warlords was here. All other games are FAGGORTS

>>8763748
beneath a steel sky? I'm intrigued

itt butthurt manchildren who played games when they really DID go beep boop beep

You would have to be in your 30s to have appreciated these games.

Yeah.

No.

>>8763817
Fair point.

>>8763862
It's a really good point and click adventure from Virgin.

It's set in a dystopian future and you play a character living in some barren shit-hole village in the Australian outback. One day a helicopter comes, kills a bunch of people and kidnaps you. It then takes you to this huge city where it crashes and you escape. You have to spend the game exploring the city to find out who you are and why you were brought there.

My description's pretty shit, but it's a really good game. Abandonware, too.

Check it out here:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/58/Beneath+a+Steel+Sky.html

>>8763920
I'm 19 and I'd still play these over whatever the 360 excretes.

Anyone else remember this one? Citadel: Adventure of the Crystal Keep. Came with a copy-protection symbol wheel that kind of looked cool, and a cheesy fantasy book that also doubled as walkthrough.

>>8763556
This must be how that Goblins dude learned to draw.

Boys and girls (who am I kidding), this is Battle Isle 2.

A turn based strategy game, including all those things that have become unpopular these days like the need to refuel and rearm your units and planes that actually crash once they've run out of fuel.

Even back in '94 this game modelled shifting weather conditions, rivers cold freeze over, allowing your units to cross them or heavy rain could reduce the movement rate of your tanks.

You had access to a wide variety of units ranging from infantry, to tanks, planes, trains and ships. All available in a wide variety of flavours.

Best of all, it was fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWqgmAk17KI&feature=PlayList&p=634C1E9AA9514CA8&playnext=
1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

>>8764099
An image to clarify this statement.
>>8763556

>>8763866
>butthurt
Yup, I can SMELL your buttpain.

8-bit FPS RPG here. Oblivion is for youngfags.

I'm also detecting a worrying lack of Wasteland or Midwinter.

>>8763817
>You cannot just post a pic and leave it at that.

For me, I simple can't remember a lot of the specifics from games these old. I just remember thoroughly enjoying them. At best, I could provide a shaky, hole-ridden plot outline from my favourite games from over a decade ago.

CASTLE OF THE WINDS MOTHERFUCKER
WANT A ROGUELIKE WITH GRAPHICS? WE GOT GRAPHICS
WANT A ROGUELIKE YOU CAN WIN IN A WEEK? WE GOT SAVE GAMES
WANT A ROGUELIKE WITH A STORY? WE GOT STORY.

FUCK YEAH CASTLE OF THE WINDS

Hmm, is that from Hell or whatever that cyberspace-vampire game was called?

Also you guys need this link:
http://www.hotud.org/rpg
(abandonware, also lists some newer tites that you can't download but instead links to a site where you can buy it, it's how they fund the site.)

Lets get it on!

Avernum, Betrayal at Krondor, Dark Heart of Uukrul, Adom, Geneforge, Dungeon Master, Albion, Blades of Exile, Knights of Xentar, Anvil of Dawn, fuck yeah are you amped yet?!

Still remember Drirr?

>>8764340
>cyberspace-vampire game

Bloodnet?

>>8764267
Tell us what the game is. Seriously, boxart is like album art. It could be a Judas Priest CD in there.

>>8764372
ah yeah that's the one!
What the hell was that hell game again? :p I'm pretty sure it was similar to bloodnet

>>8764340
>are you amped yet?
NO, BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST SAYING NAMES, FAGGOT

>>8764384
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller ?

>>8764375
Alright, then. Warsong. Genesis-Era wargame. A bit hard to understand without the manual, at least it was for 10-year-old me. You play as Garret, the prince of Baltia. The game STARTS with your fucking castle under siege, and the first of twenty scenarios is you fighting your way out of your own home, to gather troops to retake the castle. Shit gets crazy from there.

DEAD

>>8764340
>Betrayal at Krondor

DAT GAME

dear lord that art is terrible.

No wonder Halo is successful

D/Generation

Pure canned awesome. Google if you are not sure what I'm talking about.

That is all.

You want 3D terrain? Here's you fucking 3D terrain. And it'll actually take more effort to climb the steep bits, and you'll go faster---but at a greater risk of injury---downhill, because you're on SKIS, motherfucker. Or are you? Maybe you're hanggliding? In a cable car? In a snowcat, eh? Vehicles, maybe you thought there were a modern innovation.

And you'd better gather a party and get to work reclaiming the whole damn island from that war-crazed general. Careful you get the dialogue right though.

>>8764403
right again :)
Man, I used to love cyberpunk back in the days

Subwar 2050.

It was basically wing commander under water. Complete with gigantic carrier submarines, hiding between thermal layers and the whole active/passiv sonar dynamic. Your missions were rather diverse from examining wreckage at a depth of 4km to infiltrating offshore complexes with spys. In one mission you were accompanied by a tv submarine and had to fight for some tv show because it payed your bills.

>>8764434
s...stonekeep 2?
I..it's not like I loved the first game or anything!

>>8764434
Oh poop, canceled

>>8763556
Most of /tg/'s games tend to be older or around 1990 imo.

Moonstone.

You are now remembering how decapitating your friends on the amiga was the greatest PvP experience you've ever had.

>>8764512

My older sister loved to play these games back then. I still have a severe hard on for vampires and actually cultive a fetish for girls with long fangs to this day. For some strange reason I still managed to turn out straight.

Wasteland here. Fallout was easy.

Mercenaries checking in.

Can you remember those days when LucasArts games were actually good?

>>8764702
Lucasarts was never good, fagshit. Missile Boat and TIE defender were spaceship mary sues

>>8764784
I always loved the assault gunboat.

Why is this not on here?!

/tg/, I am disappoint.

>>8764016
I've had good luck with abandon ware. i still play Star Control 2

>>8764597
That's not hard.
Imagine I turned straight even after growing up with he-man, my little pony, care bears and lady lovely locks.

>>8764784
You go sit in the corner with a copy of ScummVM and think about what you just said, young man.

Come on, don't try to tell me you aren't interested after seeing this menu screen.

>>8764807
>>8764784

Not gonna lie, I always played the TIE defender.

>>8764909
Oh fuck i remember that, you ran around an office full of zombies frying them with the flamer, right?

>>8764884
Great games.
Also Catacomb3D

>>8764016
BaSS is more than just abandonware---the devs outright made it freely available, and gave the ScummVM developers the source so that they could perfect support for it. In fact, ScummVM hosts the game download.

Revolution Software are Good People and they should feel Good. So happy I have a boxed copy and they got my money at the time.

>>8764808
Because it's not relevant to our interests. Most of these are thinky-games, if not outright CRPGs. Everyone knows DOOM, and its excellence is in its frentic action (cover systems lol wut?). Pic related.

>>8764939
CKBump

>>8764884
Fuck yeah, a time when you'd get at least 1 good adventure per year.

>>8764920
Yep.

>>8764857
Boy, that must have been rough. My sister and I despised almost all the girly toys. We mostly played with legos and ghostbusters action figures.

>>8764316

oh my god... This is the game that got me into roguelikes when I was, like 5. Jesus christ...

>>8764984
I'm surprised Quest for Glory hasn't appeared yet.

Ah, Sierra On-Line. Teaching us that Losing is Fun long before any dorfs struck the Earth.

F15 Strike Eagle 2 reporting in.

>>8765008
I loved that flaming sword

>>8764984
Fuck yeah ghostbuster slime, you were the best toxic toy ever!

>>8765064

I remember a time when Electronic Arts was actually good and not just a faceless publisher

>>8765077
Loved NFSIII, played it bout 30 mins ago still loves it.

anyone played simon the sorcerer?
(pic)

>>8765110
Fuck, yes! I spent way too much time in my youth playing adventure games.

Blood & Guts, International Karate+, Sex Games, Commando Libya. Fuck yeah commodore 64.

Rock 'n Roll Racing, fucking awesome setting. Red Asphalt the "unofficial sequel" was great too.

Shadowrun, both for the genesis and the SNES. Damn you I waited so long for Shadowrun 2! :(

Ack, I'm just spouting names now, fucking retro flashbacks.

The Bard's Tale, motherfuckers!

>>8765077
Back when EA published good games, you say?

Doubly /tg/ related---one damn excellent non-violent competitive economic game (Catan has nothing on this), _and_ the lead developer used to be a man.

Rock'n'Roll this up.
It's obscure game time.

>>8765110
Hell yeah, the sequel was even more awesome though. After that it just went downhill though :(

>>8765021
Early Epic Megagames works, you say?

Don't forget: Gears of Warrrrrgh was made by a furfag. CliffyB even suits up.

(inb4 Earthworm Jim)

>Visit /tg/
>Amazing golden age of video games gaming thread
>Nobody has posted Ultima

>>8765072
Take a pot and fill it halfway with water, get it boiling.
Take a metal container and fill it with gummy bears or other jelly candy and place it in the boiling pot.

Wait until the candy is completely melted, remove it and let it cool.
Attempt to eat it and have an awesome time.

(sorry if my choice of words are confusing, swefag here)

>>8765210
And died promptly from cancer when he stopped being a man.

>>8765256
Could you elaborate?

>>8765262
There's no Civ 1, either. Back when you had palace improvements, and little animations when founding cities.

>>8765256
Do you too think JAZZ > JAZZ2?

DERAILING THREAD ABOUT OP'S GAME PIC:
Have any of you played the Buck Rogers XXV TSR tabletop RPG that the computer game was based upon? The sourcebooks are pretty rare. I would like to play them, if the computer game is any indication of how great the tabletop game is.

>>8765262
Man it's like you let people into the world's largest candy store, everyone starts yelling the names of whatever candy they are eating and some fat kid goes "WHY HAVEN'T ANYONE MENTIONED CINNAMON CANDY CRISP SNAKES YET?"
And we're all like "BECAUSE WE ARE TO BUSY EATING DELICIOUS CANDY YOU FAT FUCK!"

>>8765342
Nicely said.

688 Attack Sub
You could chose between a Los Angeles class submarine and some Russian model. The russian interface was completely in cyrillic. Gah.

>>8763567
fucking love shining force 1&2. 3 was good too, fan translation is going strong. New ones suck though.

>>8763598
Ahh yes, Warsong, otherwise known as Langrisser. Check out here for good stuff http://cinnamonpirate.com/project/

>>8765143
I still have the disc somewhere

>>8765191
I remember being stuck in one dungeon on Bard's Tale FOREVER. I was so overleveled by the time I got out.

Also, here's a game I played a ton as a kid.

Games weren't games before '95. Simply because they were either just "adventures" where you clicked your way from image to image or shitty games with shitty mechanics because they were shitty old.

>>8765399
Go back to /v/.

>>8765295
CliffyB is responsible for both Jazz Jackrabbit and Gears of War. Pic related.

He was on-and-off about bringing the series back; a Jazz Jackrabbit 3 with current Unreal tech would be an...interesting proposition, to say the least.

>>8765310
Uh-huh.

>>8765262
We'll leave out the obvious one, Ultima 7, as it is too frequently listed as one of the greatest RPGs of all time and most of /tg/ was alive when it was released. So excluding that, here's a tier list of the best of Ultima:

Ultima 4 - The best. Fuck you, this beats the shit out of Oblivion. Complete freedom, you have to go around and discover artefacts (usually be investigating and speaking to the right people).

Ultima 5 + 6 - more of this, also completely awesome. Five sets you as a freedom fighter in a world fallen to dark powers. Six sees you become the central figure in a war between humans and gargoyles.

1-3 are weird science-fantasy. 1 would be top-tier awesome if it weren't for the space sections and their physics simulations. 2 is cool but I've never been able to get into it, and 3 is inferior to 4-6.

Ultima 8 is not an Ultima game, and Ultima 9 never existed.

>>8765407
No u. I am on /tg/ to discuss traditional games, you are not.

http://www.planetmule.com/

>>8764909
>>8764909
We almost got a cartoon out of HH

>>8765399
Back in those old DOS days, when you bought a proper flight sim, you had a very good chance to get two or three fucking huge manuals that would give you a chance at flying whatever plane the game was about in the real world.

>>8764605

One of the things I remember about Wasteland's difficulty is that my party spent much of the last part of the game wounded or close to dying. Any one of them would take a near-lethal wound, collapse, get treated so that he could get up and fire off whatever overpowered weapon he had, then fall again from yet another injury.

Oh, and it saved the game automatically, and there was only one save slot. You had to make damn sure your party was in some sort of fighting shape all the time. THANKS INTERPLAY!

It's still one of my favorite games to this day.

Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday!

I've played through that at least 5 times. Shit, fuck awesome.

>>8765427
Fuck I didn't know that. Thank you!
What went wrong?

You know, it's kind of true. Games like Sam and Max and Monkey Island are great, but strictly they aren't games because there is no element of play in them. This doesn't take away from how great they are though.

You have died from dysentery.

>>8765480
Shit was supposed to quote:
>>8765399

>>8765486
Boy, to get that scenario you had to be really bad.
Steamrolling Russian in '42 ftw.

>>8765424
You seem butthurt. Have one of CliffyB's rabbitgirls.
>>8765426
I know---it mostly annoys me that they've managed to get so much of the mechanics wrong, though, and it's all online gumph. :/ I'm working on my own reverse-engineered open-source remake based on a decompilation of the original, but currently that's stalled due to PhD.
>>8765427
How...bizzare. Also: Earth! Worm! Jim! Through the soil he did crawl!

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

>>8765486


Brb, need to change pants.

>>8765500
Nah, you can pick it as stand alone. That and Torch are the two hardest scenarios to play as the Germans no doubt.

>>8765399
Please lecture us on how amazing and ground breaking Mass Effect and Bioshock were, kind sir.

>No one ever talks about this game, anywhere.

Because you were short. Too short in fact.

>Subwar 2050.

Schleichfahrt was here. We did it, only better and probably with a less bit'o simulation.


Anyone here remeber Hot Rod?
Best game ever - buy a car, mod the shit out of it in some strange GUI and race against goofy looking dudes.

>>8765480
That might mean something were it not for all the RPGs in this thread. And Midwinter, for fucksakes. It's got more gameplay elements than your damn modern "streamlined" FPSRPG.

>>8763556
FUCK YES BUCK ROGERS

>>8764351
> Still remember Drirr?
hir, hir

Anyway. As grimdark as it gets - Perihelion.
Here's its intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k851lwldPAU

>>8765378

Yeah, I got stuck in Bard's Tale I forever as well. I played it for months (without manual lol) and then I finally bought a hint book during a trip. Turns out I'd missed a single square in my maps within a dark room, aarrrrgh.

I didn't play Bard's Tale II though, I don't quite remember why. I skipped right ahead to Bard's Tale III and transfered my characters. A shame that they get "leveled down" after what I think was for the first dungeon.

>>8765502
Earth! Worm! Jim! A super suit did fall!

I KNOW people on /tg/ had to have played this game.

>>8765540
No but i do remember playing some game for W9x with the same concept.

>>8765536
>Bioshock
sucks
>Mass Effect
I did sort of enjoy it, but is it ground breaking? No.

Not what I was trying to say.

>>8765530

In PG2 Cobra was absolutely impossible for Germany to win. Shit was ridiculous.

>>8765509
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-r5JMyyOVM#t=3m7s

>>8765021
Hey, the game's freeware now.

Stunts, also known as 4d stunt driving. I spent years with that track editor.

>>8765540
>Schleichfahrt

I still can't comprehend how the thought it could be a success in American with a name like Archimedean Dynasty. Don't get me started on those pieces of shit both AquaNox games were.

>>8765566
Ah, Gemfire.

I can't find a good screen shot of the one ultima where it was Tesla, Mark Twain and similar folks on Mars.

>>8765540
holy fuck yes! I played this every time I visited my cousin!
the sequel was hard as fuck though, I prefer my straight road thank you very much :p

>>8765480
What would you consider them, then?

>>8765620
I love it and i have it lying around on my old disk, a shame the level editor crashes from time to time.

PIRATES!

shit was so cash.

>>8765639
Save often, save early, was pretty much a requirement for anything computer related back then.

I spent too much time on this.

>>8765595
Wait, anyone could actually enjoy this shit?

If anyone remembers this game I will be impressed

>>8765660
Yeah, pretty much. Someone should revive that game.

Fuck yeah, back when games were designed to be used by people over 15 who knew how to spell computer.

>>8765622

Martian Dreams.

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Martian%20Dreams/index.html

I was a bit young to catch all the references at the time, but I still thought it was fun.

>>8765315
OP here. I found *A* module for the game I bought off eBay, and I bought the book series.

And of course, played the sequel to Countdown to Doomsday too.

>>8765681

King's Bounty.

Look at how creative and original all these games are.
Now look at how derivative and brown today's games are.

>>8765463
I don't recall. But here's the info, wiht more drawings, and a script.

http://hharry.netfirms.com/cartoon.htm

Bitches don't know about my 8-bit RPGs. I played the fuck out this game as a kid, and never once managed to complete it.

Good times.

>>8764316
I remember that game from a disk of like. A ton of games. I could never get past the first cave because I didn't know how to walk sideways.

>>8765738
Awesome, thank you nevertheless.

I've still got some mint condition game boxes and manuals from the late 80's - early 90's, I wonder if that shit is worth anything on ebay.

>I still can't comprehend how the thought it could be a success in American with a name like Archimedean Dynasty.

Niggers did what? Fuck, that's one horrible name for a game that ends with fighting an army of AI subs at the coast of Australia...together with another coalition army of ships.

And fuck, if Warren Spector would've given us a multiplayer we'd still be playing Terranova these days. Because there's nothing that can compare to it on the market. Fuck you, Warren.

>>8765660
It still is, outside of games. Hell, we're only just about getting crude approximations of versioning fileystems so you can roll back without going whole-hog and using something like Subversion.
>>8765669
Pic related.
>>8765703
OpenTTD v0.6 or so, fuck yeah.
They've kind of derailed it since.

>>8765737
look at how droll and boring trolls were back then, and how they still are nowadays.

Also Ocean Trader. Fuck yeah you were the best trading game ever!
Gazillionaire came pretty close though.

This game was fucking hard, so hard actually, that they included the option for your character to commit suicide. But the idea was intriguing.
You had to travel the post apocalyptic frozen wastes of Europe in your armoured train, trading and adventuring.

>>8765703

Well, I love to build an food empire with trains, mostly running a mass network of railways to a single factory from all the farms on the map. Also kept a couple pairs of Airports across the map from each-other to produce all the money I really need for createing mounds of money, comes in handy makeing bridges across massive water gaps.

Lets go oldschool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09-cTU85uW8&feature=related

>>8765762
>with a name like Archimedean Dynasty
KILL THE BIG FAT MAMA

>>8765791
Ah! Catacomb, finally. Nemesis is always far too easy though.

FUCKING FUCK YOU STUPID MONSTERS AND YOUR LEVEL DRAIN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYciHBy0GiM

PEW PEW PEW

>>8765791
Wow that is some fucking ugly shit. And why is there a rainbow in your characters face?

>>8763724

I loved that entire fucking series.

reason I'll steal Bane and his exarch Tyranthraxis for every game world I make.

ahww yeah feels good man.

>lol I play old gaems I r so coltivated u gais

>>8765865
Go flaming somewhere else, pal.

Don't mind me, just being awesome and 100% /tg/-related.

>>8765540
Fuck, I always played streetrod 2...

mmm face the King in his GT.

>>8765865
>>8765873
go back to /v/

>>8765883

God I loved that game. Loved the tabletop version more, but it was a decent, if clunky port.

I loved that gun that boiled people alive and I never felt so happy about buying a sound blaster again.

No one on /tg/ ever played this one I'm betting

whats that, a game about mining, violence, and economies? DIGGERS UP IN THIS BITCH

>>8765889
>computer games thread
>go back to /v/
Yeah, wait, no.

>>8765910

Nostalgia

>>8765703

I know people who still play that game, just for the heck of building the strangest transport empire ever.

>This game was fucking hard, so hard actually, that they included the option for your character to commit suicide.

Haha, some 19th century car building sim had that option too...or rather the "quit game"-option was a gun in your desk.

>>8765940

Oh no games that used art and tried to simulate 3-d without having to take up GIGS on hard drive space... you're underaged b& aren't you?

Fuck yeah, checking a badly copied manual for the pages required by the copy protection.

I had fucking nightmares from crystalis monsters on nightly terror missions before I got laser rifles.

Did anyone else play Ocean Trader? If you like trading games you should check it out.

>>8765077
PC version was superior.

Also Syndicate.

I hate that with old games.
>Dig it up.
>Realize the manual is gone or damaged and the game requires a code on a specific line of the manual.
>Put it away.

Pool of Radiance here... starting off D&D computron games that didn't suck.

I looked kick ass on the C-64.

>>8766017

The the Dathek Espuar wheel for any of the gold box games...

don't have one? Feels bad man.

>>8765762
I think it can be taken as read that anything Looking Glass did is excellent, and anyone who disagrees is wrong. Not having a different opinion, not too young to have been there at the time, just wrong.

Warren Spector is a seriously brilliant guy, and I really, really hope he can pull this "Epic Mickey" thing off, if only to shut up the whining "lol disney therefore it'll be cutsey rubbish" tards.

>>8766017
Not me baby, I still have the manuals for almost EVERY OLD-ASS PC GAME I EVER OWNED.
Not only for copy protection reasons but because they were awesome.
Wing Commander and Ultima III-VI had great books.
Anyone remember a game called Lightspeed? Had a sequel called Hyperspeed.

If you do----JOT.

>>8766076

or as they were called on the NES Exodus and Quest of the Avatar.

>>8765916
what are you babbling about, /tg/ fucking loves xcom

>>8765782

You what? I don't even... why... THAT IS ALMOST EVERYTHING I LOVE

Help me play this game /tg/!

>>8765782

Made of awesome and win?

y/Y

>>8766100
Actually that was 3 and 4. 5 was called Warriors of Destiny and 6 (my favorite) was False Prophet.

Pool of Radiance - first PC I ever bought (parents just got an Epson brand computer) and still to this day probably the best game buying decision ever considering how young I was.

>>8766137
ah I remember 5 supposedly came out on the SNES... unfortunately I never got to play anything but Exodus on the NES when it was still... newish.for that system (as in I think a year after it came out for the NES)

In my opinion, this is still one of the best games ever made.

>>8766137
I had ultima 4 on my sega mastersystem.. was too young to appreciate or understand it.

Which ultima is the best you think?

>>8766132
YYYYYYYYY!

>>8766115
You can download it here:
http://www.mroldgames.com/e107_plugins/old+games/downloadgame.php?idg=73
Probably works with DOSBox +DFend Reloaded

Btw, why has nobody mentioned Lemmings yet?

Most bizarre D&D game I ever played.

>>8766162
The entire series is great.

Pool of Radiance: I soooo wanna steal this storyline and the maps and the fun things from it

Curse of the Azure Bond: Proof that you could have well known heroes in FR and not have them be in essence DMPCs

Secret of the Silver Blades: the only one I (personally) ever got close to completing... always dies at the lich.

Pools of Darkness... FUCK I WANNA FIND THIS NOW!

>>8766199
I heard Black Gate (VII) was good but I never played it. In the classic Ultima style I have to say 6 was the best (to me). But my FAVORITE Ultima game was Ultima Underworld. It was just soooo ahead of it's time and full of unabashed awesome.

>>8766209
Because I've already posted ten-odd images to this thread, and was buffering that one to give others a chance. ;)

Lemmings ate a ton of my childhood. And I know other people who used to play it with their Dads, because it's great for that kind of casual spectator co-op. Bah. Kids these days with their Xboxes. "SHUT UP DAD I'M BUSY TEABAGGING THIS ALIEN".

>>8765782
Did anyone read AD 2000 back in the days? There was this story Flesh about people who traveled back in time and hunted dinosaurs to sell their flesh to the people in the future, one story was about a huge caravan like an armored train, this image reminds me of that and it was awesome.

>>8765540

Yeah, I remember hot rod. I loved that you had to remove the bolts individually to change engine parts, and being able to pick colours.

>>8766209
>>8766246
Had great Ad-Lib music too. Ahhh yes, the days when your soundcard and EMS and XMS memory levels mattered.

>>8766197
YOU
GO HERE
http://www.starflt.com/starflt.php?ID=intro
NOW

>>8766276
>Ad-Lib
Dude, you should hear the Amiga original version. Adlib has NOTHING on it.

what no help on the gold box gaems?

You're making me kind of want to play Uncharted Waters.

I owe Koei a lot, when I think about it. All my least traumatic memories of my father involved inhaling his second hand smoke and watching him importing gold from the Americas and making a killing in Spain or Portugal.

Then he'd get stuck in seaweed or hit by a storm and backhand me with a hardcover book.

I guess I went off on a tangent. Anyway, Uncharted Waters is a fun game. I'm gonna go work my way up to Galleons and go all pirate on some Turkish motherfuckers.

>>8766294
Them Soundblaster suckers may have had digital sound effects but my Ad-Lib MIDI board was fucking awesome.

Comanche reporting in.
Voxels are best, polygons suck.

>>8766312
That's goddamn right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g2oPp4EhRk

>>8766332
Why was part 2 never released? Why?

>>8766279
Wow I didnt know about that. Bookmarked

>>8764316
Fuck yes I spent hours looking for secret rooms that I could make cool hideouts in.

>>8765791
Fuck yes I....don't actually remember what I did during this game I just remember that it was fucking sweet.

Five games spring to mind, going back chronologically..

Bubble Bobble. Fuck yeah!
Rampage! Fuck yeah!
Castle Master! Fuck yeah!

Now shit gets hazy...

Some side on gladiator type game, where the default character was a happy, cheery out of place slave in a total bloodbath.

The other was some platformer thing (This was on one of the literal floppy disks, big floppy black thing) where one of you went a green alien and the other was a huge green hulk and you collapsed stuff onto each other.

>>8766332
>>8766312

BAH pseudo 3d... wjhhy back in my day we had 2-d and liked it, if we wanted 3-d or any semblance of it the space it would take on a computer would be enormous (at 2-3 meegs) or the CARTRIDGE would weigh 5 pounds alone.

>>8766361
>or the CARTRIDGE would weigh 5 pounds alone
And it was made of wood. Stone if your parents were rich.

>>8766332
I fucking loved that game, I remember how they went on about the characters clothes having their own meshes and not just being textures on a square block. Blew my mind back then.

>>8764351
Oh my. Avatar the CRPG.

>>8766349
Would've been too awesome.

Don't mind me, just being the reason for buying your first cd-rom drive.

>>8766419
No.

I had a 200 page guide on how to make your own games for the commodore 64. Made some IF games in basic to.
Good times.

I should really learn some new skills instead of just browsing the internet :p

>>8766393

stone cartridges? I saw them, but damn if we had the goats to afford them.

>>8766444
My suggestion is that you make some good games in DOS with like turbo++ or something

Oh wait TG related games... and I'll go one better than the Gold Box.

Unlimited Adventures.

spent HOURS concocting my own adventures in this.

>>8765679
Once upon a time, there was thing called Imagination. It worked like the what-is-left-unseen terror principle to make things far more engrossing than any explicit attempt to represent them.

Today, we have largely eradicated imagination thanks to a strict regeme of bombarding all children with an endless stream of mostly-realistic TV and games from as early an age as possible.

>>8766294
I'm an Atarifag, but I have to concede that the Amiga ruled that era hardwarewise (not least as it was designed by refugees from the Atari 8-bit era).

Early PCs were complete and utter shit. I wish they hadn't trampled the opposition, because I'd much rather that it were Amiga or Atari or Acorn rather than Apple who were the survivor---especially as the latter now more-or-less make PCs.

This often overlooked gem is like Civ-/tg/ edition.

You're one of several powerful magical emperors in a fantasy realm. Your goal is to fuck up all the other mages and rule the world (of course).

You can customize your ruler and choose a fantasy race. You start with one town and have to expand/conquer.

The game plays like Civ but the customizing aspect adds so much depth and fun that it beats it's inspiration.

You can conquer the world with halflings.

Blessed flying fire breathing invisible halflings with mithril weapons that can one shot dragons.

>>8766507

Oh, yeah, the name is "Masters of Magic", I forgot to add that.
It shamelessly steals from Civ, but manages to really pull it off brilliantly.

>>8763556
>Buck won't let me take his Lunarian Pistol.
>Get in a fight.
>Ignore enemies.
>Fire plasma Thrower at Buck.
>He dodges every time.
>Still ignoring enemies.
>Back him into a corner.
>Fire plasma thrower at Buck.
>Buck dies.
>Kill enemies by setting my Desert-Runner on auto and watch him carve them up with maximum mono-sword spec, maximum Zero-G, and a Lunarian Monosword.
>After fight loot the pistol from Buck's corpse.
>Didn't really need it anyway.

Graphics? LOL.

>>8763748
Just about to post it.

Awesome game, and available for ScummVM, too.

Hey guys, it's just a rts from 96 that managed to have a much better ai than most of today's, without resorting to any kind of cheats.

>>8766507
>Sage master
iseewhatyoudidthere.jpg

>>8766501
I blame Commodore for being a bunch of utter fucktards when it came to marketing their stuff (how many people in the US even knew of the Amiga?).
God dammit.

>>8766539
>AMFV
>Stupid strawman political argument disguised as a computer game
Srsly, I'm pretty leftist, but its "critique" of Reagan and Co. was just ridiculous.

Bang bang.

>>8766135

Aw, you bitch of a puzzle game. How I long to play you again.

>Also Syndicate.

Beautiful game. The german version feel like controlling a bunch of hardcore nazi cyborgs on an unstoppable rampage.

>>8766312
Comanche - 'cause back in the days, computers were so bad that people had to be creative in programming a graphic engine. These days everyone's just buying Quake.

>>8766406
>Avatar the JRPG
FTFY.
Also, I'm going to silently hate you to death, and then hate myself to death.

>>8766567
An awesome fa/tg/uy actually generated an ever better version with the faceless shrouded dark lord graphic, the name "Anonymous" the Sage master perk and all his his unassigned spellbooks being chaos.

>>8766600
Go to your brother
Kill him with your gun

>>8766600

Stupidly difficult game. These days I wonder how we ever made it past the third level.

>>8766501
I remember reading my favorite amiga magazine, there was a letters section for those that could afford BBS access, ranting and joking about how crappy the PC was and how it would never ever ever become a decent gaming platform. Aaah, those were the days.

>>8766626
Well, I know what *I'm* singing for the rest of the week.

>>8766627
I spent YEARS trying to beat Diablo Downstairs. Then I figured out how you actually can use switches and it still took me a whole day.
I hate that mission.

Pew pew.

>>8765375
Aw, fuck, I remember renting that game when I was, like, six.

I kept crashing my sub and sending my GLORIOUS SOVIET SAILORS to GLORIOUS DEATH FOR MOTHERLAND

>>8765782

That sounds awesome.

Never played it but fuck yeah Rodney Mathews cover art

You are now whistling the plains song.
Probably.
>OHGODWHATTHEFUCKEYEBALLSWANTTOKILLME

>>8766663
I played it when I was six or seven and I didn't understand a word on both subs, being neither a native English nor Russian speaker. I still managed to lunch cruise missiles and I was completely satisfied by that.

fuck this thread has made me want to find a torrent of ALL the gold box GAmes (Pools series, the Krynn ones, and the Savage Frontier ones)

fuck you /tg/ fuck you, now I shall never get any sleep.

HOLY SHIT POOLS OF DARKNESS. THE GAME STARTS WITH BANE SCOOPING UP A FUCKING CITY OUT OF THE EARTH

YOU WANDER ACROSS THE FUCKING COUNTRYSIDE FUCKING SHIT UP, INCLUDING RUNNING ALL OVER THE CORPSE OF A DEAD GOD

OH GOD THE NOOKS AND CRANNIES, UUGGGGHHH

If you remember this game you are a liar

>*stomp stomp stomp*
>Die, scumbags!

This game here is responsible for my love of mecha.

>>8766693

Is that cover art THE FUTURE?

>>8766693
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU- I remember this now!

Al Quadim and Entomorph were pretty neat ,too.

Bitches.

>>8766720
Fuck yeah I loved that game!
Fuuuck I'm bloody stoned and traveling back to my childhood in my mind right now

>>8766734
NO
It's two BEASTS
By REFLECTIONS
You also get a T-SHIRT.
The actual ingame art was also pretty messed up (as in "goddamn weird"), but at the same time amazing.

>>8766759
inb4 populus

>>8766708
Not just ny dead god... my replacement for Jubi...that fucking slime and ooze demon lord.

pic related, your new (un)holy symbol

Steampunk glory.

One of you niggas had better have posted this before me.

Back when I was young, fufufufufufufu was a onomatopoeia for sound a helicopter makes, not something your Japanese waifu spouts in your wanking game.

Back then, helicopters were made of stone and we had to carry them to school everyday. In the snow, without shoes at 4 in the morning.

>>8766816
Wait, is the Preacher Gendo?

Does anyone remember the Exile series? Exile III in particular blew me the fuck away.

>>8766848
If you mean the Spiderweb RPGs, they're available for free now, all three.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qipWqOwkceg

Shadow of the Beast Intro Tune

>>8766860
Word. I still fuck around with Blades of Exile from time to time.

Such a promising title.

>>8766860

Not on Vista 64 bit unfortunately. I have been sad about it forever D:

tok. tok. tok.
CRASH

♫ We are worms we are and we're here to win the war...

Better than the film, best movie tie in game ever.

Bitches don't know bout mah awesome Character Generator.

Man, game music back then could be like 4 or 8 channel sound but they really set the mood as good as any modern music.

>>8766907
Fuck yeah, a game with a loli ending back in 97!

>>8766890
Ohhhhh nostalgia so fucking hard. I absolutely adored this game.

>>8766903
GOD DAMMIT, BOGGY B, GET OUT OF MY HEAD

>>8766928
Get two mice
advicesettler.jpg
SPLITSCREEN RTS MOTHERFUCKER

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of wafer thin printed circuits that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.

This is how I feel towards anyone who hasn't played this.

>>8766720

Haha, I remember when everyone was like: "Shit man, Mechwarrior 2 and Merchenaries?" Make Mech games! Nao!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyDKjnZ-WMs

...like Krazy Ivan which is basically you playing a PTS-Veteran in a russian mecha that's deployed like a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LpGiwG-g58&feature=related

And you get a Chevey with fluffy dice. Sorta sad that pretty much all of these knock-offs sucked.

Help me out guys, the game I'm thinking of was a adventure point and click game, you could chose 2 characters to bring per mission each with unique skills.
you had a witch, a vampire, a hacker, an indian in a mecha suit from what I remember

>>8766883
Windows 3.1 will run in DOSBox. A certain degree of Internet detectiveness can find you the needed install disk images. It can also be used to play pic related. Best goddamn 4X game ever.

(inb4 Master of Orion fans thump me for that one. VGA Planets, however, can suck my capital ship missiles.)

>>8766964
You are thinking of Bureau 13.

Dreamweb.
FUCK YEAH CYBERPUNK USED TO BE COOL!

>>8766972
Holy shit, Stars! I remember that!

>>8766972
But that runs in Windows 95.

ARM was here, CORE are faggots.

>>8766957
I've read the book, if that counts...

>>8766998
It also works on my XP
And I love it.

>>8766964

AAAAA FUCK...SAME RELEASE MONTH AS either POLICE QUEST 2 or 3.

SHIT MAN, sorry, but that's all I remember on top of my head, but I know the game. I know it.

>>8766957
They removed the whole Nimdok section of that game in the German version. You were simply unable to continue after you had completed 4 adventures. You didn't even get a notice, you could simply stare at the pillar of hate, four of your characters encaged.

>>8767019
see
>>8766983

>>8767019

Was it PQ 2 or PQ3 that had the ritualistic murders you had to solve?

BTW remember to NEVER get out of your car and go into traffic.

>>8766986

Shootan people in the back of the head while they're having sex, oooooh yeah.

>>8766998
It's a 16-bit Windows application. The kind that 64-bit Windows has finally, finally dropped support for. (Because of technical reasons involving processor modes; basically, once a modern CPU has been told to run 64-bit code, it's not possible to get it back to 16-bit code without a reboot.)

>>8767008
see
>>8766339
Listen to the author himself do a fucking excellent job of giving AM a creepy otherworldy voice.
You get a pass though. If you'd only read the shitty comic though...

>>8766983
YES! :D
Damnit I suck at names, I should have spent less time drinking alcohol as a teenager and more time playing games!

Bitch ripped his own face off.

>>8766972
>4X
And here's MoO mashed with Sim City mashed with adventure game with a great dose HURRY UP OR DIE mixed in.

>>8767013
SHARE, please.

>>8766999
I was going to do that in reply to Z above, but it's from as late as 1997.

>>8767036

Wasn't that a Gabriel Knight-game too?

>>8767079
gimme a sec to archive and upload somewhere

Utopia here, Sim City is for faggots.

>>8767097
Ah shit, I was going to post chaos gate as well. Well I suppose that makes me too young for this thread.

>>8767102

LOL! I guess... no I meant the one where it's really just a... fuck I don't want to spoil the game... but it starts off with your wife being carved up pretty damn bad.

Wonder if any of you recognise this game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT83vOh7_CE

Do you guys think you could still get the same awesome feeling from playing a game with bitmap graphics if it was made today as back when we played old amiga and pc games?

>>8767050
I've read the book and the Let's Play of it:
http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/I%20Have%20No%20Mouth/

This is the best thread ever.

>>8767172
Fuck Yeah, Mission Force: Cyberstorm.

We hit autosage surprisingly fast.

G-Nome.

>>8767079
>>8767117
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D3MZEFPZ
Run by stars!.exe
use the serial from the dir
YOU'D BETTER ENJOY IT

Old games used to be a whole lot more violent then new games. People think GTA 4 is bad? Didn't they pay attention to the shit we had back in the diskette days?

>And I mean old. Like before 95.

Dark Earth is a bit young, being released '97,, but how many postapocalyptic Grimdakrish Steampunk games with a quasi Night Land scenario are out there?

http://www.chrisroberson.net/labels/secret_services.html

I found this site while browsing around for better res picture of Bureau 13, good inspiration read for some RP adventures.

>>8767050
Yeah, I've heard it before. Laugh Track was a better story, just for the record.

Here's a question for you, what was that game on the Amiga, side scrolling combat game, where all the backgrounds and sprites were in silhouette against awesome sunsets?

You know the one? You played a knight wandering through a winter forest or something.

That game has haunted me.

>>8767215

Could've been really good if ony they did not fuck up controls so much. I mean, it was basically a game of Gundamjacking but controls of the infantry mode were awkward.

>>8767172

You are one of the most comfortable turn-based strategy games ever.

>>8767102
The first Gabriel Knight was brilliant. Easily Sierra's best "serious" adventure (i.e. discounting the Space Quests).

"What can you tell me about...voodoo?"

>>8767299
I liked the idea behind the game a lot, the controls were shit thought.

>>8767313
Never read laugh track, what was it about?

>>8766916

OH SHI

I played MegaTraveler 2. Or tried to. That was so buggy, I remember calling up the company, and they sent me a patch on a floppy disk. For a reason I don't remember anymore, I never finished the game.

The manual was ridiculously dense with information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgOoe15RokM

H.R Geiger involved with the art, nuff said

BTW my favorite game way back on the NES.

unfortunately couldn't find the box art for the NES one.

I'm probably the only good game from Japan ever.

>>8767364
>Never read laugh track, what was it about?

It's really good. Pretty much Ellison giving a big 'fuck you' to the television industry (he doesn't hold his tongue in the slightest, either.

It's basically about a guy whose aunt dies. After which, he starts hearing her really distinctive laugh in the canned laughter for all the television shows he watches.

>>8767346

Found it, Blade Warrior.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIKO8uG6lo

>>8767459
>he doesn't hold his tongue in the slightest, either.
"an authoritarian fascist with all the creative insight of a sump pump" and asks, "What the hell, what the bloody hell, what the everlasting Technicolor hell am I doing sitting here with this ambulatory piece of offal? This is the worst person who ever got born, and someone ought to wash out his life with a bottle of Fels Naphtha."

No kidding.

>>8767364

Yeah, the first non-shitty third person games came only around 98 or so...like that time-traveller fighter that basically had you start out in roman times as an agent, threw you into the wild west, the medieval age ect, all with appropriated weapons and opponents.

Or that other game which made you control some kung-fu dude who got involved with the Tunguskan incident somehow. Three section staff ftw.

>>8767459
Thanks I'll try it, but are you implying that there is something that Ellison hasn't given a big 'fuck you' to?

>>8767528
Time Commando?

Ski or die, best party game ever.

Right after You don't know Jack

>>8767538
Hhhhmm, good point.

Nostalgia'd.

>>8767586

Skate or Die duology here.

your shit is weak.

>>8767518

I think Ellison is actually closer to the worst person who ever got born.

I do really admire what he did on the "I have no mouth" videogame though.

>>8767556

Yeah, Time Commando, great game.

I was never particularily fond of any Lemmings games besides Lemmings Paintball. Daym fine fun and nice looking shooter that one.

http://www.scalari.net/chaos/play/index.html

When I was young, we had only one game.
We had to play it for five years and we had to like it.

>>8767655
AM is probably one of the best author self-inserts ever.
This scares me a bit and I hope there's a list for people who won't be allowed in the singularity.

>>8767586
I set up a Windows 95 VM specifically so that I could run You Don't Know Jack on my non-Windows laptops and drag them to parties.

Warioware Party? Pah. I've got a sardonic gameshow that /actually had a really good UK localised version/!

>>8767615

Haha, holy shit, yeah. We played that one too. Though being eurofags from a skiing region boarding just did not strike home quiet as much as skiing.

>>8767655
He was a pretty great irl troll.

>>8767556

heh, fuck yeah time commando. My biggest gripe is the lack of save system. You die, you die and you start over. I got to the virus centre once, and that was it. Also its not so much time travel, as it is historically accurate virtual reality. I believe.

>>8767673

Fucking button masher games, all of them.

>>8767712

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream_(video_game)#Development

Yeah. I don't like his stories and I think he's a smug hack, but when I read the above about the development of the game I was really impressed.

>this thread

Best thread from /tg/ in months

Let's discuss on in a new thread.
>>8767993

Ah, gimme a moment and I will get an archive link set up

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

scroll to bottom, find thread, vote it up.

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>>8766539
>>8766539

I want to run a campaign based off of this, using the one roll engine. Sound like a good idea?

Also bump.

bump!