Old school gaming

[MinusTheBear]

By the time the new Half-Life3 game comes out, HL & HL2 will be considered Old School

I included Counter-Strike which was bundled with Half-Life . 1 & 2 are already considered classics. 2 will be remembered as one of the all time great PC games.

 

[krzywica]

Excite Bike

Excite Bike, Punchout, Zelda, Bionic Commando, GI-Joe I and II, Age Of Empires, Wolfenstein, Oregon Trail I and II....


But I mostly play the newer games, Eve Online (my new favorite as of yesterday ), Pro Evolution Soccer, and Team Fortress 2

 

[redman_43]

BTW - If you didn't know they extended the FF II storyline on the Wii using the original sound and graphics (YAY! 8 bit rocks). It's a series of sub plots, each focused on a single character from the original, that swirl around the main plot of Golbez's return. Not too shabby actually ...

I also hear there's some interesting 3d remakes of FF stuff on the Nintendo DS but haven't investigated personally.

Please elaborate on this wonderful tidbit of information. When did this happen and how the hell did I miss it? Is it available on the Wii Network (or whatever it's called), or a disk? I may have to fire up the Wii and see what other fantastic games are available from my childhood.

My favorite old school games:
Final Fantasy (I actually remember all of the maps after 15+ years, creepy), Final Fantasy 2(remember duping your items?), Dragon Warrior 3 (awesome RPG), Contra ("up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, START" FTMFW), Goldeneye (hours of fun, until that bastard stole it at a house party we had in college), the list could go on...

 

[lsiberian]

I'm going with old school final fantasy ... II and III (us version numbers) in particular. Before Square decided graphics, sound and "accessibility" for the broader market trumped gameplay and storyline.

The new games are visually stunning, great sound, etc. But if you want a real challenge fire up TMNT on the NES and see if you can get through that puppy ...

Oh yeah TMNT was one of the best games ever.

 

[lsiberian]

Oregon Trail I and II....

http://xkcd.com/623/

 

[bombarde32]

Duke Nukem and Quake on the PC

Wolfenstein!

 

[lsiberian]

BTW - If you didn't know they extended the FF II storyline on the Wii using the original sound and graphics (YAY! 8 bit rocks). It's a series of sub plots, each focused on a single character from the original, that swirl around the main plot of Golbez's return. Not too shabby actually ...

I also hear there's some interesting 3d remakes of FF stuff on the Nintendo DS but haven't investigated personally.

Blasphemy in my mind. I want the original.

 

[Jed M]

2 games I still play today are PGA III (94-95) on Sega and Track and Field from NES.

I am also a fan of he entire Zelda and Civilization series.

 

[bombarde32]

Please elaborate on this wonderful tidbit of information. When did this happen and how the hell did I miss it? Is it available on the Wii Network (or whatever it's called), or a disk? I may have to fire up the Wii and see what other fantastic games are available from my childhood.
QUOTE]

Yes, it's from the Wii online store. I think it's called FF The After Years. There should be multple downloads allowing you to progress further into the game and see more and more sub plots.

Overall though, I'm VERY dissapointed in the Wii network. Nintendo has a massive 8 bit library, the wii-mote is setup to handle like an NES remote, and overall there are very few games worth downloading. I couldn't even find Mario Brothers or Zelda. Pathetic.

 

[bombarde32]

Blasphemy in my mind. I want the original.

I prefer the originals as well. But on the other hand ... if remaking the classic FF games in 3D exposes a whole new audience to what I would consider a REAL rpg ... I'm all for it.

 

[lsiberian]

I prefer the originals as well. But on the other hand ... if remaking the classic FF games in 3D exposes a whole new audience to what I would consider a REAL rpg ... I'm all for it.

I have no desire to see any old RPG made 3d, but I'm nostalgic. I still see the SNES as the ultimate system. Heck my favorite RTS is still Starcraft or Warcraft 2.

 

[bombarde32]

I have no desire to see any old RPG made 3d, but I'm nostalgic. I still see the SNES as the ultimate system. Heck my favorite RTS is still Starcraft or Warcraft 2.

I have mixed feelings but I'm inclined to agree. I think it was the best mix of games and graphics. N64 and Gamecube each had serious flaws. PS2 solidified the trend of graphics over quality.

Yes, the SNES was a great system. I loved F-Zero, Zelda and Mario Kart in particular (Koopa Troopa forever!).

 

[vizionut]

I loved perfect dark It was running on the same engine as golden eye 007 on nintendo 64 platform I loved the quote in the game "i am injured" lol yeah you are

 

[NicolasKL]

I bid on an Atari 800 on eBay the other night when I was drunk. Didn't win it though. I'm still mad at my mom for selling mine at a garage sale 12 years ago.

 

[vizionut]

I bid on an Atari 800 on eBay the other night when I was drunk. Didn't win it though. I'm still mad at my mom for selling mine at a garage sale 12 years ago.

Well.. you were lucky that you didn't then I never bought any of the old systems until the nintendo 64, after that i was hooked. Even though my friend had it all

 

[bombarde32]

I bid on an Atari 800 on eBay the other night when I was drunk. Didn't win it though. I'm still mad at my mom for selling mine at a garage sale 12 years ago.

(E-bay + late night)^drunk = empty wallet

 

[lsiberian]

I bid on an Atari 800 on eBay the other night when I was drunk. Didn't win it though. I'm still mad at my mom for selling mine at a garage sale 12 years ago.

Does this explain some of your earlier posts.

 

[abboudc]

Tecmo Super Bowl
NHL '94

 

[panzeroceania]

Wonder Boy in Monster Land for the Mega Drive.

On my Onkyo TX-SR806 setup with surround turned on the audio is MIND BLOWING. All the great surround effects it pulls from the stereo source is phenomenal.

 

[MatthewB.]

I play these on my Panasonic 3DO (for those who don't know the 3DO was the first DVD system it came out years before DVD and even had some movies and porn you could buy and play in stunning Prologic surround sound.

Dragons Lair (bit for bit copy of the arcade)
Space Ace (another Don Bluth bit for bit copy)
Road Rage (man I would love to do that in real life)
The Need for Speed
Doom

Commodore 64
Zork 1 and 2 (it is pitch black and you are about to be eaten by a Grue)

Atari 2600
Pitfall (pixellated Indy Jones what's not to love)

Actual arcade game
SpyHunter, Qbert, Dig Dug (get the shrooms) and Tron

PS2
any Ratchet and Clank game (those are like crack to me)
Matrix

Xbox
Hitman
Max Payne 1 and 2
Conker's Bad fur day (one of the funniest cartoon games geared for adults with hooker rabbits and opera singing piles of exrement. The best are all the movie clips they steal from "Saving Private Ryan", "Aliens" and "The Matrix" tons of fun.

PS3
Resistance 1 and 2
Black
Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction, I am so looking forward to Ratchet and Clank "Quest for Booty" to be released next month, for those who have never seen R&C, heres a link to three short game clips.

R&C are pure eye candy and the designers are sick and twisted with weapons like "the Sheepinator" which turns your enemies into roving exlpoding sheep.
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/ratchetandclankquestforbooty/videos.html?mode=gameplay