In junior high at one point I was into some PC games and got a little addicted. Played Quake a lot. Command and Conquer and Red alert. Tom Clancy Rainbow 6. All with a dial up connection. Anyone partake? And Doom of course.
Any of you old PC game nerds?
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Command and Conquer was the tits.
I still play the latest edition of Civilization occasionally. Bought the 1st edition when a junior in H.S.
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
LucasArts 1989. I played several other PC games in that era but my memory fails me.
LucasArts 1989. I played several other PC games in that era but my memory fails me.
Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, Sim City and Doom were my greatest hits. Doom was the first game I played against someone who was playing on a different machine than I was.
Oregon Trail in computer lab. I haven’t even heard of, much less played, any of the others mentioned.
Was it even possible to finish Oregon Trail? It’s not like you could save your game back then, and typically you only got about 10 minutes to play once you finished your assignment.
Was it even possible to finish Oregon Trail? It’s not like you could save your game back then, and typically you only got about 10 minutes to play once you finished your assignment.
Yeah supposedly its the red headed stepchild of the series, but I loved its straightforwardness. Just too much going on for me to get into the next ones.
I've probably logged the most hours on 3 with 6 not far behind. 3 was released while I was in college. Had a desktop that was pretty much reserved for an ongoing game.
I skipped 4. Played and liked 5. Like 6 quite a bit. Getting the hang of Districts can take a bit. (Holy Site, Campus, Encampment, Harbour, Commercial Hub, Theater Square, Industrial Zone, etc....) Once you get it down how they operate and how that interacts with you Policy selections, it really adds another couple of dimensions to the game.
All launched when I came across an ad for this in a magazine while a sophomore in High School.
Used to play M.U.L.E. on the C64 all the time in the early 80s. Ancient predecessor to all of the civilization-building games. After getting my first "modern" computer in 95 I played a lot of Harpoon, Doom, Descent, Warcraft II, Total Annihilation, Command & Conquer series, and Diablo II.
I am not that old (32), but play games and have played them a lot (sadly). Old school stuff like Doom, Duke Nukem, games of that era were great. The Elder Scrolls franchise is amazing. I started with Daggerfall, but really got into it with Morrowind. Diablo, Starcraft, WoWIII were my jam (still play a bit of D3). The Civ franchise is a great one. Man, so many games that are awesome! Glad I am living now!
Civ, AOE, MOO, MOM, XCOM
You can get almost any old game you can think of on Steam. I got MOM and XCOM for like 2 bucks each.
You can get almost any old game you can think of on Steam. I got MOM and XCOM for like 2 bucks each.
@Pokes1988 and I put in many an hour into the online RTCW (Enemy Territory).
Way too many hours spent on that game lol. I tried to download it and was pinging in the 140's, which was a killer. Not sure if it was a FPS setting or something minor that I couldn't remember to adjust....
I've been playing Starcraft2, Destiny II, and just downloaded APEX Legends. I do enjoy the Civ franchise, really liked the Elder Scrolls series (played Morrowind on PC/Skyrim on PS4).
Lately, it's been the COD/RDR2/Potentially Division 2 for console.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned my all time fave...Leisure Suit Larry!
Funny you mention it, I read an article about the original developer of LSL. He is selling the source code for LSL...if you want it ;-)
You and I must have attended the same school. And no you couldn't finish. If you tried to speed them up you usually ended up killing them all. I did like if you did have the chance to start a new game you might run into their gravestones. Very nice touch by programmers. Classic game.
Pretty sure I almost single handedly put the buffalo into extinction on there
I remember the hunting method changing over the years. The first version I played just had an animal run across the screen and you hit the space bar to try to shoot but you didn't aim or anything. In a later version you actually had a guy on the screen that could walk around and aim the gun as the animals hid behind trees and rocks. Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego amounted to 95% of my school video gaming experience.
I played a little bit of Doom one on one over 9600 baud modem. It was surprisingly playable, though I have no idea what the equivalent ping time would have been. Going from dialup modems to campus LAN in '96 was a revolutionary jump in time wasting capability. At that point, I think a DSL connection might get you 128kbps max, or you could buy fractions of a T1 line to your house.