Best Old School PC Games

[closed_deal]

Swiv 3D hands down, rocked my world for a good two years before the 'Commando's' series came out .

 

[i_hate_flying]

Descent 1
Descent 2 Probably my favorite of the 3
Descent 3
Descent:Freespace
Descent:Freespace 2 (I liked the Descent series if you can't tell)
Starcraft
Half-Life

Those were the games that took most of my time back in the day, mostly Descent 1 and 2. I remember how badass I felt when I learned to TriChord in Descent 2, and playing with my friend over Direct Dialup. Those were the days.

Half-Life and Starcraft aren't old school. You have to at least go back to the DOS 5.0 days, not Windows 95.

 

[bushmastertd]

AVP
AVP2
Total Annihilation + Expansion Pack
Zork Series
Commander Keen
Catacomb the Abyss
Day of Defeat
Original Counter Strike
Half Life
Diablo
Diablo II
Fallout series
Star Wars Dark Forces FTW

I will prolly think of some more later lol

 

[gomerpile]

You can find posts along this line in many currently ongoing threads.

Deus Ex, need I say more?

agreed very good story Love jc well paul that sucked. 10 stars in my books the story just grabs ya right in the game

 

[GrandAdmiralThrawn]

I have a few more to add to my list,

Total Annialation (don't know how I missed that)
and
the Monkey Island games

 

[Harry-Plopper]

Any one mention

Wing Commander Series
Strike Commander
Leisure Suit Larry
Bio Forge
System Shock
Crusader
Dune

 

[whirlwind]

Fallout
Fallout 2
Planescape Torment
System Shock 2
Half-Life
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Grim Fandango
Baldurs Gate
Quake 3
Soldier Of Fortune II Double Helix

 

[infornography42]

Half-Life and Starcraft aren't old school. You have to at least go back to the DOS 5.0 days, not Windows 95.

Personally, I feel the demarcation point is whether it came out on CD. Most of the titles listed here are anything but old school, but they are old.... for the most part. Though I guess I violated that a bit with some of my picks.

Oh well.

 

[gwendal]

My first "good" gaming computer was a Mac so I had ports of PC titles but also some Macintosh gems.

Marathon series: FPS with excellent storyline, great graphics (for it's time), and has gone opensource today.

Escape Velocity series: Something like a 2D Freelancer, this game was huge and had hundreds and hundreds of mods (then called "add-ons") for free. Third installment is out today and still has a huge fanbase.

Bolo: This sweet little tank game where you moved through different terrain and set up traps and defense while trying to destroy/outwit your enemy. Was awesome to play on Appletalk.

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain: What can I say? It's an incredibly fun learning game. I play it from time to time just because it's replay value is still so high.

 

[GrandAdmiralThrawn]

My first "good" gaming computer was a Mac so I had ports of PC titles but also some Macintosh gems.

Marathon series: FPS with excellent storyline, great graphics (for it's time), and has gone opensource today.

Escape Velocity series: Something like a 2D Freelancer, this game was huge and had hundreds and hundreds of mods (then called "add-ons") for free. Third installment is out today and still has a huge fanbase.

Bolo: This sweet little tank game where you moved through different terrain and set up traps and defense while trying to destroy/outwit your enemy. Was awesome to play on Appletalk.

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain: What can I say? It's an incredibly fun learning game. I play it from time to time just because it's replay value is still so high.

Bolo was a great game I spent hours playing that on the network at school

 

[phillipownzyou]

Heroes of Might and Magic 1, 2 and 3!!!

 

[phillipownzyou]

Heretic was pretty sweet too.

I just installed Fallout 2 again the other day- it's a legend. You can always pick up and play that one.

 

[pike]

The teletubbies

Very badly programmed, full of bugs, was very disappointed.

Was for my daughter...but i remember you could make cookies and sometimes they would fly onto the wall....that made my daughter laugh.

Adibou (french)
Worms
Tyrian
Abuse
BBR
One Must Fall

 

[bobwya]

How's about good ol' Manic Miner!! Thats really ol' skool (1980's)...

OK so it was originally a ZX Spectrum game... but it does have a full working port to the PC.

Bob

 

[ApartmentsEstepona]

Strike Commander (PC)
Original Privateer (I never got to play Privateer 2, but Priv 1 and Righteous Fire was awesome).
Tie Fighter

Flight sims where art thou?

A privateer (2) sequel (not like freelancer please) with assasin's creed like graphics would be awesome.

 

[snarfies1]

The game was a space adventure game where you flew your ship to other worlds looking for resources and other life. The "aliens" had ships also and you could attack them, visit the planets they lived on etc, and even form treaties and trade resources with them.

In battle depending on how poorly you fought your ship would get damaged, there was a little console you could click on that would show your engine and the parts that were damaged etc. I think it was called a "spin drive" the damaged parts would turn an orangish yellow and depending on the damage you couldn't fly anywhere until they were repaired.

That would be either Lightspeed or its sequel/expansion, Hyperspeed. Lightspeed had two star clusters, Hyperspeed had the same two clusters plus two more. Really interesting games. I "borrowed" Lightspeed from a friend back in the day, and then saw Hyperspeed in the store and jumped on it.

They were removed from ALL abandonware sites years ago. I search for it occasionally - I found it once, but it was a non-working copy. I don't know what happened to my old copy of Hyperspeed, and I don't exactly have a 5 1/4 disk drive anymore even if I did.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=530
http://www.planetmic.com/orbit/hyperspd/hspd01.htm

 

[pous]

Daggerfall!!

Other than that....

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

Also... an old hover-craft racing game called Hi-Octane

Edit:
Other thoughts were:
Descent (just the first one really)
Mutant Spacebats of Doom (Name might be slightly off)
Cyberdogs

 

[humalong]

anybody play Rise Of The Triad?

http://www.3drealms.com/rott/

pretty much a doom clone, but WAY more fun on multiplayer. and of course the cheat code 'ludacris gibbs' was awesome, where massive amounts of blood and body parts come spewing from your fallen enemies. hahahaha

X-COM is the greatest game ever, no contest.

 

[humalong]

more great classics:

Commander Keen
Maniac Mansion
Castles 1+2
duke nukem (and Duke3D)
flash back
Out of this World

 

[i_hate_flying]

Leisure Suit Larry

 

[ravenfeeder]

Betrayal at Krondor. Second best CRPG ever (after BG2)
Darklands
More votes for XCOM, Civ(1) and MOO(1)

 

[ledzeprules]

I might be too young to count, but my vote goes to the original Rogue Squadron and Age of Empires 1 and 2.

 

[Dalyinx]

Mech Warrior- I like all of them until M$ ruined it with 4. 3 was the best, imo. Deformable terrain and realistic as hell. Great game overall.

Doom
Duke Nukem 3d
Heretic
Black and White, while not being that old school is still epic.
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
SimCity 2000
UT '99

 

[infornography42]

Mechwarrior 3 was the worst one by far. Pulse lasers and autocannons could knock enemy mechs down in a single volley and it just became a game of knock them on their butt, then blow them up. The final boss fight was.... disappointing to say the least.

Mechwarrior 4 drastically changed the mech building engine from battletech standard to something different. I enjoyed it a lot, but missed my old mech designer. The expansion for it was dog poo, but Mech 4 Mercs was in my opinion the best of the entire mechwarrior franchise. That game was well written and extremely enjoyable.

 

[corgann]

Besides Diablo I liked Wizardry 8 and Baldurs Gate...I know they
aren't exactly OLD but old enough.

I wish I could find a copy of Wizardry 8..I would play again.