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I just remembered that I have Ultima IV I think but the game went nuts at the part where the necromancer has to sacrifice someone. The screen is only suppose to shake for a moment but it just keeps on shaking.
 
I totally forgot about Raid Over Moscow!!!

Kung Fu Master was okay. That music was annoying... to say the least.

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I used to kick but with Karate Champ. It was like Ring King. I used to play these as the arcade standup versions.


As for stand up games...

Super Dodge Ball
Samarai Showdown
OffRoad
Tekken 3
(Ryu and Ken) What was the name of that game... I went to this game every time I walked into the Mall when I was in JR High.

There are always the classics... Pinball!

I like World Cup Soccer. By far one of the best.


Okay, back to C64 games.

All of the Olympics.
Summer Games
Summer Games II
Winter Games
etc...

There is one that I have not seen in a long time is...

CliffHanger... Anyone remember this on C64?

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I cannot leave before posting the link to Trogdor!

<A HREF="http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html" target="_new">Classic even though it is 0 days old.</A>

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Trogdor rocks!

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Do you mean the original Shareware version of DN? or DN3D?

I have a copy.

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OMG I had forgotten the Summer/Winter games series. I was very good at figure-skating 😉 Beach Head was also a favourite for some time (I loved the anti-aircraft action and sinking the ships afterwards).

/me goes to drool over golden memories...
 
I forgot about Beachhead.

There was Test Drive...

Bruce Lee... the graphics were terrble.
Chilly Willy...
Rambo...
Airwolf... Man that game was impossible...
which makes me think of...

Mission impossible... ("Stay a while, stay forever.")

I like Tron Deadly Discs, Burgertime, Utopia, and many ithers on my Intelevision.

Maybe that will spark some memories.

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Impossible Mission was one of the first games I ever played on the C64: And it WAS impossible. Did you advance in any way or figured out what you should do? Built any complete puzzles? BTW whenever my Ericsson T20s goes to sleep/screen saver mode and wants to get a better connection to the network, it shows this 'zzz...' sign that reminds me so much of Impossible Mission 😉
 
I have only solved two puzzles. I think there were 4 total if my memory serves me correct. I think that the ending was lame, even though I never completed it. Some little guy comes out from behind the black door in that one room.

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Oh yeah, Intellivision was awsome too:

Burger Time
Astrosmash
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Bump 'N Jump
B-17 Bomber
Frogbog

Such great memories. Maybe I should load up the emulator here at work and play some.
 
There is a way to cheat in AD&D. My brother and I were messing around with it and you can get 4/5ths of the way to the last mountain by using the method. If you still have your system I can tell you how.

"Dink-Dink" - The sound of the Rats in AD&D.

"Tis-Tis-Tis" - Astrosmash


Other Intellevision games...

Snafu
Lock-n-Chase
Armor
Basketball... totaly stick figures (the names of the people were kind of racist... but then again that was a different era)
Maze-A-Tron
Auto Racing (There were ways to get to the other tracks and even lanes that if you lined up right could keep racing at full speed without crashing)

Ahhhh! The games of our youth.


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PC Games
1. All of the Wing Commanders
2. Deus EX
3. All of the Half Lifes
4. Duke Nukem

Console
1. Zeldas
2. Myst
3. Metal Gear
4. Syfer Filter
4. Final Fantasy
5. Dragons Layer
6. F Zero

Im sure that there is more.. I have to look.. Great thread! Take care all.



Hang in there. It can only get better!
 
Geeze! I must have the longest list of favorite classics...

Okay, obviously the oldest classic that still rocks to this day is Pong. Any game cloned that many times deserves a lot of credit.

<b>Now, onto the C=64:</b>
Zork 1 - 3: From the fearsome grue to all of the passages looking alike, Zork practically invented insane adventures.
Telengard: It was a great game in itself, but more importantly the source code was easily hackable. :) Years of fun with this one. "The M$ IS amused. He gives you a ..."
Legacy of the Ancients: Fun fun fun, and it took me forever to get through.
Bard's Tale (1 - 3): Who knew that getting drunk could be a useful tool for slaying the denizens of evil?
Pool of Radiance: Of all of the AD&D games ever made, this was one of my favorites.
Demon Stalkers: Yeah, sure, it was a lot like Gauntlet, but it still rocked.
BattleTech, The Crescent Hawk's Inception: The best computer game that FASA was ever involved in.
Seven Cities of Gold: Who <i>couldn't</i> spend hours exploring in this game?
Impossible Mission: Damn hard. I only beat it once. Cool voice synth too. Best though was the simple yet hillarious 'pause' button.
F-16 Combat Pilot: Sure, as far as flight sims go it was cheesy. For a C=64 though it was the best.
Racing Destruction Set: Make your own tracks with jumps, narrow lanes and zig-zags. Use combinations of pavement, dirt, and ice. Throw in all sorts of insane vehicles selections (From Indy cars to muscle cars to motorcycles to even a moon buggy!), and top it off with vehicles able to carry armor, oil slicks, and even land mines. Make it multi-player. Damn good fun.

<b>Classic Nintendo:</b>
Archon: Action Chess with a few twists. It rocked. (True, it was also for the C=64, but the graphics on the NES were much better.)
Blaster Master: The heart-touching love story of a boy and his frog. Who could possibly walk away from this game?
Zelda: You know, for once princess she sure gets into a lot of trouble. And for one panzy-arsed elf, he sure gets around a lot.
Metroid: OMG! He's a SHE?!
Final Fantasy: Okay, so it was hardly the 'final' one since they made nine more (and still going, and not even counting spin-offs like the Final Fantasy Adventures or Final Fantasy Tactics), but this was always my personal favorite.
Bubble Bobble: Silly. Cute. Addictive. And a nasty little trick to get to the 'good' ending.
Dragon Warrior: A great RPG. Enough said. :)

<b>And who could forget the early PC games that rocked as well?</b>
Master of Magic: Sure, it crashed quite a bit, but it also ruled. (Especially with the multi-player hack.)
Syndicate: Cyborgs, organized crime, control your own weapons R&D, and who could forget AI controlling the minds of the masses ... this game had it all!
Wolf 3D: Who could possibly leave out the game that invented the FPS concept?
Wolf 3D with the Castle Barneystien patch: You get to kill Barney with a chain gun. You get to riddle Beavis and Butthead with bullets. Enough said.
Ultima Underworld: Okay, so the Ultima Underworlds got a lot of bad reviews. I don't know why. To me they kicked Doom's arse. Classes, character development, one of the best inventory systems that I've ever seen, a piece-meal armor system, heavy melee combat, spells and magic ... Ultima Underworld blew every other FPS away. And better than that, you actually <i>interacted</i> with NPCs instead of just killing them all! The game just rocked. (And don't forget the debris.)
Descent: I don't think any one game made more people nauseous to play and/or watch than Descent. It was great.
Doom, Heretic, Hexen, etc.: All classics and mainstays of the second-generation FPS.
BattleDrome: Cool multi-player mecha combat.
Earth Siege: Quite possibly one of <i>the</i> best mecha games ever made.

<b>Get some of that SNES Action:</b>
Breath of Fire1: Okay, I created this section <i>just</i> for this one game. Why? It's my absolute favorite console RPG <i>ever</i>.

I know that I'm still leaving out an awful lot of classics, but these are the ones that I can remember well, even after all of these years. Truely, the older games were some of the best. They didn't have graphics to awe you or sound to stun you. They had to grab your attention with innovative story lines and great game play. Many of them took longer to win than games today do, and yet we still don't get bored with them. If only modern games could be as inventive.

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Yeah, Blaster Master was a great game...It was a game 10 years ahead of it's time (Multiple gameplay modes, fairly engrossing story, minimum RPG elements)

Also, Breath of Fire was one of my least favorite SNES RPG's. I dunno why, just didn't care for it. Lufia and the Fortress of Doom, however was one of the best made (That and FF4, and Lufia even had a more original story).

Your using WHAT??? (quote from friend when I told him my PC specs)
 
I forgot about the BattleTech: Cresent Hawk's Inception. That was so cheesy looking back at the graphics now but back then that was awesome. I agree that that was the closest to the FASA RPG.

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I forgot about the BattleTech: Cresent Hawk's Inception. That was so cheesy looking back at the graphics now but back then that was awesome. I agree that that was the closest to the FASA RPG.
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I wish FASA had put more effort into computer games. (Or even just more effort into making sure that computer games that licenced their trademarks actually followed their system's rules.)

I would have loved to see a true-to-BattleTech computer game. I'd have loved it even more if it'd been true to Mechwarrior as well. :)

Maybe one day I'll have to try writing one, at least using BattleTech rules.

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some of the old games i remember and enjoy are old platform games... from atari to nintendo..
astroids
missle command
Ultima Quest of the Avatar
Fantasy Star
ninja gaiden and everyone should remember this... Dragon Warrior!

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How come nobody's mentioned Grand theft auto I...i think it was the best game and if it wasnt for the grafix it'd still be great fun to play...
Indycar racing was good with it's custom setup thingy and even Descent II

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How about Super Mario Cart...uber fun game.
For the playstation I liked Twisted Metal 2

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I like playing all of my ROM games via MAME32. My wife is addicted to Mario Brothers. (The Original... not to be confused with "Super Mario Bros.")

I showed them to her three days ago and she has been on the computer at least twice a day playing it. That is a lot of computer gaming for her.


BTW Grub: Do you have those other games that we talked about on a disk?




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Yea NES AND SNES ROMS are still great fun to play. Oldies ROCK!!

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But it really helps to hookup a gamepad for the nintendo and snes, just not the same when you are using a keyboard. Still a blast either way.
 
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