swphreak Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 I'm talkin' real old school games. Games that were out before most of you children were conceived. Hell, I wasn't even conceived yet when this little gem was released. Since that Joystiq article, I've been searching the net for other text-based games. Found a couple on various sites, and giving them a try. I'm mostly interested in the simulation or strategy games. I'm pretty sure most of these games are free or on the public domain by now. You youngin's should give some a try. Any old timers here have any favorite text-based games?
•-BLaCKouT-• Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 we-e-e-h-h-h-l, I've been playing an unnatural amount of Gauntlet recently, and after I've moved house in about a week I'm going to be re-installing XS, although I'm not sure if that one's oldskool enough for ya *sigh* Nostalgia's not what is used to be, etc... B.
Dath Maximus Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Hell, I was conceived Ohh god that is a horrible mental image.
txa1265 Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I didn't do too much text based gaming ... in '82 we were doing some D&D, a bunch of arcade gaming (most of us had licenses by then), and some Apple ][+ stuff (Wolfenstein!). I was turned off by the 'east. look. west. search' stuff, which resulted in my missing the first round of RPG's back those days ... Mike
Darth Groovy Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I might have played a King's Quest game at one point. Pick one. Kinda bored me... I didn't really get into video games until I discovered Intellivision II. I would have been about 8 years old at the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision I actually still own this, and it still works!
Samnmax221 Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 May I say Sam and Max: Hit the Road, I still have my oringinal box and the crimestoppers coloring book. SMI and MI 2 which I had bundled on the Monkey Island Madness Cd (Although I seem to have misplaced it). Thanks to the VDM Sound project I can enjoy Tie Fighter once again with sound (I'll fully enjoy it again when I get my old Logitech Wingman to work with it, as using the mouse is no fun). This isn't really a game in the sense, in fact it was a real pain in the ass sometimes.
Seph Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Do I feel like a youngster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hunt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda A little Quantum Fighter and hopefully soon River City Randsom
Seph Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I dug up my friends atari So we've been playin that everytime we're mindlessly bored
BongoBob Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I've got a quick question. I know this technically isn't legal (then again it's not like I'm asking for an xbox game here) but it's so old and good it should be freeware now, does anybody know where I can download Sam And Max. Please. I'll give a cookie.
Seph Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I've got a quick question. I know this technically isn't legal (then again it's not like I'm asking for an xbox game here) but it's so old and good it should be freeware now, does anybody know where I can download Sam And Max. Please. I'll give a cookie. Isn't that against forum rules?
TiE23 Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Win "Give a box full of them to the 'Indians' for 10,000 square miles!" I've been addicted to Geometry Wars on my 360. Very fun game. Also, this game rules. http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/mcd_e.html
jon_hill987 Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Angband, there are so many versions of this game, originaly it was ascii based, I play zAngbandTK which has had the ascii replaced with icons and been given a UI so you don't have to remember like a million key comands.
edlib Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 We have an old Colecovision. With Donky Kong. Win. So do I. WITH the Atari 2600 expansion, and about 100 or more Atari games. Double win! Infocom was an amazing game maker... although I didn't have a PC back in those days to play as many of them as I would have liked. The Hichhikers Guide game was great, as was Planetfall (? I think it was called...) But I can remember when Pong was new, and people lined up to feed quarters into it. Like Mike most of my gaming time and money was spent on D&D and at the arcades, though. I got an Atari 2600 in the late '70s, and the Coleco a few years later. Then I later got a Coleco ADAM.... that was kind of a mistake... But even so: That truly was the golden age of gaming! [/sappy nostalgia]
MrWally Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Back in the Philippines all we had to play with were sticks and stones XP I'd never even really heard of a video game or an "actual computer" (we had one that could solely do word processing, but nothing else) until I moved to the US
RoxStar Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Psh, sheltered lad We've had a computer in the house since I've been alive, including the internetz zomg! My dad was a computer coder/programmer/program fixer at the time and he used to have to drive an hour to the city (Chicago) if a problem came up in the night. So, shortly before I was born, he buckled down, spent 2000 dollars for a top of the line x386 computer and got a basic internet service. My cousin who is 7 years older than me loved that computer, and introduced me to Wolfenstein 3D when I was properly coordinated, much to the dismay of my mother. Something about seeing a 6-year-old shooting people is frightening, I suppose.
Dagobahn Eagle Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Phew, the oldest system I've got is my still-working SNES. Best console ever, tie with the Mega Drive from SEGA. I remember being addicted to Police Quest when I was little:o.
MrWally Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I'm pretty sure the first video game I ever played was something on our DOS machine when we moved to the US, or something on my cousin's Sega that I may have played when I was 4 or 5.
BongoBob Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 My first game I ever played was Super Mario Bros. on the NES, followed by duck hunt
Tinny Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 Still have an nes. Favorite games were Contra, Ice climbers, Gruds in Space (Apple II), and Chronotrigger (snes). Ooh, can't forget chex quest.
Dath Maximus Posted July 8, 2006 Posted July 8, 2006 I play with real old school games, I have a hoop and stick, and a rock. I also have pong, the original version that is harder than monkey crap during winter.
Pie™ Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 It's a ball in a cup!!! The first games I ever played were on an Amiga Commondore we bought used when I was about 6 or 7.
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