Hayden Kered Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 What is your favorite old school video game. It can be any game, any consol, any year. Tell us the name, a short discription of the game, and why you liked it so much. My favorite was Maniac Mansion for NES About the game: It was about a purple meteor that crashed next to a scientists house and controled his mind. The scientist, Fred Edison, kidnapped the main player's (David) girlfriend. The objection was to use three characters to explore the mansion and find a way to save David's girlfriend and beat the purple meteor. Why I liked it: I first played the game when I was about 6 years old, and became obsessed over it. The whole story was realy fun and there was alot to do. It was also a game that I never figured out how to beat untill several years later, then I smacked myself for realizing how easy it was. It was also the first "point and click" game. I now have the PC version and still enoy playing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Prince of Persia one owns your soul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Kitty Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Gees. Dunno if I could whittle it down to one single favorite. I love so many for a variety of reasons over quite a time frame. I guess if I absolutely HAD to pick just one, I'd hae to go with Fallout. While few probably don't know, it's a post-apocolyptic RPG/Adventure, full of quests and side-quests, interesting characters (Yay, talking heads!) and loads of little easter eggs and tongue-in-cheek humor. I can't count the hours of my life that game (not to mention its sequel Fallout 2) has consumed. I still replay both semi-often. Though again, this is a hard choice for me, since as much as I love those I could easily go back and recount the great times I've had with titles such as several of the Bard's Tale series, early Ultima games and dozens and dozens of others. My favorite was Maniac Mansion for NES If you can track it down (and already haven't), I highly suggest seeing if you can lay hands on a "talkie" version of Day of the Tentacle. It's essentially Maniac Mansion 2, and it's absolutely hysterical. It's one of the old Lucas Arts Point & Click (plus some) adventures, and one of the really cool things I always loved about it was that when you find Weird Ed Edison's room, if you use his computer, you got a game within a game. You could sit there (for days on end if you wanted to) and play the original Maniac Mansion on his computer. Way cool. -Kitt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden Kered Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 If you can track it down (and already haven't), I highly suggest seeing if you can lay hands on a "talkie" version of Day of the Tentacle. It's essentially Maniac Mansion 2, and it's absolutely hysterical. It's one of the old Lucas Arts Point & Click (plus some) adventures, and one of the really cool things I always loved about it was that when you find Weird Ed Edison's room, if you use his computer, you got a game within a game. You could sit there (for days on end if you wanted to) and play the original Maniac Mansion on his computer. Way cool. -Kitt I got a free downloadable version of Day of The Tentacle, though it did not have sound to it. I thought it was pretty fun, I liked the Chron-o-Johns. Yeah I found that on his computer, but when I tried to play it the entire game crashed on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Well, if I have to pick one, it has to be the ultimate: The Secret of Monkey Island for PC Well, it's an awesome adventure game, where you control Guybrush Threepwood, a stupid blondie who wishes to be a pirate. The game itself is an awesome parody of the pirate sub-culture and it was excellent overall. I liked it because of its humour. There has been no game to date (except maybe Discworld), that has made me laugh as much the Monkey Island games have. The game was hilarious, absurd and insane all at the same time, which is why it is so cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinapus Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 It must be my ancient age, but when I hear "old school" video games I think of things like Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Sinistar, and so on. Many quarters were sacrificed to play these games... Edit: There was a game that was out in the late 80s or so called(?) Vindicators. You moved a tank around a battlefield and destroyed targets, running over fuel icons to keep alive and gathering stars to pay for upgrades like being able to rotate the turret, increased shot power, shot speed, etc. It was fun and addictive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden Kered Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 @Sinapus: To let you know, if you were the last to post something, do not make a new post, edit your last one and add on to that. Double posting is not allowed. Vindicators? Never heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 The first two Monkey Island games. Also, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and Star Trek: Judgment Rites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 This is easy Doom and Command & Conquer. (both for PC) They hold many memories to me and I still love to play them to this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden Kered Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 Do you mean the old 2D DOOM? I think I still have that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Do you mean the old 2D DOOM? I think I still have that one. Is there a 2D Doom? I'm pretty sure there is only one real Doom, and It's in 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Catto Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Definitely Final Fantasy IV, that one just kicks ass for me. I also like Doom: Hell On Earth. And i still contribute many hours of each week to playing both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ctrl Alt Del Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Doom, maybe, but there are many others, Wolfstein was the first, no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for PS1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Master Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 The best game I have ever played is SUPER MARIO BROS. for SUPER NINTENDO First video game I had ever played, addicted to them ever since....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 PC: XWING ALLIANCE CONSOLE : FINAL FANTASY IX HANDHELD: DONKEY KONG II > seriously, this pwns you all. I wish I still had mine damnit mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Dando Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Mine is Eartbound for SNES. It's about this boy and four friends who set out on a journey to destroy the evil being Giygas, who 10 years after the game takes place, destroys the entire universe, and you have to prevent this from happening. Instead of the regular elements in RPG's, this game was set in a romantisized version of America, known as Eagleland, and had PSI instead of magic. As soon, as I started playing this game, I loved it, the atmosphere, the humour, the music, everything. The game took me over a year to complete because I was still in school, and didnt have much time to play it everyday. Needless to say, when I did complete it, it was sad I really need to play thourgh it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Nothing comes close to Super Mario Bros. 3. Though I remember wasting many hours as a youth on Rayman Forever and Pokemon: Yellow too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Varen Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I have several, but I'll post three for now. The Crash Bandicoot series, the Spyro the Dragon series and the Pokemon series too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaelastraz Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Asterix & Obelix : The first game I've every played through. Years later, Konung, my first RPG. And after that, Baldurs Gate I . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 When I think old school, I think of the classic games that my parents enjoyed growing up and my brother and I got to play. The oldest we played and liked was on the collecovision set with Frontline and Donkey Kong Jr. We even played a Rocky game. Moving forward with Super Ninetendo we like the Street Fighter game that we played with our cousins. When Sega came out it was Mortal Combat, not the new stuff. In the video arcades, we liked to play Centipede, Pac-Man and this one game tha involves you shooting bugs from a spaceship. What can I say, we were raised to appreciate games like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 The only 2-D version of Doom was a modded version, IIRC. The actual game and it's sequels were in glorious (for the time) 3-D... @Ctrl_Alt_Del: Get Psyched! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Descent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoad Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG On Sega Megadrive And also Pokémon on GameBoy/GameBoy Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Descent x2! Bestest game evar. I still play all of the Descent games too. I lurves my Descent3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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