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Old Great Games
Topic Started: Aug 25 2005, 09:51 PM (604 Views)
fleacollar


Since my last topic was horrible, I decided, after double checking this time, to start a better one, not knowing how to necessarily delete my old one.
Anyways, does anyone remember the old games. I'm talking about the games I grew up with. A bit after atari, mind you, but I mean the SNES and SEGA games. I personally think that Super Nintendo has the best games ever with Sega not trailing far behind. Its were heros were born. Mario, DK, Sonic, Megaman, ect.. One can spend hours playing those games. Does anyone else agree? or am I just seriously lacking sleep tonight but can't get to sleep?
In my opinion, they should resell them.
If they are reselling them, I need to know. lol
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vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

oh man, you said old great games and i'm like Munch Man and Moon Patrol and various other games that rocked when I was a kid.

But yeah, snes has some awesome games on it and so did the sega....they need to make more compilations for consoles or do like the atari flashback did, sell a console with preloaded games....i'd totally buy em.

Especially if they were of the "retro" games I love and miss! Like Burgetime!! :woot those were some fun days.
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Moon Patrol! OMG! I was so addicted to that, for the longest time. Below the Root, too. Those were my favourite C64 titles. Ah, but there are so many brilliant old games, and me with so little time! I'll probably drop back in on this topic later.
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Run you clever boy and remember...

I had them for the TI-99 and then for the c64, i had tons and tons of games like speed buggy and bruce lee and the animation station and all kinds of stuff, it ruled!!
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Karppa
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Oh friends...

I still play regularly old C64 titles on a PC with emulator, currently using CCS64. It's really worth checking out... Jumpman, BurgerTime, Super Zaxxon, Traffic...
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I envy you guys. I barely lived the C64 days, yet I never owned one myself. Nowadays I play the arcade ports of those classic games, like BurgerTime, Dig Dug, Galaga, Gorf, and many others. I owned the Intellivision II at the time, which got me started into BurgerTime, and I loved playing games like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Beauty & The Beast, Space Hawk, Space Spartans, Bomb Squad, and Lock n' Chase. I've thought about C64 emulation on and off, and I may just start playing C64 games pretty soon!
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Karppa
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Oh friends...

Why wait, you could be playing in mere minutes! :lol

www.c64.com has a great collection of games in .d64 (disc-emulation) and .t64 (tape-emulation) format.

Just download the CCS64, unpack it somewhere, dl some .d64 and .t64 -files to a games subdirectory and fire up the CCS64.

For first-timers: after you get the old and friendly C64-bootup-screen, press F9 for options (like video: windowed/full-screen, screen resolution and joystick emulation settings (even on a keyboard)). Then press Alt-8 for disc-device (,8) emulation and select an image-file from directory-browser you want to try. Then hit a function-key for either normal or fast loading. Normal loading works excatly as it did on C64, SLOOWWW. And you get the usual screen-blinks and all if those where used while loading. It's so real you'll be amazed if you ever tried a real c64.

There are also good html-helpfiles and a pdf-file of c-64 keyboard emulation on the pc keyboard. (run/stop, restore, CBM-key...)
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hmm...almost sounds like the VIC-20 I got somewhere down my basement, which doesn't work anymore, simply because the power cable was all worn out, and the wiring inside is pretty much split.
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aaron
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My vic-20 is sitting under my bed... Oh, how I miss adventure island... But wait!!!!!
http://www.ifiction.org/games/index.php?cat=44
That's an online version of all the old text games. There's a port of tetris there, and softporn adventure. SA is the text game that lead to leisure suit larry.
Wow, so many classics... *grabs psp loaded with emulators and roms*
Get a SNES emulator (super Famicom, actually) and look for Cho Aniki... Its probably the most, well, homoerotic game ever (2d fighter). You thought the kings package was distracting?
That and these are on the psp:
River city ransom(nes), Monster Party(nes), urban champion(nes), marble madness(nes), earthbound(snes), harvest moon(nes), star ocean 1(super famicom), GTA(gbc), Zelda: link to the past(snes), secret of mana(snes), Zero Wing(sega megadrive)...
And yes, Zero Wing is the "all your base are belong to us!!" game...
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Older games I have particularly happy memories of, for one reason and another:

"Below the Root", for the C64 (apparently, there was also an Apple version, but I didn't have a good source for pirated Apple software. I was quite the little thief, in those days.) - I have the fondest memories of this game. Me and my best friend, we were both completely obsessed with it. It seemed like we played it forever, but it was probably just one summer. I got it right after school had let out, I think. We'd be sprawled out on my bedroom floor with an eggtimer, taking turns with the joystick. Being my usual dishonest self, I'd always stick the timer on the lumpy bit of carpet when it came my turn, so it would be slightly off-balance, and the sand would run out a little slower. The game only had a handful of colours (various shades of brown, green, purple, and grey, with occasional blue and yellow cameos), but it seemed completely magical, for some reason. It seemed like a real adventure. Sometimes, when nobody was looking, I'd run around the back yard with my arms out, pretending I was flying with a shuba. (A shuba was--er, I'm not entirely sure--the graphics were that bad! I think it was some kind of shirt, though, with flappy bits so you could glide safely to the ground from great heights. If you bumped into things, or fell without gliding, your shuba could tear, and then you wouldn't glide so well.) I can't explain why it made such a huge impression, but that whole summer was about Below the Root.

"Moon Patrol" - This one didn't just last a summer--it was a staple, across various systems, if I recall correctly. I remember playing Moon Patrol before I had the C64, and after the C64 was gone. I was never obsessed with it (and I never got past T), but it sure did liven up a lot of otherwise humdrum evenings.

"Asteroids" - Although I played this in the arcade when I was wee, I didn't really appreciate it till 1997. I was in my first year of art school, and married to some random American. (Short version of that: I had been accepted to the University of Texas, so I married an American in hopes of landing a green card. It's hard to finance an education, without. But then, I got accepted to a much cheaper, and slightly more prestigious, Canadian school. The American wanted to come along. I didn't have the heart to say no. We ended up very, very broke, because he couldn't work in Canada, married to me or no.) So, anyway, me and this American, we downloaded a lot of shareware and freeware, because we couldn't buy any commercial games. We played a lot of the popular sharewares of the day (Jill of the Jungle, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Epic Pinball, and so forth), but we also searched out some of our old arcade favourites. We got so damn into it. It was funny. We were sitting there on the floor, with the computer also on the floor, because we had no furniture, and screaming "Get him! Get him! Mr. Shitty in a can!" (Mr. Shitty was this weird hairless rat we had, and also what we'd dubbed the little alien spaceships in Asteroids.) If you've ever played Asteroids, you know the premise is simple and the graphics are simpler, but for us, again...pure magic.

"Bananoid" - What's with games ending in -oid? Anyhow, Bananoid is a generic Bustout-type game. It only has nine levels, and when you finish the last one, you go back to the first, with no type of reward. It should suck. (It does!) There's a little banana in the right-hand corner, which constantly changes colours, and the blocks make little pook-pook noises when you break them. Everything's bright and beautiful, with elegant (for the time) shading, and smooth animation. It's utterly hypnotic. The winter term of that first year of art school, the same year with the Asteroids, I'd become very ill, what with not having any heating, not having anything to eat, and all. Bananoid was a perfect distraction from my discomfort. I played it for hours on end. I don't know what I'd have done without it. (I haven't played it since).

I'm so tired, and I've hardly scratched the surface, here. I'll come back later. I know nobody reads these silly, rambly posts of mine, but that's OK. I write them for my own entertainment, anyhow. I'm selfish, that way.
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Oh friends...

Found a page where you can play some old C-64 games in your browser:
http://www.dreamfabric.com/c64/

[size=0]All you need is up-to-date java (something like jre1.5 (j2se runtime edition 5.0)
http://www.java.com has 'verify installation' if you're not sure about your current version and also the latest download.[/size]
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No "Below the Root", alas! No "Algebra Dragons", either.

That was one I left out of my last post, "Algebra Dragons". I loved that game. I learned basic algebra just so I could play that game. I don't know quite what it was that attracted me to it, but I'd play and play for hours. It was a dungeon crawl, essentially. Every level had, if I recall correctly, a key you had to get in order to advance to the next. Then, you had to find the stairs. There were bottomless pits scattered around the place, too. The little text window would blink "You feel a draft", and you'd know your death was...somewhere. It didn't say which direction the draft was coming from, so it was always a bit of a gamble. And every once in a while, you'd come across a dragon, who'd ask you an algebra question. If you got it right, the dragon went away. If you didn't--fwhoooosh! Crispy you.

There was no story. I can't remember what happened at the beginning, or at the end. It was just you, this endless grey dungeon, and the algebra dragons. I don't know why it was fun.

Some years later, King's Quest 1 came out. I had a PC, by this time. The original version of KQ1--it might even have been a test version, I think (I seem to remember the official release having an EGA option as well as CGA)--anyway, the version I had offered three colour modes: monochrome, CGA and RGB. RGB, as far as I could work out, was a slightly grainier version of CGA. It still had the same four colours, just arranged in different patterns. The save function didn't work. It took me nearly a year to complete, just because EVERY time I'd almost reach the end, I'd fall in the stupid moat and get eaten by alligators. It was impossible to see where the moat began and the bridge ended. It was the pits. And I loved it. Man, the day I figured out that RIDICULOUSLY CONVOLUTED GNOME-NAME PUZZLE (his name was not "Rumpelstiltzkin" in the original version!) was a red-letter day. I think I cheered aloud.

Also, it had a rat in it. That was a real bonus.

Myst was another good one. It's not that old (not by my reckoning, any road), but it did belong to another epoch in my life, so I'm counting it old anyway. I used to play it with my mother. We thought it was just the damnedest thing--fun, intricate puzzles, graphics like nothing we'd seen before, and the most EERIE feeling imaginable. We'd be jumping at the slightest wee sound, after playing for a few hours. It wasn't that anything particularly frightening ever happened--on the contrary, it was that it didn't. You were walking around this alien, vaguely menacing world all on your own, with nothing but creepy ambient noise for company. You EXPECTED something to jump out at you any minute, and when it didn't, the suspense just built and built. When we opened that one box in the Selenitic Age (was it the Selenitic Age? It's been so long!)--when we opened that one box and saw the corpse looking out at us, we both yelped aloud.

My enjoyment of Myst was marred by a stomach virus, though. I didn't get it--my sister did. It was a particularly bad one, which she had for more than a week. She was vomiting and vomiting, and I--well, I have a MAJOR phobia of vomit. I just can't have it anywhere around me. (I'm never having children, believe you me!) That same week, there was a major snowstorm, and everything closed down. The roads were completely blocked in. I couldn't get out. I couldn't go anywhere. That whole week was one horrible, protracted panic-attack for me. I played Myst to escape the House of Vomit. And now, playing Myst reminds me of that awful, awful week.

Fortunately, I can still play all the sequels, no problem. The bad memory is entirely Myst-specific. I hate that it happened that way, though. I'd love to play Myst again, to recapture the feel of that time (it was, otherwise, a very good time), but I just can't look at it without thinking of wall-muffled vomit sounds. Can't play Duke Nukem, either--I played that during another of my sister's stomach viruses. She seemed to have an awful lot of them. Ew.

And now my hands are tired again. Goodnight!
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The Real Prince
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yay i just got the the atari 80 classic games in the ceareal.
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Another C-64 game I used to love was Q-bert. It was a simple concept, really--you, Q-bert, were dropped on a grid of coloured cubes, and you had to get them all to change colours by jumping on them. Jump once, the cube turns red; jump twice, and it's blue again. Get them all red to pass the level. Piece of cake, right? Not quite--each level was also populated with various imps and wotzits, out to mess up your efforts. Touching any of these guys was instant death.

One particular goblin-guy, a pointy-nosed little fellow, would sometimes fly by upon the completion of a level, carrying an Instant Replay sign. Then, you had to sit and watch, well, an instant replay. We hated this. We gave that goblin-guy the worst name we could think of: Vern. Then, everyone started calling ME Vern (I can't remember why), so that was my nickname for a while.
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Run you clever boy and remember...

Q*Bert was awesome....I remember playing that for hours....that and Frogger :D
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god damnit

I loved the C64, my brother had one and sometimes he was decent enough to let me play with it (like when he wasn't home to say I couldn't...)

I loved Moonpatrol, SPACE TAXI!!! "Hey, Taxi!", Up and Down, Spy hunter, Wizard, Street Sports Baseball, Burgertime...

Damn I can't even remember all of them right now.

I still think the NES is the best system ever. I love Mario 2 even though people hated on that one. Zelda and Link, of course. Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands, Family Fued, Techmo Bowl, Megaman 2, Ducktales, Chip and Dale Resue Rangers, Hatris, Iron Sword, Duck Hunt, Pinball... ok, lots of them.
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Any and all Sierra adventure games a la King's Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory... you name it. I sorely miss the days of adventure games. Also those old Lucasarts games that used Scumm i.e. Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones
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I played and completed all the Kings quest games!!!
Well actually I only beat 1-7, are there any more?

Have you guys ever played Illusion of Gaia?



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There was a King's Quest VIII (I think it was called "Mask of Eternity"), but it was terrible. It was absolutely nothing like the earlier KQ games--it had a lot more in common with Diablo...if Diablo had a really annoying battle engine, as well as an insanely irritating 3D interface and a nonsensical plot. It was the only KQ game I never finished. Even KQVII, which I found pretty lame, compared to the earlier instalments, was streets ahead of it.

I think KQIV was my favourite, from that series. The whole day/night cycle thing was awesome. At the time, I think it was the only game I'd ever played where every screen had a separate day/night version, and some quests could only be completed at certain times. It had a great ambience to it, as well, and some pretty nice graphics, for its time. It was also the last of the text adventures, where you got to type in your commands instead of clicking icons on the screen. I really loved the text-based interface. I was so disappointed when KQV did away with all that. It seemed like the end of an era.

I think I did play Illusion of Gaia (was that a SNES game?), but I barely remember it.
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Meh, i found a way to like Kings Quest VIII. Maybe not for the same reasons as the rest of them, but i still enjoyed it. I actually popped it into my comp a while ago and got somewhere into the underground gnome area before ADD kicked in.

Same with Quest for Glory V. It played a lot differently, but i still managed to enjoy it. Not sure which was my favorite though, they all had something a really liked...

The Space Quests were just great though, I loved all the quirky humor.

And now that i think about it, I think KQ IV was the only one i never beat... I should remedy that
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Spudz777
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I've heard rumors that the newest Nintendo console (Revolution?) would have emulators for previous consoles, and ROMs would be available for download. Not sure which consoles, or how they'd handle the downloads (subscription, pay per download, etc...), and it was also just a rumor... But it would be awesome!
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Yeh, the Revolution is supposedly going to have a download feature.

Illusion of Gaia is on SNES, you are correct! IDK why, but I really love that game. :yes
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god damnit

The Revolution is supposed to be completely backwards compatible somehow, right?

KINGS QUEST!

Good god! I had the fifth one for my PC back in the day, and I was lame and could never get past this one part. It really bothered me, I liked the game and then got stuck with no FAQS to consult. :-(
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aaron
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Taito Treasures looks like a sweet game. Although, I was never one for space invaders, and I'm not incredibally thrilled about having space invaders, space invaders pt2 and return of the invaders...
But it has Rainbow Islands. Quite possibly my favorite NES game ever, aside from Dragon Quest. Rainbow Islands was "the story of bubble bobble 2", not that I even knew there was a story. It just seemed like mindless fun. Oh, the hours spent playing those two games.

Maybe that'll drag me from Resident Evil 4 :shrug
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hellyes
Nov 7 2005, 04:14 PM
KINGS QUEST!

Good god! I had the fifth one for my PC back in the day, and I was lame and could never get past this one part. It really bothered me, I liked the game and then got stuck with no FAQS to consult. :-(

There are plenty of faqs now... try again!
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