Any fond memories of gaming?......

[couch potato]

I remember back in the day when i got my first computer-a mac. it came with a bunch of crap, and one good game- Descent 1. I remeber playing that things for hours on end. boy, it brings back good memories oh yeah, the first medal of honor for playstation 1. loved it

[CERuppel]

Memories of Civ, back in the day...

Not that I'm that old to have any personal memories of course...

[msterzer]

NO

[kenyg]

the original Doom - thats why I got my first real pc (not that the 8088 wasn't real)


Ken

[thePh@r@oh]

the original wolfenstein 3d if that gives you guys an idea of how long i've been gaming. "those were the days". i still have it and play it regularly when i get bored.

[custompccases]

I remember the first atari games. I wish I could remember the names of some of them. I remember one where your like a arrow and you go around getting keys or something. I think another was called space invaders. And a good multiplayer had something to do with tanks. If I knew the names of these I would get some romz or something. A newer game I fondly remember was metal combat. You build these mech guys and you can interchange their parts. The game sucked pretty bad but the idea of it was cool. When I was in school they had the old apple's they had the green screen and those huge B drives. I played the build a rocket game allot when I should of been doing work. For psone I miss a game called I.Q. I think it was. It was like a puzzle game. I think all the games I mentioned pretty much bombed in the market. And of course the real notable: zeld for nes snes and n64, spent a good amount of my life on these.

[thePh@r@oh]

battlezone!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes!!!!!!!!!!!

[VERT]

Wasteland from EA games for the C64 is still probably one of my most played games ever

http://www.game-over.net/retro/may/wasteland.html

Another would have been The Bards Tale

[custompccases]

Yes Battlezone is a good one to!

[VERT]

OMG and Wasteland was ported to the PC!!!!

Where can I find that?

[SpookyEddy]

Jet Set Willy on my mates 48K ZX Spectrum was fairly ace.

A few other quality gaming moments that spring to mind include;

Another World - Great game & I bunked off school for two days to finish it.

Wolf 3D - Shooting people in glorious 3D.

Alone in the Dark - Excellent atmosphere & the books are cool anyway. Pushing wardrobes infront of windows has never been such fun.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - I waisted weeks of valuable time to complete this game. One of the few point & click adventures I really enjoyed.

Eye of the Beholder 2 - Hours & hours spent wandering around tunnels looking for a dragon.

Total Annihilation - Many an evening spent falling asleep while my mates playing this game into the early hours during my first year at uni.

Regards

eddy

[Daft_Ghosty]

ohh yes many many great ones... some of them include..

way back in the 8088 days with CGA.. and monochrome.. I remember playing Dangerous Dave(one of ID first games), and Mars1, Paga, and Gorillas, which was a Qbasic game.. kind of like Scorched earth.. many many hors of sitting at school playing these games.. oh and Kings Quest 3 at the time too =)

moving forward there is one everyone will mention.. Doom.. but I played Doom 2 before I played Doom 1.. and what still sticks into my mind till this day was the absolute feeling of terror, and fear while playing the game.. I was scared.. and so much so this one moment still sticks in my head.. I see my man grunting and don't know what is causing it.. I turn my character around.. and I let out a loud.. window shaking scream as a Pink demon is behind me munching on me.. It scared me b/c I had cleared that area.. and I thought my back was safe.. I taught me.. that I was never safe.. always keep an eye to your rear..

Wingcomander 3&4 Oh these were some great games.. What makes these games stick out to me.. was that it was the first time I had lost a game my first try.. If anyone remembers WC3&4 had a path structure of winning and losing missions.. which made replaying the games fun.. b/c you would get different results.. And I still remembering falling back to earth for its last defense.. and leaving the Victory to mount a futile attack against the Kilrathi's Juggernaut.. and I died like a warrior.. then watched as earth burned and people ran as Kilrathi medium fighters flew over washington and the fires spread..

Then there was the Tex Murphy games for me.. Freedom.. that is what these games meant to me.. It left it to your sharp mind to figure things out and resolve the game.. and I died more then a few times in my trying.. and very few games since have had harder puzzles to figure out.. this game taught me to pay attention.. be aware.. and figure things out on my own..

Bioforge.. this game still holds its own till this day.. it uses real time damage.. on your character.. he gets hit in the leg damage shows in the leg.. you take to much damage and all u can do is limp.. to run you will fall over.. This game makes you the person you play.. and you have to discover who you are.. and what you are now.. it is filled with alien mysteries, murder, and betrayal.. this game taught me that no one was superman.. and somethings are smarter to run from.. then face.. better to fight them on your ground.. instead of theirs..

so many more games.. the ones I listed above had effects on how I think.. the way I do things.. but here are a few newer games that will likely be remembered well by me..

Battlezone1 This game I got free with my first 3d card.. a STB Velocity 128 nvidia (nvidias first chipset). This is the first game I really sat down and played the online feature of.. I would sit and play this game anywhere from 4 to 11 hours at a time.. I always fought under the handle DogSoldier if anyone may remember me =) I stopped playing for 2 reason.. one I needed to break the time online playing games.. and two.. the patch came out for the card version to play with those who bought the game.. At the time it was a small group of maybe 70 to 100 ppl playing everyday on the card version of the game.. there were no cheaters.. and allot of the ppl got to know each other.. I remember this game for that part right there.. the hours playing against ppl I knew.. and enjoying myself doing so =) This game taught me to attack attack attack.. and never give up.. =)

Ultima Online.. oh so many memories of this game.. and I enjoyed this one the most till OSI nurfed the game beyond reason.. most of my memories are taken up learning to fight when I was a miner/smith and then the war came.. and we all defended the cities.. there was a large uprising of the ppl.. and we all showed up to cities and fought and fought and fought to defend them from the undead.. IMO we won Trinsic never fell.. even big bad GM controlled characters were getting stomped.. by players that would have 10 mages keeping the fighting character healed.. and kept other enemies off them.. with fast weapons the GM characters couldn't cast spells hahaha the players won that war.. but after that.. then the server split.. that was to make the newbies happy.. newbies whining to OSI is what caused me to leave the game..

MoH:AA so many memories.. from running up the beach.. and making it past the machine gun nests to the trenches with only 2 health.. to the first time I tried to run across a road covered by a MG42.. and getting cut down.. to many games of quake.. I was to use to a faster moving character.. this one taught me to attack.. but with caution hehe=)

so many memories.. so many games.. so yes. I have fond memories of gaming.. =)

[brucecampbell]

I used to love ultima5 on my amiga 500

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

I remember staying up all night playing doom/doom2 over modem, that game rocked in it's day, spent half the night laughing at new ways to blow ourselves up.

[Winos2Mac]

Solitaire.... (Cricket noise)

[Scott Tiger]

I'm relatively new to all this so my best "old memories" were playing Qauke II and the original Diablo. That was only about 2 years ago though.

[skuz]

Duke Nukem 3D : many "studying" hours spent playing by modem with a friend.

Eye of the Beholder : whenever I finished the game I would start another with a new party.

Blackthorne : Prince of Persia with a gun. I remember sending Interplay the 2 diskettes to get the game on a CD (looked way cooler)

Stonekeep : One of the best RPGs I ever played. This is where Skuz comes from.

[Chiguy]

I remember Duck Hunt and Track and Field for NES back in the day.

[ocit]

Super Double Dragon on the snes with my brother, i remember yelling cover me im powering up!

[DPA]

ahhh double dragon... my i can still hear the "sprow!" of my need going into those pink haired freaks heads...

i gotta say that there was an atari game that got my goat EVERY time.. now that i think of it, i cannot think of the name.. crap.. now i gotta go find out or else ill go crazy.

seems like it was on the lines of a radiator or something that would cool, or perhaps was really hot, because thats the only thought i have of it.

But it was the first side scroller shooter i ever played.. it rocked.

*EDIT* VANGUARD!!! i have no idea why i could only think of a radiator, i think it was because of the picture on the box, but man, it was impossible to shoot out of all sides of your ship in some of those levels... soooooo long and hard. complexity of gradius and the blockyness of atari all wrapped into an 8 track sized cartridge