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    Post by Spitfire Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:41 am

    What ancient PC have you played and/or enjoyed the most? When I say ancient, I mean really old.

    My two favorites are the original versions of Master of Orion and X-Com are my favorite. Spent way too much time playing them ... I still do actually.

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    Post by Fluttershy Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:47 am

    Ancient..... Diablo series and Warcraft series
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    Post by Spitfire Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:50 am

    I was thinking more in terms of DOS, but Diablo II is certainly in my top 5 list.
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    Post by JackBread Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:51 am

    ...Princess Maker 2. >_>
    And Daggerfall. :D
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    Post by Balister Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:22 am

    Planescape Torment is my absolute favorite older PC game. Awesome characters, environment and story. Though I am not sure how old you are talking about, if you mean OLD old I think the Adventure Construction Set that was remade for the Amiga was fun.
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    Post by Doctor Whoof Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:17 am

    Master of Orion. I still have it somewhere. But it's simply a bit too fast moving on newer computers now... Used to play it a ton.
    Also, the best series of all time - Quest For Glory (Used to be Heros Quest, but there was a board game by that name, so they had to change it to avoid law suits.) Then there was Wolfenstein 3D, that Ski game on Windows 3.1 and 95 as well, I think.
    Warcradt : Orcs and Humans. No right clicking to move. You had to click the move button for each unit. But it was quite easy against the PC. Except the last missions for both sides.

    What else... Lucky Luke, Sim City (the original), Commander Keen (up to Keen Dreems or whatever it was called...) and a load of other titles that I had on floppy discs. I think Jazz, the Jackrabbit too...
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    Post by Skipper Dash Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:37 am

    I remember Master of Orion.

    However theres always Dwarf Fortress
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    Post by Rarity Fri Jul 22, 2011 5:08 pm

    Rogue, Nethack, And Zork. Doesn't get much more ancient than that :D
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    Post by Spitfire Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:42 pm

    Ah Zork, I remember that ...

    I think they even built that into CoD: Black Ops.
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    Post by webkilla Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:59 pm

    lets just say that the first big-ish online community I became part of was the forum on an abandonware site

    I love old games - from the era where game concepts could still be new, where genuine innovation was possible, and where something completely unheard of wasn't that uncommon

    the TIM (The Incredible Machine) games were awesome

    The commander Keen line of games (played all six, plus keen dreams)

    Atomic Bomberman

    Civilization, civilization 2

    Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri (also known as SMAC) - the greatest 'civilization' game ever made. period. no contest.

    Settlers 2 was fun

    heroes of Might and magic 2 and 3 - 2 was probably the first really good turn based strategy game I ever played, and I still occationally playe 3

    Duke Nukem 1, 2 and 3D - ah... when FPS games were good...

    sim city, tower, 2000 - all those good old games

    Constructor (and Underworld) - hilarious games

    I could go on... so many lesser known games I tried and loved
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    Post by Spitfire Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:26 pm

    Ohh yeah. Heroes of Might and Might is easily one of the best turn based games I've played.

    Currently playing Heroes VI!
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    Post by Rarity Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:35 pm

    Oregon Trail anypony? :D
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    Post by Spitfire Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:54 pm

    Rarity wrote:Oregon Trail anypony? :D

    Haha, played SO MUCH of this in school! I always got bitten by a snake and died ...
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    Post by Cthulhu-Pony Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:43 am

    Master of Orion, most def.
    Fallout.
    X-Com.
    All of Lucas Arts adventure games. Day of the Tentacle anypony?
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    Post by Rarity Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:11 am

    Spitfire wrote:
    Rarity wrote:Oregon Trail anypony? :D

    Haha, played SO MUCH of this in school! I always got bitten by a snake and died ...

    I remember the first time I beat it. I yelped in front of the whole class during Library (Might as well be computer class =P). XD

    Anyone remember this game during the early days of PC gaming? Chips Challenge! I used to play this game all day!



    Also, anyone remember Where in the World is Carmen San Diego for Apple? XD
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    Post by Guest Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:20 am

    Diablo 1 and 2, Baldur's Gate and StarCraft 1 are all pretty cool.
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    Post by Applejack Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:23 pm

    Jetpack, Red Alert and Quake are the oldest games i have played.
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    Post by countchocula86 Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:11 pm

    Star Control 2! And since the code was released, its now freeeee http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
    Also I have UFO on steam which is old and fun to play!
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    Post by Spitfire Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:19 pm

    countchocula86 wrote:Star Control 2! And since the code was released, its now freeeee http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
    Also I have UFO on steam which is old and fun to play!

    UFO ... if I remember correctly that is the EU name for X-Com?
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    Post by countchocula86 Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:15 pm

    Spitfire wrote:
    countchocula86 wrote:Star Control 2! And since the code was released, its now freeeee http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
    Also I have UFO on steam which is old and fun to play!

    UFO ... if I remember correctly that is the EU name for X-Com?
    Yea, the first one. X-COM: UFO Defense
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    Post by Spitfire Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:19 pm

    I've got X-Com on my flashdrive. With a Win95 emulator so could play it without a problem.
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    Post by Rainbow Dash Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:32 am

    Applejack wrote:Jetpack, Red Alert and Quake are the oldest games i have played.

    Oh my god. I hated and loved Red Alert. God I play it now and hate it, but back in the 90's oh pony I loved it.
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    Post by Sabboth Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:11 am

    I remember having this floppy disk full of different games that my grandpa gave me. Ski Freak was one of the games I was actually afraid to play, that god damn yeti. On that same floppy was also a cat and mouse game where you just had to avoid a cat in a maze. It was fun, but surprisingly gruesome if you got caught. Razz

    Then there was this one game that I can't remember the name of for the life of me. For a game as old as it was, it was extremely colorful, it was a racing game. Kind of like tron, with primaries on a black backdrop, but it was crazy fun. Despite all the crashing I did. :B
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    Post by Fluttershy Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:15 am

    Floppy disk, oh how I remembered using those. :>
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    Post by countchocula86 Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:58 am

    You guys are too young to talk about floppy disks Razz
    I remember the 5 inch ones haha. Ooooh an when zip disks were gonna be the future.

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