Whats your favorite old computer game?

SimCity 2000 was amazing... so was SimAnt and SimFarm and even the Sims later on.

I hope they put that in xbox game pass..oh ps 5 then

Myst was pretty amazing. Ever tried Return to Zork? It was kind of similar but very unique.

Don't forget the Flash classic, Hide the Fart

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny

and

Ultima VII: The Black Gate (plus expansions)

Phantasie II. Spent many hours on this one..

ohboy i even cheated in forza 5 again by peeking into a video that tells how to finish a lvl.

Karateka - I played this in computer club in junior high in 1984.

did you enjoy Ultima Online? It's still going strong today, along with many private servers. Official servers still exist, altho Atlantic is where the majority of the players are.

Such an amazing game with endless possibility.

Commander Keen

Quake II

Bioshock

Thank you SO much for this website. I found MY favorite game, Civ II and am playing it now.

I can't tell you how much this means to me.

~sniff~



Edited to add another oldschool gaming website: [link to www.gog.com (secure)]

Last Edited by Bar20 on 04/26/2022 07:47 PM

wolfenstein 3d

You're welcome. I have a membership to GOG.

I really support them because of the DMR free content.

damn fine game that was, the first FPS game that existed, i think? Before DOOM

I did play it for a long time in its day, but it killed a piece of my soul.

I was a lone wolf and saved every coin for ages to buy a keep deed and finally managed to pull it off. By the time I finally did it, there was a housing crisis as pretty much every available piece of land big enough for one was consumed.

Then, they announced a land rush where they were going to open a bunch more world for housing and I was so excited, I spent weeks combing the wilderness for a space and finally found what, I swear, was the last unclaimed place big enough for a keep - an amazing spot, in the forest near Cove, where there was no possibility of being surrounded or boxed in, right near the water. Perfect!

I checked on it every day, tested my deed for placement and all was green - then finally, the countdown started and I stood there in the spot, ready to place it. Never saw a soul there, like no one knew about it, but I wasn't taking any chances.

3... 2... 1!!!

*** NO CARRIER ***

My 56k dial-up connection dropped - literally at the turn over of the clock. I desperately tried to reconnect, and it was probably 30 minutes before I got back on.

When I finally did, someone had taken the plot - not with a worthy keep, mind you - but a tiny basic house, plopped right in the middle of it. There wasn't a single plot of land anywhere left that was big enough for the keep.

That was my first and worst encounter with nerd rage. Punched a hole in my sheet rock, invented a few new colorful expletives, and shut the computer down. Was quite some time before I could stomach playing again. Hah! Crazy times.

I actually had a friend who was working dev on a C# UO rebuild project and got to play with a little of that code. Fun times! But I didn't actually play on it.

Seconded... Man, it was amazing at the time. First game I had that had cds and there was like 8 or so of them in the fold out. Before that it was ultima.

Other games from back then I remember playing was sho gun, moebius, a ton of point and click games.
You can play ultima 4 quest of the avatar free download online that uses a dos box emulator type thing. I teally liked old video game rpgs with thier awesome and extensive game booklets. Ultimas wrre the best having to decifer runes and shit.

I'd usualy get a new game get all excited reading the booklet in the tub for like an hour. I absolutely hate that they don't make game booklets anymore and you have to download some measly pos. 60 bucks for a game and you cant print out a dollar booklet and shove it in there? Ugh.

I really like civ 4...better than all the other ones hands down. Really liked first witcher computer game too.(sequels too obviously with witcher3 being my favorite and INARGUABLY the best rpg to date). Witcher 4 is going to be outstanding and it will be computer only, no consoles. Baldurs gate 1 and 2 were dope really wish I had a computer strong enough to play baldurs gate 3 when it fully comes out final edition no bugs. All those d&d games were good...but some focused mote on fighting - I like the story stuff. Torment is cool, but I love to read. Neverwinters were decent - mask of the betrayer is dope. I don't have a computer that would run the types of games I want to play now. I didn't really think about it back then but we must have had the most badass top of the line machines back when I was a kid, father was a computer consultant. Wished they'd make some updayed remakes of the old d&d games like tjose and pools of radiance. Not beamdog crap...real remakes with new graphics and game engines.

God damn disentary and wagon wheels!

Gold box d and d.

Warcraft II

Didn't know about it then as a kid obviously, but man you other ultima 7 lovers...'the fellowship' sure seems like some psycho scientolgy type shit, huh?