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Ignorant_Florist
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Pipebomb Monkey

P: 02/26/2021 14:45 EST
   
-[IBSC]-iLluSiON- wrote:
Ignorant_Florist wrote:
PC literally stands for Personal Computer.
Captain Obvious, hi.

Some of the games on my list are from the 80s. We had a Compaq, I believe one of their first desktop models and as a kid in the 80s I would play some games via Floppy disk.
I never had a Commodore or Amiga and I'm also a little bit younger than you, so I missed some of that stuff.
But I would argue 100% that the golden age is not the 1980s. Consoles were dominating at that time (well, I guess nothing has changed) and after ET nearly destroyed the gaming market, Nintendo revitalized it. I suppose computer gaming had their chance but let's face it, computers were more expensive then, relative to today.
The 90s had the onset of the internet and CD technology. PC gaming started to blossom, and we ain't talking no Chips Challenge and Minesweeper. I would even say it continued on into the early 2000s and games like Jedi Knight II are absolute classics.
I want to play more Amiga games considering I write electronic music using the same format as the Amiga musicians. There was a point in time when Amiga music was far superior than midi-based music, typically found in windows games.
You're welcome.

A lot of people don't realize that. They simply see "PC" and think "Oh, a Windows based computer". I brought all that up, because while most modern gamers are aware of "console wars", they are completely uninformed(didn't want to say "ignorant") of the fact that there was a Personal Computer version of that same type of "war".

Truth bomb: Had Jay Minor and his team not invented the Amiga computer when they did, "PC" gaming would still be 2D, and using 16 bit graphics.

"No one needs more than 640k" - Bill Gates.

For quite a while, Commodore dominated the home computer market with their Commodore 64. Six million units were shipped, not to mention their peripherals(disk drives, monitors, etc).

As far as ET goes... that was merely a symptom of a much larger problem. One that Nintendo fixed. Atari had absolutely NO say over the quality of games released for their systems. Nintendo learned from that mistake, and required a specific chip(available only from them) to be installed in a cartridge before it would work on their hardware. Third party companies HAD to submit their software for a "quality check" from Nintendo, before the chips would be made available to them. If the game failed their quality check, no chips were issued. No chips, no sub-standard games.

ET, like Pac-Man before it(on the Atari 2600), was licensed, then rushed into production, quality be damned, to meet a specific holiday shopping season. The hardware limitations have been proven to be a strawman argument. Competent programmers are still releasing games(on the same hardware), of much higher quality. Had the same efforts been used back then, both Pac-Man and ET would have been very successful. But you can't expect even a really good programmer to come up with full code on a "blockbuster" game in only 8 weeks.

For the record, I do enjoy talking about this subject. I lived through it, and because I've seen both Atari and Commodore pretty much written out of gaming history, I want to fix that. They both deserve to be recognized for their contributions. I mean, I get that "history is written by the victors"... but Hitler gets more respect, and that's sad.
  
Gize_
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P: 02/26/2021 15:23 EST
   
Help wrote:
What old school game floats your boat
The Incredible Machine / The Incredible Machine 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YjvbBGsnM
  
-[IBSC]-iLluSiON-
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Killer Scout

P: 02/26/2021 16:33 EST
    Iggy, you're 100% correct and sorry if I came off like a dink by called you Capt. Obvious. I'm at the age where I remember a time before Windows and when there were other types of PCs, but I'm not quite old enough to have been knowledgeable about it during that time. I've definitely been playing computer games since 86-87, though, but most of my gaming experience is from 95 on, after windows 95 came out.

I actually want to get a c64 or amiga at some point and just go down that black hole of stuff I missed.
  
Prelude to Agony
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Duty

P: 02/26/2021 16:55 EST
    I fucked around with a C-64 emulator awhile back. It was...flawed...but it allowed me to play the two games I dug the most on the system...Gateway to Apshai and Dragonriders of Pern.

There was a third game, Sector 7, that was fun AF, but super hard to come by.

I still have my C-64 and 1541, but it's tucked away. I'm planning on digging it, and my old consoles, out and displaying them. Just have to find them.

Iggy is just a different breed. When someone talks PC, they're almost never referencing anything before Windows. It's at the forefront of, say, Warzone, because PC, XBox and PS can cross platform....and PC users usually get a lot of hate.
  
sp0t
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Assault Cannon
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P: 02/26/2021 19:10 EST
    Syphon Filter  
AdvanceMelee
Peon
Pyro

P: 02/26/2021 19:48 EST
    command & conquer series
mario bros 3
zelda OOT
mortal kombat II
banjo kazooie
  
9x
P: 02/26/2021 21:35 EST
    Oldschool Runescape   
Ignorant_Florist
Daycare Manager
Pipebomb Monkey

P: 02/27/2021 06:59 EST
   
-[IBSC]-iLluSiON- wrote:
Iggy, you're 100% correct and sorry if I came off like a dink by called you Capt. Obvious. I'm at the age where I remember a time before Windows and when there were other types of PCs, but I'm not quite old enough to have been knowledgeable about it during that time. I've definitely been playing computer games since 86-87, though, but most of my gaming experience is from 95 on, after windows 95 came out.

I actually want to get a c64 or amiga at some point and just go down that black hole of stuff I missed.
I ain't mad, my friend. You lobbed some banter, I lobbed it back. That's how it works where I'm from. 😁

If you want to learn something about the Amiga, I suggest you start here: https://youtu.be/fg8uKYLa1Aw
It's funny to sit here and think of the leaps and bounds computers have evolved by, in my lifetime alone. From a 1mhz processor, with RAM in the kilobytes.... to now with processors with multiple cores, each one measuring in the ghz range, and RAM thousands of times larger than those we started out with, and storage drives in the terabytes. I never would have imagined it back then.

  
Backalleybuttlove
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Crack-Powered Capper

P: 02/27/2021 14:14 EST
    A lot of people here are name dropping Deus Ex. I played it back in the day, didn't get passed the first level. I wish I gave it more of a try. I just downloaded it on Steam for like a dollar. I think the problem was that Half Life also came out and I liked Half Life's gameplay better. It was more about the shot-em-up than the role playing.

Given that I played counter-strike religiously for damn near ten years then off and on for another ten years until it got stale and then moved on to TFC on a whim... I'd say my favorite game is the old school half life cannon. The fact that I and a lot of people here still play it is a testament to its high gameplay value. A lot of people are wont to move on to the next game that has the better graphics. Good graphics are good but have nothing on seeing a D2F veteran scout hand-held-conc jump passed three sentries in the basement and successfully capture the flag.

  
sp0t
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P: 02/27/2021 14:35 EST
    Prototype was pretty badass, too. I loved the open-world and being able to run up the sides of skyscrapers. Playable without even doing any of the missions...  
JiK MAZZ
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WMD Creator

P: 02/27/2021 21:31 EST
    Sounds like some of you guys would enjoy The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube if you haven’t already watched him.   
Ignorant_Florist
Daycare Manager
Pipebomb Monkey

P: 02/27/2021 23:58 EST
    Yeah. He did a decent documentary on the Amiga computers some time back. I think I stumbled across him first on one of the arcade forums I'm on.  
Help
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Crack-Powered Capper

P: 02/28/2021 01:07 EST
   
Ignorant_Florist wrote:
Help wrote:
Ok, so I just found out recently you can get Warcraft II off of Gog.com. It is my favorite game from the 1990’s! The silly peons yelling “jobs done” and “what is it” puts a smile on my face. I still refuse to play as the orcs! What old school game floats your boat. Of course not counting TFC 😜.
LMAO! You're JUST discovering that?

There IS a drawback to that, though... the "reading" of the text between missions is missing. Ask me how I know.

I have a fairly decent GOG library. Including some of the Dragonlance AD&D games from the early/mid 90s.

I have to be honest.... most of those game did NOT age well. I still enjoy them because of the nostalgia.... but new gamers will dismiss them real quick.

Oh, and I *LOVE* playing as the Orcs!

ZUG ZUG!
Iggy, you played as the orcs! You must love your butter side down! Kudos to those that catch that reference!
  
Help
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Crack-Powered Capper

P: 02/28/2021 01:12 EST
   
gg#4 wrote:
Twisted Metal

Great game. I always played as the motorcycle, probably because I love road rash 😁
  
Help
Super Regular
Crack-Powered Capper

P: 02/28/2021 01:13 EST
   
Spoofer wrote:
Battletoads, yo.
Sadist! That game was way too hard.
  
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