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Super Regular
Crack-Powered Capper
|  | | P: | 02/26/2021 00:35 EST |
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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 😜. | |
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 | 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! | |
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moose poop
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Body Splatter
| | P: | 02/26/2021 08:39 EST |
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| Ignorant_Florist wrote:
I have a fairly decent GOG library. Including some of the Dragonlance AD&D games from the early/mid 90s.
Oh, and I *LOVE* playing as the Orcs!
ZUG ZUG! | |
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[SHS]Hitz
Super Regular
Killer Scout
| | | P: | 02/26/2021 09:00 EST |
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Fire up some Quake III Arena and see what shooters used to be like. Amazing stuff from the late 90’s. | |
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gg#4
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Killer Scout
| | | P: | 02/26/2021 09:10 EST | | E: | 02/26/2021 09:14 EST |
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Tetris - love that shit. Actually had an overlay I think on WoW with Tetris to play when I was waiting for Battlegrounds queues.
Minesweeper was pretty cool back in the days of 56k and having a sister who needed to talk on the phone for hours.
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Golden Eye for N64
Madden games
Metal Gear Solid
Twisted Metal
About sums up my early years of gaming like younger than 14
Back in the middle 2000's at my first professional job all of us would play Rainbow Six over the company network. They had a de_dust inspired map and I just wrecked them all on it. But every other map I was just better than average as they had been playing the same maps for years. Once the map experience became level I just dominated a bunch of late 20's - 40 year olds. | |
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Are we talking PC or consoles?
If we are talking PC then here's the games that left a mark on me:
DEFENDER OF THE CROWN
ALLEY CAT
FROGGER
PACMAN
DOOM
DOOM II
SHADOW WARRIOR
DEUS EX
THE NEVERHOOD
LORDS OF THE REALM II
SPACEQUEST
(any old Sierra game, really)
THE DIG
RED BARON II
XCOM
NEED FOR SPEED I AND II
AGE OF WONDERS (might be my fav all time)
STARCRAFT
WARCRAFT II
DIABLO I
MDK
AGE OF EMPIRES I
AGE OF EMPIRES II
ELDER SCROLLS DAGGERFALL
POSTAL
QUAKE
UNREAL
RAINBOW SIX
SIM CITY 2000
WORMS
and uhh a bunch I'm forgetting from the mid to late 90s
I had a subscription to PC Gamer and PC Games magazine and used to look forward to the demo cds that came every month. I think the 90s was the golden era of pc gaming and Halflife was the cherry on top.
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Spoofer
Super Regular
WMD Creator
| | P: | 02/26/2021 10:51 EST |
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| -[IBSC]-iLluSiON- wrote:
Are we talking PC or consoles?
If we are talking PC then here's the games that left a mark on me:
I had a subscription to PC Gamer and PC Games magazine and used to look forward to the demo cds that came every month. I think the 90s was the golden era of pc gaming and Halflife was the cherry on top.
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PC literally stands for Personal Computer. Back in the 80s, there were several PCs on the market; The Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Apple/Macintosh, IBM Compatible(which later became the generic PC machine template), Amiga...
So, what would you consider the 80s era computer games?
Personally, I would consider computer gaming from the very late 70s into the 90s as the "Golden Age" of computer gaming. Once "Real Time" 3D rendering became the norm.... everything changed. Sure, there had been "simulated" 3D prior, but even now those games are considered "2D" by everyone, as the perspective(camera angle) never changed.
Some may argue(with some valid points) that it was the Windows OS that changed things. To a point, that's correct. Commodore went out of business(thus their platforms died off), Apple stopped focusing on gaming, and that left the Windows machines to dominate the PC market. I didn't mention Atari because they had already died out early in the 16-bit era. | |
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Vishus
Super Regular
Killer Scout
| | P: | 02/26/2021 11:14 EST |
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| -[IBSC]-iLluSiON- wrote:
DEUS EX
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Came in to post this. Currently replaying at the moment, as a matter of fact. Just landed in Vandenberg. My appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week.
Also... Morrowind. | |
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Reckoner
Super Regular
Crack-Powered Capper
| | | P: | 02/26/2021 11:26 EST |
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awood8
Super Regular
Spaz Sniper
| | | P: | 02/26/2021 11:26 EST | | E: | 02/26/2021 11:28 EST |
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Always loved team fortress classic. half life was the best thing ever. Such a clean game, scary, perfect shooting mechanics for its time. And Warcraft III (I guess I'm slightly younger than some). Warcraft III nearly made me bomb the SAT. | |
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-[IBSC]-iLluSiON-
Daycare Manager
Killer Scout
| | | P: | 02/26/2021 11:53 EST | | E: | 02/26/2021 11:56 EST |
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| 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. | |
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