Your favorite old games!

[JamesG]

The old AD&D games. Pools of Radiance, Eye of the Beholder, etc. The graphics and interactivity would be horrible by todays standards, but I enjoyed them.

There was also an old space game, that relatively realisticaly tried to simulate space travel. Can't remember the name of it, all I can remember are square "wheel" space stations (286s back in '89 couldn't handle doing a polygon torus).

Ah... Damn I feel old now. :/

 

[Andy44]

ATP from sublogic
Wolfenstein 3D
Falcon 3.0 Spectrum Holobyte
Sid Meier's Gettysburg/Antietam/South Mountain (I still play these)
all TalonSoft turn-based wargames
MechWarrior 2 (1 was fun, but underdeveloped)
Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis
Warhammer 20k: Space Marines
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic
Aces of the Deep
Aces of the Pacific
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe + many many addons
Close Combat series (I still play these)

 

[pharoah0110]

Lode Runner (for the Apple][+)
Mechwarrior 2 and 3 (even though MW3 was accused of being a "Mech Simulator" and not a game)
SimEarth
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

 

[doggie015]

PC: Wing Commander 3 and MechWarrior 2:Mercinaries

SNES: Super Mario 3

N64: Mario Kart

Xbox (NOT Xbox 360): Quantum Redshift

 

[Eagle]

Aces of the Pacific

Loved the Aces Series. Had the collection which had Red Barron, Aces over Europe, Aces of the Pacific and A-10 Tank Killer. Played it the same time with Wing Commander II.

It sure was a great feeling to survive with the realism at max. Probably the most exciting was coming home and landing in a P-38J with the port engine smoking from a dive bombing mission where the target was only partially destroyed. (Oh, and I had 2 F109 kills and the port engine choked on some flack).

 

[Andy44]

The thing I remember about AotP was that you could get wounded and fly almost all the way home, only to pass out and die just before getting to the base. That, and the really cool thing was that you could fly the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese side in a Kate torpedo bomber, complete with the circuitous route around the Hawaiian mountains. And intercepting giant flying boat bombers with a P-38. And fighting against historical aces in dogfights. What a great game that was.

 

[Rixile]

Elite, Frontier and First Encounters
Syndicate
Alien Breed
the first four Dizzy games
X-COM series
Speedball 2
The Chaos Engine
Doom
X-Wing/TIE Fighter
TFX
Dune II
Command & Conquer

I'm sure there are countless others too that have slipped my memory at this moment in time!

EDIT: Oooh, and Golden Axe!

I loved x-com. TFX = Team Fortess 1?

If 1997 is acceptable, i add Quake 2.

 

[bujin]

TFX = Team Fortess 1?

No, TFX was an old flight sim by Digital Image Design from 1993. I perfected the carrier landing on that one too! It allowed you to fly the Eurofighter, F22 and F117. Full virtual cockpit too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFX_(computer_game)

 

[n122vu]

Can't remember all my favorites off the top of my head, but here goes:

PC:
XCOM: UFO Defense - best three dollars I've ever spent LOL!
Covert Action
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Sports Car GT - best ten dollars I've ever spent


NES:
Metalstorm
Castlevania
Dragon Warrior
The Legend of Zelda (original)
Metroid
Contra

SuperNES:
Starfox
Street Fighter II
Starfleet Command
Wing Commander


Arcade:
Xevious
Tempest
Frogger
Star Wars
Dragon's Lair
Tron
Galaga

PS1:
Metal Gear Solid - one of my all-time favorites on any platform
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
Gran Turismo - another all-time favorite
Tomb Raider
Resident Evil 2 - My personal favorite of the series

3DO: - Yes, I had one of these....
Road & Track: The Need for Speed - the original game. The PS1 version did NOT do it justice
The Daedelus Encounter - very good sci-fi puzzle-based game - and it had Tia Carrera!!!
D - Horror genre, not to be confused with Vampire Hunter D

 

[Enjo]

As cjp loved Stunts and makes Ultimate Stunts, I loved Mercenary - a game of my youth, and I make MDDClone-SDL. PM me if you're interested in development versions for Windows and Linux

I'm very happy about the ScummVM project, letting you play old adventure games natively on many OS'.

I've also had a good time with Frontier and First Encounters, as well as Tie Fighter.

 

[jgrillo2002]

Descent, Mechwarrior 2, and Starcraft are my all time favs. still have then too

 

[Loru]

Frontier & First Encounters - still got second one with patch and play sometimes
X-Com 1 & 2
F/A 117 Stealth Fighter 2.0 (Microprose)
X-wing and Tie-Fighter (the old ones - but still like XWA)
Dune II
C&C
M.A.X (Mechanised Assault & Exploration - sth like Battle Isle but newer)
Warcraft 2
Transport Tycoon Deluxe

 

[insanity]

I just got Sim Tower installed on windows 7. Actually, it's installed on Windows 3.1 running dos box, but I love it.

 

[jedidia]

noone mentioned starflight yet...?

Let's not forget Planets Edge either, and allmighty Star Control 2 (got to be the most entertaining game of all times...)

But yes, I'd have to mention X-Com along with those too. I still play them sometimes...

 

[Linguofreak]

Wow. What a thread necro (over a year). In this case I'm not complaining, and I'll add Sopwith to the list.

Just because it's older than I am doesn't mean it isn't fun!

 

[ex-orbinaut]

Wow. What a thread necro (over a year).

It certainly is. Here are some of mine...

Sinclair Spectrum:
Psion Flight Simulator
Captain Blood
Silent Service
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
Elite
Oh, yes edit...
and of course Tomahawk and Fighter Pilot

Amiga
Ports of Call
Falcon
Birds of Prey
F-29 Retaliator
Stunt Car Racer
Indianapolis 500
M1 Tank Platoon
Flight Simulator 4
A320
Frontier
Deuteros
And another Oh, yes edit for the Amiga...
Civilization, Carrier Command, Armageddon and Mid Winter

PC
Action Stations
Tracon Win
ATP Flight Assignement
Task Force 1942
Aces of the Deep
Fast Attack
Flight Simulator 98
Indy Car Racing (MS)
MS Space Simulator
And another for the PC...
Imperialism

Looking at it, the themes are all pretty similar

 

[Unstung]

Age of Empires II (Best game ever.)
SimCity 3000
I still play Age of Empires II, but Vista can't run SimCity 3000 correctly, so I went with 4.
I'm surprised, both those games were apparently made in 1999. Each over a decade old.

 

[Arthur Dent]

C64
Oil Tycoon
Summer & Winter Games
Ace of Aces

PC
Sim City 2000
Duke Nukem 3D
Monkey Island Series + Day of Tentacle
Afterlife
Stunt Island
Theme Hospital
FIFA Road to the World Cup 98


@enjo: What a cooincidence. I just stumbled recently onto your side. I had Mecenary fo the C64. The Handbook with all the cool space craft illustrations was awesome

 

[garyw]

I'm shocked that no one has mentioned "The Bards Tale"

 

[kevinvr]

Space quests
Space Colony
SimTower
Colobot
Das Boot