post your old favorite games here

[Plume & Akakak]

Coming to my mind...

From LucasFilm Games, on an Atari 130XE :

- Ballblazer :

- Rescue on Fractalus :

(The terror I felt when I met a green-helmet pilot for the first time is still etched in my memory.)

- The Eidolon :

- Later, on Atari ST, but still by LucasFilm Games, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders :

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Then I liked what Ere Informatique (later called Exxos, then Cryo) was doing. Their science-fiction universes were rich and light-years away from anything else in the videogame industry :

- Extase :

abandonware download (french)

- Captain Blood, and I still have a crush for the 1994 reboot Commander Blood. They used cool hand-muppets for some animations :

Commander Blood abandonware download (french)

- Purple Saturn Day, especially its psychedelic Hyperspace Jump event :

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- also Kult : The Temple of Flying Saucers, Teenage Queen or RoBBBot...

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Then randomly...

- Lemmings, of course:

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- Loved being a princess riding a dragon and having fun carbonizing valorous knights in Thanatos :

- And forever :

Edited July 6, 2015 by Plume & Akakak

[StrandedonEarth]

StarCraft: Broodwar. Hallucinated Arbiter Double Recall FTW! (famous last words: "Hey, where's my base go?")

Rogue Squadron.

For a real blast from the past: the "Strike" series (Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Urban Strike) on the Sega Genesis

Edit: Almost forgot "Wizardry" and its sequels on the Apple IIe

Edited June 3, 2015 by StrandedonEarth

[longbyte1]

PS2.. the good old days..

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, War of the Monsters, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (SW-themed Age of Empires), Battlefront 1, ...

I didn't really grow up with PC games so I never really enjoyed "classics" like Quake, Doom, and Oregon Trail.

[FleshJeb]

My favorite old game, and possibly favorite game of all time is Steel Panthers: World at War.

Turn-based, hex-based, WW2, Company/Batallion-level strategy game.

It has an amazingly detailed "physics" model, and some of the best sound design I've heard in any game.

Originally sold in 2000, then released for free by the devs. I still play regularly.

SPWAW Download

This is the only site I know of that has the 8.403 patch. I used to hang out on that site quite a bit, they're legit.

Installation instructions

The best and only mod the game needs. The balance and feel is excellent. Probably because the lead developer was a key part of it.

SPWAW Enhanced FR (wow! updated Dec 2014. My copy is from 2008 or so)

I believe they recommended setting Artillery vs Soft Targets to 120% in the preferences.

Default Scenarios updated to work with Enhanced (just found out about this)

Apparently SPWAW is having issues with Windows 7 (originally a DOS game). There's a workaround, and I'll do more research if anyone is interested.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectDraw\Compatibility\SPWaW-v8.403]
"Flags"=hex:00,08,00,00
"Name"="mech.exe"
"ID"=hex:45,1a,94,43

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\DirectDraw\Compatibility\SPWaW-v8.403]
"Flags"=hex:00,08,00,00
"Name"="mech.exe"
"ID"=hex:45,1a,94,43

Edited June 3, 2015 by FleshJeb