What's your favourite "old" game?

[Camacha]

Quake. I used to install it on every system I owned for years and years, but now I lost the CD and I guess x64 will not run 16 bit applications any more.

[rodion]

Quake. I used to install it on every system I owned for years and years, but now I lost the CD and I guess x64 will not run 16 bit applications any more.

if you ever grab another copy i'd recommend the Darkplaces engine replacement for maximum compatibility and a raft of other improvements.

[segaprophet]

Marathon Infinity, bro.

[steve_v]

Marathon is awesome (the game that almost had me buying a Mac back in the day), some pretty good expansions out there too.

Multiplayer Infinity is.. fun, to say the least.

Both Quake & Marathon have nice open source engines = run on any modern OS, including GNU/Linux

For a totaly different genere: Just installed fs2_open: If you like space combat you can't go past Descent: Freespace & Freespace 2. My install is ~12GB, much addon content available

@Camacha: Quake is $9.99 on steam. You have no excuse

Get darkplaces and enjoy a real classic... at 200+FPS & OpenGL glory.

I has Quake + both mission packs + ~2GB of random single player missions + PainKeep (THE multiplayer mod from way back)

Guess I can't *legally* give them to you though

Edited December 3, 2014 by steve_v

[Norpo]

Warcraft III (NOT world of warcraft the MMO, made by the same people, tho), if only because i'm still playing it. Sure, it's not THAT old, but I think it was made in 2002 or so. The original without the expansion (throzen throne) was, anyways.

"ZUG ZUG" -orkish worker making a building

My favourite RTS. Not sure if the multiplayer is still active, as I haven't tried to do multiplayer (I'm probably not that good yet...), just done matches against the AI

[Godot]

Hard to say ... there have been different favorites at different times ... I guess the first among them would be

Master of Orion II

Baldurs Gate

and Civilization IV

Edited December 3, 2014 by Godot

[segaprophet]

Splatterhouse 2, bro.

[megatiger78]

earth 2150? the third one.

[Woopert]

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

[Bill Phil]

Hmm, let's see...

Doom, Doom II, Half-life, Asteroids, Megaman, Podracers, Smash Bros Melee, Tetris, Portal,...

That's just a few.

[SmartS=true]

Portal. The original game is around 7 years old

[Thomas988]

SimCity 4 was the bomb diggity! Compare this game to the atrocity of SimCity [5], and...well...you get the point. SC4 is unbelievably deep, and the amount of "stuff" in it is mind-boggling. And it's actually challenging! I've had many good memories with this game, and it taught me quite a lot about economics and city design. I highly suggest!

Beautiful!

[CaptainGiblets]

Toca Race Driver 3

I mean, it has karts...

[Kryten]

Portal. The original game is around 7 years old

Don't do things like this! You're making me feel old, and I'm 20. I'm too young for this, damnit.

[WinkAllKerb'']

SimCity 4 / [5]

The launch anb the first 1,5 first year was awfull ... horrible marketing, horrible pr ... and the off. ea forum +origin and tralala drm & tralalastorm &tralalaBtC was bloody like Poilus in theirs trench... /imisssomefacessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssttoevenbeabletopalm

... a few month i not checked simtropolis / and off.sc ... such a good concept mostly wasted due too ... just sad

this one probably in my first lode runner apple II, not totally sure rom is slowly going by itself after thousand and thousand games in the list;)

Edited December 7, 2014 by WinkAllKerb''

[MartGonzo]

SimCity 4 was the bomb diggity! Compare this game to the atrocity of SimCity [5], and...well...you get the point. SC4 is unbelievably deep, and the amount of "stuff" in it is mind-boggling. And it's actually challenging! I've had many good memories with this game, and it taught me quite a lot about economics and city design. I highly suggest!

Beautiful!

There's a new city builder coming out next year called Cities Skylines, the successor to Cities XL 2012.

looks pretty good

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/cities-skylines?___store=gb

I don't really think it counts as old but I've been getting back into Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 whilst waiting for the upcoming Rollercoaster World, I only just recently found out it's very moddable.

[Tw1]

SimCity 4 was the bomb diggity! Compare this game to the atrocity of SimCity [5], and...well...you get the point. SC4 is unbelievably deep, and the amount of "stuff" in it is mind-boggling. And it's actually challenging! I've had many good memories with this game, and it taught me quite a lot about economics and city design. I highly suggest!

http://i.imgur.com/ycOFOeX.jpg

Beautiful!

Simcity 4, another of my favorites. Are those the roundabouts from the NAM? Their modding community is still going strong.

[Thomas988]

Are those the roundabouts from the NAM?

No clue, just found the pic on Google images. I'm nowhere near that good at SC4.

[gooddog15]

The oldest game I've played was sonic the hedgehog 2 on the sega genesis. I don't have it any more, along with the console.

Although I did recently discover a copy of predator for that console though.

[Mehak50]

Wow! I have that game right now. (Croc) That was one of my favourites. I liked Serious Sam and System Shock 2, both very fun to play.

[Norpo]

Okay, I just found a new awesome game.

In development for decades (and still is), I present to you my latest discovery!

NETHACK!

It has the best graphics ever! (potentially sarcasm)

Quote from a player: "You can spend years playing it and never finish."

(oh and it's free)

[LordFerret]

I used to play Sim City 2000 for a while (no mods). My best city was called Lauren, it had a 4 billion surplus in the budget. I'd like to play it again sometime... SC4 is better than SC5? Is that what I should go with (SC4)?

[MartGonzo]

I used to play Sim City 2000 for a while (no mods). My best city was called Lauren, it had a 4 billion surplus in the budget. I'd like to play it again sometime... SC4 is better than SC5? Is that what I should go with (SC4)?

definitely, although if you want a new in depth large city builder you may want to look into Cities XXL which has just been released

basicly exactly the same game as Cities XL but now has multicore support

I've been playing that and also... the greatest game mod combination ever made

.....BRUTAL DOOM!!!!

(sorry, it has to be said that way)

[Flixxbeatz]

Unreal Tournament 3. Also UT '99

never played UT2004 tho.

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[r4pt0r]

Resident Evil 2. Ace Combat 4 is a VERY VERY close second.