What's your favourite "old" game?

[TonyC]

Star Wars : Battlefront II, even if I started playing it a month ago or so. Very nice gameplay and concept, and a few graphics mod make it respectable enough, mostly regarding character and weapon skins.

[JetJaguar]

If I had to pick one, my favourite game of all time is the original X-Com. In fact, I just picked up the current game on sale on Steam this past weekend and while it's also excellent, there are a few things from the original that I still prefer.

Honorable mentions:

Pitfall (Atari 2600)
Wing Commander
Elite (played this on the Apple IIe)
The Ultima series (especially III, IV, and V)
Tomb Raider
Gran Turismo

[Just Jim]

Actually, after a lot of hard thinking, I'm going to retract my other answer and really date myself at the same time.

My favorite old game... really, really old, has to be KICKBALL!!

When I was young all the kids from around the block would play. Even had the big red rubber ball!!!
The games got so big one of the neighbor's parents even spray painted bases for us on a really safe side-road.
We did this pretty much every nice evening for years!


IMO... a good kickball game beats any and all computer games!

[Gilph]

Sid Meier's Gettysburg. Best game ever

[Godot]

[quote name='Just Jim']"Old" game?
Simple: Dungeons and Dragons.... with dice, calculators and lots of paper and pencils!

I learned to play in the early 80' when I was stationed in Germany.... and it definitely is the cause of my gaming addiction... lol..[/QUOTE]

That´s actually strange ... considering that DSA (Das Schwarze Auge ... The Black Eye) is the most popular Pen & Paper RPG in germany, I would have expected you to get infected with the DSA virus there :D
(on the other hand, IIRC it didn´t come out before 1984 or 1985 ... so if you said first half of the 80s, it might have been too early then)

[Just Jim]

[quote name='Godot']That´s actually strange ... considering that DSA (Das Schwarze Auge ... The Black Eye) is the most popular Pen & Paper RPG in germany, I would have expected you to get infected with the DSA virus there :D
(on the other hand, IIRC it didn´t come out before 1984 or 1985 ... so if you said first half of the 80s, it might have been too early then)[/QUOTE]

Nope, missed that one. I left in summer 1982.

[Andem]

Legend of Zelda. The first one. Obviously.

[legoclone09]

I like CS 1.6 and Halo CE.

[Evanitis]

Planescape Torment, Sacrifice, Uplink

I somehow never uninstall this three.

[BloodDusk]

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.

Somehow, manages to be more entertaining than Skyrim.

[magnemoe]

13 hours ago, BloodDusk said:

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.

Somehow, manages to be more entertaining than Skyrim.

HALT

Still remember the guards. And yes its probably my favorite old game. 

Talking about old games, remember an old pc rpg game, you stared on an spaceship, you did an recon mission and crashed, Woke up with some aliens, had to find the compass and map in an cellar, later found it was humans on the planet, the ailens could mount an dagger on the tail. Outside of the start it was pretty much an medieval setting. 
Anybody remember its name? 

[Stewcumber]

My absolute favourite has to be Mafia. Followed by CoD 2 maybe! And San Andreas has to be up there too...

Ahh... Simpler times eh?

[KerikBalm]

Homeworld (and homeworld 2, never played cataclysm)

Warzone 2100

Earthsiege and earth siege 2

half life

xcom/tftd

some others that I saw here, forgot about, and then forgot about again as I went through the pages of this thread.

I did see one mention of Grim Fandango, which I played and enjoyed, its certainly unique and has a certain artistic style to it that you don't find elsewhere, so I thought I'd give a shoutout for that, since I don't think many played it.

I also got into civ, but that didn't happen until after all those other games I mentioned.

Edited February 6, 2016 by KerikBalm

[pTrevTrevs]

What actually counts as "old"? Because my favorite strategy game was released in 2006. 

I like Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64, as well as that podracing game for the same system. I mean, if nothing else good came out of The Phantom Menace, at least we got that podracing game.

[Wjolcz]

Maybe not as old as some other games in this thread, but I was six when this came out:

Love it or hate it, but admit that some serious skills were required to beat this level.

[Bill Phil]

21 minutes ago, Veeltch said:

Maybe not as old as some other games in this thread, but I was six when this came out:

Love it or hate it, but admit that some serious skills were required to beat this level.

That is a fun game.....

[Peder]

My favorite old game is Sid meiers covert action.
It is a spy game where you have to catch terrorists by breaking codes and making survaliance among many other things and best of all everything in the game is random.

Now a days you can even buy it on steam ;-)  
http://store.steampowered.com/app/327390/?l=danish

here is a review of the game.. . ( I recommend to disable the sound, and play with keyboard ).

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/11/18/covert-action-review/

[Kelderek]

This is going to date me a bit, but my favorite old game is Stars! (circa '94 or thereabouts).  My first 4X game and also the first game I purchased over the internet (shareware) -- the whole thing fit on a single 3.5" floppy disk and can probably still be played (it worked on all Windows versions up to Vista, but I haven't tried it yet on Windows 10).  I have installed it on every one of my computers for the past 20+ years and played it for countless hours.  I found this screenshot with a google search:

I should give it a try again, I'm sure I have it on a CD somewhere.

[Moesly_Armlis]

When piloting in KSP with a keyboard and realizing that when in a tight situation my keyboard finger pressure is increasing.  As if the keyboard had pads underneath the buttons that registered the amount of pressure applied.

Original Street Fighter game in an arcade that I visited on Younge street in Toronto had rubber punch pads underneath the buttons that registered the amount of pressure applied.  Kids would be smashing those buttons with everything they had, too bad it only had three levels of sensitivity.  Having played the six button I wanted to try this deluxe model.  Very poor results but was interesting gameplay.  You could see the other player tense up just before those hard attacks were smashed into the button.
 

 

[HebaruSan]

I have loved many and played more, but if you slice open my heart and squeeze, out will flow:

• Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
• Mines of Titan (AKA "Mars Saga")
• Ultima VII

I was too young to know any better.

On 2/7/2016 at 5:28 PM, Peder said:

My favorite old game is Sid meiers covert action.

Thanks for the recommendation. This is currently on sale for <$2 on Steam, so I'll be giving it a try.

[SuperTrouper]

Someone mentioned Rise of Nations? (I loved that game) Apparently it was used in a psychological study.

http://phys.org/news/2008-12-strategic-video-game-critical-cognitive.html

HA! All my years of conquering the world has increased my cognitive abilities!

Also I don't think Janes Fleet Command was mentioned; that was another good one.

[pxi]

17 hours ago, MoeslyArmlis said:

Original Street Fighter game in an arcade that I visited on Younge street in Toronto had rubber punch pads underneath the buttons that registered the amount of pressure applied.  Kids would be smashing those buttons with everything they had, too bad it only had three levels of sensitivity.  Having played the six button I wanted to try this deluxe model.  Very poor results but was interesting gameplay.  You could see the other player tense up just before those hard attacks were smashed into the button.

I've only ever seen one of those cabinets in the wild, and I'm pretty sure it was the standard button variety.  I doubt it was even a 6-button version.  Most of the arcade operators in Northern Ireland were content to just stick SFII boards into existing 3-button JAMMA setups, so you were usually just left playing with Medium and Heavy Punch and Heavy Kick.

[RizzoTheRat]

On ‎08‎/‎02‎/‎2016 at 7:16 AM, Kelderek said:

This is going to date me a bit, but my favorite old game is Stars! (circa '94 or thereabouts).  My first 4X game and also the first game I purchased over the internet (shareware) -- the whole thing fit on a single 3.5" floppy disk and can probably still be played (it worked on all Windows versions up to Vista, but I haven't tried it yet on Windows 10).  I have installed it on every one of my computers for the past 20+ years and played it for countless hours.  I found this screenshot with a google search:

I should give it a try again, I'm sure I have it on a CD somewhere.

I've not managed to get it running on Windows 7 or 10, but I have an old netbook that runs XP so I have been known to remote to it from desktop to be able to play it on the big screen and keyboard.  Fantastic game.  I tend to go the Ethereal route and advanced station building to eventually build Deathstars for them to live in.

[Moesly_Armlis]

8 hours ago, pxi said:

...so you were usually just left playing with Medium and Heavy Punch and Heavy Kick.

Such a loss.  The fast punch or fast kick was important to stop combos.  Demand your money back!

[pxi]

15 hours ago, MoeslyArmlis said:

Such a loss.  The fast punch or fast kick was important to stop combos.  Demand your money back!

Hehe people in my area at the time hadn't figured out anything more complicated combo-wise than jump-in kick -> sweep.  Some of them were flummoxed to find that Ryu could Tatsumaki through Guile's Sonic Boom.  That had people telling me to 'stop cheating' more than once.

What I'd really like my money back for was the atrocious Amiga port.  I don't know what they were thinking trying to get it all to work with one button, and probably I needed my head examined for thinking it would be worth buying.  If there was one upside to that, it forced me to buy a SNES.

Edited February 11, 2016 by pxi