Ahh the great old games.
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Only before Y2K well then Final Fantasy 7 easily still play it most years, other than that there is Crash Team Racing which I also still play and love but mainly only with friends.
Other special mentions off the top of my head would be:-
Super mario bros 3
street fighter 2 turbo
bubble bobble on C64 (this has aged poorly unfortunately)
Punch Out (on Nes as I never played the other versions)
The Fools errand (cheating a bit here as I have only played it recently but what a game despite its age)
with the exception of bubble bobble I still play these games on occasion even now.
Other special mentions off the top of my head would be:-
Super mario bros 3
street fighter 2 turbo
bubble bobble on C64 (this has aged poorly unfortunately)
Punch Out (on Nes as I never played the other versions)
The Fools errand (cheating a bit here as I have only played it recently but what a game despite its age)
with the exception of bubble bobble I still play these games on occasion even now.
17 years old, with my first big screen TV and Dolby Pro Logic surround setup turned up way too high.......I put this in my Playstation.
Yes, Playstation, not PSOne....fucking Playstation!
1997, the year that driving games changed forever
Yes, Playstation, not PSOne....fucking Playstation!
1997, the year that driving games changed forever
The best old school game are the 2-D Mario games really. All other games haven't aged well except, for these games.
Super Mario Bros. 1-3
Super Mario World
Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, LttP
Castlevania I-IV
Final Fantasy I-IV, VI
Star Fox 64
Kirby's Adventure
Tetris
Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles IV
Sonic 1-3
Pokemon Red and Blue
Pokemon Snap
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
Donkey Kong Country
Fire Emblem
Super Mario 64
Super Mario World
Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, LttP
Castlevania I-IV
Final Fantasy I-IV, VI
Star Fox 64
Kirby's Adventure
Tetris
Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles IV
Sonic 1-3
Pokemon Red and Blue
Pokemon Snap
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
Donkey Kong Country
Fire Emblem
Super Mario 64
Banjo Kazooie & Arguably Banjo Tooie (released 2000, but I don't care )
Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2
Mario 64
Super Mario Bros 3.
Starfox 64
Perfect Dark
Goldeneye (once again, not sure if before 2000, but it still stacks up there.)
Tetris.
Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles on Gameboy
Spiderman on Gameboy
Legend of ZeldaL: Links awakening (Gameboy), Legend of Zelda (CDI... Not the faces of evil or the wand of gamelon.. No, the (even more) horrible one) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask etc. etc. etc.
Mario Kart 64
Good games, good games. Love Banjo Kazooie & Tooie
)Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2
Mario 64
Super Mario Bros 3.
Starfox 64
Perfect Dark
Goldeneye (once again, not sure if before 2000, but it still stacks up there.)
Tetris.
Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles on Gameboy
Spiderman on Gameboy
Legend of ZeldaL: Links awakening (Gameboy), Legend of Zelda (CDI... Not the faces of evil or the wand of gamelon.. No, the (even more) horrible one
) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask etc. etc. etc.Mario Kart 64
Good games, good games. Love Banjo Kazooie & Tooie
hmmm from my childhood days i quite fondly remembering:
Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2, Crash Bandicoot Warped (you know from when he was done by naughty dog)
Spyro, Spyro 2, Spyro 3 (shame he went downhill from there D= )
sonic from his heydays
Legend of Legaia (still my most favourite RPG)
Ape escape
oddworld: Abes oddysee and exodus
and all the pokemon games (before they went to DS)
obviously im not as old as some on this site D=
Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2, Crash Bandicoot Warped (you know from when he was done by naughty dog)
Spyro, Spyro 2, Spyro 3 (shame he went downhill from there D= )
sonic from his heydays
Legend of Legaia (still my most favourite RPG)
Ape escape
oddworld: Abes oddysee and exodus
and all the pokemon games (before they went to DS)
obviously im not as old as some on this site D=
Fallout and Planescape: Torment seem almost too obvious to mention.
Heroes of Might & Magic 2 and the original Worms are two older favourites.
Oh, and Goblins 3... that I've never finished, frankly. But I still like to listen to the original soundtrack [http://youtu.be/I015-Ym03mA]. How could they have changed it in the Windows version?!
And one more title comes to mind - Dyna Blaster.
Heroes of Might & Magic 2 and the original Worms are two older favourites.
Oh, and Goblins 3... that I've never finished, frankly. But I still like to listen to the original soundtrack [http://youtu.be/I015-Ym03mA]. How could they have changed it in the Windows version?!
And one more title comes to mind - Dyna Blaster.
Well can't include Baldur's Gate 2 as that was released in the year 2000 so I'll have to go to another old game.
Not going to win any points for originality with this one but I'll go with Goldeneye on the N64, though it may have dated very badly, as its an N64 game, I don't think how good this game was at the time can be stressed enough.
It was a shooter that had an excellent single player and multiplayer. Not many shooters, especially in recent times, can claim that.
Not going to win any points for originality with this one but I'll go with Goldeneye on the N64, though it may have dated very badly, as its an N64 game, I don't think how good this game was at the time can be stressed enough.
It was a shooter that had an excellent single player and multiplayer. Not many shooters, especially in recent times, can claim that.
Thank goodness someone said Hired Guns. Loved that game. Playing multiplayer at my BFF's, pre-LAN years, was made of special. Only two games I played more fervently were Worms and Lemmings.JesterRaiin said:
Bring back the glory game houses like Team17 and Psygnosis!
I spent a good deal of time getting headaches by trying to complete the original Tomb Raider. The level in the mines/caves towards the end caused so much eye-strain. I tried playing it recently. How the endless low-res texture blocks didn't give me a migraine as a child, I'll never know. Painful, yo.
Most of my pre-2000 gaming was done down at the Arcade. There was a special one near where I lived that had a good mix of latest and oldies ("ancients" by today's standard), so alongside your Tekken 2s and Marvel vs. Capcoms and Point Blanks/Time Crises, you had Moonwalker and Metal Slug, The Simpsons Arcade and various R-Type clones. Very hi-octane arcade masterpieces, that sucked the coins from your pocket as fast as they made your eyeballs explode.
Good times.
Although it doesn't even compare to today's phenomenal gaming advances. I only really love the G.O.G.s for the warm, comforting nostalgia; a level of enjoyment that today's soulless megafunded blockbusters will never reach, even after a similar amount of time passing. I guess this is why I play more indie games now? The simplicity hearkens back to the days where you didn't have to commit forty hours of your life to be disappointed by a lacklustre ending.
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C64:
InterKarate II (great music)
The last Ninja I & II (even better music)
Ghost'n Goblins (best plattform game ever)
Defender of the crown (again, great music, great gfx)
Amiga:
Monkey Island I & II
Their finest hour (Lucasfilm games were best at that time)
Falcon I & II
PC:
WingCommander
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
DOOM 1 (1st real FPS)
Xwing / TieFighter/ XvTIE / XwingAlliance (still waiting for XWING 2012, plz?)
Rainbow6 (gave me shaky hands)
Age of Empires (gave me nightmares)
InterKarate II (great music)
The last Ninja I & II (even better music)
Ghost'n Goblins (best plattform game ever)
Defender of the crown (again, great music, great gfx)
Amiga:
Monkey Island I & II
Their finest hour (Lucasfilm games were best at that time)
Falcon I & II
PC:
WingCommander
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
DOOM 1 (1st real FPS)
Xwing / TieFighter/ XvTIE / XwingAlliance (still waiting for XWING 2012, plz?)
Rainbow6 (gave me shaky hands)
Age of Empires (gave me nightmares)
