Let's go back in time a bit...

Does anyone remember (or have played) these games?...

Designasaurus

Odell Down Under

Guy Spy

Amazon Trail

The Punisher (1988 Paragon Software version)

OnTarget

Ninja Rabbits

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

Monuments of Mars

Montezuma's Revenge

Arctic Adventure

Alleycat

...more to come as soon as I can remember.

I don't remember any of those, but I can run down some of my old timey favs.

Commander Keen Series

Doom

Whacky Wheels

Duke Nukem 3D

Hover!

Pitfall The Mayan Adventure

...yep good old days of gaming back in the 90s...they were good

From that list, the only one I played was Chuck Yeager Air Combat.

Okay, here are a few more...

Captain Comic

Duke Nukem 2D (yes, there was a Duke Nukem BEFORE 3D)

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Castle (this game is so old your character was a "+" sign)

Secret Agent: Hunt for the Red Rock Rover

Crystal Caves

Dark Ages

Commander Keen (I think enough people remember this one)

Math Blaster

Teazle

Corncob 3d

Falcon 3.0

...my mind is spent. But if I can think of more, I'll post 'em.

Odell Down Under was installed on all the computers at my Elementary school. That game was so hard.

From the second list I remember more. Captain Comic was one of my favorite games, though it frustrated me that there was no save system (that I could find at the age of 8 ). That and those bouncing beach balls always killed me. I still have a floppy of Math Blaster.

What about Troggle Trouble or Gizmos and Gadgets? I had a lot of fun with those educational games when I was little. DOS was pretty much all I had to play, while my friends had Nintendos and such. I would go on AOL and download all the games from their free DOS section.

Ahhh, Corncob 3d. That game was atrocious.Alaris83

Oh it was...oh man it was...

Actually, a lot of those games were garbage: Castle, Alleycat, Captain Comic, Falcon 3.0...I remember wanting to strangle myself in Alleycat everytime those stupid bulldogs got me in the house when I was trying to get the mice. Terrible.

I remember Cosmos Comic Adventure, played that alot. Same with the Falcon series, which I believe was on Mac as well.

How about a couple games from an old company named Access, they put out two excellent action adventure games called Mean Streets and Crime Wave. They were truly awsome games for their time.

Oh and how about Rise of the Dragon? Anyone? One of the greatest adventure games I have ever played ranked right up there with Sierra's lineup.

It's no wonder I got into PC Gaming, who wouldn't after playing all these games back in the day.

You're not old. I remember some of them however games like 'Maths Blaster'? - Is that some basic language game?

Anyway try these: StarRaiders, Miner2049er, Temple of Apshai, Wizard's Crown and of course any of the Ultima series. And believe it or not, I even rated them and gave it reviews.

Man, I guess I'm pretty old then...'cause no one remembers half of these games. Oh well.OWNaggio

I remember most of those :P

I'll add some too:

Halloween Harry (loved this one)

Jazz the Jackrabbit

Raptor: Call of the Shadows (awesome-ness)

Tyrian

Gorilla.bas

Pool of Radiance

Stronghold (original SSI game)

Scorched Earth

Space Quest

Police Quest

Lesuire Suit Larry: Land of the Lounge Lizards

Hugo's House of Horrors

Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure

King's Quest

4D Boxing (the best pc boxing game ever! not saying much though :P )

War of the Lance

Eye of the Beholder

"Ahhh, Corncob 3d. That game was atrocious."

ROFL! Ya it was.

This topic is awesome and interesting... better than to wait for the future. Idon't like thefuture and the current world.

Does anyone knows if Time Traveling is actually possible?I will do whetever is needed to travel back20 years. Anyway I remember that the first game I played was Pac-Man, then Asteroids, Pong, Space Invaders and Battle City. Such amazing games. I prefer this games over Call of Cra... Duty 2.

Does anyone remember (or have played) these games?...

Designasaurus

Odell Down Under

Guy Spy

Amazon Trail

The Punisher (1988 Paragon Software version)

OnTarget

Ninja Rabbits

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

Monuments of Mars

Montezuma's Revenge

Arctic Adventure

Alleycat

...more to come as soon as I can remember.

OWNaggio

Nope...

This topic is awesome and interesting... better than to wait for the future. Idon't like thefuture and the current world.

Does anyone knows if Time Traveling is actually possible?I will do whetever is needed to travel back20 years. Anyway I remember that the first game I played was Pac-Man, then Asteroids, Pong, Space Invaders and Battle City. Such amazing games. I prefer this games over Call of Cra... Duty 2.

Carbinesoldier5

I actually watched this show on Discovery Science once where this guy claimed he invented a teleporter that could only teleport one photon of light at a time. Considering that's almost completely useless and he's probably lying anyway, I guess we'll just have to resort to scouring the internet for old games.

OMG!!!! So many great games.

I remember playing Crystal Caves, Police Quest... That was a great time for PC gaming. Lots of good quality games.

Does anyone remember:

Street Rod (I think this was the very first tune-your-car game)

Rick Dangerous

Blues Brothers

Titus the Fox

Wings of Fury

The Duel

Stunts

I remember on the Tronic (Arkanoid rip off that is actually much better than Arkanoid) shareware there was an ad for Titus the Fox. I downloaded a demo for it and you were in a spaceship throwing pizzas at enemies. Really weird.

For a few posts above... Jazz Jackrabbit! Maybe someday Epic will take a break from Unreal Tournament and release a new Jazz game. I was really sad when the Jazz 3D project was cancelled. Raptor Call of the Shadows is probably the best shooter on the PC, and Scorched Earth is of course a classic.

How about these:

Winged Warrior
Boppin'
The Neverhood (GameSpot did a horrible job on their review for this game)
Chips Challenge
Ken's Labyrinth
Clyde's Adventure (I could never beat this... the time limit always ran out before I could get to the end of level 1)
Xargon
Alien Carnage

Okay, here are a few more...

Captain Comic

Duke Nukem 2D (yes, there was a Duke Nukem BEFORE 3D)

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Castle (this game is so old your character was a "+" sign)

Secret Agent: Hunt for the Red Rock Rover

Crystal Caves

Dark Ages

Commander Keen (I think enough people remember this one)

Math Blaster

Teazle

Corncob 3d

Falcon 3.0

...my mind is spent. But if I can think of more, I'll post 'em.

OWNaggio

Yeah, great games :D

Okay, here are a few more...

Captain Comic

Duke Nukem 2D (yes, there was a Duke Nukem BEFORE 3D)

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Castle (this game is so old your character was a "+" sign)

Secret Agent: Hunt for the Red Rock Rover

Crystal Caves

Dark Ages

Commander Keen (I think enough people remember this one)

Math Blaster

Teazle

Corncob 3d

Falcon 3.0

...my mind is spent. But if I can think of more, I'll post 'em.

OWNaggio

APOGEE =D

Great games!

Too bad they never made commander keen 7 =(

There was also Blake Stone from apogee, quite good fps =D

Correct me if Im wrong. After reading this thread (again!!!), I read "Monuments Of Mars". I remember playing a game were you landed on Mars (in Cydonia to be more specific) and entered the Big Face on Mars to explore it. You had to solve the puzzles in order to advance to the next screen. That was Monument of Mars? Or Im just confused?????Whermacht02

It's very vague from what I remember, but it was a 2d platformer and you could see the whole level on the screen at once. There were all these traps everywhere and that's about all I can remember.

[QUOTE="OWNaggio"]

Okay, here are a few more...

Captain Comic

Duke Nukem 2D (yes, there was a Duke Nukem BEFORE 3D)

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Castle (this game is so old your character was a "+" sign)

Secret Agent: Hunt for the Red Rock Rover

Crystal Caves

Dark Ages

Commander Keen (I think enough people remember this one)

Math Blaster

Teazle

Corncob 3d

Falcon 3.0

...my mind is spent. But if I can think of more, I'll post 'em.

FelkBR

APOGEE =D

Great games!

Too bad they never made commander keen 7 =(

There was also Blake Stone from apogee, quite good fps =D

Oh yeah! I forgot that one...Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold. Great, great stuff. I remember playing that before or during the time of Doom. Probably before.

Also, on Tom Hall's (creator of Commander Keen) website, he says that if he ever got the rights to Commander Keen, he would make another one...

"I love Keen. Keen is basically me at age eight. The Green Bay Packer helmet, the red Converse sneakers, the dreams of space...If I ever got the rights again, I'd make Keen 3D in a heartbeat." -Tom Hall

How sweet would that be?

[QUOTE="OWNaggio"]Man, I guess I'm pretty old then...'cause no one remembers half of these games. Oh well.dnuggs40

I remember most of those :P

I'll add some too:

Halloween Harry (loved this one)

Jazz the Jackrabbit

Raptor: Call of the Shadows (awesome-ness)

Tyrian

Gorilla.bas

Pool of Radiance

Stronghold (original SSI game)

Scorched Earth

Space Quest

Police Quest

Lesuire Suit Larry: Land of the Lounge Lizards

Hugo's House of Horrors

Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure

King's Quest

4D Boxing (the best pc boxing game ever! not saying much though :P )

War of the Lance

Eye of the Beholder

"Ahhh, Corncob 3d. That game was atrocious."

ROFL! Ya it was.

Jazz Jackrabbit was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woot!!!

Okay, here's the last bunch that I can think of...

Monster Bash (with Johnny Dash)

Jetpack

Shooting Gallery

Heretic

Myst

Jill of the Jungle

Pharoah's Tomb

Sopwith

Brutal: Above the Claw

Red Baron 3D

If there's ANY more, do tell.

Corridor 7

Dark Legions

Syndicate

One Must Fall 2197

Al-Qaddim

Darksun (personal favorite)

Rise of the Triad (another favorite)

Lynx

I've heard of a few of these games (the ones I didn't post), namely Jazz Jackrabbit, Leisure Suit Larry (awesome), and Rise of the Triad.

Have you ever noticed how ridiculously hard these old games were? Leisure Suit Larry actually had a pay-by-the-minute number you could call for hints (so did a lot of the other ones too). I tried playing it awhile back and I couldn't figure out anything. And of course, Corncob 3D was not only atrocious, but stupidly hard. At least, that's what I remember.

I found it!!! Monuments of Mars was the game I was talking about

Heres the link for all of you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments_of_Mars

lol, the thing i remember most about Leasure Suit Larry was the questions it asked you in the begining of the game to make sure you were old enough to play it. My little brother and I would break out the encylopedia to answer them =) Here's a couple more oldies:

Syndicate Wars

Curse of the Azue Bond

Betrayal at Krondor

Wing Commander

Manhunter : New York

Mechcommander

Space Rangers? -- i don't remember exactly the name of this one, but i think this was it.

Kung Fu Louie

more to come...

I've heard of a few of these games (the ones I didn't post), namely Jazz Jackrabbit, Leisure Suit Larry (awesome), and Rise of the Triad.

Have you ever noticed how ridiculously hard these old games were? Leisure Suit Larry actually had a pay-by-the-minute number you could call for hints (so did a lot of the other ones too). I tried playing it awhile back and I couldn't figure out anything. And of course, Corncob 3D was not only atrocious, but stupidly hard. At least, that's what I remember.

OWNaggio

Ya, Corncob 3d was stupid hard. I don't think I ever even got more the 5mins into it without dying. I wasn't even sure what the objective of the game was :P

Such good memories!

It's like if 1998 was just yesterday! I barely remember how was my life back in that year, and well it's kind of sad because I'm doing terrible in this decade since 2002 ended, hehah. Still, good games, and hope that the coming games stay true to their original roots. I mean in gameplay feel of course not technically.

Ahhh nostalgia.... how about the old infocom text-based games, like HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, and more? I'm pretty sure you can play those all online - but boy are they HARD!

Besides those, some of my other fav's have already been mentioned, like Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry (the original, pre-VGA hah), Dragon's Lair (was INCREDIBLE technology at the time), Rise of the Dragon, Snatcher... ok so I'm old, so what? OH WAIT!!! I forgot Pogo Joe (on the commodore 64 - had it on data cassette, even... took forever to load a level - now the entire game is like a 10KB rom file!!)

I found it!!! Monuments of Mars was the game I was talking about

Heres the link for all of you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments_of_Mars

Whermacht02

Yup. That's it. Oh man that game was awesome.

lol, the thing i remember most about Leasure Suit Larry was the questions it asked you in the begining of the game to make sure you were old enough to play it. My little brother and I would break out the encylopedia to answer them =) Here's a couple more oldies:

Syndicate Wars

Curse of the Azue Bond

Betrayal at Krondor

Wing Commander

Manhunter : New York

Mechcommander

Space Rangers? -- i don't remember exactly the name of this one, but i think this was it.

Kung Fu Louie

more to come...

loafimus

I remember buying Wing Commander FOR someone, but I never played it. As for LSL:LLL, I remember I was only 3 or 4 when that came out and 6 or 7 when I saw my dad play it, and I didn't understand the humor. But I went back (now 22) and played it and damn it was funny.

[QUOTE="OWNaggio"]

I've heard of a few of these games (the ones I didn't post), namely Jazz Jackrabbit, Leisure Suit Larry (awesome), and Rise of the Triad.

Have you ever noticed how ridiculously hard these old games were? Leisure Suit Larry actually had a pay-by-the-minute number you could call for hints (so did a lot of the other ones too). I tried playing it awhile back and I couldn't figure out anything. And of course, Corncob 3D was not only atrocious, but stupidly hard. At least, that's what I remember.

dnuggs40

Ya, Corncob 3d was stupid hard. I don't think I ever even got more the 5mins into it without dying. I wasn't even sure what the objective of the game was :P

Man...exactly what happened to me when I played it. Think I tried that one for a week until I gave up.

OMG!!!! So many great games.

I remember playing Crystal Caves, Police Quest... That was a great time for PC gaming. Lots of good quality games.

Does anyone remember:

Street Rod (I think this was the very first tune-your-car game)

Rick Dangerous

Blues Brothers

Titus the Fox

Wings of Fury

The Duel

Stunts

Whermacht02

awesome games. especially Street Rod

You're right about the difficulty, when I first played Battle City god was it HARD. I remember trying to get from levels above 10 and I was just getting destroyed. And I haven't been able to pass level 4-1 in Super Mario.

And when I first played C&C I didn't even knew what to do. Move this soldier, then... I had to repeat again and again until I could finally beat that level.