Name some of your classics

Hey all I just wanted to see what were som of your favorite games before 2000. There's no limit I just wanted to see what you 'old' guys use to play. Here's my list. Plase note that I also realize some of these games came out during the year 2000.

-TIE Fighter (plus expansion)

-X-wing Alliance

-Jedi Knight Dark Forces II (played all the games with Kyle Katarn)

-Deus Ex (I also played the sequel but that was after 2000)

-Baldur's gate I and II

-System Shock II

-X-COM

-Homeworld (I played the expansion and sequel as well)

-Warcraft II

-Wing Commander (I-IV)

-Myth (played all )

-The Longest Journey (as well as Dreamfall)

-Civilization II (and IV)

-SIM Copter (boy that was a fun game)

-Alpha Centuari (plus expansion)

-Half-life (plus Op For)

That's all I can name of right now lol

TIE-Fighter (floppy disk version)

SimCity 2000

Mechwarrior 2 ATI 3D RAGE Edition (Mercenaries too!)

SimCopter

RollerCoaster Tycoon

StarCraft

Tiberian Sun

Need For Speed III

Homeworld

EDIT: Duke Nukem 3D (how could I forget that!)

I'll let the old guy comment slide...ok, I have to admit it applies...without further ado:

Thief: the Dark Project

Myth II SoulBlighter

Falcon 4.0

SimCity 3000

Alpha Centaurai

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Star Wars: Xwing Alliance

High Heat Baseball 2000

Jane's Fleet Command

MechWarrior 3

Sports Car GT

Apache Vs Havoc

Descent 3

The Operational Art of War

Heavy Gear 2

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms

Need for Speed: High Stakes

System Shock 2

Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun

Rogue Spear

Homeworld

Freespace 2

USAF

Pharaoh

Flanker 2.0

Half-LIfe: Opposing Force

Sid Meier's Antietam

Age of Wonders

Unreal Tournament

SWAT 3: Close-Quarters Battle

Yeeeeesh!!!

Wolf 3d, Blake Stone, Doom 1-2, Age of empires, Leisure Suit Larry, Starcraft, quake, diablo....

and any of the Lucas Arts adventure games (Sam and Max, Day of the tentacle, fate of atlantis etc)

Warcraft 2

C&C Red Alert

Duke 3D

Blood

Shadow Warrior

Doom

Doom2

Wolf3D

Civilization

X-Wing

Tie Fighter

X-Wing vs Tie Fighter

Half Life

Mafia

Dark Forces

Grand Theft Auto

Delta Force 2

Age of Empires

Starcraft

Medal of Honor

Need for Speed

Sim City

Total Annihilation

Leisure Suit Larry

Space Quest

Polive Quest

Kings Quest

Blakestone

Rise of the Triad

The list can go on and on and on..

System Shock II

This is a great stuff

Some of the games I played before the new millennium...

Sopwith
Prince Of Persia
Eye Of The Beholder series
Betrayal At Krondor
Ultima Underworld 1 & 2
Lands Of Lore 1 & 2
Blade Runner
Baldur's Gate
Planescape Torment
Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
Monkey Island 1 & 2
System Shock 1 & 2
Beneath A Steel Sky
Wolfenstein 3D + Spear Of Destiny
Blake Stone
Doom 1 & 2
Heretic
Hexen
Cyclones
Duke Nukem 3D
Descent
Requiem: Avenging Angel
Tomb Raider
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II + Mysteries Of The Sith
Outlaws
Thief: The Dark Project
Thief II: The Metal Age
Quake 1 + expansions
Quake 2 + expansions
Age Of Empires
Battlezone
Half Life + Opposing Force
Unreal
Unreal Tournament

Want really old "skool"???

Oldest game I have still installed is Star Trek (1981)

Dungeons and Dragons - Pools of Radiance (and yes I can still play it on a working 286 with 2KB of memory). :D

Dragon Wars (this was really a good game in the day)

Wasteland

Roadwar

Mega Traveller

Commander Keen series

(and a whole box of 1983/85 5.25" floppy games).

And naturally Deus Ex. :)

Here's a list of strictly the best PC games available before or around the year 2000.

[in order of awesomeness]

• Half-Life: Counter-Strike
  
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• Quake
  
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• Starcraft
  
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• Doom
  
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• Quake II
  
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• Wing Commander
  
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• Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger
  
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• The Secret of Monkey Island
  
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• Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
  
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• Warcraft III: Battlechest
  
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• Quake III Arena
  
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• F-15 Strike Eagle III
  
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• Command & Conquer
  
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• Command & Conquer Red Alert
  
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• Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
  
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• MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
  
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• Star Wars: TIE Fighter
  
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• Star Wars: X-Wing
  
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• Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
  
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• Loom
  
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• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  
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• Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix
  
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• Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
  
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• SimCity
  
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• Day of Defeat
  
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• Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
  
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• Wing Commander: Privateer
  
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• Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
  
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• Duke Nukem 3D
  
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• Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
  
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• The Need for Speed
  
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• Master of Orion
  
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• Myst
  
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• Maniac Mansion
  
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• Doom II: Hell on Earth
  
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• Descent II
  
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• Police Quest: Open Season
  
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• Wolfenstein 3D
  
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• MDK
  
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• Descent
  
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• Grand Theft Auto
  
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• MDK2
  
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• Tomb Raider
  
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• Police Quest 3: The Kindred
  
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• Tomb Raider II
  
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• The Sims
  
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• SimCity 2000
  
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• Need for Speed II
  
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• Dark Seed
  
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• Pirates!
  
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• Descent 3
  

Want really old "skool"???

Oldest game I have still installed is Star Trek (1981)

And naturally Deus Ex. :)Deus_Ex_Fan

I have that game too!!!! I love that game. As for deus ex.... right on bro

I am really impressed with those have LONG LONG list.
In my memories, RA2 and AOE2.

I'll play:

Wing Commander Series

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Aces Over Europe

Aces of the Deep

Homeworld

Fighting Steel

Dune 2

Doom

Castle Wolfenstein

Duke Nukem 3D

Da Worfster

Games before 2000:

Doom, Doom 2, , SS2, commandos, Homm 2/3, Planecape Torment, Fallout 1/2, Myth 1/2, Warcraft 2, Duke 3D,Stracraft, Homeworld, HL, CS, UT,Alpha Centuari, Thief, Baldur's Gate, Monkey Island Series, Total annhilation, Diablo 1/2, C&C Red Alert, Darklands, Prince of Persia, Grim Fadango, Gabriel Knights, might and Magic and probably many others which i may have forgotten

The best Wing Commander game!!!

A couple older games that I loved:

Elite (the old space trading game on the Amiga)

Stunt Car Racer (another old Amiga game, the first LAN multiplayer I remember - anyone else here know what a null modem is?)

M.U.L.E.

The Pool of Radiance series

Jumpman

That's all I can think of at the moment...

System Shock
System Shock 2
Doom Collector's Edition (Doom, Doom II, Final Doom)
Speedball 2
Cannon Fodder
Another World (a modern re-release of the old game, known as Out of This World in USA, I think)
Thief
Thief 2
Deus Ex
Kingpin: Life of Crime
Half Life
Quake
Quake 2
Quake III
Unreal Tournament
Various Command and Conquer games
Exhumed
StarCraft
WarCraft II
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto 2
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Ghost Recon
Aliens vs Predator
Diablo
Diablo II
Worms 2
Worms Armageddon
Civilization II
Alpha Centauri
Civilization: Call to Power II
Enemy Zero
The Longest Journey
Broken Sword
Broken Sword 2
Myst
Riven
Grim Fandango
Fallout
Fallout 2
Planescape Torment
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate 2

I'm sure there are plenty more that are outside of my field of vision, but these are the ones I can see.

haha love how no ones posted the MONKEY ISLAND series, man they were fantastic. Not to forget the other lucasarts classics (full throttle, the dig, indiana jones and the last crusade, indy city of atlantis. Yeah i loved the classic point and click when games were actually hard.

Jedi knight + myst of sith

X wing series

commandos (the early games rocked unlike that new FPS one, any one played that only briefly played the demo? any gd???

Keep up the classics lets face it there still the best

Original roller coaster tycoon

Peace

Wing Commander (III, IV, Privateer 1 and 2)

Ultima 8

Crusader (both)

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Sacrifice

Just take a look at my collection here on Gamespot. It's not complete but it has most of the ****c game I own on it.

haha love how no ones posted the MONKEY ISLAND series, man they were fantastic.

magsnipe

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Hey all I just wanted to see what were som of your favorite games before 2000. There's no limit I just wanted to see what you 'old' guys use to play. Here's my list. Plase note that I also realize some of these games came out during the year 2000.

zerosaber456

Before 2000? How about classics before 1990?

Universe - cost eighty bucks and came on about a dozen five and a quarter inch floppy discs for the atari computer systems. Took forever to play, swapping disks, building up your little empire from system to system only to run into the big boys from competeing systems and the intrigue that followed.