I never played it personally but it was one of the big non-Doom shooters at my dorm, along with Rise of the Triad. What are some of its good features?
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In the mid-2000's, someone by the name of Bernard Lepretre made a simple Pacman game for PC, where you could make your own mazes. It was more of a time waster than a serious Pacman clone, but I liked it and spent many hours on it. I'm sorry I can't locate it except on very spammy-looking sites, but maybe you'll have better luck than I did. It doesn't seem to be archived on the wayback machine.
@_SKatEDiRt_: Sorry for the misunderstanding, I realized the potential for this after I posted. What I meant was, many people (not you) have the "kids > adults" stereotype, and it's definitely not always true.
Any 80's handheld collectors out there? My latest retro adventures have included the old Tomy Tron and Coleco Pacman games. It's been a while since I've grabbed them, and they're a lot more fun than I remember. Thinking of hunting down some of those dag-awful Tiger games on Ebay. I remember AVGN did an episode on those and it was simply beautiful.
Confession: I've also been cheating and playing Sims 3, which is only retro if you're like 10 years old. Boooo.
Many! Lately I've had a penchant for Tetris (Gameboy) and Awesome Golf (Atari Lynx). Also my 13-year-old XP machine* is somehow still ticking, and my current spread includes...
Everquest (via Project 2002)
Civ II (16-bit goodness!)
Virtual Pool 3 (the original licensed version with Jeanette Lee, none of that "Kurly" krap)
Hong Kong Mah Jong Pro (an actual mah jong game, not the solitaire version)
* No I don't WannaCry, I do have a laptop with Linux Mint for online shopping and the like.
Oh, and I was just thinking about this the other day:
isnt it funny how its easier to play a game as an adult than a child? I too have had this experience
Ah, the old stereotype that kids are always better than adults at video games. I remember in 4th grade, I was so proud of my high score at Dig Dug that I wrote an entire essay about it (sigh...) Was my score in the hundreds of thousands? Tens of thousands? No. It was a whopping 7,500. I can get that my sleep now. Sheesh.
So many great games to choose from! The immortal ones are no-brainers - Sim City, Doom, Civ, Sierra & LucasArts adventures, etc. Less obvious are all the games included with Windows 3.1: Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts. Someone was always playing these at my dorm, and to this day I still enjoy playing solitaire while listening to beepy tunes on a MIDI player. Other popular picks in college were Descent, Dark Forces, X-Wing, Wing Commander, Warlords and, uh.....Jezzball.
Later in the decade, the two biggies in my social circle were Counterstrike and Starcraft (which Blizzard just released as freeware, woo!) Well into the 2000's, I could walk into any cybercafe (the arcade of the new millennium) and almost everyone would be playing one or the other. I still do Broodwar with a friend once in a while.
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