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[DiipuSurotu]

Ski-Free (First game I remember)

Seriously? That's one of the most famous Windows games ever.

 

[nevernamed]

Used to play this 4-D Boxing game; it was the shit. I see that it is now abandonware - not sure if I want to taint my memory of it.

Anyone else play it?

I played the crap out of it. I posted about this yesterday!

 

[gogoud]

In my circles no one played sky roads, one must fall or even keen.

 

[orborborb]

Vette! an open world 3d racing game set in San Francisco... from 1989

Spaceship Warlock a cd-rom exclusive adventure game... from 1991

Snakes Alive! the only good snake game ever made

 

[Fafalada]

My contributions are obscure enough that I can't find any media for them - partly because I can't remember enough about the games - so more like questions:

- First was a futuristic/pod racing game of some sorts that used "voxel" terrain like Novalogic games and Outcast. I can't recall the name and it's driving me nuts - the most I remember that there may have been an Amiga version of the game.

- Second is a very old PC strategy called "President" - running a country and trying to get reelected without being killed or worse in the process. Plays a bit like "Save the queen" but a lot more random and less dialogue-y. Sadly google has not been helpful trying to locate any media for the game

- Third, and possibly the most obscure was a "Pirates" like game for ZX Spectrum. Released many years before Sid Meier's Pirates existed - It had basically the same gameplay elements (trading, fleet building, ship upgrades, exploration, ship2ship combat), with some oddities like "docking minigame". Sadly I don't remember the exact title anymore so no luck finding anything about it online either.

 

[Struct09]

Chaos Overlords. It was a really addicting turn-based strategy game. This thread made me search for it on GOG, and looks like it's there! http://www.gog.com/game/chaos_overlords

Also, they teased a sequel back in 2008. The site is still up: http://www.chaosoverlords.com/

 

[SoundLad]

Pretty sure I'm not the only one to have played these, but they feel so personal to me

Stargunner

Glider

Good times

 

[ZetaEpyon]

Overlord I think it was called. It was 4x like, but not quite a 4x game. Very old game. Got fond members of Wolfpack and Command HQ as well.

Holy shit man, I came into the thread to post this. Overlord was awesome, apparently released elsewhere as Supremacy: Your Will Be Done in other places.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_(1990_video_game)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE6Rl0Q_GzM

Also, glad to see mentions of F-117A/F-19. Spent A LOT of time playing that in the early 90s.

 

[CrunchyB]

Don't think I'm the only one who played this but no one else posted it,

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure:

Yeah, I played this. Cool game actually, but I remember it being really short.

Vette! an open world 3d racing game set in San Francisco... from 1989

Yeah, some games are just way ahead of the curve. Ran at about 5fps on my 286. Worse than Stunts. Not much fun, but great novelty value.

 

[Train of Midnight]

What a great thread.

10/10, would nostalgia again.

 

[pahamrick]

Loved this game back in the day. Wish I could find my disks.

 

[jetjevons]

Any BBC Micro Model B ex-owners in here? The computer had some pretty unique titles.

I remember playing the heck out of games like Imogen, Chuckie Egg, Citadel, Castle Quest, Fire Track, Frak!

 

[Mollymauk]

Clandestiny

Trilobyte's follow-up to The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour. I liked it, but I'm pretty sure it was a mega-flop.

 

[adroit]

How about UNIX games? Anyone here old enough to remember Larry Wall's space war game called Warp? It ran on text terminals using the UNIX curses library. The latest version I could find in the USENET archive (comp.sources.games) was Warp7, dated June 10, 1987.

I can't find any images of it using Google Image Search and there doesn't appear to be a page about it on Wikipedia either (though they mention the game on other pages).

I'm sure plenty of people played it back in the day but probably not many people on NeoGAF besides yours truly (geezer in residence).

 

[inm8num2]

I've got one - an old DOS game called 'Bouncing Babies'.

 

[L Thammy]

And a few that should be left in the past:

 

[Vyrance]

I actually played that in middle school. We were divided into 10 groups and had to see who could design the most fuel efficient car while still reaching other benchmarks.

Craziness, I also played this in middle school in my Technology class. Doing the same thing lol.

 

[Blargonaut]

My third post now... and GAF, I reaaaaalllyyy miss this game. I lost my copy years ago, and I really want to play it again. There's almost no media or information on this game now, I've only found 2 screenshots ever.

The Indian in the Cupboard

My childhood. The feels. One of the best adventure point-n'-click games ever made... I've heard it's super-rare now.

 

[iori9999]

I played this game back in the day on a cheapo PC.

 

[bananafactory]

 

[Adam Blue]

OMG...this brings back memories. Hugo's something? I think there were three games.

 

[Moosehole]

I used to play Commodore 64 all the time as a kid...

Space Taxi, Summer Games, Forbidden Forest, The Mansion of Dr. Creep, Jumpman, The Trivia Monster, Moon Patrol, Toy Bizzare, Pogo Joe, Hess Games...

I could go on and on but those are a few of my favorites.

 

[Abraxas]

Not that old, fun Game Ceasr III.

 

[jaaz]

Yeah this game was great, I played the earlier version, F-19 Stealth Fighter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6PwOrtUw2Q

Yeah, I actually played F-19 Stealth Fighter even more! Maverick missle was so OP, hahahahah. I remember the name of the stealth fighter was wrong because they guessed at the name--at that time the name had not been revealed. Then they changed it correctly for F117-A Stealth Fighter. Good times!

 

[Rosenskjold]

Pretty sure I'm the only one who ever played Jones.

Ha ha, such a classic

I remember this overview shooter game where you played a caveman or something, and of the best items you could get was shooting toothpaste (at least that's what we thought), I haven't found it since :/

edit: Also on our mac there was this puzzle game with a white bar and a map full of dots, and then you had cling on to the dots by pressing space and gather things and get to the exit.

 

[Datwheezy]

Oh sh#t I just thought of another one. I must of played through this a dozen times:

Loved Mixed-Up Mother Goose!


I played a lot of this game where you just selected from different carnival games that you would play and try and set high scores (and maybe win prizes). I feel like it was something along the lines of "Popcap Alley", but obviously hard to google search it with Popcap games now.

 

[ruie]

it's a trap guys. they're trying ro find the 40+ neogaf members

 

[Darth Pinche]

Dandy (or Dandy Dungeon)

I found some cool info about the game, apparently written by a MIT student in the early 80's and it predates Gauntlet. What I remember is being able to make your own dungeons and the happy face villains turning into monsters when you shoot them. And it was up to 4 players.

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/50/before-gauntlet-there-wasdandy

 

[CerebralTiger]

Altered Destiny (adventure game from the early 90s).

 

[staticneuron]

CTRL+F "Darkseed"

Wow, Am I really alone on that one?

Part adventure game, part horror tale, ALL Difficult as hell.

 

[Sportbilly]

I used to love this brilliant frogger clone on my Atari 800XL; it got ridiculously hard at about level 8 or 9. I played it on an emulator with save states to see what happened when you beat the last level, but I think it just repeats that same level over and over. Great game.

Perhaps even more obscure was one called Ghost Encounters. Hard to describe it, but you were a ghost who could change into various objects (like a shovel) to solve certain screens. It was incredibly simplistic, but engaging all the same. Sort of a mix between Bezerk and Avenger on the Atari 2600.

These were great. Preppie 2 was even better though, and JV Software also did Action Quest and the mighty Journey to the Planets. Brilliant stuff.

Have to give a shout out to Necromancer, by the same (sadly deceased) guy who did Alley Cat- Bill Williams, an absolute genius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnc3vI0fgJA

The sound and music is superb.

 

["D"]

troggle trouble math

number munchers

 

[Armitage Shanks]

Oh man, I had "fond memories" of that game until I read a retrospective on HG101 and memories of frustration and "hard because of stupid design" came flooding back. Dark Seed was, in retrospect, a terrible game with pretty awesome graphics but it was all worth it for dat box. Wouldn't stand up straight with the silly kite-shaped inlay and tapering base, but damn, it looked fantastic.

 

[spcd]

Ignition (1997) - My favourite arcade racing game. Dodge trains, do jumps, take shortcuts. All very fun

 

[xir]

Rocky's Boots?

holy poop, you know the guy made Atari's Adventure, Warren Robbonit, made this?

 

[Liberty4all]

Legacy of the Ancients get mentioned yet? I spent hours in the casinos in that game.

 

[jonabbey]

I've got one - an old DOS game called 'Bouncing Babies'.

Heh, I played that on my PCjr back in 84. Good times.

 

[MrSaturn99]

Does the name "Marvin's Magic Castle" ring a bell to anyone? Had a whole host of computer games as a kid and it sticks out as being the only one I recall by name not listed anywhere online (at least via search engine). All I remember is some magician guy guiding you around a medieval castle and a giant book featuring the alphabet.

Edit: holy shit! Found out it was actually found "Scooter's Magic Castle" from this very thread! Rad find.

 

[blakep267]

Gizmos & gadgets

Midnight Rescue

Use to be so popular in the early 90's at school on computers

 

[Orayn]

I'm not talking about Starsiege:Tribes, I'm talking about the original Starsiege with mechs.

Have yet to find anyone who played it.

I love how Tribes winds up being a spinoff of a spinoff of a spinoff yet it's the best known game by far.

Metaltech: Battledrome -> Earthsiege: Metaltech -> Starsiege -> Starsiege: Tribes

 

[jonabbey]

Anyone here play Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession?

Was a great experience playing this after having loved the AD&D module back in the day.

 

[Lemming]

I played demos for some of these, but like Hunter Hunted there were some Sierra games I never saw sold in stores. Did anybody play any of these?

The Last dinasty was a space sim mixed with adventure sections between missions. Was pretty OK from what I can remember!

 

[Forgottonone]

Sanitarium

 

[Currygan]

Ahh which version of Hunchback was that? I posted a screen earlier in the thread, though fairly sure the version I played didn't look nearly as pretty. I remember it being pretty bloody difficult.

must have missed your post, I played the C64 one, which looked exactly like that gif. Bloody difficult indeed expecially when you had arrows, fireballs, guards, bats and some other crap all thrown at ya at the same time...them levels were nightmare fuel

 

[Bombless]

Reunion (space strategy/4x). My god I spent nights and nights on this game, my parents ended up confiscating the keyboard and mouse because I would sneak down to the living room at night and play. Fucking morguls!

Also has the best intro EVER.

 

[Sciz]

Guys, the MECC and Super Solvers games you played back in school are all incredibly well known.

I've got one - an old DOS game called 'Bouncing Babies'.

Sitting on my hard drive to this day.

 

[Fbh]

I've never heard anyone mention this one:

Sango Fighter for DOS.

My dad once bought a "25 games in 1" CD of DOS games (had some cool stuff like Commander Keen and raptor) and this was one of them.

It was terrible. But I was a kid and didn't know better xD

 

[Aizu_Itsuko]

I know someone played this.. but no one I KNOW. This was soooooo goooood.

Loom is heavily underrated and, sadly, too short.

I love how they created an entire universe for you to explore that felt very much alive. Very tight experience from beginning to end. I still have the Book of Patterns around somewhere.

 

[cascardian]

I don't even remember how I ever came into possession of this one:

Talisman: Challenging the Sands of Time

Download it here at your own peril. I recall it being hard to the point of unfairness when I played it as a kid. You can also tell that the graphics require some imagination to really get into it...

 

[Darkspineslayer]

It's not unheard of in my experience, but far too few people have played a Jazz Jackrabbit 2.