Those early The Learning Company games. Seeing the box art brings back hours of joy and charm.
For my typing class in middle school, once we finished all the lessons the teacher had assigned for the entire semester, we were allowed to play OT for the remainder of the class. Needless to say, I completed everything in like a week.One more for Oregon Trail, assuming people have mentioned it. It's the only PC game I was aware of as a child, thanks to those three or four days in any given school year when we would go to the computer lab.
if you're on firefox or chrome, do yourself a favor and download the imgur extension/add-on
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imgur/ehoopddfhgaehhmphfcooacjdpmbjlao?hl=en
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/imgur-uploader/
simply right click and hit 'upload', it's almost too convenient
Perfect user name for this thread!*sigh* What I would give to go back to the late 80's and early 90's when all of the games in this thread were in their heydays. I know this is rose tinted glasses and childhood nostalgia speaking, but browsing through this thread makes me depressed that I will never be so engrossed and immersed in games as I was during this era.
I remember I used to be slightly terrified by the crooked man in the crooked houseOh man we had this on our Apple IIGS. Maybe just my young age but I remember the game being really huge, I felt like I'd find new areas all the time.
Yeah dude, this is what I used to consider a "class based online multiplayer shooter". Probably the most fun I had online right up until TF2.
Brofist, this was my first graphics card as well, although I only had one. My father bought it after we got Rainbow Six for Christmas, I played Quake 2 soon after.Quake 2 (I saved up an entire summer of lawn mowing for 2 Diamond Monster 3D ii cards. MIND BLOWING GRAPHICS)
I havent seen ecstatica mentioned here and would like to add it
this game has haunted me for almost 20 years now, I still think about it from time to time
ecstatica was an incredibly atmospheric survival horror game in a medieval setting, it was released in '94, two years after alone in the dark
it had very unique graphics and was quite brutal for that time.
there was also a sequel, which was more action oriented and more accessible, typical for what we would call "casual dumbdown" today. but it wasnt bad either.
In the long gone days of the 90's, before all this new-fangled cable internet and Skype, I used to play Duke Nukem 3D direct modem-2-modem connection while simultaneously using the second phone line of the house to talk to my friend while we deathmatched.
Shit, sure glad it isn't that complicated anymore.
And of course, the almighty Alt-Tab to hide everything.
I havent seen ecstatica mentioned here and would like to add it
this game has haunted me for almost 20 years now, I still think about it from time to time
*sigh* What I would give to go back to the late 80's and early 90's when all of the games in this thread were in their heydays. I know this is rose tinted glasses and childhood nostalgia speaking, but browsing through this thread makes me depressed that I will never be so engrossed and immersed in games as I was during this era.