YE OLDE INTERNETE

As7

Sully wrote: »

I know PC games are gettin' tossed left and right, but this friggin' game took
up many hours of my childhood.

I think it was on the PC, too.

I played a bit of Maniac Mansion on the NES but it was a bit too complicated for me at the time.

Knob

i should probably play a marathon game sometime

isn't marathon: durandal on live or somesuch

Kazhiim

I spent so much time in escape velocity, actually trading and pirating and working up to the good ships

only to find out you could cheat with plugins and buy a Kestrel in no time flat

made me saaad

Kazhiim

Knob wrote: »

i should probably play a marathon game sometime

isn't marathon: durandal on live or somesuch

Do a google search for Aleph One. Bungie released the games for free on the internets.

monsterror

Meissnerd wrote: »

His Golden Shower fatality (where Chaos dissolves the flesh from his victim with a geyser of acidic urine)

trentsteel

I remember my first time.

I was visiting the city from my hometown.

I walked into a Coffee shop that had computers in it.

I walked in and asked, "Do you guys have that....that INTERNET? thing here?"

durax

Kazhiim wrote: »

oh man

WE'LL TRYYYY TO KILL WITH THE FORKLIIIIIFT

I never did get that weapon!

But that's probably good, as I would monty python for hours...


Edit: My favorite ship was the clipper, stripped of everything but a bomb launcher (with one bomb) and a couple of proton canons...
That one bomb would disable a corvette if you managed to make it hit.

Knob

Kazhiim wrote: »

Knob wrote: »

i should probably play a marathon game sometime

isn't marathon: durandal on live or somesuch

Do a google search for Aleph One. Bungie released the games for free on the internets.

oh sweet ass

J3p

I loved playing those games where you had to type in the commands. I don't remember any of their names, but I remember the frustration (due to my tiny vocabulary) very well.

>move rock
I can't do that.
>move stone
I can't do that.
>move big thing
I can't do that.
>JUST DO SOMETHING
I can't do that.
>exit
Thank you for playing!

Turns out it was a boulder. Damnit.

Kazhiim

durax wrote: »

Kazhiim wrote: »

oh man

WE'LL TRYYYY TO KILL WITH THE FORKLIIIIIFT

I never did get that weapon!

But that's probably good, as I would monty python for hours...

It was fantastic and rad

blowing up entire fleets with little projectile forklifts

As7

One of the best adventure games ever.

KetBra

So many hours spent on this game.

#pipe

J3p wrote: »

I loved playing those games where you had to type in the commands. I don't remember any of their names, but I remember the frustration (due to my tiny vocabulary) very well.

>move rock
I can't do that.
>move stone
I can't do that.
>move big thing
I can't do that.
>JUST DO SOMETHING
I can't do that.
>exit
Thank you for playing!

Turns out it was a boulder. Damnit.

World as Myth

I played tons of those text games (interactive fiction) when I was younger

then I discovered adult interactive fiction

ho ho

monsterror

>Push button
The button breaks and cuts your hand, you bleed to death.
>Press button
The button breaks and cuts your hand, you bleed to death.
>Punch button
The button breaks and cuts your hand, you bleed to death.
>Touch button
You touch the button and the door opens!

TiB

J3p wrote: »

I loved playing those games where you had to type in the commands. I don't remember any of their names, but I remember the frustration (due to my tiny vocabulary) very well.

>move rock
I can't do that.
>move stone
I can't do that.
>move big thing
I can't do that.
>JUST DO SOMETHING
I can't do that.
>exit
Thank you for playing!

Turns out it was a boulder. Damnit.

fucking a someone already did a

get ye flask

joke in another thread

Kazhiim

The Dig isn't old

but yes, it is the best adventure game ever

Meissnerd

World as Myth wrote: »

I played tons of those text games (interactive fiction) when I was younger

then I discovered adult interactive fiction

ho ho

tell me more

TiB

Meissnerd wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

I played tons of those text games (interactive fiction) when I was younger

then I discovered adult interactive fiction

ho ho

tell me more

what sort of commands do you enter in THAT one?

Kazhiim

Tribes was the first game I ever got really into. But I really got into it. There was a fuckin' RPG mod that gave you persistant levels and medieval weapons and NPCs to wail on and spells and oh god

I played that for well over a year

Kazhiim

and then Steef made pvp, where you could build fortresses and farm and siege towns and be a greenskin or a human

man I wonder where those TribesRPG guys are now

Kazhiim

well I'll be a son of a bitch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamCjvsdpRM

I'm having vietnam-level flashbacks

satansfingers

Kazhiim wrote: »

Tribes was the first game I ever got really into. But I really got into it. There was a fuckin' RPG mod that gave you persistant levels and medieval weapons and NPCs to wail on and spells and oh god

I played that for well over a year

yeah i got pretty into tribes as well

i never really took to the rpg mod, though

TiB

Thanks for the e-nostalgia doggies. I am blowing this popsicle stand

Knob

fuck you

Kazhiim

Knob wrote: »

fuck you

whooo

me?

#pipe

TiB wrote: »

Meissnerd wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

I played tons of those text games (interactive fiction) when I was younger

then I discovered adult interactive fiction

ho ho

tell me more

what sort of commands do you enter in THAT one?

look boobs

Air

i spent many many hours playing Nuke Snake on our old mac



does anyone know this game?
it was so good
especially 2 players on one keyboard style
basically theres the red thing and the blue thing and you control one and try to kill the other by shooting them with regular bullets or rockets which destroy surrounding blocks
and you can give them tails like in snake but they only die if you shoot the head

oh and i almost forgot those pink things they shoot bullets all over the place

OfficiousG

There was a little man who lived inside my Commodore 64.

I could only communicate with him by means of special software.



He took a shower a total of like three times, ever. When it happened I'd call my whole family to gather around to prove it was possible.

trentsteel

OfficiousG wrote: »

There was a little man who lived inside my Commodore 64.

I could only communicate with him by means of special software.



He took a shower a total of like three times, ever. When it happened I'd call my whole family to gather around to prove it was possible.

Whoa you just gave me some kind of flashback...what was that called?

monsterror

trentsteel wrote: »

OfficiousG wrote: »

There was a little man who lived inside my Commodore 64.

I could only communicate with him by means of special software.



He took a shower a total of like three times, ever. When it happened I'd call my whole family to gather around to prove it was possible.

Whoa you just gave me some kind of flashback...what was that called?

The Sims.

Penguin Incarnate

Onefiddy threads are the best threads.

Whippy

Knob wrote: »

TiB wrote: »

Who can tell me what this game is?

hint: It was my favorite

WO IST DER WHIPPY?

huff puff

what'd I miss

Kuribo's Shoe

WhipstitchZombie wrote: »

Knob wrote: »

TiB wrote: »

Who can tell me what this game is?

hint: It was my favorite

WO IST DER WHIPPY?

huff puff

what'd I miss

nothing, sweetheart

we were just remembering the good old days

where 150cc would make a flash site in which we would have to find the whippy

I miss Combot sometimes

Just Like That

Yes, I remember the old days of the internets, when you had to hunt for your own food and the only way to reproduce was with vaginas.

OfficiousG

Little Computer People.

Mine was named Morris. (actually, maybe they all were)

trentsteel

Hey WHIPPY is back

Just Like That

Since this thread is already way off track and is now nostalgia thread



I was a tad older than the target audience when it came out, but I played it anyway.

Also: anyone remember a game called Brandon's Lunchbox? I think that's what it was called anyway. It was a kids' game. I just want to know if someone else out there played it.

Dulcius_ex_asperis

Randall_Flagg wrote: »

when I was young my dad told me that computers could take your picture

he told me to smile at the computer monitor

and then he was all "oh! here comes your picture"

and he loaded up a picture of a monkey on the screen

Same damn thing happened to me.

I discovered the internet...oh, I'd say around 1993 or '94. My dad had it hooked up. I remember him telling us not to click the AOL logo. 'Twas back when they charged...per minute? Or something.

Ridiculous. They'd be making bank nowadays.

Also, I remember using MS Paint and thinking it was the neatest thing.

So I guess I was 9 or so when I discovered the internets.

Druex

I first used the internet at high school, suppose to be for research, but looked up games and star trek instead.

Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous