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Best obscure & ancient PC games?
Beki
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I've been addicted lately to hard-to-find PC games. Please post your old favorites! Most of mine are from when I was a kid or things that I found in the discount bin at CompUSA five years ago. The best part is that now you can download most of them for free. They're stupid, they have crappy graphics, and I love them.
Sherlock: A Game of Logic & Deduction (DOS)
Everett Kaser Software released this about ten years ago and I've been playing it for almost as long. It's basically a logic puzzle with image clues, not anything like other storyline-based Sherlock games. The DOS version 2.07 is excellent, newer versions kind of suck. Link (second on the list)
Hexxagon (DOS)
My first encounter with an obnoxious computer opponent. Now, at 22, I can finally school him. Link
Jill of the Jungle (DOS)
Probably winner of the worst jumping controls ever made, but still one of my favorite games. This is a girl-power kind of adventure side scroller. Also, it has an awesome soundboard extra. Link
Commander Keen series (DOS)
My husband and I have many fond memories of playing these games as kids. They're going to be the Pong that I lovingly pass down to my kids one day. Link
Castle of the Winds (Windows ?)
This game is my memory of the first time I found out that other people thought RPGs were way nerdy. Ahh, 1995. It's a very graphically challenged RPG with bonus points for being one of the first games I ever played where I got to choose to play a female. Link
Exile series (Mac & Windows)
These adventure games are the only thing my little brother and I ever had in common. The last one, Blades of Exile, also had some kind of user-created game thing where you could download other people's maps and quests. All of the games are very full of content. Link
Cultures series (Windows ?)
Cultures was a more recent discovery, so it looks much better in comparison to the games above. It's a sim building game made by a German company, based on a tribe of Vikings over a few generations. Cultures 1 and Northland are great, and I just found an English copy of Cultures 2 after a very long search so my next few weeks are totally gone. 8th Wonder of the World is next on my list, and if my Bittorrent download ever gets the last tiny piece my quest will be complete. Link
Share your beloved crappy games! Some great DOS game downloading sites (where most or all of the games are abandonware) are here:
http://www.abandonia.com
http://www.dosgames.com/
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/
Sherlock: A Game of Logic & Deduction (DOS)
Everett Kaser Software released this about ten years ago and I've been playing it for almost as long. It's basically a logic puzzle with image clues, not anything like other storyline-based Sherlock games. The DOS version 2.07 is excellent, newer versions kind of suck. Link (second on the list)
Hexxagon (DOS)
My first encounter with an obnoxious computer opponent. Now, at 22, I can finally school him. Link
Jill of the Jungle (DOS)
Probably winner of the worst jumping controls ever made, but still one of my favorite games. This is a girl-power kind of adventure side scroller. Also, it has an awesome soundboard extra. Link
Commander Keen series (DOS)
My husband and I have many fond memories of playing these games as kids. They're going to be the Pong that I lovingly pass down to my kids one day. Link
Castle of the Winds (Windows ?)
This game is my memory of the first time I found out that other people thought RPGs were way nerdy. Ahh, 1995. It's a very graphically challenged RPG with bonus points for being one of the first games I ever played where I got to choose to play a female. Link
Exile series (Mac & Windows)
These adventure games are the only thing my little brother and I ever had in common. The last one, Blades of Exile, also had some kind of user-created game thing where you could download other people's maps and quests. All of the games are very full of content. Link
Cultures series (Windows ?)
Cultures was a more recent discovery, so it looks much better in comparison to the games above. It's a sim building game made by a German company, based on a tribe of Vikings over a few generations. Cultures 1 and Northland are great, and I just found an English copy of Cultures 2 after a very long search so my next few weeks are totally gone. 8th Wonder of the World is next on my list, and if my Bittorrent download ever gets the last tiny piece my quest will be complete. Link
Share your beloved crappy games! Some great DOS game downloading sites (where most or all of the games are abandonware) are here:
http://www.abandonia.com
http://www.dosgames.com/
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/
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Captain Comic
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/136
Mech Warrior
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mechwarrior
The Incredible toon machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Toon_Machine
Jetpack
http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/Jetpack/248/
Dune II
http://duneii.com/downloads/
Just about any of those old sierra, dynamix or lucasfilm adventure games
others im sure i've missed...
It was like Archon, only better.
It also has direct-dial multiplayer. So fucking rad.
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Oh, hells yes. My friend and I had a hell of a fun time playing that against each other, crammed around my crappy 13 inch monitor back in the day.
I have a few more games to add to the list. I'll do so later, when I have the time. Right now, I must go make my daughter's evening beverage.
There was this one game, ran on my Dads 386.
It was two gorillas, on skyscrapers.
You had to input velocity and trajectory to fire bananas at the enemy gorilla. One hit kills, bananas could 'dig' through the buildings.
WHAT WAS IT.
I had good times playing that with my Dad. Good times.
...
Gorilla.
I wish to someday play a direct-dial multiplayer game with someone.
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Hi dumbshit now that we have a report button these posts aren't fucking necessary kthx!!
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
I'd rather give people a chance to correct their mistakes than to rat them out to the mods for a guarenteed punishment.
was that literally its name?
man thanks. Ill try to dig it up. I put a whole description many times into google got nothing
It does let the OP know that the post is against the rules, though, doesn't it?
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I'm pretty sure it was a game that came with some versions of Microsoft's Q-Basic on DOS, back in the day.
edit: wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(computer_game)
http://www.google.com/search?q=gorilla+basic+game&revid=1781410467&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&ct=revision&cd=1
It was written in QBasic, so it's generally known as Basic Gorilla or some such.
Trip Cyclone was such a rocking band.
ooh, you're right! It's a shame these forums don't have something so advanced as a PRIVATE MESSAGING SYSTEM. I bet if we had one it'd even give the user a pop-up window that they couldn't miss, thereby guaranteeing that they notice your helpful hint, rather than burying it in a public thread!
GEE FUCKING GOLLY.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Don't blow a fucking gasket.
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Pheez... Other people were already also posting links. I could have PMed each of them, and every following person who saw them and thought it was also okay, but this was an easier way to put the information out there. Just use your mod priviledges and edit them away already.
'nuff said. (Not exactly obscure, but ancient, and made of win.)
It was pong, with I think seven different paddle colors, each of which had different special moves (projectiles). The paddels could all do personalized fatalities, and there were stage fatalities as well (dissolving in acid shows a paddle skeleton, as I recall). And it had two secret characters you could fight if you met the right conditions for the battle. Awesome shareware/freeware game from back in the day.
I still love that boxart.
man I grew up on little shareware titles like this
Jill of the Jungle was good shit too
Me and my Dad had so much fun in that.
edit: Huh. Image shows fine for me. Edited it out anyway.
edit2: Switched host
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums | My ko-fi donation thing.
Every time we have a classic games thread, someone always tries to hotlink from MobyGames.
And every time, it makes me laugh.
www.imageshack.us
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Ha, when will people learn to stop trying to link images from MobyGames? I've seen that placeholder SOOOO many times.
But yeah, back when I was a kid, before I had money to buy my own games, (and since my parents would not buy me any), I played every shareware game I could get my grubby hands on. Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, Raptor:Call of the Shadows, One Must Fall, that damn top-down game with thor whose name I can never remember...
I still keep a 486 in my closet just for when the urge to play some of these becomes too strong.
better than gorilla: Scorched Earth
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/144
You can still download the demo, but I cannot get it working in DOS. I'd be able to play it, but my dad put an axe through our old Compaq laptop that i used to play it on.
Fuckin XP...
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I didn't really think it was so much of a reference as a coincidence. A Boba Fett reference would make sense though.
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No I'm positive it referenced something from 10 years in the future.
I never asked for this!
huh?
no one?
......
http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/pc/reviews/gender-wars-9d5d99.html
(Just found the Intro Vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqBKNESylQE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvAt3hDcNT4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxaXZHAvRcA&mode=related&search=
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
the first one, of course.
also