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Remember Classic PC Games - Not Ready Reading Drive A; Abort, Retry, Fail?

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    StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    Melding wrote:
    Moriveth wrote:
    The new X-com game looks cool. It's a shame it's not like the old games, but those types of games don't sell anymore, unfortunately.

    They should've just made the game without the X-Com name, then people would probably be looking forward to it more.

    hello may I introduce you to UFO: Alien Invasion

    just buy x-com on steam it's better.

    This is buggy, incomplete, and sometimes levels are actually unbeatable. like you start in your ship and can't leave.

    yea but this is free and there's a mac version so I'm gonna try it at least

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    Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Rolo wrote:
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    this one is going way back

    I wonder if anyone here ever played it

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    MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Last time i played it, you could only get up to the personal armour variant, there was only three kinds of aliens, and every other mission i had could not be completed.

    your mileage may vary.

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    JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    No image there Justin, I think this is what you were after though.
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    Indeed.

    I tried playing the Exile games recently. They no run so good on Win 7, being that they were made for Win95.

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Xenonauts is going to rule

    But fuck Paypal

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    Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
    edited October 2011
    I believe that's the Star Wars Arcade Game by Atari which was just the run on the death star, think it came out back in '83 or something like that. It was ok and pretty crazy popular as I recall.

    Blackhawk1313 on
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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    I believe that's the Star Wars Arcade Game by Atari which was just the run on the death star, think it came out back in '83 or something like that. It was ok and pretty crazy popular as I recall.

    Not quite! Predates Star Wars.

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Melding wrote:
    Last time i played it, you could only get up to the personal armour variant, there was only three kinds of aliens, and every other mission i had could not be completed.

    your mileage may vary.

    well I can assure you that it has come a long way from those times

    there are still a few bugs but they are few and far between, and are constantly addressed

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    Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
    Damn it looks exceptionally similar to it Rolo, so similar that I wonder if I had played it at one point and it has just run together over time.

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    ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... and hard.Registered User regular
    Just pretend I found a screenshot of Railroad Tycoon and posted it here.

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    MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Melding wrote:
    Last time i played it, you could only get up to the personal armour variant, there was only three kinds of aliens, and every other mission i had could not be completed.

    your mileage may vary.

    well I can assure you that it has come a long way from those times

    there are still a few bugs but they are few and far between, and are constantly addressed

    I should also note that this was July.

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    Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
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    CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    Rollercoaster Tycoon was the best

    Do not have a cow, mortal.

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Melding wrote:
    Melding wrote:
    Last time i played it, you could only get up to the personal armour variant, there was only three kinds of aliens, and every other mission i had could not be completed.

    your mileage may vary.

    well I can assure you that it has come a long way from those times

    there are still a few bugs but they are few and far between, and are constantly addressed

    I should also note that this was July.

    then you didn't play the game for very long. There are more than three aliens, the only armor that's missing from the game at the moment is the flying armor, and I have played the game for a good long while and haven't encountered such game breaking bugs.

    I'm sorry you had such a crappy experience, but that's definitely not the norm.

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    Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
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    TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    That is an expensive piece of military hardware, scrub, not your freebirth mother's hover tub.

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    ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... and hard.Registered User regular
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    That's actually Railroad Tycoon 2! (Which I also love.)

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Oh wow, I remember, that's Spacewar!

    that's the one

    I didn't even realize how old it was until I looked it up

    it's like the third videogame ever

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited October 2011
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    If anyone knows what the second one is, I'll be impressed

    Tossrock on
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    BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    RIP, big floppies

    you'll always have the B drive of our hearts

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE

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    MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Melding wrote:
    Melding wrote:
    Last time i played it, you could only get up to the personal armour variant, there was only three kinds of aliens, and every other mission i had could not be completed.

    your mileage may vary.

    well I can assure you that it has come a long way from those times

    there are still a few bugs but they are few and far between, and are constantly addressed

    I should also note that this was July.

    then you didn't play the game for very long. There are more than three aliens, the only armor that's missing from the game at the moment is the flying armor, and I have played the game for a good long while and haven't encountered such game breaking bugs.

    I'm sorry you had such a crappy experience, but that's definitely not the norm.

    There was the blue guy, the green guy, the robo spider thing, i was about a few hours in when i decided it hadn't updated enough since march and played terror from the deep instead.

    It shows promise, and i'm trying to give it slack for being an indie game, but there is a lot of little things that nag me, and i have the originals right there. Would most def play it over X-com: Apocalypse though.

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    JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    Those are not big floppies, Beasteh.

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Tossrock wrote:
    maelstrom.gif

    6adib.gif

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    If anyone knows what the second one is, I'll be impressed

    looks like solarian

    or maybe solarian II

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    BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    Those are not big floppies, Beasteh.

    SO

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    BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    do any brits remember a dos game called grannys garden

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    Tossrock wrote:
    maelstrom.gif

    6adib.gif

    1993_Rebel_Assault.gif

    If anyone knows what the second one is, I'll be impressed

    I played the shit out of maelstrom and rebel assault

    http://atlanticus.tumblr.com/ PSN: Atlanticus 3DS: 1590-4692-3954 Steam: Artreus
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    BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Those are not big floppies, Beasteh.

    U3BAK.jpg

    check out the size of her floppies

    32KB between the two of those bad boys

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    BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Beasteh wrote:
    do any brits remember a dos game called grannys garden

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    this made its way over to canadian schools as well

    it was... strange

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    JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    Rolo wrote:
    Those are not big floppies, Beasteh.

    U3BAK.jpg

    check out the size of her floppies

    32KB between the two of those bad boys

    8.5" floppies pre-date me. I had 5.5" growing up.

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Oh man, we had that on the school's PCs

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    JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    Which Caesar is that?

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    Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
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    Not gonna lie, I'd love to see a new one.

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    BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
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    Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
    It's Caesar II, oh and ASimPerson, just for you:
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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    Ambrosia Software had some of my favorite games back in the day but they are hilariously out of touch with what they should be charging for their games.

    EV Nova is still $30

    Some awful looking racing game is $25. PS1 era graphics

    They have defcon for $20, when you can get it on steam for $10

    http://atlanticus.tumblr.com/ PSN: Atlanticus 3DS: 1590-4692-3954 Steam: Artreus
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    Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
    Wow, guess they think they are classics worth their weight in gold or something.

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    A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    Phone postin', so no pics.

    Castle of Dr. Brain
    Commander Goddamned Keen
    Wing Commander
    Close Combat

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    TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Rolo wrote:
    Tossrock wrote:
    maelstrom.gif

    6adib.gif

    1993_Rebel_Assault.gif

    If anyone knows what the second one is, I'll be impressed

    looks like solarian

    or maybe solarian II

    Well god damn. Bro-fist.

    Tossrock on
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    ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    what's that weird green plane in the upper right corner of the second screenshot from?

    It was some kind of dogfighting game and I think it had one-keyboard multiplayer where you could be a grey/white plane

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