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Blackout
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Ok people. Here it is. A thread to pump some blood back into this forum.
What are your FAVORITE games of all time? Name the platform and the game, and why, and any links you can to info or emulations of the game, or ads.. ect. Lets make this a good thread.
I will start with one game that I think siply kicked ASS. My major game playing time was spent on my Commodore 64 and then on my Amiga. There's nothing like being 13-17 and having all the time in the world to play these insane games until the dawn is peaking through your bedroom window.
I have a bunch of games. But for some reason the one popping in my mind right now was called Mail Order Monsters. I think it was from activision or Electronic Arts. The packaging was real cool looking and the game even cooler.
It was great, in that it was a great single player game and an AWESOME two player challenge/fihting game.
It started out, and you had a little money and a map of about 6 places. A creature purchasing center, a weapns center, a training center, a creature modification center, and then a battle arena or something like that.
There were tons of different monsters with tons of different stengths and weaknesses and special attacks and defences. There wee also tons of mods, tons of armor, tons of training. It was great.
But the best part was, this game had some neat system, where you could challenge a friend for either money or the ultimate: a death match. NOw remember, you would play and work for hours and hours and days and days to bring a little peon monster up to ass kicking mode, and in death match, both players would have to put there disks in the diver, and both characters would be deleted or somethign like that, and only in memory for th fight. Only the winner could put his disk back in and win all the spoils of the war, while the other charter got delted and put in the 'graveyard' that was the 6th place where you could go and see al your dead monsters and put a message on their tombstone.
Great, great, great game and concept.
Lets see what I can find by googling:
http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D154
Mail Order Monsters Faq:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/c64/file/mail_order_monsters.txt
Here is a commodore 64 emulator:
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/c64/emulators/winvice_v1_7.html
Then here is the actual mail order monsters game image for the emulator.. although I doubt the -challenge feature, which was the coolest, will work.
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/c64/games_m/mail_order_monsters.html
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Chris -Kracka C-
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Hmm, great thread idea.
Commodore 64:
It was a tie between Ghostbusters and Dragon's Lair. My brother had the C-64 and I would occasionally play those two games, though I was only 5.
 
Nintendo Entertainment System
Another tough decision but I go with Megaman 3. I spent SOooooo many hours playing that game it's ridiculous. 
Apple IIe:
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
PC Kings Quest II, Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape up and Slip Out and Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail.
Super Nes:
Legend of the Mystical Ninja.
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My favorites on the C64 were Ultima IV: The Quest of the Avatar, the AD&D games Pool of Radiance and DarkSun, and a cute little game called Dino-Babies.
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Turd Ferguson
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My two favorites from childhood:
Atari 2600: Spider Fighter (Activision). Still the fastest shoot-em game I have seen, and one of the best. It was truly a thumb-bleeder!
Apple II: Chivalry. Anyone remember this classic? It was a friend's computer, so I loved going over there and playing. Loads of fun with 4 people.
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C64: Ghostbusters, Beachhead (not porn), Test Drive and ... someone help me, it was some Egyptian tomb raiding game, sorta in first person where Anubis always scared the crap outta me)
Genesis: Shining Force!
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Originally posted by Treize:
C64: Ghostbusters, Beachhead (not porn), Test Drive and ... someone help me, it was some Egyptian tomb raiding game, sorta in first person where Anubis always scared the crap outta me)
Prince of Persia?
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Turd Ferguson
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There was a 2600 game called "Riddle Of The Sphinx." I *think* they made that one for a few different platforms, including C-64.
Ah, and that triggers another memory: the most *frustrating* games from my childhood. For Atari 2600: ET and the worst, Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
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Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:
My two favorites from childhood:
Atari 2600: Spider Fighter (Activision). Still the fastest shoot-em game I have seen, and one of the best. It was truly a thumb-bleeder!
Apple II: Chivalry. Anyone remember this classic? It was a friend's computer, so I loved going over there and playing. Loads of fun with 4 people.
Ahhh Spider Fihter, rememebr that. Remember Spider Man and Super Man on the 2600? Super Man was actually in a special cartridge that contained double the memory of normal atari games which were like 2k or 4k. Nuts.
My favorite Atari 2600 game was Kaboom... I still cant believe how insanely fast that ame would go on such a litle baby processor... that game would give me a fucking heart attack like a speed freak doign an 8-ball when those bombs would do tha KA KA KA KA BOOOOOOOM!
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Turd Ferguson
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Ah yes....Superman. I did enjoy that game; that was the one where you had to fly around and collect pieces of a bridge and put it together, meanwhile taking the bad guys off to jail. Never owned the Spiderman game, tho...
Kaboom was indeed a great game. Activision always made the most out of the 2600's capabilities. See Pitfall and Pitfall II as good examples of that.
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Pitfall II was GREAT and kicked Pitfall 1s ASS right into the 3rd sharks mouth.
If I only had movable hands. I could PLAY it.
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Ultima Online. I can't calculate how many thousands of hours of my life it devoured. It ruined my teenage years.
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Blackout
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Ultima Online?
You poor young fool.
Ultima Online was just but a shadow of the original and incredible AD&D type online game. Islands of Kesmia, later renamed as Legends of Kesmia.
Do your homework.
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As pathetic as it is to have lost so many productive years to the gaping maw of online gaming, at least it was a step closer to human interaction than offline RPGing.
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wow you guys are really going old school, I'll get as about old school as I can get, I'm 20 years old and the best classic game that comes to mind is
Gateway (1992) on like 8 floppy disks
this game at the time was awesome, it had a great premise as well, you won the lottery one day and you spent it all on a rare chance to be one of the many first civilian explorers of the frontiers of space. The coolest thing was it had a text controlled interface, meaning you typed what you wanted to do, and believe it or not it could recognize most of your sentences. Everything from moving around exploring and attempting to rape or kill a secretary, of course killing her would end up a message that guards came in and shot you dead or arrested you.
You even got your own corners which you had to sleep in daily, if not you'd awaken with a message that you got caught asleep (whenever you were, usually the bar ![[Laugh]](graemlins/laughface.gif) ) and there was a 10 dollar fee from the gaurds! oh yea, you'd type in things like "open drawer" drawer would open, you could store things in there and stuff so it wasnt totally pictures only
yes there is awesome midi music for this bar, oh yea you could meet people and hot chicks too
Space travel was also a thing in this game that you learned to look forward to, every day I'd go to classes for this and pass by the take off area I could only look forward to getting to.
transitioning....
once I got to the planets though there'd be scenes like this which my 12 year old brain couldn't figure out and sadly I never got to the end
yes classic gaming at its best, ghee, I might want to look up again and beat it I never did
this was very much like a first journeyman game, those games were good too
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Turd Ferguson
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Cool-looking game; looks like the post-Infocom era of text-based gaming: text-based commands, but with some pictures/graphical interfaces as well. Some of the latter Infocom games tried to do that (ex. Beyond Zork).
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if anyone wants to download this game ill provide the link, its now so old its freeware
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Taking it back huh....hmmm. There was Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (I know, a kings quest clon) and the good ol ID shooter games (Wolfenstien, Stellar 7..was that id?, Doom, etc)and who can for get Liesure Suite Larry? ahh the DOS days..
Then there was this NES game called Mighty Bomb Jack... huge map, no saving, and most annoying music you could imagine on repeat. But somehow it swallowed my soul (like the evil dead)
http://www.consoleclassix.com/gameinfo_mightybombjack_nes.php
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Afraid I have gotten addicted to the Half Life 2 and Counter Strike:Source games on the PC. If you havent played Half Life 2 and love FPS, then get a PC and join in.
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Blackout
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Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:
Ah yes....Superman. I did enjoy that game; that was the one where you had to fly around and collect pieces of a bridge and put it together, meanwhile taking the bad guys off to jail. Never owned the Spiderman game, tho...
Kaboom was indeed a great game. Activision always made the most out of the 2600's capabilities. See Pitfall and Pitfall II as good examples of that.
The worlds biggest pitfall fan:
Wow. Now that's love of a videogame. ![[Nerd Guy]](graemlins/nerdman.gif)
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