Thread: Old School Games

I think old school games were the best. The graphics were not so high tech, but there was some excellent creativity behind them. I love Half Life and the Quake series, and the Grand Theft Auto games are hysterical, but outside of that, I side completely with the old school.

Rastan
Ghosts and Goblins
Super Mario Brothers
Donkey Kong
Frogger
Defender
Pitfall
Ms. Pacman
Alpine Skier
Popeye
Fantasy
Crossbow

I could go on for a long time, but those were my favorites. The mid-80's was a great time to be a kid. Arcades were so cool back then, and every mall had one.

I like them old or new.

Wing Commander Part 1 - 323432051 billion
Doom 1-3
Starflight
Morrowind/Oblivion
Half-Life 1-2

Ha. Super Mario Bros. were the awesomerest.
So is Sonic, even though he's not quite that old. Sonic kicks ass.

And Frogger was pretty cool too.

Any Super Smash bros. players here?

Oh, and I forgot to mention Mario Kart. That was on your list.
And I've played Super Smash Bros. when I was kid. Don't remember much about it, since I haven't messed with vija games in absolutely forever. (Yeah, all of two months.)

The oldest ones I remember are:
Quake 1
Duke Nukem 1 (?)
Lemmings 1
Ah lol , I remember quite a few more "old ones". Don't remember the names, I doubt I ever knew them.

Duke Nukem 3d
Quake
Red Alert (2)
Blood
Half life 1
Deus Ex
Raptor: call of the shadows

Super Mario World

Originally Posted by Infraredkelp

Any Super Smash bros. players here?
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Holy Shit!! Best multi-player game ever made! If we could get 4 players that were better than ordinary, every game would last at least 15-20 minutes. Not to mention team battles; those were so intense! Man, I love finding another Super Smash Bros. enthusiast. Only a few people I know are even aware that this game exists. Sweet! To be honest, I get more excited when someone is into SSB than if they are into the same religion. Sad, but true.

Mario Kart 64 comes in a close second for best multi-player game.

Then Goldeneye. Best 1st-person shooter ever made. Even though Halo has sweet graphics, this game's multi-player still blows it out of the water.

Super Mario Bros. (every one) was great too. I loved the '64 version because it was so short you could memorize the game and beat it in one day.

Super Metroid
Mario Kart 64
Super Mario World
Super Smash Bros
Goldeneye
(Metroid Prime)

and many more...

I was an absolute master of Centipede and Tempest - could play either for as long as I wanted, every time. Man... that was a long time ago.

I remember the first Pong game appearing in a neighborhood pizza joint. We'd line up to play it, putting our quarters up like you would on a pinball machine or pool table. That would have been something like '73 or so. Yikes.

For a buck you could buy a couple cokes and stick pretzels... or four rounds of Pong.

Man, does that take me back.

Originally Posted by Bonsay

The oldest ones I remember are:
Quake 1
Duke Nukem 1 (?)
Lemmings 1
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OMG. You little kid. LOL!

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Duke Nukem 3d
Quake
Red Alert (2)
Blood
Half life 1
Deus Ex
Raptor: call of the shadows

Super Mario World
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You've got good taste.


But I still hate you from that time you ran over my dog.

Originally Posted by sloth

You've got good taste.

But I still hate you from that time you ran over my dog.
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You mean that time I was driving I wasn't playing carmageddon? You have to be joking, I ran over a whole group of blind people... OH SHI---

P.S. Carmageddon was average, the most fun I had as a kid was pausing the game just if you ran over a bitch, and you would see her panties. OMGOMGOMG *^_________^*

-Bad Dudes
-Legend of Kage
-Castlevania
-Space Harrier
-The original Ridge Racer (Arcade Version. Advanced setting. Best drifting simulator ever made. I practically learned to drive stick on that game. We are one. )
-Mortal Kombat (first one)
-Sonic the Hedgehog (1 and 2)
-Bionic Commando
-Excitebike
-Contra
-Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out
-All the Super Mario games
-Joust
-Doom
-R-Type
-Splatter House
-Gauntlet
-Megaman 2
-Legend of Zelda
-Double Dragon
-Ninja Gaiden
-Strider
-Gumshoe
-Wild Gunman
-Bubble Bobble (just plain fun)
-Burgertime
-F-Zero
-Mario Kart

…I know I’m leaving some out…but that’s all I can think of, for now.

[Edit: Moving to Entertainment]

Epic's stuff before Unreal (Jazz Jackrabbit, Epic Pinball, Tyrian, One Must Fall, loads of others too)
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Civilisation II

And on MAME (before my time):
Juno First
Pac N' Pal
Elevator Action

I'm suprised someone mentioned Raptor. I liked that game too.

Originally Posted by Identity

And on MAME (before my time):
Juno First
Pac N' Pal
Elevator Action
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MAME was/is just an emulator package allowing (mostly illegally copied) ROM images to be run on PCs.

Originally Posted by pj

MAME was/is just an emulator package allowing (mostly illegally copied) ROM images to be run on PCs.
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...yes? I know that. The games were before my time though.

The console games I played primarily for Super Nintendo were: Super Mario, Mortal Kombat 1-4 and Punch Out

For PC: Quake 1 & 2, Age of Empires, Half-Life 1 (I still play it), Close Combat 2-5 (I started playing CC3 again recently).

Remember when Playstation was big stuff? That's not incredibly old, but still. I think I completed Tomb Raider 1 and 2, and Grand Turismo (spelling¿) and a bunch of other games. I still say that my Sega was the bestest console. Or, maybe it was the Super Nintendo.....

I loved my old Super Nintendo. Used to love StarFox, also Donkey Kong, Street Fighters, and Zelda.

Oh yes, Age of Empires, played that on www.zone.com for about 3-4 years almost everyday. Was kind of a waste of my life come to think of it. Hmm...

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

-Bad Dudes
-Legend of Kage
-Castlevania
-Space Harrier
-The original Ridge Racer (Arcade Version. Advanced setting. Best drifting simulator ever made. I practically learned to drive stick on that game. We are one. )
-Mortal Kombat (first one)
-Sonic the Hedgehog (1 and 2)
-Bionic Commando
-Excitebike
-Contra
-Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out
-All the Super Mario games
-Joust
-Doom
-R-Type
-Splatter House
-Gauntlet
-Megaman 2
-Legend of Zelda
-Double Dragon
-Ninja Gaiden
-Strider
-Gumshoe
-Wild Gunman
-Bubble Bobble (just plain fun)
-Burgertime
-F-Zero
-Mario Kart

…I know I’m leaving some out…but that’s all I can think of, for now.

[Edit: Moving to Entertainment]
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Contra and F-Zero are awesome games.

Does anyone have Duke Nukem for N64? The pig cops are my favorite!

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

-Bad Dudes
-Joust
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Dude, thanks for reminding me! Joust should have been on my list, and I can't believe I left it off. That game was so cool. And Bad Dudes... I hadn't thought about that one in ages. In the summer of 1990, that game was in the break room at the place where I was a lifeguard. I played it a lot, and I finally beat the game that August, right before I went off to college.

Bad Dudes made me think of another one I loved-- Double Dragon. You play a street thug who goes around beating up other street thugs until you finally get to the end and beat up the final thug. I ended up beating that one too. The games where you start at one point and travel and travel and move from one level to the next were my favorite kind.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

I was an absolute master of Centipede and Tempest - could play either for as long as I wanted, every time.
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Centipede is another one I left off. It was the first video game I ever really got into. It was the spring of 1982 when I discovered that one in the arcade at the nearby mall. A few months later, I got my Atari 2600. That was when video games became a gigantic part of our culture.

I remember in 1975 when I was at a bar with my parents (I was three.) and there was a video game in there. I guess it was the first time I ever played a video game. It had a model dirt track that was rolled up, and it moved by while the player steered a motorcycle on the moving track. No electronic illusions were involved. That is about as old school as it gets. In 1980, I played Pong for the first time. That was a huge advancement. I think what made video games really take off in 1982 was of course the technology that would inevitably make it take off, but particularly, the game that got so big and got the world into video games was Pacman. It got so big that it was the game that came in the box with an Atari 2600. Atari 2600 started the home video game system craze. Playstation, Game Cube, X Box, and all of that stuff are evolutions of the Atari 2600.

Ooh. Just thought of another one:

Golden Axe.
That game was the shit.

Anyone play Rayman or Oregon Trail?

... Oregon Trail.. wasn't that a PC game?