Favorites old school game

[zeroprime]

hey guy what is your Favorites old school game? mine is Mach Rider and Mega Man 2

[jambo]

Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons!

[P-Thunder.]

Red barron!! ! ! !

[TheTaxidermist]

Keystone Kapers. And of course, Mike Tyson's Punchout. Tetris got it goin on. and of course, may I not forget the game Adventure.

[jambo]

Oh of crouse, how could i forget Tetris, and SkiFree :D. What else... oh yeah minesweeper ****in rules

[zim]

Descent!
http://www.macgamer.com/Reviews-old/Descent/descent1.gif

Still my favorite game ever and I play it regularly.

[jambo]

First 3d game. EVER.

[Kester]

Eye of the beholder 2 and speedball, both were awesome games on the amiga.

[Mercer]

Let's see... just a couple of commerical ones...Nova Storm and MegaRace

[Tesseract]

I loved leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizzards back in it's original set up with text and keyboard only. I was also a big fan of wayne gretsky's NHL hockey on my old 88/86. crystal caves and secrete agent were fun. I loved tank wars as a great dos game (I made a qbasic version in high school).

That's about as many as I can think of right now.

[geekofalltrades]

Deadlock: Planetary Conquest. Really cool turn-based strategy game; I'm not sure when it's from, exactly, but it's pretty old.

[rtanger]

Ultima 7, no contest. I still get a kick out of baking bread. Sue me.

[zim]

I liked Ultima 2 better

[Dr.Aaron]

Real Life, best graphics for an 500000000000+ old game ever. Gameplay can suck sometimes though. :P

[jambo]

Nah Real Life sucks, especially when you try to run Wife 1.0 and Mistress 2.0 at the same time. It always crashes and burns :rofl:

[rtanger]

Is real-life truly old-school?
I thought something had to go out of style first. And real-life is still very much in fashion....otherwise we'd, you know, be dead.

[jambo]

Real-Life is overated :lol:


Commander Keen Series > Real-Life

[zelmar]

any of the old nintendo games,like super mario 64

[Sersoft.corp]

Tetris!

[JTower]

Super Mario RPG, Not even going to lie I beat that game when I was 4. Oh and Secrets of Evermore(Beat this game around 4 years also) not going to lie though, if you have a SNES still, and havn't played Secrets of Evermore pick it up, one of the greatest games ever. (IMO)
http://www.squarepalace.com/imgs/soe/soe.jpg
Yes I was a little Squaresoft follower.

[Garcian Smith]

Alex Kidd. Used to play that on the Master System till the very early hours :P

[YukoAsho]

It's all about The Guardian Legend.

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[Drukaree]

Let's see... just a couple of commerical ones...Nova Storm and MegaRace

MegaRace was just about the coolest game ever.

I used to love Legend of Scheherezade on the NES. I'm not a big fan of Final Fantasy style RPGs, but I loved that game for some reason.

[Vincent]

Duke Nukem (also megabump of exactly one year, 9hrs and 37 minutes)

[Psyborg]

That's my type of bump!

[Atomic Waffle]

Oh. Well then.

I always loved all of the original Doom games and Duke Nukem 3D... I still play them.

[BahamutBBob]

My first gaming memories are of Frogger, so I'll put that one up there. Props also go out to Super Mario Bros 3 and Chrono Trigger. And Super Mario World. I could say more but I won't.
That's my type of bump!
As long as it sticks to the topic it's fine.

[intooblivion]

Descent!
http://www.macgamer.com/Reviews-old/Descent/descent1.gif

Still my favorite game ever and I play it regularly.

Descent rules. Damn robots goin' crazy n' ****.

[Krakn3Dfx]

To this day, I still play massive amounts of Donkey Kong, usually on the NES. But I think my favorite game from the classic years is Timber, which was lucky for me in the arcade by my house, because no one else wanted to play it except me.

[goatlinks]

Lets see...Minesweeper, Tetris, Doom, Wolf 3D, SimCity and Civilization

[YukoAsho]

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One of the better NES beat-em-ups.

[jedipoodoo547]

My favorite old school game and first RPG was Sword Of Vermilion for the Sega Genesis. I remember staying up for hours to level up my character.

http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/scans2/swordofvermillion.jpg

[YukoAsho]

Good God, Sword of Vermilion is horrible...

There were better Genesis RPGs.

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[Winged One]

Anyone play Astal? I loved that game!

[Stuart444]

There is so many old school games that I love and still love such as:

Lemmings
Base Jumper
Paperboy
Frogger
etc

[Vincent]

Worms.

[Jacob]

Any of the Mega Man games. What's great about them is the fact they are pretty universal, sticking to the 2D style even in the next gen systems, so you can always enjoy the old school feeling.

[Vincent]

Ken's lab was awesome too, I always played it with my sister.

[Alex6969]

Is DOOM old enough to be considered "Old School"?

[Garcian Smith]

Oh yes. I still recall playing co-op and deathmatch in secret, just in case my mates Dad found out we were using his PC =D

[Harold_HTFC]

Well I don't know if you would class it as old school but I always liked playing "Comic Zone" on the Megadrive. Or Zelda on the Snes.

[Garcian Smith]

Hahah! Comic Zone, I'd completely forgotten about that gem.

[BahamutBBob]

Anything in the 32 bit era (1999) and earlier counts as old school at this point if you ask me.

And I wish I'd gotten the chance to play Doom in deathmatch or coop, I tried once and it didn't work out too well :(

[YukoAsho]

Retro is, at least for me, anything more than 5 years removed from modern relevance. This includes all consoles from the Atari 2600 to the Sega Dreamcast and all handhelds preceding the GBA, which is probably a year or so away from consideration.

The 3D consoles tend not to get the retro love they deserve because of this stupid idea that some old school gamers (nevermind that gaming isn't even that old) that the PlayStation soured everything up with its newfangled 3D graphics.

Here's a fun bit of retro:

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Cannon Spike, a true gem on the Dreamcast.

[Quasar]

One game that I spent countless hours on was a Genesis game called Zero Tolerance. It was sort of like Doom with strategy. Good stuff.

[Atomic Waffle]

Liero is a kick-ass game, especially Liero Xtreme. It was basically a Worms clone that was in real-time, with the "Xtreme" version adding an easy-to-use interface, and powerful modding capability. If anyone would like, i'll host the files and a few mods/skins on here. Unfortunately, the game itself is by all accounts dead, and the online play as well as the community is completely gone.

[Jacob]

Retro is, at least for me, anything more than 5 years removed from modern relevance. This includes all consoles from the Atari 2600 to the Sega Dreamcast and all handhelds preceding the GBA, which is probably a year or so away from consideration.

The 3D consoles tend not to get the retro love they deserve because of this stupid idea that some old school gamers (nevermind that gaming isn't even that old) that the PlayStation soured everything up with its newfangled 3D graphics.

Here's a fun bit of retro:

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Cannon Spike, a true gem on the Dreamcast.Please tell me that game is still available to the masses somehow. That is an incredible game. Love those two analog controller games. :salute:

[Garcian Smith]

Cybernator. What a legendary game.

[YukoAsho]

Please tell me that game is still available to the masses somehow. That is an incredible game. Love those two analog controller games. :salute:

I don't think so. It's not even working on MAME yet. You can get the DC game on eBay though.

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Here's some more Arcade/Dreamcast classic gaming. Unlike Cannon Spike, however, Mars Matrix DOES work on MAME.

[Jacob]

I don't think so. It's not even working on MAME yet. You can get the DC game on eBay though.

-v-N4rFkoBw

Here's some more Arcade/Dreamcast classic gaming. Unlike Cannon Spike, however, Mars Matrix DOES work on MAME.I love you in a totally heterosexual way. :wub: That game is ROCKING! I know you can never go wrong with classic 2D shooters, but that opened a whole new level to it.

[Flarty]

has to be monkey island

[Wasabi]

Yay! :happy:

[YukoAsho]

I love you in a totally heterosexual way. :wub: That game is ROCKING! I know you can never go wrong with classic 2D shooters, but that opened a whole new level to it.

You realize I'm female, right?:haha::haha::haha::haha:

Anyway, let's continue this loving orgy for bullet hell shooters with some Gunbird.

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Don't worry, the game is available in English on MAME. Honestly, though... Do you need to understand anything in a shoot-em-up? :D

[honestgamer]

I bought an arcade stick for my Dreamcast, so I have Mars Matrix (awesome, awesome game) and Bangai-O and Giga Wing 1 and 2 and Gunbird 2 and Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Street Fighter 3 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2... Capcom pretty much made the Dreamcast worth owning all by itself.

As for retro games I like, some of my earliest experiences were Moon Patrol and Bug Attack on the Apple IIe, so they remain important to me in that sense (and fun to play today). Super Mario Kart and Super Mario Bros. 3 remain some of my favorite games of all time, along with The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II on the NES. I feel dirty mentioning so many of my favorite games because they're from Nintendo and all fairly popular, but I can't help myself. They're great games!

[Spaztick]

Wild Arms; I know it's not really that old, so for the truly old school game I'd have to pick Wasteland.

[Jacob]

You realize I'm female, right?:haha::haha::haha::haha:

Anyway, let's continue this loving orgy for bullet hell shooters with some Gunbird.

Don't worry, the game is available in English on MAME. Honestly, though... Do you need to understand anything in a shoot-em-up? :DYes. You are female. :wub:

A shooter that actually allows you the option to move backwards. Now there is something that was long overdue. Think the only other time I saw that was in a Macross NES game (when you turned into "robo" form).

Hey! For some reason I'm reminded of the original Contra, which was a good classic game...though difficult as heck, making me not want to take up the challenge of beating it. Think the farthest I've ever gotten was past the 3rd boss. :dry:

[YukoAsho]

The first PS1 RPG not to suck is pretty old, Spaz.

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Best intro to a game ever.

[The Hylden]

I think my favorite retro game from the earliest of my years has to be the first two Ninja Gaiden titles for NES. I like Ninja Gaiden II more than the first by a bit. First games ever to use cinematic cut-scenes. And they were really good, too;) Music was outstanding also.

http://http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIbCNSsLqk&feature=related

Then, of course, you have the Super Mario ones, etc...




Oh, and the best video game intro ever award most definitely goes to this for me:) Another great musical accompaniment also.

http://http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=f5BRglejVCs

[BahamutBBob]

I don't think I've posted this game in this thread yet, but I <3 it, so yeah.

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[David]

the two Z's for me....Zelda and Zork

[Jacob]

Wild Arms - Darn my copy of the game for being scratched, and not even getting past any of the intros without freezing. :(
Ninja Gaiden - Could this possibly be the first ninja game? Or at least good one?
Crystalis - Classic intro...though I wish the controls could have been a little better. Having to pause the game to switch swords every other second is annoying. Thank the lord for L and R buttons.

[Disc0]

Although a lot of them are technically fairly recent, I've burnt countless hours on if-archive.org's library.

[ninjalegend]

Street fighter 2. If I had invested the money I dumped into those machines.......Of course Golden eye 007. Had a little game where I would shoot the bad guys in the most non-lethal places. But keep blasting them until they died. Extra credit for disarming them with a well placed shot, first.

[intooblivion]

Shooting people in the hands and or foot was awesome.

And hats with bullet holes? Sweet.

[Chrille]

Half-Life and Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.

Yeah I'm not that old school.

[Lopez]

Zool and Whizz Kidd.

[Jacob]

Due to M dot Strange (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZipRAsT0sk) and his homages to old school gaming, my memories of Gyruss and Sinistar are refreshed, making me smile. :lol:

[Psyborg]

Mickey Mousecapades, yo.

[vincian]

Donkey Kong Country

[Swedish Elite]

Rayman

[Dr Stupid]

Carrier Command. The first game that made me lose sleep

[Jacob]

I played the old PS1 game Spyro, mostly out of boredom, and have discovered it to be fun. Sure, it's simple, and is marketed to the gamer who isn't so hardcore, but it's a game. And a nicely made one. Albeit the ridiculous location of gems at times. ;)