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This is a thread in which we can discuss the games we used to play years ago, say for instance the ones that made your childhood!

I'll start off by detailing a game I've always kept close to me (no, I won't be talking about Zone Of The Enders this time, although that game is definitely still close to my heart :P)

This story requires a bit of set up.

When me and my brother went shopping with out parents, we used to go into the games store and buy anything that looked even remotely cool. Most of these games were second-hand. When we got home we would try them all, and it was fun as heck!

 

Among those games that we bought was Killer Loop, a relatively unknown gem nowadays.

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Killer Loop desperately wanted to be Wipeout, and in a lot of cases, it succeeded. 
It was a futuristic racing game in which you drove in vehicles called tripods, which were said to be powered electromagnetically, thus meaning it could only drive on metal roads. It also meant that a tripod could magnetically stick to a wall all the while still propelling itself forward, meaning that the racing tracks could literally have the road turn upside down or sideways. The tracks throughout the game saw the use of this feature a lot.

 

There were 4 classes of tripods and 3 manufacturers: H&K, Pulse, and Sinus.

You already had all 3 of the Class 1 tripods unlocked to get you started
Completing all of the available tracks (and getting first place in each one) with one of the tripods would unlock you the tripod in the next class up, with the same manufacturer. If you wanted the other tripods in that next class, you would have to get first place in all of the tracks with the manufacturer you wanted to unlock in the next class.

 

Killer Loop even had a small back story to it too.

 

Story:
Basically, fuel was depleting fast and the simple act of driving threatened to become a luxury. Luckily, there was no war, as scientists quickly came up with MK (magneto-kinetic) which would eventually power all vehicles. This, however, required all roads to be replaced with smooth, metal surfaces.

Then came the idea of turning the sport of driving we know today into a futuristic sport, using tripods powered by MK tech!

 

Speeds increased drastically increased, as did the threat of death, and the crowd loved it. When everyone realised that there really wasn't much limit as to where an MK powered vehicle could go, tracks became hilariously mind-bending, all the while keeping the same speeds.

Then the league officials said "Screw it, slap weapons on them!" and the drivers had to undergo lasers, landmines, and homing missiles all the while using them themselves in order to real the finish line.

 

My opinion:

Killer Loop was really looked over and it honestly deserved more attention than it got. The models weren't anything to write home about but the graphics were pretty good for their time, especially the PC version!
The sound effects were a bit half-assed but I didn't pay much attention to those; they got the job done. The speeds were exhilarating as well, and it always maintained a sense of sensitivity.
The music was pretty rad too!



What was your favorite old game?  

 

 


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Little Samson

Crusader: No Remorse

Tekken 3

Final Fantasy Tactics

Front Mission 3

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Terranigma

Panzer Bandit

Xenogears

Armored Core: Project Phantasm/ 2 Another Age/ Nexus/ Last Raven

 

And many more.



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I made a blogpost about this, but it is in Hungarian. I need to translate that, but in the meantime let me list some of my all time favourite games.

 

Alley Cat - the first game I played

 

UFO: Enemy Unknown

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Worms 2 (before the ninja rope nerf)

Fallout 2

Quake 2 (if I really need to pick one from the series)


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I really miss this game a lot.


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So much nostalgia:

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My fist PC was a Sinclair Spectrum 48k

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And my favourite game was, of-course, Star Wars.
 

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My next PC was an Amstrad CPC464.

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My favourite game was AirWolf as I loved the TV series! 

 

It was hard! Crazy Hard!

I'm old! Crazy Old!


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Solitaire. With real cards.

There were no computers or electronic games in my childhood.

All telephones had wires.

All televisions had antennas (and an airplane flying over would really screw up the signal)

I was about 30 when the first quarter-up games were introduced: pong, space invaders, and the all time hit: pac-man.

 

So there.

:D

 

edit: note, i said "airplane" as in propeller-driven. the only jets around were military.


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Growing up with 2 brothers i naturally didn't get much of a say in the games i played, but i enjoyed them anyway. These two i remember especially:

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I've been playing Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven recently, great game and pretty unforgiving. Before that I completed Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer and Metal Gear Solid 1-3.

 

My favourite game at the moment is Omega Boost, stunning game for the time and it looks amazing on the "new" monitor I got the other week:

 

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Hmm I'd have to say my favorite would be DOOM. Doom-1-icon.png It was the first series I played all of. (on PC, I haven't played consoles since Nintendo) And the first I played on BBS's with. Descent descent_game_icon_by_ace0fh3arts-d6osjth would be second because I spent thousands of hours playing it solo and online and in ladder matches on Kali and Kahn. For insane fights would be a tie between Quake Quake-icon.png (played them all) solo and online and UT unreal-tournament-icon.png (played them all) solo and online. Hawken has been the only thing that had that feel to it.

I've played a ton of MMO's and enjoyed them all but not the same and Doom, Quake, UT, and Hawken hawken_green_by_narcizze-d6cv0s9.png . As I get older and older it gets harder and harder to do what I once could. Think about this. How good will you be when you are 61? And how good do you think I was when I was your age? hehe :tongue:


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Easy.

 

Zone of the Enders 1st and 2nd game (I like the 2nd one better)

 

Xenogears 

 

Metal Gear Solid

 

Chrono Trigger 

 

Final Fantasy X-2 Great Game and the Opening Piano music Moves my soul every time I hear it ^_^

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Homeworld (1, cataclysm and 2) One of the Best Space RTS of all time.

 

Games with Great stories and Mechs ^_^


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All the Myst series, definitely.

 

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Also, Railroad Tycoon II and Cossacks 1. That was damn fun!


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https://youtu.be/TNDCKVQm7vo?t=150

 

Show me your moves!

 

OH MY GOD I PLAYED THAT SO MUCH ...

 

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Also: Pokemon.



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Big red racing was the first game I played. https://www.youtube....h?v=94nbLl95unw

 

My favourite would probably be Halo though.


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Easy.

 

Zone of the Enders 1st and 2nd game (I like the 2nd one better)

 

 

Have my children.

 

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Zone of The Enders 1 & 2 are also close to my heart and they're the first mech game I ever played.
I absolutely love them to bits!

The first one I think was pretty good and I REALLY loved the dynamic music.

I think the second one was better though as pretty much everything was improved on like the controls, graphics, pace, maneuverability etc..

 
Such a shame they axed the 3rd one ;(


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I think that hover craft bumper car game that came with windows 95 was the first game I played that wasn't a point and click Freddy the Fish game, followed by MW4 and Red Alert 2. Stil have the discs for both of those actually. I still play MW4 Mercs from time to time.

 

Also, Lego Island. I loved that game to death.


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I still have the CD for that here and I played it 'recently' (like half a year ago) :D

 

 

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That was the first computer game I had along with Crimson Skies. These two came together with the first pc we had :D Dat memories <3

 

 

One of my all-time fav is Metal Fatigue. An awesome RTS where you could assemble customized mech units.

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Another favourite is Thandor. Another sci-fi RTS

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I hope I'm not the only one who enjoyed this space sim. 

 

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Absolutely loved Freespace and the user-created content; the modding community is still active today. 


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All the Myst series, definitely.

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Also, Railroad Tycoon II and Cossacks 1. That was damn fun!



My favourite was Myst III Exile (atleast that is the german version). I played this like 100 times when I was a kid but damn, these puzzles at the end. Always needed some help at this point haha.

 

 

But I played Aquanox (later Aquanox 2 as well) whe nI was a child aged .. well 8 years old? Haha. Maybe I shouldn't have played that one. Still a huge fan:

 

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Tyrian 2000. Old DOS game with what might be the best in game music ever. In the spoiler below you can hear the music and see some in game footage.

 

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Planescape Torment.

Mmmmm...

I don't even know where to start.

Well, you remember DnD, right? Before the 4th edition, of cource.

It had a setting called "Planescape". Basically it's a world between worlds. It is a place where all DnD's other settings could actually connect and oh boy they did.

Little summary of plot: You are immortal. Partially. And another time you died, you woke up with no memory of the place you're in, nor even about yourself. The whole game you're trying to actually understand who are you and, most importantly, why can not die.

It's just... i can not encapsulate the whole beauty of this game in just one post, you just need to play it for more than 2 hours to understand why. It's big. Like really big. And it has simply brilliant writing, which is basically the whole game. NPS tells you something and you have 25 options to pick the answer from (which can depend on your stats, previous actions, gathered knoledge and etc.).

+ all NPS are not generic. They have personalities, they feel alive. It's just like the game is existing on it's own and you are just a tiny, insignificant part of it. And I only got started....

If you love good old RPG's with DnD style - PLAY IT NOW. I'm not exaggerating.

 

Also: Accedancy. Try to beat that, geeks.


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Hands down one of the best I have played since I was younger. VERY happy it's in steam.


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i grew up on mech warrior and tomb raider but one of my favorite old games of all time would have to be war of the monsters. it had generic off brands of classic monster movie monsters from the 30's-50's and was just an awesome game.

 


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Samurai Shodown: The Scout remind me Nakoruru  :pirate:

 


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Picked this up last week, Bank Holiday plans are set:

 

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A weird friend of mine gave me a fan-translated rom of Front Mission: Gunhazard about 10 years ago, and it's far and away my favorite snes game.  I'm guessing I can't link to it here, but if you were so inclined as to find a rom, the fan translation site, and a patcher for snes games, you'd be in for a pretty good time.  Golden era Squaresoft, side scrolling, and definitely long enough to surpass many modern games with a great soundtrack to boot.  There's a few unexpained little weird things about it, so if you do find it, ask me when you get stuck.  Because you will, probably two or three times.


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Hands down one of the best I have played since I was younger. VERY happy it's in steam.


Did you see they just re-released this on steam? Also I caught wind that someone is making an indie version remake of it HYPE




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