|
|
Post by AtariGuy on Sept 19, 2017 16:29:13 GMT -5
Here's a groovy idea for some mental time travel. Dust off them brain cells and share with us the old atari, nes, dos, apple 2gs, etc games you used to play.
I had a few dozen myself. Most memorable for me was this dos classic from 91, Scorched Earth.
|
|
|
|
Post by 90GTVert on Sept 19, 2017 18:28:37 GMT -5
I love Galaga. Not sure what it started on. I remember it from the arcade.
Can't forget the Oregon Trail.
Jungle Hunt and Space Invaders are the 2 I remember most from Atari.
My favorite NES game has to be The Legend of Zelda.
SNES favorite was Super Metroid.
I have to play Super Metroid or Zelda through at least once every few years.
Goldeneye was THE game on Nintendo 64.
I played A LOT of Starcraft in the late 90s and 2000s. Thousands of games. Nearly all of my friends played. It was so bad that we'd go hang out together and then split up to return to our respective homes just to be able to play Starcraft online together.
|
|
|
|
Post by ryan_ott on Sept 19, 2017 19:49:58 GMT -5
I have a original NES I still use. Graphics look great on a large screen tv.  |
|
|
|
Post by culcune on Sept 19, 2017 23:22:01 GMT -5
Old school Nintendo I had up to sometimes in the 90s--remember playing Ghosts and Goblins and winning...or so I thought. Had to go through the whole game again to actually win?! Wish I still had both Nintendo and Ghosts and Goblins...
|
|
|
|
Post by bluegoatwoods on Sept 20, 2017 8:21:41 GMT -5
I never got too familiar with the early stuff. Or the more modern games,
for that matter. I do enjoy Mario Kart, though.
I do remember Space Invaders showing up in the bars about 1978 or 79. Being a big pinball fan, I refused to go anywhere near it. I guess my real objection was the fact that there was no winning a free game at all. It felt like a rip-off.
Eventually I started putting the occasional quarter into Space Invaders. And I agreed that it was a decent game.
But I never got too enthusiastic.
And I remember the original Atari home game system. Atari 2600?. I think that's what they called it. Very poor graphics. And that terrible joystick which wore your hand out in about 15 minutes or so. Bad sound, too.
But I don't really want to seem too contemptuous. It was the early days and it was primitive.
I also recall, about the same time, being pretty impressed with the graphics of "Galaga". But, of course, even that's downright primitive today.
|
|
|
|
Post by 90GTVert on Sept 20, 2017 10:13:44 GMT -5
The crazy thing about the old games to me is that they can be about as entertaining as what's coming out today, with barebones graphics and a pretty mindless plot. When you strip it all away, even the huge worlds in sandbox games and the level of customization and complexity of most games today is just a fancy cover over the same old tasks that kept us entertained in Pac Man, Galaga, Tetris, Wolfenstein, and so on.
I just remembered another old favorite... Paperboy on NES and Paperboy 2 or Super Paperboy (whatever it was called) on SNES. Never got old knocking the car off the jackstands with a newspaper or seeing how many windows I could break out.
|
|
|
|
Post by stepthrutuner on Sept 20, 2017 11:00:20 GMT -5
I was a service person for an amusement operator for eight years. My favorite games were the kitted for hyperspeed Mrs. Pac Man and the old, old black and white x-y display game, Asteroids Delux of which I had one in my home for many years.
|
|
Natey
Scoot Member
Posts: 34 
Location: Santa Cruz Ca
|
Post by Natey on Sept 20, 2017 13:26:21 GMT -5
Anyone here ever play Son Son? Goin WAYYY back.
|
|
|
|
Post by AtariGuy on Sept 20, 2017 14:18:00 GMT -5
I love Galaga. Not sure what it started on. I remember it from the arcade. Can't forget the Oregon Trail. Jungle Hunt and Space Invaders are the 2 I remember most from Atari. My favorite NES game has to be The Legend of Zelda. SNES favorite was Super Metroid. I have to play Super Metroid or Zelda through at least once every few years. Goldeneye was THE game on Nintendo 64. I played A LOT of Starcraft in the late 90s and 2000s. Thousands of games. Nearly all of my friends played. It was so bad that we'd go hang out together and then split up to return to our respective homes just to be able to play Starcraft online together. I'm probably dating myself - but we used to have lan party tournaments playing starcraft every afternoon after school. Even made a "lan party club" with about 40-50 of us. Every so often, a saturday at school for 6-8 hours. It was great. Snes - mario kart, super mario brothers, secret of mana, jurassic park (those who remember, the sega and the nintendo versions were *completely* different games) and dozens more Sega genesis - the whole sonic series - the 3d sonic game kinda pissed me off - but i loved the crazy sonic and knuckles cartridge, plug in sonic 2 or 3 and backplay as knuckles - s3 was designed for the release of the s&k backplay N64 - pilot wiiiiiiings! Goldeneye, turok, omg sooo many hours destroyed to mario party and mario kart 64... Most of my gaming was spent on the atari (I have 3 still working atari 2600's with 30some cartridges) and the NES - lots of pitfall, qbert, pacman, asteroids - then mario, dukhunt, ninja turtles, zelda, duck tales, super snow brothers, contra, guerillas (first game to be targeted for epileptic seizures), rampage, soooo many more. A little trivia - The nintendo certified cartridge system came about because atari nearly destroyed the home gaming systems before they could really take off. Think of it this way, say you saw some wild cover art, but by the time you plugged it in, you couldnt figure out why you're a block spinning around shooting at triangle blocks... you just spent 20 bucks in the late 70's-early 80's on some pile of garbage that you played for 30 seconds. Nintendo decided they wanted to verify the games released for their system were quality games worth playing, and they spent a lot of time producing games themselves to set the bar much higher for at home game consoles. |
|
|
|
Post by bluegoatwoods on Sept 20, 2017 14:27:45 GMT -5
Speaking of dating ourselves, I can remember the original "Pong" in laundromats and such. I think it was introduced in 1972. And I can remember playing coin operated versions as early as about the time of Watergate or so.
|
|
|
|
Post by AtariGuy on Sept 20, 2017 15:03:31 GMT -5
Pc games! I played sid meyers civilization like nuts too, sim city, sc2k, wing commander privateer, black and white, captain comic, commander keen, original warcraft games, diablo 1, pga golf (yeah yeah laugh it up fuzzball) - mech warrior, descent, and i loved getting those shareware bundles too. Tons of little quirky games, usually an independant spoof/rewrite on existing games like asteroids or minesweeper... some fun demos of putt putt minigolf, etc lol
|
|
|
|
Post by 90GTVert on Sept 20, 2017 21:33:37 GMT -5
I'm not at all a golf fan, but I have enjoyed golf games on quite a few systems. My favorite was prob Beavis & Butthead's Bunghole In One on PC.
Reminiscing about more old games that friends and I played way too much. These were popular in our homes :
Sort of like RC Pro Am, on steroids.
Wheelin' 'n' dealin'.
|
|
Natey
Scoot Member
Posts: 34
Location: Santa Cruz Ca
|
Post by Natey on Sept 20, 2017 23:42:09 GMT -5
I still play Diablo 3. lol
If any of you guys have a PS4 and Diablo, I'll level you u up quick
|
|
|
|
Post by niz76 on Sept 21, 2017 7:52:10 GMT -5
I remeber waking up in middle of the night just so I could play Zaxxon on our ColecoVision lol. My sisters and brothers would never let me play otherwise!  |
|
|
|
Post by niz76 on Sept 21, 2017 8:05:05 GMT -5
Oh ya can't forget Hunt The Wumpus for the TI99 lols.
|
|
