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Post by AtariGuy on Feb 1, 2020 22:25:22 GMT -5
I've been - over the last 6-7 months - building a PC. Last week I just got done installing Windows 95 on it.
"Wait... What?"
You read that right, windows 95. I've been building a legacy gaming pc. It cost me 75 bucks. That includes the price of a cup of coffee at the local coffee shop where I eventually met up with a fellow legacy gamer who provided me an original Sound Blaster Pro soundcard.
It's a thing. I suffer from Nostalgia Gaming Syndrome. Ok, maybe I just made that up. But there's been game titles on discs I still own that I haven't been able to play in... the better part of 2 decades now that I think about it - that I dearly miss. I still own SimAnt, Commander Keen, Captain Comic, Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans, Mechwarrior, Baldur's Gate, and many other old abandonware games.
I have to admit, the rollercoaster ride of trying to find all these legacy pc parts has been a nightmare. I'm still troubleshooting a hundred other problems with drivers that are no longer supported. There are legacy sites and fanware sites that have a scant collection of unsupported .zip drivers handy and i'm aware a lot of them could contain virus crap. It sure is a good thing the old 90-2000's viruses are easy to detect with today's antivirus software. At least they better be. Otherwise the computer age black plague could be returning.
How many of you are nostalgia gamers too? Do you still have working systems? What games do you boot up from time to time?
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Post by lilpinny on Feb 1, 2020 22:36:39 GMT -5
I’d love to play leisure suit Larry again. I liked mech warrior and commander keen. The old EA hockey ruled. I don’t have a machine for that, but I love those games.
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Post by christopher on Feb 2, 2020 8:46:03 GMT -5
Did you try an emulator for a newer PC? I have SIM tower and a few others running that way.
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Post by 90GTVert on Feb 2, 2020 10:02:42 GMT -5
Most of the old stuff that I played was on consoles. Atari and then NES through N64. Now that lilpinny mentioned it, I did play Leisure Suit Larry on PC, Might & Magic, Age of Empires, Doom, and way more Starcraft than anyone should have ever played. I could probably still play a lot of that stuff, but I've tried to not play games for the last roughly 6 years. I used to be on Xbox Live every night with a group of friends playing Call of Duty mostly or Borderlands, but I put so much time into it that I sold my Xbox and haven't really looked back. I did get Borderlands 3 free with my Ryzen processor and I was kinda excited to play that franchise again. I liked the game, but I played for all of 2 days before I gave up on it. Now I get kinda dizzy when I play a FPS and I never did before. I seem to have more issues like that since knocking myself out on asphalt so I doubt it's gonna change. |
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Post by geoffh on Feb 2, 2020 10:25:45 GMT -5
Good lord above,I,ve never seen Star Wars  but each to their own. Geoff,dragged up in the 1960s |
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Post by jbjhillbilly on Feb 2, 2020 13:28:33 GMT -5
Good lord above,I,ve never seen Star Wars but each to their own. Geoff,dragged up in the 1960s Wait? As in the original 1977 Star Wars? I do have what is known as The Original Trilogy theatrical versions in HD (not the altered re-releases), so we could fix that for you. It’s no Lawrence of Arabia, but it really is a fun movie if you’ve never seen it. |
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Post by oldgeek on Feb 2, 2020 13:59:43 GMT -5
I was big into the early quarter eaters in the arcades, we had ALL the good ones in big numbers around here when I was growing up.
The only PC game I remember playing at the moment is Redneck Rampage. My brother is a hardcore PC gamer from way back. He currently plays Fallout, Seven days to die, and a couple older titles. The amount of hours he has logged playing games on the PC is ASTOUNDING.
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Post by lilpinny on Feb 2, 2020 15:55:32 GMT -5
Oh man... I just remembered a great game I pled a lot: Tie Fighter on PC. I loved shooting me some Y-wings.
I worked at an arcade in the 80’s and can still hear those arcade games... “total carnage!”, spy hunter. Rolling thunder.
I recently got a stadia account and the controller and stuff to check out borderlands 3. brother recommended the game but I didn’t want the console, so stadia. But really nowadays the only time the switch comes out is on long airplane rides.
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Post by Zino on Feb 2, 2020 16:39:23 GMT -5
I go back to pong then atari & arcade games Pac Man, Donkey Kong ,Missile Command ,Galaga .
I probably spent the down payment on ahouse over those years 1 quarter at a time .
Then moved on to ninteno then Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis Mortal Kombat was the game .
Then the last game I was addicted too was Diablo on PC.
I had to move on or get a New Wife all night marathon gaming sessions were not popular with her .
Now watching my kids play some of same games I grew up on brings back the memories.
My wife is ok with my scooter addiction as long as she has one .
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Feb 2, 2020 17:52:06 GMT -5
I'm another one who came up in the 1960s. So my nostalgia goes back just a bit further into the past. My real passion is pinball.
For that matter, I strongly prefer old electro-mechanical over the later solid-state machines. The bells, thumps and clicks are music to my ears. I kinda dislike a pinball machine that plays music or has recorded voice speaking. Though I'll admit that many solid-state machines are still fun to play. And many electro-mechanicals are actually turkeys as far as play is concerned. But the good ones? Heaven on earth!
I recall spotting Space Invaders in bars among the pinball machines perhaps as early as 1978. 79 is more likely. I think it wasn't until about the time that Pac Man came around before I'd even try a video game. And I had to admit that Space Invaders was pretty cool. But I had looked down my nose at them for the simple reason that I felt ripped off over the fact that there was no chance at all to win a free game. I figured if they didn't need me any more than that, then I didn't need them at all.
In the 1982-83 range I was playing Galaga and Galaxian a bit. But that about finished the coin operated games for me.
At about that time I played a bit on friend's Atari systems. But those graphics were so primitive and the joystick was so uncomfortable that I never went far with that.
Since then I just haven't been much of a gamer. Though I'd gladly play pinball over and over if I could only find a machine.
I do have, though, a working Game Cube in order to play Mario Kart Double Dash. I was a bit less impressed with Mario fo Wii and I really didn't like Mario Kart 8 very much at all. So I bought a re-conditioned Game Cube and a Double Dash disk. I also bought a Gottlied Pinball collection for Game Cube. But I found that the Game Cube controls simply don't play pinball very well at all.
Then it occurred to me that I should have bought a Wii and then I could play both Double Dash and MK Wii. Plus the Wii controls might play pinball better. What a dummy!!!
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Post by 2stroked on Feb 2, 2020 18:52:14 GMT -5
Gotta love an old school pinball table. "Tilt!" Sumbiatch....
The feeling if the mechanical flippers, not controlled by electronics, but levers and cables, the machines themselves had personality. I love old pinball tables, but its either digital shit, or museum pieces. The ones you do find that are playable are never close enough. Ugh.
The Dairy Cheer by where I grew up, had coin op pool tables, one pinball machine, and annold jukebox full of GNR, Poison, Ozzy, etc. I'm an 80's kid, but that place was heaven for years.
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Post by AtariGuy on Feb 3, 2020 13:54:06 GMT -5
Did you try an emulator for a newer PC? I have SIM tower and a few others running that way. i have tried emulators, but theres some hiccups and such lost in translation. Them old dos-win95 games were made for a good old fashioned 640x480 vga monitor. Playing them on hdtvs loses that sense of nostalgia. Plus the micro frame twitches, speed balancing (old x86 processor vs 64 bit 3.7ghz 8 core) and such. They were made for old machines. Kind of like playing NES games on a fancy new tv. Those who have a ps2 and try to play guitar hero on expert know the feels... |
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Post by fuzzyruttin on Feb 4, 2020 5:24:31 GMT -5
Good lord above,I,ve never seen Star Wars  but each to their own. Geoff,dragged up in the 1960s Wait? As in the original 1977 Star Wars? I do have what is known as The Original Trilogy theatrical versions in HD (not the altered re-releases), so we could fix that for you. It’s no Lawrence of Arabia, but it really is a fun movie if you’ve never seen it. Really?! Could you fix that for me?? I don't geek-love Star Wars but have watched all of them countless times. The digital editing in the original series really tees me off. |
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Post by jloi on Feb 4, 2020 6:50:04 GMT -5
Yep . pinball for me.a little in mid-late 60's and a little more in early 70' . guess I was pre occupied when games came out -until 2010 , a neighbor had Wii golf on a 96" screen up high on his wall. man, did I love playing Wii golf . after I moved from there I explored golf games on PC too.
it's a little late for my- eye ,hand ,brain cooridination to do much in games. but I bet some good ol pinball would help kickstart it.
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Post by birdman on Feb 5, 2020 0:26:40 GMT -5
I may be a little younger, so snes, genesis, dreamcast, and ps1, are my nostalgic systems. I played a little pc stuff in the 90s to early 2000s like doom, counterstrike (I sucked terribly), Duke nukem, and some other stuff I can't remember. I fire up the old consoles from time to time, I mainly collect the games and stuff now more than playing. However, during the winter season I will invest hours into a jrpg on my vita, this year its been ff3 (ff6 in north America)
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but each to their own.
but each to their own.
