Classic Games

[madphilb]

I think you're thinking of Parsec

Yeah, the TI port of Microsurgeon was well-done. I preferred Intellivision Demon Attack, though (Pandemonium was so much cooler on the Inty for some reason).

Demon Attack? Hmm... rings a bell, but can't say I can place a face to the name. Maybe I'll google it later.

[ShiroiHikari]

Here's my list:

NES
· All three Mario games-- 3 was my favorite
· Tetris-- XD
· Duck Hunt -- Kinda generic but I spent many an hour shooting at my TV :p
· The Legend of Zelda -- Really hard but I love it
· Punch-Out! -- Also hard, but good

SNES
· Chrono Trigger -- Just awesome.
· Mega Man 7
· Mega Man X and X3 -- Rockin'. I love X.
· Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars -- Been a long time, but it was a good game
· The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past -- I actually just started on this one, but it's pretty darn good so far
· Super Mario Kart -- w00t!
· Mario Paint -- Wasted a looot of time messing with this
· Street Fighter II -- I rawk at this game XD
· Starfox -- Sooo fun. And pretty nice graphics for the time...
· Super Mario World
· Super Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

Sega Genesis

· All three Sonics -- Was just recently introduced to these. Can you say "awesome"?

[Spencer]

- Earthbound for SNES
- The really old Wolfenstein for PC
- Doom for PC
- Sonic 2 and 3 for Genesis (didn't like 1 all that much)
- Streets of Rage for Genesis
- Bejeweled for Genesis
- Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 for Genesis
- Tetris for NES (duh)
- Mario 3 for NES

All fun games.

[DrNic]

Ah man! How could I forget Kirby?!

I've only played two of his games (apart from the Smash Bro series but they feature lots of Nintendo characters), Kirbys Dreamcourse for the SNES and the Gameboy one (cant remember the name). The game boy one would have to be added as a classic.

Also If we're talking about REALLY old consols (like the Atari), then I'd have to say Chucky Egg, Donkey Kong and Jet Pac Jack. Very addictive.

Has anyone else here actually played on Illusion of Gaia?

[MasterDias]

I played Illusion of Gaia and got to the end but never beat the final bosses you have to fight. It was a pretty good game though.

As for Kirby, I played Kirby's Adventure for the NES and enjoyed it but I didn't enjoy Kirby's Dreamland 3 for the SNES as much. Kirby could get so many powers, it started to get boring for me.

[righteous_slave]

Burger Time is another bizzare great. I've got it and Super Burger Time on emulators and they are both freaky...I mean, eggs on a burger??? come on. Another food related classic would be Food Fight. Running across the screen throwing deadly bananas, tomatoes and parsley at cooks while attempting to eat the ice cream cone on the other side of the screen. They should remake that one as a FPS

[ShiroiHikari]

I was playing Illusion of Gaia for a while, but I haven't got the hang of it yet, as weird as that might sound.

[DrNic]

Illusion of Gaia (for me) was probably the start of my love for all things RPG. I loved the feel of the game and the score was brilliant! I have it downloaded on my PC at the moment...in fact I think I'll play on it right now...

[MasterDias]

Illusion of Gaia is supposed to be part of a trilogy that includes Soul Blazer and Terranigma. I didn't get very far in Terranigma but I cannot figure out how the three games are supposed to be related. The games seemed very different to me.

Soul Blazer was a pretty fun game. I liked how it utilized a world-building system.

[Namu]

Numbermuncher. A relatively lame Pac man clone obviously for learning purposes, but at the time it was the best I had, and I played it when possible. But while we're at it:

Oregon Trail. How many of you younger members played this in your early years?

XD....*remembers going in before school every day to play Number Munchers and other games like that*

As for Oregon Trail, I never did make it to Oregon. My people kept dying of starvation because I never had enough supplies....and I wasn't very good at hunting for food....

There was another game, that was alot like Oregon Trail to me....where I had to go to Alaska or something to dig for gold. That one I was good at. Got a High Score, I did. *nod*

Other games that I played when I was younger was Sonic, Kirby, Mario, Zelda....I don't really remember some of the other games

[MasterDias]

There was another game, that was alot like Oregon Trail to me....where I had to go to Alaska or something to dig for gold. That one I was good at. Got a High Score, I did. *nod*

Was it Yukon Trail?

That was the easiest of the "Trail series." It was also a little bit more silly and not as realistic than the other Trail games from what I remember of some of the "items" you could take with you to hunt for gold.

[uc pseudonym]

In Oregon Trail I almost always got to Oregon... then again, I always was a banker. Too lazy to be a farmer and go for a high score. Looking back, it was really a waste of time, but ah well.

[righteous_slave]

I never cared about making it to Oregon, I just wanted to hunt. Hey, do the hunting segments count as an early FPS?

[cbwing0]

Hey, do the hunting segments count as an early FPS?

Perhaps, except they were from a third person perspective as I recall.

[The Grammarian]

Perhaps, except they were from a third person perspective as I recall.

So they were a TPS! (Third-person shooter.)

My personal favorite "classic" game is Sonic CD. Gameplay was pretty good, the opening animation and soundtrack were great, and it was Sonic!

[Fsiphskilm]

MATH MUNCHER!!! I remember that from years ago way back when our school could fit our entire file on a 3.5" Floppy.

[Enthralled]

Sonic CD!! Wow, I haven't played that game in years.
Anyways, some, actually alot of my favorite classics are:

Atari: Pitfall, Asteroids, and that tank game...

NES: Mega Man 1-6, Ninja Gaiden 1,2 (3 was good, but not a fav), Castlevania 1-3, Gradius, Crystallis, Shadow of the Ninja, Princess Tomato and the Salad Kingdom, Double Dragon, Gauntlet, Bubble Bobble, Contra, TMNT 2, Metroid...

Sega, Sega CD: Sonic 1-3 and Knuckles, Streets of Rage 1-3, Shinobi III, Toe Jam and Earl, Kid Chameleon, Shining Force II, Castlevania : Bloodlines, Flashback, Road Rash 1-3, Skitchen, Golden Axe II, TMNT:Hyperstone Heist, Vectorman, Sonic CD, Snatcher (awesome game!!!), Popful Mail....

SNES: Final Fantasy 3 (6), Secret of Manna, Mega Man 7, Blackthorne, Uni-racers (I think thats the name), Alien 3, Mario Kart!, Kirby's Avalanche, Super Metroid...

32x (hahaha): Doom II, Virtua Racing.. I think those were the only games I ever bought for the thing.

Gameboy, Color: Castlevania II: Belmonts Revenge, Metroid II, Resident Evil, Tetris...

PS1: Castlevania SotN, Cart World Series (OPSM demo disc), Jumping Flash 1, 2, Resident Evil 1, 2, Xenogears, Elemental Gearbolt, Suikoden, Alundra, Wild Arms, FFVII, Silent Hill, Battle Arena Toshiden, Road Rash:Jail Break, Wipeout 3....

I'd have to say I play my NES the most out of all those systems though.

[shooraijin]

> Atari: Pitfall, Asteroids, and that tank game...

Combat?

[Enthralled]

I think that may be it... graphics were really good (an atari game), the tanks and landscape were all just outlined with no, ah... filler colors I guess you could say.
Everything was completely see through.

[AnimePat]

[quote="uc pseudonym"]Since NES emulation is certainly legal nowQUOTE]

NES emulation is legal? When did this happen?

[Pantakrator]

The big stir over emulation can be found here;
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/registers-recommendation.pdf

Although I think that's for a different time and place.

[cbwing0]

NES emulation is legal? When did this happen?

Yeah...I know very few people who still own working NES games or consoles, so I think it is safe to consider the format obsolete.

[Fsiphskilm]

Anyway Spe

[Inferno]

what does snes stand for?:sweat: I know I'm stupid.

[cbwing0]

SNES-Super Nintendo Entertainment System, also known as Super Nintendo or Super NES.

It was the 16-bit console released in 1990 by Nintendo as the successor to the NES, and competed with the Sega Genesis.

Classic games for the SNES include Super Mario World, Mega Man 7, Contra 3, R-Type 3, Final Fantasy 3, Secret of Mana, and many, many more.

[Mithrandir]

Hmm.... I liked Battle Tech "Cresent Hawks Inception" quite a bit for Apple IIgs. I also liked Thexder (can I get a 'woot' anyone?), and Silpheed ("I am an emporer of the universize zycolite you cannot destroy me as long as I have Glory.") Other fun games include "Age of Adventure," ANYHING by Sierra, and my personal favorite, "Project Space Station." *sigh* I gotta pull out the woz and play that one again. Hmm... Where's that color monitor...?

[shooraijin]

Oooo. I have Thexder for (sigh) Windows 95 although it runs fine in VPC 3 ... could have sworn there was a native Macintosh version.

Project Space Station -- I have that in the HesWare version for the C64. Did you know that that's the same Larry Holland who did X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (for Totally Games/LucasArts)?

[Mithrandir]

LOL. I'm acutally playing PSS right now. I'm exploiting a bug in the code that let's you have unlimited $$$. I acutally found that one by accident. At the beginning of any scenareo, just put all your $$ into equipment, then buy one space suit. The game only toggles the first 4 digits (meaning it will not decrease your 10,000ths place.) IOW: You spend 5 and get 19,995 out of it. I LOVE design flaws. (NOTE: I think they fixed it durning the ports to other machines).

[Enthralled]

wow! the Apple II computer, I had one right up until about last summer, then my dad threw it away cause I thought no one used it anymore!! Worked perfectly fine, and I still have a tone of floppy disks for it.

One of my favorite games on it was a text-adventure game called: Wishbringer, also Karateka and Q-bert. Falcon was good too. I think I had written a story on there too... about 100 pages or so into it. Oh well.

Haha, does anyone still have an Apple II? I'd be willing to buy it off ya if you want to sell it. I still have those games.

[shooraijin]

I've got a IIgs myself (it's a Woz case, but it has a ROM 03 motherboard, 1MB on the mainboard and another 1MB in the RAM slot, and an AE 20MB SCSI drive with GS/OS 6.0.1 on it).