A Tribute to the Games of the Old Days...
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Gaming has come a long way, from simple graphics with little or no storyline, all the way to the complex titles available today. The purpose of this thread is to take a walk down memory lane, recalling the games that have left wonderful memories in your mind.
Some of the titles may be unknown to you people, but if you do recognize them, do engage in discussion, like you did with friends during your earlier schooling days. Feel free to talk about the games that have left an impact on your life too, regardless of their platform. Of course, some images would help trigger our memories. :D
To start the ball rolling, here are mine:
-[font="Arial Black"]Quest for Glory series[/font] by Sierra, notably the first (remake) game, and the fourth. Unfortunately, I never got around to playing the fifth installment. In this series, if you aren't importing a character over from the previous games, where you become a Paladin, you get to choose from 3 classes: fighter, magic user and thief. Set in the fantasy world, you not only have to solve puzzles, but engage in fights with monsters and villains, to complete the ultimate quest. To this very day, I can still hum its lovable theme.
Screenshot from the first and fourth game respectively
-[font="Arial Black"]Crusader No Remorse and No Regret.[/font] One of the few games in which you have to restart your windows into the DOS system before being able to play it. You play a Silencer, an elite super soldier, which resembles Boba Fett from Star Wars. Set in the future, you defect from the government and join up with the resistance to overthrow the former. The game is interesting with its large arsenal of weapons, ranging from assault rifles all the way to spider mines. Valves along the war can be turned on and off to freeze and burn enemies respectively. Along the way, you can even employ mechs to aid yourself in destroying (or rather, killing) enemies. Definitely a sadistic game in my time. :D
The cover of the very first game
-[font="Arial Black"]Heroes of Might and Magic series.[/font] If you are a loyal follower of the HOMM series, then I am sure you will agree that the second and third instalments are the best of the lot. It is a unique turn-based game, once again set in the fantasy world, where you get to choose from different classes, build up your own castle and train your very own units. Players take turn to roam the map, obtain resources, fight monsters and eventually conquering the land by defeating the other players. One unique feature of the game would be the "hot seat" mode, where many players can take turns to play the game on just one computer.
Cover for Heroes of Might and Magic 2: The Succession Wars and a sceenshot from HOMM3
-[font="Arial Black"]X-com: UFO Defense.[/font] Set in the future, you set up a base to combat the alien threat. Along the way, you can recruit soldiers to fight, scientists and engineers to engage in development of new weapons, as well as expand your base. When entering the combat screen at a UFO crash site, you get to deploy your soldier based on their movement points, ordering them to lie flat, crouch, stand and all sorts of other options. Killing an alien enables you to retrieve its body and bring it back to headquarters for dissection. I remember my very first mission fondly, where I threw a grenade in the spacecraft, killing everyone even before they engaged the aliens. :D Unfortunately, I couldn't find any screenshots for this game.
There are many other classic games which I have played including Warcraft 2 (where sea battles were possible), Dune 2, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Raptor: Call of the Shadows... the list goes on. Perhaps I will talk about them again another day.
P.S. #1 I am not sure if anyone else has played the hentai strategy game, entitled [font="Arial Black"]Lakers[/font], where schoolgirls can become superheroes, battling monsters. I believe there are 3 games in total. Yes, there is a hentai movie for it.
P.S. #2 I am not sure if there is an identical topic since I only glanced through the video games section briefly. Besides, this is an old topic I created for the other forums I frequent. *sweat*
Some of the titles may be unknown to you people, but if you do recognize them, do engage in discussion, like you did with friends during your earlier schooling days. Feel free to talk about the games that have left an impact on your life too, regardless of their platform. Of course, some images would help trigger our memories. :D
To start the ball rolling, here are mine:
-[font="Arial Black"]Quest for Glory series[/font] by Sierra, notably the first (remake) game, and the fourth. Unfortunately, I never got around to playing the fifth installment. In this series, if you aren't importing a character over from the previous games, where you become a Paladin, you get to choose from 3 classes: fighter, magic user and thief. Set in the fantasy world, you not only have to solve puzzles, but engage in fights with monsters and villains, to complete the ultimate quest. To this very day, I can still hum its lovable theme.
Screenshot from the first and fourth game respectively
-[font="Arial Black"]Crusader No Remorse and No Regret.[/font] One of the few games in which you have to restart your windows into the DOS system before being able to play it. You play a Silencer, an elite super soldier, which resembles Boba Fett from Star Wars. Set in the future, you defect from the government and join up with the resistance to overthrow the former. The game is interesting with its large arsenal of weapons, ranging from assault rifles all the way to spider mines. Valves along the war can be turned on and off to freeze and burn enemies respectively. Along the way, you can even employ mechs to aid yourself in destroying (or rather, killing) enemies. Definitely a sadistic game in my time. :D
The cover of the very first game
-[font="Arial Black"]Heroes of Might and Magic series.[/font] If you are a loyal follower of the HOMM series, then I am sure you will agree that the second and third instalments are the best of the lot. It is a unique turn-based game, once again set in the fantasy world, where you get to choose from different classes, build up your own castle and train your very own units. Players take turn to roam the map, obtain resources, fight monsters and eventually conquering the land by defeating the other players. One unique feature of the game would be the "hot seat" mode, where many players can take turns to play the game on just one computer.
Cover for Heroes of Might and Magic 2: The Succession Wars and a sceenshot from HOMM3
-[font="Arial Black"]X-com: UFO Defense.[/font] Set in the future, you set up a base to combat the alien threat. Along the way, you can recruit soldiers to fight, scientists and engineers to engage in development of new weapons, as well as expand your base. When entering the combat screen at a UFO crash site, you get to deploy your soldier based on their movement points, ordering them to lie flat, crouch, stand and all sorts of other options. Killing an alien enables you to retrieve its body and bring it back to headquarters for dissection. I remember my very first mission fondly, where I threw a grenade in the spacecraft, killing everyone even before they engaged the aliens. :D Unfortunately, I couldn't find any screenshots for this game.
There are many other classic games which I have played including Warcraft 2 (where sea battles were possible), Dune 2, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Raptor: Call of the Shadows... the list goes on. Perhaps I will talk about them again another day.
P.S. #1 I am not sure if anyone else has played the hentai strategy game, entitled [font="Arial Black"]Lakers[/font], where schoolgirls can become superheroes, battling monsters. I believe there are 3 games in total. Yes, there is a hentai movie for it.
P.S. #2 I am not sure if there is an identical topic since I only glanced through the video games section briefly. Besides, this is an old topic I created for the other forums I frequent. *sweat*
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-sprints in-
FUCK YEAH, DUKE NUKEM!
I've actually been replaying that on this holiday I'm on at the moment when I'm not outside doing things.
"Your face, your ass, what's the difference?"
-sprints out-
FUCK YEAH, DUKE NUKEM!
I've actually been replaying that on this holiday I'm on at the moment when I'm not outside doing things.
"Your face, your ass, what's the difference?"
-sprints out-
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Heroes of Might and Magic was a great series, though i wish its PS2 counterpart could of lived up to it's pc version.
just wanted to say something about Dune and a few other games that are pretty old school, but havent been forgotten i hope
Dune was like the first RTS i played that got me into other RTS games.
With its 2d graphics and gameplay, it really was kind of fun
we really have come a long wayyyyyyy
oh and you cannot forget that damned sandworm, making the game scary, though exciting at the same time, people who know the worm might think this funny
another game i would want to mention is the Epic RPG, Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing
just your average RPG storyline where you are a village boy, who becomes a hero for his people by saving them from evil. This RPG was pretty big, having many RPG classes by your side, you travel from crazy places, like dungeons and crypts to a Chess board
this picture could be a little wrong, but after choosing your attack, these scenes popped up and you would know how it went and it was like a very long kind of flash game, just to mention the musictrack for this game was great, kind of gave a lot of emotions to the player when playing
and just a quick shoutout for the game
SHADOWRUNNER(or Shadownrun i forget)
from street shootouts
to haxing the futuristic internets for money/information/maybe porn
i feel like i could be forgetting a game, maybe some 2D warcraft or Command&Conquer for the Sega, but these games really just jump out at me when i think about the retro gaming
just wanted to say something about Dune and a few other games that are pretty old school, but havent been forgotten i hope
Dune was like the first RTS i played that got me into other RTS games.
With its 2d graphics and gameplay, it really was kind of fun
we really have come a long wayyyyyyy
oh and you cannot forget that damned sandworm, making the game scary, though exciting at the same time, people who know the worm might think this funny
another game i would want to mention is the Epic RPG, Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing
just your average RPG storyline where you are a village boy, who becomes a hero for his people by saving them from evil. This RPG was pretty big, having many RPG classes by your side, you travel from crazy places, like dungeons and crypts to a Chess board
this picture could be a little wrong, but after choosing your attack, these scenes popped up and you would know how it went and it was like a very long kind of flash game, just to mention the musictrack for this game was great, kind of gave a lot of emotions to the player when playing
and just a quick shoutout for the game
SHADOWRUNNER(or Shadownrun i forget)
from street shootouts
to haxing the futuristic internets for money/information/maybe porn
i feel like i could be forgetting a game, maybe some 2D warcraft or Command&Conquer for the Sega, but these games really just jump out at me when i think about the retro gaming