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02 Oct 00 - 12:20 AM (#310037) Subject: Best ever computer games! From: Little Hawk Way back when, in the mid-80's there were these text adventures, like Zork I and Planetfall. They were great, cos you got to use your own imagination when picturing the scenes your character was wandering around in. They have since been reissued with graphics, and aren't half as good. In military strategy: Panzer General is probably still the best, and Allied General is very good as well. In Air Combat Simulations: European Air War Got any favourites of your own? |
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02 Oct 00 - 12:21 AM (#310038) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Amergin I like the final fantasy games.... |
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02 Oct 00 - 12:27 AM (#310039) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Mbo My favorites: Command & Conquer (greatest game ever...) Doom Quake Wolfenstein 3D Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy! Aces of The Pacific (second best game ever!) X-Wing Fighter Incoming Castle of The Winds Duke Nuken (1,2, and 3D) Halloween Harry (both Office Block & Sewer versions) --Matt |
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02 Oct 00 - 12:27 AM (#310040) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Lonesome EJ I like the strategy games best: Age of Empires, the Battleground series of Civil Wargames,Heroes of Might and Magic(THE most addictive game ever),and the Myth series. |
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02 Oct 00 - 01:48 AM (#310085) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Benjamin Star Craft! |
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02 Oct 00 - 02:37 AM (#310099) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Jon Freeman JetSet Willy and Avalon and its Sequel, Dragontork. I have got a Spectrum emulator for my PC so I can still play those games and all the old classics can be found and downwloaded from the web. Jon |
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02 Oct 00 - 03:28 AM (#310106) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Lepus Rex Wahhhh, Jet Set Willy!!! Um... My fave OLD game was Paradroid. Now I mostly play things like Baldur's Gate, and other RPGs. ---Lepus Rex |
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02 Oct 00 - 03:47 AM (#310112) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Clinton Hammond2 Raganrok Scorched Earth Carmageddon Blade Runner Red Neck Rampage! Hehehehehe! Master Of Orion X-Wing, but I'm a lousy pilot... Dungeon Keeper Crusader... No Remorse and No Regret But my favorite all time 'puter game has got to be a wicked 3d puzzler/shooter called "Realms Of The Haunting"... This game still creeps me out sometimes... {~` |
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02 Oct 00 - 03:55 AM (#310115) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Jon Freeman Lepus Rex, I'm glad to see someone else remembers the OLD games. My comupter journey started with a VIC20 and I went through having a Commadore 64 and using CP/M things at work before geting my own PC (Amstrad PC 1512 - 8088 processor and a wapping 512K of RAM - I remember proudly adding a massive 20Mb hard card to supplement my twin 5 1/4 floppy system...". The only games for the VIC20 I had were cartridges that plugged into the back of the machine - Lunar Lander was my favourite of them. Jon |
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02 Oct 00 - 06:50 PM (#310535) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Morticia dungeon keeper 1 and 2.....2 is much better and the discworld games..... |
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02 Oct 00 - 07:08 PM (#310553) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: MK Intellivision - Hockey Atari 1040ST - Lords of Conquest, Prince of Persia, and Donkey Kong 486/33 - Hostage,Links 486 Golf |
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02 Oct 00 - 07:20 PM (#310561) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Little Hawk Mbo - I agree that Aces of the Pacific was one of the best ever. I love Japanese planes...they fly like birds. However, check out European Air War...it is a whole step beyond, but sadly has no Japanese airplanes...I wait with bated breath for them to bring out a Pacific war version of it. Pacific General was also a very neat strategy game, and quite challenging, but you don't see it around much. It used the same combat system as Panzer General. |
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02 Oct 00 - 07:35 PM (#310568) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Mbo Japanese planes were fun, LH, but I got my best scores flying in the good old USN. Love them Wildcats & Hellcats! BTW what was your highest number of enemy aircraft kills? |
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02 Oct 00 - 07:41 PM (#310570) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: hesperis The only computer games I've ever played are:
3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent (demo, very good) Quest for Glory 5 is the overall winner for me. It really made me want to play all four of the previous games in the series. ~*sirepseh*~
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02 Oct 00 - 08:14 PM (#310586) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Jim Dixon SimCity 2000 - haven't tried SimCity 3000 yet. Various versions of "Lemmings". "Sam and Max Hit the Road" - alas, is out of print. |
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02 Oct 00 - 09:12 PM (#310620) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Amergin You can download Sam and Max for free as abandonware.... |
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02 Oct 00 - 11:13 PM (#310677) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Bill D ahhh...a bunch of 'shoot-em-up' fans!..Alien Blasters! ......I play only the strategy type, solitare and such...am getting VERY good at FreeCell. And before the computer was Nintendo, where I played "Solomon's Key" till I was bleary eyed!...NOthing since has caught my fancy like that one |
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02 Oct 00 - 11:27 PM (#310682) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: rabbitrunning Lemmings absolutely. For the Playstation I love both Suikoden and Suikoden II. Theme Park and Theme Hospital. Most addictive: The Free Cell game that came with the darn machine. I've been doing the games in order and I'm up to number 12341... |
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03 Oct 00 - 12:12 AM (#310706) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Little Hawk Mbo - Yeah, you can get the highest scores flying US Navy aircraft, no question of that. I'd say that the Wildcat is my favourite of those, because it's pretty light and manueverable, as American planes go. The P-38 is the best plane for surviving in...it's a beauty. You can shoot down a hell of a lot of Japanese planes, because they are fragile and can't take much damage. Bombers, however, can sometimes be tough...their gunners will wear you down bit by bit. I prefer taking on fighter planes on the whole. The AI is not so good in Aces, compared to EAW...it's superb in EAW, so your computer opponents are tough and upredictable. I got so I could shoot down so many planes in Aces of the Pacific that it became a little unreal...but that's when I was playing every day...you soon lose your edge if you don't practice. My favourite pilot of all time is Hiroshi Nishizawa ("The Devil" as he was nicknamed by his squadron mates). Flying as a Japanese is a greater challenge, because most of their planes are quite fragile, so you must be very careful to avoid taking hits. The absolute best single engine fighter is the Japanese Army's Ki-84 Hayate ("Frank"). What a superb airplane it is! I'll fly a Frank against anything. Does anyone have an opinion on what is the BEST Roman era game for realistic battles on the large scale, where you are maneuvering formations of troops, and fighting Carthaginians, Greeks, Gauls, Germans, etc.???? How about the age of sail? What is the best combat game for that, taking in galleons, frigates, ships of the line, from the 1500's thru the 1800's???? |
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03 Oct 00 - 01:09 AM (#310723) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Lonesome EJ Hawk,I still say Age of Empires Expansion for the roman era battles.It's still a glorified Command and Conquer with swords and Bows,with a little too much emphasis on fast civ growth and mass melee action,but there is an attempt by the designers to maintain some historical accuracy.And the flow of battle is quite smooth with very little micro-management required. |
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03 Oct 00 - 01:48 AM (#310734) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Little Hawk Yeah, I heard some other good stuff about that one. Thanks, I'll check it out. LH |
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03 Oct 00 - 01:49 AM (#310736) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Amergin I like the games with a good story line in them like Betrayal At Krondor and Betrayal At Antara.....and the Fallout games....and.....and.....and..... |
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03 Oct 00 - 02:04 AM (#310743) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: bseed(charleskratz) The games I've wasted the most time at are Tetris and Eight Off. Whenever I have them on my Mac I end up throwing them away so I can get some work done...kind of like Mudcat. Oh, and MacBugs. I've never been much on simulated combat--Crystal Quest and MacBugs are as close as I ever came. Oh, one simulation game I found quite challenging was Flight Controller. The more basic the graphics, the better I like the game. --seed(toodamnedoldforcombat) |
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03 Oct 00 - 11:40 AM (#310973) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Mbo I agree, LH! I had some of my best careers in the P-38. Though I do like the old version better than the P-38J. The J is a little TOO manueverable, more than the older model. Like the Corsair...now there's a challenge! My best career was in the USN with the Hellcat, I got transferred to some dive-bomber wings through the course of the career, and managed to stay alive. I scratched something like 805 enemy planes, and about 200 ships. S'truth about Nishizawa, Mr. No-American-Can-Shoot-Me-Down! I took him out so many times it was pathetic. I took out 3 aces in one mission once. BTW Sugita is a pushover, and he always manages to live! Here's a hint for taking out bombers FAST. Use rockets! I load up on rockets before the mission..you can bring down Mavises & Betty's like steam! You can also take out a zero in just one salvo! I'd have to say my favorite Japanese plane is the George. 20mm x 2 cannons, YES! Even those bucket-of-lead Airacobras can't take that! Scratch one! --Matt |
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03 Oct 00 - 11:53 AM (#310990) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: JulieF Lemmings and Simcity and from years ago a game called CATS where you jumped cats through windows. What I would really like is a very decent version of Othello. I have found because its very logical - its fairly easy to play on a high level. Nowadays I just sneek upstairs and beat everyone's score on Minesweper. ( unfortunately Cat's work out how to set them all back) julie |
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03 Oct 00 - 02:06 PM (#311107) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Clinton Hammond2 Oh Oh Oh!! Yay Lemmings!! too cool a game!!! {~` |
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03 Oct 00 - 02:31 PM (#311146) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Llanfair I'm with BillD, can't be doing with virtual mayhem. Freecell, word and number games, and I enjoyed Broken Sword I AND II. I'm also playing "The Stone", which involves solving very clever clues. Try finding it on Google search, and there are some taster puzzles to solve. Cheers, Bron. |
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03 Oct 00 - 05:44 PM (#311353) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: RWilhelm Civilization II. I'm hooked, I can't stop playing this game. Help. |
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03 Oct 00 - 06:52 PM (#311412) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Jim Dixon JulieF: I have a version of Othello that came on a CD full of shareware games. I'll check on it tonight, get the exact name and the publisher's name, and see if I can find it on the Internet. Then I'll either tell you where you can download it, or if that doesn't work, maybe I could email it to you. |
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04 Oct 00 - 12:44 AM (#311667) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Lepus Rex Jon, I was just talking to a friend about this thread, and she wants to know: Have you won Jet Set Willy? Ooh, I thought of another favourite game of mine. Silent Hill, for Playstation. Even if the guy who plays Harry sucks, it's still a cool game:) Lepus Rex |
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04 Oct 00 - 03:27 AM (#311715) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Jon Freeman Lepus Rex, I never won at Jet Set Willy but one of my brothers did using a cheat to give infinate number of lives. I was too clumsy to win even with this cheat as there were a couple of points where if you made a mistake, you just ended up in a loop of getting killed and getting a new life! Full details on Jet Set Willy including the cheats and lots of other Spectrum stuff can be found at World Of Spectrum. Jon |
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04 Oct 00 - 04:31 AM (#311731) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: JulieF Jim That would be great. Julie |
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04 Oct 00 - 08:59 AM (#311835) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Grab Starglider 2 on the Amiga - stonking game. And the various top-down view driving games - SuperCars 2 was excellent. PC-wise, I've not played since uni, but Lemmings, Doom and X-Wing kept me pretty well occupied then. 7th Guest was cool too. Grab. |
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04 Oct 00 - 09:03 AM (#311837) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Shock! No one's mentioned Myst or - even better - Riven, possibly the best game in the world EVER (well, the best one I've ever played anyway). Oh, and the great "Colossal Cave" text adventure game from years and years ago. |
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04 Oct 00 - 12:05 PM (#311953) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: GUEST,Mbo_at_ECU Has anyone ever played "Hugo's House of Horrors", "Hugo's Whodunit", and "Hugo & The Jungle of Doom"? Insanely annoying games, invented by the insanely annoying David P. Gray. My and my sister cracked the House of Horrors, and changed all the graphics in it. We were bad! We added a burger joint, tons of esoteric references, and a disco mummy! |
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04 Oct 00 - 01:35 PM (#312014) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: sophocleese I'd forgotten about Lemmings. I don't play many games on my computer, I pig out on game time when I visit my brother. He used to have European Air War and I let my son play it because he enjoyed crashing the planes, its much easier if you play to lose. |
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04 Oct 00 - 01:54 PM (#312027) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: GUEST,Steven Sellors We used to laugh ourselves silly playing M.U.L.E. on the Commodore 64. And Lemmings. SS |
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04 Oct 00 - 01:55 PM (#312028) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Jim Dixon JulieF: The version of Othello that I have is called "Flip-it." It is a DOS shareware program from 1993. You can download it from PC Solutions where the file is called Flip47.zip. Enjoy! |
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04 Oct 00 - 08:54 PM (#312401) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Naemanson MechCommander MechWarrior 2 and 3 Diablo Age Of Empires Myst and Riven But these days I don't have time to play the games I love so much. It seems I have found this neat site on the web that has all I need and more... And if you believe that.... |
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04 Oct 00 - 10:08 PM (#312454) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: alison most recently "Zork" and all the sequels... I like the wander round type adventures rather than the shoot em ups.... and was disappointed that the last "King's Quest" had a lot of violence.... I'd rather have one or the other not some hybrid.... I loved Lemmings..... there used to be a great arcade game called "Fire Condor" or "Phoenix" where you shot alien birds and eventually the mother ship... wish I could find it again.... hey Jon what do you use for the Speccy Games I have a heap of text only adventures to finish..... slainte alison |
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04 Oct 00 - 10:20 PM (#312466) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Jon Freeman Alison, I cant find the one I use but there a loads of emulators available - follow the link I gave in my last post here. Jon |
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05 Oct 00 - 01:40 AM (#312575) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Terry K I can't be doing with all these whizz bang crash things that my son plays, guess Im too old. But Tetris for me was the best ever. Unfortunately I don't have a copy any longer and can't find a copy anywhere - can anyone help please as I'm getting bored with Freecell, Solitaire and Hearts. Cheers, Terry |
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05 Oct 00 - 01:49 AM (#312580) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Lepus Rex Rats, Jon. We've never won, either. And my friend had the same problems with that cheat... That's one hard game, eh? ---Lepus Rex |
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05 Oct 00 - 02:39 AM (#312590) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: bseed(charleskratz) Terry, Tetris is the game--I've dreamt about those four squares in their different configurations dropping down and the urgency of finding a place for them and a position to put them into in order to complete lines. I--somewhere--have a CD with several different versions of Tetris among dozens of other games. None of the versions on the disk is as good as the original, with its Russian folk tunes and its choices of different ways of playing and the ability to select a playing level. But, after I get back from a trip, I could dig them up and copy some onto a floppy and mail them to you if you'd like. Send me an eMail or a personal message with your address if you want them. --seed |
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05 Oct 00 - 11:57 AM (#312793) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: hesperis ZDnet has a lot of shareware games, some are tetris derivatives. NONAGS is all freeware, or shareware without nag screens. you might be able to find something there. Or just search for "shareware tetris" in any of the search engines. |
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05 Oct 00 - 01:14 PM (#312844) Subject: RE: Best ever computer games! From: Clinton Hammond2 I'd kill if someone could swap me a copy of Lemmings for the PC for something... Any takers? {~` |