Thread: Suggest Me A Pre-2000 Computer Game

SimAnt.

Herzog Zwei

Pre 2000 games can still kick major balls.

Half life 1. Rocks.
Theme Hospital. Rocks.
Blood. Playing it right now. It rocks.
Duke Nukem 3d. It just rocks.
Red Alert 2. What can I say? It rocks.
Raptor: call of the Shadows. It rocks, major balls.

Edit: 'Deus ex', it is from 2000, but it rocks so hard, it's just cool.

Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun

Doom
11th Hour

**edited** removed non-computer game references.

Well, you only need two games from that era, Fallout 1 & 2.

well, I've played all of these

SimAnt and Theme Hospital are definitely two of my favorites from this list! I might get back out Fallout 1 & 2. Actually I've never heard of Herzog Zwei. I'll check that out.

wait... Herzog Zwei: Platforms: Mega Drive/Genesis
I said computer games, haha.

XWing vs. TIE Fighter or perhaps the original TIE Fighter.
Still two of my favorite games.
Oh, and Age of Empires I and II.

X-Wing vs. Tie fighter is pretty good, I suppose.

somehow I got back on old ASCII games....
ADOM is awesome.

I recommend:
Harwar
Skyroads
Gravity Well
Castle of the Winds
SU-25 Stormovik

Especially Harwar. That game's cool.

Edit

By the way, there's a place to download all of those games at the bottoms of their respective pages.

The Oregon Trail

Originally Posted by Mark75

I recommend:
Harwar
Skyroads
Gravity Well
Castle of the Winds
SU-25 Stormovik

Especially Harwar. That game's cool.

Edit

By the way, there's a place to download all of those games at the bottoms of their respective pages.
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holy shit! I forgot about skyroads. I'm definitely going to re-download that. I'll check out Hardwar, it looks fun.

I've tried Hardwar. I didn't like it very much, it's one of those games with a pretty much dead community and an also rather dead single player.

I was ten years old in 1982, when video games really took off, and I played the 70's video games that preceded the electronic screens, so I've been there for the whole history. I think the coolest video game of all time is Rastan. I haven't heard a word about it in ages, but it was bad ass. My next favorite was Ghosts and Goblins. I also loved the original Super Mario Brothers. U.N. Squadron was a big obsession I had for a while. And I have always been a huge fan of Ms. Pacman. The Atari 2600 games were simple and primitive, but they were great. Check out Defender, Frogger, and Space Invaders.

Worms takes the cake.

Fire! Oh no! Whoopsie..... Dam now I wanna play that game again =/.

Red Alert 2 definitely. You'll need IPX if you want to play it over LAN though and it's a hassle to install it for XP and Vista's gotten rid of it all together. You can use a program called Kali to simulate an IPX network.

Liero, worms, except in real time. Original Liero was probably better then Liero X the spin off although it has less options and no networking.

Originally Posted by carlhungis

The Oregon Trail
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*Jimmy has died of Dysenry!*
5th grade computer class, you have scarred me so.

Originally Posted by Squall

Red Alert 2 definitely. You'll need IPX if you want to play it over LAN though and it's a hassle to install it for XP and Vista's gotten rid of it all together. You can use a program called Kali to simulate an IPX network.

Liero, worms, except in real time. Original Liero was probably better then Liero X the spin off although it has less options and no networking.
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I'd rather use Hamachi than Kali.

Wing Commander 1 through 54395265389247328952653812094 thousand

Anyone play around with emulators/mods?

Mech Warrior 2. All the way.


Red alert is awesome as well. Although red alert 2 is not pre-2000. At least it doesn't seem that old...

Originally Posted by Artelis

I'd rather use Hamachi than Kali.
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Hamachi doesn't work for Red Alert 2 in Vista, or else I'd use it since it's better.

Originally Posted by Artelis

Wing Commander 1 through 54395265389247328952653812094 thousand

Anyone play around with emulators/mods?
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I play N64 games online almost exclusively now.

I never played the second MechWarrior, but the third one is my favorite by far. Number four messed a bunch of stuff up. The controls weren't smooth, the overheating didn't work as well, it was harder to use, and generally not pleasant to play.
The third one seemed to be the perfect blend of graphics and playability.
MechAssault is just an insult to the old MechWarrior games...

Starflight.