2/13    What are your favorite old school computer games?
        \_ Recently rediscovered Pathways into Darkness http://pid.bungie.org
           \_ The skill levels for weapons was a cool innovation for a fps.
        \_ BEYOND CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN
        \_ Jumpman Jr.
        \_ The Pawn (C64 - 1985?), Conan (various 1986?)
        \_ The Prawn (C64 - 1985?), Conan (various 1986?)
           Impossible Mission (C64 - 1986?)
           Stay a while. Stay forever!!!!!!!!!!!!
           Pool Of Radiance.
           \_ Conan and Bruce Lee! Also, Black Magic for the Apple ][.
        \_ Leisure Suite Larry 1-3 (1986?), King's Quest 1-6 (1983-9?),
           Police Quest (lame lame lame), Manhunter (Bad bad bad),
           Space Quest 1-4. Faces/Facetris (1990?), Starcon (1991?),
           Montezuma's Revenge (1985?), EA's One-on-One (Larry vs Erving
           in the early 80s), Music Construction Set (ok it's not a game
           but it was like, WOW in the early 80s), Lemmings (1990s?),
           Ancient Art of War (loved archers), Ancient Art of War at Sea,
           Up-and-Down (1983?), Sopwith (cute little game).
        \_ Ultimate Wizard for C64 (1989 or so?)
           Burger Hut Of Apshai (see above)
           Jumpman Jr. (see above)
           Hardhat Mack (see above)
           Gemstone Warrior (apple IIe 1986 I think)
           Miner 2049'er (really really old Atari 800 game)
           Odyssey (apple IIe, near the epoch)
           \_ Is Odyssey the game where you explored an island building
              an army? I eventually bought some ships but had no clue
              what to do after that.
        \_ CAN YOU GUYS PLEASE PUT THE YEAR (2006) BY THE NAME OF THE GAME?
           \_ Geez look 'em up yourself if you care so much.  Almost all
              of these are from the mid 80's.  I doubt most people here
              really remember exactly what year a game came out.
        \_ Apple ][: Lemonade, Taipan, Lode Runner, Archon, Adv. Const. Set
           Macintosh: Shufflepuck Cafe, Robosport. On this topic, anyone know
           how to run b/w or 16 color games on OS X?
           \_ try vMac or Basilisk II:
              http://www.vmac.org
              http://basilisk.cebix.net
        \_ i am surprised that no one mentioned:
           "Captain Goodnight"
           \_ having to walk underneath the grenade arc of lots of robots
              and then restarting from the beginning of the level was not fun
           "Rescue Raiders"
        \_ http://www.the-underdogs.net
        \_ Lode Runner.  I played on Apple II plus.
           \_ I 2nd that
           \_ heh, yeah -- that was pretty fun.   (c64, baby)      -mice
           \_ Yah, that was pretty fun.   (c64, baby)      -mice
           \_ how many levels did you finish?
                \_ I made like over 100+ levels and I remember getting to at
                   least level 64 -- !ppp
              \_ Less than 10.  I didn't play that much computer game, but
                 Lode Runner is one of my favorites when I did play.
           \_ This was one of the best games on my Mac. I also remember
              the PowerPC version that was in color w/ nice backgrounds.
              Truly classic game.
        \_ Ultima III -- ended up editing the disk and removing the snake
           because I couldn't find the right dungeon to get the final mark.
           Of course right after I defeated Exodus I found the dungeon.
           Commodore 64.
           Also MULE on the commodore and Atari
        \_ Wizardry
        \_ anyone remember Archon?
           \_ Heh, yeah -- Archon rocked.  The sequel wasn't nearly as
              fun.          -mice
           \_ Got a little boring playing the computer after I figured out how
              to defeat it 100% of the time in 5 moves (I think it was:
              Manticore to top disk thing, Manticore to bottom, sword guy to
              Center, Teleport shapeshifter on top of character next to wizard/
              sorceress, defeat wizard/sorceress)
              \_ Dude, at that point you had to start making personal
                 challenges.  When I won the game with only one soldier guy
                 was when I knew the game was getting old.
                 \_ I once defeated the sorceress with a knight in
                    "Archon Ultra" (a new PC version that came out a while ago)
                    My friend who was playing against me stormed off pissed
                    and we never played that game again.
        \_ Sword of Aragon
        \_ Lady Tut on Apple II Plus.
        \_ Lady Tut on Apple II Plus.  I especially like that the notes in its
           theme song somehow don't sound like square waves when it's played on
           the Apple speaker.  How did they do that?
        \_ Fort Apocolypse on the Atari 800
        \_ Temple of Apshai and the sequels
        \_ Paratrooper, robotron, spacewar (last was freeware on X).
        \_ Mail Order Monsters, Bard's Tale I-III, can't forget Might and
           Magic I where nothing really made any sense.          -mice
        \_ Does netrek count?  -tom
        \_ Does netrek count?  (1986) -tom
           \_ yes, but why didn't they have PC or Mac clients?
              \_ At the time, there were very few PCs or Macs on the Internet,
                 and the network stacks weren't up to the task.  The first
                 viable Windows client appeared in the early 90s.  -tom
        \_ CGA SpaceWar
        \_ Bilestoad.
        \_ King's Quest
           \_ I completed this.
        \_ Summer/Winter/California Games from Epyx
        \_ Ancient Art of War
        \_ Ancient Art of War (1984)
           \_ you too?  Did you create your own scenarios?
                What formation did you typically use?  Hit and run with
                archers?
                \_ Hit and run with archers was the "money play".  Archers
                   in a line at the back...
                \_ I don't recall creating my own scenarios.  yes, hit
                   and run with archers wins the game.
        \_ Can someone put together a chronology of when the above games
           first appeared?
           \_ That's hard.  Many games have different versions (arcade, Atari
              console, C64, Apple II, ...) that appeared in different times.
           \_ I'm guessing you are a recent grad or an undergrad?
        \_ Wasteland
           \_ Oh, man -- that brings back memories.  I think wasteland is still
              in my top 10 favorites.     -mice
           \_ I so want to replay wasteland to remember all the plot points.
              But I so can't get over the interface these days.  -sax
           \_ I only played Wasteland after I'd already played Fallout. After
              getting into the old-game mentality it was good, but I enjoyed
              the Fallouts more.
        \_ No infocom games on this list??
           \_ With the exception of H2G2, infocom was more endured than
              enjoyed.
        \_ NFL Challenge, Scorched Earth
           \_ NFL Challenge was good, but there was a play on defense that
              worked well.
        \_ Sopwith / Red Baron, and you can still get it for free!
        \_ Sopwith (1984)/ Red Baron, and you can still get it for free!
        \_ Railroad tycoon, colonization, civilization, anything by Sid Meirs
        \_ asteroids
        \_ Nethack
        \_ Lemmings
           \_ on the Amiga -- that was great. I liked Qix a and
              Boulderdash a lot too (C64).
        \_ Dark Castle!  And Battletech, for the Infocom guy.   -John
        \_ AutoDuel
        \_ AutoDuel. Secret of Monkey Island. Montezuma's Revenge.
           Donkey Kong. Choplifter. Bomberman.
           Donkey Kong. Choplifter. Bomberman. bz.
           Donkey Kong. Choplifter. Bomberman. bz. Chuck Yeager's Air
           Combat.
           \_ AutoDuel was cool, but the laser deaths were l4m3.
        \_ M.U.L.E. Really though, I think I spent more time playing coin-op
           games.  I think I pissed away more lunch money on Xevious than
           anything else. Also, I spent a lot of time typing in code from
           various magazines and books, like CIA Agent.  -gabriel
        \_ Aztec, Taipan, Chivalry (written in PASCAL!)
        \_ Empire on the Vaxen.
        \_ Empire on the Vax. (Ordered by time: hunt, empire, dtrek, nettrek)
        \_ Empire
        \_ Simcity
        \_ Neuromancer and Nine Princes in Amber
        \_ Does anyone here remember a series of text-based games for the
           TRS-80, including Archipelago and some Dracula-like game? I'd
           love to reconnect with those.
           \_ Dungeons of Daggorath on the TRS-80 CoCo.
           \_ Found them! Located in the trs.zip file here:
              http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXtrs80.html
        \_ Double Dragon, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Street Fighter 2, Burgertime,
           Super Dodge Ball, Bards Tale(s), Ultima (3-6)
           \_ *sigh*  I miss the days when ECA made good games.    -mice
        \_ burgertime, nethack, lode runner, phantasie iii, lemmings
        \_ Lemonade Stand. Now available for MacOS X:
           http://www.codenautics.com/lemonade