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Merlin thread gave me this idea. What are your favorite game classics for the PC. Besides Descent.

The Third Dimension

Zone Raiders

Mega Race

Lamborghini American Challenge

Wacky Wheels

Whiplash

Highway Hunter

Raptor Call of the Shadows

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Sango Fighter

Sango Fighter 2

Lets see here... Other than Descent, Mechwarriors 1, 2, and 3, and Mechcommander... I like-
Terminal Velocity

Starwars X-Wing

Heavy Gear

Doom 1 (yes, I finally played it)

Command & Conquer

Warcraft 2

The Incredible Machine 2

NovaStorm

Starwars Dark Forces

One Must Fall

Raptor

Wing Commander

Worms Armageddon

X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter

Mega Race

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2

Commander Keen

EDIT: Starcraft

Other than Descent? Let's see...

Metal Gear Solid

Command and Conquer

Flashback

Worms

Unreal

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Star Wars: Tie Fighter

Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit

Starcraft

Duke Nukem


They will be missed

Tetris

Quake

Hellbender

Raptor cos

commander keen

episode 1 racer

The Carmaggedon Series (3dfx card of course)

Wolfenstien
Dark Forces
Rise of the Triad

Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
Metroid 2 (Game Boy)
Tetris (Game Boy)

Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Super Metriod (SNES)

Half-Life
Command and Conquer
Unreal
Dark Forces
Mech Warrior 2

Mega Race

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Doom

Doom II

GTA

Raptor

F-117

F-19 Stealth

and a ton more

It's hard not to include Descent. I mean from the time D1 demo came out till 2001, I played almost nothing but Descent.

Descent

Hellbender (my avatar is the pilot from Hellbender)

Metal Gear was for the PC?

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance

Freespace

Descent

Comanche 3/4

F-22 Air Dominance Fighter (not from Novalogic)

Armored Fist 3

MechWarrior 2 Mercenaries

Descent

Descent

Forgot a few more-
Stellar 7

Nova 9

Battlezone (the 1st person Strategy/Action game, Not the 3d vector game)

Airstorm

Stunt Island

NUMBERZero wrote:Metal Gear was for the PC?

Yes, sir it was.

Along with Substance and I think, Snake Eater

I forgot to add one to. Monster Truck Madness 2. It was made by the same people who made Hellbender. I remember the announcer saying \"Executioner, has 4 big wheels and he isn't using any of them!\" whenever I catch big air, or when I'd find the ocean in one of the tracks, go completely underwater, and hear the announcer in a low, dragged out voice, saying \"Eexxeeccuuttiioonneerr, iiss ssaaiilliinngg tthhee sseevveen seeeeeeaaaas.\" XD I'd do that often just to get a kick out of it. And I remember you hit F9 to call for a helo to pick you up whenever you flipped over. Sometimes it would send in one of those Teradactals from Hellbender from world #5 Chimera. ^^ Good times.

ZORK.

ASCII Star trek!

Epic Pinball Android is another one of my favorites

AlphaDoG wrote:The Carmaggedon Series (3dfx card of course)

Oh man Carmageddon 2 on my SLI Voodoo2s was epic. That game was hilarious.

Descent3 has held up amazingly well for being so old. I don't even see the need for much better graphics, the graphics it has are very functional.

What ever happened to Interplay coming back from the dead and redeveloping the Descent IP?

TigerRaptorFX wrote:Wacky Wheels

Raptor Call of the Shadows

I used to play Wacky Wheels a little bit. Haven't touched it in years though.

I still play the full version of Raptor from time to time. One of my recent D3 pilot names ("Cattle of Battle") is a tribute to one of the Raptor specials.

Other classic games I like:

DooMII

Minesweeper (yes, this is a classic)

LOL at Minesweeper, however the logic it takes to do even the smallest of games is amazing.

tetris (the one game I play almost daily)

pocket tanks

midnight rescue

castle
(You use the arrows to move and write commands like \"Look floor\" or \"get goblet\")

Sopwith
I still think it's the best shooter of its day. And even though it's a scroller you can go anywhere in the environment.

solitaire

missile command

I just remembered a really old one: Scorched Earth.

Also DigDug.

Descent was actually my first game on my first modern PC. But I do fondly remember...


Alleycat

Digger

Paperboy

Tie Fighter

X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter

DX-Ball (1 and 2)

Pinball

Minesweeper

Hover

Sedwick wrote:Descent was actually my first game on my first modern PC. But I do fondly remember...


Alleycat

Digger

Paperboy

Tie Fighter

X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter

DX-Ball (1 and 2)

Pinball

Minesweeper

Hover

Oh how did i forget alleycat!? That was a great game. The last time I played it the dog still scared me, just as it did when i was little.

Isaac wrote: Oh how did i forget alleycat!? That was a great game. The last time I played it the dog still scared me, just as it did when i was little.

The real nail-biter was the area where you had to eat out of all the dogs' dishes! The big cheese area was probably my favorite. I once played long enough to get the full 9,999,999 points, but still don't know how high the levels go. I never completely filled the screen with dancing kittens.

I spent many hours playing a old DOS game called \"Rogue\" (and it still works even under XP).


... and also this ancient text based Star Trek game.


Those were the days...

Tech! that's the one. The old Ascii Star Trek. we used to play it at school on the Trash80's (TRS80) We had to do a print out after each move!

Any one remember this game.

Hugo's House of Horrors

Interactive Fiction. Infocom and the original Colossal Cave. Text only and GREAT. Games where the story was the main point, instead of thrown in as an after thought. You can download some of the old classics for free now:
Zork
Colossal Cave Adventure

And an active community is constantly making new adventures (also mostly free):
Interactive Fiction Archive
IFiction
Who needs graphics! Live a story!

The second generation of Interactive Fiction went beyond text and included primitive 2D graphics, but story was still the main point. The \"Monkey Island\" series is a good example of these. Sword Fights by insults, wow! Talk about creative! Good game.

Techpro already mentioned the Grandaddy of all Role Playing Games. Rouge, NetHack, and all of it's descendants. The graphics are text, although you can now play with a very simple tile based gui, or even download Falcon's Eye for an isometric version. Your hero is represented by @, a lower case \"a\" is probably a giant ant, and upper case \"A\" is a carnivorous ape, and trust me, you want to avoid the upper case \"D\" dragons as much as possible, unless you can tame one and make it into a pet. Yes, you can do that. Don't let the primitive graphics fool you, NetHack has to be the most complex RPG's ever created. Touch or look at a cockatrice and you will turn to stone, but you can wear a blindfold as a defense. IF you can kill the deadly beast, pick it up and wield it as a weapon! But you better put on some gloves first. And be careful not to fall into a pit while carrying the deadly creature or it might fall on you and turn YOU into stone. The developers think of EVERYTHING. Got an interesting potion, dip your weapon into it and see what happens. Don't eat dead leprachauns, you might get teleportitis! (unless you have a ring of teleport control, then it's kinda nice!) You can download any of these absolutely free:
NetHack or my favorite variation,
SLASHEM (It's nethack with more, uhm, nethack!)
Falcons Eye Nethack with Isometric Graphics.

have any of you ever played The Incredible Machine: Contraptions. Each screen gave you a limited set of items, such as lazers, pullys, supper balls, antigravity pads, cats and can openers. AND a \"simple\" task to perform, such as \"get the blue ball into the red basket\". It was a LOT of fun.

Oolite An old game (Elite) updated with new graphics. Fly around space in 3d, trading goods and zapping pirates! It's slow, but fun!

It would be really neat to see something like this combined with Descent. I would love to see Descent as a huge MMO game. instead of interacting with others in one small mine, imagine battling across an entire planet, zipping into a mine, blasting the bad guys, then zooming out, racing across a jungle, and diving into a mountain cave for another fight. Then, of course, warping between worlds and space stations, exploring asteroid fields, hiding behind moons. Sorta EVE online, but instead of sim mode, Descent 6dof mode. wow!

I'll echo a few already mentioned:

• Descent (of course!)
• Descent3 (is this considered a \"classic\" already?)
• Raptor, Call of the Shadows (my brother and I love shooter-scrollers)
• Wing Commander (I still have the original diskettes and all the manuals and spec sheets that came with it - maybe worth something?)
• Tetris (though I always did better on the NES - level 23, baby!)
• Freespace
• Metal Gear (the original)
• Minesweeper (never was as good as my college roommate)
• Sopwith (on a monochrome monitor)
• Scorched Earth (oddly enough, this was a GREAT group game!)

Here are a few more I remember enjoying:

• Deep Space Drifter (my favorite 'interactive fiction' game of all time)
• BattleChess (watch one's pawn take down a bishop)
• Stunts (first game I remember where you could create your own track)
• SimAnt (odd fun driving the guy out of the house)
• TradeWars 2002 (dial-up BBS game, the first time I remember playing a game with someone I didn't know)

There are a couple more, but I can't even remember the names anymore.

Foil wrote:Sopwith (on a monochrome monitor)
TradeWars 2002 (dial-up BBS game, the first time I remember playing a game with someone I didn't know)

Those were BOTH great games! Man that brings back memories. I remember fighting busy signals and dialing in every day so I could use up my turns playing TradeWars.

Oh man, BattleChess FTW!

Kilarin, Rogue isn't the granddaddy of all RPGs, just of all CRPGs.

what about Myst

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I'm glad people mentioned Raptor; that was a cool game.

Lothar wrote:Rogue isn't the granddaddy of all RPGs, just of all CRPGs.

Entirely valid point. I stand corrected.

I'm surprized that no one mentioned Torn's Passage. It's a pretty good game.

Oregon Trail ^_^

Burlyman wrote:Oregon Trail ^_^

lol, that game owned me

Burlyman wrote:Oregon Trail ^_^

Is that legal to download?
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/23786 ... ,+The.html
I don't want to download it if it's a violation.

Oh, grow up.

S13driftAZ wrote:Oh, grow up.

I'm a toys r' us kid.