PC games from a decade ago

runawayprisoner · 1 Week Ago

I'm sure... most of us used to have a P2, or even P3 computer with some high-end graphics card, or some onboard ones. And maybe we had a lot of fun back then (large sigh in the background). Anyway, do you still remember any of those games? From ten years ago?

I myself remember Final Fantasy 7, and Metal Fatigue...
Especially Metal Fatigue. Man... first RTS I ever enjoyed. Now I can still enjoy the game on my Eee PC, and it's still as awesome as ever. Back then, I still played a lot of NES and SNES games ('scuse the poor circumstances, please) so I didn't know much about PC games.

So... what did you play ten years ago, guys?

jonc2006 · 1 Week Ago

half life, thief, and unreal.

SCHUMI-4-EVA · 6 Days Ago

Wacky Wheels (good for some light fun...the closest thing to MarioKart the PC has)

Need for Speed 2 - Special Edition...in fact it's high time I make an ISO of this...the disc is starting to go...

Aswell as obviously AoE and AoE2

SimCity 2000 (still my favourite SimCity and I treasure my copy of it)

Then there was Stunts...which I could never get working right...

Aswell as some DOS games like Crystal Caves and Defender of the Crown and Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego (yes I know these are older than you want...but I did play them around that time..infact some of the others mentioned are also probably too old)...

I also played Hover off the Windows 95 disc...that reminds me...I need to make a poll...

Aswell as Mole's Quest and Flack Attack which also came off some demo CD. And Kid's Typing which we learned typing from at school.

Actually I never had many games back then it's only around 2000 that I really started getting lots of PC games....basically it's only then that my dad actually accepted that I could work a PC on my own...before then he insisted that he install everything for me/with me and I had very very little PC Freedom.
He even a cracked a demo CD with Road Rash on it in half and threw it away cuz he was against me playing it and considered it a very bad game.

O yes and the other 2 games I had both came with the PC... the one was Golf 95 or something like that and the other was...The Magic School Bus - The Solar System...aswell as Maths Blaster 1 and 2.

skoreanime · 6 Days Ago

1998 I was ummm...only playing Tribes and Warcraft II for PC. I was a huge console fan back in those days.

N1ghtw0lf · 6 Days Ago

all about unreal / UT99... Quake 3, those were the days

Cid Highwind · 6 Days Ago

Back in '98, since that's when we got our first PC:

- Dungeon Keeper (soon followed by 2)
- Theme Hospital
- Delta Force
- Settlers 2 and 3
- Road Rash
- NFS3
- A2 Racer (this one has to be on Samor's list as well

)
- Carmageddon Demo

Great days for gaming, especially once I got my TNT2 to enable Bilinear Filtering and other flashy effects. NFS3 was droolable in every single way

Leiw · 6 Days Ago

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Hard core Rikki · 6 Days Ago

One Must Fall 2097. Still do (in Dosbox). Excellent concept, could use remakes and clones.
And now free too ;p

A FlashBack-like whose name I'm blanking on (starts in jungle, hero dropping from a parachute stuck in trees)

DarkStone. An excellent Diablo-like hack-and-slash game, much better than Diablo, and a match to even Diablo 2. As its studio is totally dead now, the community plays it unrestricted (complete abandonware)

Mako Eyes · 6 Days Ago

DOOM, Roller Coaster Tycoon, and Age of Empires II.

I was (and still am) more of a console gamer.

jonc2006 · 6 Days Ago

i cant remember if realms of the haunting was relased in 97 or 98 but either way it was one of the best games ive ever played.

fried_egg · 6 Days Ago

oregon trail, word munchers

runawayprisoner · 6 Days Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

Back in '98, since that's when we got our first PC:

- Dungeon Keeper (soon followed by 2)
- Theme Hospital
- Delta Force
- Settlers 2 and 3
- Road Rash
- NFS3
- A2 Racer (this one has to be on Samor's list as well

)
- Carmageddon Demo

Great days for gaming, especially once I got my TNT2 to enable Bilinear Filtering and other flashy effects. NFS3 was droolable in every single way

Oh my god... you just made me remember Lotus for DOS! 1996 was the year... Awww........ I wonder where I can still find that game.

Exodus · 6 Days Ago

10 years ago? Hmm... Starcraft, Diablo, probably some C&C games. I have a bad sense of time... Quake 3 too?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

DarkStone. An excellent Diablo-like hack-and-slash game, much better than Diablo, and a match to even Diablo 2.

Not even close. Next you're going to tell me Sacred is good.

snickothemule · 6 Days Ago

Diablo, Knights and Merchants, Dark Forces, Full Throttle, Dark Forces 2.
Good times.

Cid Highwind · 6 Days Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

Oh my god... you just made me remember Lotus for DOS! 1996 was the year... Awww........ I wonder where I can still find that game.

Oh yeah man! Lotus and Outrun, those were my first two racing games back in the days when I would play games at other places. Trying to beat teachers at Outrun was just classic, I think I succeeded as well

Samor · 6 Days Ago

I think I won quite a few games in 2p mode in Lotus purely on pitstop strategy

PCXL-Fan · 6 Days Ago

Starcraft on Battle.net

I was carefully selecting my opponents and mostly playing lots and lots crappy players, thus I made it up to #600 spot on the top 1000 ladder ranking. It took playing alot of lower ranked players since the higher your rank relative to the opponents the less points you win for beating them.

Hydralisk Rush or Terran Siegetank/bunker hopping ftw.

Also playing Fallout: A Post Nuclear Roleplaying game, FFVII PC-CDROM, Elderscrolls Daggerfall, Quake, Dungeon Keeper, C & C: Red Alert, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 (soon to be 3), Diablo, Crusader No Remorse & Crusader No Regret, Shadow Warrior (Demo), Pro Pinball TimeShock! and Civilization 2.

Mako Eyes · 5 Days Ago

WOW, I can't believe I forgot Diablo and Full Throttle. I played those two religiously.

PCXL-Fan · 5 Days Ago

I Think by 1998 I had finished playing Full Throttle several times so I had moved on to other things.

deamonhunter · 5 Days Ago

DOOMs , Duke Nukem
C&Cs , starcraft ,Dune and game called Krush kill and destroy (KKND)
and time commander, tomb raider

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runawayprisoner President Emo Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Santa Cruz, CA Posts: 2,789	PC games from a decade ago I'm sure... most of us used to have a P2, or even P3 computer with some high-end graphics card, or some onboard ones. And maybe we had a lot of fun back then (large sigh in the background). Anyway, do you still remember any of those games? From ten years ago? I myself remember Final Fantasy 7, and Metal Fatigue... Especially Metal Fatigue. Man... first RTS I ever enjoyed. Now I can still enjoy the game on my Eee PC, and it's still as awesome as ever. Back then, I still played a lot of NES and SNES games ('scuse the poor circumstances, please) so I didn't know much about PC games. So... what did you play ten years ago, guys? __________________ My best friend: Kopu: Asus Eee PC 701

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SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the midst of an electricity crisis Posts: 3,686	Wacky Wheels (good for some light fun...the closest thing to MarioKart the PC has) Need for Speed 2 - Special Edition...in fact it's high time I make an ISO of this...the disc is starting to go... Aswell as obviously AoE and AoE2 SimCity 2000 (still my favourite SimCity and I treasure my copy of it) Then there was Stunts...which I could never get working right... Aswell as some DOS games like Crystal Caves and Defender of the Crown and Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego (yes I know these are older than you want...but I did play them around that time..infact some of the others mentioned are also probably too old)... I also played Hover off the Windows 95 disc...that reminds me...I need to make a poll... Aswell as Mole's Quest and Flack Attack which also came off some demo CD. And Kid's Typing which we learned typing from at school. Actually I never had many games back then it's only around 2000 that I really started getting lots of PC games....basically it's only then that my dad actually accepted that I could work a PC on my own...before then he insisted that he install everything for me/with me and I had very very little PC Freedom. He even a cracked a demo CD with Road Rash on it in half and threw it away cuz he was against me playing it and considered it a very bad game. O yes and the other 2 games I had both came with the PC... the one was Golf 95 or something like that and the other was...The Magic School Bus - The Solar System...aswell as Maths Blaster 1 and 2. __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM (OEM), 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT (256MB GDDR3 PCIe), Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 HDD, Windows XP SP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! Last edited by SCHUMI-4-EVA; 6 Days Ago at 12:57.

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Cid Highwind Ramma Gay Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Somwhere out in space? The Land of the Free? Heaven or Hell? Posts: 11,209	Back in '98, since that's when we got our first PC: - Dungeon Keeper (soon followed by 2) - Theme Hospital - Delta Force - Settlers 2 and 3 - Road Rash - NFS3 - A2 Racer (this one has to be on Samor's list as well ) - Carmageddon Demo Great days for gaming, especially once I got my TNT2 to enable Bilinear Filtering and other flashy effects. NFS3 was droolable in every single way __________________ Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 523.879 Rip: Cid's Bleemcast 28-08-2007 X360/Wii/PS3 belong to the current generation, update your mindset FFS

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Hard core Rikki JUMPIN' UP THE NATIONS Join Date: May 2004 Location: Perpetual Hawaii Posts: 4,375	One Must Fall 2097. Still do (in Dosbox). Excellent concept, could use remakes and clones. And now free too ;p A FlashBack-like whose name I'm blanking on (starts in jungle, hero dropping from a parachute stuck in trees) DarkStone. An excellent Diablo-like hack-and-slash game, much better than Diablo, and a match to even Diablo 2. As its studio is totally dead now, the community plays it unrestricted (complete abandonware) __________________ < My deviantART \| GENERALEMU \| Webcomics VBA-M \| @ES \| <(^_^<) (>^_^)> <(^_^)> <(^_^<) (>^_^)> <(^_^)> May the fleas of 1000 camels infest the crotches of BIOS swappers! And may their arms be too short to scratch! Last edited by Hard core Rikki; 6 Days Ago at 20:08.

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jonc2006 God of Douchebagness Join Date: May 2006 Location: indeed rly. Posts: 4,294	i cant remember if realms of the haunting was relased in 97 or 98 but either way it was one of the best games ive ever played. __________________ Alienware Aurora m9700 Notebook/Windows XP Media SP2/AMD Turion 64 Processor ML-44 2.4 GHz /Dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 256MB in SLI/2GB RAM/Dual 160 GB 7200RPM Internal HDDs The Official jonc2006 Emotion Chart. Courtesy of PCXL-Fan after he tried to steal my identity on Steam because I am so awesome.

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snickothemule Registered Mule Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia Posts: 57	Diablo, Knights and Merchants, Dark Forces, Full Throttle, Dark Forces 2. Good times.

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PCXL-Fan PCXL was a PC Magazine Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Canada ──────────────── Achievement: His NGemu profile has more views than any other member... why? ....... HELL if I know Posts: 1,783	I Think by 1998 I had finished playing Full Throttle several times so I had moved on to other things. __________________ E6600 Core 2 Duo Geforce 8800GTX @ Stock Speed. 1x 2.1GB HDD, 1x 1.4GB HDD Windows XP Pro Sp2. Sneak peak at the new pcsx3 ps3 emulator created by world famous programmer Raefraction leading a programming team consisting of Sonicfan123, hogonosama, Viperver1, V1ncent and me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ZIeXOHdpE

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