PC games from a decade ago

runawayprisoner · May 9th, 2008, 08:17

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** · May 9th, 2008, 11:02

half life, thief, and unreal.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · May 9th, 2008, 13:52

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.

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skoreanime · May 9th, 2008, 17:37

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

N1ghtw0lf · May 9th, 2008, 18:52

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

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**Cid Highwind** · May 9th, 2008, 20:33

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

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Leiw · May 9th, 2008, 20:46

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

**Hard core Rikki** · May 9th, 2008, 20:55

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)

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Mako Eyes · May 9th, 2008, 22:17

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

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

**jonc2006** · May 9th, 2008, 22:23

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.

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fried_egg · May 9th, 2008, 22:26

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runawayprisoner · May 9th, 2008, 23:17

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 · May 10th, 2008, 04:22

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

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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.

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snickothemule · May 10th, 2008, 08:10

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

**Cid Highwind** · May 10th, 2008, 10:01

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

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Samor · May 10th, 2008, 10:54

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

PCXL-Fan · May 10th, 2008, 11:50

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.

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Mako Eyes · May 10th, 2008, 12:08

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

PCXL-Fan · May 10th, 2008, 12:11

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

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deamonhunter · May 10th, 2008, 12:50

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

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May 9th, 2008, 11:02	#2
jonc2006 Mod of Douchebagness™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA MD Posts: 9,793	half life, thief, and unreal. __________________ Antec 900/Antec Truepower Quattro 1000W/eVGA 780i SLI/Windows XP Media SP2 & Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1/Intel Core 2 Duo E8400@4.0GHz/Dual eVGA e-Geforce GTX280 1GB DDR3 SLI Enabled/Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer/Corsiar XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2/Dual WD Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM HDDs The Official jonc2006™ Emotion Chart. Courtesy of PCXL-Fan after he tried to steal my identity on Steam because I am so awesome. Official jonc2006™ Fan Club Official jonc2006™ Trophy Collection

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SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Most-expensive-Internet-on-the-Planet Land : South Africa Posts: 26,320	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. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! Last edited by SCHUMI_4EVER; May 9th, 2008 at 13:57..

May 9th, 2008, 17:37	#4
skoreanime Your resident reaper... Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 6,031	1998 I was ummm...only playing Tribes and Warcraft II for PC. I was a huge console fan back in those days.

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Cid Highwind The Hunter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: NL Posts: 15,877	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 __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz // GPU: Sapphire ATi HD5870 1GB // Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 RAM: 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 // HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint // SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W // Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

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Samor crill stazy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NL Posts: 7,600	I think I won quite a few games in 2p mode in Lotus purely on pitstop strategy

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