I Play Old Games.

This is pure sweetness from the days of Commodore 64. This particular game has gotta be my favorite of all time. Demon Stalkers. I've got the PC version on this computer, although it isn't quite as good-looking as I remember the C64 version was.

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Yeah, I play this.


32 colors, my friend.

Lol ... My favorite oldies are ...

Hocus Pocus, Jazz Jackrabbit, Heretic, Duke Nukem (the sidescroller),
Commander Keen, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Rollin', Skyrace, ...

I've been playing Caesar 3, Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Settlers 2 recently, and used to love XCom:TFTD (the first one sucked imho), so yeah I love old games too, but old in a PC-sense.

OMG, Forces post brought back memories..

Transport Tycoon was brill :smile: I used to play that all the way through University!

BTW: If you're wanting some classic old games, dig out the Dizzy series. All completely bonkers and near impossible but great fun. The music still haunts me from Treasure Island Dizzy to this day :wink:

The first game I played was alex the kid in miricle land :biggrin: I've still got my sega master system :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

Heh, if that's you in your avatar you don't look old enough to have has a Master System :wink: Your parents must have started you young on the gaming scene :wink:

Im 15 and I got it when I was like 4 for christmas :biggrin:

I think my dad mainly bought it for himself lol

The first game I played was alex the kid in miricle land :biggrin: I've still got my sega master system :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

Oh wow, Alex was cool. I had the ninja one, where you could swing around on lamp-posts and throw yourself off as a fireball. Ah good times. :smile:

The first games I played were on a TI, the only one I can distinctly remember was a mix of Frogger and Bomberman... with sewers. It was nuts. One gave me nightmares.

I remember playing doom with an older friend when it just came out and being scared s**tless by it. Then I played blood (your a zombie going around killing evil priests) which frieked me out even more. Happy days. :biggrin:

Strangely, I only seem to play oldies

DOOM, DOOMII, FINAL DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D (demo version, don't have the full :sad: ). I'd like to say HL, but I think that's somewhat modern and old.

A few more games I'd like to play, but they won't work, are Rise of the Triad, Corridor 7, Blakestone 3D, Wolfenstein 3D (works actually, demo only, and no music) Operation Body Count, and MechWarrior (I got a ATI Rage edition -- came with my old NEC )

G.Ballblue said:
Strangely, I only seem to play oldies

DOOM, DOOMII, FINAL DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D (demo version, don't have the full :sad: ). I'd like to say HL, but I think that's somewhat modern and old.

A few more games I'd like to play, but they won't work, are Rise of the Triad, Corridor 7, Blakestone 3D, Wolfenstein 3D (works actually, demo only, and no music) Operation Body Count, and MechWarrior (I got a ATI Rage edition -- came with my old NEC )

hehe Duke Nukem 3D is the game that got me started on mapping. i made 2 maps for it, that was a long time ago :wink: Which game (if its not HL) started you guys mapping?

the oldest game that i still play from time to time is warlords 2

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Strangely, I only seem to play oldies

DOOM, DOOMII, FINAL DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D (demo version, don't have the full :sad: ). I'd like to say HL, but I think that's somewhat modern and old.

A few more games I'd like to play, but they won't work, are Rise of
the Triad, Corridor 7, Blakestone 3D, Wolfenstein 3D (works actually,
demo only, and no music) Operation Body Count, and MechWarrior (I got a
ATI Rage edition -- came with my old NEC )

hehe Duke Nukem 3D is the game that got me started on mapping. i made 2 maps for it, that was a long time ago :wink: Which game (if its not HL) started you guys mapping?

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How do you map for Duke Nukem 3D ? was there some level editor ? Never seen anything like that ...

How do you map for Duke Nukem 3D ? was there some level editor ? Never seen anything like that ...

How else do you think levels were created for it? :razz:

Diablo... '96 is old times.

Half life, is the only game, that I have mapped for.

Are, you, out of breath?

I've mapped for Jedi Knight (outcast and academy), for Age Of Empires
(1 and 2) (well, if you can call that "mapping"), Caesar 3 ... and
Half-Life.

Alien_Sniper said:
Are, you, out of breath?

yup, i'm, er, pre,tending, to be, stevie, from, malcom, in the middle, for, a day. hehe

The game that probably started my real interest in mapping was StarCraft, learning stuff with the events and somewhat code that I liked to learn. I had done stuff previously but nothing really made me interested in it.

The first game I ever did any mapping for was Descent.

The original Descent rocked.


Did I forget to mention that Demon Stalkers also comes with its own level editor?!! It was one of the first to do so, way back in '87. Being the extremely young lad that I was when I played it, I wasn't yet really aware of the premise of "mapping", however.

I'm playing through Monkey Island 1 on my laptop. Can't say I'm getting
anywhere though, since I suck so much. Also recently deleted Homeworld
1 (though that isn't that old in the context of this thread) off my computer, much to my regret now. I was on the last mission!
But it was impossible, with 4 fleets surrounding me and swarming me...
Ack! :smile:

Biological Component said:
The first game I ever did any mapping for was Descent.

The original Descent rocked.


Did I forget to mention that Demon Stalkers also comes with its own level editor?!! It was one of the first to do so, way back in '87. Being the extremely young lad that I was when I played it, I wasn't yet really aware of the premise of "mapping", however.

Oh my GOD!!! I forgot to mention that one... Heh, I HAVE TO FIND THAT GAME!! ITS AWESOME!!

Actualy, I started mapping with a crappy complier called the Genesis 3D11 Learned my basic mapping skill there, then almost a year later, I got Worldcraft 2.1. I did a lot of practice maps for a year, then about 4 -5 monthes ago, I came here! :biggrin:

Btw, what demo format are descent demos? I once made the coolest descent demo of all time. I'm curious as to how I'm going to get it off of my packard bell. O_o

I'm pretty sure they are .DEM

Basically every game I've ever played that included a level-editor of some kind, I've tinkered with. Some of my favorites include starcraft, THPS 2, tribes 2, and of course hl.

Descent does rock, and I started mapping with Doom 1, which my brother STILL maps for, but at least he's good at it.

omg I forgot Thief 1! Long live Looking Glass Studios! salutes

First game I made a 'map' for was micro machines on the megadrive/genesis :heee:

Heh, does Sim-City count as mapping? :wink:

Gameplay that amounts to mapping...

...interesting thought.

well i actually meant 1st / 3rd person shooters :wink: and yeah there's a level editor, it was actually cool: there was only the 3d view that hammer also has, but it didnt have the three 2d views. it had a texture selection tool like in hammer. you had to use keys while pointing the mouse to something in that 3d window. e.g. when you pressed "+" while on a brush, that brush moved up a unit :biggrin:

IM A DOOMER ALL THE WAY!!













ahhh the memorys.

Use VDMSound for the emulating of DOS!

Anyway, I only play TIE-FIGHTER.

half-dude said:
IM A DOOMER ALL THE WAY!!













ahhh the memorys.

3at j00r d00m n00b :biggrin:

G.Ballblue said:

3at j00r d00m n00b :biggrin:

What are you saying?

Use VDMSound for the emulating of DOS!

Anyway, I only play TIE-FIGHTER.

TIE-FIGHTER is an excellent game. Do you run that on winXP? I havent had any success getting it ro run. it always freezes.

[edit]If anyone has any tips for getting DOS games to run under modern operating systems, like WinXP, I'd like to hear them! I've personally gotten the best results with DOSBox.[/edit]

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3at j00r d00m n00b :biggrin:

What are you saying?

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He's communicating his need to be put down.

IM A DOOMER ALL THE WAY!!













ahhh the memorys.

Go 3-D emulation!!

I started when I was about 4 and I carnt remember what game I first
played but I think it was that one where you have to distroy the wall
with that bouncing ball and I was playing that on a Sinclare and for
one christmas not long after that I got a Sinclare ZX Spectrum 128K.

I still had that untill last year when my mum threw it out :sad: and she said that I didnt thik you wanted it cos you never used it but I was using it as an investment.

I have just started playing Fallout and I was going to play Brokensward
but it says I dont have enough room on my hdd for it (15MB) when I have
about 25GB free so I think its a XP thing not liking it.

I have just started playing Fallout and I was going to play Brokensward
but it says I dont have enough room on my hdd for it (15MB) when I have
about 25GB free so I think its a XP thing not liking it.

There's some website where you can download something that helps you run old Revolution games on XP. Can't remember where...

I started when I was about 4 and I carnt remember what game I first
played but I think it was that one where you have to distroy the wall
with that bouncing ball and I was playing that on a Sinclare and for
one christmas not long after that I got a Sinclare ZX Spectrum 128K.

I think it was called blockbreaker, although I may be thinking of a later incarnation.

Yeh it was something like that

Wasn't it called breakout?

I remember it as Breakout on my old BBC, though i'm sure there were probably hundreds of clones floating around. Best one by far was Arkanoid :smile:

Anyone remember a game called 'Painter'? Was similar to Qix except you had a grid of shapes that you had to navigate round. You could only move on the outlines of the shapes, and once you had 'painted' the entire outline of one of the shapes, it was filled in. Basically, you had to fill all the shapes and then it would move you to the next level. As you progressed, you got enemies that could also move around the outlines and you had to avoid them while 'painting'.

Heh, ok...so that wasn't the best description, but I know what I mean :wink:

If youre going to be quoting... please get rid of those big ass images.

? quote: Use VDMSound for the emulating of DOS!

Anyway, I only play TIE-FIGHTER.

TIE-FIGHTER is an excellent game. Do you run that on winXP? I havent had any success getting it ro run. it always freezes.

[edit]If anyone has any tips for getting DOS games to run under modern operating systems, like WinXP, I'd like to hear them! I've personally gotten the best results with DOSBox.[/edit]

Erm... download VDMsound? It's about 20x faster, and it doesn't freeze, and it has sound and joystick emulation.

It's like dosbox, but it's not a full dos emulator... I think. But anyway, it doesn't have all the overhead that DOSBox has, so it's faster.

I use WinXP too, BTW. Works fine...

Zelda 3, A Link To The Past

The only Zelda game I hadn't played before (excluding the Oracle ones, which I'm not interested in anyway)


Actually, I have about a dozen or so Super Nintendo games on my PC.

Hey, if you're like me don't knock the oracle games. I played every Zelda except them and Link's Awakening...bought the 2 Oracles a few months back and they're in my top favourite games...they are very fun and interesting. Link to the Past is one of the top 5 games in my total list. I personally have a collection of about 200 games over 7 platforms so that's a tough feat.

If you include burned or emulated games that list is more like 500-750.

Hey, if you're like me don't knock the oracle games. I played every Zelda except them and Link's Awakening...bought the 2 Oracles a few months back and they're in my top favourite games...they are very fun and interesting. Link to the Past is one of the top 5 games in my total list. I personally have a collection of about 200 games over 7 platforms so that's a tough feat.

If you include burned or emulated games that list is more like 500-750.

Damn straight.

BC, you're just now playing (pretty much) THE best Zelda game to date?