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Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
Along with gams you play at daycares and elemntary schools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOe0_1r5dVQ

this game owned, pretend you're doing learning or writing but really just makin pictures with weird clip art

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mrs. nicholas sarkozy
Jan 1, 2006

~let me see ya bounce that bounce that~




Fuckin Dragon's Keep, heck yeah 4th grade.

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer

Calvin Johnson Jr.
Dec 8, 2009
what about half-life 2 have you guys ever seen THAT poo poo??

SYSV Fanfic
Sep 9, 2003

by Pragmatica
I don't know the name of it. It looked kind of like Exile escape from the pit or castle of the winds, but it was on a mac classic. I saw this in 2001 and the mac classic was in the classroom because my school district required a computer in every class room.

Anyone know what this might have been? The mac dork in my class was pretty happy it was on there.

Sazabi_Master
Sep 14, 2014

I came here to laugh at you.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4eE14XO9rI

I am Toni Lippi
Aug 16, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QqM7yiPIQ
This game was the poo poo. It had local mutiplay where you could build giant armies to conquer everyone risk style. You send your heroes out on quests to gain level and get items like the wand of necromancy. We'd play games that were easily 12 hours long. Really had alot of fun and wasted a ton of hours on this game.

a star war betamax
Sep 17, 2011

by Lowtax
Gary’s Answer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDZEroShhQ8

thats me in the video btw

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

LINKIN PARK


your mom

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
Crystalis for NES

<---

Firehawk for NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpETJSESa3I

Drakkhen for SNES
http://www.somethingawful.com/rom-pit/snes-drakkhen-rpg/
actually a really good game tho

Tunnels of Armageddon for PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yODPRY-2TQ < guy playing it sucks and picks up no bonuses or the awesome autopilot

Castle of the Winds for PC
now legit freeware by author but 16-bit

King Arthur's K.O.R.T.
yeah put your company logo right on the game screen the players gonna be looking at the whole time

Ramsus
Sep 14, 2002

by Hand Knit
Spectre and Spectre Supreme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdLKgVGWYIs

Maelstrom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuvQJhu0N4

Spaceward Ho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5rlq6IFUng

When my older brother was in college he had a macintosh computer with these and few others I can't remember.

Infidel Castro
Jun 8, 2010

Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice




I bought a whole bunch of NES games from one of my friends, and this was thrown in there. Still no clue how the gently caress to pronounce it (Zex-zees? Zee-zix?)

gary oldmans diary posted:

Castle of the Winds for PC
now legit freeware by author but 16-bit
Man, I can't count how many times I played through the shareware demo part of this. I had no clue it was actually supposed to be a rather tough game. I just enjoyed running around and murdering kobolds for their coins.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Crow_Rodeo posted:

I grew up playing games on Macs. The 90's were a fascinating time to play games on a Mac, because they were usually unique to the platform.

Ambrosia software made great ports of old arcade games, but the real money was "Escape Velocity" a topdown/isometric version of Elite basically.



Another favorite was "Abuse" a side-scroller from Bungie where you play a Xenomorph/Predator crossbreed who has to escape a future prison by using lots of high explosives



Oddly enough Marathon is a fave for me and nobody remembers it because it was Mac only. Halo being Xbox only was heartbreaking

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord
Probably 'Deadlock' , looking back I don't think I ever really knew with full certainty the consequences of my actions in that game.

coolskull
Nov 11, 2007

i had one of the later math blaster games, and there were multicharacter puzzle sections with no math component that owned real hard. wish my parents bought me more games like that.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


hidden agenda is a cool ancient political game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQ8euH4NBI

Radical and BADical!
Jun 27, 2010

by Lowtax
Fun Shoe

Crow_Rodeo posted:

Escape Velocity

there's an awesome re-release called nova. it's great

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
does this guy ever realize you can still control your selected character during battle because that is a really stupid complaint he has

SYSV Fanfic
Sep 9, 2003

by Pragmatica

Claven666 posted:

there's an awesome re-release called nova. it's great

Even more awesome, you can download a total conversion of EV nova and play EV 1 and 2 in the new engine with the classic models sprites. Don't know how well it holds up on high res monitors, was the poo poo in 2004-2006 though.

A Tasteful Nude
Jun 3, 2013

A cool anime hagrid pic (imagine nude pls)
holy poo poo guys

holy poo poo

this thread made me remember this thing



remember this?

It was like some japan action rpg they didn't really bother to translate or provide cultural context for in the american version but me and my bro found it at blockbuster and it owned

mystical ninja starring goemon

who is goemon? why does the title insist the game STARS goemon? should I know who that is? Why does he have eyeshadow? What is that coin thing he's holding? Is he the mystical ninja? Is he wearing an anime wig or something?

It was real fun but was my first step toward realizing that japan is p hosed and anime is bad

also I remember the fat sidekicks arms spun around funny

Are there any animes in here who could explain this to me after like 20 years

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.
Legend of the Mystical Ninja was a really good side scrolling beat-em-up with some RPG elements for the SNES. Great game besides the password save system.

Apparently it was part of a series but who cares.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
I know Diggers. I only ever owned a demo, but it's probably what gave me a taste for the whole "build mines and dig up resources like a filthy dwarf" genre. The sequel was also pretty cool.

Seat Safety Switch
May 27, 2008

MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.

Pillbug

Bold Robot posted:

I got this game off a MacAddict CD once, it was like a Myst/Manhole-esque adventure game except you just like wake up and go to school and stuff. You could encounter an alien and also Busta Rhymes, and you would lose HP if he blew his smoke in your face. It had low res black and white graphics. I've been trying to figure out the name for years.

It was probably one of the World Builder adventure games. Did it have a tiny window?

I don't remember any of them with hit points though.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe
Oh man, now I remember the weirdest and most obscure game ever. When I was really little our first family "computer" was a C64, followed by an old Tandy DOS machine. Shortly after that my dad bought a Mac for work, and because it was self-contained and relatively portable sometimes he would bring it home and even put shareware games and poo poo on it, like I remember there was an adaptation of Mille Bornes (it blew my mind when I later discovered this was an actual card game.) But the most bizarre and magical game of all was CAP'N MAGNETO:



Completely bizarre rear end adventure game with some light RPG elements (and lots of shareware nag screens). There were all kinds of random aliens that would sort of kramer around the map and there were items to collect and puzzles to solve but I never got very far. I would grind up by killing a bunch of aliens and then randomly get owned by some superalien out of the blue. In retrospect I'm not even sure what I thought I was accomplishing by genociding aliens but it made numbers go up and that was the extent of my 6 year old understanding of videogames.

Astoundingly, the game's shareware site still exists like some kind of prehistoric fly preserved in amber.

Tempus Rimeblood
Sep 23, 2007

...Friendship? Again?
So many of these games.

Unfortunately, no YouTube links, but I'll try to edit some in later.

There was Operation: Inner Space, this weird PC game with a bunch of crazy ship designs that was basically a shmup that generated levels based on your PC's file system and the contents of your hard drive. The site still exists and I think the game can even still be ordered, but I can't be sure.

In addition to that, there was another shmup set inside a computer called ShadowWraith, a Mac-exclusive title that was at my old elementary school. I remember the music was really good and the gameplay was decent, but I can't actually find any footage/shareware/anything related to it.

And finally, something that literally no one believes existed, a shareware game called STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, in which you played as a Stalker trying to reach the heart of the Forbidden Zone in Chernobyl. It was a side-scrolling DOS platformer/shooter, and not a particularly good one, but it's certainly a head trip every time I see the newer STALKER games and flash back to the old shareware episode I played when I was 10.

Bregor
May 31, 2013

People are idiots, Leslie.

Oh God I had that game, it was such a mess.

Can't really think of many other games I had that were obscure... the original DOS Rogue, Nyet (Tetris before it was Tetris), The Incredible Machine, those were the earliest but I'm pretty sure everyone had those.

Told Two Times
Feb 13, 2014

by Smythe
Are there any other games like Escape Velocity? Flying around space doing whatever the gently caress you want forever is one of the greatest concepts in video game history. They really need to make a new one.

skull wall
Jul 29, 2012

CHOPPER.EXE



dos EGA oldie that was pretty cool for the time

http://youtu.be/6iIlW9k3lrc

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Told Two Times posted:

Are there any other games like Escape Velocity? Flying around space doing whatever the gently caress you want forever is one of the greatest concepts in video game history. They really need to make a new one.

freelancer is alright if you mostly ignore the story until you need to advance. good production design and a whole lot of poo poo to do. check it out

also a new elite is coming out soon

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

I don't remember the game at all but I remember that gameplay screen so I must have played it at some point.

THE PENETRATOR posted:

brave fencer musashi, a really good rpg where u played musashi and u saved people from bincho fields

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9lxglYqxw8

That game was awesome, the sequel sucked.

Anyway this is one I played a lot and now that I remember it I kind of want to play it again because it was pretty good.



Bold Robot
Jan 6, 2009

Be brave.



Seat Safety Switch posted:

It was probably one of the World Builder adventure games. Did it have a tiny window?

I don't remember any of them with hit points though.

Normal sized window, like about the size of your standard hypercard game (Manhole, etc.). I don't think it was hypercard though, this was maybe 1998.

GORDON
Jan 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
In '77 when all of my rich friends were getting Atari 2600s for Christmas, my welfare-cheese-eating-rear end got a Comp IV. It was a little game where you had to solve a 3, 4, or 5 digit random number combination by choosing a combination of numbers at random, then you get simple feedback of how many of those numbers were correct. You finally solve it in X number of turns, and that's your score, then you start again and try to beat that score.

So I don't want to hear about it.

GORDON fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Nov 1, 2014

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Downercut posted:

Journey to Silius. It was going to be a Terminator game but Sunsoft lost the license or something. The music owned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Ztsa5mzA0

drat they took the sound effects from blaster master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdaM5Mv-TTo

Cymoril
Jul 1, 2005

Kittens Warm the World
Dinosaur Gum
http://youtu.be/mdgwPOf2BCA

The Ancient Art of War. This game owned.

Bregor
May 31, 2013

People are idiots, Leslie.

Cymoril posted:

http://youtu.be/mdgwPOf2BCA

The Ancient Art of War. This game owned.

Hell yeah, I had that game. I actually went back and tried to play it a couple years ago and it was pretty loving hard.

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

proof of concept posted:



I played this a lot when I was 5-6. The suggested age range on the box makes me think the people at that company didn't give kids much credit in the brains department.


skull wall posted:

CHOPPER.EXE



dos EGA oldie that was pretty cool for the time

http://youtu.be/6iIlW9k3lrc

gary oldmans diary posted:


Castle of the Winds for PC
now legit freeware by author but 16-bit


ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Suicide Sam E.
Jun 30, 2013

by XyloJW
"Popcorn". It was a breakout/Arkanoid clone that I only ever saw in 4 color CGA. Also, from all of the word in menus, I am fairly certain it was French in origin?

No idea how I got ahold of it, but the diskette became corrupt and that was the end of it.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011




:eyepop:

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

i had a shareware copy of one game that had randomly generated dungeons which i played a lot, i can't remember the name but i keep thinking it was something like descent or depths, its probably not though. it was supposed to be scifi in the sense that you were exploring underground in some planet, but the thing that kept killing me was that you only had a limited amount of oxygen and when you ran out you died. there were mushrooms or something that you could use to get more oxygen, i think. i had a hex editor and went through changing certain values that were "01" to "00" until i found the one that modified the oxygen value and i got pretty far with it then. i thought that was pretty resourceful for a 10 year old but unfortunately ive never done anything as clever as that since.

another one was excelsior which i loved





i ended up buying the full version just a few years ago actually, even though it's still like $12 or something, and got around to finishing it but it was underwhelming over all

edit

http://excelsior-rpg.com/register.htm

15 loving US dollars

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Suicide Sam E.
Jun 30, 2013

by XyloJW

lonesomedwarf posted:

i had a shareware copy of one game that had randomly generated dungeons which i played a lot, i can't remember the name but i keep thinking it was something like descent or depths, its probably not though. it was supposed to be scifi in the sense that you were exploring underground in some planet, but the thing that kept killing me was that you only had a limited amount of oxygen and when you ran out you died. there were mushrooms or something that you could use to get more oxygen, i think. i had a hex editor and went through changing certain values that were "01" to "00" until i found the one that modified the oxygen value and i got pretty far with it then. i thought that was pretty resourceful for a 10 year old but unfortunately ive never done anything as clever as that since.

another one was excelsior which i loved





i ended up buying the full version just a few years ago actually, even though it's still like $12 or something, and got around to finishing it but it was underwhelming over all

edit

http://excelsior-rpg.com/register.htm

15 loving US dollars

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