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Played this a lot as a kid. Game and this song. It was one of my first downloads from Napster IIRC.
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Mine was "I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me.mp3" by Nirvana
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System of a Down - The Legend of Zelda.mp3
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Phish - Gin and Juice.mp3 was probably the apex of the mislabeled I am pretty sure that influanced other RTS games to have soundtracks that were heavy, which resulted in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLMH8HMgVs&list=PLgFRJh34O5gjYu-TqFhFxI436qKaNY74y
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twistedmentat posted:Phish - Gin and Juice.mp3 was probably the apex of the mislabeled Always smoke a bowla(WEIRD AL).mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QfkcigaNHY
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dialhforhero posted:I thought Compaqs wern't upgrade-able because they had proprietary mother boards? I seem to remember this being a thing with a lot of computers, which is why I bought a Dell. Like a dude. They weren't proprietary, just lovely. No room for expansion. Usually Micro-ATX where there's only one free PCI slot and the filled one is a Lucent win-modem and it would have only 2 slots for RAM. You'd be lucky to have an AGP slot. Usually it was onboard video.
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Randaconda posted:Always smoke a bowla(WEIRD AL).mp3 I believe you mean ElmosGotAGun(WIERD_AL).mp3
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Stairs posted:I believe you mean thecatsinthekettle(WEIrdAL).mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2Sa5UGxK8
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twistedmentat posted:Phish - Gin and Juice.mp3 was probably the apex of the mislabeled Eddie Van Halen - Top Gun Anthem.mp3
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WescottF1 posted:Eddie Van Halen - Top Gun Anthem.mp3 It would be even funnier if it was a mislabeled Take My Breathe Away
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 I'm a PC Kid who uses shareware to the max.
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Pastry of the Year posted:
Shareware was really just a fancy word for "demo"
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To this day I can still remember precisely how to beat Doom 1's first 9 levels thanks to that shareware. Also all the shareware on old Lucasarts games owned. Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones, Full Throttle (which also had a baller rear end intro song)...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syE5AmXAmMU
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Didn't one of the versions of the shareware disk of Doom have the full version on it, and it wasn't all that hard to unlock it? Or was that a stupid rumor?
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Randaconda posted:Didn't one of the versions of the shareware disk of Doom have the full version on it, and it wasn't all that hard to unlock it? Or was that a stupid rumor? I have a copy of the shareware CD of Quake that's like that. Even has the full Trent Reznor soundtrack.
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Randaconda posted:Didn't one of the versions of the shareware disk of Doom have the full version on it, and it wasn't all that hard to unlock it? Or was that a stupid rumor? I feel like that is true and I am pretty sure I remember unlocking it. I am almost 100% sure this was with Doom 2 because I never owned that game but have beaten it on my own machine with cheats
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I remember the screens when you quit the shareware version of dooms 1 and 2 said you'd call and get a code to unlock the rest of the levels?? So there was probably an easy crack unless I'm tripping balls
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If it was Doom it must've been a later release of it. I'm sure I would've cheated out the rest of the game if I could've. I don't think Doom 2 ever had a "shareware" version unless there was eventually something done retroactively. I think at that point they knew Doom was a license to print money which was why it was a full retail game instead of episodic like they had previously done. Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 23:14 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Doom 2 was basically meant to be the enhanced retail version of Doom so there was no shareware release, just like Spear of Destiny had been the retail version of Wolfenstein 3D. Of course The Ultimate Doom came out eventually, but this was just how id did business back then.
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Did anyone ever use DWANGO? I remember it being included on the Doom/Heretic installs, but never used it. I wasn't allowed to tie up the phone line when I was a kid, nor did I have the money to pay for a subscription like that.
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I definitely played one game of Doom multiplayer. That was it though. The rest were Jedi Knight, X-Wing Alliance, Warcraft, and Red Alert games.
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Also the shareware version of Doom was something you could download from a BBS. The full version came on a stack of floppies. No way you could just distribute the full version hidden in the shareware release to be unlocked with a code or a hack.
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I definitely got Ultimate Doom for my birthday as a kid. I even did a science fair project on it! I took my friends’ body temp, bp, and pulse before and after playing Doom 2 on Ultra Violence. Results were......B- This would have been 1996, I think.
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I think you guys are thinking of the stuff bundled on the Quake CD:   It got cracked rather quickly and iD wasn't very pleased with TestDrive™
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aardwolf posted:I think you guys are thinking of the stuff bundled on the Quake CD: Somebody photoshop it to say “enter code to have John Romero make you his bitch.”
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I remember only buying 2 shareware back in the 90s; Doom and Raptor Call Of the Shadows.
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90s seems like it was the last time adventure games were really popular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpiAFd9OkHY
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Randaconda posted:90s seems like it was the last time adventure games were really popular. Go play Unavowed, Technobabylon, and the rest of the Wadjet Eye games right the hell now  .
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90's adventure games look like they've been supplanted by hidden object games. There may be some merit to the thought that 90's style adventure games are just as popular as they were back then, but the overall video game market grew while the adventure game market stayed about the same, but I don't have the figures to back that up.
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dialhforhero posted:To this day I can still remember precisely how to beat Doom 1's first 9 levels thanks to that shareware. drat I had the full wide box for Full Throttle with the giant book and everything. Bet it's worth quite a bit now.  That game ruled so hard. That along with Interstate 76 and Deus Ex summed up my life as a tween. And I'm thinking Hell Toupee would be a hell of a username. drat did I76 have killer voice acting to make up for the lack of character faces.
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Phanatic posted:Also the shareware version of Doom was something you could download from a BBS. The full version came on a stack of floppies. No way you could just distribute the full version hidden in the shareware release to be unlocked with a code or a hack. Yes, the wad-file containing rest of the game levels was more than what one floppy could have handled. But IIRC otherwise all of the assets were the same, so switching out the level file, or using editor to make your own, was possible with just the shareware version.
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Randaconda posted:90s seems like it was the last time adventure games were really popular. Yea i mentioned in the 80s thread how they'd do that to increased difficulty because there really wasn't any other way. I remember playing Dagger of Amon Ra and having no idea about the time mechanic in it, so I could never get anywhere. But then the 90s also gave us FMV games, which have their own issues. Hilariously bad acting is not one of them.
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jojoinnit posted:drat I had the full wide box for Full Throttle with the giant book and everything. Bet it's worth quite a bit now. I76 ruled. I still listen to the soundtrack every once in a while, which, fun fact, was composed by the bassist for Third Eye Blind. I82 wasn't nearly as good, but it introduced me to Devo beyond Whip It and had the funniest last boss I had seen at the time: Ronald Reagan in a giant robot on the Vegas strip. When you beat him, he blames his injuries on his underling, John Hinckly.
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OutOfPrint posted:I76 ruled. I still listen to the soundtrack every once in a while, which, fun fact, was composed by the bassist for Third Eye Blind. Holy hell on both! I tried I82 and soon realised it was the Invisible War to DX and never played it again but went straight back to the I76 expansion packs. I don't get why they think people want things dumbed down. If the first game gets critical acclaim for things like realistic damage modelling don't go and change it to a stupid health bar for the second!  You have made me want to go play the story for I82 though. I wonder how well it runs? It was hell to get I76 working a few years ago but I did it through a combination of things I can probably never quite remember so it's a good thing I immediately wrote a guide for it on GoG because I was that kind of nerd back then in good old 2014-ish. jojoinnit has a new favorite as of 17:58 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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I am pretty sure, Elder Scrolls, RDR and Fallout are adventure games and they are hella successful.
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"Adventure" games from the 80s and 90s are point and click puzzle games with narratives. They went away because so many of them were bad. Telltale tried to update them and even with huge sales they shut down because they will never have mass appeal again. People like complexity but not bullshit puzzles. Even the first two Fallout games had almost nothing to do with the adventure genre.
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Mu Zeta posted:"Adventure" games from the 80s and 90s are point and click puzzle games with narratives. They went away because so many of them were bad. Telltale tried to update them and even with huge sales they shut down because they will never have mass appeal again. People like complexity but not bullshit puzzles. They've been trucking along just fine as a genre again for the past decade now with a pretty solid fanbase. You need to remember the "mass appeal" was with people who actually owned a computer at the time, and there's just a whole lot more people who own one now.
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twistedmentat posted:Phish - Gin and Juice.mp3 was probably the apex of the mislabeled This wasn’t mislabeled though... it was a bootleg from a concert of them performing the song from back when they were supposed to be the next great touring band after the Dead... Or is that the joke and I am dumb? Both are very possible
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jojoinnit posted:You have made me want to go play the story for I82 though. I wonder how well it runs? It was hell to get I76 working a few years ago but I did it through a combination of things I can probably never quite remember so it's a good thing I immediately wrote a guide for it on GoG because I was that kind of nerd back then in good old 2014-ish. I really liked the original I82 installer which played an in-universe news report and followed it up with a Devo song while the game was installing from the disc. The GOG version just uses the normal GOG installer, which is a bit of a shame, but it's not like the original would work these days anyway since the game installs so much faster on modern hardware.
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dialhforhero posted:I am pretty sure, Elder Scrolls, RDR and Fallout are adventure games and they are hella successful. Those are all CRPGs, not adventure games. Adventure games are like Sam and Max or Day of the Tentacle. Point and click interface with an inventory. Most of the "gameplay" was figuring out which inventory item you had to use on the right spot to advance the plot or get a new item.
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