26-06-2004 03:53									#1
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This is for us oldies, name 3 games, one each from the 80's, 90's and 00's that the first time you played it you went 'WOW'!

80's - 3D Ant Attack - Sinclair Spectrum (Timex 2000 in the USA?)

90's - Doom - PSX (I didn't have a PC at the time! )

00's - RON - PC (and this was a push, maybe I'm getting harder to impress)

This isn't about being the best in a given decade (ie. Doom wasn't the best FPS of the 90's) , just what floated your boat at a given time!

	26-06-2004 04:19									#2
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Beach Head II

Red Alert II

Operation Flashpoint

	26-06-2004 04:33									#3
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80s - Dizzy
90s - Civ
00s - Warcraft3

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I played civ more than any other game, but I didn't have a 'wow' moment when opening it for the first time.

	26-06-2004 05:02									#5
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'tis a fair point.

90s - Quake3 would also work.

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quote: Originally posted by alva I played civ more than any other game, but I didn't have a 'wow' moment when opening it for the first time.

Civ 1 I feel as alva - I didn't "wow" when I started playing it, but I played it, and played it, and played it. It's kinda an accumulated wow.

Emperor of the Fading Suns - Civ played across a universe of three dozen planets.

Thief 2 -- that is, once someone on this site clued me into turning up the ambient light so I could see what was going on. A first-person sneaker -- what an idea!

Pirates The most addictive game I've played.

Sentinel Worlds I: Futrue Magic - I've waited in vain for Sentinel Worlds II.

Starflight - A space exploration, trading, adventure game.

Star Wars: Dark Forces -- The first game in which I actually felt frightened by what was going on.

Let's see, is that three??

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80's I was young, and wasn't fully capable of understanding all the games I played, but I played them anyways.

Wasteland and Bard's Tale stand out the most. Although I didn't really play that much of Bard's Tale. I played Bard's Tale 2 more.

games like Bruce Lee and Mission Impossible I played a lot of. Same with Jumpman jr.

90's: Civ2- duh!. Other games that rate high are Fallout 1 and 2, and Crusador: No remorse. honorable mention to SMAC. But honestly, even though the gameplay is excellent. It didn't wow me like Civ2 because the gameplay is so similar to civ2.

00's:. Baldur's Gate 2 (which I played before Baldur's Gate 1). honorable mentions to NWN, and KOTOR.

	26-06-2004 05:21									#8
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Maybe I should explain my choices too:

Beach head 2: IIRC it was one of the first games to have multiple and completely different set-ups and the great voice-overs when the soldiers died.
In fact there was quite a big row about it.

RA2: the first time I saw video being used in a game.

OFP : the sheer brilliant atmospere is what made this game what it was; spooky!!!
I really felt as if I was 'alone in the woods' (<--- title of one of the SP levels )

	26-06-2004 05:37									#9
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awww, crap. How can I forget the game that wowed me almost as much as civ2.

X-com: UFO defense (or whatever it was called)

This game definately wowed me. I loved it.

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quote: Originally posted by Dissident awww, crap. How can I forget the game that wowed me almost as much as civ2. X-com: UFO defense (or whatever it was called) This game definately wowed me. I loved it.

yep, I had that on my Amiga 1200, great game, the downside was that I had no hard drive (can you beleive it?) and it came on 4 disks, so every time you went into battle the screen came up 'Please insert disc 1'. Ah, those were the days!

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80's- Moraff's World
(Dungeons and Dragons ripoff on the DOS. )

90's- Civilization I (first played 1992) (released 91/92)
[Not so much a wow, as an introduction- Civ II was definately a wow, but without Civ I I would never have found civ II]

Age of Empires
Amazing!

00's- Heroes of Might and Magic III (first played 2002) (released 2000)
(Baldurs gate, as the first good D&D game in about 10 years , merits inclusion here)

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	26-06-2004 06:54									#12
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In more or less chronological order... (going by when I played them, not by their release)

Master of Orion 2

X-Com: Terror From the Deep. (I played it before UFO Defense)

Everquest (It was my first MMOG, and I still feel nostalgic desires to play it every now and then despite knowing full well it's complete crap.)

Deus Ex

Commandos 2

Thief 2

Hearts of Iron.

Medieval Total War

Silent Storm

	26-06-2004 06:59									#13
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80s: The Hobbit (Commodore64)
90s: Commander Keen 4 (486), and then Civ2 after getting a decent PC
00s: N/A.

	26-06-2004 07:09									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat 80s: The Hobbit (Commodore64) 90s: Commander Keen 4 (486), and then Civ2 after getting a decent PC 00s: N/A.

I hear ya on the N/A for the 00's, the Hobbit was a good 'un though!

Some people seem to be struggling with the concept of '3 games'?

	26-06-2004 14:20									#15
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80s...er...don't remember any..Crystal Caves was fun...don't know if i went wow over it though

90s Definitely Fallout, the first RPG i ever played, loved the character creation, loved the conversation, loved the multiple ending, loved the graphics...loved pretty much everything about it.

00s Hmm, Hitman if the year is correct. Never was into FPS games, but the original gameplay definitely made me go WOW

	26-06-2004 16:16									#16
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80's: Demon Stalkers / Starflight
90's: Doom
00's: Thief

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	26-06-2004 16:35									#17
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Thief was released right at the end of the 90s though right?

	26-06-2004 16:44									#18
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1999.

I only got into it a few years after though, so it counts for this decade.

	26-06-2004 16:49									#19
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You waited to play a Thief game? Wow.

	26-06-2004 16:58									#20
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How did you play X-Com in the 80's - did you have a time machine?

	26-06-2004 17:27									#21
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd How did you play X-Com in the 80's - did you have a time machine?

He stole one.

	26-06-2004 18:18									#22
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80's - nothing. No one had computers in the USSR, nor game consoles anyway.
90's - Doom. Yes, I like Civ more, but Civ wasn't an immediate wow-effect on me. It accumulated as I played. Sequels like SMAC were instant hits for me, but those are, well, sequels. So it's Doom. Which I still consider to be the best FPS of the 90s. Close second - AoE2.
00's - RoN. I don't myself know why I stopped playing it about a month after it came out, but I regard it to be a fantastic game, and probably the best RTS out there. Never seen a game with such a polished interface and so well though-over, though.

	26-06-2004 18:41									#23
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The only game I was impressed by at first sight was Lemmings... Even though there's many games better than it, this game was the only game that almost made be say 'wow' when I saw it for the first time

	26-06-2004 19:07									#24
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80's: Hybris
90's: G-Police
00's: Shogun Total War

Shogun was by far the "wow"-est game I've ever played. The aestetics are absolutely awesome, and even medieval isn't as good.

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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike You waited to play a Thief game? Wow.

Waited isn't quite the correct word. I didn't even know about Thief until a few people at Poly talked about it. A week later I spotted it in the bargain bin, so grabbed it. The rest is history.

quote: Originally posted by General Ludd How did you play X-Com in the 80's - did you have a time machine?

Wow, this game is *much* younger than I thought it was. Xcom was released in 1996.
List edited accordingly.

	26-06-2004 20:42									#26
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The European version of UFO: Enemy Unknown was out pre 1996 I'm sure, though not in the 80s.

	26-06-2004 20:45									#27
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Being a programmer, I've been wowed by games that I could not figure out how to reverse engineer, that is, how the code was done.

1. 1982's pinball contruction set.
2. '90's Castle Wolfstein (first fist person shooter).
3. Civ3 computer ai, not kill all, but very good.

I now understand how 1 and 2 were done. 3 is still a pleasant mystery that I am trying to solve.

	26-06-2004 21:55									#28
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G-police is that game in which you are a coppa flying in airborne police vehicles hunting down pirates and other trash in those dome-like cities right?

Was a great game with a good athmosphere. Unfortunately I never got past that 'train' level. I never found out how to prevent it from reaching the exit

Duke nukem 3d sure gave me a WOW when I played those first levels (and especially atomic edition's 4th episode ).

Thief also WOWed me. The first time I played that first level with those 3 guards at the entrance... What a suspense!
And after that the level in which you go down the mines, scary ****, even though there's not that much enemies/monsters to slaughter

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Oh yeah, Duke nukem 3D also gave me a wow like experience...

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pre-80's:
Star Raiders, a cartridge game made for the Atari 400/800 home computers. An incredible game considering how much they packed in so little space.


80's:
Loderunner, for the Apple II

1941, Chris Crawford's Eastern Front cartridge game.

M.U.L.E., a timeless classic

Archon, another classic

Encounter, a Battlezone inspired game

Bard's Tale, RIP Interplay

Wizardry 6 - Bane of the Cosmic Forge, RIP Sir-Tech

Moria, a rogue-like dungeon crawl with ASCII graphics

Sim City, even if it wasn't a game...

Populous, first of the "god" games, a really cool idea

Railroad Tycoon, first of the tycoon games


90's:

Civ

Master of Orion

UFO: Enemy Uknown, this is a real "wow" on the first night mission.

Alpha Centauri, like Civ, an accumlated wow

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Superheros of Hoboken, a mad, mad RPG where you lead a group of wacky superheroes on a series of missions. Not really a "wow" except for the silliness

Dungeon Keeper - another Bullfrog fist, very cool idea

Omnitrend's Universe - a very complex RPG with an intricate story and expansive setting.


00's:

The games were getting lame, relying too much on chrome (graphics and sound) instead of having good gameplay. Nothing really sticks out.