26-06-2004 23:00									#31
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Talking initial 'wow' factor rather than actually great games (although some were)...

80s Ant Attack, 3D on a spectrum
Lords oF Midnight, some much game in so little RAM

90s G Police, the graphics wowed me even though i never got more than a few levels in.
Baldur's Gate, just so unexpected.
Syndicate (or was it Syndicate Wars ?) first game i saw on a PC which looked better than the Amiga version

00s Can't think of any but by now i had high expectations.

	26-06-2004 23:11									#32
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quote: Loderunner,

Ooh, the memories...

quote: 80s Ant Attack, 3D on a spectrum

Terrible game, great graphics for it's days

	26-06-2004 23:24									#33
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike The European version of UFO: Enemy Unknown was out pre 1996 I'm sure, though not in the 80s.

He's probably thinking of UFO's ancient ancestor: Laser Squad Appeared for the C64 and Spectrum as well in the 80's

	26-06-2004 23:37									#34
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quote: Originally posted by alva quote: Loderunner, Ooh, the memories... quote: 80s Ant Attack, 3D on a spectrum Terrible game, great graphics for it's days

AntAttack? There's a very nice lady who's been working on a remake.

http://www.remakes.org/website/foru...ck&pagenumber=1

And her development blog
http://modestybcatt.blogspot.com/

	27-06-2004 05:33									#35
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90's: SIM CITY 2000 BABY!
00's: Morrowind et. all

	27-06-2004 05:45									#36
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK AntAttack? There's a very nice lady who's been working on a remake. http://www.remakes.org/website/foru...ck&pagenumber=1 And her development blog http://modestybcatt.blogspot.com/

i've just checked her site, seems like a fun girl!

3D Ant Attack

	27-06-2004 05:55									#37
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[QUOTE] Originally posted by Trajanus
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

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Thank God I'm not the only one!

	27-06-2004 07:34									#38
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quote: 00's: The games were getting lame, relying too much on chrome (graphics and sound) instead of having good gameplay. Nothing really sticks out.

I agree Urban Ranger, it keeps getting harder and harder to find good games these days. As I noted, I hardly buy new games at all. Most of mine are pre 2000.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1999 and Heroes of Might and Magic III 1999 were the last truly addictive/new idea games that I've played

	27-06-2004 18:29									#39
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OK, I'll give this a shot.

80's: didn't have a PC, loved Legacy Of The Ancients on my C64. My wife and I fought all the time about who was going to play it.

90's: it's a tie for the WoW factor. Master of Orion was impossible to stop playing. Duke Nukem 3D was really cool when I first started it up.

00's: ummm, I haven't done that many, but Dungeon Siege was really cool to start playing. the epitome of easy to play.

and I can't resist a couple more from the 90's: Diablo was a revelation to play, kinda the Dungeon Siege of the 90's. And no game ever had a cooler intro movie than Curse Of Monkey Island

	27-06-2004 20:22									#40
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80s probably mario 1 that comes with nes. that's really the first video game i saw and played a lot.
90s quake 1 without a doubt. believe it or not i was much more wowed by internet multiplay than the first time ever real 3d graphics.
00s meh.

	28-06-2004 07:32									#41
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80s: Super Mario Brothers

90s: Donkey Kong Country

21st Century: Medieval Total War

	28-06-2004 11:07									#42
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Wow games that stayed great and/or got better over time:

SMAC
Diablo2

Wow games that started great then lost something:

UT2004 Onslaught Mode (still good, but no longer goddamn quality)
Morrowind (I ****ing hate this game now)

	28-06-2004 15:36									#43
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Civ 1, Civ 2, Civ 2, Civ 2, etc....

The first THPS game was a lot of fun. Sensible World of Soccer stole hours of my life, Elite and Frontier likewise. Is it time for another favourite games thread?

	28-06-2004 18:14									#44
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger 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.

Star Raiders was the ****!

80s - Romance of the Three Kingdoms

90s - Toss up between X-Com and X-Wing. Both were incredibly immersive and very WOW.

00s - Shogun: Total War

	28-06-2004 22:45									#45
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80s.... Ultima IV, Defender of the Crown, Jumpman, Berzerk
90s.... Ultima VII, Duke Nukem, Civilization I and II
00s.... Baldur's Gate II, Heroes of Might and Magic IV, Civilization III

	29-06-2004 02:41									#46
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quote: Originally posted by BustaMike Morrowind (I ****ing hate this game now)

kinda the opposite for me. i guess it's because i was sorta a fanboy at first. i actually thought they were going to build on the succeses of daggerfall instead of reproduce them by hand. when i first got the game i hated it within a few hours but now after all this time i can take it for what it is - a semi-fun game that is only good in limited doses.

	29-06-2004 05:05									#47
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Ultima 4
Sim City
Civ 2

	29-06-2004 06:00									#48
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80's - colossal Cave - (its older of course, but i first encountered it in the '80s) wow, like you can play a game on a computer, not just on an arcade machine. XYZZY!!!!!!

90's - Sim City 2000- wow, you can play really cool games on a PC??? wow, you can build and model a city. what a perfect app for the PC - and it looks to cool as well.

Age of Empires -wow, you can fight and be all historical, too

Civ2 - you can fight and THINK.

	29-06-2004 15:52									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Stuie 80s - Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The original is a really good game. It has the "one more turn" syndrome to it.

	29-06-2004 15:57									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger The original is a really good game. It has the "one more turn" syndrome to it.

Played that one on my Amiga but I was more of a fan of a game by the same makers where you could fight for control of Europe/Eurasia. Don't remember the name though...

	29-06-2004 21:59									#51
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK Played that one on my Amiga but I was more of a fan of a game by the same makers where you could fight for control of Europe/Eurasia. Don't remember the name though...

Genghis Khan, something like that?

	29-06-2004 22:02									#52
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quote: Originally posted by lord of the mark 80's - colossal Cave - (its older of course, but i first encountered it in the '80s) wow, like you can play a game on a computer, not just on an arcade machine. XYZZY!!!!!!

The original Adventure was quite interesting for its time. Kill a dragon with your bare hands and stuff

	29-06-2004 22:03									#53
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quote: Originally posted by Stuie Star Raiders was the ****!

How high did you get? I always got kicked by the computer

	30-06-2004 13:06									#54
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80s - Dizzy
90s - Final Fantasy 7
00s - GTA3

	30-06-2004 13:08									#55
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I didn't play many games in the 80s though.

	30-06-2004 15:02									#56
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Elite (ZXSpectrum)
Ultima4 (PC) countless sleepless nights, and occasional dizzyness)
Jagged Alliance (1&2)

	30-06-2004 15:32									#57
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet I didn't play many games in the 80s though.

That hasn't stopped most posters ignoring the original request and mentioning tonnes of games from the 90s instead.

	30-06-2004 17:45									#58
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Hey, I changed my answers after people protested!

	30-06-2004 17:45									#59
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger How high did you get? I always got kicked by the computer

Honestly don't remember. I just know it consumed more time than was reasonable.

	30-06-2004 18:03									#60
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80's - Elite(on my 'rich' friends BBC computer) + Alternate Reality rpg's(on my 8bit Atari)

90's - Civ1+Xcom+Speedball2(perfection - all on my Amiga)

00's - Morrowind+Pirates of the Caribbean(both flawed gems)

looking at these it seems size matters for me! and when it doesnt it has to be perfect(Speedball2)

Last edited by child of Thor on 30-06-2004 at 18:08