"Classic" games you still play

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By classic I mean old...

I still really enjoy Close combat: A bridge too far, a nice 2D strategy game that doesn't need all those 3D bells and whistles. I think it first came out in 1997 but the graphics still look good (well it is 2D). The suspense and anguish are still there, when you are towards the end of a campaign and you're running out of men, fighting with every last man against a weakened enemy, or playing with loads of men as reinforcements come in, flying through a few maps before the Germans get tanks and rip them all to shreads, or at those times when there are 3 enemy tanks and only one anti tank team left, the suspense is extreme.

I'm also just trying to install Port Royale 2 again, haven't played it in ages, it's not as old as CC but pretty good still. It's a trade game where you make your fortune by buying and selling from one port to another, or just becoming a pirate.

So, what old games are you playing at the moment?

 

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I still play Tetris, I'm trying to get hold of a classic gameboy so I can play it in Green mode but that requires effort so the GB SP will do for now, Still the best strategy puzzler ever made!

I still have one of the yellow gameboys lying around somewhere.

age of the empires 2

always fun building loads of castles

That's a good game too, had the demo but never got the full game. I always played Red alert instead.

 

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Command and Conquer: Red Alert. Still good fun

My dad completed the Allied missions once, the later ones are damn difficult! I love playing the multiplayer, create a map where you can set up a fortress, then stick walls, mines, wire and pill boxes/tesla coils. Problem is i've only ever played it against the computer, so never been attached much.

Another game I love is Cossacks, haven't played that in a while actually, was a really good game as well, although the multiplayer AI was useless as well.

Port Royale 2 is worth buying today. You can get it from GOG for $10.

Don't get it unless you have hours of spare time, though. It's very much not a casual game.

What's GOG?

Yeah that's my worry, it's on of those games you start at noon, and suddenly realise it's 4 in the morning... I guess I have nothing better to do with my time at the moment... If you don't see me on here for a few days you know what i'll be doing.

Have you played all the senarios or just the free play? I normally just do the free play, although some of the scenarios are good for getting starting ships (ships of the line mostly).

 

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Coolsouthern. the only option that may work is to right click the start icon for the program>properties>Compatibility and then run it in XP (or older) mode. You could also try running it as administrator (right click>run as administrator).

However both may not work because of your x64 system (I can only run CC:Bridge too far on my laptop as it's x32 Vista not my x64 desktop) so then the only other option is to dual boot or see it it will run in a virtual environment.

 

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Good Old Games - www.gog.com

They buy the right to sell some older games. They package them up into single files that work as a very simple installer. The games are either seamlessly packaged with Dosbox (for DOS games) or modified (Win95/98 games) to work with XP and Vista. Nearly all work with the 64-bit versions and with 7. The site is neat and straightforward to use too.

That's pretty cool, will have to look at that and see what other games they have.

I went straight into free play...and made a mess of it. I soon built a couple of large plantations that were complete liabilities because there wasn't sufficient market for the crops and they filled my trading ships. It took me ages to recover from that mistake. Also, I decided not to trade at Spanish ports because I intended to go to war with Spain later. So I spent many hours limping along, dragged down by heavy investment in loss-making plantations (that I kept for sentimental reasons, namely that they were the first businesses I owned) and hobbled by not trading in half the ports. Also...bloody pirates. Having enough warships and soldiers to deter pirates uses pretty much all the profits on a trading trip.

I didn't like the naval combat at all, but apart from that I had fun with it. I'll go back to it again. I keep buying new games, but I will go back to Port Royale 2 again.

Bloody Pirates! (Pirates of the Caribbean stylee)

I've just been playing it for a few hours (ok 6, until 5am...) last night, I've somehow ended up with 4 warehouses (one given free for completing a mission) a small 60 capacity ship and a flute to cart it around. In 3 of the ports I have plantations that I built specifically for need (sugar and cotton at one, which is sent to another two, both that need sugar and one that needs cotton for clothes. The place that makes clothes makes rope too so that is sent to the other warehouses and the 3rd warehouse location is a major port so gets hardware and wood cheap, which is shipped to the other warehouses. The fouth warehouse is new, and i'm going to build a hemp plantation to send to the rope making town) and I also have all the warehouses set up to buy goods cheap and sell them in the same ports when the price goes up, that way even when i'm not transporting goods around I make a profit. All my boats are manually controlled at the moment but i'm going to buy another flute and automate it so the money should come flying in.

I've just recently bought a frigate and military frigate to do some naval campaigns. I think the thing with military ships is the need to have a big enough trade base so you can afford them.

Luckily I haven't been struck by pirates yet (my trade ships aren't heavily armed) but they only really ply the waters in the southern Caribbean, where only British and Spanish towns are (I have two warehouses in British towns and 2 in Spanish) and even though England is at war with spain I have an excellent relationship with both. Even if they are pirated i've got to a point where it doesn't matter too much as my warehouses have been buying so much so cheaply they all seem to have 30-40 each of the more expensive goods (buy at 600, sell at 1000!).

OpenTTD, as the follower of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, will always love it...



And from steam for 3 quid...


Age of empires 2 is great too but ruled too much by castle blood games online these days .

That is really cheap. Didn't realise it was on there.

 

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To OP - you're going to make me dust off all the Close Combat copies (remember The Russion Front ?) I have and play them again - the cries of your troops shouting "get me out of here" and so on are what made the game.

Also, anyone played Capitalism and Capitalism 2 ? I still like to try and build a global business empire on my laptop when travelling.

cjph

Yeah, the cries are awesome (or bad if it's all going wrong), they are really well made games and are actually semi realistic (ish) compared to most others.

I only ever had no.2, I did want to get the russian front and battle of the bulge however, but never got round to it. I'm tempted to go and see if I can find them, however I'm still playing port royale at the moment (got way further than I have before.).

 

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Don't install Port Royale 2, it takes over your life, I was supposed to be going to bed at 1am...

Got my first town however...