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Freddie

Freddie

Freddie

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Afer finishing Oblivion, fallout 3, Bioshock and a few others, I got a little bored, So I downloaded the latest DosBox and decided to play some of my really old games.... anyone remember these??

Conquest of the New World,
Eye of the Beholder I,II,III
Panzer General,
Great naval battles - North Atlantic,
Anvil of Dawn,
Clash of steel,

Funnily enough I am enjoying them all over again, and I was always the guy who bought the latest games and rebuilt my PC every 6-8 months to keep up.
Now I really wish I had kept one of those old machines, I remember I had two identical, both 486-100 CPU, with dual maxtor 40MB drives and a whopping 4 megs of memory. Anyone else remember the days when the game loaded in 20 seconds and didnt slow your machine down ??

Freddie
 
Hi Freddie and welcome,

I'm a big 'classic' game and RPG fan but most of the titles you've listed are before my time sadly. I know the legendary status of some of them though and plan to play Eye of the Beholder series soon.

I remember our old 'family' pc, it was bought from the PC shop 'Tiny' (anyone remember them?). Great memories. I'll never forget booting up Monkey Island 2 for the first time on floppy disks!

I too used to love upgrading my pc all the time. However, back in late 90's early 00's there was good reason too with top rated games being released all the time. That era imho was the 'golden age' of pc gaming.
 
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lol I sure as hell remember "Tiny". I remember upgrading from a 386 to a 486 and being told by a guy from Tiny how "intense" I would find the jump, lol. I'm not sure if I did or not... although in those days the "test" was to see how smoothly the cards in solitaire would fan out once you'd completed a deck!

The Gateway 2000 was about as elite as it got at one point. I could actually run ski free...
 
I still have the Eye of the Beholder trilogy. It was on a massive compilation of SSI games that I bought years ago. I'll have to dig it out soon.

I still play them though mainly on the Amiga - I think it's easier to play than on the PC using DOSBox but that's just personal preference. MAME was the reason I got on the internet years ago - mainly due to an article I read in a magazine about Daves Vintage Gaming and that you could get ROM's on there. Great times and I used to dial up on a Saturday afternoon for one hour and get as much as I could.



M.
 
spudbynight said:
System Shock II - has to be played
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^ what he said! I'm a hoarder, so still have my old 486 somewhere, along with my Amiga. In fact I still have every PC I've ever owned, really should get rid of some though, really no point in keeping the "middle" ones, nothing they can do that my current one can't!
 
I loved CONW - the battles where a chess match :) and as for EotB series, they rank on par with Dungeon Master :)

Sigh all that looking round on walls for a tiny button to click .... ahhhhhhhh
 
I do remember the hours of fun I had with a small blue disk with the word Populous on it, and an Atari ST :).
 
Not as old as many of those listed but my favourite old PC games where the Janes ATF (Flight sims) and an old Hack & Slash call Severance Blade of Darkness, call me sick but I loved being able to chop a guys arm off and then proceed to beat his friends to death with it!
 
I remember that one well, if they held a weapon and you lopped their arm off, you could pickup the arm still holding the weapon :).

Old game I still play on WinUAE - Wings of Fury. Loved it since the day I played it in a (gone years ago) computer shop in Liverpool central station - Bits and Bytes iirc.
 
I remember my dad getting a PC from Gateway, which came with a game pack including Superkarts, Hi-Octane, Terminal Velocity, Descent, and Fifa; no idea how many hours I must have spent on them, but they were pretty much my initiation into gaming; found the Hi-Octane disk a couple of days ago, have to get that re-installed!
 
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