Best "Oldies" List

I'm sure not everyone here has only begun gaming. Lets make a list of the "old" (<2004) games we used to play (or still play). It's also fun to look back and think "omg, my pc couldn't run THIS?".

As an added plus whoever runs IGP's can discover games that will run smoothly. I don't understand why people think the only games that are good are the most recent ones. People used to play games before 2007/08 too, remember?

I'll start:
Aliens vs. Predator 2 - I still consider it the most intriguing FPS I've ever played. Not only are the campaigns awesome, it still has over 100 multiplayer servers running 7 YEARS after release (yes with people on them).

Bedlam - I don't think many people will recognize this one at all. It was an arcade type game where you would beam down as a robot and shoot everything up (monsters and the likes) in 2.5D. Yes omg, a DOS game with a destructable environment.

 

Warcraft 3 - Still one of the greatest RTS out there, and playing all the custom games with buddies is a blast.

 

Secret Agent: The Hunt for the Red Rock Rover was the BEST game I have every played.

There was also MS Flight Simulator 1: That kept me entertained for ages.

and also the original crashbandicoot for the playstation - I loved it.

I haven't gamed for a couple of years so these are the only games I really remember - and they were sooooooo good!

Thanks for making this thread!

 

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 (yah the origonal win 95 version ) ... it actually runs in Vista!!! after some tweaks and other 'tricks'.
Red Alert 2 released in 2000 and still play (this one was FUN to RUN in vista... but it now works.
Civilization 3
Age of Empires 2
C & C Generals and Zero Hour

 

Enemy Territory Wolfenstein (2002 or 2003) still has thousands of servers and its still plenty fun! Oh and the source code is out, so there are soooo many maps and mods

Quake...

Team Fortress...

idk... I probably wasnt even born when those games where out

 

Freelancer for the PC - an open world space flight game with a good soundtrack and was a lot of fun online. The single player story was very good as well. But it does have some issues on vista...Oh well, those with xp get to enjoy this gem of a game.

Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries - the best game fo the mechwarrior 4 lineup, it featured you as the leader of a mercenarygroup. You had to hire pilots, buy, build, and maintain your army of mechs. You could decide which missions to take and refuse throughout the game leading to one of three endings depending on what path you chose. You could compete in a bunch of arena battles on one planet to become the best arena fighter in the galaxy ( a very cool side-quest series and a great way to earn money). There were also many neat touches within each mission. In one of the earliest ones you come across a checkpoint with some light vehicles, one active mech, and a mech that has not been started yet. If you shoot the tent near the unstarted mech, you kill the plot and can claim that mech as salvage at the end of the mission. It is one of my all time favorite games.

PSO Blue Burst - Phantasy Star Online episodes 1,2, and the newest one - 4 all for the pc. I play on a free server since the official ones have been shut down (I think). But it's a very simple dungeon crawler game with some neat graphics and a decent community on the servers I play on.

 

• Anything emulated via MAME, Vice C64, or WINUAE

• Duke Nukem 3D and its add-on packs

• Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast

 

The longest journey, HL1, UT

 

Diablo 1 + 2 + expansion pack

 

Forgot to include Empire Earth. Was an incredibly fun game and for its time had superb graphics for an RTS. Advancing through the ages quickly and facing your opponents' cavalry with 10-story tall robots was pretty evil .

 

Starcraft!!!
Half Life

 

Operation Flashpoint - still playing!

Ivan

 

Oh I forgot... Tetris.

 

Deus Ex
Knights of the Old Republic
Hitman 2
Doom 2 (I know, too old but still a classic)

 

yeah Freelancer was a great game.

others that i can think of are

diablo
warcraft 2
rainbow six
team fortress classic
command and conquer

 

PAC-MAN!!! i bought it for my phone for 6.99 lol.

 

Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. Came out in early 2003 but I still play it and so do plenty of others!

 

Fallout 1 & 2!

 

Sim Tower
Sim City 2000
Need for Speed 1
Duke Nukem 3D
Half Life

 

X-Wing
Myst
Diablo 2 + Lords of Destructions Expansion Pack
Sim City 3000
Counter-Strike v1.5

 

OMG how did i forget about simtower. it's definitely one of best sim games ever made.

 

OMG how come no-ones mentioned Wolfenstein Enemy Territory???

It was the best online fps AND it was freeee! It still manages to be in the 10 most played games on the X-fire charts so lots of people still play it. I remember i was addicted to that game like crack cocain. I want to get the new Enemy Territoiry Quake Wars to see what it like.

 

See here.

I wasn't really into games back then, but I have memories of playing HL1 and CS1.5.

 

Hall of Fame:

Civilization 1
Sim City
Duke Nukem 3D
Dune 2
Red Alert
Syndicate
X-COM UFO Defense

 

The games that got me into PC gaming back when i was a youngin Doom 1 and 2.
Cant forget about Sim City 2000 and Sim Coaster.

 

Ha! I love bedlam one of the first pc games I ever played, that and Mechwarrior 2. One game that sucked up most of my time was battlefield 1942.

 

of course the Sims

 

AAAHH I forgot about sim city 2000!

 

Age of empires 2, I still play with the guys where I live(the second better gpu here is a gma 950, the others have the intel extreme 2)
Quake 3
Red Alert 2
medal of honor allied assault
Need For Speed 2, I played a lot this

 

Fallout 1/2
Morrowind

 

Crusader series, lots of ways to finish a level and some of the best death scenes animated in DOS at the time (hitting a target with the UV gun never fails to bring a smile).

 

Starcraft.

It's over a decade old and still fun. ^^

 

Doom2! The first game I ever played and it scared the ***t out of me

 

Starcraft
Warcraft
Half Life 1
Beyond Good and Evil
System Shock 1 (Never to be topped, it seems)
Wolfenstein 3D
Age of Empires 1
Carmen Sandiago (Oh lord...this game was awesome when they started installing it on our tricked out Win95 systems in public libraries, GO USA!)
Flight Simulator 1
Search and Rescue (sooo buggy)
King's Quest
Jump Start Second Grade
Gizmos and Gadgets
Math Mountain
Comanchee
Fallout 1
Arcanum
Inventors Workshop
NetStorm: Islands at War (SO GOOD...still running I think!)
Sacrifice

There is another one I can't remember the name of...where you had to solve puzzles and defeat this crazy scientist dude. The game was based on weather and natural phenomenon. Someone remind me of the name!

I'm sure there are some I missed, but each of those games holds something special for me .

 

I havent seen anybody say Duke Nukem =(
lol great game
Plus HL1
TF1
Empire earth (which in my opinion was WAY better than the newest one)
Age of empires
There were a lot more but I was like 8 when they were out...lol

 

AGE OF EMPIRES 2 IS THE GREATEST GAME EVER CREATED!!!
becides that I still play Battlefront 1 and Rome: Total War which is the second greatest game ever created.

 

Mega-Classics:

The Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System
Schoolhouse Rocks
Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks

 

OpFlash and Tie Fighter win all.

 

As a kid, Sim Ant!

 

I have MAME and 1166 games. All the great (and not so great) quarter operated arcade games. But I also love NFS "Porches Unleashed" damn I got good at that one.

 

Some of the games mentioned certainly AREN'T oldies... At the VERY latest an "oldie" should be considered up to the year 2000.

I'm going to add Redline (the FPS one), Kingpin, C&C Red Alert, and... damn there's this game I forgot but it was a very popular PC vertical scrolling plane shooter. You had levels and after every level you retreat to your "hangar" and get all kinds of upgrades.

 

AAAHHHH NFS PORCHE UNLEASHED!!! I couldn't get off that game...and.............. Quake 3 had me hooked too. Gotta love the 1 hit kill rockets.

 

Starcraft, woot woot

 

You ALL forgot stronghold and stronghold crusader

 

Ooh, ooh... Soldier of Fortune II!!!

 

Halo 1!!!!!!!!

 

Quake series
Hexen II
HL series
Doom series
all the Sims games
GTA III and VC
Wolfenstein
oh, and one of my all time favorites. ( I even bought a joystick to play this game)
Descent 2

 

Soldier of fortune
castle wolfenstien
max payne
empire earth
red alert 2
home world 2!!! my favorite

yeah pretty old lol. i remember dos games like big red racer. and doom 1 hahah pretty awesome back then

 

Max Payne (Just played through number 2 and never knew there was a secret ending on dead on arrival so now to beat it on that lol)

Oregon Trail!!! Mwahahah! played that all the time in school.

 

Hey! I mentioned it

and I'm going to have to agree with Roofer, we should be talking pre-2000 games..