LOL - Look at this comparison of PC Games from past to present

http://krisabel.ctv.ca/blog/_archives/2008/6/27/3765123.html

Just having some fun doing some image searches and I find this. LOL!

 

i guess i missed the humor...

 

ha, sad part is I still remember getting that version of Microsoft Flight Sim... and loved it! And King's Quest... I loved me some King's Quest!

 

as did i...the format is weird too

 

brilliant. funny thing is, i still play quake, and its still good fun. but can you imagine yourself playing crysis in 13 years time?

 

Yeah, those are some pretty old machines. I'm surprised to find something older than my iBook G3

 

The sad part is that these older games had much better gameplay than today´s games and especially replayability.

 

theres some old classics there.

just for you space invader fans, heres the game you can play over and over again. few other old games as well.

Clikety Click

 

ahhhh the old oregon trail lol

 

For those of you that don't get it, must be under 25 years old. Those older, who used PC's for games then, understand. Not a criticism, just a note about personal experience (due to our old age ;-)

Kings Quest was classic. I didn't have a PC, but my friend did, and we wasted so much time playing that game together.

Flight Simulator too. Oh the days of flat shading on 320x200 screens... do I miss it!

I agree though, games of that era seemed to have a lot more substance than today. Today it's all about graphics. In some respects isn't bad, but I think you lose a lot of originality in gameplay that way.

Anyhow, just thought you might enjoy the link!

 

I think every kid who went to public school played that game and I hunting for meat more that anything. Beside rafting on the water.

 

or laughing at your friends grave stones.

that game was awesome. there was another version at my elementary school called like "Alaskan trail" and you had 8 dogs that you picked i think, and it was pretty much the same thing, but you had dogs.

Anyone ever play that game called something like "Write, Camera, Action" where you directed a cartoon movie and you had choices of how the movie would turn out, then you could watch it? i used to spend hours playing it. and when i was really young i was into Duke Nukem 3D. i played flight simulator, and combat flight simulator.

the 90's sure had memorable cames on PC and console. Legend of Zelda, anyone?

games had much greater focus on story and gameplay, but now they're just oriented on interface and graphics, though this year has had some nice titles (Left 4 Dead??).

 

Oregon Trail is a classic, one of the best educational devices ever. I do believe it was the first video game that i ever played, then i was hooked, next came atari, following mario bros. Ah the 80's.

 

I still remember some of my fav games on my Amiga 500
Lost Vikings, Wings of Fury, Superfrog...

 

I have sweet memories of the games I played in my Commodore 64. Karateka, Barbarians, Strike Fleet, PHM Pegasus, Sublogic Flight Simulator (before it became Microsoft's, I still have the flying charts).

I remember playing wireframe flight simulators in my TRS-IV.... Yeah, I'm definitely old

 

ha, hey, didn't Sublogic make ATP or something like that? Those were the days i'd walk into a software shop and have no idea what I'd find

 

yeah, and those were the days that if you knew how to program in BASIC you could actually make a game and sell it. LOL! I made a few bucks that way.

 

lol i dont know if im the only one but i get really sad when i see old computer these days haha

i always find myself saying man....just pay $300 and get a new one

 

Yeah, it's kinda scary, considering PC's are more or less expendable. I remember getting a PC was the biggest deal. You had one, and only one, because an 8-bit color TRS-80 cost $2500.

My mom always wondered why I wanted a "stupid computer". I finally convinced my dad to buy me an Amiga 500 when I went to college. Little did he know it was more of a gaming machine, but it was also less expensive than a "PC compatible" (lol). But it did come in handy for term papers and such. I just never had a printer, so would always have to convert to WordPerfect or whatever writing software PC's had at the time, and spend more time reformatting so it would print right. And saving onto 5.25" floppy disks! LOL. Oh man... I feel old.

 

WOW im too young man i dont even know what an amiga is........


lol though i remember floppys saving 1mb took like a minute....priceless

 

What's so funny, I played most of those games when I was a kid

 

Ummm, me too. It's funny to look back and see those games, and how bad they look compared to today's, along with the antiquated hardware.

 

QFT.

The emphasis on PC games 15 years ago was playability and gameplay over graphical effects. Now it's the complete opposite.

 

To this day, I still turn all of my video settings down in order to get better FPS. If TF2 looked like Q1TF, I wouldn't complain. I do admit though, I've never been one to shell out top dollar on a computer. I always get whatever the bang-for-the-buck hardware is.

 

LOL too true!

Remember those magazine for computer games---They were pages of BASIC code to "make" your own games.

So many milestones that are funny today--like getting one of those new, "huge" 3.5" diskette drives to replace the old 5.25 floppy ones and having to convert everything to 3.5.

 

Rampage! <3

I remember wasting so much money at arcades playing that...

 

Here's a couple of screenshots of what I was playing when I was a teen...we may never see another personal computer quite like the Commodore 64...the NES was the console that was going to kill gaming on the computer back then...20 years later, the 360 or PS3 (or Wii????) is again killing PC gaming...and it's hard gauging whether piracy was worse back then or now...piracy was definitely a lot more localized...at least one of your friends had to buy the game...and I don't think there was a worldwide market quite yet for games...not a lot of publishers with enough clout to distribute to the world...maybe EA or Epyx or Microprose...

 

And a couple more...try comparing Oblivion to Bard's Tale...the screenshot of Bard's Tale is heavily action oriented...my bard is actually fighting (7) gnomes in Skara Brae...that's the sweat drenching combat screen...

Raid on Bungeling Bay was an all-time favorite...I'm right over the dock where the mechanized factories build their super-dreadnought...game was designed by Wil Wright for Broderbund...and Mr. Wright went on to severely damage PC gaming with The Sims...(even my wife who hates gaming got addicted to The Sims...I didn't understand it...on the PC, you could pretend to be a fighter pilot, race car driver, space trader, monster, warrior, sorcerer, etc...instead, the masses chose to pretend to be a person trying to learn to read and cook, and getting a job to buy stuff for their house...sounded suspiciously like real life)...

 

Old games rule... too bad most run fairly poorly on the newer OS's (I'm looking at you Homeworld)

 

I'd love to play on a Commodore 64, just to see what it was like,
it sounds like you can do a lot with 8-bits

 

I never had a Commodore 64. I had a Radio Shack Color Computer 2, later a Color Computer 3 (CoCo 3). 1.8MHz and 256x192 with 256colors! And dammit I loved it

 

Or when you bought that new 1.6 Gigabyte YES GIGABYTE hard drive that you knew you'd NEVER FILL UP!!

 

Gameplay > graphics. Sadly, game makers these days seem to have forgotten this rule (though perhaps purposely, since graphics seem to sell - your average consumer doesn't seem to know what good gameplay is).

Not saying all pretty games out there these days are bad. I'm just saying there's a lot of unfulfilled potential out there.

 

I miss my Commodore 64. That was right around when the video game industry caused the rift between Computers and Consoles. I still have my NES, Sega Genesis, SNES, Sega CD, Gameboy (original), Playstation, N64, and now a Wii, but my dad donated that Commodore 64 to the school some 20 years ago.

Of course after Quake and +Mlook, I never really got into consoles again, and even bought and sold a 360.

Nothing compares to a GOOD mouse (for me). Logitech MouseMAN FTMFW!!

 

aw the good ole days

 

What, are you 15?

 

Games I wish I had now:

-Thexder
-Arkanoid
-Liero

Those were awesome.

 

I don't remember if I had a Tandy. I was too young. I think we did though because I remember playing on a Tandy. I just don't remember if it was mine.. I think we had an Atari after the Commodore, then some variation of a x86. Mostly AMD, with a few Intels here and there. Never personally had a "Cyrix 686," (now owned by VIA) but a roommate had one. It's funny how Turbo buttons are making a comeback. Used to be every x86 had a Turbo button.

 

Gorillas ftw

 

My 1st hard drive was 40 Megabytes....

Seemed huge back then.

Didn't get to the Gigabyte stage for many years. Gigabyte was almost a theoretical term, LOL

 

Yeah - LOL. My Amiga hard drive was 80MB and cost $200!!! Whoa! But I could boot the OS from there and store dozens of programs. I also was able to upgarde from 512KB to 2MB RAM! Looks like things have increased a thousandfold for storage over the last 20 years, and costs are significantly less per MB (or GB)

 

Of course. I was a kid, but we had hard drives that were KB's not GB's.

It was certainly a 386 or 486 I believe before we had the 1.6gb. I believe that was back when computers started to get popular.

 

Probably the best upgrade I can remember is my first sound card / speakers. Computing was never the same again. No more "beep boop beep boop boop"

 

Oregon Trail, Odell Lake and Cross Country USA (along with various other MECC titles) were pretty popular ways to kill time on Apple IIe's and IIgs' back in Elementary School

Gotta love the nostalgia.

 

Yeah... my first Ad Lib card changed gaming for me completely. I'd also put in the same category my first "serious" video card, a Diamond Stealth 64, and my first 3D card, a Diamond Monster 3D.

 

Does anyone remember Wizard of War on the Commodore64? Me n my brothers spent hours and hours trying to finish the game. It had countless levels and was sort of like a pacman-type game. I still remember us finally finishing the game and the feeling of actual achieving something it gave LOL...indeed, hard to find such fulfilling games nowadays....yeah we're old farts

 

I did a quick searc, check this out

http://www.classic-retro-games.com/
all free to download You do need 32bit though

 

I loved oregon trail on my Apple II G. Another game I played all the time was Qbert. That game with the weird alien on the pyramids.

 

Yep I play old classics from time to time. Powemonger, Sword of Aragon (Still my favourite turnbased wargame)

 

?? KB's??

Could have sworn the first/smallest hard drive (that fit in PCs) was the 5MB ST-506.

What brand of hard drive was it?

LOL, Computer's were popular long before 386 + 486s.....