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    What's the oldest game you still play?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by lidowxx, Nov 24, 2010.

  1. Maxiiboii

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    forgot to add bomberman 3 4 & 5 for the snes ( emulated though :( )
     
  2. Necromas

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    The marathon games (though I didn't first play them until they were already old).
     
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    Dungeon keeper and theme hospital are classics. Damn we lost a creative company when Bullfrog collapsed. Also civ2 and Colonization are awesome with great replay value even now.
     
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    battlefield 2 is the oldest game i still play, it doesnt have the best graphics but it's still fun.
     
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    Lords of the realm and commander keen and C&C original ^^..also does tetris count lol

    EDIT i do play theme hosital...awesome game...i honestly play games from early to late 90s....i barely play modern games....stuck in the past o_O
     
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    I always preferred the TIE/A Avenger to the Defender. Much more agile and harder to hit.

    If emulated games count, then Eamon and EOS on Applewin (Apple II emulator). I also occasionally go back to replay the SNES Front Mission (original), Fire Emblem, FEDA, and UN Squadron. If purely computer games, then XCom - UFO Defense is probably the oldest one I've played recently. I'd probably still play Steel Panthers (1!), Harpoon, and the original JA (maybe JA: DG too) if I thought I could get them to install (and I'm on XP, let alone 7...).
     
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    i liked the millennium falcon ^^ i loved the tie fighter games....x-wing alliance was the best!
     
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    The oldest game I play regularly is Unreal Tournament, from 1999. I play a few older games, but not quite as often, e.g. Star Wars: Dark Forces, and the original Quake. And if I could find my floppies, I'd play one of my old favorite flight sims, F-15 Strike Eagle III by Microprose.
     
  9. IWantMyMTV

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    Steel Panthers and Steel Panthers 2 run quite nicely under DosBox...even the movies from the CD version work well...I still had my original Steel Panthers CD-ROM from the mid-90's, but I found the compilation box (I, II and III) on eBay and picked it up to install II...classic, classic war games...I fiddle around with them occasionally...

    Jagged Alliance and Deadly Games also run well under DosBox...and you can purchase them from gog.com for a great price...the downloads from gog.com include a DosBox installation if you've never messed with DosBox before...painless...I found Deadly Games to be too difficult and never finished it...I have Deadly Games installed on my HDD just because I have bad OCD...
     
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    Sim City 2000. Sometimes keeping it simple is the best -- the Sim City franchise is a good example.
     
  11. IWantMyMTV

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    Ditto...I used to know all the function keys for shifting power around better than I knew my wife's name (same goes for Mechwarrior 2), but the memory has faded in favor of WASD and LMB along with 1-9...I have become a lazy gamer...

    I originally used a Gravis Gamepad that plugged into the gameport on the soundcard (not analog, but I couldn't afford an analog joystick)...it was eventually replaced by my all-time-favorite joystick (curse you Microsoft...I hate you but I love you): Sidewinder 3D Pro. Throttle assigned to the slider, roll assigned to the twist, hat did the views, and the four buttons on the base shifted power allocation...
     

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