Reminiscing of the days gaming under DOS, Win9x and long dead genres... - by EvaUnit02
nicked on 27/6/2009 at 06:20
Good phrase! :thumb: I imagine it to mean illogically difficult; i.e. puzzles that are very hard but also don't make much sense.
swaaye on 27/6/2009 at 19:52
I had a blast playing Phantasmagoria with some friends a few years back. The game's pure cheese but that works for me :)
The first game I remember playing on PC (Tandy 286) was Arctic Fox from Dynamix. Then I got Space Quest III and Stellar 7 (Arctic Fox's sequel). That was basically the late '80s. Played tons of games from then onward. The whole gaming thing was so fascinating to me that I could captivate myself for hours with a Sierra catalog. I still have tons of issues of Computer Gaming World (that mag kicked ass in the late '80s/early '90s).
Others I played a bunch in the early '90s were Lightspeed, X-Wing, Wing Commander, Master of Orion, X-Com.... Hard to remember more now...
I was never huge into adventure games. Mostly into simulations, action and strategy. My sister who is 2 yrs younger was the into adventure, RPG and strategy. She played the Sierra and LucasArts adventures. Also lots of console RPGs.
I like to mess around with older hardware as much as modern hardware so I've put together a rather large collection of things. It's fun to load up the real thing to play the games on. DosBox is of course the easiest way to go however.
Enchantermon on 28/6/2009 at 01:20
Quote Posted by ZymeAddict
Never played the sequel though; I should probably check it out.
Check 'em all out. There are (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine) several of them.
Quote Posted by icemann
Whilst there is certainly a few puzzles in it that are very hard to do without a walkthrough (damn Bishop puzzle), the majority are do-able given enough effort.
Agreed. This is another of those games that I first tried when I was a little younger and got frustrated much easier. Now, I should be able to put more thought into them.
Quote Posted by Dresden
Speaking of 7th Guest type games, did anyone else think Myst sucked?
Are you serious? Myst is
amazing. The puzzles weren't really that hard as long as you pay attention to detail. It's like a first person adventure game. I loved it and all of its sequels.
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The setting was bland . . .
Huh? Myst had the most stunning scenery of its time. The photorealism, the sounds, the music...Myst is simply gorgeous.
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The whole gaming thing was so fascinating to me that I could captivate myself for hours with a Sierra catalog.
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one. I would sit and read through the Sierra catalog from King's Quest VI and an old Atari catalog just for fun.
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It's fun to load up the real thing to play the games on.
Agreed. Plus, sometimes DosBox presents some little annoyances that the old hardware won't have, like pops or small breaks in music and sound.
june gloom on 28/6/2009 at 02:01
OH FUCK YES.
june gloom on 28/6/2009 at 05:43
goddammit now i have to go find my disc
swaaye on 28/6/2009 at 16:39
the salesman who sold my fam our 486 in late '92 gave me a shareware floppy w/ wolf3d, jill of the jungle, and scorched earth. i also remember getting lemmings and indy500 with my SBPro2 card. :)
It sure was neat in those days, running into actual new genres and stuff!
I am not a big Jazz fan, but my little bro loved it. He is 9 years younger than I and was about 6 when I set that game up for him. I remember the crazy Christmas edition they made too. It is too bad that Epic abandoned simpler games like that.
EvaUnit02 on 28/6/2009 at 17:15
Quote Posted by swaaye
I remember the crazy Christmas edition they made too. It is too bad that Epic abandoned simpler games like that.
I'd hate to imagine an interpretation of Jazz by the modern incarnation of Cliff Bleszinski.
In the grim dark future, there is only TEN SHITLOADS of war.Dresden on 29/6/2009 at 02:37
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
I'd hate to imagine an interpretation of Jazz by the modern incarnation of Cliff Bleszinski.
In the grim dark future, there is only TEN SHITLOADS of war.Rusty metal textures everywhere.
