Xorak on 8/8/2014 at 09:38
Quote Posted by demagogue
If my recent cellphone use is anything to go by, my current favorite games are a toss up between chess, Adventure, and two old C64 games called Shogun and Rags to Riches.
I love Rags to Riches. I can't believe people are still playing it. About a year ago while playing it I looped my money back around to zero I played it for so long. It really is just a great little game. Though when playing it as a kid in the mid-eighties I had no clue at all what to do. :laff: Hell, I just recently beat Impossible Mission for the first time. My favorite C64 game still has to be Seven Cities of Gold. For me, there's just no way to every recapture the feel of that game again: being lost in the New World with no ability to save scum your way to safety, trudging across the landscape in desperation to find your ship before you die of hunger. Then on your last slivers of food, you finally locate the place where you set anchor only to find that your crew set sail with it, stranding you in America with $1000s of gold, as helpful to you now as dirt.
In general though, my favorite games (other than Thief) would be the Commandos games (and Legend of Sherwood, Desperados, etc.) X-Wing/Tie-Fighter, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Civilization 2, Colonization, Pharoah/Zeus, Sid Meier's Pirates, even Deadly Rooms of Death and Monaco. Adventure games too, but unfortunately I can only play Grim Fandango or Monkey Island once every five years, because I have to wait to forget most of them again. Been getting pretty heavy into board games in the last year or so. It's getting hard for newer video games to compete with the golden age of board gaming.
henke on 8/8/2014 at 11:25
Quote Posted by Xorak
Hell, I just recently beat Impossible Mission for the first time.
Isn't there some password that needs to be entered at the end? Or a number sequence or something? I loved Impossible Mission on the C64 but could never beat it. And I was weirded out when I discovered that there was a show called
Mission Impossible on the TV. Where were the elevators and robots? And why was the name backwards? Even as a 10 year old Finnish kid I knew that Impossible Mission made a lot more gramatical sense than Mission Impossible. Clearly these folks who didn't even know proper english was just trying to capitalize on the fame of the videogame with their dumb show about Uzi tooting mullet guys! :p
PigLick on 8/8/2014 at 11:39
STAY AWHILE
STAY.........FOREVER!!!!!!
Shadowcat on 8/8/2014 at 12:04
...and if, as Mr Phelps leafs through the photographs of his team, you see a face you don't recognise... well, that's as promising a sign for their future prospects as wearing red when you beam down to the alien planet.
Jason Moyer on 8/8/2014 at 14:15
There's apparently a Wii remake of Impossible Mission (it's at the local Wallyworld), although for some reason I've never bothered to check it out. I played it when it was new on the Apple ][, and thought it was kind of dull for some reason (give me a break, I was 8 or something).
Xorak on 8/8/2014 at 21:45
Quote Posted by henke
Isn't there some password that needs to be entered at the end? Or a number sequence or something?
Yep. You have to find variously shaped pieces of key cards scattered throughout the furniture, and then once you have them all, you lay the oddly shaped pieces on top of each other and try and rebuild the key cards out of them. There's also that musical computer screen room which seems vitally important, but it only gives you extra robot control codes and elevator resets.
