Halx

This weekend, I decided to install Diablo 2 and experience the mind-numbing simplicity once more. I enjoyed playing as the Necromancer and having an army of skeletons do all my work for me while I just focused on looting.

Anyone else get nostalgic with some old game recently?

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Redlemon

Funny, I just read about Parchment earlier today - a web-based Z-code interpreter for interactive fiction. I think that's older-school than yours.

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hannukah harry

i'd kill to play some Trade Wars, BBS-style.

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xepherys

I actually did the Diablo 2 thing not long ago myself. It was fun, but only for a few days. I find that nostalgic gaming is sometimes best left nostalgic.

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Jinn

I went back to play EverQuest (the original) this weekend. They gave everyone with an inactive account free play until the end of July. It was a bit nostalgic and fun, but I hadn't played since 2002. I started in 1999, and wow, is it a different game.

I should've left it nostalgic, too, because now all I can think about is "why did i ever play this game?"

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Siege

Once in a while i'll play old SNES rpgs, man did those games kick ass...

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Baraka_Guru

As soon as I get a proper wireless router, I'm going to fire up the Wii's Virtual Console. Now's my chance to play that TurboGrafx and Neo-Geo I never had!

Other than that, my most-played game right now is an online module of Neverwinter Nights. Six years is old-school enough in gaming, right?

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Cynthetiq

I recently played Warcraft III and Frozen Throne... fun game. I never finished it the first go round... and I didn't finish it this round either.

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tooth

Went to a local pawn shop last month and picked up a Gameboy Color, plus Pokemon Gold and Silver.

Not to mention, my original NES still gets semi-regular use at our house. The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. rule as far as my kids are concerned.

How's that for Old School?

Redjake

Played Starcraft all the way up through the human campaign. That game is hard as fucking hell, but once you are used to the graphics (they sucked at first, but then I got used to them), it's mind blowing at how good of a game they made back in 1997. The game is still mindnumblingly hard, to the point of me quitting after the human campaign.

I had never even touched the game until this point in time!

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stevie667

I tried to play soldier of fortune yesterday, but apparently it doesn't want to install on vista, and i feel bummed.

I wanted to blow of limbs, set people alite and explode them with microwave weaponry after emerging from the ceiling like ninjas ghost damnit!

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rlbond86

Technically it's still in development, but I play NetHack all the time. It's been around since 1987, and it's about as old-school as you get. I actually just won for the first time.

CinnamonGirl

I had an intense desire to play Baldur's Gate 2 and Warcraft 3... but I haven't played either of them recently (if I had the disks, I totally would.)

I got super-excited the other day when I thought I'd found my old King's Quest Collection... I was all set to play 4, 5, and 6. Alas...it wasn't the right cd.

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Apokx

Just happened to install this last night. I never bought ToB though, so its just Shadows of Amn.

m0rpheus

I've got a few.
I recently replayed through Starcraft's single player missions, and I will toss in Alpha Centauri all the time.
The other one is that I play Legend of the Red Dragon daily.

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milkyp

Counter Strike 1.6 every now and then is always a good time.

longbough

I'm certainly nostalgic for old school games.
I recently played Final Fantasy 7 and it was fun!
Now I'm looking to play arcade game classics from the 80s like Tempest, Star Castle, Gyrus, Zaxxon, Qix, Defender, Phoenix, Crazy Climber, Kangaroo, Berzerk ...
Anybody know of any sites where I can download ports of these games onto PC?

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Seanland

I played Simfarm! =) and Simcity 2000 ... out of my excitement for Spore =D

CyCo PL

I played through Ninja Gaiden 1 recently... one of the hardest games I've ever played. It wouldn't be nearly as hard if the game weren't broken and badguys didn't infinitely respawn if their spawn point was scrolled to the edge of the screen.

twistedmosaic

Alpha Centauri, Moonbase Commander, Total Annilation. Ah, good times.

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CinnamonGirl

I don't remember ToB being all that exciting. It DID let you stretch the game out a bit longer, though, of which I was a fan

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Destrox

I'm not bashing or anything. But its always fun to see one persons "Old School" to another.

I enjoy a re-living of Quake 2 every once in a while, and constantly keep UT installed.

Other than that I always love going back to playing a little Worms II here and there.

I could go back furhter, but that would require Emulation or owning consoles I no longer have.

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shakran

y'all don't know oldschool.


This:



Is old school.

I mean hell the main character's even dead!

Zodijackyl

I enjoy SNES games regularly when at school where we have one set up.
As far as Diablo 2, I never really stopped playing, the ladder was reset recently so online play is a good option.

Catdaddy33

I bought the id pack off Steam which had all the Doom and Quake games, and I must say even with the 1990s graphics Doom 1 & 2 still holds up. Now if I could only find the mods again..

shakran

is it bad that i still remember the cheat codes to Doom, what, 13 years later?

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Cynthetiq

I'd be calling you master OG if you knew the easter egg for Atari 2600 Adventure off the top of your head....

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merleniau

I've been dying to play The 7th Guest for ages now. I found the discs at home and Crompsin will hopefully be able to install them on his old old gaming laptop sometime this weekend.

(For perspective: the game came out in 1992. I was 7 years old at the time and obsessed with it for an unhealthy amount of time - the puzzles were VERY challenging for me at that age.)

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CinnamonGirl

oooooh, 7th Guest... I played the demo, but didn't have my own computer at the time... I wanted to basically move into my uncle's house until I played it through. I'd completely forgotten about that one.... *adds to list*

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