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Brendy boy
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Kezzla
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noah's ark....

it was a terrible doom clone where you are noah on the ark and you have to feed your animals till they go to sleep.

also, T.I.M was amazingly innovative for its time and hasn't been mentioned

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The Zombie Killer
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Outlaws! How could I have forgotten that! That game was awesome!

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Design Runner
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I grew up with the Crash Bandicoot series, and Lego Island.

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The Zombie Killer
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Haha, I remember Lego Island, I think I still have the disc and I still play Crash Bandicoot :p

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Kezzla
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my crash Bandicoot disc got damaged. It crashed on the last level. Never actually clocked it. same thing happened with resident evil nemesis. and tony hawk....

and damn, so many of my play station game discs died. I love the digital age. everything is recoverable. no just "oh well, better luck next game."

what about killer instinct, it wasn't as good as mortal kombat but was still pretty decent.

lawn mower man for SNES was awesome too, loved that game.

there was a NES game called Gryzor trainer that me and my friend loved and played to death. It was a side scroller shoot em up.

Has anyone else ever played In the Hunt?
Old scool super fun submarine sidescroller for PS1. It was as japanese as they come.

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I am still obsessed with Harvest Moon... Classic and PSOne...

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Quik
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Quote: "I love the digital age. everything is recoverable. no just "oh well, better luck next game.""


Everything was recoverable beforehand too - but it was illegal...


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Quote: "I am still obsessed with Harvest Moon... Classic and PSOne..."


I got really into the GameCube version (Wonderful Life) - it's worth owning a GameCube for - that game has so much depth it's unreal, and the characters are great. I especially liked the little hobo dude.

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Gamecube for me would be Mario Party. I have them all. I must have spent £350 on them.

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I have the GameCube Harvest Moon and can't figure it out! My little dude kept getting hungry and I never had things to feed him. He kept complaining all day!

My favorite games growing up we're the classic Sierra and LucasArts adventure games. Me personal bests are Space Quest and Day of the Tentacle, all of which I still play to this day!


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 4th Jul 2012 18:41 Edited at: 4th Jul 2012 18:49
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Gabriel Knight was another great Sierra adventure game, though I didn't actually play a lot of it. But yes, I agree, they were some pretty awesome titles. I did love Day of the Tentacle as well, I remember you having the avatar for quite a long time here. Sadly, I can't remember what I did with all those floppy disks.

I've always wanted to make one and I did start one a few years back in DBP (Shadow Behind the Leaves), but as always with my projects, it was never finished. Also tried a Monkey Island like one waaaaaay back when I was a wee kid playing with The Games Factory.

There was one I remember that was made in Multimedia Fusion, it wasn't half bad, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called, pretty sure it had a reference to alcohol. It was done in the style of MI3.

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Treasure of Drunk Island

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Baulders Gate
Mirror's Edge
SSX: Tricky
Rainbow Six
"Code of Honor" (FPS series by city interactive- actually pretty fun, but I don't have the game, have only played at a friend's house.)

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I almost forgot Populous. that was a fun game back in the days.
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Quote: "I almost forgot Populous. that was a fun game back in the days."


Oh yes, that was a great game. I used to play Populous: The Beginning on our old Playstation and it's on GoG, so I might be tempted to buy it again. One of the best God-sims I've ever played. I have been playing Age of Empires recently and arguably, they're nothing in comparison, at least IMO. Though AoE is still pretty awesome.

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/populous_the_beginning

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Always liked Actraiser, combo god-sim + side scroller action.

The Ultima series, really liked Serpent Isle and the first Underworld

Lufia, the original Breath of Fire, Shining Force

classic MMOs: Asheron's Call 1, Dark Age of Camelot.

I know: rpg, rpg, rpg

how about Pilotwings, Captain Skyhawk, Rad Racer, Top Gear 3000, Double Dragon, Nibbles

Mario Paint? complete with a mouse for the snes! and a wonky music section

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Boogerman (Sega) (Apparently released on SNES too??)
I still remember the first time I played it as a kid. It was shocking in its own way but once you got past the lavatorial nature of the game and into the second area, you realised it was quite a challenging little game, especially the mountain area.

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Arcticfox on the C64 was the game that I spent the most time on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcticfox

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Pincho Paxton
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Just remembered Uridium on the C64. The reason it was impressive was that it created colours impossible on the C64. I watched it with these bright golds, and luminescent reds, and thought.. "How did he do that?" Well, the programmer quickly flashed colours between each other. Unfortunately, you can't capture it in a screenshot.

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MrValentine
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Quote: "Just remembered Uridium on the C64. The reason it was impressive was that it created colours impossible on the C64. I watched it with these bright golds, and luminescent reds, and thought.. "How did he do that?" Well, the programmer quickly flashed colours between each other. Unfortunately, you can't capture it in a screenshot."


sounds like someone should try this in AppGameKit ^^ for the fun of it

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I guess it isn't 'forgotten', as it's now on gog, but you must all play theme hospital


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Quote: "I guess it isn't 'forgotten', as it's now on gog, but you must all play theme hospital "


now theres a game I have not played in a while, man in a single sentence you brought major nostalgia back to me... theme park was the one I played more but I really liked the Theme Hospital version...

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Pincho Paxton
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The original Rollercoaster Tycoon was my favourite.

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Posted: 11th Jul 2012 23:08
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Quote: "but you must all play theme hospital"


Loved playing that, I'm gonna have to get it again. I used to love the original Theme Park too, but not a big fan of the ones that came to follow.

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DeadTomGC
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Another good one is cf3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeKqqGXUQuk.

Shame they never made a 4. I just put this up because I found it and started playing it again.


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Theme Hospital shows how good Bullfrog were at making games. That game should have been dull as dishwater.

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And it was co-founded by Peter Molyneux. Populous has already been mentioned, but that was another great game of theirs. In fact they had quite a few decent games. Though according to Wiki, Molyneux left just before Theme Hospital.

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Cave Story (PC Version)
Really worth a play if you haven't played it. Didn't know this till recently but Pixel (the author) made a bunch of other smaller games too!

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Pincho Paxton
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Quote: "Theme Hospital shows how good Bullfrog were at making games. That game should have been dull as dishwater."


The company I worked for merged with Bullfrog. I just looked them up to see how they are getting on. Vancouver Film School's seems to be where some ended up teaching. And another guy works on Pop Videos (Kylie Minogue for one), and mobile games.

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Quote: "The company I worked for merged with Bullfrog."


NICE! what did you work on?

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Quote: "NICE! what did you work on?"


I worked on R-Type2, Dragon Breed, Robozone, Predator 2, The Simpsons - Bart vs. The Space Mutants (Didn't do much, just some bits)..., and Armalyte.

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Robozone rings a bell...

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Quote: "Robozone rings a bell..."


Robozone was going to be a puppet animation like Thunderbirds, but never got the sponsorship, so ended up as a game with no movie. I watched the first movie example though, and it was good. That was the best thing about working on movie conversions, you get to see them before they are released.

The most famous game in the list is R-type2. I suppose that Predator 2 is well known as well, but just as a movie.

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Quote: "The most famous game in the list is R-type2."


Never heard of it

But yeah I am often involved with first screenings on some films too, and I have made a few productions myself the process is quite exciting sometimes... if not all the time

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Pincho Paxton
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How can you not hear about R-type2?...

http://gamesdbase.com/game/commodore-amiga/r-type-ii.aspx

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Quote: "How can you not hear about R-type2?..."


Heck I dont know? Quite simple I guess - nobody told me about it



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I've heard of R-Type. However the only game I've played out of that list was Bart vs The Space Mutants. Arguably one of the better Simpson games out there. A classic.

Still, that's a pretty resume.

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You should download MAME if you missed the early games. Get Rtype2, and Dragon Breed. It's not exactly piracy anymore being as the cabinets are no longer in production.

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@ Thraxas I love that game too.

anyways on the pc i would say Baulder's Gate was my first exposure to RPG and Hexen was my first experience on FPS afterwards it was Duke Nuken 3D. Strategy was Populous.
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The first game that comes to mind is is Jedi Knight Dark forces 2 The first truly epic game i have played.




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I feel your pain. It's like when my niece said she had never heard of Aliens I'm feeling very old. End it now cruel world!

Heh, then again I named a stray cat Horace the other day and gave it some food as it was starving. My wife totally got the link. Love her! Then again her family used to love playing Mikro-Gen (Pyjamarama?) games on the Speccy years ago as the company used to be next to Woolworths in her home town. Ah, lovely C90 tinted Speccy days...

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There was a magazine out just a few years ago, and it had the top 100 games of all time in it, and Rtype2 was about No 68. That was pretty good. I only worked on the Amiga version, but I think that it was a list of home games, so that would be the Amiga version.

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Was that EDGE magazine?

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Original XCom games and Ultima Underworld!!!

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There is a new XCOM, what's the difference between all of them? always been confused about that game series...

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The original one (Enemy Unknown) and Terror from the Deep were the best. What made them cool was the completely destructible map and also the atmosphere.

There was nothing quite as cool as moving a soldier around a corner to see an enemy. You'd crack off a load of shots but not manage to take him down and all your time units were taken up. He was definitely toast on the alien's turn. That is until you used the rest of the squad to open fire, even though they have no line of fire. Lobbing grenade over roves, blasting holes through walls, often exposing another alien hidden away, then taking him down.

New games came out and lost the unit progression, completely did away with the destructible terrain and dumbing down the base building and top level strategy. I'm not sure what the new one is like, but from a quick look at the videos it seems to be more about the presentation and less about the core mechanics that made the original one mega.

Even by today's standard I think you could play the original and really enjoy it if you like your strategy games.

Edit: Oh, also the originals had completely randomized maps so no battle was the same. Apparently not so in the new one.

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thanks for the insight! Me thinks GOG may have the originals ^^ might check them later, got a dinner meet up shortly...

I like the idea of time units, I think it could always be reintroduced, I recall another game that pulled off this technique properly, I like how you could... oh hang on, I think I may have played them or one of them, maybe a demo... will check GOG anyway unless someone beats me to it ^^

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Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on the SNES



Epic game.

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The Venetian galleas was one sexy ship

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