Recommended Abandoned Games

[tonic]

Thanks to this forum I've discovered abandoned games and what a free source for older games. Have you played any you can recommend to someone obviously raised on Civ?

Edit: Listing of recommendations to date:

Colonization (2+)
MOO 1 and 2
AH's Advanced Civilization
Transport Tycoon Delux,
Noble Armada demo
master of magic,
capitalism plus,
merchant prince
Master of Magic (2)
SkyRoads
buck rogers
Universe
Superheroes of Hoboken
Star Control 2
Seven Cities of Gold
[This message has been edited by tonic (edited November 08, 2000).]

[Pythagoras]

If you havent played Colonization, MOO 1 and 2, Civ 1, get your hands on those. OTherwise, I really enjoy Castles, and all the sequels.

[tonic]

Thanks, Pythagoras. I've played Civ1, have come across Colonization (another Sid Meier game I believe) but not the MOOs or Castles.

[Narck]

quote: Originally posted by tonic on 10-31-2000 09:16 PM Thanks, Pythagoras. I've played Civ1, have come across Colonization (another Sid Meier game I believe)

Brilliant game, simply brilliant

quote: but not the MOOs or Castles.

They're good too, but they don't even come close to colonization, which is right up there with civilization as far as I'm concerned

[tonic]

Strong recommendations, indeed Narck. Will definitely download Colonization now.

[Makeo]

where can you get these game?

[tonic]

Here: http://www.abandongames.com/Games/a.shtml

and links from there as well, all free for downloading.

[Garth Vader]

How do you get Moo1 running under W98? I tried but it uses funky memory and I didn't want to use a boot disk like I used to have to (I din't even know if a boot disk would work anyway).

[ravagon]

GV, are you running a lot of other apps at the same time? I used to have problems running Moo1 under Win95 but since I've begun using Win98 I've been able to run it normally, even using sound, without having to reboot in dos.

Narck, I thought you disliked colonization?

quote: quote: Why don't we have a Colonization forum? Narck Ugh!

[This message has been edited by ravagon as he cleverly screwed up his first attempt to use the quote feature (sigh) (edited November 01, 2000).]
[And its still screwed up! Why do I bother? (edited November 01, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by ravagon (edited November 01, 2000).]

[Urban Ranger]

I would say AH's Advanced Civilization is very good. DOS based.

[Garth Vader]

No, as far as I remember I wasn't running any other apps. It just said I didn't have any expanded/extended/whatever kind of memory. When I checked the dos file running properties I couldn't find that kind of memory there to allocate more of.

[Narck]

Ravagon,

No, I don't, I think it's a good game. I believe that quote referred to not wanting to have a forum for it on the boards (because it is, after all, an old game)

[Nicolas]

The abandonware games which have a permanent place on my HD right now include Transport Tycoon Delux, master of magic, capitalism plus, and merchant prince. they are all excellent games which I highly recommend. Something else you might want to look into if you need something to play is the Noble Armada demo, which is basically the beta of the full game.

[tonic]

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

BTW Narck's thread in OT on the threat to Abandonware
http://apolyton.net/forums/Forum23/HTML/017266.html?7

may be of interest if you haven't already come across it.
----
Edit: formatting
[This message has been edited by tonic (edited November 04, 2000).]

[Shadowstrike]

Well, I found Master of Magic to be a very fun strategy game, even if the graphics are a bit primitive...