Best of the OLD dos games

[AustralianJeremy]

Syndicate was pretty cool. I wasted a lot of Year 12 playing that game. Same with Frontier Elite II.

Edit: er, yes, these are both VGA games. But so's Colonisation. (runs away)

[Juggler]

I also read at theunderdogs.org that they are preparing Pirates! 2 http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/S.../pirat2pg.htm.

[Shadowstrike]

Well, if you're interested in helping with a Colonization II projet, go here:

http://pub73.ezboard.com/fthecolonizationiiprojectfrm1

Yeah, I haven't been there in a while..... Sorry guys!

[CornMaster]

EGA Trek is one of my favorites.
VGA Miner is good too....but it's VGA

[Juggler]

EGA Trek brings back some good memories.
I was very skillful at that game but totally forgot about it.

[LionsEtc]

I dug deep down into my memory to try and remember the oldest game I ever played on a computer. That's hard! I can remember playing Hangman on my old 80/88 laptop (made by Tandy).

I also remember playing this came called "Crystal Caves" or something like that by Apogee. I wonder if I still have it. . .?

[Ribannah]

The oldest computer game I have played must have been Wumpus, shortly followed by Hamurabi = the predecessor of civ . These were not even on the PC. With the PC followed Castle, Mars-Esc (a real text-adventure gem), and of course the first real classic: Pacman!! Anyone ever played this to a finish?
The next generation brought Perfect General, Ishar, Dune and SimCity ....

[Shadowstrike]

Ahhh.... Crystal Caves... I loved that game... and I actually managed to beat it. It used up a whole lot of valuable time, but it was fun....

[LionsEtc]

And what was the character's name in Crystal Caves? Milo something or another. . .

Wow! The memories, their all coming back to me now.

[Urban Ranger]

There are actually two games named Omega. One's an ASCII-based Rogue-like RPG that runs on all sorts of systems. It's still floating around on the Net and is absolutely free. The other one is a tank combat game based on the legendary Corewars.

Originally posted by Ribannah
The oldest computer game I have played must have been Wumpus, shortly followed by Hamurabi = the predecessor of civ . These were not even on the PC.

You're old

[Juggler]

I played Crystal Caves a week ago but deleted it. I used to play it on my 386PC and I think it had 3 episodes.
Heck, I'll just download it once again.

[The Rusty Gamer]

How about Ascendancy? For a Dos game, the graphics were excellent, better than some Windows games, that's for sure. I think SVGA though, so is that out of the scope of this thread?

[Pythagoras]

Originally posted by Russell
How about Ascendancy? For a Dos game, the graphics were excellent, better than some Windows games, that's for sure. I think SVGA though, so is that out of the scope of this thread?

I remember Ascendancy, that was between MOO1and 2. I remember a friend had it, it was really innovative, but it was flawed with REALLY bad AI so I hear.

My favorite games

I remember being little and getting really excited about getting both SimCity (not 2k) and Civ, and how I never really understood either until I had played them for 3 years (I was like 10 or something).

Defender of The Crown - I had the NES version, prolly my first strategy game.

Colonization - I play that now, but I never had it for DOS, I have the Windows version, and yes a sequel would be awesome!

Wing Commander 1&2 - Nothing like playing a flight sim with the number pad!

but...
What bout the good ole AD&D RPGS!?!?

1. Champions of Krynn!
   
2. Pool of Radiance!
   
3. EOB 1,2, and 3!
   

It wasnt till recent that I could find a better AD&D game in Baldurs Gate etc...

oh yeah.. does anyone rememeber Castles? that was a fun RTS game based in the French Duchys.

I think thats all I recall now, bed time.

[Fiera]

Originally posted by Pythagoras
Wing Commander 1&2 - Nothing like playing a flight sim with the number pad!

Those were amazing! And they had the best plot I've ever seen in a computer game...

I also had an expansion, the Secret Operations 1&2, I think, and also bought Wing Commander Privateer, which had a very interesting plot too, but I never got to finish it. Could anyone tell me what happened in the end?

[Colonâ„¢]

"I remember Ascendancy, that was between MOO1and 2. I remember a friend had it, it was really innovative, but it was flawed with REALLY bad AI so I hear."

That's putting it mildly. I've never experienced the CTP2 AI but I can't imagine it would be worse than Ascendancy's.
It had other turn-offs, such as an overwhelming amount of micromanagement and an annoying limit of one starship for each planet system you controlled.

Shame though, because the remainder of the game was well designed IMO.

And to Russel, yes, Ascendancy is way beyond the scope of this thread.