BeeR Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 In honor of Halloween (OK actually boredom, TV sucks) decided to dust DOOM off and mess w/it a little for first time in many years. It's more playable than I expected, but I always was a lot more impressed by good design and "playability" than fancy graphics or other bells and whistles. Wish there was a site you could connect and play w/people, I remember teaming up w/a friend of mine vs the baddies, was a great (easy) thing to do on a rainy winter night when nothing was going on. OK maybe I should have titled this thread "how bored can you get" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 In my house in college we had a phone line upstairs and a phone line downstairs. We used to dial from one computer to another to play head-to-head Doom II and Descent. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazerom Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Did you guys ever play Civilization? I think that was an amazing game and actually had some educational merit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil_gop_liars Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I'm enjoying a game of Oregon trail next I'll play some choplifter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Loaded Dos Box onto my new computer a few months ago and played Castle Wolfenstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpholmes Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 X-Wing vs Tie Fighter Warcraft 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Castle Wolfenstein rocked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffraff Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 (edited) They have Wolfenstein 3D for the cell phone. How awesome is that? Edited October 28, 2009 by Riffraff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czarina Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 OMG, I loved Wolfenstein 3D. To this day,whenever we're watching some sort of action adventure movie or tv show, we end up saying something like, "He needs to kill that guy and upgrade to the bigger gun." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I very much liked Duke Nukem. Nothing to fancy but lots of good blowing up of stuff and strippers that you could throw money at and have Duke tell them to "shake it baby". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Did you guys ever play Civilization? I think that was an amazing game and actually had some educational merit. Civ is coming to facebook for free. :irishwink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I very much liked Duke Nukem. Nothing to fancy but lots of good blowing up of stuff and strippers that you could throw money at and have Duke tell them to "shake it baby". Oh yeah. I loved the chuckle when you set off the pipe bombs; "heh heh heh". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Civ is coming to facebook for free. :irishwink: Oh dear god, please say this isn't true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Oh dear god, please say this isn't true. Yes Virginia... http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/civnetwork?ref=ts Lots of Civ enthusiasts on the warpath over it. They would prefer a new game, versus a port to facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 In before Duchess starts talking about old Sierra games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Anybody play Delta Force 2? Loved that game. I'd still play it if the server were still up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Yes Virginia... http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/civnetwork?ref=ts Lots of Civ enthusiasts on the warpath over it. They would prefer a new game, versus a port to facebook. Am now a fan of Civ Network. Help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 Castle Wolfenstein rocked. lol - that came out right about when I got laid off - was also a cold, rainy winter, so that and job hunting took up most of my time for awhile. Was a quantum leap in gaming w/that first person perspective. Plus the beauty of it was it was so easy: point n shoot. None of this needing a manual and learning 50 diff keys and remembering what they did etc. Gotta admit, miss the days when PC gaming was still fairly new and growing by leaps and bounds - still had that "gee whiz" factor. Now it's all more or less a yawn to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I'm pimpin' Leisure Suit Larry right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Like Soup Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I love the original Age of Empires (I'm sure I'd beat TimC in that too ) as well as Duke Nukem..."Damn, I'm looking gooood!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I love the original Age of Empires (I'm sure I'd beat TimC in that too ) as well as Duke Nukem..."Damn, I'm looking gooood!" +1 and +1 for Wolfenstein too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I love the original Age of Empires (I'm sure I'd beat TimC in that too ) as well as Duke Nukem..."Damn, I'm looking gooood!" Don't make me post the recorded game of The Beatdown. I love Age of Empires...my favorite by far. I could've gone pro! We played the helloutta that game. [OT] Heck, I still have the original Nintendo with a ton of games...still works. I was talking with a friend about it the other week and was saying I wonder if I ever found all the secret hidden stuff in those games. There was no innernets back then and I'll bet those little Japs had stuff hidden all over. Of course, I'd still put myself up against anyone on the planet in Defender. Ooooh yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Anybody remember the old text-based games like Jacaranda Jim? Synopsis: Following an attack on his cargo-ship by an army of homicidal beechwood armchairs Jacaranda Jim is forced to crashland on the strange world of Ibberspleen IV. Rescued from the burning wreckage by the mysteriously smug Alan the Gribbley, Jim has to do battle with manic-depressive deckchair attendants, the Ibberspleen Post Office and a very sinister network of dank caves. * What is the secret of the floating sphere? * Why has Alan been hypnotised? * What would you do with a cucumber, a gin-spitting pirate and a piece of gristle? No, don't answer that. All this, and more, is revealed in Jacaranda Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 You can still play TradeWars. That was a BIG timewaster of mine when the first BBS's came online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeductiveNun Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Anyone ever play Escape from Castle Wolfenstein before the 3D first person shooter version came out? I killed countless hours on that game on the Apple 2E way back in the day. Telengard was another fave. A text-based dungeon crawl. So many hours/days/months lost playing those games. :sigh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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