Top 5 favorite games from your childhood.

[deathparade]

1. Half-Life 1 (always) And Team Fortress Classic
2. Drakan: The Order of The Flame
3. Red Faction (PS 2)
4. Freddie Fish
5. Indiana Jones And The Infernal Machine

Most of these games released around 1999 but i came into PCs quite late

[polluxval]

[TheoryoftheDead]

Just 5? Uh...my top list would probably look something like this:(The positions are pretty much interchangeable, as most of these games are equally good in my opinion. Right now they are just lined up in the amount of time I spent on them)

1, Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of mana 2)

2, Tales of Phantasia

3, Earthworm Jim

4, Werewolf - The last warrior

5, Final Fantasy 6

 

 

[Irishredneck]

Got room for the old dude?

 

1. Cavern of Larn

2. Wing Commander

3. Kings Quest (1st one)

4. Leisure Suit Larry (1st one)

5. Archon

 

Yeah.. I'm THAT friggin' old.

[gregathit]

Got room for the old dude?

 

Yeah.. I'm THAT friggin' old.

 

 

Well, you should be familiar with these then:

1. Lode Runner - Holy hell I played the crap out of this.

2.

- lots of fun.

3.

- again, tons of time spent playing this.

4.

- I don't know how many hours I wasted playing this!!

5.

- this was the first game that had blood and allowed dismemberment that I remember.  My brother and I played this all the time.

6.

- I was freaking unbeatable at sword fighting!

7.

- don't look kiddies, this is the ORIGINAL!

8.

- once again, don't look 3d young ones!

9. Bolo - no not the multi-player game - this is the original!

10. Zork - who can forget this classic????

 

You aren't the only old person here!

 

Edit:  Just found another classic I had completely forgotten about:

- Another game I wasted far too much time playing!

And yet another:

[Xariama]

5. Ultima III. First real computer game I got into.

4. Final Fantasy III. The first real epic game for a console for me.

3. Gauntlet. The original, still holds a spot to me.

2. MechWarrior 2. If only someone could get a version of it to run on a modern machine.

1. Tempest. Can't count the number of quarters that thing ate.

[Irishredneck]

Well played gregathit! I never thought to look on Youtube for those.

 

Here's Cavern of Larn, it was called Spear of Destiny for the Atari:

[spoiler=Larn]

 

 

And Wing Commander. I remember how amazed I was at these awesome graphics. I had to go buy 2 more memory sticks for the 8088 in order to play it.. bringing my total up to 1 mb!

[spoiler=Wing Commander]

 

[gregathit]

Good stuff Irishredneck! 

 

To be honest I couldn't remember the actual game names of most of that list.  Lode Runner was the only game that I remembered the title to, so I went google searching for it.  I stumbled on the wiki page and latter stumbled on some dude's youtube page that had most if not all of the game names and vids.  I am not sure exactly how many hours I spent watching them last night before came back and linked to them.   

 

It was a pretty neat trip down memory lane!

 

I can't remember what game it was but I remember it being like 10 floppy disks, which at the time was unheard of (might have been lode runner or something similar). 

 

Much latter came the good old Sim Savers....remember those?  I also remember that I bought some extra memory for my IBM's video card, which looked like small rectangle processor chips (without the spikes).  I had to do both to get enough memory (video and system both) to play the first command and conquer game.

[polluxval]

 

Got room for the old dude?

 

Yeah.. I'm THAT friggin' old.

 

 

Well, you should be familiar with these then:

1. Lode Runner - Holy hell I played the crap out of this.

2.

- lots of fun.

3.

- again, tons of time spent playing this.

4.

- I don't know how many hours I wasted playing this!!

5.

- this was the first game that had blood and allowed dismemberment that I remember.  My brother and I played this all the time.

6.

- I was freaking unbeatable at sword fighting!

7.

- don't look kiddies, this is the ORIGINAL!

8.

- once again, don't look 3d young ones!

9. Bolo - no not the multi-player game - this is the original!

10. Zork - who can forget this classic????

 

You aren't the only old person here!

 

Edit:  Just found another classic I had completely forgotten about:

- Another game I wasted far too much time playing!

And yet another:

 

I'm not that old and I played most of those games. I played Castle Wolfestein on an ancient laptop. I dare to say one of the first Apple laptops in the market.

or maybe becaue I live in the 3rd world and by my age those were the games of the moment? who cares, old games ftw.

[Irishredneck]

And how many of the younger generation can say, "I remember buying 512k memory sticks for $300." or "My first hard drive was a whopping 1mb. It was as big as a Buick."

[gregathit]

And how many of the younger generation can say, "I remember buying 512k memory sticks for $300." or "My first hard drive was a whopping 1mb. It was as big as a Buick."

 

 

How could I possibly forget!

 

 

 

 

Yes, yes, I know good ole Bill didn't actually say that, but it still is funny as hell.

 

Another painful reminder of the "good ole days":

 

 

[polluxval]

5 mb hard drive on 1956.

 

 

 

and 1 gb 20 years ago: