Old School Games you used to love

[fen_boy]

fen boy:

Eidolon, Head Over Heels and Sentinel, yeah?

yep

 

[Melinda]

I liked X-wing and Tie Fighter.

 

[kyser_soze]

Incidentally...

I have a SID-player which I listen to C64 game tunes from. How do I convert to MP3?

Commodore goodness

 

[fen_boy]

I know it's a shit game, but when I first saw it when I was about 9 I thought it was the most awesome thing I'd ever seen.

 

[Sunray]

I liked X-wing and Tie Fighter.

Real Graphics, what else was there?

 

[fen_boy]

 

[Kanda]

I know it's a shit game, but when I first saw it when I was about 9 I thought it was the most awesome thing I'd ever seen.

I have this on DVD. A version you can play on your DVD player using the remote

 

[100% masahiko]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(arcade_game)

Another classic but shit game.

 

[fen_boy]

I have this on DVD. A version you can play on your DVD player using the remote

Yeah I've seen that before but avoided it as I think I prefer remembering it as being awesome!!!
Resident Evil 4 is the spiritual successor to these Laser Disc games. You know the live action bits where you have to do button sequences to avoid falling rocks and stuff.

 

[rubbershoes]

scramble

defender

chucky egg

donkey kong

that was my school days sorted

 

[kyser_soze]

I have this on DVD. A version you can play on your DVD player using the remote

...and it'll still be shit now.

 

[kyser_soze]

Talking of skool:

Fucking great game, with some really nice puzzle solving/collect and combine weapons...

 

[fen_boy]

Stupidly hard, the original arcade version is coming to Wii Virtual Console Arcade soon.

 

[Kanda]

...and it'll still be shit now.

It gets played every now and then, it's ok

 

[fen_boy]

 

[Melinda]

 

[internetstalker]

 

[Gromit]

Oh gawd. Hungry Horrace goes skiing. How could I have forgotten that one.

 

[The Groke]

Mercenary

Oh yes!

 

[mr steev]

Is that the right name...? Im not bouncing with recognition here...

Breakout?

Also Doom. Helped me no end with my fantasy school shoot-em-up scenarios.

Doom's not old school.... is it?

I remember getting all excited about my mate having 'invisable space invaders' on his Atari console. It was just like normal space invaders except you couldn't see the aliens unless you shot one and they would flash for a second and then disappear again... fantastic LOL

 

[kabbes]

Calling Doom "old school" is exactly what you get for allowing 16 bit to be considered old school. What's next? Far Cry?

Old school ended when we developed computers good enough to give semi-realistic representations of things in hundreds of colours on screen. It ended when we were able to start developing games of complexity, that required you to save and pick up your position from a later date.

Syndicate is an utterly modern game. It might be old, but it is not old school.

 

[Gromit]

Far Cry 1 is soo old school. Tis ancient since Far Cry 2 came out!

 

[internetstalker]

Breakout?



Doom's not old school.... is it?

I remember getting all excited about my mate having 'invisable space invaders' on his Atari console. It was just like normal space invaders except you couldn't see the aliens unless you shot one and they would flash for a second and then disappear again... fantastic LOL

As far as FPS go Doom would be regarded as old school.

but it doesn't seem quite old enough (1993) to be old school IYSWIM

 

[DotCommunist]

Wolfenstein predates Doom

 

[kabbes]

There is no such thing as an old school FPS! It's an oxymoron!

 

[internetstalker]

Calling Doom "old school" is exactly what you get for allowing 16 bit to be considered old school. What's next? Far Cry?

Old school ended when we developed computers good enough to give semi-realistic representations of things in hundreds of colours on screen. It ended when we were able to start developing games of complexity, that required you to save and pick up your position from a later date.

Syndicate is an utterly modern game. It might be old, but it is not old school.

whats the cuttoff point?

8-bit?

the 1990's?

 

[internetstalker]

Wolfenstein predates Doom

true

wolfenstein is old school (the C64 version) IMO. but doom?

nah!

saying that wolfenstein 3D, not old school

for me anything pre 1990 is old school with some exeptions

 

[_pH_]

defender

chucky egg

^ these

 

[_pH_]

the best game EVAAAAAAA!!!!!

 

[Kanda]

There is no such thing as an old school FPS! It's an oxymoron!

Elite?