Favorite PC Games from long ago?
 

Everybody had console games growing up, but I wondered what were your favorite PC based games from long ago? The 4 I remember most fondly were Janitor Joe (probably one of the first arcade type game), Montezuma'a Revenge (One of the first scrolling games for PC), and the ORIGINAL Lode Runner (Sierra released a remake), and Thexder (I could never beat this one). I played a lot of the Sierra adventure games (LSL, King's Quest, Space Quest), but I could never beat them. So, what games for PC did you like?

I loved the Bard's Tale and early Might and Magic games. I also enjoyed the old Sierra games. I think the first Hero Quest game was my favorite. One of the few Sierra games I've actually finished. I think I also finished one of the King's Quest games.

hmm, quake II (operated from the "pentium") and Mortal Kombat from the good ol 486

Sam & Max, bar none.

GTA. Thats what started the GTA Family. It's looks crappy to the ones out now but back in the day it used to be raw as hell.

Yeah back in the day.Now :yack: But i still like it. :)

M.U.L.E

Loom
The Dig
Sam and Max
Secret of Monkey Island series
Full Throttle
Inherit The Earth

One word: Xcom.

The old sierra games were great, space ace, kings quest and of course leisure suit larry...too bad those type of games are essentially non existant today.

I liked SimTower

Sim City, Doom both of these games kept me quite busy back then.

There are a few i really loved.

Scorched Earth
Loom
Zork
Wasteland
Willy the Worm

and an old game i played on a BBS called Phantasy Zone (i think). Text based of course, multiplayer, monsters and treasure... ahhhh i loved it.

all the lucasarts space flight sims; x-wing was great

Wing Commander series
Leisure Suit Larry series
Phantasmagoria
Tex Murphy series
Monkey Island series
Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes series

In the mid 90's I loved playing PC games, but now thats its mostly Shooters and online gaming I've lost interest. I miss all the adventure/mystery games and puzzle solving games that were common years ago. Dreamcatcher is trying to keep the genre alive, but I don't know if they are having much success.

I loved that game. What a great example of how a game with simple graphics can be so much fun.

C64: mule, pirates, seven cities of gold, mars saga, wasteland, autoduel, battletech: crescent hawks inception
PC: pirates gold, mines of titan, wasteland, wind commander, secret weapons of the luftwaffe, battletech: crescent hawks inception

Especially hotseat multiplayer. We'd have 8 people playing on the same computer at the same time. Great stuff.

Also enjoyed a lot of the original Apogee games -- Duke Nukem 1 & 2, Biomenace (or whatever it was called), Halloween Harry, etc.

X-Wing was awesome. Bought my first joystick for that. Still use it for Crimson Skies and other games -- midi port -- dunno if I'll be able to with my next computer. Never did get around to playing TIE Fighter.


Loom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Graphic Adventure, etc.

Airborne Ranger and Ancient Art of War (and AAW at Sea) were also great classics.

Tuan Jim

Definitely. Multiplayer was what it was all about.

Jumpman on the C64. I think it was released by Epyx, who did Summer Games. I've always wondered why they never continued this franchise...

Jeremy

Jumpman was great.

X-Com was fantastic.

The original Civs were wonderful.

My (really old) additions would be.. Rick Dangerous for Amiga and IBM PC, and Star Control for PC.

Ah, Star Control was great. It was great playign 2 player with your friend on the same keyboard.

Ditto

You can thank me later:

http://www.chibinc.com/games2/gindex.htm

Found this while searching for Battle Chess one day...man it brings back memories playing those games on my 386sx/25mhz COMPAQ (with custom boot process to preserve all 4MB of RAM) Anyone remember Himem.sys?

WASTELAND (LOVVVVVEEED this one. It was like playing a cool novel..."The mutants danced a jig of death as your AK-47 riddled their body with bullets"

PIRATES - Never got tired of taking over ships and sacking cities. Boy did I learn the layout of the Caribbean Sea.

and the old PC version of Car Wars...I can't remember the game's actual name but it was based on the Steve Jackson Role PLaying game. You bought a car did courier jobs to make money. If you got killed you better have a clone of game over.