What are some of your favorite classic video games?

[DuarteSilva]

A few hours ago I finished writing a list of my 10 favorite classic PC games (https://gamersoath.blogspot.com/2019/04/10-classic-pc-games-still-worth-playing.html) on my gaming blog. I had a blast reliving these amazing memories. There are games that I simply cannot forget. Games that shaped my childhood and made it unforgettable. Thing is, each gamer has a favorite old video game. I would like to know yours, it doesn't have to be for any specific platform. Just tell me which games you miss the most, the ones that “tickles your nostalgic bone”.

[vigneshseotech]

For me, It is always "The Mario" with regards as a 90's kid.

[Caballero]

Pitfall! though I guess that's technically not a PC game.

Castle Wolfenstein on the C64 would be next. Maybe Loderunner.

[shaina]

Pitfall! though I guess that's technically not a PC game.
Castle Wolfenstein on the C64 would be next. Maybe Loderunner.

Do you see anything about "PC" in the Tread :idunno:

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I have emulator disks that plays on the original xbox that has hundreds of original arcade games

[IdolEyes787]

Pitfall! though I guess that's technically not a PC game.

Castle Wolfenstein on the C64 would be next. Maybe Loderunner. Pitfall on the NES as primitive as it was is somehow still more fun than the shit remake of AC3 I am now suffering through. Also have the original Loderunner on some DOS? thing stored in a drawer somewhere right next to Spyhunter. As for castles, I'd take vania over Wolfenstein any day.

I also just noticed that the OP has a "gaming blog" so apparently I'm not the biggest homo on this site anymore.

[Caballero]

Pitfall! though I guess that's technically not a PC game.
Castle Wolfenstein on the C64 would be next. Maybe Loderunner.

Do you see anything about "PC" in the Tread :idunno:

Well, he did say "a list of my 10 favorite classic PC games" in his opening line...

[IdolEyes787]

His "blog" is invite only so except so phishing my email address I don't get the point of his link.

Also not big on reading comprehension I take it?


I would like to know yours, it doesn't have to be for any specific platform.

[shaina]

Super Pitfall on the NES as primitive as it was is somehow still more fun than the shit remake of AC3 I am now suffering through. Also have the original Loderunner on some DOS? thing stored in a drawer somewhere right next to Spyhunter. As for castles, I'd take vania over Wolfenstein any day.
I also just noticed that the OP has a "gaming blog" so apparently I'm not the biggest homo on this site anymore.

I know it is your birthday and all, but i did have to fix your inaccurate representation of a great classic, and saying that the original arcade/2600 "Pitfall" was actually brought out by Atari:whistling. Now if you want to talk Intellivision Pitfall?? It was shit compared to Atari's original, but much better than the Super version on the NES, and closer to the original:D
The other games i have no clue because they are not my cup of tea to play....

I am not sure if the OP gaming blog is some hang out for Egg Rolls?? and you being a big homo is whatever floats your boat......

[shaina]

Well, he did say "a list of my 10 favorite classic PC games" in his opening line...

To be honest Cabby, I never payed attention to the actual post but the Header of the Tread??

Just like the occasional bickering of the rules on the word games, most of the time i don't pay attention, and usually just followed Bigboab's lead (may he rest in peace and is really missed!!). What happens if there was 200 posts in this tread already?? Do you go back to the original posts??
And i guess being my age, when i started playing video games, there was no such public, or personal computer invented yet;)

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Not sure if you like this game in the younger days Idol??, but i figure it is a kill everything around you thing :)
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[IdolEyes787]

Super Pitfall on the NES as primitive as it was is somehow still more fun than the shit remake of AC3 I am now suffering through. Also have the original Loderunner on some DOS? thing stored in a drawer somewhere right next to Spyhunter. As for castles, I'd take vania over Wolfenstein any day.
I also just noticed that the OP has a "gaming blog" so apparently I'm not the biggest homo on this site anymore.

I know it is your birthday and all, but i did have to fix your inaccurate representation of a great classic, and saying that the original arcade/2600 "Pitfall" was actually brought out by Atari:whistling. Now if you want to talk Intellivision Pitfall?? It was shit compared to Atari's original, but much better than the Super version on the NES, and closer to the original:D
The other games i have no clue because they are not my cup of tea to play....

I am not sure if the OP gaming blog is some hang out for Egg Rolls?? and you being a big homo is whatever floats your boat......You are right it was on Atari. I still actually have it too. I just pulled the box out and was going to post a photo to prove no bs but decided that was way too much work just to show that you can't always be wrong.:)

[shaina]

You are right it was on Atari. I still actually have it too. I just pulled the box out and was going to post a photo to prove no bs but decided that was way too much work just to show that you can't always be wrong.:)

:lol: :artist: :lol:

You want a true story!!, i begged my dad to get the Atari for the house to play, and all my friends had it, or the knockoff sears one, but of course the Intellivision was way more money and my Dad was a degenerate horse racing gambler!!, came home with Intellivision horse-racing and space armada, and astro smash!!. Now don't get me wrong AS and SA were great games, but the kicker is my piece of shit father never played the fucking horse- racing game once:angry:

And yes i still have the Intellivision in a box in my basement, next to the original Nintendo that came with the Robot and Gun;). Now saying that!!, I have emulator disks that go into the original Xbox that has every single one of those games plus. Now the other ones i remember coming out is Colecovision and the outrages priced Neo Geo and the gimmick was that you could put a save card in and then go to the original Arcade Game and start playing from where you left off...
Plus i am pretty sure i did mention to you many moons ago that i actually met my wife 36 years ago in a arcade we both hung out at, Bathurst and Wilson Video Invasions:D
Again Cabby, were you even out of diapers yet :lol: and there was no such thing as a personal computer!!..........

[Caballero]

... and saying that the original arcade/2600 "Pitfall" was actually brought out by Atari:whistling.

Activision, actually.

[anon]

Pitfall got a sequel on the first PlayStation called "Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle". The collision detection was somewhat flawed, but everything else about it is top-notch.

[shaina]

... and saying that the original arcade/2600 "Pitfall" was actually brought out by Atari:whistling.

Activision, actually.

Yes your are right that was the game distributor, one of my good friends was the VP of sales for Activation, but not the console to play it on, so i should have said it was made originally to play on the Atari console not the NES;)
I actually forgot being a socialist, words do matter :P

[Caballero]

I got nostalgic yesterday and watched a YouTube video of some guy playing Archon (https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Archon)...

[SallyGreen]

Snake

[Technomine]

in this classic retro, i will choose Super mario, contra to play again and again

[Hilux]

Super Mario, its a real classic

[james791]

Pub g is the my favorite video games right now.

[AJoosten]

One of my favorite games of all times is Mario
I also liked to play Bomberman, Contra, Tank, Spore, DoubleDragon

Yuvi

[iamtezr]

If we're talking about classics then probably has to be Tetris. I can play that all day.
But there were so many good classics back in the 80s-90s.

Oh and one of the best FPS classics would be Doom, Quake, wolfenstein 3D and Duke Nukem running on my awesome GFX card Voodoo 2 with 12mb!!

[Animeguy]

Doom, Nuke Nukem, MDK adn MDK 2

[zzzerooo0]

Super Mario Bros. , Battle city and Contra

[schwertbogenx]

Right now, Zelda Link to the Past

[brobee]

Zaxxon

[SilverHawk]

Tales of Phantasia, Street Fighter 2, Zelda: Link to the Past, Rastan, Strider

[tacorunner]

I love 2 player games like Contra, TMNT the Arcade game, Street Fighter

[ncm6349]

The Legend of Zelda

[psx10k]

Bubble Bobble for NES!

[m7773d]

Galaga

[CORE]

Super Mario Bros 3 / Super Mario 64

[pebbles1]

I had an Atari 400 as a teen (paid for with my first term UNI grant- back in those impossible days we were paid to go to uni). At the time it had the best GPU (before they were called that) ever witnessed, yet sadly the vastly inferior C64 was the mega hit.

But it gave me my first experience of classic arcade gameplay, cos of its flawless scrolling, sound system and colour system. There was a dev called Synapse Software that did ORIGINAL arcade style titles, and on the Atari (and only on the Atari- the other system ports were rotten) each of their games was an instant classic for me. The games are little remembered, since their ports to systems with terrible graphic hardware (like the C64) lost every bit of their charm. The PC ports, in CGA 'colour' were particularly dreadful (tho probably sold more copies).

Games like: Shamus, Necromancer, Nautilus and Picnic Paranoia. They were particularly skilled at sprites in character set methods. Remember neither the Atari 400/800 or Amiga or C64 did hardware sprites correctly. Only when Nintendo and Sega started doing consoles were hardware sprites correctly implemented. The American problem was that basically one guy was responsible for all the graphic chip design (at Atari and Commodore), and he didn't get how arcade machines implemented sprites.

But the Atari home computers were a big hit with coders cos of their best-of-class hardware sub-systems, and games desigined first for Atari 400/800 hardware looked and felt amazing.

Couple of years later I had an Amiga (and Atari ST which did all graphics in software), but never felt the same way about games on that system.

Two Atari games really grabbed my time. M.U.L.E. is a 4-play (the Atari had 4 joystick ports) board game of rightfully legendary reknown. And 4-player RPG adventure Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves.

Dungeon Master blew my mind on the ST.

And then of course, iD's first Wolf and Doom on the PC.

[carlysills]

Popeye

[srender517]

From the arcade I liked Phoenix. I used to play a C64 game called M.U.L.E all the time with my friends.

[bldg1581]

Well, he did say "a list of my 10 favorite classic PC games" in his opening line...

To be honest Cabby, I never payed attention to the actual post but the Header of the Tread??

Just like the occasional bickering of the rules on the word games, most of the time i don't pay attention, and usually just followed Bigboab's lead (may he rest in peace and is really missed!!). What happens if there was 200 posts in this tread already?? Do you go back to the original posts??
And i guess being my age, when i started playing video games, there was no such public, or personal computer invented yet;)

182311

Not sure if you like this game in the younger days Idol??, but i figure it is a kill everything around you thing :)
182312

Galaga and Robotron 2084. Favorites from my childhood.

[camlee]

All variants of Mario Kart - one of the best franchises ever!

[MacGyverSG1]

From the arcade I liked Phoenix. I used to play a C64 game called M.U.L.E all the time with my friends.

Sword of Fargoal on C64 was great. Jump Man Jr. also.

[zcollector]

Quake 3 Arena, Command & Conquer: Renegade, Vectorman, Mortal Kombat.

[anon]

What about DND and its numerous sequels :mushy:

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[megabyteme]

My favorite has to be Tempest. First stand-up arcade game I ever really connected with. So simple in its design, but the unique spinning control knob worked perfectly to make it fast-paced and fun.

[tjsoundguy]

Loved Gyruss

[Azuchi]

My Childhood favorites:
C64: Gunship, Pirates!
Amiga: Wings

Wings was re-Released for PC some time ago. Found it on GOG and it is still Fun to play. Nice story built around the missions, too. If you haven't give it a try.

[Cee9]

SNES Contra III

[hhknighter]

Rivercity Ransom and most of the variations. Except for the basketball version....no idea why they did it taht way

[inkswich2]

Earthworm Jim

Although I do still have NES classic

[ghostman]

I'm a massive fan of retro arcade games - in fact, I've built 2 of my own arcade machines - I try and play as many of the old games as I can, but I definitely list these as my top 5:

Robotron
Donkey Kong 3
Progear
ESP Ra. De.
Guwange

As you can see, mostly shooters ;-)

Sorry, meant to say, I play mostly via MAME emulation, sadly, I don't have original arcade hardware, just my own home built cab

[shaina]

I'm a massive fan of retro arcade games - in fact, I've built 2 of my own arcade machines - I try and play as many of the old games as I can, but I definitely list these as my top 5:

Robotron
Donkey Kong 3
Progear
ESP Ra. De.
Guwange

As you can see, mostly shooters ;-)

Sorry, meant to say, I play mostly via MAME emulation, sadly, I don't have original arcade hardware, just my own home built cab

Come on now you have Mame emu... Donkey Kong/Crazy Kong, Crystal Castles, Defender, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Galaga !!!
I have it running on my original XBOX no cabinet, because i am getting of age and the eyesight is a bit off, i prefer to play it on a 60" TV:), but i don't play it widescreen, to keep the arcade effect:whistling

[IdolEyes787]

For retro games I like whatever came out last Thursday since they are probably already outdated and I now need to spend more money on upgrades.

[shaina]

For retro games I like whatever came out last Thursday since they are probably already outdated and I now need to spend more money on upgrades.

Me personally, some vintage games will never die, trying to explain this, even know the older games were shooter or repetitive tasks, now games you run around a dessert or made up course looking to kill someone for hours, and not even getting the reward of dreaming you get to schtup the princess once you save her...

[anon]

To be fair, retro games "cheated" a lot by being very difficult, making extra lives scarce, and occasionally creating situations where the player would unavoidably take damage or die. Hardware of the time didn't allow for lots of huge levels or long-winded storylines, so this was the only way to keep people playing.

If you use some invulnerability hack or simply are a very good player, you'll see that they rarely offered more than one hour of gameplay (Contra can be beat in 13 minutes, Super Mario Bros in five).

[bramor]

I loved Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy and still have the old cracked versions. I saw recently that it's being released for the Switch. Does anyone know if it's possible to get these running on Windows 10? I've tried setting various Windows modes (XP, Vista, 7) and just kept getting a black screen. I don't want to resort to a VM but I might because I miss those games so much. It might even be worth digging that old P4 box out of the closet. Especially if I could get it to run 1920x1080.

[anon]

By default, Windows 10 doesn't include several legacy multimedia components like DirectDraw and DirectPlay. That alone breaks a lot of old games, even if they'd otherwise be compatible.

Anyway, I did a quick search and apparently there's a fork of the engine called OpenJK that runs on modern systems. Check it out.

[grablect]

I'll always buy and play anything zelda or zelda like.

[jSchmiez]

Super Metroid pulls me back in every year or so. Such a good game.

[aboo4u]

Mario Cart

[SydBarrett]

Donkey Kong and Dragon's Lair.

[nzbFX]

Ducktales (NES)
Castlevania IV (SNES)
Streets of Rage 2 / Earthworm Jim (Genesis)
I also played the Leisure Suit Larry games more recently and laughed so much (mainly because I didn't get the jokes when I was much younger playing it for the first time)