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What are your memories of early Mac/PC games?
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The first game I remember playing was some game with a chipmunk or something that gets lost in a hot air balloon. Borderbund pubished it. I also used to play roller coaster tycoon one for hours on end. This was all on a Packard Bell machine with Windows 95 and 16MB of RAM. I remember begging my parents for windows 98 and more RAM. I didn't even know how big the HD or how fast the processor was because I didn't care. Then I got a 1.1 GHz eMachine with 256MB of RAM and a 40 gig HD. It was like a quantum leap. That computer lasted me thorough the more roller coaster tycoon, zoo tycoon, and carmen sandiago. Oh how I miss those days.
AD&D Krynn series
OIDS
Maelstrom
Myst
7th Guest
SimCity
Master of Orion 2
Majesty
Lunatic Fringe
OIDS
Maelstrom
Myst
7th Guest
SimCity
Master of Orion 2
Majesty
Lunatic Fringe
my best game on the PC Bullfrog's Syndicate plus, hooked up to the hifi, great game play, great explosions.
as for old games, I remember playing in 1982 Apple Panic on apple IIs.
as for old games, I remember playing in 1982 Apple Panic on apple IIs.
Leisure Suit Larry was quite awesome.
It was! It had that 'age protection' set of questions at the beginning (I was only eight or nine at the time). My parents told me that if I could get through that - I was allowed to play the game. So I'd dig through our set of encyclopedias to get the answers, and then play.
I remember getting stuck because I kept dying after sleeping with the hooker. My Dad gave me sage advice - "Remember son - no glove, no love!"
Your parents were awesome.
The first games I really, really enjoyed were Quest for Glory and SimCity 2000. The original Dark Castle and Space Rogue were pretty sweet, but I was too young to get anywhere so it doesn't hold the same special place in my heart.
Fun Games
I'd say Strategic Conquest was my fondest game- some others were Wolfenstein, Warlords, all the early Maxis Sim games (SimFarm, for instance) and Spaceward Ho!
I had an old Mac desktop which ran all of the old games (and had about a whole load of floppy disks with the original games on it). Unfortunately, my grandmother decided the whole load of disks were worthless and threw them in the bin, and she spilled some tea on the computer.
I'm planning on buying an iMac, but nothing can replace my old memories then.
Strategic Conquest was the best in 1991.
I played all nights on my Macintosh Plus. No harddrive, everything on a diskett.
I'd say Strategic Conquest was my fondest game- some others were Wolfenstein, Warlords, all the early Maxis Sim games (SimFarm, for instance) and Spaceward Ho!
I had an old Mac desktop which ran all of the old games (and had about a whole load of floppy disks with the original games on it). Unfortunately, my grandmother decided the whole load of disks were worthless and threw them in the bin, and she spilled some tea on the computer.
I'm planning on buying an iMac, but nothing can replace my old memories then.
I had a 128K Mac so I had some early games.
Apache Strike was a favorite as was Balance of Power, Uninvited, DejaVu, Dark Castle, Colonization and Wizardry. Later on SimCity, Maelstrom, almost anything from AmbrosiaSW and of course Teris. A lot of Realmz - simple graphics yet a fun RPG.
Apache Strike was a favorite as was Balance of Power, Uninvited, DejaVu, Dark Castle, Colonization and Wizardry. Later on SimCity, Maelstrom, almost anything from AmbrosiaSW and of course Teris. A lot of Realmz - simple graphics yet a fun RPG.
Apple 2C:
Infocom games (Zork, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deadline, Infidel, many others)
An AWESOME chess-like game where the monsters would battle (forget what it was called). Arkon or something like that?
Wizardry
Early Mac: Dark Castle!
MacGolf
Later Macs: Spent hours and hours playing Myst and D&D games.
PC circa mid-'90s: Doom! And some similar game set in a castle.
Infocom games (Zork, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deadline, Infidel, many others)
An AWESOME chess-like game where the monsters would battle (forget what it was called). Arkon or something like that?
Wizardry
Early Mac: Dark Castle!
MacGolf
Later Macs: Spent hours and hours playing Myst and D&D games.
PC circa mid-'90s: Doom! And some similar game set in a castle.
Oh yeah.. forgot one:
Journeyman Project!
For some reason I just thought that was the COOLEST game... though I hated Quicktime back then as it was slow and cumbersome.
I also remember when Dark Forces came out and thought 'FINALLY!'.
Journeyman Project!
For some reason I just thought that was the COOLEST game... though I hated Quicktime back then as it was slow and cumbersome.
I also remember when Dark Forces came out and thought 'FINALLY!'.
I remember playing Civilisation on my Performa 400 (it was one of the few games available) and loved how much better the graphics were than on my friend's PC at the time. Also playing The Secret of Monkey Island brings back great memories.
Then when the Performa 630 with its CD-ROM came out I remember playing Myst and some dodgy FMV-game called Dracula Unleashed. I also remember playing an FPS title Marathon - by Bungie who went on to Halo greatness! Great days - but I was often envious of my PC owning friends back then who had many more games to enjoy!
Then when the Performa 630 with its CD-ROM came out I remember playing Myst and some dodgy FMV-game called Dracula Unleashed. I also remember playing an FPS title Marathon - by Bungie who went on to Halo greatness! Great days - but I was often envious of my PC owning friends back then who had many more games to enjoy!
PC and Mac Games
Glad someone remembers Starflight!
Ultima #?: Quest of the Avatar (PC)
King's Quest
Space Quest
Black Cauldron
Some sidescroller where a Robotech rip-off turned into a plane
Dark Castle (M)
Glad someone remembers Starflight!
Ultima #?: Quest of the Avatar (PC)
King's Quest
Space Quest
Black Cauldron
Some sidescroller where a Robotech rip-off turned into a plane
Dark Castle (M)
Late 80's early 90's games
1. Bolo - how could Bolo not be at the top of the list! Also I was the co-author of the Ladmo AI Brain back in the day.
2. Maze Wars - we used to spend hours after the student lab closed at college a bunch of us playing on Mac 512ke and Mac Pluses running around the maze shooting at each other...
3. Strategic Conquest - my boss and I once play 36 hours straight completing a game against each other over a weekend.
1. Bolo - how could Bolo not be at the top of the list! Also I was the co-author of the Ladmo AI Brain back in the day.
2. Maze Wars - we used to spend hours after the student lab closed at college a bunch of us playing on Mac 512ke and Mac Pluses running around the maze shooting at each other...
3. Strategic Conquest - my boss and I once play 36 hours straight completing a game against each other over a weekend.
Reader Rabbit on my dad's old Mac.
Reader Rabbit (I played so many of those) and this game called "Grandma's house". I was 3 then. I thought the monitor WAS the computer.
Probably one of the first games I played was some kind of mario bros game on a very old computer. It was black and white (green actually ) and the game was stored on those very large floppydisks.
I also remember a small black apple laptop with no colorscreen and a built-in trackball, on which I played Shufflepuck, some game where you'd have to maneuver a paper airplane, and some maze game where you'd walk through an egyptian tomb.
Those are my earliest memories.
Later, when we had color screens, I remember a game with a dolphin and of course Duke Nukem 3D (I bet everyone remembers the first levels where you could give money to those strippers and they'd show their boobs. I remember the giggling lol)
) and the game was stored on those very large floppydisks.I also remember a small black apple laptop with no colorscreen and a built-in trackball, on which I played Shufflepuck, some game where you'd have to maneuver a paper airplane, and some maze game where you'd walk through an egyptian tomb.
Those are my earliest memories.
Later, when we had color screens, I remember a game with a dolphin and of course Duke Nukem 3D (I bet everyone remembers the first levels where you could give money to those strippers and they'd show their boobs. I remember the giggling lol)