Submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
I played tons of the classic 90s games like Backyard baseball, Spy Fox and 7th Guest (Which I’m sure had nothing to do with me being desensitized to Horror movies and games XD), but I also spent a lot of time messing with programs like GameMaker, Anim8tor and random maze creator type programs. What were yours?
I played Midnight Resistance and RoboCop on the Spectrum constantly. Initially with Pokes for infinite lives and shit, but by the end I could sail through both and barely take a hit.
Monkey island 2. Any of the original lucasarts point and click graphical adventures.
Norton Commander, edit.com, the Wacom C/C++ compiler, pmode/w and upx. I had a peculiar childhood.
The big one for me was Ultima Online.
Mega Man X
Played it for like 6 hours straight when I first got it. Took me over a year to beat Sigma.
Mega Man Legends
Also took me a while to finish, especially because it took a few months between getting the PS1 and buying memory cards
I did spend a lot of time with RPG Maker 2000 too, I did probably some 3 different games, never finished or published any of them.
Runescape and Diablo 2. Soul Caliber was also a favorite with my friend group a little bit later.
Doom 1/2. Wolfenstein 3d, Duke Nukem 3d
I spent a lot of time playing Sonic Mega Collection on gamecube. At least before maybe 6th or 7th grade when I got Borderlands 1 on xbox360.
Okay, so I think this impacted by the platforms I owned, which was:
If I were to consider my favourite games across all these systems, they would be:
Road Rash! How fun. I had forgotten about that game until right now. (Carmen & Earthworm Jim are also classic).
Ultima IV, Elite, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Kikstart II, RC Pro Am, Racing Destruction Set, Zaxxon
But the first was ….
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_TV_Fun_series
Played this for hours.
Yeah I’m old.
Crystal Quest
Old mac user: Lode Runner, KidPix, Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat, Allied General
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2 (shout-out to OpenRCT!), Island of Dr Brain, Oregon Trail 3rd edition, Math Blaster, and a bunch of little educational games that nobody else has ever heard of from Ohio Distinctive Software.
As an edutainment nerd, I would be happy to hear the names of these little educational games
a bunch of little educational games that nobody else has ever heard of from Ohio Distinctive Software.
If you remember at least the names, you should consider contributing to the MobyGames database
Looks like all they have rn on record is like 3 games lmao
That’s really funny because Internet Archive has everything I had as a kid and more.
Anim8or
Thanks for this. Just recently I was trying to remember what this program was called. I remember doing the egg plant tutorial.
My absolute first PC game I ever remember was Math Blaster lol I loved it
I grew up with some of the first games. Loved Sierra’s library. Played some of the more eclectic games like Battle Beast and Howie’s Great Word Adventure. As far as programs went, I didn’t get much into it until later. But, I do remember using the Microsoft Works Creative Writing Program. That was fun to do designs on.
Outside the super common ones like Mario, Zelda, Quake, etc…I’ll list some pretty early ones.
River Raid Comixzone Flashback Castles
A good chunk of my early pc games were demo disks from magazines
Well, Deluxe Music and Deluxe Paint when it comes to programs; and oh so many Rainbow Arts games: Giana Sisters, Turrican 1 - 3, X-Out, Mad TV. But also the classic Civilization and Sim City.
Sim City.
Many many hours sunk in Sim City 2k lmao…I should get back into it
SC2k surely was a simpler time :D
Heroes of Might and Magic III (but also 4 to a lesser extent and 5 briefly) were mainstays as hot-seat multiplayer when hanging around at somebody’s house. Always a good time.
The other real defining game of my childhood was Diablo 2. We played that on and off for probably over a decade growing up, every couple of years people would get the itch again and everybody would tag along. Was a real cultural touchstone in school.
Mortal Kombat 1 on a black and white laptop, playing 2 player matches with both players using the same keyboard
😆 that’s sounds horrible
Zoombinies and Ski
Backyard baseball, my first encyclopedia, some lemonade stand simulator, pokemon yellow, dragon warrior monsters, eclipse mmo maker.
Off the top of my head: Savage Empire, LHX Attack Chopper, Operation Wolf, Lemmings, some German football manager game (I forgot the name, just Zuruck and Weiter are etched into my brain), Supaplex, …
Bundesliga Manager?
That’s what ChatGPT kept suggesting but no, doesn’t look like it at all. The graphics I remember hardly contained any greens. I can remember black backgrounds with harsh pink/purple borders and texts.
Having gone through some of the football manager games of that period, it seems the one I had back in the day was rudimentary, even compared to its contemporaries. I now suppose it was some hobby project that was distributed in small circles, and somehow got into the hands of my Dad, who passed it along. That was the seed for my years-long addiction to Championship Manager :D
German football manager game
Anstoss?
Anstoss
I don’t think so, that looks way too modern. I’m trying to find out the name but it’s hard with so little info :)
My family used to put in hundreds of hours into Civilization 2 and once we were a little older we played Red Alert spending even more time building maps for ourselves to play. We could never figure out how to set up a LAN growing up, but it was a lot of fun all the same.
Monkey Island, Master of Orion 2, Commander Keen, Heroes of might and magic, Diablo, Warcraft.
In no particular order: Age of empires, HoMMs, Disciples, StarCraft, WarCraft, Dark Reign, Battlezone, Red Alert, Dune, Lula, 3D maze screensaver, strip poker, Duke Nukem, a virused version of that desktop mayhem thing that let you smash it in all kinds of way and many others that will be mentioned in other comments.
Games that give you a lifetime of fun.
!holup@lemmy.world one of these is sus 😳
Seriously, Dune ii I get, but Dune?
I loved Speedy Eggbert and played Oregon Trail. Also played Math Muncher.
Eventually started playing StarCraft, Warcraft, Red Alert, Quake, Doom, UT, Half Life. Then didn’t bother with educational stuff on my PC until I tried Blender and tutorials had you trying out generating models with Python
I completely forgot about Speedy Eggbert LMAO core memory unlocked
Had none, didn’t own a device capable of gaming until I was 14/15 and even then didn’t start playing games till I was 17/18.
I’m 21 ( soon 22 ) now.
Commander Keen! We had 1, 4, 6 and Dreams. Probably all of them Shareware. Those games made me want to get a pogo stick.
Might and Magic 4+5: World of Xeen waa what I considered our first “real” game. I didn’t really understand it at the time. It’s turn based but I played it like it’s real time. I still play it every other year.
abecede@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As an 80ies kid: Impossible Mission on my Commodore 64… “Another visitor… Stay a while! Staaay foreveerrr!”