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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 12, 2011 18:16:39 GMT -5
EVERYONE should play Beneath a Steel Sky. It is a fantastic point/click game an is available for free.
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Post by Orange on Jan 12, 2011 18:23:36 GMT -5
How can I forget Kid Pix? This one was popular in the computer lab back in the day ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 12, 2011 18:26:26 GMT -5
Alright, here's one we used to play in the computer lab at my elementary school. It was this game where you went into this old creepy mansion and had to solve some mystery. Sound familiar?
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Post by FinalGwen on Jan 12, 2011 18:28:43 GMT -5
Main ones I can remember: - Simon The Sorceror (Excellent point and click adventure.) - Toonstruck (Another point and click, very surreal.) - Terminal Velocity (Sort of sci-fi flight game.) - The New Zealand Story (Platformer, very colourful.)
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 12, 2011 18:28:49 GMT -5
Maniac Mansion?
Day of the Tentacle is the sequel.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jan 12, 2011 18:30:09 GMT -5
Maniac Mansion? Day of the Tentacle is the sequel. No, not that. It was really cartoony, I remember that much.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 12, 2011 18:51:25 GMT -5
Alright, here's one we used to play in the computer lab at my elementary school. It was this game where you went into this old creepy mansion and had to solve some mystery. Sound familiar? Hugo's house of horrors? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bklfbpP5J5Q
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Post by Vampiro138 on Jan 12, 2011 19:00:48 GMT -5
a few games i remember from grade school...on the "new" mac computers we had at my school there was a game called "Math for the Real World" which was about a band traveling to gigs and every stop you had to do a math problem.
on the old computers out in the hall we could play on when we were done with our homework i used to play Muppet Caper where Ms. Piggy got kidnapped and you had to save her...there was also a game where you could run for president and go on a campaign trail...which i chose to campaign in parts of Canada and never enter the united states at all...and i would always win for some strange reason.
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Post by Viva on Jan 12, 2011 19:02:53 GMT -5
I played Tribes. A lot.
At school, we played Mario Type, Oregon Trail, this badass fishing game. But we also had this quiz show trivia game that was like You Dont Know Jack for kids. it was all kinds of tits.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2011 20:50:42 GMT -5
The computers that our school let us take home had MDK installed on them. Totally awesome.
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Post by Kyle Butler on Jan 12, 2011 21:06:27 GMT -5
Dust: A Tale of the Wired West
A good game with plenty of crazy characters. I've never met anyone else who played it.
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Post by Fiddleford H. McGucket on Jan 12, 2011 21:07:40 GMT -5
HI! ME WILLIE! ME WILLIE TROMBONE!
Greatest (Non Sierra, Non-Lucasarts) Point & Click EVAR!
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Post by shadowangel on Jan 12, 2011 21:08:33 GMT -5
EVERYONE should play Beneath a Steel Sky. It is a fantastic point/click game an is available for free. Absolutely, it's freeware, it's works with ScummVM on modern machines and it's one of the best adventures ever made with a grea futuristisc storyline. Actually i think it's quite sad, that outside of maybe western europe, "retro gaming" is mostly reduced to NES, Mega Drive, SNES, and with a lot of luck Master System. Amiga, C64, Atari ST and PC had so many awesome games that it's crazy so many people never heard of them, outside of maybe the well known stuff like Ultima, Wing Commander, Commander Keen and Leisure Suit Larry. I played a lot of PC Games even though the graphics were bad (EGA, CGA), the sound was horrible, even below crappy NES standards because the gameplay was awesome, like captain comic, Stunts, Space Quest, King's Quest, Mad TV (the greatest "tycoon" game of all time", manage your own tv station with classic movies, there's also a arab sucide bomber you can point to the offices of your two opponents and a whole lot of fun and weird stuff going on like the news station were stallone declares that he does all his stunts and 2 days later is injured or the stories of the "laptop murderer"), Amberstar, Ambermoon (two of the best real RPGs of all time), Lionheart, Turrican 1-3, Katakis, and so on For many People NHL 94 on the Mega Drive (Genesis) is the best hockey game. I would like to point out for those people that NHL Hockey on the PC is better, it has a season mode, it has better sound, a stadion commentator and the awesome "out of town scores"-scene, like you play game and after the first period you see a scene from a different game. It's the best classic hockey game of all time. And while some Playstation owners thought Ridge Racer was awesome in 1995 we PC owners played Bleifuss (or Screamer) it kicked the ass of Ridge Racer and Daytona USA and was the best Arcade Racer of it's time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2011 21:16:30 GMT -5
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis Zoombinis and this one surprisingly decent (though hard) M&Ms game were like the top s*** when I was in grade school.
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Jan 12, 2011 21:35:29 GMT -5
Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow. Never will I forget that music.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2011 22:02:43 GMT -5
Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow. Never will I forget that music. Good game. Own it on my SNES.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jan 12, 2011 22:05:44 GMT -5
I gotta mention the original Alone In The Dark. I don't hear hardly anybody talk about that game, and it's a really good and creepy haunted house style mystery exploring game. Some say the precursor to modern survival horror.
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Post by kidglov3s on Jan 12, 2011 22:12:29 GMT -5
The first that came to mind is Rodent's Revenge, where you're a mouse trying to get to cheese while avoiding cats.
Another is 3D Body Adventure, where I remember like going into a body and shooting out tumors or something.
Then of course there's that skiing game where if you go long enough Sasquatch comes out and eats you.
Another one that was packed with our first computer was Sports Illustrated Trivia from like 1995, that was lots of fun too.
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Post by Beast Army Ass on Jan 12, 2011 22:18:42 GMT -5
Neverhood, The 11th Hour (only with my dad around though), The Incredible Machine, Rainbow Six (the verrrrrrrrrry first one), and then there was this one DOS game in the engineering lab where you solved puzzles to put together a machine to beat this mad scientist guy in a race or something at the end of the level. It was pretty awesome.
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Post by shadowangel on Jan 12, 2011 22:30:49 GMT -5
I gotta mention the original Alone In The Dark. I don't hear hardly anybody talk about that game, and it's a really good and creepy haunted house style mystery exploring game. Some say the precursor to modern survival horror. Survial Horror was already established by then. Some kids today think that Resident Evil was the "first" survival Horror Game and they're wrong. The first Survival Style Horror Game was Haunted House on the Atari 2600. Capcom themself made a try in that genre in 1989 with Sweet Home (a good game by the way) Then came the Alone in the Dark Trilogy and Resident Evil was basically a copy of those games and nothing else. After that came the awesome Silent Hill that took it's inspiration from Alone in the Dark and some european horror movies like those from Dario Argento (the most famous is Suspiria, but there are other ones like Phenomena, Profondo Rosso and Inferno who where the inspiration for those games) I would also say that Ecstatica (Released in 1994) belongs to the Survival Horror Genre, though the humour is crude it has a lot of horror and downright disgusting moments. It's a great, great game most people have forgotten by now. There's that moment when you're down in cellar and you hear the minotaur (the arch enemy in the game) going down the steps....back then it scared me to death.
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