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You know what was better then Myst? Riven. poo poo was waaay harder than Myst, but the puzzles were designed well enough that my 13-year-old self could actually work through them and beat the game without hints.
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you can run windows 95 in your browser now, its pretty neat
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 05:06 |
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On the adventure game front, I really like the later Sierra/Dynamix games. In particular, and in no specific order:
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 05:09 |
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These two came preloaded when my elementary school bought iMac G3s. Nanosaur Bugdom The old Macs from the comp lab had some kind of Bomber game with battlezone type graphics but I can't remember the name.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 06:03 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:These two came preloaded when my elementary school bought iMac G3s. Both of those games were weird. I worked at an Apple retailer/service shop, and during down-time I'd try to play these on the demo iMacs out on the sales floor. Fun to kinda explore the worlds, but damned if I knew what the hell I was doing. The thing about Bugdom I remember most, though, is the music. So pretty and peaceful, I actually dug into the game files and yanked them out for myself. I've still got them somewhere.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 06:05 |
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IIRC Nanosaur had something to do with saving eggs before the asteroid hit but you were a techno-dinosaur from the future
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 06:07 |
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mr. why posted:You know what was better then Myst? Riven. poo poo was waaay harder than Myst, but the puzzles were designed well enough that my 13-year-old self could actually work through them and beat the game without hints. i bought both in a pack at the half price books, it came with a blank "logbook" to record your notes. i just wrote the grid puzzle solution to get to the prison books in myst on the last page and called it a day.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 06:46 |
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The original creator's copy is probably lost to time, but still a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGQIQljaAc0
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 07:06 |
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Waffle! posted:The original creator's copy is probably lost to time, but still a classic: This is one of the first videos of this sort that I ever saw and I think it did a lot to really get people into Halo and the original XBox who probably wouldn't have paid all that much attention to it, otherwise.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 07:47 |
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Waffle! posted:The original creator's copy is probably lost to time, but still a classic: https://vimeo.com/102279986 quote:I created this over a weekend back in February 2002 with an Xbox, Halo CE, a VCR, and my old blue & white Mac running iMovie.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 07:58 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:
Never did that no, but I find it hilarious. I wore out the original basic manual though And dude who mentioned lucasarts adventure games but no grim fandango... Wtf
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 12:46 |
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Waffle! posted:The original creator's copy is probably lost to time, but still a classic: This is what mind-blowing e3 reveals looked like 16 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpXVArrf-W0 Part of me is still waiting for this game to come out.
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Extortionist posted:This is what mind-blowing e3 reveals looked like 16 years ago: Halo was supposed to be the savior of Mac gaming. As far above Doom as Marathon was, so was Halo going to be the envy of the PC gaming world, all thanks to Bungie, the last great hope for an otherwise moribund platform. Videos like this one cemented it. It was going to be glorious, it would renew the faith, and PC people would have to watch from the sidelines for once. And then Microsoft swooped in and bought Bungie and retooled the whole thing to be the launch title for the Xbox, taking an extra two years and transforming from a multi-terrain, muti-POV strategy game into a dungeon crawler. I have never believed in anything since that day
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 15:32 |
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There's a video where Bungie employees go back through really old Halo 1 builds, and that trailer is the last one. There's no AI - everything was scripted and/or pre-recorded in their cutscene tool. I've probably posted it in this thread already, honestly. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weuRNxpDLUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydfehQBaGE The Kins has a new favorite as of 15:41 on Feb 1, 2016 |
# ? Feb 1, 2016 15:39 |
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Has Shufflepuck Cafe shown up in thread yet? I remember very little from this game except that I was inexplicably terrified of this guy as a young child:
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 15:44 |
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Data Graham posted:As far above Doom as Marathon was lol
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 15:44 |
I'm speaking literally, see, because Doom only had 2D maps and in Marathon you could cross over yourself at different elevations But frankly Marathon always left me cold, aesthetics-wise, and I actually preferred 320x200 resolution VGA for some reason Wolfenstein 3D on the Mac was high-resolution but looked like rear end
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 15:56 |
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Applewhite posted:Has Shufflepuck Cafe shown up in thread yet? Shufflepuck Cafe is the remake
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 18:37 |
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Applewhite posted:Has Shufflepuck Cafe shown up in thread yet? The aesthetic reminds me of Magic Darts for the NES. That game was the poo poo. You could pick a bunch of different characters including a chimp and a robot and each one had their own super-secret trick shots. You can also hit flies that land on the dart board every now and then and it transforms you into some kind of hosed up alien dude who never misses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3VdEiyu_E&t=87s
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 18:49 |
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Shufflepuck has the best intro score on the Amiga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9XKtcPiO7U (I have the feeling there's something off about the music, but that was the best version I could find) EDIT: Also forgot all about this little gem in the related videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0 (One of the commenters puts it best: R.I.P. Jools) EDIT2: Kill all enemy Police Automaton has a new favorite as of 19:02 on Feb 1, 2016 |
# ? Feb 1, 2016 18:54 |
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did you have a granny with a PC back in the day? or a blue collar dad that spent most of the day working with lumber? you probably had this installed on your computer and the demo for Hoyle Casino 99
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 18:59 |
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The first game I ever bought with my own money was Michael Crichton's Amazon. I lost the paper map that came with the game, so I wrote the company a letter requesting a new map and put a dollar in the envelope. A few days later they sent me a new map and there was a hand written letter about how they were happy I was enjoying the game and they sent my dollar back with the map.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:02 |
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Turdsdown Tom posted:did you have a granny with a PC back in the day? or a blue collar dad that spent most of the day working with lumber? you probably had this installed on your computer Card games with characters loving ruled.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:03 |
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Police Automaton posted:Shufflepuck has the best intro score on the Amiga. This poo poo is intense and would probably melt my face off if I ever booted up this poo poo on an Amiga 20-some years ago. Turdsdown Tom posted:did you have a granny with a PC back in the day? or a blue collar dad that spent most of the day working with lumber? you probably had this installed on your computer No, but my aunt had one called "Strategy Games of the World" that had Mancala, Nine Men's Morris, and Go. I can't even find a MobyGames article on it so it must be pretty obscure! I was pro as gently caress at NMM and Mancala, but Go went way the gently caress over my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmKA862szIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejD2AZJ3uI
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:14 |
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Police Automaton posted:Shufflepuck has the best intro score on the Amiga. Mak0rz posted:This poo poo is intense and would probably melt my face off if I ever booted up this poo poo on an Amiga 20-some years ago.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:16 |
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The best thing I did back then was connecting my Amiga to some cheap off-brand stereo (with cassette deck!) I could afford. Blew my mind away. (as been said, 20-some years ago) I think the worst disappointment with giving up on the Amiga and moving to the PC was how lovely game music was on the PC. It was bearable though because there were games actually.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:23 |
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Card games with characters loving ruled. the best was circa ~2004 when they released Hoyle Card Games with interactive characters and a money progression system. you could lay a sick poker hand and talk poo poo to Ethel, the kind old lady to your right edit: but seriously was hoyle as ubiquitous of a piece of computer software for everyone else because i feel like i literally couldn't escape the loving game. everywhere i went had it installed, even the library barnold has a new favorite as of 19:39 on Feb 1, 2016 |
# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:37 |
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Data Graham posted:Halo was supposed to be the savior of Mac gaming. This version looks absolutely awful to me and I'm glad we got the Halo that we did.
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:46 |
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Turdsdown Tom posted:the best was circa ~2004 when they released Hoyle Card Games with interactive characters and a money progression system. you could lay a sick poker hand and talk poo poo to Ethel, the kind old lady to your right I don't think it was everywhere for me but talking poo poo to characters rules
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 19:48 |
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I just realized I haven't seen mention of Taipan yet. Kind of the spiritual predecessor of Sid Meier's Pirates!, you'd travel from port to port, buying low and selling high, trying to make your fortune. Opium is potentially very lucrative, but also illegal! If you get caught with it it can be seized, and you lose your investment. There are also pirates that will try to sink your ships. Sometimes the crime boss Li Yuen will demand tribute, and the more money you have, the more he'll demand. You can refuse to pay, but then wouldn't it be a shame if 20 heavily-armed junks were to come along and blow your ship to splinters? There's also a well known bug in the game, which many modern updates have kept in place. There's a moneylender that will give you a loan at a pretty high interest rate, but if you pay him back beyond a zero balance that money will grow at the same rate. Earning large sums of money is pretty difficult playing straight, but the moneylender bug makes it trivial. Web version available here (don't know if the moneylender bug exists here or not)-- http://www.taipangame.com/ stubblyhead has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Dazzle the natives! We had this. I recall liking it. Learned just now from the wiki they surprisingly re-released it in 1993 for PC which is a bit mind boggling for a C64 game released in 84. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Cities_of_Gold_(video_game)
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# ? Feb 1, 2016 21:11 |
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Sten Freak posted:Dazzle the natives!
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 00:09 |
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Sten Freak posted:Dazzle the natives! I played the crap out of that game on the Commodore 64.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 00:31 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:These two came preloaded when my elementary school bought iMac G3s. pangea made some real weird games but nanosaur was legit and enigmo is still one of the best puzzle games i've played https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3KKfFxuYk
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 00:38 |
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Did anyone here play MDK? It looked pretty good for the time, but it was a strange shooter. I bought it and beat it, but never touched it again. It was just too strange I guess? The same studio made Earthworm Jim and in 2000, the game Messiah. Another really strange shooter. Here the premise was that you're Bob, a cherub-looking angel whom can occupy any NPC he runs across. So you're hopping Bob from one host to the next, using the hosts' skills to get you further along. I still have that game. It was okay.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 00:46 |
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MDK came bundled with the original imac i think? i played it to death anyway.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 01:14 |
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Turdsdown Tom posted:did you have a granny with a PC back in the day? or a blue collar dad that spent most of the day working with lumber? you probably had this installed on your computer Whenever I played Old Maid I totally thought the lady on the left was actually the old maid.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 01:16 |
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Turdsdown Tom posted:did you have a granny with a PC back in the day? or a blue collar dad that spent most of the day working with lumber? you probably had this installed on your computer Robin was a loving rear end in a top hat.
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# ? Feb 2, 2016 02:32 |
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Mad Monk posted:The first game I ever bought with my own money was Michael Crichton's Amazon. I lost the paper map that came with the game, so I wrote the company a letter requesting a new map and put a dollar in the envelope. A few days later they sent me a new map and there was a hand written letter about how they were happy I was enjoying the game and they sent my dollar back with the map. That's a really cute story. I remember phoning a pc magazine to ask for help with a video game, as if the gaming guy would just happen to know a cheat.
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Non Serviam posted:That's a really cute story. I used to call either Babbage's or Software etc., the two computer stores in our mall and ask those guys. Had pretty decent success too from what I remember.
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