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Mak0rz posted:Do you have a separate shelf where you keep your "not incredible" game collection because dang this is an all-star lineup here. Nope that's it! PC Gamer used to be really good back then. In 2000 or so they had an issue that came with a free disc of complete versions of a bunch of great old games. I remember it had Ultima Underworld, X-Com: UFO Defense, King's Quest, Monkey Island 1, Alone in the Dark, Duke Nukem II, Wing Commander and I think Descent 1. It's fun going through the issues from 98-2000 or so and reading the articles speculating about Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 and what Valve was planning, which was way different from what was actually developed. Also an issue with prerelease screenshots of Duke Nukem Forever in 2000 or so before they scrapped everything. And Daikatana hype and the eventual bad review
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Speaking of the click team game making chat, I used to visit this site a lot: http://www.create-games.com Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be updated anymore, but it lasted a lot longer than I would have thought considering I left the scene like 10 years ago. The game uploader still apparently works since there are some games released this year on the "what's new" list, which is really impressive, so I guess the scene is still alive in some form. The Klik and Play scene started in the AOL days and I was around during that time, I would go to the place where people uploaded games on a daily basis and download anything, lots of shite but also some real fun games. After AOL died people made new sites to host games and chat on IRC (#k&p on dalnet), where I used to visit all the time and shoot the poo poo with others. It was a real magical time. By the time I stopped visiting and checking for new games, some of them were really advanced, and people were even starting to charge for the massive titles (although back then they would send you CDs as digital distribution wasn't so common yet). Always fun to see people in the scene become successful in the games industry, many of them use the same nicknames, I even recognize people on SA who used to be active. Sometimes people who made it "big" would still stop by the Irc channel as well. Oddly enough, I don't recall too much drama in the scene, maybe some stupid poo poo happened but overall everyone was incredibly friendly. Original_Z has a new favorite as of 05:44 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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Playing Snowcraft in middle school.
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Wicker Man posted:Playing Snowcraft in middle school. drat, i remember that dumb thing. p sweet when it was on one of the few sites the school didn't block.
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Feb 9, 2016 06:03
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Remember Norton Change Disk? 
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The Kins posted:Oh, if we're going down that route... reported for 
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DOS Navigator supremacy  albeit I grew up with NC, but nowadays on my old PCs I use DN. It has Tetris!
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Shaquin posted:I think that's very much the case where even with only a couple of decades of experience I can safely say the brain sifts the memories of that poo poo until you do not remember or consider the garbage My brain is broken then, because I remember the vast majority of games on the Commodore were frustrating as hell - the difficulty either lurched from ludicrously easy to impossible in the span of a few minutes of play (Mail Order Monsters), or you had a game that was essentially a platformer that could only be solved with some crazy code-breaking nonsense (Impossible Mission), or was just incredibly monotonous or boring (Temple of Apshai). The few games that really stood out to me were standouts to everyone else - like Beach Head, MULE, Archon, Blue Max, stuff like that. The rest - and holy poo poo did my dad pirate a poo poo-ton of games via his 'Commodore Club' - were rear end.
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Here's a neat site I stumbled upon after finding windows 1 and visual basic for DOS. It has simulations of old PC machines from back in the 80 along with one with Windows 1, well worth a look. http://www.pcjs.org/
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Old music software was nice, not very user friendly. Friends used to make death metal on this beauty.
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Man I love the guide that came with Baulders Gate 2. It was spiral bound and easily 100-200 pages long. Had lots of cool art and poo poo in the margins  It came with a cloth map too, hell if I know where it is right off though.
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a happy snowman posted:It's me, I'm the computer relic. Ran a BBS on it too. It is I who am teh relic. http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/4680
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I will never be able to listen to Danse Macabre without thinking of running from the ghosts in the ballroom.
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Keith Atherton posted:What about retail software stores? I remember going to Egghead Software to buy boxed copies of games. I bought Fallout 1 based just on the box art and screenshots. I have a bunch of old games in my office bookshelf: Babbages.
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I miss the old Neverwinter Nights on AOL. I started playing just before they switched to unlimited so it was my first $300 bill and then the gates were closed because it could only handle 200 people logged in at once. drat you Lord Nasher, open the gate!
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I used to play this one MUD I wish I could remember the name of it... at least I think it was a MUD. It was like a text and story-based fantasy game but you could get equipment, move around a world, interact with NPCs. basically precursor to modern MMORPGs I guess? do I have that right? If so, what were some of the most popular MUDs circa mid 90s
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 this was one of my absolute favorite games as a kid. it combined three of my favorite things at that age: * star wars related... * pc game... * that's a first person shooter! which reminds me the first thing that i ever purchased over the internet was related to this game. there was a level editor somebody had made but they were charging a somewhat low price for it. I think $20 in 1990s money (dunno why I bothered saying that that's only like $30 today). i finally convinced my dad to let me use his credit card to buy it and the next few months of my life were heaven. i was making my own levels and even assets. 2d level editors were a breeze to use. i remember later on a 3d successor to this game came out that was in 3d and had lightsabers and poo poo. I tried to learn the level editor for it. i opened it up once, got really overwhelmed, and gave up then and there...
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thathonkey posted:I used to play this one MUD I wish I could remember the name of it... at least I think it was a MUD. It was like a text and story-based fantasy game but you could get equipment, move around a world, interact with NPCs. basically precursor to modern MMORPGs I guess? do I have that right? MUDS (Multi User Domains or Multi User Dungeons) were the precursor to MMORPGS. Basically, big multplayer text adventures. I've got a book somewhere called Surfing on the Internet: A Nethead's Adventures Online. It is, as the title suggests, one person's experiences during the glory days of pre-commercialised Internet (early - mid-90s).
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I used to play realms of despair a lot, but closer to 2000 than mid 90s. It was pretty popular thigh, and I'm pretty sure it was running back then, even if I wasn't playing yet myself.
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Anyone remember Sleuth? I know I've posted about it before, but it was great, because you could personalize your game. It's basically single-player Clue, where you could eventually die. Adding in ridiculous names and then talking to suspects gave conversations like "I spent the entire evening with Bumpoop in the study," replies Dick Butkiss as he drinks from his glass. "You know who would want Conan dead? Jay Leno, that's who! I have no doubt of it. The man has been deviously planning something, but what, I have no clue. Maybe Weedlord Bonerhitler would be more helpful, though."
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Remember Norton Change Disk? That looks like some sort of lame windows application. Should really be using FAR:  http://www.farmanager.com/
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mobby_6kl posted:That looks like some sort of lame windows application. Should really be using FAR: Farm anager?
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I had several of these programs as a fat-headed sausage-fingered computer babby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwhG14Urm9Q They were some of the few programs we ran in Windows. I loved the Super Solver's games as a kid, Outnumbered being my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5r0NZ2XiDE I played Arctic Adventure and Paganitzu alot, I accessed these through a menu my dad had put together with some batch scripting. He brought tons of games home from his friends at work who were plucking them from newsgroups and copying disks at the office. You could play those games here if you wanted. I also had an ancient version of Reader Rabbit, that when you finished the game you could get your name printed on an ASCII art certificate that you ran off your dot-matrix printer. I had stacks of "completion certificates" and irritated my dad with how much paper I'd waste. I really just loved watching it print. Eventually we traded the Epson dot-matrix in for a Canon BUBBLEJET, which was easily the fastest printer we had ever owned. However, the image quality would fade rather quickly as it pretty much just sprayed ink all over the god-damned paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uoBE2uTzc God I miss that loving thing.
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Gonzo the Eggman posted:Farm anager? Yes to manage my server farm
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EDIT: ^^^^ I still need a Fi Lanager in my life, btw. I remember how dot matrix printers were pretty much THE thing to print banners on, and nowadays, no one bothers with banners  Also, serious question: Does anyone actually print stuff themselves, or do they just go to somewhere like Staples/Kwik Kopy/etc for that stuff?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:EDIT: ^^^^ I still need a Fi Lanager in my life, btw. If it's not black and white and over 300 dpi, I just pick it up from Staples. I got in the habit of storing all my "print-outs" as xps and saving them on flash drives.
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The woman on the left looks like she's up to no good. Ruff (the dog?) seems to be eyeing her, or her nefarious knitting, off hungrily. The girl with the hoop seems blithely unaware of the killer car, and what the gently caress is the golfer looking at?
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I think people only did banners because some parent or friend always had a printer that could do it. Birthday parties, office and school functions always had the dot matrix banner. Once people got ink jet printers and you had to actually go pay for a banner, the motivation wasn't there.
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Cojawfee posted:I think people only did banners because some parent or friend always had a printer that could do it. Birthday parties, office and school functions always had the dot matrix banner. Once people got ink jet printers and you had to actually go pay for a banner, the motivation wasn't there. It's a bit difficult to print a banner on separate pieces of paper. You have to stick them together yourself. Much easier with dot matrix paper, which was one continuous sheet but perforated.
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Mak0rz posted:It's still there in Windows 10 (10.0.10586)! My old P2 Dell had this piece of poo poo 3dLabs Permedia2 card in it which actually worked with about 10% of games. Half the time I'd just get flat-shaded greyness instead of actual textures. It did not work with FF7 so I "got" to play thru it in 320x240 software mode Soldier of Fortune was kind of funny because it textured everything but with the wrong textures, so when you'd blow a limb off instead of the gore texture it'd be police "do not cross" tape on the severed parts
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slomomofo posted:After the banner came the rasterbator, which is evidently still a thing. I was actually genuinely planning on rasterbating all over my walls growing up, but decided against it. I just don't have that much ink.
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ReverendFaux posted:
I think everyone had one of those in the mid 90's. Working at Circuit City I probably sold 10 a week. I had one myself, worked great.
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Mad Monk posted:I think everyone had one of those in the mid 90's. Working at Circuit City I probably sold 10 a week. I had one myself, worked great. Easily one of the best printers we ever had. During the 90's my mom and I each worked with Printshop Pro designing posters and banners. Getting a color printer changed my entire world and pretty much started my path on graphic design. slomomofo posted:After the banner came the rasterbator, which is evidently still a thing. I made more than one Vacation Bible School banner with rasterbator and people thought I owned a drat print studio at 12.
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I fuckin loved Klick & Play, Click & Create, The Games Factory, Multimedia Fusion, etc. Nostalgia incoming:           
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For a Commodore 64 game, EA Adventure Construction Set was a nice program, I spent a LOT of time with it.
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Last Chance posted:
If mobile apps were a thing in the 90's, these would've been the cornerstone. I remember grabbing several free "games" from download.com and nearly ALL of them having a Klik'N'Play logo or a GameMaker splash screen. Interestingly, Multimedia Fusion is still rolling. I got MF2 in a Humble Bundle a few years ago and it's nearly exactly the same as the first time I tired it in 99.
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