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A lot of people will list Treasure's games as some of the best vertical scrolling shooters, and they're not wrong, but it's a shame that Tyrian doesn't get more mainstream attention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4XOBfOcYgE A fully-featured story mode with no bullshit messages to collect to flesh out the world and such (though definitely not the most original or great storyline ever conceived, it's still something), highly customizable ships with a ton of weapons and different abilities, branching paths, secret and bonus levels with silly gimmicks, co-op play, a decent challenge at higher difficulties, insanely good music, interesting ship design and neat bosses, all done on DOS in 1995 you could also unlock a carrot ship that fires stuff like bananas and hot dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzuAFIw014 (a bit on the LOL so random side, but it kinda works tbh)
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Good soup! posted:
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I have had a rough few weeks personally and this made me happy, can't wait to share with my brother lol, thanks dude 
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Good soup! posted:
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This might be just as relevant for the covers thread, but I was always fascinated walking through stores like CompUSA and seeing all the shovelware Doom and Doom clone addon disks that were just collections of poo poo downloaded from the internet and slapped on to floppy disks and CDs in what I can only assume was some legal gray area The Doom Construction Kit was the one I remember the most and I believe may have actually been a book? It was one of the only ones that actually looked like a real product, but I never had the chance to buy it  I actually had D!Zone and H!Zone buried in a closet somewhere  Others were uh interesting      
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Had the Hundreds of Levels! disc and never got any of them to work.
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What's that shooter that had pigs that wasn't Duke. And I think you were a pig.
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Wormskull posted:What's that shooter that had pigs that wasn't Duke. And I think you were a pig. you could turn enemies into/get turned into a pig in hexen, thats all i got right now
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Wormskull posted:What's that shooter that had pigs that wasn't Duke. And I think you were a pig. HURL? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC1KyTKuEXM
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Feb 28, 2023 02:12
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oh my god that looks awful like that maze screensaver from Windows 95
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Feb 28, 2023 02:14
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I actually had this one. I think I convinced my parents to buy it for me when I saw it at Best Buy. It was a book as thick as a dictionary that came with a CD that had the software needed to make wads. The software didn't work so I never got a chance to try and make anything.
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Feb 28, 2023 02:15
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even as an fos obsessed kid playing through a 250 in 1 games disk i knew never to touch hurl again
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Feb 28, 2023 02:19
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It wasn't like our household didn't have an NES and an SNES, but I still found some way to get a ripoff Super Mario for my aging computer in my room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxwRQKmin-E No idea why I played this, but I did!
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Feb 28, 2023 02:19
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hell yeah who's up for some 2-player...volleyball? 
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I can't decide what looks, sounds and plays worse - HURL, or Hypercycles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lKyFO6qkA
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NHL 96 was a very good sports game, and had a lot going for it. The stadiums were in 3D with sprite-based players and spectators, so you had a superb presentation that blew every other hockey game out of the water, added in fighting (though I was used to seeing that because of Blades of Steel  ), simulated reflections on the ice, and great sound/musicIt also had some hilarious quirks in its AI that made me and my friends die laughing. Referees were constantly getting in the way of play* in pure kamikaze fashion. You could wrist a puck out to center ice from behind the net and watch as it sailed at about 10mph with ridiculous amounts of hang time, only to see a ref go skating directly into its path and give out a comical OOOOOF sound and get laid out flat on his rear end. Also, if a puck was going just as slow along the ice just outside the goal crease, the goalie would painstakingly rotate to watch it glide by and the moment it got the closest to them, the goalie would literally just flop on the ground, but right in place so he never touched it anyway. This happened every single time. Good game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY-nUqmn4aY *insert joke about how "OH that doesn't happen now in the NHL????"
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Oh my god I remember this game. Haven't thought about it in years. I remember being really weirded out by the pig animations as a kid.
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Good soup! posted:hell yeah who's up for some 2-player...volleyball? Lol. that's how I play irl
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Not content to let consoles get in on the action with Mortal Kombat ripoffs, there were definitely developers on PC that were more than happy to dive headfirst into creating fighting games with digitized actors. They missed out on some important things that MK had, namely cool-looking characters with distinct traits played by actors who at least looked athletic enough to perform some of the feats of strength on display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaNGnkl46gY 
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Good soup! posted:A lot of people will list Treasure's games as some of the best vertical scrolling shooters, and they're not wrong, but it's a shame that Tyrian doesn't get more mainstream attention tyrian2000 is also free but the source code wasn't released and opentyrian doesn't support it, which is either a good or a bad thing depending on how you feel about pretzels. there's a third-party fork called opentyrian2000 that tries to add support but i dunno how finished it is
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Bringing Japanese games to DOS in the 80s and 90s was a noble endeavor but the original Ys didn't exactly fare all that well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lfvzii65Q An interesting tidbit from the comments section that I have no idea if it's true or not but: quote:Very interesting case the DOS (and MAC !) version ! It was edited by a company directed by Scott Tsumura, a Japanese-born American that wanted to make like a bridge between Japanese computer games ( because Ys was a computer game... Which is why there is no button attack, most RPG at the time worked like that ) and American computer game, since it seemed to worked so well on console ! Well, it never really worked even if the company (Kyodai Software Marketing inc) did some interesting localisation like J.B Harold Murder Club.... The president ( so that Scott Tsumura guy ) even later made Tetris creator Pajitnov escape the URSS in order to acquire that rights company ! Yeah ! That's the same guy !
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No it had more of a punk edge to it and was kinda gross, not cute lol.
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Good soup! posted:Bringing Japanese games to DOS in the 80s and 90s was a noble endeavor but the original Ys didn't exactly fare all that well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hKK4_gvOS0 but anyway, back to dos ports of japanese pc games - sierra fared a bit better, teaming up with game arts and putting out some very faithful ports of thexder, silpheed and zeliard that play well and closely resemble the pc-98 originals with the latter two getting the addition of some nice mt-32 midi music if you were a millionaire and had one (or if you just use MUNT with dosbox nowadays...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jcwZB9LXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4YoBa0yoo
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I've been looking for a shareware game I found on AOL back in the 90s, it looked and played like Zelda 1 but maybe no dungeons and even worse graphics. I swear it was called Scepter Lore but it either wasn't or it was just lost to time.
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the robot face voice intro to Silpheed always made my pc crash (I think it was looking for a sound card that wasn’t there) so I had to hit the skip button really quickly before it started to be able to play the game 
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Bouillon Rube posted:the robot face voice intro to Silpheed always made my pc crash (I think it was looking for a sound card that wasn’t there) so I had to hit the skip button really quickly before it started to be able to play the game makes him sound kinda alien tho better than the crystal clear apple iigs version i guess!
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welcome posted:I've been looking for a shareware game I found on AOL back in the 90s, it looked and played like Zelda 1 but maybe no dungeons and even worse graphics. I swear it was called Scepter Lore but it either wasn't or it was just lost to time. I wish there was something like the wayback machine for AOL. I played so many random games I can't remember the name of that I downloaded from the games section of AOL kids on my first computer.
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welcome posted:I've been looking for a shareware game I found on AOL back in the 90s, it looked and played like Zelda 1 but maybe no dungeons and even worse graphics. I swear it was called Scepter Lore but it either wasn't or it was just lost to time.   the original dev threw a preconfigured copy on steam for free.
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The Kins posted:God of Thunder, maybe? No although I've played that and it kicks rear end. Way lower rent graphics, flat beige ground everywhere, flat green trees blocking off screen edges, you could count the pink and blue pixels on the player's clothes, etc.
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Wow I completely forgot Sierra of all companies did the Silpheed port and I had no idea about the Zeliard port, that music fuckin rules Some little door opened in the back of my mind and I recalled seeing two shareware companies in our disk collection more than any others - The $5 Computer Software Store and Titanium Seal. Titanium Seal put out an awesome-looking Doom shareware release, and I'll never forget seeing the packaging and the screenshots on the back before my dad installed it. I remember that Titanium Seal had their own frontend/launcher, and you would just type "seal" and it would bring up one of those blue menus where you could scroll through software and launch it from there. I can't find a single screenshot of it, though.   It can be yours, sealed, for a clean $99! https://www.ebay.com/itm/115303873322 This was the same disk and packaging I had for Wolf3D   
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Remembered many, many hours spent with Galactix, which was Galaga with a claw, a lifebar, and just endless hell raining down upon you.
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Good soup! posted:Titanium Seal put out an awesome-looking Doom shareware release, and I'll never forget seeing the packaging and the screenshots on the back before my dad installed it. I remember that Titanium Seal had their own frontend/launcher, and you would just type "seal" and it would bring up one of those blue menus where you could scroll through software and launch it from there. I can't find a single screenshot of it, though.  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZ_67Ttznk remmeber the last eichhof gamers. except a lot of english language sites always called it "beer war" for some reason.
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The Kins posted:was able to find some of their releases on internet archive haha, nice, that was a thing of beauty  mysterious loyall X posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZ_67Ttznk remmeber the last eichhof gamers. except a lot of english language sites always called it "beer war" for some reason. lol
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another entry from the surprisingly storied "i can kind of sort of copy an old arcade game and i just figured out how to play samples and got a desktop mic for xmas" genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzjXyN6WVmo clips from this game still echo through my head every now and then it's the PLANETS!!!!!! yeah yipee woohoo
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mysterious loyall X posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZ_67Ttznk remmeber the last eichhof gamers. except a lot of english language sites always called it "beer war" for some reason. I want to be fast lol
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More games should list upgrades according to goals and ideals that the player believes in.
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The Kins posted:God of Thunder, maybe? thank you for reminding me about God of Thunder
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Leadthumb posted:More games should list upgrades according to goals and ideals that the player believes in. 
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