What's Your Favorite Old-Timey Game?

[ChullRider he/him]

The Gameboy Golf came out in 1900, so I guess that's kind of old...

 

~Also~

 

I managed to get my hands on a Virtual Console Donkey Kong Land 1995 game for the 3DS. You were all right. It is hard. I wasn't be able to get through even the second level without restore points. They're basically checkpoints of the Virtual Console that you can use anytime you want. But thanks to them, I'm now halfway through World Three! 

[Titan Arum]

A thread to make me feel old! Well, then. I played NES growing up (Excite Bike and Monster Truck Rally were the jam!), but was more of a computer gamer by the early 90s. I played a lot of King's Quest games, Quest for Glory, Carmen San Diego, Oregon Trail, Prince of Persia, Civilization, Castle of Dr. Brain, Sim City, Scorched Earth, etc.. The good DOS games. Really, any adventure game from Sierra was amazing. 

[vietnamabc]

 

Army men series, there is something special watching stuff blows up in plastic and my favorite scene is a magnifying glass melt the plastic men.

[Cracknut he/him]

Not sure if they're old enough but these are some of the games I loved and still play sometimes: Heroes of Might and Magic III, Diablo 1/2, Dungeon Siege, Warcraft 3, Quake III Arena, Half Life and Comandos.

[Left he/him]

Not sure if they're old enough but these are some of the games I loved and still play sometimes: Heroes of Might and Magic III, Diablo 1/2, Dungeon Siege, Warcraft 3, Quake III Arena, Half Life and Comandos.

I put down Homm3 as well. Favorite faction?

[Mckeedee123 he/him]

Well now you're just making me feel old.  I played first and second Generation Pokemon when they came out.  They are the best ones, and I switch back and forth on which was the better game.

 

Oh yeah! Pokemon Gold Version. Played that as a 6-year old. Had a level 82 Feraligatr and nothing else. I Loved it, and still do (except now I have to play the remakes because of the internal clocks thing)

 

 

 

I put down Homm3 as well. Favorite faction?

 

The Angel/Castle people. The troops there had the most survivability (though the necropolis was fun once you upgraded your hero to turn dead enemies into liches instead of skeletons. Liches OP)

Edited March 29, 2015 by Mckeedee123

[Cracknut he/him]

I put down Homm3 as well. Favorite faction?

Necropolis, Conflux and Tower. Least favorites would be Stronghold and Fortress. Yours? Such a great game, wish there was a new version of it that would build upon and improve it instead of doing what they did with newer heroes games ;(( 

This game was so broken with its overpowered spells/items/units/etc but somehow that made it even better. Still much more fun with it then most of today's ultra high quality graphics and balanced strategy games. That could be because of nostalgia though

Edited March 29, 2015 by Cracknut

[Left he/him]

Mine's the human based one as well Rampart is good too though. Hasted Crusaders and mass zealots with high chainlightning for the win   I was just playing it a bunch  a while ago, still a blast to play.

[Unhinged he/him]

I've long loved skies of Arcadia Legends (it remains my favorite game ever to this day) In fact I've given serious consideration to buying a dreamcast just so I could see what the original game was like. Other than that I liked the gen one and two Pokemon games starfox 64 and Ocarina of time . And if you want to go back to the really early games I enjoyed Pacman and Galaxia plus all those games that came free with windows... never did figure out how to ski past the yeti though.

[Briar King]

I bought my Dreamcast just for that game. Even though Final Fantasy is my fave series Skies remains my fav RPG. It's epic and I can't describe the sadness that it will never get a sequel.

[Blaze1616 he/him]

Oh yeah! Pokemon Gold Version. Played that as a 6-year old. Had a level 82 Feraligatr and nothing else. I Loved it, and still do (except now I have to play the remakes because of the internal clocks thing)

 

If you or someone you trust is handy with a soldering iron, you can replace the battery to get the original cartridge working again. Just unscrew the back of the plastic cartridge, and the battery is either CR2032 or LR44 if I am not mistaken. The issue is that the battery was soldered into place, so you need to remove the metal, replace the battery, and then replace the metal. Some buddies of mine fixed one of their Gold versions three years ago.

[blad3mast3r he/him]

I don't play much in the way of video games anymore, and I didn't a lot when I was younger either, but I did far more then than now. Not much console though. I loved watching my sister play Ocarina of Time, but I never personally got into it. I enjoyed multiplayer GoldenEye, and I played a bit of Donkey Kong but that was more because I thought the mine carts were a blast. I did more PC games than anything else. Started out on Whiplash and Command & Conquer and went from those to Age of Empires (haven't played any of that franchise after Age of Kings) and Need for Speed (particularly Most Wanted, though I don't think that's old-timey since it was 2005).

 

If I were to do any gaming now, I'd probably pick back up Command & Conquer, AoE, and Most Wanted.

 

ah... the command and conquer series.....

 

UNIT LOST!

[traceria she/her]

A thread to make me feel old! Well, then. I played NES growing up (Excite Bike and Monster Truck Rally were the jam!), but was more of a computer gamer by the early 90s. I played a lot of King's Quest games, Quest for Glory, Carmen San Diego, Oregon Trail, Prince of Persia, Civilization, Castle of Dr. Brain, Sim City, Scorched Earth, etc.. The good DOS games. Really, any adventure game from Sierra was amazing. 

See, this is more my zone.  I remember being excited to go to computer lab in middle school so we could play Oregon Trail and the lemonade stand game.  I stunk at any twitchy game, but we played River Raid and other games on the Atari at my grandparents' house and had the original Sega.  I loved Alex Kid in Miracle World, but I was and still am so bad at games like that that I only ever made it to level 5 or thereabouts.  I was more a Myst, Sim City, Tetris and Chip's Challenge girl.  (Chip's Challenge was in a random game pack for PC along with Tetris and about ten other games.)  My parents weren't really into the idea of computer games, so most games that came into our house were for the PS1, PS2 when we got it, and my brother played those, not me.  I'd watch, though, quite avidly.

[ChocolateRob he/him]

I'm gonna join the "that's not old" group. I'm 33 and I've played games from Commadore 64 upwards, I can still just about remember playing games that came on cassette tapes and Text adventures, Icicle Works was a favourite, Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein 3D, Pong, Paperboy, Frogger, pac-man, old memories heavily crusted over. All these were on my Uncle's computer along with many others I can't really recall, I got them all when he was done with that but can't remember what happened to them all afterwards.

 

The first console I had of my own was a Sega master system and later Megadrive with such classics as Sonic, Asterix, Alex Kidd in miracle world, Micromachines turbo tournament 96, golden axe warrior, streets of rage/shinobi/golden axe, Dessert Strike, Robocop Vs Terminator, Lemmings, James Pond: Robocod, Duck hunt. I seem to recall that if you held certain buttons down on the controller when you turned on the Master system without a game in it you would get a bonus game where you would guide a snail through a maze.

When I got myself a playstation in 97 I sold all my Sega games but I regretted that in later years and I've kept all my games since then, from PS1-PS4 I have around 200 games on my shelves.

 

My PS1 originally had Tomb Raider and Discworld II but some of my (other) favourites were - MediEvil, Discworld Noir, Soul Reaver, Resident Evil 2, Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid, FFVII-VIII, Silent Hill, Populous the Beginning, Die Hard Trilogy, Xenogears,The Legend of Dragoon and Vagrant Story (VS has long been my favourite game soundtrack too)

 

PS2 - FFX, Soul Reaver 2, Silent Hill 2 (another excellent soundtrack), Onimusha, Jak and Daxter, Project Zero/FatalFrame, GTA Vice City, Valkyrie Profile Silmeria, Okami.

 

I'll leave off with PS3 as the subject is 'Old' games and I'm not one for PC gaming myself but I had to make an exception for Omikron: the Nomad Soul (by early Quantic Dream no less), how many other games allow you to attend underground David Bowie concerts?

[ThirdGen]

 

After a new ice age, a small island is invaded by a dictator.  You and those you recruit in nearby villages have to repel this invasion.  Open-world in a time when 3D was barely possible, you ski, drive, snipe, sabotage, and keep track of the personal relationships of villagers to know who can recruit who.  This game was awesome.  And tough.

[the Gleeman he/him]

Ah so many gen 3 pokemon fans

 

As far as old games go, some of my favorites are Doom, Half-Life, KOTOR (the one good thing still canon!), the Jedi Knight series(no longer canon for some reason), LOZ: Link to the Past, any classic fighting game (especially MvC2), and the X-men Legends series.

 

Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced was very well done too, though I must say FFTA: 2 was better. 

[Dunkum he/him]

Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced was very well done too, though I must say FFTA: 2 was better. 

I have to disagree.  A2 was maybe a bit more balanced (in A1, I had an assassin that could hit with the instakill attack from behind 95% of the time, it was great), but I hated having to unlock pretty much every single class.  Also, the Gria and Seeq species felt like they weren't fully developed.  they needed a few more classes each to fill them out, including some more unique classes, preferably

 

 

 

Your Hector must have been under-used then. Lyn is my favorite as well, but she is a rather niche character, as her class is simply the combination of Archer and Swordsmaster. Hector's class is an enhanced General, and Eliwood's is an enhanced Paladin, making most people view them as superior to Lyn, as both of those classes are far less niche than Lyn's.

I think on that first play-through, I may have just underused Hector, in later games, he dominates, and is next to impossible to damage, let alone kill.  Eliwood is an upgraded cavalier, not a paladin, if memory serves.  I don't think he can use axes.  and Lyn is great because you can stick her in the woods and she becomes impossible to hit, while slaughtering anyone that comes near.  I do go through her weapons rather quickly though.

 

 

 

Oh yeah! Pokemon Gold Version. Played that as a 6-year old. Had a level 82 Feraligatr and nothing else. I Loved it, and still do (except now I have to play the remakes because of the internal clocks thing)

I have the same problem.  haven't wanted to try replacing the battery.  And back in Red version, I had a lvl 100 Alakazam.  I would use him to solo the elite four.

 

 

 

Back on the original topic: for an actual old-timey game that I still think is great I have to nominate "Combat" for the Atari.

[Blaze1616 he/him]

I think on that first play-through, I may have just underused Hector, in later games, he dominates, and is next to impossible to damage, let alone kill.  Eliwood is an upgraded cavalier, not a paladin, if memory serves.  I don't think he can use axes.  and Lyn is great because you can stick her in the woods and she becomes impossible to hit, while slaughtering anyone that comes near.  I do go through her weapons rather quickly though.

 

Weapon-wise you are correct, Eliwood is a cavalier. Stat wise he usually hits Paladin levels (unless you're having a playthrough where the RNG hates you...)

[Dunkum he/him]

Weapon-wise you are correct, Eliwood is a cavalier. Stat wise he usually hits Paladin levels (unless you're having a playthrough where the RNG hates you...)

fair enough.  it must have always hated me, because I never found him all that useful.  nowhere near lyn of hector levels

[LouiseSparrow she/her]

Um... King's Quest? Monkey Island? or really old-timey like Pitfall, Frogger and Galaxian?

[vertigo 1]

Descent and descent 2 For me. I loved going into those twisted mines in my spaceship and blowing up all the robots, then explore the mine.

[ChullRider he/him]

I have a Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros NES game, but no NES right now, so I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. I'll probably end up donating it.

[Briar King]

I'll add my fav PC games even though they're 5-10 yrs newer from what I think of as old timey. X Wing & Tie Fighter. I sunk SOOOO many hrs, days, weeks, mths, yrs into these 2 epic games in the 90's my teen yrs before I had my liscense & a car.

[Arondell]

Well my favorite looking back to the early 90s would have to be Star Control 2.  A combination exploration, resource gathering, adventure that had a great deal of humor while still being a fairly serious overall story.  It also had a great ship vs ship combat system.  The original developers also graciously allowed the fan community to revamp the game and release it with an upgraded soundtrack and distribute it for free some years back.

 

If I want to go back into the eighties things get a bit less clear.  I played a lot of good ones but none stand out as the single best to me.  A few that stand out as classics that were great are Archon, MULE, and just about any of the text based adventures from Infocom(e.g. Zork, Planetfall, Wishbringer) and Sierra On-line.(e.g. Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest)

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Based on your description, Final Fantasy is the obvious choice for me lol. It's honestly the only series I have revisited as many times as I have. Especially 4, 8, 10, 12, and the Legend games. but I'm not sure if 10 onward count as old-timey (none of them are for me since I grew up with them being a significant part of my life). But since some of them came out in the time of those Pokemon games, I am guessing these qualify. 

 

 

Spyro the dragon and Tony Hawk are also staples of the childhood demographic of my household (17 of us all in total.)