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    Back in the old days my buddy got a nice 386. I was completely hooked on Wolfenstein 3D. We also had a blast double teaming on Mech Warrior, he would drive, I would "weapon dump" opponents in our fully decked out Battlemaster. Priceless.
    oh man, i remember doing that too. the controls were way too complicated for just 1 person, lol.

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    Chex Quest. Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Apple ][+ forever lol.

    I played Elite, Rescue Raiders, Star Blazer, lots of text games from "Adam's Adventures" and Infocom, Karateka, Archon, Bard's Tale, Autoduel, Stellar 7, Taipan, Galactic Empire, The first 4 Ultima games and first 5 Wizardry games ... so many others, so many bad/cheesy little crappy classic games I've forgotten.

    Pretty much all of it copied at school or downloaded from a modem BBS, back before software piracy became illegal. So many 5¼" diskettes fulla good times.
    My mind says Technic, but my body says Duplo.

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    Yeah. I never played the original Doom. I was 10 when Chex Quest came out and my mom was pretty restrictive in the violent video games I could or could not play. But when Chex Quest came out, oh man. It may be the first game I ever beat . . .

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    Since we've eliminated consoles, mine was Aztec, played from 5 1/4" floppies (with the notch cut out with a hole punch to make them double-sided) on various Apple II systems.

    This game was bleeding edge, fellas. I was proud to have my pirated copy.


    Edit: I also forgot about Archon for the Commodore 64.
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    Heh, notching double-sided floppies ... we actually removed the write-detect sensor/mechanism from a couple of disk drives in the school's Apple lab so that bastard math teacher wouldn't confiscate our games. If he caught us playing we'd be like "I found the game running on this computer without a disk".

    Prior to that we had to jimmy open the locked file cabinet where all the confiscated goodies were kept, and that was a real pain. Archon and Archon II rocked, back when Electronic Arts (EOA) made *real* games instead of only sports stuff.
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    Apple ][+ forever lol.

    I played Elite, Rescue Raiders, Star Blazer, lots of text games from "Adam's Adventures" and Infocom, Karateka, Archon, Bard's Tale, Autoduel, Stellar 7, Taipan, Galactic Empire, The first 4 Ultima games and first 5 Wizardry games ... so many others, so many bad/cheesy little crappy classic games I've forgotten.

    Pretty much all of it copied at school or downloaded from a modem BBS, back before software piracy became illegal. So many 5¼" diskettes fulla good times.
    AHH! I forgot about Wizardry. Those games were awesome!
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    Ultima Underworld took up a huge amount of my life.
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    Can't forget the old star wars games, like Tie Fighter and X-wing. I bought a joystick just for those games. Spent HOURS flying around. lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by BuzzKillington View Post
    Carmen San Diego, Oregon Trail, Putt Putt, the Magic School Bus games, Old I spy games. I wasn't on the computer much as a kid so what I played was mostly at school during free-time.
    Putt Putt! yes, how could i forget! oregon trail and carmen san diego, too.

    Quote Originally Posted by d_stilgar View Post
    I remember the magic school bus game on the human body. That was awesome. I also played Reader Rabbit games (the early ones, like 2 or 3), Gizmos and Gadgets (still awesome), Carmen San Diego, Treasure Mathstorm, and some Mercer Mayer and Busytown games.
    reader rabbit and treasure mathstorm were good, too.

    And . . . how about Hover for Win95?
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    I used to play Zaxxon all the time. great game. Also frogger, digger, and q*bert. I remember playing wolfenstein 3d and thinking how amazing it was, also the old Commander keen games and duke nukem!! lol. I loved just about all the shareware games, though I never bought the full versions usually (except for wolfenstein and doom).
    DUKE FREAKIN NUKEM! yes.
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