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My two Favorite music tunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdrQp2hA6NI&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_625071

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzK17RaS-k

I read some where that michael jackson did some music for sonic 3.

I still play The Bard's Tale series every once in a while. I even bought the game Devil Whiskey which is inspired by it.

My favorite game for the Sega Genesis was Master Of Monsters. It's a rare game and I have yet to find someone who knows it. It has one of my favorite videogame soundtracks of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6lGk6unhk is the soundtrack and I think all the monsters in the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dX7iroL8hc, one of the darker songs, is just epic. Even if you've never heard of this game you know it's epic just from listening to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice_%28video_game%29

I used to play that game at my grandma's house. :tongue:

OH MY GOD I FORGOT RODLAND.

I like the Metropolis zone music. :3

I used to play hours and hours of zombies ate my neighbors as well! Me and my friend would always get to level I think it was after the mall where it had all those Jason mask guys with chainsaws we could never get passed that part I don't know why that level was so hard. I think I eventually got further playing by myself eventually but always remembered the hedge maze level as being super hard.I bet if I played it now It'd be super easy. LOL the main character is a kid with spikey hair and 3D glasses wearing a skull on his shirt. Squirtguns kill zombies lol. And the missile launcher blows holes in the wall. I loved the blow up clowns I thought it was funny at the time. You go around rescuing cheerleaders and guys making humburgers in middle of a zombie crisis lol. That game is truly classic. How come the only thing I can find about this game is for the SNES, I played this game on Sega genesis/megadrive, I never owned a SNES!



I loved super mario 2 it was defiantly a very unique Mario game.

Good grief I remember that - it was like a slightly more forgiving version than the brutally impossible Knightlore, I think.

Cut my teeth on a BBC Micro, then an Acorn Archimedes 310.

Then in 1993 My dad bought an insanely powerful PC that had 8 MEGABYTES OF RAM! It came bundled with Ultima Underworld 2 and my end of term progress report grades went down with quite suspicious synchronicity, but I can still navigate the sewers of Britannia from memory...

Well I just started playing Chrono Trigger (SNES version). Haven't gotten that far, just finished the first future part where you get Robo.
The game is great, but annoys me to death since I found there to be a lot of secrets and stuff. I get scared that I might have missed some great items that where hidden, or some sub story somewhere etc.
Like the sewer system in the future, just south of the speed bike race. I went down into the sewers and 2 "cutscenes" happened, but I couldn't progress anywhere in the sewers so I eventually left. Now I just keep thinking I must have missed something awesome, and that annoys the hell out of me.

I just re-discovered an old DOS game I used to love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19rc8YB3sY.

Apparently there's a http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/raptor_call_of_the_shadows_2010_edition/?pp=35e995c107a71caeb833bb3b79f9f54781b33fa1 on GoG with support for higher resolutions.

Heh, I remember playing the shareware version of that. But I always liked Tyrian more, http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/tyrian_2000.

That's the one, thank you!

I'm currently playing Freespace 2. Not exactly old-school, but certainly a gem and a classic. I'm pretty deep into it. Freaking Shivan scum. I think there's only been 5 or so missions that I HAVEN'T lost my entire squad on. If you want to save them, you have to do some serious command gymnastics. What I do right now is Form on My Wing -> Destroy My Target until I finally clear the enemy squad out, then Form on My Wing and move on to the next engagement. If you DON'T use Form on My Wing you're entire squad will rush off and engage random targets and get beat down pretty quickly. Its not so much that you need their firepower to complete missions, you just need their NUMBERS. If you don't have them, you'll get focused hard by warship beam lasers.

All of the old Sierra and LucasArts adventure games basically defined my childhood. One (oft ignored) series I speak highly of is the Quest for Glory games, which were basically adventure games but with some RPG elements to them. You named your character and defined their stats, and there were all kinds of different ways to solve puzzles or side-quests depending on how you developed your skills. Entire sequences of the games, especially near the end, would be completely different depending on your class.

The later games in the series kind of drifted a bit from this mechanic and were more like ordinary adventure games, but I adore the world for its quirky (recurring) characters and how it draws heavily from the folklore of different real-world cultures. In the fourth game, there's even a few rather intricate sequences where a gypsy gives your character tarot-card readings, which shed some light on the game's backstory and the other characters you encounter. The games are simply adventure at their finest - they definitely were designed by people who wanted to tell a story more than design a successful and polished game, although QFG succeeds in both departments quite nicely.

I'm particularly fond of Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire, which has a very exciting "One Thousand and One Nights" feel to it. Best of all? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1244212/DOSBox/sciv_029.png

not exactly old but i bought japanese versions of pokemon red and yellow. oddly enough, the japanese version of red has different styled pokemon than the US releases.


want to know whats going to be weird? when somebody makes an old school games thread 20 years from now and says, "good god i loved to play fallout 3 so much! good ol' classic game kicked so much ass!"

Yeah. Most people won't even have played the real oldies, only heard about them through subculture. It'll be funny when indie games, instead of going for the retro pixellated art-style we see now, they start making things that look like Fallout 3 and calling that oldschool.

I remember when I used to play RuneScape (waaaaay back, what you know today as "RS Classic" when the game was basically sprite-based) and Jagex used to release ugly old 3D wallpapers like http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1737910_f496.jpg, and people absolutely loved them. I may be only seventeen, but even I'm beginning to kind of miss all those primitive 3D CGI forum signatures everybody used to have back in the early-to-mid 2000's. :sadvaultboy:

Ah, ye olden days. A time when you beat a game was enough to call for a celebration.

If there's anything from the Genesis era that stands out, it is the Ecco games. They will forever be known as the only games to have ever scared me. Who would've thought some game where you play as a cute dolphin could be so nightmarish? :cold:


...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Pirates!?


Yeah, there's a PS1 version of Trigger, it came in the Final Fantasy Chronicles pack (with FFIV). Unfortunately, the port svcked.


Don't worry, what you found in the sewers will come into play later.

I remember trying to play mortal kombat for the first time when I was like 7 or 8 maybe younger. It was really hard for some reason and when I got my ass kicked and saw my guy get destroyed into a bloody pulp and thrown into a river it really scared me and I hated Mortal Kombat. Street fighter was a little bit more friendly and easy to do the cheap moves.

Anybody ever play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bee2mnq8oEM this was a really fun game and one of my favorites! I forgot about this one also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnSTuHAxhs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl5dl1kGXHU


That is a weird thought 20 years from Fallout 3 being old school. 20 years from now we may be playing fallout in real life the way things are going I wonder if I'll still be playing video games 20 years from now I'll be 44-45ish having a middle age crisis. The Atari/NES/Genesis(AKA MegaDrive)/SNES/N64/Sega Saturn well be considered ancient like the Great pyramids then.

I'm just happy that they like to put these classics in gaming volumes and release them for the DS or XBLA. I honestly don't know what I'll do when my nes, atari, and n64 finally give out. Clone systems and roms are ok but it's just not the same .