I used to love magic carpet on the PC... if anyone knows where i can download that from... I LOVE YOU!!!

oregon trail

Frogger

doom, and oregon trail

contra and spy hunter

I'd like to add

JumpMan
Lode Runner!


and not quite so old school:
Lemmings
Worms
and that old BBS game about the space guild or federation.. what was it called?

Was it called Space Trader 2000 or something like that?

I coded a BBS game modeled after one called Operation Overkill.. Only ran on one BBS, but it was fun :)

Heh, some consider "old school" to mean the 70's, 80's or early 90s. I guess it's all relative.

I remember when I was a kid, my dad took me into his lab to play "Space Wars" on an oscilloscope that his co-workers jury-rigged to display graphics generated by a computer that loaded the game by using punch-cards. That was the first game I played, in the mid-70's, and it blew me away at the time. Then there were the first hit arcade games, like Pong and Space Invaders, and my favorite arcade game, Omega Race.
Then came the first blockbuster home computer games, like Zork, Lode Runner, M.U.L.E., Wizardry, the Ultima series, Elite, SpaceDog, SpyHunter, and Archon I/II in the early/mid 80's.

My favorite of all time, however, was Master Of Orion. Man, back in the early 90's, almost every Strategy game by Microprose simply kicked ass.

prince of persia :thumbsup

Donkey Kong

close i can get to playing Spy Hunter

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/spyhunter

It's gotta be sim ant, I used to love that game

what he said.

I'd have to say my three favorite Classic Games are

1. PACMAN

2. PONG The first video game console and game I ever played/owned

3. Tetris is so fuckn addicting!

The classics are the best!

I still have my Original Pong console.

Oregon Trail. I remember that thing from waaaaaay back. 84, I think.

Combat and Stampede were cool as shit. I also had a thing for Texas Instruments home PC version of Football.

I used to play Archon like mad when I was a kid. The only versions I can find are for dos and run like shit. Anybody know if they made an updated version within the last 6 or 7 years, and where I could find it?

Super Mario Bros :thumbsup

Depends on what system your talking about...for the Atari 2600 I would be torn between either KABOOM!! or Pit Fall (the game you always thought would lead to something else...level 2 has got be be here somewhere!!!!)

For the NES...Contra kicked ass; cause of the free lives!!!!

Zelda was cool; and I really dug the first Dragon Quest.

Almost forgot...Atari's version of Journey's Escape!!!!

Kick ass soundtrack!

oregon trail

of the ones mentioned.. Archon and Scorched Earth rocked.. although I must say scortched earth isn't really old school.. it was a fun updated version of the early 80's Artillery Duel which I remember playing in '84 on an apple. It's older than that too.. Cannon Duel on Amiga and some late 70's shite.

I'll add Bard's Tale 1, Ultima IV.. loderunner.. Galaga 88.. Gauntlet...

To me old school is anything in the 80's and earlier.. I know for some people it's 70's but to be honest, that doesn't leave a lot of fun in choosing because of a comparative lack of titles even though the quality is obviously there in asteroids, pacman etc..
but at the same time calling 70's real old school is totally legitimate as they certainly were an easily definable "age" of games.

hehe ultima 4:

http://www.uo.com/archive/ultima4/u4pctitl.gif

Amazing.. going back to those graphics.. I can't believe what an awesome game that was and how "into it" you could get but it was the sense of adventure and how enormous it all was and all with these 20 pixel grid icons.. I haven't got as far into an RPG since then... Maybe because I was younger and more imaginative or whatever.. but nothing i've played since beats ultima or bard's tale 1.

then again Rogue players probably though Ultima was too much graphics..:

http://cocostuff.stg.net/screens/rogue.jpg

Oh FUCK I was an archon junkie.

Am I the only one who was addicted to saving those poor people in Choplifter??

1942

YES!! The laundry I used to do my clothes at had the arcade machine, and I think I spent more on the game than on my laundry! :)

Galaga
Scorched Earth
Stunts!

JumpJoe.

damn!.. forgot about 1942..

Pacman
Donkey Kong
Asteroids
Defender
Galaxian
Moon Cresta

:thumbsup

Galaxians - does anybody know where I can get this game btw?

You need to get the MAME emulator and find the rom :thumbsup

http://www.mame.net/

M.U.L.E.

Damn, no Quake fans here?

pacman was pretty popular

Atari Missle Command rocked early '80s

for a more newer one

commander keen

Quake isn't old school unless you're 16 :)

3D defender - ZX81

Does anyone remember Rescue Raiders, SunDog, or Karateka???

Rescue Raiders (I think was the title) was set in world war 2 and you had to launch tanks, gunners, engineers, and medical trucks to break through the German lines. It was set-up like a Choplifter without saving people.

SunDog - they really need to do a remake. That was a great space game. RPG in a sense, but no stats to build.

Karateka was simply a great storyline and action game. To me it was better than Prince of Persia because it was almost pure fighting without the annoying obstacles.

there were some great games in the 80s

almost anything that has RPG in it... bards tale, SSI dungeon and dragons inspired RPGs etc..

also some business manager games...

on the amiga i played a game where you sat in a spacestation and the countries of world would bring their problems to you and you would rule on them like a UN kind of thing... but cant remember what that was called..

Damn straight, I played that game a few days ago my new PC. Word of advise, the fucker will be speedier than hell now :( Goes to show back then how well programmers took into consideration optimization with processing power and such. Still a kick ass game! :)

hah...cool

One of the cool things about Commander Keen (I bought them all and still have the disks) is that in the final episode, theres some text that describes how ID was going to be coming out with a "new" game called Quake and they describe what it'll be like.
And that was years and years before even wolfenstein came out.. nice vision and drive they had!
I think one of the first "ID" games was Kingdom of Kroz. It was sort of an RPG, but since programming for graphics chips was new ground, they used text mode for the "characters" by redefining the letters of the alphabet and using the high ascii characters and crap like that.

Whats really sick when you think about it is how the Apollo missions L.E.M. computer only had about 4k (if that even) and yet was able to calculate so well the landing and firing the attitude jets and all that shit. God damn amazing!

Games rule!

I?d have to say Maniac Mansion, Zack McKracken, or the Indian Jones games.

Harrier Attack on the 48k