Absolutely :thumbsup

Space Quest or Police Quest or whatever that series was called was good too.

Scorched Earth owned! I can never forget how much fun that was playing hot seat with friends.

My favoraite classic has to be the first Commander Keen. Secret tip: search "underdogs" in Google, and check that site out, you'll thank me :winkwink:

I used to play Syndicate on the PC, classic game

Oregon Trail :thumbsup
I remember playing that in school in '81

Prince Of Persia

tetris for sure ! this game rule!

I spent many hours standing in front of one of these:
http://webmasterfreecontent.com/asteroidsarcade.jpg

scorched earth was pretty fun, but my favorite game ever is Super Mario Bros for NES

anyone ever play "Worms"? I think thats what it was called. you had a certain number of worms and you had to knock your oponents worms off a mountain and stuff.

In junior high we played Oregon Trail a lot.
I still have it lol

Blue Max on the Commodore 64


http://home.no.net/uffen/images/c64/bluemax.gif

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