Favorite Retro Game

metalfoxus · August 2004

Please post a pic (if you can) and a description of your favorite retro videogame

"Out of This World" - SNES

God, the very first adventure game i ever got addicted too. I loved the whole "one-hit kill" aspect of the game, which made you think about each move you made and how to use your surroundings, and how whenever an alien with a gun would pop out in front of you it would cause your heart to jump and make you scream as you ran away in terror. Also, the cut-scenes they showed when you died were great! I probobly died everywhere possible just so i could see them all, they really made the game better. The game seemed HUGE back then, i remember going up the elevator from the prison to this tower, and you walk over to the window thinking your allmost home free, but then you look out and see this gigantic city before you and you just think "...crap". This was the only reason i still havemy SNES and i still have fun running around, dodging lasers from aliens that looked like thumbs, and screaming like a little girl when i come close to death .

Dekron · August 2004

My favorite part of that game is when you got knocked down and cornered by two aliens. One picked you up then you kicked him square in the nuts to get away. I also liked the other games that stemmed off of this one...Flashback and Blackthorne.

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Killer 100%
Achiever 53%
Explorer 33%
Socializer 13%

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Fizblix · August 2004

Shadow of Yserbius

One of the first MMORPG's ever... released way before UO or EQ. Could have 4 players in 1 party, all classes had 24 skills, 24 spells, customize your characters face, even had PvP from 1 vs 1 to 4 vs 4... was pretty cool. Could cost you $7.00 an hour to play from 9am till 6pm. $2 an hour after that. Crazy but was worth it back then. You dialed the Sierra network to play it useing your 14.4k modem. Role playing in the tavern in that game was still better then any RP i have seen in any game since heh. Later they closed down the sierra network and came out with this single player version. (Game isnt near the same single player as it was multiplayer)

- GRAFFiX -

metalfoxus · August 2004

lol, that old game has more customization than most MMORPG's today

gargantroo · August 2004

Look at my avatar, that should explain it. Legend of Zelda, best game ever made.

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metalfoxus · August 2004

i got the limeted edition NES Zelda that had the cloth map

Fizblix · August 2004

Originally posted by metalfoxus
lol, that old game has more customization than most MMORPG's today

hahaha its sad isn't it... Games that can be called decent, such as FFXI and Anarchy Online, dont even have the level of customization, during the character creation process, of a MS-DOS game that came out before even Windows 3.1 was out! lol

- GRAFFiX -

vrtldave · August 2004

any one here heard of the adventure of Twitz... it was a thrid person adventure persay... the graphics where really cheesy because 3d just came in and the people where just shapes glued together but that game was so fun... DIE GIANT ELPHANT DIE.... yes that was one of the lines.... maybe I was just thinking that...

Santa · August 2004

Good old Sonic best game ever. Or Commander Keen or Biomenic. Or any Commodore 64 game they were brill. They would take 30mins to load and came on tapes but damn they were good.

Trebek · August 2004

Final Fantasy 3

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Final Fantasy | Free iPod
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Long Term MMO's Played:
Ultima Online - 3 Years
Dark Age of Camelot - 3 Years

Less Than 1 Month:
Shadowbane, Planetside
Everquest, Ragnarok Online
City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies
Horizons, Fung Wan Online
The Sims Online, EVE Online
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metalfoxus · August 2004

ahh, that was a good one... was that the one with the mog on the front with the sword?

Coldmeat · August 2004

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I was never what you wanted, I could never never please.
I swallowed all our sorrow in the midst of my disease.
All my fortunes, all my gains, all the battles I have won...
Now collapsing like the rain, I stand alone, your only son...

Take some solace in these words, take notice of this place.
Hollow whispers that they are, like the wind upon my face.
Sing softly in my ear and look at me with wonder.
I will try to ease your fear as the darkness pulls you under.

Syri · August 2004

I've started playing The Settlers again occasionally, not the sequals, the original. really owns, true classic

lordthrawn · August 2004

Originally posted by metalfoxus
ahh, that was a good one... was that the one with the mog on the front with the sword?

Yeah that is the one. Probably the best game ever. I would also have to vote for Secret of Mana, and Breath of Fire.

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metalfoxus · August 2004

oh man, i never got to playing System Shock 1, but System Shock 2 scared the crap outta me at times.

Finwe · August 2004

Old Sierra Quest games, Kings Quest, Police Quest.

Crap, I liked alot of those old Adventure games. Return to Zork was also fun.

Monkey Island games, cant forget those.

Jagged Alliance. cool game, cool characters.

Privateer, fun space game.

"The greatest trick the devil played on humanity in the 20th century was convincing them that he didnt exist." (Paraphrasing) C.S. Lewis

rent_a_cake · August 2004

I don't know if these are "retro" enough, but these are my favs. (can't decide!)

1: xenosaga: der wille something-or-other.

2: FFVIII, #8 was their best one.

3: Grandia, for ps1... the best grandia ever.

and Finwe, those are some of the best games ever.

Finwe · August 2004

Originally posted by rent_a_cake

and Finwe, those are some of the best games ever.

Yep. And I tell you. They come out with games with better graphics, characters with extensive voices. But, nothing just compares to those old games that give you a sense of reminescence of the good ol days.

"The greatest trick the devil played on humanity in the 20th century was convincing them that he didnt exist." (Paraphrasing) C.S. Lewis

melly · August 2004

Shaq-Fu, baby.

NeoKyosuke18 · August 2004

My favorite Retro game. PC would be X-Com UFO Defense!

I can still go back to that game and have fun

Also the 7th Guest and 11th Hour games had me addicted

gargantroo · August 2004

Zelda is my favorite but I wont forget Starcraft, I dont think it's retro enough but I can still whoop all of your asses at it

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Ominis · August 2004

lol, yeah Starcraft is definetly not a retro game. Talking more about 80s, maybe even the early 90s. The big ones for me would definetly be the original Zelda and Metroid. Final Fantasy 1 & 3 were also really good. Oh and cant forget the Bard's Tale.

Currently:
Alpha: Guild Wars
Beta: AO: Alien Invasion
Playing: City of Heroes
Interested: WOW & EQII (yeah, both... deal with it)

BigPeeler · August 2004

Out of This World was AWESOME... one of the hardest games i've played to date but still fun as hell... it really set new standards in SNES adventure games...

i remember when they came out with "Out of This World: Heart of the Alien" (i think it was called) for Sega CD (was the 1st kid in my school to own one ^^)...

it was like Part 2 of Out of This World... you could either play the original one or this other version (which i think took place immediatly after the 1st one ended) where you played as one of those bald headed buddies... (the one meet in the cage at the beginning of OoTW)... you got a lazer shooting whip or something instead of a gun... it was pretty wild ^^

anyways ya... that has to be one of my favorite retro games but my ABSOLUTE favorite has to be... jeeze i cant pick just one =_=... well heres a list ^^

Mike Tysons Punch Out (NES)

Lolo (NES)

Robotron (Atari?)

Megaman... ALL OF THEM... (anybody try that Megaman Aniversary game?... so many memories ^^)

Drakken (SNES)

Monkey Island

Maniac Mansion (NES)

Double Dragon... once again, all of them...

... umm...

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Sketch · August 2004

Originally posted by vrtldave
any one here heard of the adventure of Twitz... it was a thrid person adventure persay... the graphics where really cheesy because 3d just came in and the people where just shapes glued together but that game was so fun... DIE GIANT ELPHANT DIE.... yes that was one of the lines.... maybe I was just thinking that...

Do you means Twistens tale? "Relentless: the little big adventure" I WISH I could get that game to work. Switch to sneak mode and they play the spy music at one note per step.. Good stry fun game never got to finish it, still own it but can't get it to work on my P4

metalfoxus · August 2004

Holy crap there was a sequel to "Out of This World"? ....must buy...

flyngtrmpt · August 2004

Punch Out
Megaman
Zelda
Tecmo Bowl
Excitebike
Ninja Gaiden

and the greatest of all time: Contra

I used to be addicted something fierce to some NES if you can't tell

we used to have this summer and winter olympics game for the Commodore 64 which used to occupy a lot of my time too, each one was 2 discs and you had to pick and choose which events you were going to do so you could minimize having to switch discs back and forth.... it was great ::::08::

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