Best ever?

[Fuz]

I was just wondering what you all thought the best game ever created is. My personal vote goes out to Stunts. I spent more time playing this game than I care to admit.

Fuz

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[hapoo]

omg you used to play stunts?!?! I loved that game http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif
do you still have it?? I really want to play it, i lost it a long time ago.

[Apex]

Pong! http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Bvalkor]

I am not sure if I think if this is the best game of all time(tough decision) but I spent a good part of my life playing X-COM.

[coleslaw]

half-life. followed closely by starcraft.

[Sjarred]

DOOM and WarCraft

[hapoo]

I must say I loved Duke 3d, the game was so detailled

[tupacboy]

starcraft..... by far.......

[TanItAll]

all wrong! CIVILIZATION!!! Just admit everyone, you were addicted to this game...

[TanItAll]

wait, EVERQUEST was the game at times forced me to go sleepless for 2 days when it first came out...

[Leon]

Too many to list...

But "Super Dodge Ball" is always high on my list.

[colossus]

Leon is being a comic hehe.

Anyways, X-Com was really fun, definitely in my top 10, but wouldn't say it's my best.

I would have to give it to one of the Microprose games. Civilization was the role model for every game after it so it needs props. Master of Orion and Master of Magic, man, those two won game of the Year back to back for Microprose. Age Of Empires and C&C are pretty awesome too!

Wolfenstein and Doom, oh man! Brings back memories of net games in high school and UCLA dorm parties. Watch out for me and my big bass rockets on Level 7 haha.

Hmm, anybody remember the likes of Scorched Earth or F-15 (the one that fit on a 1.2 Floppy).

BTW, I say I have lost well over 2000 hours of my life to Master Of Orion. The game is over 8 years old and I'm playing it tonight even. If you love strategy games this is probably the best.

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[tongyang]

Is it just for PC games? No console games?

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I used to play Prince of Persia 1 & 2 ALL THE TIME http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Bloodymess]

Carmageddon 2 Carpocalypse Now http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif
Even more fun when cheats are enabled.


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[Goutham]

Starcraft, hands down! That game rules! I'd have to give a runner up to Tie Fighter though, that game was a blast to play through.

[hapoo]

ahhh

SUPER MARIO BROS. http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[DARTH]

Jedi Knight Dark Forces II of course http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif

[psycho-]

Someone has stunts!?!?!?!?

I miss stunts!!!

*rummages for a copy



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http://psychokid.com
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[CluelessSi]

Definitly Starcraft hands down.

[StonedWheat]

1. Starcraft
2. Counter-Strike (Half Life)
3. Baseball Stars

[speedracer120]

I must say X-Com:TFTD had me going for the longest time.

[German Superman]

Half-Life - Valve/Sierra
Starcraft - Blizzard
Red Alert - Westwood

[MadCool]

StarCraft then Diablo then Double Dragon 2 (NES) http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[coleslaw]

oh my gosh!! double dragon II!!! i love that game!! it's best when played with a friend in team mode. it so totally rocks!! thinking of that makes me want to bust out my dusty old nes and give it another run through!!

[CluelessSi]

it's amazing how games you loved at one time seems quite dull nowadays if you were to whip them out agian.
My favorite SNES game must be FF4 (FF2 in US)
Just because it was my first step toward RPGs
hehe then Secret of Mana came along and opened up a whole new field of possibilities =)

[Booyamos]

you played legend of mana yet? it sucks, it has no plot you just run around pointlessly doing little subquests...

[rev_buddy_love]

Rogue Spear!!!!

[CluelessSi]

I heard that in Legend of Mana you can hook up two people's games and have the thier charater play in the other person's game. I think that is the highlight of this game so you can "train" your person seprately =)

[pennypinch]

Oh, god, the list is long and distinguished. I noticed Baseball stars up there, still kicks all sports games patootie all over the field, best sports game ever, hands down...except for Baseball Stars II, but that had some glitches in it.
SNES, although no-one ever played it, was Ogre Battle. Oh, jebus, did I play that for a long time. N64 has had nothing, never liked Kart or Goldeneye, but early college life was all about DIABLO. That one sticks out. But I gotta say, the oldies were golden indeed. The aforementioned baseball classic, and Super Techmo Bowl was also great. Double Dribble had its appeal...jeez, what else? Doom was classic as well, I guess, but Wolfenstien gets props for being there back in the day.

[MadCool]

Double Dribble!!! that was a cool b-ball game! I thought techmo basketball was cool too with all those injurys heh. Fond memories also goes to the game ExciteBike and Pro Wrestling. those were like the first game to come out for the NES. But I still think Double Dragon 2 was the best NES game there was.. even the first Double Dragon kicked ass.

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[pennypinch]

Techmo basketball was ok, but the game play was not as good as DD. As for Double Dragon, I really wasn't that much of a fan. I have to say, for side-scrolling punch-em ups, Knights of the Round was the only thing worth playing. That was fun, everything before it was still trying to get it right. Mad props to pro wrestling and excite bike, though. You wouldn't think excitebike would have been fun, but god did I love playing that game...still do.

[JoeSmooth]

early 80s - Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. This game still rules!

late 80s - Ultima IV. I was in college when this game came out and almost failed school due to spending a solid 3 weeks with "naps" here in there playing this game

mid 90s - Doom II. Nothing, I mean nothing came close to this game

late 90s - Half-life & TFC until patch 1.1.0.0 was the best game peroid. When the patch was applied tfc fell to about fourth place and isnt worth bothering with any more.

Tood bad!



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[leelai]

X-Com took up all of my freshmen year of high school. then there was doom. Scorched Earth is DEFINITELY a classic. i don't think i've attacked any game like i did X-COM for a while though. what a great game. that sucker kicked butt on my 486 DX2/66 w/8mb mem. 420 gig hard drive baby. Double speed CD-rom. it was the best. i loved that thing....

[narce]

I gotta agree with SJarred...DOOM is what got me interested in gaming. The original is always the best! What about M.U.L.E.? Jeez, that game was responsible for some of my dropping grades in HS!

[CluelessSi]

Doom and Wolf was good but quake was the one i really spent time on especially the TF mod and the Qball mod

I don't really like the new quake 3 tf for quake 1 is still the best the graphics might not amaze you but gameplay was great and the poor graphics help you move faster in multiplayer but if you like good graphic you can put on OpenGL and it is just as good =)

[colossus]

See all these "kids" don't know about Wolfenstein and they think Doom has sucky graphics. Damn, I remember UCLA had Doom parties for 2 years advertised all over the place. It was on the nightly news and even used as benchmarks by some performance PC mags haha.

And Civilization by Sid Meyer, nothing gave more to RTS so far than that game. Every RTS from Microprose for the next 5 years was referred to or compared to Civ.

And if you youngins haven't tried Scorched Earth - try it. It will look like the lamest game on earth. But if you get 5 people around the machine you guys will go bonkers trying to kill each other.

Something to say for those games that fit on a 1.2MB floppy http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[colossus]

Oh, and I forgot to say something about Ultima. That game has/had more of a following than any game ever. I mean it went to what, 9 editions?

I started Ultima IV in mid highschool, and Ultima 6 slaughter my senior year of HS. Thank God it came out after APs and the Prom so I lost a summer to that damn thing. Still have the map I drew by hand, tile by tile hanging on my bedroom wall.

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[Jeffbx]

Ahhh, the good old days....

I'm sure I'm dating myself, but I got hooked on gaming with Ultima II on my Apple IIe. I played II - VI before ditching them for the early FPS' - Wolfenstein 3D rocked, then Duke Nukem 3D ate a substantial portion of my free time when I found I could play my friend over the modem.......

[CluelessSi]

hehe I still remeber the first nausea i ever had in front of computer ... 4 hours of Wolf. 3d http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[spigidygak]

Tetris

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[raimin]

scorched earth is da bomb

[hapoo]

thats a good one, I spent many hours playing tetris, especially in class on my TI http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[tupacboy]

hahaha...TI tetris kept me alive through high school.... and thus far in college.... love that game....

[Fuz]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>scorched earth is da bomb<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Word g

I played that a whole lot back in the day. D-Zone and Skyroads are some good games from the old school too.

Fuz

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[spigidygak]

Oh man scorched earth was also a good one. If anyone know of where or how I can get that game that would be awesome.

[speedracer120]

http://www.classicgaming.com/scorch/

[phlick]

speaking of old games....
Anybody ever play The Bards Tale?
That was a cool adventure game, I really liked the fact that if you blew all your money gambling you could just go rob the store. That was so cool.

Mechwarrior 1 was very cool, as was Leisure suit Larry 1. (whatever happened to that genre?)

[colossus]

Bardstale was a nice game to keep you busy while waiting for the next game to come out.

I remember that gambling part and stealing the store. Dopplegangers, headless, and Ninja were HARD. Hmm, why do I still remember this...?

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[tupacboy]

hmm... i miss playing frogger and missle command on my dope ass atari... damn i feel old...

[raimin]

Atari was my life back then

[spigidygak]

Thanks a lot speedracer120!!!!! The nightmare begins, hehe.

[phlick]

tupacboy:

You might want to check out emulators. I have been playing around with the mame32 program for a while now, and find it amazingly fun. You d/l the program and then "plug-in" the games. There are over 1000 old coin op games available, including frogger and missile command. There are also atari 2600 emulators, but I find them a little drab, whats the point in emulating a coin op game on an atari on your computer when you can just emulate the coin op game? Try it out, i think you'll like it. Search:"mame".

[daddyjeff69]

1. Space Shuttle atari 2600 by Activision
2. Caveman Ughlympics C-64 by Sierra
3. Re-Volt for Dreamcast by Acclaim

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[speedracer120]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by spigidygak:
Thanks a lot speedracer120!!!!! The nightmare begins, hehe.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't mention it, if you hadn't brought it up I wouldn't have remember that game in another few years. Man I used to spend hours playing scorch.

[Timotheus]

1. Half Life
2. Tom Clancy: Rogue Spear
3. Civilization II
4. Command & Conquer Red Alert

[Timotheus]

By the way, Hapoo, How did you get that cool BMW Icon? Did you import your own or did Leon give you a special dispensation because you were the first to get to 1000?

[colossus]

Hehe, I want credit for this one because it was MY idea. I asked Leon to change Hapoo's symbol. Rather fitting wouldn't you say?

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[webba]

Starcraft and CONTRA FOR NES!!! UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT AB!!!!

[StonedWheat]

Haha I remember that code! I can hear the contra title song in my head right now. Dah dah dah dah DUH duh duh...

[This message has been edited by StonedWheat (edited 07-11-2000).]

[MadCool]

oh shiet The CODE! but you got it wrong.. It's up up, down down, left right, left right, B, A, start! http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif It also work for Life Force! I still love playing that game on the NES emulator.

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[sillyazn]

are u allow to curse in these posts???

[KaPER]

doubt it silly and aint it up up down down left rigth left right select start?

[pennypinch]

Only for two players @ 30 lives.

[AJ]

THE Konami Code CODE:

Up, Up, DOWN, DOWN, L, R, L, R, B, A, B, A, (*Select*), Start

the *select* is if you want to play 2 player and are trying to get it into 2P mode before the music ends...

[tongyang]

hahaha.... This code must be the most famous cheat code of all time http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Nanotech9]

anybody remember paratroopers? still have that and tetris for my Visor http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/smile.gif.

F-15 was the first game I ever played on a Comodore 386 SX25 (yes, over in spain, comodore actually came out w/ a 386 http://www.gotapex.com/ubb/redface.gif)
Doom was the first 3D shooter game I played. still love it. Halflife probable is my favorite though, closely followed by Civilization.

[CluelessSi]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by AJ:
THE Konami Code CODE:

Up, Up, DOWN, DOWN, ...

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haha once i see that i know what comes after
*sigh* those were the days hehe helped me quicken my finger reaction hehe

[sillyazn]

i thought it was up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,B,A,select start??? o wells too old. anyways i think the best is counter-strike,half-life.

[coleslaw]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by sillyazn:
i thought it was up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,B,A,select start???<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>i think you are correct, all except for the select. i think it was just up up down down left right left right B A start.

[ProMinx]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bvalkor:
I am not sure if I think if this is the best game of all time(tough decision) but I spent a good part of my life playing X-COM.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hell yeah! I used to love this game, but then i lost my copy and couldn't find it ANYWHERE (for purchase or download)...until one day, a copy of PC Gamer arrives in my mailbow at school (the day i was leaving)...and oddly...i didn't have a subscription to PC Gamer...but the mag had FULL VERSION x-com: UFO defense on the cd, and i played that for 2 weeks prior to diablo 2's release. I love that game, and when i get a little tired of diablo...i go back and kick some alien ass.
ProMinx

[Chunky]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by leelai:
X-Com took up all of my freshmen year of high school. then there was doom. Scorched Earth is DEFINITELY a classic. i don't think i've attacked any game like i did X-COM for a while though. what a great game. that sucker kicked butt on my 486 DX2/66 w/8mb mem. 420 gig hard drive baby. Double speed CD-rom. it was the best. i loved that thing....<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

ah...xcom. classic game, awesome. i love that game, i found the xcom files that i had dangling around, but it was incomplete, so i couldn't install it! curses. dude that's a pretty big hard drive taiwan boy.

Chunky

[CluelessSi]

hmmm xcom eh? ... anyone know where i can d/l it? never played that game

[Argghman]

In terms of best games i've played (i don't typically play Sports and Roleplaying)

The most intensive game i've ever played is Halflife. It's the most immersive enviorment ever. The most long lasting, i still play it in my dreams, is X-Com. I played that game for SO many hours, i don't mean it was a long game, i just played it many times cuz it has such a great replay value. The plot was amazing, the graphics and sound are enough to approach the shadows with paranoia. And the music was also GREAT. It combined RTS resource managing with turn-based action. I want to play that game again!!!!!! I don't have it anymore...everyone buy the collection...though i didn't think x-com 3 was very good, i can't wait for the shooter for x-com. yeEEAHH

By the way, i played F-15 II Strike Eagle, and have F-15 III(it was so complicated i couldn't play it). I also have B-17 Flying Fortress. Even though doom was great...the sound of those snarling dooms scared the beejebeez out of me. I must say X-com Ufo Defense was the best.

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[Aristo]

Final Fantisy & Dragon Quest series.

[IrishSS]

Here here... the Final Fantasy series... some low points(gameboy), but overall excellent story lines, great experiences.

[coleslaw]

x-com can be downloaded here (but you didn't hear it from me!): www.geocities.com/Area51/Comet/6711/xcom.html (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Comet/6711/xcom.html)

[Timotheus]

If you can find the July Issue of PC Gamer Magazine (with the CD), you will get a copy of the entire game, along with a lot of other retro - greats.

wing commander, x-com, ultima underworld, and ultima 1 , kings quest, alone in the dark, secret of monkey island, duke nukem II, links, descent, terminal velocity, NFS, and a daikatana demo (yuck).

Tim
Tim