Rediscovering old games.
Rediscovering old games.
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Morningside

Original Poster:

24,147 posts

257 months

Thursday 11th October 2007
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Amazing how much more fun games are after going back to them after a while. I just dug out "Undying". Now that my PC goes like a rocket I have cranked up all the video and audio settings. thumbup
Quake 3 arena is also fantastic, again with all settings cranked up even Halo 1 looks less shite, I might even have a go at finishing it.

Anyone else gone back to old games?

Yoda954

2,260 posts

276 months

Thursday 11th October 2007
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Yep - still regularly play UT (99). In fact had a 4x4x4x4 clan knock about last night which was messy...but a hoot biggrin


Edited by Yoda954 on Friday 12th October 09:39

steven182

1,886 posts

229 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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Yes i have,

Recently got out a very old laptop drive and put it in my external reader thing and checked what was on it and guess what i found


The original Prince of Persia for Dos.

Bloody awesome game im on level 12 =] apparantly thats the last level, only got 8 mins to save the princess though. =S

Altrezia

8,739 posts

239 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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The Discworld series!

DucatiGary

7,765 posts

253 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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just bought a neo geo AES and a neo geo pocket colour.

1942 and aero fighters 2 on the AES are amazing

sonic and match of the millenium on the pocket are great too.

everyone needs a neo geo!

Stig

11,823 posts

312 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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Yup, did this recently with Painkiller - max graphics settings, it was amazing how different it felt - a rally great old school shooter.

Just bought the entire Valve back catalogue on Steam - so looking forward to some old skool Countertrike, HL1/2 (and HL2 parts 1 and 2), TF2, Portal etc.etc.

If only I had more time to play! smile

tigger1

8,458 posts

249 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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steven182 said:
Yes i have,

Recently got out a very old laptop drive and put it in my external reader thing and checked what was on it and guess what i found


The original Prince of Persia for Dos.

Bloody awesome game im on level 12 =] apparantly thats the last level, only got 8 mins to save the princess though. =S
Level 12 is the last level - finishes with an awesome fight with Jaffar.

F1GP 2 is one I've recently gone back to - and Lemmings.

Sixpackpert

5,268 posts

242 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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Rainbow Islands and The New Zealand Story. Brings back memories of spending hours on the Amiga 500+.

Neezer

391 posts

256 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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Carrier Command for the Atari ST.. been messing with that recently. Still a brilliant game!

Cliffv8

565 posts

233 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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got a Amiga emulator a while ago off a friend, hours of fun must about 500 games just about anything you can think of bowhttp://www.winuae.net/bow

Edited by Cliffv8 on Friday 12th October 20:56

Slinky

15,704 posts

277 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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Brought a couple of guys back from the office earlier in the week and dug out the N64 and Golden Eye.. They loved it!

jimmyjimjim

8,230 posts

266 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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I've been playing Far Cry a lot recently. Not that old, only 3 1/2 years, so it hasn't dated at all really - superb!
It's actually grown on me a lot, I went through and completed the entire thing without cheating this time (the last two levels were damn near impossible when I played it the first time, and I got fed up because I wanted to see the end) - I'm finding it a lot easier now), and have replayed most of the levels several times, finding alternative routes.
There's quite a few shortcuts you can pick up on the more you play it; some levels I can burn through in only a few minutes now, by using better tactics.
Hoping Far Cry 2 will be as good....

che6mw

2,560 posts

253 months

Friday 12th October 2007
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rainbow islands
legend of zelda
day of the tentacle
unreal tournament

... all have had outings recently.

Wadeski

8,983 posts

241 months

Saturday 13th October 2007
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Neo Geo AES with MVS converter so all the £400 games are £30 biggrin

Garou: MOTW
Samurai Shodown
Metal Slug 2
etc

also had a 2 hour session of Street Fighter 2 vs the flatmate after a heavy night at the pub last week....still the best 2 player game ever made. Ill beat anyone with Ken smile

A1GOY

1,521 posts

230 months

Saturday 13th October 2007
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I've been shamelessly re-playing Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid. Good, clean, old school (for a 21 year old) fun. Ahhh... them's were the days!

hodgy587

676 posts

242 months

Saturday 13th October 2007
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I revisit Zelda on an N64 emulator quite often. An interesting one I played on the mega drive was a game called Starflight, it was great it had a huge galaxy to explore and you would visit planets to mine for minerals etc. I remember being totaly addicted when I first rediscovered it.

Edited by hodgy587 on Sunday 14th October 17:52

che6mw

2,560 posts

253 months

Saturday 13th October 2007
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Wadeski said:
Ill beat anyone with Ken smile
Ryu could so take your ass wink

anhamgrimmar

1,025 posts

259 months

Saturday 13th October 2007
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che6mw said:
Wadeski said:
Ill beat anyone with Ken smile
Ryu could so take your ass wink
blanka, chun li, or eddie honda and an autofire pad, and you're all going down!

Or zangief, if you make me play properly!

che6mw

2,560 posts

253 months

Sunday 14th October 2007
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anhamgrimmar said:
Or zangief, if you make me play properly!
He was the only one I could never play with.

C5L

351 posts

235 months

Sunday 14th October 2007
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Cannon Fodder

What a game !!!