Flashback. Out of This World and Fade to motherfuckin' Black. Those games still have some of the best animation I've ever seen. Must-play. (Not sure what the best version to get is. Maybe Wikipedia knows.)
Flashback
Out of This World (apparently aka Another World in some territories)
Fade to Black
But whatever you do, don't add the word "torrent" to the search, because that would be bad. 
Discussion topic: Who here has ever installed a game from 5.25" floppy disks? Did you have to unzip it first? [/oldschool]
I ran them using the command "LOAD"*",8,1".
Bonus geek points if anyone knows what system I had. 
NocturnalGhost wrote:
I ran them using the command "LOAD"*",8,1".
Bonus geek points if anyone knows what system I had.
COMMODORE 64, the rhyming computer. Which games? Any Choplifter love?
After I had first finished Portal, I told my friend that it reminded me of Lode Runner. He looked at me with kind of a blank expression, and it made me sad. Read Wikipedia's description and it'll be obvious where this nostalgia comes from. The games are very similar... one might almost say... analogous.
Apparently you can get Lode Runner on the Wii from the Virtual Console... if you can get a Wii.
The only game that could keep me quiet for 4 hours straight.
Along with the sonic series.
It's a great game, although I only finished part 1, 3 and 4 
Crooked Paul wrote:
Discussion topic: Who here has ever installed a game from 5.25" floppy disks? Did you have to unzip it first? [/oldschool]
That's not oldschool.
Oldschool is 3" disks (not 3?") with room for 178Kb on each side and each disk cost me 80 DKK (roughly 15 USD, 11 EUR, 8 GBP).
Now somebody guess what my first computer was.
(Though even more oldschool would be cassette tapes of course, where you had to manually adjust the azimuth on the tape head, or further back to punch cards...)
Player1 wrote:
Now somebody guess what my first computer was.
I'm going to guess it was an Amstrad CPC, but it could also have been a ZX Spectrum, or perhaps an Oric Atmos.
Korjagun wrote:
I'm going to guess it was an Amstrad CPC
Amstrad CPC 6128, yeah. Did they make 3" drives for the Spectrum?
Fusi0n wrote:
You guys are forgetting about Contra!
Oh no I'm not!!
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start. Bingo. 40 guys.
They all ROCKED.
I played Kings Quest I , II, III again, and it is astonishing how old, 'crappy' drawn games, can be better than some of the up to date games.
The gameplay mechanics where original too(then), you didn't had to just click on everything, you had to write your commands in a console.
Example : Examine table
on the table is a brown paper bag and a knife
Take Paper bag and knife
You took the paper bag and the knife
Examine paper bag
The bag contains shattering gems
Just like in Zork another old-school topper! Wich is free to download (links provided by the dev's)
Get zorked!
Pros:
-Fun
-Hard
-Innovative (for it's time)
-Lots of bosses
Cons:
-Easy to die in pit stages
http://www.virtualnes.com/play/play.php?id=A5F1s=6
&&
A shame the genre has just about as decimated as GLaDOS. Modern games lacks the fantastic story that the old ones had.
Loads of gratitude to Ragnar T?rnquist who created The Longest Journey, and whoever created Fahrenheit. Some day, I have got to play Syrberia too...
yikkayaya wrote:
No one ... has mentioned Monkey Island and Lucas Art's other adventure games ... Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is incredible. Leisure Suit Larry (not Lucas') is quite fun, Beneath a Steel Sky is just ingenious.
They have a little virtual machine now which runs on the iPhone and can play just about all classic LucasArts adventures. Which is suddenly the main reason I want an iPhone.