Best Old School PC Games

After just reading a post about how good games these days are being determined by hows great they look in the graphics department, I just wanted to drop a nostalgic post about why a good game is all down to game play, immersion, atmostphere and old school innovation.

The purpose of this post is too just discuss the merits of the old greats of the PC gaming era - Im interested to see peoples thoughts on the topic and what they think were great old school games and what made these games stand out amoung the multitude.

my fav old game is.

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Dangerous Dave

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Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame

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Roadrash

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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

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Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty

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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

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Drakan: Order of the Flame

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Prince of Persia 3D

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Delta Force 1

Urban Chaos

post ur best old pc game.

My fav(since I am not able to remember as of now)
Commandos 2

Dave

The first game I played. Going to download it right now.

Rockstar11 said:
After just reading a post about how good games these days are being determined by hows great they look in the graphics department, I just wanted to drop a nostalgic post about why a good game is all down to game play, immersion, atmostphere and old school innovation.

The purpose of this post is too just discuss the merits of the old greats of the PC gaming era - Im interested to see peoples thoughts on the topic and what they think were great old school games and what made these games stand out amoung the multitude.

my fav old game is.

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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

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Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty

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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive

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Drakan: Order of the Flame

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Prince of Persia 3D

post ur best old pc game.

Are these games that much old? Coz even now I really love these more than the recent ones!
I remember my dad used to run a game on his dos pc with black and white screen for me in which we had to control a anti aircraft canon and kill aircrafts passing over ,anybody knows its name? It ran from a floppy
And yes command and conquer yuris revenge and some nestopia games like contra

half life opppsing fronts & hexen2.

meetdenis said:
Another one was Need for Speed II. An amazing game and IMO is still the best in the NFS series.

best for 2 player on same pc.

Hmmm.......Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe and Fallout Tactics.

Delta Force series and Project IGI !

gameranand said:
Hmmm.......Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe

i was about to tell this. good tactical gameplay but really really hard.

another game is: Freedom Fighter.

Sam said:
i was about to tell this. good tactical gameplay but really really hard.

Well I didn't found it that hard but yes it was not easy at all. Planning and executing the tactics was fun for me. My whole crew survived the whole game. None of em died at all

gameranand said:
Well I didn't found it that hard but yes it was not easy at all. Planning and executing the tactics was fun for me. My whole crew survived the whole game. None of em died at all

maybe you are used to playing these kind of tactical game. i have played (or tried playing) GRAW & failed. so this is not something for me.

Sam said:
maybe you are used to playing these kind of tactical game. i have played (or tried playing) GRAW & failed. so this is not something for me.

Yes you can say that because I have played GRAW also and loved it and none of my squad members died in any mission at all. I loved Rainbow Six series also and loved it. I like squad based tactical games.

Sam said:
i was about to tell this. good tactical gameplay but really really hard.

i love hidden and dangerous series for its tactical play. even the newer H&D has great tactical elements

Rockstar11 said:
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Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame

Prince 2 had great music. :mrgreen:

Prince 2 was good but not as fluid as the first one.
I too love Half Life. One of the greatest game Ever!

ico said:
Prince 2 had great music.

yep

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Chess-Master 2100, Roadrash and Pac-Man.
I still love to play Pac-Man, it's one of my favorite games

Halo: Combat Evolved

hey, don't forget age of empires ! :wink:

Rollercoaster tycoon

Roadrash
dave

Started Gaming when i was in 4th..

Prince of Persia 1 & 2
Super Mario Bros.
Dave
Aladdin
Lion King
Virtua Cop 2
Road Rash
Midtown Madness
Tekken 3
Metal Slug.

I got my first PC in 2005 so not much experienced with Old School games , but these were definitely good , played them on my cousin;s PC

Road Rash
DeltaForce II
Prince of Persia

Rishab2oo said:
Chess-Master 2100, Roadrash and Pac-Man.
I still love to play Pac-Man, it's one of my favorite games

Pac-Man rocks

Claw,Mario,nfs2,Navy Seals....

dave,wolfenstein3d,biomenace,lionking,POP,hocus-pocus,doom,heretic,zool,mario,Roadrash,Descent,AOE2,diablo....
There was no good game.Played every game i got my hands on back then and all were awesome. :mrgreen:

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^^I still have iso image of this, was pretty enjoying those days.

@Faun: is that Indiana Jones?

Anyone tried Elder Scrolls:Arena? The first Elder Scrolls game ever. Had Wolf3d-ish graphics, but had pioneered non-linear gameplay. Also, the game world consisted of the whole continent of Tamriel.

Zangetsu said:
@Faun: is that Indiana Jones?

Nope its "The Mummy". :wink:

Yeah, its "The Mummy", one of my brother's fav.

Max Payne
Test Drive 6
Age of Empires
Age of Empires II
No One Lives Forever
NFS Porsche Unlimited

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Betrayal at Krondor
Crusader : No Regret
Dungeon Keeper 1
Frontier : First Encounters
Hostages
Independence War 2 : Edge of Chaos
Master of Orion
Millennia : Altered Destinies
Monster Truck Madness 1
Need for Speed 1 (because it had the Ferrari Testarossa

)
Outrun
Red Baron
Stars!
Syndicate
Syndicate Wars
System Shock
Tachyon : The Fringe
The Clue!
Wing Commander 1,2,3,4

That's all I can remember for now

Commandos, Max payne, Prince of persia

Skud said:
Yeah, its "The Mummy", one of my brother's fav.

Max Payne
Test Drive 6
Age of Empires
Age of Empires II
No One Lives Forever
NFS Porsche Unlimited

NFS Porsche Unleashed

Oh yeah, typo.

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Commandos 2, It took ages for me to complete that game when i was kid

Srsly little soldiers rocked at that time.. Brainy one

rollercoaster tycoon
age of empires
road rash
delta force
carmageddon
demolition racer
fighter pilot

will post more as soon as i remember them....

I used to play dave and road rash when I was 4-5 year old.. awesome games

Then I started playing Age of Empires, but I just used to make buildings and avoid killing :lol:

Tycoon games like Rollercoaster Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon were great too....

Yeah, Zoo Tycoon, how I missed it? One of my all time favs.

Hey, you all are making me get nostalgic about those old games I played.

What a great days they were.

My most loved ones were Road Rash, Dave, Sky, Alladin, Prince, Wolfenstein.

Prime_Coder said:
Hey, you all are making me get nostalgic about those old games I played.

What a great days they were.

My most loved ones were Road Rash, Dave, Sky, Alladin, Prince, Wolfenstein.

old days rocks

Anyone played Transport Tycoon Deluxe? The first proper transport simulation I played. It is now open source and distributed as OpenTTD.

Unreal Tournament 1999
Max Payne
Return to Caste Wolfestin
Road Rash
Zoo Tycoon, Roll Coaster Tycoon
Settlers
Gta Vice City
Dave
Prince of Persia
.................

I still play those games like Max Payne (1 & 2), Return to Caste Wallenstein, Quake3 even these days...

^^Me also have dosbox installed.

Ahh i also loved zoo tycoon.I had a love towards all tycoon games :wink:

Me in the same boat...

Skud said:
Me in the same boat...

Me three.

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I'm surprised that only one user here has played Transport Tycoon. That game was the mother of all Tycoons. God bless Chris Sawyer for making that game.

^^ Amen

Looks like we all liked tycoon games when we were small....

^Haven't played any "Tycoon" game...

ineedcoupon said:
Commandos 2, It took ages for me to complete that game when i was kid Srsly little soldiers rocked at that time.. Brainy one

yep. its awasome game

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I HATE PIGS. :-D

Guess the image says it all. Upload to imgur and link.

Quake III Arena , Max Payne 1 and 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Undying, Nosferatu, Cod 1 , Medal of Honor Allied Assault with Break-Through and Spear-Head, Trilby Series, ;-)

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Pacman.

The other one by Woz.

Roadrash. To the point now it is giving me a head ache typing its name.

Wolfstein. Same as Roadrash.

Vice city mother of all games you can find it almost on every pc without graphics card till now...

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topgear said:
Quake III Arena , Max Payne 1 and 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Undying, Nosferatu, Cod 1 , Medal of Honor Allied Assault with Break-Through and Spear-Head, Trilby Series,

Trilby series; I presume you're talking about the Trilby adventure games made by Yahtzee?

^^ yep

Anybody played pitfall and hercules?

C&c Red alert, cricket 99 wc edition, nfs 2, simcity 3k.... Gonna have to dig em up just for the nostalgia....

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kbar1 said:
Anybody played pitfall and hercules?

C&c Red alert, cricket 99 wc edition, nfs 2, simcity 3k.... Gonna have to dig em up just for the nostalgia....

Yes , I have played Pitfall and hercules. Nice platformers the both of them.

My favourite Simcity will always be Simcity 2000? Why? Because SimCopter lets you fly through cities created using SimCity 2000.

Oh yeah, add Simcopter to this list of games

kbar1 said:
Anybody played pitfall and hercules?

C&c Red alert, cricket 99 wc edition, nfs 2, simcity 3k.... Gonna have to dig em up just for the nostalgia....

cricket 99

nice cricket game

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Kola2842 said:
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Skyroad, awesome game, wasn't there a new version launched for windows pcs some time back? Sort of like a fan art or something?

damn^^ skyroad...i completely forgot about it...my most loved pc game when i was class 8..feeling nostalgic!

There was a new one built, trying to find link now.

Found it, bwahahahaha: Tasty Static

thanx bro for da link!!.done downloading. just like old days...luvin it.

my first game was woolf and quake 2, Then half life and AOE .. I played those games on my dada's pc back in 1998. But after i had played half life i felt that i need a pc !! For me half life is the one of the best games i have ever played.

have you guys played Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) - it's one of my most favorite ;-)

For me: Road rash, skyroads, dave, wolf 3d, POP(original), aladdin(loved this) and quake.

tkin said:
For me: Road rash, skyroads, dave, wolf 3d, POP(original), aladdin(loved this) and quake.

even i loved aladdin vry much at that time it had awesome graphics...btw has anybody played playboy game?

tkin said:
For me: Road rash, skyroads, dave, wolf 3d, POP(original), aladdin(loved this) and quake.

this was my first game collection when i was in 4th. :-D

also including
PoP Shadow of Flame
Lion King
Super Mario

Best and old school

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topgear said:
have you guys played Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) - it's one of my most favorite

Nope

get it from here :
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari), A Tribute Site

and don't forget to install English translation patch or just get the deluxe version ;-)

topgear said:
get it from here :
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari), A Tribute Site

and don't forget to install English translation patch or just get the deluxe version

thanks a lot

^^ you are welcome ;-)

i just remember HOPKINS FBI. anyone played on pc?