What is your favorite computer game EVER?

[oldfart]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HALF-LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mucman]

Most of you mentioned my favorites, but I have to add a few...

Master of Magic
Master of Orion
Colonization
Civilization
Machivelli the Prince (sp?)
Transport Tycoon
Populous
Links 98
Capitalism
All Lucasart adventure games and Star Wars games
Romance of Three Kingdoms
Loom
All the Ultima's

and the list goes one!

 

[jinsonxu]

Anyone tried Utopia? It was fun, until they implemented changes in Round 8.

I'm caught on a new online game called clusterball now. It's 3D OpenGL and online play.

 

[NFS4]

Tribes & Half Life

 

[agaraffa]

Four letters...
M.U.L.E. - What a great game! Goes back to my C64 days.

Followed by...
ZORK I
ZORK II
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Any other Infocom Game


BTW - Anybody know where I can get M.U.L.E. for the PC? I tried to run a C64 emulator on my PC but it didn't run very well 8-(

 

[AaronP]

BY Far, My All Time Favorite Computer Game is Betrayal at Krondor by Dynamix/Sierra in 1993. It is simply amazing. In fact, it's so good, that I bought a copy of the cd version of it from a 10 dollar bargin bin a few years ago and have never opened it.

Some other great games are:
King's Quest 5
King's Quest 6
Conquest of Longbow
Star Trek 25th Anniversery
Star Trek Judgement Rites
Privateer
Wing Commander Series
Simcity
Wolf 3D
Duke Nukem 3D
and a lot of the newer games are great too, but they don't seem to have the mystique and enjoyability of some of these older games. Betrayal at Krondor

 

[Gloaras]

Favorite Games.. hmm... that's a hard one but I would have to say Bard's Tale. I used to play it on my Apple IIe and I used to play for HOOOUUURRRSS. It was the first real D&D game out there. We never tried to finish the game, we actually tried to pump up our guys instead. Till we got to level 18 and our magic users had all the spells.. then it got boring

Oh and Leisure Suite Larry, Police Quest, Kings Quest, and all the sierra adventure games were pretty awesome also..

 

[MBJ]

Diablo I without a doubt. End of story.

MBJ

 

[Neo_Geo]

Joust!!!!

First played it on ATARI 2600. Then found a PC version, but now it does not play well on the fast computers of today.

 

[The Mutha]

1) Space Quest 1 and 2 (PC)
2) Monkey Island (PC)
3) Alone in the Dark (kick-ass sound blaster emulation through speaker, and 3d gfx!)
3) Counter Strike (PC)
4) Galactica (MSX)
5) Eye of the Beholder (PC)
6) TOCA II (PC)
7) Captain Blood (PC - back in 1988)
8) QuakeI, Quake II
9) Larry
10) Kings Quest series

 

[C1ue1ess]

I think my personal best games were:

Starcraft: Hours of senseless killing with/against friends

Half-Life(counterstrike in particular): First-shooter game that I ever liked, and I've been hooked since~!

Diablo: I remember playing till 6 am during finals....

X-Com: Who can forget that game?

 

[Helpless]

Everquest consumed a year of my life, easy...and I have a feeling that the next Ultima Online comming out in 1st Q 2001 will do the same

 

[NakaNaka]

HL TFC (not 1.5!!) CS

Pizza Rush!

Hehe umm HalfLife is the only game that has really gotten me addicted but I'm sure I will be addicted to TF2 when its released.

 

[Sukhoi]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned these before, but I loved the Jane's ATF/USNF'97/Fighters Anthology series. Rainbow Six/Eagle Watch and Rogue Spear/Urban Ops is in a very close second though.

Oh, I forgot about Close Combat II...that game was awesome. Some of the best $20 I ever spent.

 

[PliotronX]

Quarantine.. too bad it won't run no more neither will 7th Guest nor 11th Hour. ooo oooo and also Day Of The Tentacle and Sam & Max... which also won't run anymore

 

[3615buck]

Dune 1, Dune 2 (although completely different), Simcity 1, Little big adventure, wolfenstein 3d (I was crazy enough to try to find secret rooms by pushing on ALL blocks of EACH AND EVERY WALL !!!), doom 1 and... of course... Half-life.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Well, I will be the first to mention this:

SCORCHED EARTH - name one other game where you destroy tanks with weapons so bizare as to be named Funky Bomb. Beware my dirt clod.

 

[Needles]

Championship Manager - any version!

 

[mosdef]

Privateer. Simply mindblowing.

-mosdef

 

[wesman2]

I still like to play wolfenstien3D. It reminds me of my childhood....and all the nazis I killed.

 

[SecretAgentMan]

Just a few titles that come to mind.

Excitebike (NES)
Anything from Epyx (C64)
x-Wing / Tie Fighter on floppies
Civilization (I must have spent at least half a year's time on this one over the years)
Half-Life
C&C:Red Alert
Motocross Madness (A personal fav of mine, excitebike for the 90s)
Raiden (arcade)

 

[xyyz]

it's good to see some of you people still respect the old school gaming era...

sheesh... half-life and those that followed afterwards were good and all... but the old school games rocked.

think about it... how much money was spend on Double Dragon (I spent $15 in quarters on myself and a friend to pass the game)
I mean Dune really started the RTS segment so it has to be respected... then warcraft took it a step further so we could play multiplayer (i remeber having a friend drag hgis computer to my house to get a game going through a serial connection...)
don't forget playing battle chess in programming classes... hell my teacher got so into that game he made an assignment to us to figure out each and every animation on that game...
Those that mentioned starcraft... that game was sweet... ha winner takes the arrow keys while the loser gets w,a,d,x

I dunno.. the games back then were hella' simple... and they were actually fun even though they were repetative... don't get me wrong the games today rule... but they don't have the simple pleasures... back in the day you didn't worry about shelling $300 on a graphics card.

damn it's late... enough venturing off into nostalgia

 

[Mucman]

xyyz, I', with ya! Remember the the days when the only thing you usually had to worry about was HD space. My 486 66Dx2 with 1M Triden vid and 8M with 400M was enough to run a lot for a couple years!!! I think it lasted me 3 years without that much of a need for an upgrade, albeit I bought it when it first came out for big bucks. It took anything I through at it though... I sort of wish I kept it though so I could have a gaming system for future kids, or visiters... or maybe network it as a DOS internet browser or a Linux firewall...

*sigh* all this nostalgia and I am only 20

 

[xyyz]

oh here's one that will knock you lot senseless... it's probably before your time and off topic... but when I had my Vic20 (pre-atari), they had very few games... you bought a book that had about tens of thousands of lines of code (basic) in it... inorder to play a game you had to TYPE the damn code.... which would take a few days... I tried it once but i had errors galore... totally pissed me off... friggin vic20.

 

[Mucman]

I remember doing that for my brother's TRS-80

I didn't know what I was doing but my brother paid me 2 dollars to right it all out for him! I wish I got into computers then, but I was only 5 so I didn't have that much interest.