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Wednesday, 19 April 2006

Anyone Else Miss Their Classic DOS and Shareware Games?

quote [ Download classic games free: Classic Arkanoid, Paratroper, Classic Digger, Prince of Persia 1, Wolf 3D, Dune 1, Dune 2, Centipede, Bubble Bobble, Xonix, Color Lines, etc. ]

Also in extended: VERY Amusing post about ORLY the Snow Owl.

http://siln.livejournal.com/235478.html

Also, i thought this wiki entry was very cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

aaaand here is some porn. It's related to a post a few down, but--in my defense--the page he provided sucked ass and didnt have them all. WARNING this flux is deceptivly large.

add http://www.adult-website-promotion.biz/Videos/
make
get

yeah. no one of the three was worth a full post, in my opinion. all three, together--i think--is worth a point or two...

[games] [by Equinophobe@7:16pmGMT] [+9 Good]

Comments

Fu Man Chu said @ 7:43pm GMT on 19th Apr
The ORLY story is funny. The main entry... not so great.

Equinophobe said @ 8:12pm GMT on 19th Apr
yeah. no one of the three was worth a full post, in my opinion. all three, together--i think--is worth a point or two.

thechicagonuwave said @ 8:24pm GMT on 19th Apr
Who else played Dune?

it was way cool, got really far, but never beat it.

Twilight said @ 8:27pm GMT on 19th Apr
I played it, got pretty far, then I forgot to do something important and the game was unbeatable. I hated that.

SnakeGhost said @ 8:34pm GMT on 19th Apr
Yeah! I spend many an hour of my youth avoiding the sandworms. I hated that I needed the manual at arms reach all the time though.

Jallandhara said @ 10:11pm GMT on 19th Apr
We touched base on that in another thread. Though, I loved playing Dune and Dune 2 when they were new.

liddlemonkey said @ 12:10am GMT on 20th Apr
Mmmm....Nice sietch.

SnakeGhost said @ 8:32pm GMT on 19th Apr
I voted for Orly in '06!

Narrenschiff said @ 8:41pm GMT on 19th Apr
I still remember a game I played on a Mac years ago... Crystal Crazy. That was a great game. I can find a copy of it, but alas, it is apple only! *sob*

SnakeGhost said @ 9:28pm GMT on 19th Apr
I found the Ambrosia Software games a hell of a lot of fun.

Humpy said @ 9:39pm GMT on 19th Apr
Escape Velocity was awesome

anonymousbob said @ 11:08pm GMT on 19th Apr
+1 ambrosia sw

f00m@nB@r said @ 10:16pm GMT on 19th Apr
crystal quest? the one with the moan sound effect?

Stylez said @ 9:37pm GMT on 19th Apr
Ok. Ask SE time. There was a game that came out a while ago (96 I think) that was a shooter from the overhead perspective. I think it was an Apogee game. You were this grunt who ran around and could toss grenades and there was multi-level areas and multiplayer.

monokot said @ 10:15pm GMT on 19th Apr
that really sounds like an older port of the capcom game Commando, a variant of Ikari Warriors or vice versa. or is this more 3D top down when you say multi level

Stylez said @ 11:07pm GMT on 19th Apr
It's close to 3d. It's high res VGA stuff. Like Duke3D-era graphics.

pmpybra said @ 10:39pm GMT on 19th Apr
perhaps Cannon Fodder? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_Fodder

thumble said @ 1:41am GMT on 20th Apr
If it's not Cannon Fodder it may be Chaos Engine. Only game that I'd describe as "Gauntlet with guns".

Electrohacker01 said @ 10:11pm GMT on 19th Apr
wing commander 3, armada, and privateer... good times

thechicagonuwave said @ 1:42am GMT on 20th Apr
god, my dad bought that so we could play...you know revolutionary game and all with videos built into the game play...i remember them being interviewed on the today show, because it was such a big thing or whatever.

...but we could never get it to run on our computer. didn't have enough memory!

gary said @ 10:15pm GMT on 19th Apr
windows games should be boot-able cd/dvd's
that call only drivers needed for the game and a scaled down main kernel
much like liveCD's , only win
or . someone should make dos on crack to run games from command prompt. dedicating all your resources to what you have running.
this would help noobs with 500 processes running in their back ground , and 60 icons next to their clock.
they could play the game with full system resources available . and then reboot back into their gator infested dick spam utopia of aol coolweb grabass.

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
files=30
buffers=20,2
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS

hurray

more beer

mrklipp said @ 10:59pm GMT on 19th Apr
It's a nice idea, but the problem you have with this sort of setup is that as soon as it's released, it's out of date.

In the PC market, new hardware comes out so frequently that any bootable game would have a life of 6-12 months before it would become unplayable on any number of systems with newer parts that it doesn't have drivers for since they weren't written when it shipped.

chrisjvr said @ 11:23pm GMT on 19th Apr
Funny timing with this post -- i just downloaded and played waaaay too much Scorched Earth this past weekend.

punchopenpunchclose said @ 12:04am GMT on 20th Apr
Wolfenstein: the most simple mode 7 3D game evar.

thechicagonuwave said @ 1:50am GMT on 20th Apr
EVEN BETTER!!!

Who Played
Police Quest
Space Quest
or Liesure Suit Larry?

Sierra used to rock soooo fucking hard
some of the best games i have ever played

thechicagonuwave said @ 1:58am GMT on 20th Apr
i played and got really far on police quest, until i got stuck or my computer stopped working...this was in like 94 though on my parents old tandy 1000

i played and beat space quest 3, one of the few games ive ever played all the way through.

and also got pretty far on liesure suit larry, but my friend and i had to steal that from his dad, and sneak around and play it...adult material and all

Torias said @ 3:13am GMT on 20th Apr
R.I.P. Klerck

It's weird, but I checked through the wiki on trolling to see if he was properly credited... Glad to see he's used as an illustration and has a link to his own wiki page...

He was actually a nice guy and probably the inspiration for the "call for help" paragraph about why people troll... He was gay and going through the whole teenage thing when it started...

And he trolled the world with the Two Towers petition :-)

death4hire said @ 7:29am GMT on 20th Apr
SCREW YOU TROLL!!!