nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
Seeing all the new games listed here makes me feel old! i'm only 33 though, but most of my favorite games (still favorite) go back all the way to DOS, CGA graphics, and cheesy PC Speaker sound effects:
My top three favorites:
1. The Oregon Trail. who couldn't remember that game? in grade school, there was ALWAYS a limited supply of diskettes (the 5.25" floppy kind) in relation to the amount of Apple //e computers. if you were unlucky enough to be in the back of the line, you missed out and had to settle for Number Munchers or Jenny's Journeys...either way, it was fun, and we never took the real-life reference of the game seriously--it was always enter in your friends' names or names of your worst bully and hope they died of the most common reason--dysentery--and enter in some wacky info into the tombstone at the end. only 1 out of 100 plays did we ever make it to Oregon....
2. Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (DOS, 1991, Lucasfilm Games) this was perhaps the best first-person combat flight simulator of all time for the day, and still is today (with a proper sound card). back when the Internet was nothing but Prodigy Service (which was only good for homework yawn!) the game was the escape before the days of Youtube and Facebook entered the picture over a decade later. the game was never repetitive, and was able to randomize all the combat missions so well, that you never played the same mission twice. it spawned enemy aircraft, targets, and other elements randomly and gave constant challenge. never too sure how many hours i actually did waste in the end, before the World Wide Web took my time away.
3. another educational classic often played when i still had my IBM Personal Computer XT, was Super Solvers Midnight Rescue (i had other variants, such as Outnumbered, Treasure Mountain, etc but all retained the same gameplay overall and offered nothing new). the game was quite easy and perhaps i was too old for it even at the time, because i could speed through it rather well, as all you did was photosnap three robots and one had the bad guy in them and that ended the game. you had until midnight and the time ratio was so slow that i was lucky if the game lasted past '9 PM' in the game itself. it started at 6PM. think of this as Carmen Sandiego for little kids...
My top three favorites:
1. The Oregon Trail. who couldn't remember that game? in grade school, there was ALWAYS a limited supply of diskettes (the 5.25" floppy kind) in relation to the amount of Apple //e computers. if you were unlucky enough to be in the back of the line, you missed out and had to settle for Number Munchers or Jenny's Journeys...either way, it was fun, and we never took the real-life reference of the game seriously--it was always enter in your friends' names or names of your worst bully and hope they died of the most common reason--dysentery--and enter in some wacky info into the tombstone at the end. only 1 out of 100 plays did we ever make it to Oregon....
2. Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (DOS, 1991, Lucasfilm Games) this was perhaps the best first-person combat flight simulator of all time for the day, and still is today (with a proper sound card). back when the Internet was nothing but Prodigy Service (which was only good for homework yawn!) the game was the escape before the days of Youtube and Facebook entered the picture over a decade later. the game was never repetitive, and was able to randomize all the combat missions so well, that you never played the same mission twice. it spawned enemy aircraft, targets, and other elements randomly and gave constant challenge. never too sure how many hours i actually did waste in the end, before the World Wide Web took my time away.
3. another educational classic often played when i still had my IBM Personal Computer XT, was Super Solvers Midnight Rescue (i had other variants, such as Outnumbered, Treasure Mountain, etc but all retained the same gameplay overall and offered nothing new). the game was quite easy and perhaps i was too old for it even at the time, because i could speed through it rather well, as all you did was photosnap three robots and one had the bad guy in them and that ended the game. you had until midnight and the time ratio was so slow that i was lucky if the game lasted past '9 PM' in the game itself. it started at 6PM. think of this as Carmen Sandiego for little kids...
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