Anyone born in the 70s? Remember how good the 90s games were?

[jarablue]

You were living large.

If you only knew.....I was poor to poor people. But with hard work and dedication anything is possible. My take.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This was my very first console in 79....oh the memories.
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Then it was atari, then the very next one was NES. Then genesis then pc in 1993. Then it was basically PC all the way. Career also in IT since 2000.

I grew up in sheer heartache and a nightmare but made it. You can too!

Never seen one of those. My first foray into home consoles was the Atari VCS/2600.

You were living large.

Indeed he was!

If you only knew.....I was poor to poor people. But with hard work and dedication anything is possible. My take.

Fair enough, and well done!

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

71 here and I have a windows 98 and a XP system just to play all the games I have from that era. Yes gaming awesome back then. My favorites are Revolt, Battle Bots, and the Unreal and Quake series.

 

[freeagent]

Back in the early 2000s when I got into computers, my buddy told me about COD lol..

I later played so much that I felt like I was being trained to be a soldier lol, just needed the field time

The only old system that I have left is my LGA775 X48 rig. Now that XP is legally free I guess I can whip it together..

It is overdue, last time it ran was in 2016, and I was closer to 500fsb on a Yorkfield so not too bad. Wolfedale was a little more fun


/O.T.. sorry

 

[Waldorf]

fr me, short of exceptions (modded/HD textures etc) virtually anything from before 2020 just doesnt look as i good want it to, and for pre-pc stuff (2000), looked better back then, cause thats what you had.

i would rather play pong (first screen game i had in 77), than say Acecombat/Wipeout pre ps5, even that i played those like stupid.

@ThE_MaD_ShOt
why?
never had issues with games going back to w95/98, running it on 7 and now 10.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

fr me, short of exceptions (modded/HD textures etc) virtually anything from before 2020 just doesnt look as i good want it to, and for pre-pc stuff (2000), looked better back then, cause thats what you had.

i would rather play pong (first screen game i had in 77), than say Acecombat/Wipeout pre ps5, even that i played those like stupid.

@ThE_MaD_ShOt
why?
never had issues with games going back to w95/98, running it on 7 and now 10.

Well I could probably run most but you have your few that give fits. And well I have the hardware as the 98 system I built in that era and still have it running and the win XP is parts I bought new also. I run that system as a dual boot with win XP and win 10. And I just have a ton of old parts laying around and the time to mess with them. So why not run them on the hardware they were made for.

 

[Athlonite]

@ThE_MaD_ShOt
why?
never had issues with games going back to w95/98, running it on 7 and now 10.

Some 16 bit games or DX 7 or lower can be a bit of a pain trying to get them to run in an OS that has done away with 16bit runtimes/executables not so bad if the game is 32bit

 

[lexluthermiester]

Now that XP is legally free I guess I can whip it together..

Wait, what now? When did this happen? And how would that work?

 

[chrcoluk]

Played some crazy good games like the wing commander series. what an era.

 

[xtreemchaos]

in the 60's when i was knee high to a grasshopper Steam was a big thing and it would make our eyes sore when we looked out the open window not a lot has changed .

 

[mtosev]

I was born in 1987 and I played games like need for speed, 2 se, 3, 4 (road challenge / high stakes), traffic giant, capitalism and capitalism plus (both are dos games), 2, Fifa 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, Uefa euro 2000, 2004, 2002 Fifa world cup, rise of nations, nhl 2000, NBA live 2000, Uefa manager 2000 etc...
Great games

 

[de.das.dude]

im from the 90's but i know what you mean. Games those days had that addictive factor. It had engagement that new modern games can dream of providing. Very few games have an engaging storyline. Its mostly focussed on good graphics and bling rather than actual engagement and storylines.

for example, remember NES games? There is a reason why pocket handheld emulators are still so popular!

I recently played patapon, and i was hooked. So simple, yet so funny and addictive.

among modern games (if you can call it that) the games i still regularly play are Cities Skylines I (modded) and Kerbal Space Program.

 

[Splinterdog]

Apart from my introduction to Tomb Raider in the mid-90s, before then I came across Jacaranda Jim, a DOS, text based and sometimes infuriating adventure game (green text on a black screen), go north, go south, that kind of thing. And then later BOWEP - Best of Windows Entertainment on a floppy which included the legendary Chip's Challenge and many others.
"Bummer! Chip can't walk in fire."
I still play Chip's either in DOSBox or a Win 98 machine.

 

[azrael]

Apart from my introduction to Tomb Raider in the mid-90s, before then I came across Jacaranda Jim, a DOS, text based and sometimes infuriating adventure game (green text on a black screen), go north, go south, that kind of thing. And then later BOWEP - Best of Windows Entertainment on a floppy which included the legendary Chip's Challenge and many others.
"Bummer! Chip can't walk in fire."
I still play Chip's either in DOSBox or a Win 98 machine.

Funny you should bring up (text) adventures. I still remember the adventure heyday back in the 80s with e.g. the Infocom games. Not sure how they would hold up today, but they were great back then. Also was when LucasArts was at its prime.

 

[AusWolf]

im from the 90's but i know what you mean. Games those days had that addictive factor. It had engagement that new modern games can dream of providing. Very few games have an engaging storyline. Its mostly focussed on good graphics and bling rather than actual engagement and storylines.

for example, remember NES games? There is a reason why pocket handheld emulators are still so popular!

I recently played patapon, and i was hooked. So simple, yet so funny and addictive.

among modern games (if you can call it that) the games i still regularly play are Cities Skylines I (modded) and Kerbal Space Program.

I watched a video on Youtube not long ago about old games having a sort of "play for 30 mins and leave it" factor, which I think refers to some kind of "simplicity done right" approach, which is what made them addictive, imo. They were like a steak cooked to your liking.

On the other hand, most modern games want to be everything. They want to glue you to the monitor and feel FOMO if you don't keep playing. They're like a burger-pizza-kebab-everything kind of amalgamation of psychological warfare tactics on your mind to get you hooked without really providing anything of substance.

This is why I think Space Marine 2 is brilliant. It's a modern game that does one thing, and it does it right, like an old game. I don't need convoluted minimaps with hundreds of hours of side content. I just want to have fun, and Space Marine 2 gives me exactly that, and nothing else: fun.

 

[freeagent]

Wait, what now? When did this happen? And how would that work?

I don’t know.. I thought I saw that it was like abandonware or something here.. I obviously must be mistaken..

 

[mechtech]

I would say those were the halcyon days of video games.

My buddy's mom was a manager so she had a PC (few very people then did) I think it was a tandy 1000 or something, we played police quest, king's quest, leisure suit Larry (probably too young for that game lol)

I think the NES was a big step, it had a lot of well done games and series, with well done music, FF1, the Zelda series, Megaman, Double Dragon, Ninja Gaiden, among many others.

My grandparents bought us a 486 when I was finishing high school, and it had Abes Odyssey.

Then the SNES game out and another wave of good/great games/series with good/great soundtracks, again the FF series, ChronoTrigger, Zelda, SMB, etc.

Then the N64, by then early adulthood, was there, spent many an hour with buddies with Goldeneye turbo mode and one hit kills for 4-player mayhem.

My young brother got a PS2 and GTA, which was such a difference from almost any other game then, just cruised around listening to FlashbackFM.

Went to university and got HL2 on DVD for the PC and CS:S almost washed me out, but I just made it lol and right after that was work and kids.

I have an older buddy that's pretty hardcore into games, so when kids were in bed and wife was working nights he introduced me to Dungeon Defenders, Borderlands, and Terraria just a few years ago, which is basically the only game I play now.

 

[Splinterdog]

I watched a video on Youtube not long ago about old games having a sort of "play for 30 mins and leave it" factor, which I think refers to some kind of "simplicity done right" approach, which is what made them addictive, imo. They were like a steak cooked to your liking.

On the other hand, most modern games want to be everything. They want to glue you to the monitor and feel FOMO if you don't keep playing. They're like a burger-pizza-kebab-everything kind of amalgamation of psychological warfare tactics on your mind to get you hooked without really providing anything of substance.

This is why I think Space Marine 2 is brilliant. It's a modern game that does one thing, and it does it right, like an old game. I don't need convoluted minimaps with hundreds of hours of side content. I just want to have fun, and Space Marine 2 gives me exactly that, and nothing else: fun.

I agree and replayability is a major benefit of older games.

 

[AusWolf]

I agree and replayability is a major benefit of older games.

You could replay games back then because they were easy to replay. I mean, when a game offers "hundreds of hours of side content", I really can't be asked to go though all of it again. And this is probably what publishers want anyway. They don't want you to have fun with one game for the rest of your life. They want you to move on to the next thing. And the next.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I don’t know.. I thought I saw that it was like abandonware or something here.. I obviously must be mistaken..

Damn. I though microsoft had made XP available for free like they did with DOS and Win9X... Would have been awesome!

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

Most games these days are shovel-ware or plain garbage.

I agree with that.
I liked to play multiplayer FPS, but thats destroyed with cheating.

So i only play some Single Player FPS games, and Tomb Raider.

Games from the 90's I like:

Wolfenstein 3D
Quake and Quake 2
Doom and Doom 2
Heretic
The Catacomb Abyss
3D Ultra Pinball

And I also played some 80's games in the 90's

Space Commanders
Pacman
Into the Eagles Nest
Alley Cat

And when i was not gaming, i was sometimes busy with music.... FastTracker v2.08

 

[eidairaman1]

Soon to be 40, had a NES, then SNES, Traded those in for a Sega Genesis, had 32X, wish I had Sega CD, then had Dreamcast.

Had PC Ports of Saturn Games in 1998/1999- Panzer Dragoon, VF PC (Remix) VF2, Virtua Cop, Sonic R.

Like Sonic, Shinobi/Shadow Dancer, TMNT Hyper Stone Heist, Street Fighter, MK1-3, VF3TB, VirtualOn. Streets of Rage, Golden Axe

PC, Moto Cross Madness 1&2, Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament.

Games Today suffer consolitis.

 

[Ruru]

Born in 1990 and 90s games are still dope.

 

[Kminek]

'77 here
I remember plenty games named in this thread. Nostalgia brings tears in my eyes.
LAN parties with friends playing Doom in coop in highest difficulty and Unreal tournament vs us.
The game of my heart is Heroes of might and magic 3

 

[ratirt]

Born in the 80's.
Centurion: Defender of Rome was the one I liked from that time. Golden Axe another one.
Robbo, Fred, Bruce Lee and Silent service on Atari. Pitstop II on C64 was awesome.
Later 90. Dungeon keeper and Heroes of Might and Magic.