Speaking of old PC Games: what are some essential classic PC games to you?

[edekoning]

Quake(world) and Unreal Tournament are my top FPS games ever.
Total Annihilation is an epic RTS, that is still lots of fun today.
Giant Citizen Kabuto! The game is split in three parts that play completely different (third person shooter vs monster on a rampage vs third person RTS). It has loads of humor and is a blast to play. Made by former members of Shiny Entertainment that also made MDK (another highly recommended game).
Dungeon Keeper, or any other game made by Bullfrog You need to build a dungeon, amass vast amounts of gold, slap your minions around, and slay all the heroes that enter your domain.
Homeworld, might a bit too recent, but that game was so freaking awesome. Its basically a RTS in 3D space. There was recently a remaster for this game that also includes Homeworld 2. Have not tried it yet though, so cannot say if its any good. Sadly the expansion Homeworld Cataclysm is not included, as the source code was lost

[Scassidy24]

Doom 1 & 2. We used to LAN the crap out of it when we were kids.   Lots of fun.

Not sure how far back we're going back, but I played a ton of rollercoaster tycoon.  The original game and.

Age of empires 1,

I don't think anybody mentioned grand theft auto 1.  I'd like to get that running in dos box through my frontend use a steering wheel like super sprint style.



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[shponglefan]

Alrighty, thanks to this thread and others I've been adding to my "list of classic games I really should have played the first time 'round".  Currently it stands at:

X-COM
Fallout
Heroes of Might and Magic III
The Secret of Monkey Island
Zork I
Syndicate
Planescape: Torrent
Master of Orion
StarCraft
Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Crusader: No Remorse
Diablo/Diablo 2
Wing Commander/Privateer
Star Control 2
Populous
AD&D Gold Box (Pool of Radiance, Eye of the Beholder, etc...)

Man, that's a lot of games...

[Howard_Casto]

Some of those games are ridiculously long... that'll keep you busy for a while. 

What about Jazz Jackrabbit?  It's not the best platformer in the world, but it's still worth playing.

[shponglefan]

Some of those games are ridiculously long... that'll keep you busy for a while.

That's the plan! 

What about Jazz Jackrabbit?  It's not the best platformer in the world, but it's still worth playing.

I remember JJ.  I think I played the Holiday version.  Good music from what I remember.

[menace]

I remember playing wing commander and thinking--cool I can fly--then played xwing and tie fighter and realized that the wing commander flight engine sucked in comparison--ruined the old wing commander titles for me--or maybe it was the machine I was using at the time--ibm ps1 386sx25 (sx stood for sucks)

[ark_ader]

I remember playing wing commander and thinking--cool I can fly--then played xwing and tie fighter and realized that the wing commander flight engine sucked in comparison--ruined the old wing commander titles for me--or maybe it was the machine I was using at the time--ibm ps1 386sx25 (sx stood for sucks)

SX =no floating point  coprocessor.

Nothing sucked about the 365sx -25.  It brought computing to an entire new level.  Well the level you are enjoying today...

Yeah I remember my 486 DLC 25 which was really a 386.  Played Xwing and Tie Fighter to death with my Adlib sound board, 1 mb of memory and a 256k VGA with the top of the line VGA monitor with .39 dot pitch.   

[jdbailey1206]

I always liked spooky mansion games for some reason back in the day.  Games like the 7th Guest and the 11th Hour.  Though not as spooky but just as fun was a game called Colonels Bequest.  Once I beat the game it lost it's edge because I knew the outcome but I would always come back to it every couple of years.

[BadMouth]

Not really my cup of tea, but.....

Amazon has Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition for $5
http://www.amazon.com/Baldurs-Gate-Enhanced-Online-Game/dp/B00B1VJZNK/?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=e30a1c76f8e511e594c45a23d83000f30INT

[shponglefan]

Not really my cup of tea, but.....

Amazon has Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition for $5
http://www.amazon.com/Baldurs-Gate-Enhanced-Online-Game/dp/B00B1VJZNK/?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=e30a1c76f8e511e594c45a23d83000f30INT

GoG also has it on sale.  And BG II and Icewind Dale enhanced versions as well for $8 apiece.

Not sure whether to get these or the originals though.  Reviews on GoG seem split in that regard.

[smass]

Not really my cup of tea, but.....

Amazon has Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition for $5
http://www.amazon.com/Baldurs-Gate-Enhanced-Online-Game/dp/B00B1VJZNK/?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=e30a1c76f8e511e594c45a23d83000f30INT

GoG also has it on sale.  And BG II and Icewind Dale enhanced versions as well for $8 apiece.

Not sure whether to get these or the originals though.  Reviews on GoG seem split in that regard.

A further FYI, I bought the original versions of BG and BGII on gog.com a few years ago as part of a D&D bundle.  As a result of the originals being in my GOG library, the enhanced versions are only $2.99 each for me.  I went ahead and bought them as BG and BGII are my all time favorite PC games.  I have played a few hours of BG enhanced and the ability to run it at higher resolutions and also scale the text and menus really makes a big difference (a positive one).  So far I really prefer the EE over the original.

[yotsuya]

No one mentioned Sim City? ---daisies---.

[Vigo]

Obviously when we talk about genre defining, we have to go with tooth invaders.

[Malenko]

No one mentioned Sim City? ---daisies---.

For the longest time I thought that was a SNES exclusive. To this day, I like it better on the SNES

[harveybirdman]

No one mentioned Sim City? ---daisies---.

For the longest time I thought that was a SNES exclusive. To this day, I like it better on the SNES

Agreed, the SNES version was so fun I'd play that over it's PC version.  I had Sim Earth on PC, but IDK Civilization felt better IMHO.

[yotsuya]

I feel the same way about Street Fighter games.

[Token]

No one mentioned Sim City? ---daisies---.

...Also anything  by Sid Meier or Will Wright.

 

[vwalbridge]

No one mentioned Sim City? ---daisies---.

...Also anything  by Sid Meier or Will Wright.

 

Token always keeps it real.