Been playin PC Games since the 80's

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  D8TA

  List of my favorite games:(tops of my list, played 1000's of games)

  No special order:

  Zork I-III ---A heck, any Infocom game from the late 70's to early 80's (oh those days of text adventures, and they kept me up all night)
  BallBlazer-Atar 800XL PC
  Rescue on Fractulas-Commodore 64
  Adventure-Atari 2600
  Maze Craze-Atari 2600
  Mike Tyson's Punch-Out-NES
  Super Punchout-SNES
  Super Mario Bros.-NES & Arcade Version
  Final Fantasy I-IX - NES,SNES,PS,PS2 (VII and IX being a tie for best)
  Tempest-Arcade
  Donkey Kong-Arcade
  Joust-Arcade
  Elite-Commodore 64
  Wizardry-Apple IIe
  Might and Magic I-III-Apple IIe/PC
  Ultima Series I-IX-various pc platforms
  Rogue Squadron-PC
  Rogue Leader -Gamecube
  X-Wing Alliance-PC
  Baldur's Gate I & II-PC
  Icewind Dale -PC
  Silent Hill-PS
  Thief I & II-PC
  Star Trek Elite Force-PC
  Star Wars Dark Forces-PC
  Jedi Knight-PC
  Tie Fighter-PC
  Planescape:Torment-PC
  Realms of the Huanting-PC
  Soul Calibur-Arcade/DC
  Everquest-(but quit after 2 yrs., still addicting)
  Dark Age of Camelot-(currently playing)

  Total of systems I've owned in my lifetime(parent owned some earlier models):
  Atari 800XL computer
  Commodore 64
  Amiga 128
  Apple IIe
  Mac
  IBM 386 - 486
  (Now after this I started customizing my own and building)
  P166
  P266
  P3 650
  P4 2.0

  Vid Game Consoles:
  Atari 2600
  Intellivision
  Nintendo Entertainment System
  Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  Sega
  Playstation
  Playstation 2
  Dreamcast
  Nintendo Game Cube

  Pretty much...I've played TONZ of games. Those I listed were among my favorites and don't even encompass all. Where do I get the time? Lack of sleep give you a clue? Also for 7 years I worked on a fishing boat, a tender. Kinda neat we could bring in our Consoles to play in our cabins.

  D8TA
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  Hmmm

  Lock-n-chase for Intellivision (pac man ripoff, but fun)
  Flashback (also Intellivision) had pretty amazing graphics and fluid movement for the time.

  The Zorks UGH! I remember going into some cavern that had an echo. No matter what I tried to do (north) it would echo it back to me (NORTH NORTH). I thought I'd broken the Apple II C that my parents had just bought.
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  2SYN

  Anything by ID Soft, esp. the last 3 titles in the Quake series. My reaction times to visual stimuli have been honed down to very small fractions of a second by these games

  
  "...the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing" - The Golden Age
  [SYN], UADA - Unseen Apostate Directorate of Africa.
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  Introspection

  Did you have many games for the Commodore 64? BTW after Everquest did you get into any other massive online multiplayer game?
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  dungbeetle

  ZELDA ZELDA ZELDA!!!!
  The Mario games for SNES;
  Pac-Man 2 for SNES...very interesting.
  Drakan for PC
  Tapper for SNES and PC (online too)
  Xena: Warrior Princess for PSX (playable on PC with right software)
  Breath of Fire (1,2,etc etc)

  Them's my favorites so far.

  I have 'The Riders of Rohan'for Commodore 64, but don't have a 5 1/4 floppy drive for it.
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  D8TA

  Introspection

  Did you have many games for the Commodore 64? BTW after Everquest did you get into any other massive online multiplayer game?

  Tonz o games for C-64. I remember:
  Ghostbusters
  Various arcade games like Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. Pac-Man etc.
  Blue Max (kinda like Zaxxon, but WW I Bi-plane)
  Phantisie series (rpg)
  KARATEKA -I can't believe I forgot that one.
  Strip Poker (heh heh heh)
  Archon I & II (that freaky chess like game w/mythological creatures)
  Budokan
  Elite
  M.U.L.E. (Dang! That game WAS addicting)
  Pirates
  Raid over Moscow
  ROADWAR 2000 (lost alot of sleep with that one)
  Some of the Ultima games I remember were on the C-64. These are one I remember enjoy playing. I'm sure there's more.

  Right now, I'm playing Dark Age of Camelot (MMORPG). I'm on the Isuelt server with a 26 Troll Warrior.

  On EQ I had a Wood Elf Ranger on Luclin server.

  D8TA
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  Introspection

  Sounds like you didn't get into the later generation of games, they really improved the graphics and such.. It's been a long time, but as far as RPG did you ever play Bard's Tale?
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  D8TA

  Yep yep...Bards Tale. I remember mapping out on paper the towns and dungeons on that one. I missed a "gap" between Mac to IBM 386's in my gaming career. Console gaming was more a primary play for me in that period.

  D8TA
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  bboyneko

  I have all of those video game systems on my computer as emulators, anytime i feel like playing an old game i download it and play it. Thank goodness for emulators and roms.

  The ones I really miss though are the Sierra 'Quest' games, like all the kings quest, police quest, heros quest and space quest.
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  SpiderMonkey

  Hmmmm... LOL... I know this thread is probly dead, but maybe you'll see this:

  the solution to the echo room was really stupid. all you had to do was type "echo." the game would respond "echo echo," and then the room became a normal room! sad, sad, sad.