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Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 2:40:16 AM   
ilovestrategy


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Status: offline 		Today I was playing my old copy of Civilization II when I started wondering, what old games do you guys still play and never get tired of?

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 3:50:43 AM   
D.Ilse


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Consol,

Iron Storm for Sega Saturn, WWII Strat game..played it over the weekend.

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 4:08:16 AM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 4:37:16 AM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 5:08:42 AM   
Peter Fisla


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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 5:58:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Bearing in mind that one's definition of "old" often varies, I still play the following games:

Lords of the Realm 2
Birth of the Federation
Shogun Total War
Klingon Academy
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Medieval Total War


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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 6:01:43 AM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 6:03:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Peter Fisla

Close Combat 1, working just fine in Win7 Pro 64bit env. :)


I remember when CC1 popped up in PCgamer as ASL on the PC. Then Atomic and AH started having issues..and now AH is owned by a card company..how things go and Atomic is currently knows what.

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 6:08:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to get Aces of Deep and Microprose's 1st B-17 sim(the 3.5 flop one, not the aweful sequal they tried) plus Red Baron II, 1942 PAW Gold and European Air War up and running, but my flight sims days as well as my FPS days are behind me.

Now it's Strat or Tact, and Close Combat is my RTS level...almost 3X and I returned to Tabletop wargaming this year...but I play HPS games on my Laptop while waiting for my turns.



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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 6:37:30 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

Today I was playing my old copy of Civilization II when I started wondering, what old games do you guys still play and never get tired of?

Master of Magic, Panzer General, Fantasy General, Ascendancy and Conquered Kingdoms to name a few.

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 8:14:02 AM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 1:00:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		*ack* The dilemma of a retro-gamer when asked this question!

A lot of 80's SSI games (Fighter Command to Computer Ambush to Computer Air Combat to USAAF to [ad infinitum]). Guess I should throw in Soldiers at War, Flight Commander 2, Achtung Spitfire, Over The Reich, Empire Deluxe (it is still addicting!). ETC, ETC... Heck, it might be easier to list the old games I don't play (primarily really old flight sims like Red Baron I & Their Finest Hour don't get played here anymore).

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 2:44:18 PM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 4:13:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		I mostly play old games that I have missed in the 80/90s. There are very few old games that I replay. Bertrayal at krondor and ultima underworld 1 and 2 comes to mind. 

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 4:52:02 PM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 6:00:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		With the exception of Planescape Torment (and that only because it runs nicely on my netbook), none. There are too many new games competing for my time. I play several 'old' Matrix titles, at least in terms of original release date, from time to time but all are still on the catalogue.

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 8:28:13 PM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 8:32:54 PM   
a7v


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Status: offline 		I still play War in Russia, SPWW2 and Rome:Total War.
Games I still would like to play are Red Baron I and SWOTL, but they are no more working with my Quadcore and Vista (flying too fast )

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 9:10:39 PM   
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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 9:20:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Combat Mission Afrika Korps. I love that game. Have yet to play the new stuff, but WW2 has my interest.

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 10:13:56 PM   
Jevhaddah


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Status: offline 		Just reinstalled Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition wot I got from GOG, brings back memories of a less pc time

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/8/2010 11:23:20 PM   
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The "V for Victory" and "World at War" we-move series of games by Atomic/Avalon Hill.
They all still interest me. Too bad no one is interested in updating them to current standards.
I can't seem to run "America Invades" anymore though as the game won't recognize the cd-rom in my cd-rom drive anymore.
Ah well............

Rob.

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/9/2010 12:23:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		"SP:WaW" and the old Imagic "Great Battles of Caesar" are still on my HD.

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/11/2010 6:19:47 AM   
ilovestrategy


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quote:

ORIGINAL: reg113

Civ II



Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ascendancy ruled too! And boy, did I have some fine battles in Age of Rifles!

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/11/2010 6:45:52 AM   
parusski


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Status: offline 		Not many are worth playing for a long time. But:

War in Russia
SPWAW
Panzer General
SPWW2
Civ 2(yet I do play 4 and can't wait for 5)
HOMM II and III.

THat's it.

I do love playing a couple old boardgames:
Squad Leader
Panzer Blitz
ASL

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/11/2010 9:45:33 AM   
mgarnett

 

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Status: offline 		Hi Obsolete (and others if interested),

If you head over to www.gog.com (Good Old Games), you can buy quite a few old games ready configured for today's operating systems and fully tested on Windows.

I see you are a big Might and Magic fan, well they have the entire series for $9.99 DRM free. It's a legit site, Activision have just come on board with them so they are publishing their back catalog at the moment.

And for D.Ilse, they released the Red Baron collection a couple of months ago (I and II).

I've bought heaps of games through them and they are very good (everything is DRM free) and 100% legitimate.

Cheers

Mark

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/11/2010 9:16:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Amen to you, DIIse, all those were my first foraws into the pc gaming world.
I would add for board games, I still set up SPI's Global War, with some rules changes. It works...well, it's nostalgic.
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ORIGINAL: D.Ilse

I would love to get Aces of Deep and Microprose's 1st B-17 sim(the 3.5 flop one, not the aweful sequal they tried) plus Red Baron II, 1942 PAW Gold and European Air War up and running, but my flight sims days as well as my FPS days are behind me.

Now it's Strat or Tact, and Close Combat is my RTS level...almost 3X and I returned to Tabletop wargaming this year...but I play HPS games on my Laptop while waiting for my turns.





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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/11/2010 10:29:31 PM   
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Civ2
Lords of the Realm 2
Played Aces of the Deep not too long ago, felt dated after Silent Hunter 3 but still not bad

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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/12/2010 1:18:50 AM   
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I see you are a big Might and Magic fan, well they have the entire series for $9.99 DRM free.


Well, I already have the entire series here, and while there are problems with Vista, they do run through DoS Box pretty good :P 

I did come across a collection of older wargames all bundled together for dirt cheap prices on Amazon, etc.  I assumed it was obviously another warez peddler so I moved on, but perhaps I should take another look.




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RE: Favorite Old Games That you still play - 3/12/2010 2:17:07 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Obsolete

quote:

I see you are a big Might and Magic fan, well they have the entire series for $9.99 DRM free.


Well, I already have the entire series here, and while there are problems with Vista, they do run through DoS Box pretty good :P 

I did come across a collection of older wargames all bundled together for dirt cheap prices on Amazon, etc.  I assumed it was obviously another warez peddler so I moved on, but perhaps I should take another look.





Hi,

They are definitely legit. There has actually been a few articles written about them in the computer press recently about how they are filling a niche in the market. A couple of the big publishers, like Activision for example, are on board with them. Recently from Activision they have released the entire Gabriel Knight series along with Arcanum and a few others.

If you like Might and Migic you might also want to have a look at the Realms of Arcania Series which they also sell.

As far as wargames go, they have a few such as Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord and Strategic Command.

They don't use any form of DRM so I like to support them (just like Matrix) for putting the honest gamer first.

Cheers

Mark

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