Old School PC Gaming?

[americankgb]

Was anyone here really ever a PC gamer years ago. I'm talking about stuff like back when Adventure games were all the rage like the Lucasarts games such as Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max, other ones such as Myst, but beyond that as well, the first Warcraft game, Diablo, Starcraft, Doom, Duke Nukem...anything. I understand that the site's main topic is consoles but I was just curious because I had many good times on the PC in my younger days and recently I've been able to relive them a bit and go beyond what I've experienced earlier. With the help of ScummVM and a few downloads I was able to play most of the Lucasarts Adventure games once more, I wasn't able before because I lost my FoA (Fate of Atlantis) disc, and I lost my box that had six Floppys that had Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Zak McCracken, Loom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on them...I was bumming out

But ya ScummVM let me relive the old days a bit and it was great. Dosbox is a nice program but it still needs work, I'm looking forward to the day when I can play a lot of my older Dos games once more because I don't really have an old PC to play my old games...even though I should probably get one. Please share you old school PC gaming experiences here.

I loved the old adventure games from lucas arts. I still have monkey island 1 and monkey island 2 as well as day of the tentacle and full throttle in a box somewhere. I really should dig thos games out.

[pixelbender]

My favs were Doom, Wolftenstein, Blake Stone, Jazz Jackrabit, Commander Keen, Hocus Pocus, Hugo's Hunted House, and of course Leisuresuit Larry.

I just wish my thinkpad 600 would do DOS games fullscreen on the lcd.

[fastbilly1]

Battle of Britain and Fate of Atlantis are two of my favorite games of all time, back when lucasarts...yall know the rest. Come to think of it, I havent played a bad scumm game. Even the bad ones are better than most of the trash out there today.

[Espio 1919]

I recall playing those hugo games and Commander Keen, as well as the classic Duke Nukem games and what seemed like endless shareware/dos games (Wolfenstein, Secret Agent, Crystal Caves, and Alien Carnage I best remember). Today I still play quite a bit of Doom and Quake thanks to Skulltag and EZQuake GL (900 FPS ftw), but I also play some newer games like Counter-Strike Source and I asked for the Orange Box for Xmas; I plan to play the hell out of Team Fortress 2 once I get it.

[executioner]

This topic I really like, I'm a pc gamer from the atari st days, then commodore, amigas and such. Grew up playing doom, dukenukem, wolfenstein, dune, c&c and lucasarts games. The other day almost cried when I found my copy of wing commander 2 and started to look for my copy of zork but its MIA. My console experience started with atari, then went to atari pc until my dad bought me a nes clone which I still have when they were cheap and after that had no console system until PS1. All of those years was pc gaming only.

[All Hail The New Flesh]

Oh I used to play alot of old PC games back in the day. I've played alot of adventure games like Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, Secret of Monkey Island and other LucasArts games. I've also played some of the FMV based adventure games, like Under A Killing Moon, Myst ect.

[Reyals]

I started playing PC games when I was six with my grandfather. I played Myst alot, then I found Doom and Quake on his computer and played those instead.

[cowgod]

i'm a hard core pc gamer. i play games on my pc far more than any console (hopefully i don't get banned for saying that!). i started with king's quest, under a killing moon, myst, relentless, and the blue and the gray. i eventually moved on to wolfenstein 3d and got hooked on that game big time. then doom came along and i was an id software fan for life. i can't remember how many times i played doom co-op with a buddy of mine over a 2600 baud modem until the sun came up.

i am playing through battlezone, gta3, and homeworld right now.

[migo]

Yeah, PC & Mac. I loved Escape Velocity and Wing Commander: Privateer. I'm waiting for Vegas Strike to get some of the bugs worked out - that'll be some good nostalgic goodness.

Number Munchers was pretty sweet too.

[mrgoodbytes]

oh the nostagia running through my head right now.

[going to have to pull out under a killing moon when I get home.... last I played it my computer could hardly handle the 3d]

I was and still am addicted to Wasteland. big into all the old sierra adventure games kings quest, space quest, leisure suite larry, quest for glory. Huge soft spot of Lucas Arts [before their only product became star wars]: monkey island, zak, dig, too many to name.

legend of kyrandia was another cool one, highly recommend checking out the 2 twinsen games [little big adventures], that has held up really well with time.

was massively addicted to the first Quarintine and the first Interstate 76

I truely enjoyed the difficulties of most of these games that you simply cannot find now a days. Although the internet has kinda ruined that. I still remeber writing snail mail to sierra for hints and waiting 2 months for a response.... and holding a huge grudge for finding out 10 years later that it wasnt my fault that I couldn't beat Kings Quest IV because my edition wouldn't recognize the command "place bridal on unicorn"