For me, it was the game Rocket Jockey released by Sega Soft in '96. It was perfect. The game featured a surf rock soundtrack by Dick Dale. The entire premise of the game was to ride around on rockets and using long cables to yank your opponents off theirs. Referees were also fair play. I don’t think I’ve met anyone else who has played the game, so if you have, let me know!

  • @gliide
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    111 year ago

    Jazz Jackrabbit, and all of its versions and the sequel. Banging soundtrack too

  • Lorax
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    101 year ago

    I was a big LucasArts graphic adventure game fan. Maniac mansion, Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones, Loom, Monkey Island Then all the Sierra games: leisure Suits Larry, Police Quest, King’s Quest, Camelot…. Good times.

    • @hurricane155
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      31 year ago

      ahem you forgot to mention full throttle ;)

      • Lorax
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        21 year ago

        Whenever I smell asphalt, I think of Maureen.

  • BoofStroke
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    91 year ago
    • one must fall
    • anything from apogee
    • Ultima underworld
    • wolf 3d / doom
    • @[email protected]OP
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      51 year ago

      Doom, total classic. In that same vein, did you ever play Hexen? I recall it being a pretty cool medieval/ magic Doom.

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        And of course, unreal tournament. Although that was later. It had a Linux port which is why I played it.

    • @knF
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      11 year ago

      Loved all of these, great list. I’d add:

      • syndicate
      • XCOM UFO
      • Ultima VII (a real masterpiece both as a game and as software)
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    I really loved Tie Fighter from 1994. The music was pretty cool because it changed based on the state of the mission you were on and star wars music was a cheat code to my feelings.

    I also thought it was so cool when you’d complete secret objectives and they’d bring you in to the emperor’s secret order and tattoo your arm. I thought that was just fucking great. Those cut scenes were so cool.

    Also thanks to all of you who posted cool older games im going to try some of these. I’m thinking about trying fallout I’ve never played any in that series.

    • @QuikxSpec
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      31 year ago

      Lucas arts was so strong at that time. I loved dark forces(?) the FPS

    • @mgiuca
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      21 year ago

      Wait, you forgot to mention that he tattoes your arm with FORCE LIGHTNING.

    • @_finger_
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      21 year ago

      Honestly Lucasarts of the early-90’s to mid 2000’s had such a high batting average.

      Tie Fighter really captured the feel of the original trilogy that only a few games have actually done, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight both did the same.

  • @toofarapart
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    71 year ago

    Star Control 2 is the one I still come back to every now and then.

  • ElectricMachman
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    61 year ago

    Fallout. Astonishing bit of work. I wish there were more isometric RPGs of that style.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      Loved the older fallout series but wow that gameplay was unforgiving. I remember dying constantly, though I was probably just bad.

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        Yeah, the unfortunate downside to the Fallout games is that it gives you a wide variety of potential character builds, but unless you’re somewhat proficient in combat, your odds of survival are slim. Which, I suppose, would be accurate to a real-life post-apocalypse scenario

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    61 year ago

    Theme Hospital I still go back to on occasion. I’ve seen Two Point but it’s not the same.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    ID games of course (Keen/Wolf3d/Doom), Sim City series. Raptor, Warcraft I&II, LucasArts games.

  • @QuikxSpec
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    51 year ago

    Scorched Earth Worms UT2K Quake 3 Arena Tribes Descent Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries You Don’t Know Jack Where in the World is Carmen San Diego

      • @QuikxSpec
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        21 year ago

        When you load into a mission and the mech boots up… titanfall really scratched that itch

        • @[email protected]OP
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          11 year ago

          Oh yeah, absolutely loved Titanfall. I’m still praying for a sequel. The multiplayer in that game was incredible.

          • @QuikxSpec
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            21 year ago

            It’s a travesty they didn’t already get TF2 done with the continued sales of the first game and huge success of Apex.

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    41 year ago

    I played the shit out of Rocket Jockey. We only played it once together at a Lan party because I kept tying my friends together. Fun for me, not for them!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Never got to play LAN, I bet it was a blast though. That gameplay was made to torment your friends!

  • Tarquinn2049
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    41 year ago

    The Moraff adventure games. Moraffs World and Moraffs Dungeons of the Unforgiven.

    Also Castle of the Winds.

    It’s either tough or impossible to get purchased copies of any of them now, but that means there are sites willing to host the full unlocked versions of them now. As far as I know, the creators of both are still alive though. So I suppose if you tried really hard you might still be able to get money to them.

    In both cases they were games I played when I was a kid and they stood out as games I wanted to come back to when I was less bad at stuff. And in both cases I did, and little me was right.

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      I remember the death messages of Castle of the Winds: RIP Killed by Huge Ogre or RIP Killed by Kobold. I had never seen or heard of an Ogre before and thought it was “org” so I pronounced it that way too for the longest time. Until Shrek was released.

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        21 year ago

        I vaguely remember the death message said “another one bites the dust” and I had no idea what that meant.

    • @afraidofmybasement
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      I recently played through Castle of the Winds again, works great in DOSbox with Win98. Still a great game.

    • EthanolParty
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      I played one of the Moraff games (I think Dungeons of the Unforgiven) and remember it being like an acid trip. In retrospect I probably didn’t have the colors set up right.