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Poll Results: Do you play old school games?

 
  • 12% (7)
    Heck yeah! I have more ROMs than LifeVirusZERO's whopping collection of 12095 ROMs!!!
  • 62% (34)
    I am an old school gamer, but play just as many new games.
  • 18% (10)
    Just the classics... Chrono Trigger, Mega Man games, Super Mario, etc.
  • 5% (3)
    Absolutely not. I don't like old school games / I am too young to appreciate them
54 Total Votes  
post #21 of 39
4/3/06 at 8:29pm
Fallout Tactics on my XPS here... on my old laptop (P2-333, 256MB RAM), I would play all sorts of ROM games, my favorites being Chrono Trigger, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and Herzog Zwei. Now it's all about the next-gen goodness though
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post #22 of 39
4/3/06 at 8:36pm
Everybody does, actually I found how to emulate the Top Gear 3000 with the WIP version of the ZSNES and I'm playing it!
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post #23 of 39
4/3/06 at 8:40pm
All the Final Fantasy games for PSone and then there is NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA/MAME Yeah love them got about 200 gigs worth of my old stuff but some of the cartagies wont read anymore so I cant pull the games off of them
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post #24 of 39
4/3/06 at 8:54pm
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Originally Posted by Bkriskey
I just poped in Return to Zork but it didn't work right. Neither do any of my old Sierra adventure games.
Try dosbox, it's a dos emulator that runs on many platforms. It works for many of the more simplistic oldies but, sadly, I wasn't able to get more "advanced" games like syndicate wars to run at full speed.

You can find it here: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
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post #25 of 39
4/3/06 at 8:59pm
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Originally Posted by In$pired
I don't! I know I'm not the only one.

I do occasionally play SNES, not on my 9300 though.
Yeah, I play lots of old school roms (NES, SNES, SMS, GEN, GB/GBC/GBA, etc, etc). But I don't play them on my 9300 either. I found my xbox is a much better platform for rom playing -- big screen TV and decent gamepad. I just keep the roms stored on my PC and the emulator pulls them over the network.
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post #26 of 39
4/3/06 at 10:39pm
Anyone have an old copy of Bioforge laying around they don't want? I've looked for it and haven't had any luck - great game for it's time.
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post #27 of 39
4/3/06 at 11:00pm
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Originally Posted by viperxiv
I almost bought the Command&Conquor, The Last Decade pack last night. Red Alert 1 was the best stratigy game ever made!!!!
I still got my original Red Alert discs, and RA is set up to run on my computer in compatibility mode, it rox. I really like Total Annihilation. Of course I had to play some of the SNES classics like Chrono Trigger, still amazingly good.
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post #28 of 39
4/4/06 at 4:21am
Sometimes I play Diablo on the train on my way to the Uni. I also enjoy playing Chrono Trigger and some PS1 games on emulators, I only wish I had more free time to play as much classics as I play MMORPG and next get (I also got 360).
PS: Red Alert forever!
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post #29 of 39
4/4/06 at 4:22am
Thread Starter 
Chex Quest FTW
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post #30 of 39
4/4/06 at 4:47am
Yeah, I have roms for GBA, NES, SNES, SEGA, N64, PSX... I love 'em!! I hook my lappy up to my tv and plug in a couple controllers. Really nice, since about the only thing I can ever get the wife to play is mario kart or mario party (project 64 gets used ALOT!!)
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post #31 of 39
4/4/06 at 12:33pm
Is Unreal Tournament considered old school?
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post #32 of 39
4/4/06 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by Bkriskey
I just poped in Return to Zork but it didn't work right. Neither do any of my old Sierra adventure games.
Yuo should check out http://www.agdinteractive.com/ they are redoing some of the kings quest and quest for glory games. They have KQ1&2 avaliable and QFG1 is in development.
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post #33 of 39
4/4/06 at 2:46pm
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Originally Posted by sublime_jl
Yeah, I have roms for GBA, NES, SNES, SEGA, N64, PSX... I love 'em!! I hook my lappy up to my tv and plug in a couple controllers. Really nice, since about the only thing I can ever get the wife to play is mario kart or mario party (project 64 gets used ALOT!!)
I don't understand why women DO like those games a lot, my girlfriend plays really well Mario Kart
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post #34 of 39
4/4/06 at 8:17pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillz
Is Unreal Tournament considered old school?
Yeah, sure. I remember that game. Would probably get like 3 kajillion FPS in it with my current computer.
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post #35 of 39
4/4/06 at 9:44pm
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Originally Posted by LifeVirusZERO
Yeah, sure. I remember that game. Would probably get like 3 kajillion FPS in it with my current computer.
It dates from 1999, sure is old school, but not as old as SNES, N64 and similars.

But it is an awesome game.
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post #36 of 39
4/5/06 at 1:58pm
What about some old school DOS games...

F-19 Stealth Fighter
F-117
Falcon
Falcon AT
Falcon 3.0
F-15 Strike Eagle
F-15 Strike Eagle II
F-15 Strike Eagle III
LHX
Gunship
Strike Commander
others...

Got all these on my XPS...along with modern games such as Splinter Cell 3, Half Life 2, Brothers In Arms, etc

Getting them all to work in the same WinXP installation, now THAT's been a challenge...
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post #37 of 39
4/5/06 at 2:24pm
commander keen is a great old computer game. i also remember my friends and i would lan diablo and WC2 and also play wc2 on my 28.8
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post #38 of 39
4/5/06 at 5:29pm
King's Quest.
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post #39 of 39
4/5/06 at 5:57pm
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Originally Posted by Prodigal
Old school? Well, I do play Impossible Mission and some of the old SSI D&D games on my C64 emulator - is that old school?

More currently, I've always liked Rogue Squadron, and the Baldur's Gate series, the original Diablo - hmm, might play some of them tonight... nah, Oblivion calls!
Impossible Mission (Epyx) rocks! (Destroy him my robots...LOL)
that and Rolling Thunder...

I just need a good emulator now and a way to connect a 3.5 Amiga FDD to my XPS 2 - wonder if my Amiga floppies are still readable.

-Doc X
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