PC Gaming; 1990-1996

There was a games machine in the 90's other than the mighty Nintendo?!?!?!?

Ive never heard of such a thing! :the_finge

[Dauphin]

In 1989 or 88, I badly sprained my ankle when doing bike stunts in West Melbourne with my brother one Sunday afternoon. I immediatrly went to the hospital and was to stay off from school for a few days. The next day, a courier came to my home and delivered to me a brand new Sega Master System! I won it in a newspaper competition. So I spent the day lying in bed playing three bundled games on it (some motorcycle game and two others). Then my father visited me and gave me a cassette album of Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers. Was lots of fun.

[SB076]

Playing Command and Conquer @ Uni with mates was fantastic (building as many stealth tanks as you can and hiding them in each others bases only to pop up at the right time then take out there entire base)

Duke Nukem was great playing that network at Uni also.

But one of the best was Jagged Alliance, they were funny games especially with the taunts etc, very simple but very amusing.

[Gunns]

Indy 500
Test Drive I/II
NFS I
Wolf 3d
Doom I/II
Duke Nukem 3d
Sim City
Warcraft

[Dauphin]

Must add:

Jetfighter II
Falcon 3.0
Baldies
Duke 3D
Doom
You Don't Know Jack

From 1995 onwards I was into the Melbourne BBS scene before getting onto the internet. So "online" I would play mainly Virtual Sysop (I think that's what it was called).

[ON_DUBS]

Originally Posted by DaveGod

I cant beleive no1 has mentioned StarCraft!!! Man that game was/is awesome! I still have my account. Its only just recently started 2 die off cos all the good players are leaving :(

thats becuase we are talking about games between 1990 and 1996.
starcraft was released in 1998.

Originally Posted by uranium_death

Titus the Fox. Now that was a good game. Very hard though. But excellent

chalk another one up to the mighty Amiga. never played Titus the Fox on dos though.

anyone played ZOOL?

[robjh80]

Age of Empires

[Mechan1k]

Indy 500 was good ... so many changes you could make (fro ma game of that era).
Space Quest games were great as well.
Wolf 3D ... damn I played that to death.
Shadow Warrior was awesome as well.

[Sapper]

Don't think i could ever go past the original Worms, in all its 2D and pixellated glory! I don't think there has ever been a gave that you can unleash so much destruction!!! :Up_to_som

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by ea_silver_ghia

That's weird. I tested the link after I set it up. Oh well, to find it go to google and type in "Duken Nukem 3D high resolution". It's easy to find. I've also got zdoom (the one mentioned by FAIRMONT4.0) which is the graphics update for Doom 1 & 2.

A great site for downloading abandonware is http://www.the-underdogs.info/ . Most of it is free, and you don't need to register (you can register but it isn't needed). That's where I get most of my abandonware. I'm hoping it's OK to post this link, as it is all old games that are no longer for sale anyway. It's not really pirating because it doesn't cost the makers of the games any money anymore. They've earned all they ever will out of these games.

And BTW, I can't believe I forgot Carmageddon in my favourite games. That is my all time favourite!

Sweet thanks again, ill look them up!

Ah and I cant believe I forgot:

- Ski or Die! ---lol crazy name
- Terminal Velocity!

EDIT: also, playing the games through DosBox and D-fend, why is the screen so small? I cant make it any bigger.

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by Polyal

Sweet thanks again, ill look them up!

Ah and I cant believe I forgot:

- Ski or Die! ---lol crazy name
- Terminal Velocity!

EDIT: also, playing the games through DosBox and D-fend, why is the screen so small? I cant make it any bigger.

Before you set up the profiles, go to "Configure defaults". It should have a button that looks like a yellow folder with two ticks on it. Go to the General tab, and click the "Start fullscreen" box. That'll mean whenever you start a new profile, it'll now be fullscreen. Alternatively, to change a profile that has already been added, you can right click the profile and click on "edit profile". You can then change to fullscreen under the General tab again. Another useful feature is you can speed up or slow down a game by going to the "Environment" tab and changing the value in "Cycles" for the CPU settings.

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by ea_silver_ghia

Before you set up the profiles, go to "Configure defaults". It should have a button that looks like a yellow folder with two ticks on it. Go to the General tab, and click the "Start fullscreen" box. That'll mean whenever you start a new profile, it'll now be fullscreen. Alternatively, to change a profile that has already been added, you can right click the profile and click on "edit profile". You can then change to fullscreen under the General tab again. Another useful feature is you can speed up or slow down a game by going to the "Environment" tab and changing the value in "Cycles" for the CPU settings.

awesome, a couple where running slow:( I was like: "noooo its 1990 all over again!"

Thanks for the tips, Im glad I haven't made that many profiles yet :nutsycuck

[uranium_death]

Ski and Skate or Die were both a lot of fun.

I have only played Zool on SNES...not on PC.

Pinball Fantasies. Now there was a great pinball game!

Wolf3D. You can get editors for that game. We got one from Caribbean Gardens like 10 years ago and we edited the Street Fighter 2 version. We made Ryu's pants fall down and Kens head explode in pixelated glory. But the game rooted when we made E-Honda's entire blood supply almost fill the screen.

Was great fun though.

TAlking about editors, you can edit the original Sierra Classics. I edited Police Quest where I made the bikie at the Bar (next to Carol's Caffeine Castle) wear a green dress. Was very funny. Also made the girl at the Blue Room topless.

Ahhh memories.

[BlueRaven]

Ahhh.....Terminal Velocity. Does anyone remember the Microsoft game using the same game engine and looking almost identical?

___b_nder - fill in the blanks!

[Olympus]

My old time favourite is Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis

[uranium_death]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis...great game.

I almost finished it, then didn't bother...can't remember why though.

Day of the Tentacle (with speech) was awesome.

But my fave adventures are Police Quest. However, Monkey Island and LSL are about 1mm behind.

Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity was also a lot of fun.

I was playing Carmageddon just before, but it crashes and poos itself a lot.

[uranium_death]

Diablo is a game I've just started plating again. Truthfully, I prefer it over Diablo II.

Diablo II had a better skill system, but I like the confined dungeons on Diablo. Plus I have a soft spot for Tristram.

The rogue's encampment, Lut Gholein, Kurast, Heaven and the expansion level (forgot what it was again) don't hold dear to me.

Yep, that's a cow alright!

[uranium_death]

Wow. People don't love games as much as I.

I really AM a loser!
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[Dauphin]

Did you ever start 3D modelling for games? I did a few Victoria Police helicopters for MS Flight Simulator and sampled sound from a film with a car chase to generate a good replacement V8 engine sound loop for Driver (the first one). It became very popular! Suddenly all the Driver websites had a top-rated sound package by "Andrew." It was very exciting for me. I then sampled my own voice to replace the stupid American dumb cop voices but it wasn't as popular, hehe.

[uranium_death]

lol. Wow...that sounds awesome. But no, I haven't the knowledge to do that sort of stuff. My most used graphics program is MS Paint. I do logos. Personal logos mainly (just for fun).

I just play games. And love them. And ruin my education in the process.

[uranium_death]

I got back into EverQuest II again a couple of months ago almost.

Some of you have probably heard of WoW. Well EQ2 is a more traditional MMORPG which I think is far better developed in terms of gameplay and graphics, but it's so time consuming.

Other than that, Oblivion is still going on and off, as well as Australian Rules Footy on my NES emulator.

What new games have you people played recently, or what faves have you been playing?

Cheers

[red_hotxr6]

Command and conquer doom doom2 half life i think civilisation

[Van D]

Duke Nukem was sweet. Wolfenstein 3D.. Umm, command and conquer.. Was Red Alert before 96? loved that game, lol. I remember playing test drive a bit as well.

There was also one where you used go jump through all this stuff etc in like a jungle setting, can't remember the name though.. There's other versions of it still being made today.. =/

[Van D]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

I got back into EverQuest II again a couple of months ago almost.

Some of you have probably heard of WoW. Well EQ2 is a more traditional MMORPG which I think is far better developed in terms of gameplay and graphics, but it's so time consuming.

Other than that, Oblivion is still going on and off, as well as Australian Rules Footy on my NES emulator.

What new games have you people played recently, or what faves have you been playing?

Cheers

Still haven't played Oblivion and that shits me, lol.

[MrSparkle]

One of my finest technical achievements was the purchase, installation, implementation, and support of 4 network cards (for me and my buddies) back in the days of DOS - and after 2.5 days solid of tearing out my hair at the lack of documentation and support (NO GOOGLE BACK THEN KIDDIES, NO NOT EVEN INTERNET!), we finally managed to get the machines working to play Doom 1 on LAN mode! Just sensational!

Ah so many games during that period... so so many hours spent (wasted?) playing!

[Greenhorn]

settlers 2, ultimate domain, starcraft, gta, metal marines and daggerfall

[Jeeepers]

Jumpin' Jackson
Walker
Ports Of Call
Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge
And many others, but 90-94 I was running Commodore Amiga 500. Then Amiga 1200 in 95, then I went to the dark side and bought my first IBM compat. Been ripping my hair out since... : Those who know and or remember Amiga, would know the gamers best friends were named Agnes, Gary and Denise.

[watever]

Commander Keen!

[pauljh74]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

If that barely ran on your 386, then it must have been a pretty bad 386, because it ran like a gem on our 286. No problems ever.

For the era, the best F1 game by a mile.

Only if you didn't turn all the eye candy on. If you turned on all the tyre marks etc on the track, the CPU usage doubled. I ran it on a 386 SX-25 pretty well.

[pauljh74]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle

One of my finest technical achievements was the purchase, installation, implementation, and support of 4 network cards (for me and my buddies) back in the days of DOS - and after 2.5 days solid of tearing out my hair at the lack of documentation and support (NO GOOGLE BACK THEN KIDDIES, NO NOT EVEN INTERNET!), we finally managed to get the machines working to play Doom 1 on LAN mode! Just sensational!

Ah so many games during that period... so so many hours spent (wasted?) playing!

With coax cable daisy chained? I recall me and a mate spending an afternoon playing Doom 1 on 1 via a LAN on a "high powered" 486. Then we got our own PCs in '97 and moved onto LANs with as many as 10 people using daisy chained coax cable with T pieces for each PC and terminators on each end of the chain.
Usually had to install a network card on someone's PC at the LAN then usually had issues with at least 1 PC not able to see the network.