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Hexenherz 11/09/19 5:12:19 PM #1:	These are the games that I played relentlessly as a kid and which are probably the reason why I'm so addicted to computers and the internet, and they bring up so many memories it's absurd. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Stunt_Island_1992 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Super_Solvers_Treasure_Mountain_1990 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Total_Eclipse_1988 (I could never beat this one actually) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Coaster_1993 https://archive.org/details/msdos_EcoQuest_2_-_Lost_Secret_of_the_Rainforest_1993 No Aces of the Pacific though :( --- FFXIV: Lucius Hexenseele (Brynhildr) \| RS3: UltimaSuende . 99 WC/Fish/Cook/Fletch/Div/Mining/Smithing/Thieving, 80 crafting <cite>Hexenherz posted [p:929900956] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>These are the games that I played relentlessly as a kid and which are probably the reason why I'm so addicted to computers and the internet, and they bring up so many memories it's absurd. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Stunt_Island_1992 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Super_Solvers_Treasure_Mountain_1990 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Total_Eclipse_1988 (I could never beat this one actually) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Coaster_1993 https://archive.org/details/msdos_EcoQuest_2_-_Lost_Secret_of_the_Rainforest_1993 No Aces of the Pacific though :(</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Hexenherz 11/09/19 5:14:44 PM #3:	Highwind07 posted... I still play and get my ass kicked on Oregon Trail from time to time on those DOS replay sites. Once I learned how to cheese that... >_> That was a fun one though. I was surprised when they made a ... Kenya Trail or something like that. Never got into it though. --- FFXIV: Lucius Hexenseele (Brynhildr) \| RS3: UltimaSuende . 99 WC/Fish/Cook/Fletch/Div/Mining/Smithing/Thieving, 80 crafting <cite>Hexenherz posted [p:929901035] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Highwind07 posted...</cite> <quote>I still play and get my ass kicked on Oregon Trail from time to time on those DOS replay sites. </quote> Once I learned how to cheese that... >_> That was a fun one though. I was surprised when they made a ... Kenya Trail or something like that. Never got into it though.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MC_BatCommander 11/09/19 5:46:54 PM #4:	Ah sweet Scorched Earth I haven't thought about that game in a long ass time --- The Legend is True! <cite>MC_BatCommander posted [p:929902287] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Ah sweet Scorched Earth I haven't thought about that game in a long ass time </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Gakk86 11/09/19 5:48:11 PM #5:	MC_BatCommander posted... Ah sweet Scorched Earth I haven't thought about that game in a long ass time Since it's online can you still edit the text files for the quotes, though? You gotta keep "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee" but I used to love changing the other ones to have my brother's names in them to freak them out. --- All generalizations are false, including this one. <cite>Gakk86 posted [p:929902330] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>MC_BatCommander posted...</cite> <quote>Ah sweet Scorched Earth I haven't thought about that game in a long ass time </quote> Since it's online can you still edit the text files for the quotes, though? You gotta keep "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee" but I used to love changing the other ones to have my brother's names in them to freak them out.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Foppe 11/09/19 5:50:47 PM #6:	--- GameFAQs isn't going to be merged in with GameSpot or any other site. We're not going to strip out the soul of the site. -CJayC <cite>Foppe posted [p:929902427] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote> </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Hexenherz 11/09/19 6:25:40 PM #7:	Foppe posted... Nice find! It is weird, I was trying out Stunt Island and things that I was flying right over weren't rendering at all >_> I don't remember that back in the day, but I could just be misremembering. Also I know there was a way to unlock helicopters but I don't remember how, either. --- FFXIV: Lucius Hexenseele (Brynhildr) \| RS3: UltimaSuende . 99 WC/Fish/Cook/Fletch/Div/Mining/Smithing/Thieving, 80 crafting <cite>Hexenherz posted [p:929903668] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Foppe posted...</cite> <quote> </quote> Nice find! It is weird, I was trying out Stunt Island and things that I was flying right over weren't rendering at all >_> I don't remember that back in the day, but I could just be misremembering. Also I know there was a way to unlock helicopters but I don't remember how, either.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 11/09/19 6:47:18 PM #8:	CPUs today are 2-3000 times as fast as they were in the early DOS era, which makes quite a few games run hilariously fast nowadays. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:929904380] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>CPUs today are 2-3000 times as fast as they were in the early DOS era, which makes quite a few games run hilariously fast nowadays.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Medussa 11/09/19 6:57:10 PM #9:	I played so much of one of the treasure mountain games as a kid. tried so hard to 100% the collectibles, but I know I eventually got bored playing the same thing so much that I never quite finished. --- Boom! That's right, this is all happening! You cannot change the channel now! So... what did we learn? <cite>Medussa posted [p:929904710] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>I played so much of one of the treasure mountain games as a kid. tried so hard to 100% the collectibles, but I know I eventually got bored playing the same thing so much that I never quite finished.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
awesome999 11/09/19 6:58:45 PM #10:	Tag --- Resident pics asker, hard truths sayer, tough love giver lmfao! "That cat looks like it'll steal my b****." -Kitt <cite>awesome999 posted [p:929904750] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Tag </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MI4 REAL 11/09/19 7:02:17 PM #11:	Round 42 Paratrooper (my first CPU game ever) --- "Er...well, y'know. You can't make an omelette without um...destroying a forest.....or something" -Black Mage <cite>MI4 REAL posted [p:929904870] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Round 42 Paratrooper (my first CPU game ever)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 11/09/19 7:02:28 PM #12:	ooooo! Powermonger. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:929904877] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>ooooo! Powermonger.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
loafy013 11/09/19 7:03:35 PM #13:	Questionmarktarius posted... CPUs today are 2-3000 times as fast as they were in the early DOS era, which makes quite a few games run hilariously fast nowadays. I remember running into that with Ultima 7 like a decade ago. (originally played it on a PC with 4mb of ram). IIRC, the game didn't have any kind of frame limiter or something like that, which made the game interesting to play to say the least. You know, stuff like NPC's not staying in the same place long enough to double click on them. --- The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes. That's fact. Everything else, is theory. <cite>loafy013 posted [p:929904906] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>CPUs today are 2-3000 times as fast as they were in the early DOS era, which makes quite a few games run hilariously fast nowadays.</quote> I remember running into that with Ultima 7 like a decade ago. (originally played it on a PC with 4mb of ram). IIRC, the game didn't have any kind of frame limiter or something like that, which made the game interesting to play to say the least. You know, stuff like NPC's not staying in the same place long enough to double click on them.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
SolKarellen 11/09/19 7:04:32 PM #14:	Speaking of DOS, when the hell is someone going to take the old MechWarrior rights from Microsoft's claws and re-release them on GOG or something. DOSBOX is just too finicky and I'd love a stable official release of Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries just so the fans could fix all the bugs in it. Why Mercs had so many bugs despite being run on the exact same engine as 2 I'll never know, but it probably involved Activision. --- We were thinking of naming the baby Ellipsis, but it seemed so...typographical. <cite>SolKarellen posted [p:929904944] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Speaking of DOS, when the hell is someone going to take the old MechWarrior rights from Microsoft's claws and re-release them on GOG or something. DOSBOX is just too finicky and I'd love a stable official release of Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries just so the fans could fix all the bugs in it. Why Mercs had so many bugs despite being run on the exact same engine as 2 I'll never know, but it probably involved Activision.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Medussa 11/09/19 7:08:26 PM #15:	not dos (edit: or maybe it was), but from the same era https://archive.org/details/msdos_D-Generation_1991 puzzle/shooter --- Boom! That's right, this is all happening! You cannot change the channel now! So... what did we learn? <cite>Medussa posted [p:929905069] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>not dos (edit: or maybe it was), but from the same era https://archive.org/details/msdos_D-Generation_1991 puzzle/shooter</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Hexenherz 11/09/19 7:57:00 PM #16:	loafy013 posted... Questionmarktarius posted... CPUs today are 2-3000 times as fast as they were in the early DOS era, which makes quite a few games run hilariously fast nowadays. I remember running into that with Ultima 7 like a decade ago. (originally played it on a PC with 4mb of ram). IIRC, the game didn't have any kind of frame limiter or something like that, which made the game interesting to play to say the least. You know, stuff like NPC's not staying in the same place long enough to double click on them. That would be annoying as shit. That's another game that I look at now and I wonder how the hell I played it as a fucking kid, like I'm too programmed to play with minimaps and quest markers and shit. --- FFXIV: Lucius Hexenseele (Brynhildr) \| RS3: UltimaSuende . 99 WC/Fish/Cook/Fletch/Div/Mining/Smithing/Thieving, 80 crafting <cite>Hexenherz posted [p:929906863] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>loafy013 posted...</cite> <quote>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>CPUs today are 2-3000 times as fast as they were in the early DOS era, which makes quite a few games run hilariously fast nowadays.</quote> I remember running into that with Ultima 7 like a decade ago. (originally played it on a PC with 4mb of ram). IIRC, the game didn't have any kind of frame limiter or something like that, which made the game interesting to play to say the least. You know, stuff like NPC's not staying in the same place long enough to double click on them.</quote> That would be annoying as shit. That's another game that I look at now and I wonder how the hell I played it as a fucking kid, like I'm too programmed to play with minimaps and quest markers and shit.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
YokoGeri 11/09/19 9:15:02 PM #17:	Hexenherz posted... These are the games that I played relentlessly as a kid and which are probably the reason why I'm so addicted to computers and the internet, and they bring up so many memories it's absurd. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Stunt_Island_1992 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Super_Solvers_Treasure_Mountain_1990 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Total_Eclipse_1988 (I could never beat this one actually) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Coaster_1993 https://archive.org/details/msdos_EcoQuest_2_-_Lost_Secret_of_the_Rainforest_1993 No Aces of the Pacific though :( this is awesome <cite>YokoGeri posted [p:929909565] in It is a we... [t:78147791]...</cite> <quote>Hexenherz posted...</cite> <quote>These are the games that I played relentlessly as a kid and which are probably the reason why I'm so addicted to computers and the internet, and they bring up so many memories it's absurd. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Stunt_Island_1992 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Super_Solvers_Treasure_Mountain_1990 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Total_Eclipse_1988 (I could never beat this one actually) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Coaster_1993 https://archive.org/details/msdos_EcoQuest_2_-_Lost_Secret_of_the_Rainforest_1993 No Aces of the Pacific though :(</quote> this is awesome</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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