Thread 720618812

Post games from your childhood

Number 2

>>720618812 (OP)
God it was so kino.

>>720618812 (OP)
>picking anything other than the soundwave tank
ngmi

Number 3

Number 4
When I played it I was like 7 or 8, I didn't know how to play this game, I progressed through it by clicking everywhere until something worked ahhaa

>>720618812 (OP)

learning you could join the enemy faction in the middle of the campaign blew my fuckin mind

Number 5
I played the demo for this. Back then demos were a huge thing and then I've got the full game and it was okay-ish, felt worse than the demo

And finally number 6, maybe I'll post more if anyone is interested
This one was hard to learn but once I got the hang of it it was a breeze. Again I began playing the demo for it and then I obtained the full game

I can still hear the title BGM in my head.

I can still hear the shitty sound effects in my head. I spent so much time playing these kind of shitty games.

>>720619283
mein neger

>>720619336
Not bad, but I raise you another

This was by far the most interesting rts I played back then. The research system and the way you could combine things was mind-blowing

>all those games from childhood that never worked and crashed on startup with no way to fix them because it was before casual internet usage and game forums
>can't remember their names to play them today

Goddamnit. Was it a Battlezone? Or Battle Isle? Or neither?

>>720619716
You'd pray man or you'd act like you didn't care if it crashed and surprisingly they never crashed when you pretended not to care hahahah

>Dad sees this in the store
>Gets an NES purely because space shuttles cool
>We sit around the TV trying to figure it out
>Cant even launch the fucking shuttle. Elevator gets to the top and nothing happens
>Shut it down for the night
>Neither of us even touch it for like 2 months
>Home sick from school. Strep throat. Feel like shit, be in pain, just can't sleep anymore and need SOMETHING to distract me
>Fire up the NES and sit in front of the TV all wrapped up in blankets
>Turns out you have to move the elevator up and down to pick up each astronaut individually
>OOOOOH
>Keep failing the launch because dumbass kid
>Dad walks in the house with take out for me
>Sees I'm flying the shuttle, mid gravity turn
>He damn near drops my food and jumps over the back of the couch "HOW DID YOU GET HERE?!"
>Reset the game, show him
>Hand him the controller during the countdown since I keep fucking up flying it
>Dad does all the little flight minigames
>I do all the puzzle ones and putting satellites in orbit
>Must have spent months playing that game with dad damn near every day for an hour or two when he got home from work
>Always passing the controller back and forth and having out own specialties
Good times. I always associate that game with me being so sick that I felt like I was on death's door, but I will never forget how excited Dad was when he saw me flying that shuttle and how he jumped over the couch to get closer. Cheered me right the fuck up. Almost forgot I was sick for a few hours.

>>720620056
My dad was into gaming back then aswell, now he's stuck to candy crush and it's clones, Facebook gaming ruined him lol

>>720618812 (OP)
I could never figure this one weird part where you keep looping through pathways so I never beat it and would just start a new game when I hit that point

>>720620420
Man another thing from back then was that you always started a new game. Finished the campaign? Well delete the save and start again. You didn't just move on to something else instantly like we do today

>>720620193
My dad never really got super into video games. He would piddle around a little jn what ever I got but there was only 2 games he played the shit out of. Space Shuttle Project and
>Borrow Diablo for PC from a friend
>Playing it on the family computer, having a good time
>Mom walks by and sees the case
>DIABLO MEANS DEVIL YOU CANT PLAY DEVIL WORSHIPING GAMES
>Plead with mom. It's about fighting the devil and stopping his.. evilness
>Pester mom about it for a few days
>She half-caves
>"Your dad will play it. If he says it's okay, then you can."
>Dad plays it for a few days
>Gives me the green light
>Play more Diablo
>Notice dad's save continues to gain playtime
>Ask dad about it one day
>He's super hooked
>We buzz about the game for a bit before he says "I just wish we could play it together."
>Oh, do I have a surprise for you, dad!
>We spend a few days trying to figure out how to play multiplayer
>During this time, we had bought our own copy and gave it back to my friend, but it had disk-in-drive DRM. Dad is passed. "I bought the game. Who gives a fuck how many computers I install it on?"
>We learn about CD imaging and keygens. Learned to pirate with my dear old man
>Anyway, figure out how to multiplayer with Diablo
>R U N my fat ass home from school every day
>Wait for the phone to ring at exactly 3:30pm
>Let Diablo pick up the phone
>Dad installed it on his work computer
>He pushed his lunch break back so we would play Diablo together for an hour or so after school
We did that for at least a year, and damn near every day. I have fond memories of squabbling about loot and slayin' the devil with my dear old dad. Those were the only two games he ever got into.

>>720621214
I never got to play multiplayer games with him. We only had one pc and he was a police officer so he didn't have a work computer.
Like I said too bad he's stuck to candy crush. I could setup some old games and play with him but he wouldn't like it, he can't play properly anymore

>>720618812 (OP)
BZ2 was so good (and BZ1 too). It's a huge shame this style of RTS / FPS / combat vehicle sim hybrid never caught on in a more significant way. I don't even know any other games like it.

Also pic related, TTD was immensely appealing to me as a kid, though the complexities of making train networks mostly eluded me. I would watch what the AI players built and tried to figure out how it worked.

>>720621754
>RTS / FPS / combat vehicle sim hybrid
Divinity: Dragon Commander is part political VN and part RTS where you command units while also flying around as a dragon doing your own thing. Closest thing I can think of off hand.

>>720621889
Does it have actual base building and resource gathering like classical RTS? I've seen games with some level of unit control before, but nothing else that really had full fat RTS mechanics.

>>720619390
fuck this game was great

loved it

>>720619390
Shitty? Basic yes but far from shitty. Jazz Jackrabbit or whatever. Now THAT is a shitty DOS game.

>>720622224
This garbage is "We have Rogue Squadron at home".

>>720622278
Got a jewel case CD of this from Target for like 10 bucks and had tons of fun with it. Had just just driving around the first level ramming into shit.

>>720618812 (OP)
Time Commando. Was pretty dope, at least as far as I remember

>>720622452
The cover art is at least.

Still an incredible game. It's such a shame that vehicle centric action games are so rare nowadays, because G Police still holds up.
Weapons of Justice in particular runs perfectly on emulator at 60fps with an overclock hack, and the controls can be set up in-game to have a modern twin stick layout. It feels like a modern retro game in the best way possible.

Situation Normal: All Fouled Up

>>720618812 (OP)
Dark Colony. It was sort of like Starcraft, but it only had 2 races, the humans and the greys (aliens).
I remember 3 things: the human soldiers looked cool as fuck, the aliens did not, and the intro was gory as hell

Here's the intro: https://youtu.be/eoyEsALHXl4

Army Men 2. Never played the first one, but it was cool as hell, required some strategy, specially in some stages.

>trying to fit a complex RTS manual into the sort of thing that came in a PS1 jewelcase
>font so small it was unreadable
>get the basics down from having played C&C but the advanced stuff about between battle deployment and research is completely unexplained ingame
Stands out for having fog of war that wasn't removed by walking into it. It was chemicals in the air (oxygen for the aliens and sulphur for the humans) that you had to remove with special air purifier/smog generator units and buildings, while destroying the other sides stuff so the fog didn't reclaim the map while you were recovering or moving.

>>720618812 (OP)
SimTower/Yoot Tower (Original Japanese version)

>>720618812 (OP)
First game I remember playing and beating
I'm 18

>>720623026
>exploding heads
I remembered this detail from local mag review

>>720622452
Cool game, goes to shit once you get firearms tho.