Name that game!

[DArtagnan]

Xenomorph?

That's right!

 

[DArtagnan]

This one just came to mind:

That would be StarFlight

 

[DArtagnan]

It's slow at work, sorry, but here's another one.

 

[Jaz]

@D'Artagnan: Betrayal in Antara is correct .
Let me see, I still have some other elderly games under my belt... like this one (though it's hardly obscure):

 

[Sir Markus]

That would be StarFlight

Yes, Starflight is correct.

 

[pibbur]

What about this one?

 

[DArtagnan]

Albion?

Don't hate me

 

[DArtagnan]

@D'Artagnan: Betrayal in Antara is correct .
Let me see, I still have some other elderly games under my belt... like this one (though it's hardly obscure):

But I didn't guess

Your new game is definitely Thunderscape, though. Brilliant music - mediocre game.

 

[Arhu]

Hehe, Albion is the first I could have named in this thread.

 

[Prime Junta]

Those games are *old?* Bah, whippersnappers...

 

[txa1265]

Dungeon of Doom is correct! It was a pretty decent game, sort of a NetHack with tiles. (Personally, I preferred the real NetHack, though.)

The only reason I recall that is I didn't play it until I had a Quadra, ~1992-ish. And then soon after came id's Doom.

Oh - and based on your TaskMaker I got 'Basilisk II' emulator up and running and loaded up TaskMaker. Here it is in default startup (despite me allocating 1GB of RAM, the old 'manual memory allocation' thing dumped it into B&W)

Then I gave the game 5MB of RAM, and it started in color ... but sadly I was soon greeted by one of those wonders of the old System 7 era ...

 

[DArtagnan]

Hehe, Albion is the first I could have named in this thread.

I'm sorry - I'll refrain for a while

Just bored.

 

[Prime Junta]

Then I gave the game 5MB of RAM, and it started in color ... but sadly I was soon greeted by one of those wonders of the old System 7 era ...

Ugh, I can practically hear the "booop!"

Hope you get it working; I think it's still a pretty good game.

 

[Jaz]

But I didn't guess

Oh, sorry - you're right, it was Gothic Gothicness...

Your new game is definitely Thunderscape, though. Brilliant music - mediocre game.

Yes, Thunderscape! I found it so exciting .

Here's another one - one cutscene pic, one gameplay pic:

 

[Sir Markus]

Those games are *old?* Bah, whippersnappers...

Infocom's Zork I

 

[Jaz]

Those games are *old?* Bah, whippersnappers...

Yeah, Zork...
I came late to value the franchise, however (after Zork Nemesis got me hooked... even though it was rather atypical). Used to play several of the Infocom text games on my PDA after that

 

[Prime Junta]

Yup, a true classic.

I really liked this one, although it had its share of flaws. The beat-em-up/shoot-em-up gameplay has yet to be... well, beaten, I guess, in a similar third-person game IMO. None that I've played, anyway. It's a real shame there's never been a sequel:

 

[DArtagnan]

Zork Nemesis was cool!

Zork never really got its hooks into me, but ok - I was like 6 years old when I first played it. Back in 1981 or something - don't quite remember.

The first adventures I played in a serious way, were games like The Hobbit or Guild of Thieves - text adventures with static images. Good times.

 

[txa1265]

Is that Oni?

 

[Prime Junta]

Yes indeedy. One of Bungie's finest.