What are the must have classic pc games ?

Great game used to play it alot as a kid
Does MS still include qbasic on the Windows disc?

 

Starcraft: Brood War :rambo:
Warcraft 2
Age of Empires I & II
Simcity 2000

Diablo I & II
Fallout 1 & 2

Monkey Island
Sam & Max
Indiana Jones (All the graphic adventures)
Carmen San Diego :110:

Half Life
Thief
Omikron
Tomb Raider III

And the one and only DEUS EX :clap:

 

i dont know if its been mentioned already but there was a game called boppin i used to play, its a wierd puzzle type game and i must say its horribly addicting. Also, to whoever said One Must Fall 2097, good call! I remember spending hours playing that game. wow that must have been at least 15 years or so ago!!! wow im getting old.

 

Yes, up untill xp I believe. or maybe the xp cd has qbasic too on the disc.

qbasic games directory

http://games.qbasic.com/

QBasic Games

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/qbasic.htm

Boppin' By Accursed Toys

http://jenniverse.com/boppin%20main.html

There you can get the full version of Boppin windows version.

the CD iso of OMF2097

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZHS6VH58

 

still haven't played this :redface:
should really try to find me a copy and play it

 

^You should, I got my little brother hooked on it, and he's pretty picky with computer games.

Well, I'm picky with computer games, but he has a far shorter attention span than I do and gets frustrated if he can't kill something within the first five minutes of gameplay.

 

Alpha Centauri is an absolute must, as is Fragile Alliance, the sequel to the wonderful K240 (Amiga).

Ooh, old school Wing Commander was also a favourite (before they insisted on the live action bits).

 

Blood II is a 'must have'.

 

People, have you forgotten, that this is in some ways an abandonware games link and recommendation thread ? not a "massive" muscle pc game recommendation thread !

 

Not according to the original poster of this thread!

...He list's Age of Empires.

Anything goes as long as it's 'classic'

 

Monkey Island.
The Day of the Tentacle.
Maniac Mansion.
Broken Sword.
Sonic CD.

 

check his specs, and you will understand something too. Since back in the day before I got my own pc, I had also played Age of Empires 1 on a pentium 133 and so forth. So again, I will repeat my message, this is NOT a "massive" muscle pc game recommendation thread. It is a classic games/abandonware game recommendation thread.

 

Note it doesn't, but it's easy enough to find. QBASIC doesn't work natively in Vista. :crying: So you'll have to run it in DOSBOX.

Does this thread get a jesus like resurection every year?

 

it gets a resurection, every time I feel like it

*Jamming to a cover of Ocean Loader*

[Abandoneer] the classics will not be lost

http://www.abandoneer.com/

Return To Chaos - The Dungeon Master / Chaos Strikes Back / Dungeon Master II Clone

http://ragingmole.com/RTC/

The Abandoned Gamesroom v. II

http://www.agamesroom.com/

 

I dont think they include it on the latest windows, ive uploaded it here
http://devzone.wsnw.net/downloads/misc/qbasic.zip

 

I think I still have all my old programs and games I worte in qbasic on some disc here
Think I still have qb 1.1, 4.5 and 7.1 hanging around here somewhere too

 

http://www.qbasicnews.com/

 

If it hasn't been mentioned, UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka X-Com) is probably one of the best PC games of all time. It was voted *the* best PC game of all time by IGN, but I think that's a little unfair.

I started playing it in 1995 and finally beat it earlier this year. It has a pretty steep learning curve, but it's so worth it.

 

Fresh! does it has color?:lol:;-)

Anyway, get Worms2, that game was awesome.

Those were the days...

 

Stupid comment, even if it was in jest. Heck, the machine I am thinking off, which had the same specs, except a smaller ram size. Had 24 bits of colour on screen. So take it easy, and yes it had colour. Heck you can even call 16 bit colors super vga. So yes, the old and awesome machine with 80 megabytes (which was a massive load of ram in such a machine back then). Did probably have 24 bits of super vga on display. Or 16 bits.