Comments on: My Old PC Games

By: Roland

Roland — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:52:07 +0000

Haha, I just did the same thing. I discovered the original TIE Fighter, Alpha Centauri, Alien Crossfire, and Deus Ex: Invisible war.

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:55:38 +0000

Yes! I remember one of the songs in Streets of SimCity and still sing it from time to time…

“You’re the czar! when you’ve got a kickass car…”

Full lyrics at this (odd) blog post: http://jackred.blogspot.com/2005/12/edge.html

By: Adam G

Adam G — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:49:37 +0000

Streets of Sim City and Sim Copter were 2 of my favorites growing up. The music for Streets was brilliant, and I think Sim Copter might be the first game with spoof radio commercials. I suddenly have the urge to play those again…

By: admin

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:09:38 +0000

Funny enough, that game Dust also featured independently motivated actors! But yeah, I’ll revisit TLE.

By: Nels Anderson

Nels Anderson — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:49:37 +0000

Heh, I’ve got a massive box of old PC games in a box under my bed too. I may have to drag them out and similarly catalog them sometime.

Go back to The Last Express sometime. The notion of a world where every actor has motives they execution upon, rather than merely standing around and waiting for the player to come along, is still incredibly rare.

(And I think I agree about Curse being my favourite MI game)

By: bobisimo

bobisimo — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:30:02 +0000

MDK2 is worth playing, but it’s a pretty difficult one. :)

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:31:47 +0000

I played (and liked) the first one but not the second, I’ll have to look into it!

By: Matthew Weigel

Matthew Weigel — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:29:04 +0000

One of my favorite turn-based squad strategy games – after X-Com, which is my favorite thus far – is actually Shining Force 2, for the Sega Genesis. The first one was alright, but got a lot bigger and more ambitious in the second one, for some really interesting battles.