Forgotten old games

[anarky]

I don't remember the name of this one, but it was on the Commodore. It was "Medieval Games" or something. And it was an Olympic-style game, where you choose events and compete in them.

Thing is, not only was the scene in the dark ages, but the games were totally fucked up.

The only ones I can remember are boulder dodging, axe tossing, beer drinking, and cat tossing.

In boulder dodging, you, well, you can figure that out.

Axe tossing consisted of two people tossing an axe back and forth. If you missed a catch, you lost a body part (and the game).

Beer drinking was one of those "hit the buttons really fast" dealios, where you tried to drink faster than the other guy. Only there was a meter on the side of the screen, and if your beer got too far up on the meter, you vomited, and then said, "Dammit."

Cat tossing was like a discus throw event, only, uh, with a cat. Your character spun around and around, building up momentum. If you went too far, the cat clawed you. If you released at the wrong time, the cat splattered against the wall behind you.

Anyone know what the fuck this game was?

[mabudon]

maybe "Knight Games", C 64??

I DO recall it but can't rightly recall the name.....google doesn't help so far...

EDIT HERE but I don't see the DL on there- that's the one I bet tho

[anarky]

Another one: The Ancient Art of War at Sea.

This game fucking rocked. The graphics weren't the best, but the gameplay kicked all sorts of ass. Basically, there are sea battles, and you are the admiral in charge.

The cool thing (I thought) was you could make up your own scenarios. We used to create these crazy battles, where Blackbeard wanted to steal someone's Slurpee, and he commanded ships like the Cocksucker and Shithead against your (vastly superior in numbers) fleet.

[Ran]

I remember a game called "Ancient Art of War", but it was based on land, not at sea. It wasbeither on an early Apple or C64. Probably in monochrome. All I remember are archers and swoardsmen fighting in a castle. Pretty sure it was turn based.

[anarky]

Ancient Art of War was the original; the sequel was AAOWAS. I only had the second, but understand the original is just as good.

How about the King's Quest/Space Quest/Leisure Suit Larry games from Sierra? Those rocked hard. I'm actually considering a Wii game called Zack & Wiki simply because all of the reviews compare it to those.

[Ran]

I never got very far in any of those games. I think most of the Leisure Suit Larry games are free downloads from the Sierra website now. Last time I checked, there are a bunch of old games that are now free on that site, like Red Baron, if you're into WWI dogfights.

[anarky]

The only Leisure Suit Larry available was some shitty looking game I've never heard of for cell phones.

I saw the Space Quest Collection for download, but it's not until you click to download it that you discover it's $20. I loved those games, but understand the Collection isn't as complete as Sierra would have one believe.

I also prefer the original versions of Space Quest 1-2, with the uber-shitty graphics.

[Ran]

Sometimes games with crappy graphics had some great gameplay to make up for it. There used to be a shareware game called Scorched Earth. It was a turn based tank game where you can purchase ammo that did different things.

One of my favorite old games was Transport Tychoon. Moving stuff from one town to another by sea, rail, road, and air was fun. And you could customize maps.

[UKWildcat]

The old Sierra adventure games were my favorite, next to first person shooters.

Sierra - I loved LSL, King's Quest, Police Quest. Gold Rush was the shit! I never was a big Space Quest fan, but still played them. I've got a bunch of these on 3.5" somewhere.

FPS - The popular Doom series (of course), Wolfenstein, ROTT (Raise of the Triad), Blake Stone, Heretic/Hexen and etc. I loved all of those.

Next to the games mentioned above, I absolutely loved the first few X-Com games. I never was a fan of turn-based games, but this shit was off the hook. Fuckin' sweet!

[vynsane]

for me it was RTS - real-time strategy. i never got into warcraft, but starcraft was freakin' awesome which led me to homeworld, homeworld: cataclysm and homeworld 2. great games, all. supposedly starcraft 2 is forthcoming, but i haven't checked back to see when...

[Ran]

Abandonware. They are free. Here you go.

http://www.xtcabandonware.com/index.php?l=news

http://www.bhlegend.com/

http://www.abandonwarering.com/

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/index.php

http://www.dosmuseum.com/doku.php?id=games:complete
--has games from the 80s up to 95.

[Sleazer]

A Boy and His Blob

[jjreason]

Scorched Earth was the absolute BALLS in my first year of university. I'd fucking LOVE to play you guys online on something like that!!!!!

[Ran]

Another one: The Ancient Art of War at Sea.

Oh, you mean THIS Ancient Art of War at Sea.

[JON]

My cousin had a Commodore 64 and we would play "Law of the West" and a bunch of other games, a lot of them quite good.

You would basically encounter about 10 characters and be given a set of responses to their statements. If you were nice to them, they would generally let you alone, but if you were belligerent, you would have a shoot out. Pretty simple stuff.

I played Leisure Suit Larry on an Amiga once. Those old systems just took so long to load screens. The freakin' dark ages.

If you wanna really be old school, a bunch of the old text-based adventure games are available for free, but man, they can be pretty darn tough. Zork is the most well known of the bunch, and that goes back to the days of Arpanet and David Lightman.