Which old pc-game is your preferred?

Major League Manager. A DOS game that came out originally in 1986 and later in 1990. I've been playing it at least once a month since I got it back in 1992 or so. Even to this day, I've been working on modifying it to have different teams and players.

I have a number of games I go to, depending on the mood I'm in. I play all of these in DOSBox so I can enjoy them as they originally were (no added effects, no higher resolutions, etc.)...

FPS- Ultimate Doom, Doom II: Hell On Earth, Final Doom, Quake and its three expansions, Heretic, Hexen, Descent 1+2, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem 3D

Sim- Wing Commander 1+2, MechWarrior 2, Strike Commander

Action- Stellar 7, Nova 9, Iron Blood

TBS/RTS- Warcraft II and its expansion

Adventure- The Immortal, Out of This World, Prince of Persia 1+2

RPG- Eye of the Beholder 1-3

Lotus 3 - the Ultimate Challenge - man I loved this game + music..

Starting up the dos box....

I'm currently playing Spellcasting 101, Which is Harry Potter before JK Rowling played this game and suddenly thought up Harry Potter.

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Lemmings, Monkey Island 1 & 2, B-17 Flying Fortress, Diablo 2, Carrier Command, Rodland, Fallout 1 & 2, Dune II and MS Combat Flight Simulator.
I downloaded Shadow of the Horned Rat today, had some fond memories of it when I used to play it on my brothers PS1. It hasn't aged well. It was garbage, now deleted. Very disappointing. :(

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I downloaded Shadow of the Horned Rat today, had some fond memories of it when I used to play it on my brothers PS1. It hasn't aged well. It was garbage, now deleted. Very disappointing. :(

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When that game was first released I remember people being so super excited by the whole thing. Sadly I was quite unpopular for pointing out that it looked like ass and they were falling for the hype. Maybe it was a good game at the time, but I just could never see it, either way, the voice acting is hilarious.

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The Amiga is the computer that I played Eye of the Beholder on, as well as Populous.

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did you have an amiga in the us? I always heard it was not popular there. how did you get it?

Being in Europe, amiga was very popular thank god. it was something never seen before in terms of graphics, colors and sound, starting in 87 with the amiga 500. my dad had one and my uncles too. I grew up playing nearly every (copied) game that amiga had

my favorite game for it is no doubt Pirates! which I still play sometimes and I can't stop for several hours when I do.

Used to play mostly on our Amiga, but we did have a decent IBM compatible too which I usually played Tyrian on as well as Bio Menace mostly.

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It's gotta be Command and Conquer red Alert for me

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did you have an amiga in the us? I always heard it was not popular there. how did you get it?

Being in Europe, amiga was very popular thank god. it was something never seen before in terms of graphics, colors and sound, starting in 87 with the amiga 500. my dad had one and my uncles too. I grew up playing nearly every (copied) game that amiga had

my favorite game for it is no doubt Pirates! which I still play sometimes and I can't stop for several hours when I do.

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I got mine from a guy selling his in the Dallas Texas newspaper. It was boxed and like new.

I was kind of shocked when I'd heard that it only sold @ 1.5 million in North America. I had 3 dedicated Amiga shops within 7 miles of my apartment and another place that rented (ahem) Amiga games about 10 miles away.

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I got mine from a guy selling his in the Dallas Texas newspaper. It was boxed and like new.

I was kind of shocked when I'd heard that it only sold @ 1.5 million in North America. I had 3 dedicated Amiga shops within 7 miles of my apartment and another place that rented (ahem) Amiga games about 10 miles away.

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maybe it was a real texas thing then?

i love love love maniac mansion/monkey island/SCUMM stuff, and Grim Fandango

that said, having gone back years ago & finally played Deus Ex, Vampire: Bloodlines, and Planescape Torment, holy shit are those games good. finally gotta get around to System Shock 2 sometime

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maybe it was a real texas thing then?

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My friend's dad had an Amiga 1000 in 1987. That was in Montana.

My 1st real encounter with the computer at retail was while visiting an electronics chain (1987?) in Phoenix. I don't remember the name of it, but the store also had the Atari ST on display next to the Amiga. I remember being floored by the demo of Test Drive, along with the infamous bouncing ball. There was a dedicated C-64 store about a mile from my apartment in Phoenix, that was still selling software for the little 8-bit beast in 1989, when I'd moved away. I don't recall seeing any Amiga software being sold there.

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1.) Karateka - Features killer doors, really @#$ing annoying birds (possibly worse than severed medusa heads undulating through the air like drunk goldfinches), mucho mucho mempos, and a princess who doesn't take no guff from toughboy Gymkatas.

3.) Lode Runner - See above, basically.

6.) Necromancer - Yet another game that friends questioned my sanity for liking (that would be a long friggin' list).

7.) Blue Max - Great game. Unfortunately even more obscure than the fairly similar Desert Falcon and Zaxxon. It's too bad historical milieux are pretty much reserved for some seriously dull looking software nowadays.

8.) Archon - This should be higher. An ensorcelled digital chess set of death duels and panacea to the bloated, dour games I've been subjected to lately.

10.) Eastern Front - Now that video and computer games have been almost entirely hi-jacked by vacuous philistines (I kid), historical turn-based games without a direct cardboard analogue, can be easily fended off with shaken sticks or a pair of differentiable six-siders.

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I still have all of these on my Atari XEGS. I even did a remix of the Necromancer theme a few years ago for a project.

I forgot look good of a game Popolous is, game is great.

Might give Warcraft a go, I've never played the series before.