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[Danny Dudekisser]

So, despite having been into PC games since my fam got a computer back in '95, I've never really played Doom. I mean, I dicked around with the shareware version way back, and played the first 3 levels a bunch (keyboard only -- had no idea the mouse was even an option), but I never really gave it a fair shake, and have never been all that impressed by it. Well, randomly decided to read that Masters of Doom book (which is pretty great), and it's gotten me in the mood to finally see what I missed. I've got the game on GOG, and played through the first episode, and... holy hell, this game is awesome. Character movement, the feel of the guns, the enemy encounters -- it's all so good, and it's aged remarkably well. It has more in common with arcade games than it does with today's Calladuty nonsense.

Kinda cool that all these years later, this game ended up being an awesome surprise.

 

[Spladam]

So, despite having been into PC games since my fam got a computer back in '95, I've never really played Doom. I mean, I dicked around with the shareware version way back, and played the first 3 levels a bunch (keyboard only -- had no idea the mouse was even an option), but I never really gave it a fair shake, and have never been all that impressed by it. Well, randomly decided to read that Masters of Doom book (which is pretty great), and it's gotten me in the mood to finally see what I missed. I've got the game on GOG, and played through the first episode, and... holy hell, this game is awesome. Character movement, the feel of the guns, the enemy encounters -- it's all so good, and it's aged remarkably well. It has more in common with arcade games than it does with today's Calladuty nonsense.

Kinda cool that all these years later, this game ended up being an awesome surprise.

Are you playing Doom I or Doom II? Doom II holds up even better than the first, with a very refined level design, including some cool puzzle levels, and a bit higher of a challenge. Oh, I highly recommend the brutal doom Mod, after you've spent some time with the vanilla, it improves the game without changing it much, making for some sick action. Here's the official trailer if you haven't seen it before. The "Hell on Earth" starter pack on the mod page contains 30 insane levels made for brutal Doom. Here's the wiki.

 

[blast processed]

So, despite having been into PC games since my fam got a computer back in '95, I've never really played Doom. I mean, I dicked around with the shareware version way back, and played the first 3 levels a bunch (keyboard only -- had no idea the mouse was even an option), but I never really gave it a fair shake, and have never been all that impressed by it. Well, randomly decided to read that Masters of Doom book (which is pretty great), and it's gotten me in the mood to finally see what I missed. I've got the game on GOG, and played through the first episode, and... holy hell, this game is awesome. Character movement, the feel of the guns, the enemy encounters -- it's all so good, and it's aged remarkably well. It has more in common with arcade games than it does with today's Calladuty nonsense.

Kinda cool that all these years later, this game ended up being an awesome surprise.

Masters of Doom is an awesome read. Reading that book instantly brought me back to the early to mid 90's. Just showed me how impressive Doom really is. I recommend it any chance I get.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

The PAL one is a bit harder to find...sadly. J-land is easy enough to find. I was inspired this week and played the shit outta Rhythm Heaven Fever but got blocked on the Shrimp Shuffle game...that does not work with my brain and it is so freaking difficult. Argh.

can't wait to try your copy =) so PAL is hard to find? gotcha!

Cool haul david. I loved Mega Man Legends so much when I played it.

thanks man! never tried Legends so i thought why not at that price.

Well that was unexpected. I now own a Switch lol. Don want to restart my progress in Zelda so it'll be Neo Turf Masters for me and I'll check if there are any Splatoon test fires left, haha.

congrats! you found one!!


EDIT:
grabbed 2 titles today on the way home: found a sealed copy of windwaker HD and wanted to try super monkey ball 2 since it was 13 bucks:

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

Small pickup for today. Couldn't convince myself to pay $55 for a boxed DKC3.

Apparently I lost my SNES somehow so I can't test my secret of evermore when it arrives. Hopefully there's no issues with it

 

[sixteen-bit]

thanks man! never tried Legends so i thought why not at that price.

let me know what you think of the controls. admittedly, this released before most devs really established best practices for 3d movement, but if you can soldier through it, it's a fun and charming game

 

[RadarScope1]

So, despite having been into PC games since my fam got a computer back in '95, I've never really played Doom. I mean, I dicked around with the shareware version way back, and played the first 3 levels a bunch (keyboard only -- had no idea the mouse was even an option), but I never really gave it a fair shake, and have never been all that impressed by it. Well, randomly decided to read that Masters of Doom book (which is pretty great), and it's gotten me in the mood to finally see what I missed. I've got the game on GOG, and played through the first episode, and... holy hell, this game is awesome. Character movement, the feel of the guns, the enemy encounters -- it's all so good, and it's aged remarkably well. It has more in common with arcade games than it does with today's Calladuty nonsense.

Kinda cool that all these years later, this game ended up being an awesome surprise.

Doom is just fucking stellar. An absolute timeless classic on par with titles like Super Mario Bros, Tetris and some of the best golden age arcade games. Glad you're playing through it.

Masters of Doom is an awesome read. Reading that book instantly brought me back to the early to mid 90's. Just showed me how impressive Doom really is. I recommend it any chance I get.

Second this. Great book, and yes, it unexpected took me back to the early 90s as I read it!

 

[Tain]

So, despite having been into PC games since my fam got a computer back in '95, I've never really played Doom. I mean, I dicked around with the shareware version way back, and played the first 3 levels a bunch (keyboard only -- had no idea the mouse was even an option), but I never really gave it a fair shake, and have never been all that impressed by it. Well, randomly decided to read that Masters of Doom book (which is pretty great), and it's gotten me in the mood to finally see what I missed. I've got the game on GOG, and played through the first episode, and... holy hell, this game is awesome. Character movement, the feel of the guns, the enemy encounters -- it's all so good, and it's aged remarkably well. It has more in common with arcade games than it does with today's Calladuty nonsense.

Kinda cool that all these years later, this game ended up being an awesome surprise.

funny thing about the arcade part of your post is that, like arcade games, I think it's a legit better game with "permadeath"

at least, when you know the map layouts

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Are you playing Doom I or Doom II? Doom II holds up even better than the first, with a very refined level design, including some cool puzzle levels, and a bit higher of a challenge. Oh, I highly recommend the brutal doom Mod, after you've spent some time with the vanilla, it improves the game without changing it much, making for some sick action. Here's the official trailer if you haven't seen it before. The "Hell on Earth" starter pack on the mod page contains 30 insane levels made for brutal Doom. Here's the wiki.

Running through Doom 1 right now, though I also have the pack from GOG that has Doom II, Master Levels, and Final Doom. I don't think I've ever actually played Doom II, come to think of it. And I definitely haven't played Final Doom.

 

[Havoc2049]

So, despite having been into PC games since my fam got a computer back in '95, I've never really played Doom. I mean, I dicked around with the shareware version way back, and played the first 3 levels a bunch (keyboard only -- had no idea the mouse was even an option), but I never really gave it a fair shake, and have never been all that impressed by it. Well, randomly decided to read that Masters of Doom book (which is pretty great), and it's gotten me in the mood to finally see what I missed. I've got the game on GOG, and played through the first episode, and... holy hell, this game is awesome. Character movement, the feel of the guns, the enemy encounters -- it's all so good, and it's aged remarkably well. It has more in common with arcade games than it does with today's Calladuty nonsense.

Kinda cool that all these years later, this game ended up being an awesome surprise.

Awesome post. Masters of Doom is such a good read and Doom is pure fun. Good times!

 

[Laevateinn]

I had been obsessed with Doom since I first saw it on the Super Nintendo. I had always thought that the last boss of Doom 2 was impossible so beating it without cheating when I went to college almost a decade after I played it for the first time was one of the best moments of my life.

I loved Doom so much I did a book report in the 6th grade on the Doom books.

 

[socksfelloff]

John Romero, John Carmack and Adrian Carmack are easily the most influential people in my life as far as gaming is concerned. I was "that kid who's parents had a computer" in school and all my friends would come over to play doom. I never gave a shit about Mario or sonic, I had doom. When my friends were wowed by goldeneye I was playing Quake!

Doom1/2 hold up incredibly well and the modding community combined with the games being open source will keep me entertained by this series for the rest of my life.

Masters of doom is absolutely worth a read!

Edit: The No-Clip features on doom and John Romero are excellent as well.

 

[Shadow Hog]

Are you playing Doom I or Doom II? Doom II holds up even better than the first, with a very refined level design, including some cool puzzle levels, and a bit higher of a challenge. Oh, I highly recommend the brutal doom Mod, after you've spent some time with the vanilla, it improves the game without changing it much, making for some sick action. Here's the official trailer if you haven't seen it before. The "Hell on Earth" starter pack on the mod page contains 30 insane levels made for brutal Doom. Here's the wiki.

I disagree with almost all of this post.

Doom 2's levelset is definitely worse than the first game's, coming from somebody who's played both repeatedly. It really starts to drag about halfway through the first "episode" and pretty much all the way through the second - ESPECIALLY the second, with its open-ended city levels where the direction needed to progress is so vague, one map had to plop a large arrow onto the ground to point it out. I mean, you still want to have it, because its monster variety is much better and thus most mods are developed for it (which solves the "these maps kinda suck" problem), but I still think the original Doom has better levels.

Saying Brutal Doom doesn't change the gameplay much is highly disingenuous. It drastically changes the gameplay, adding automatic rifles, ADS, headshots, changing enemy behavior... it also breaks down on some maps that run perfectly fine when played vanilla. The mod may be worth looking into for its notoriety, but I resent how it's always treated as if it's an absolute necessity for playing that must be introduced to newcomers as soon as physically possible. Honestly, I find other mods like Samsara, MetaDoom, D4D or DemonSteele more interesting to run with.

Lastly, here is the wiki. The Wikia has long since abandoned by the community at large, but it can't be closed because of Wikia's rules. It may constantly get better search result rankings, either because Wikia is a corporation that can pay for them, or because there's so many wikis using Wikia that they're dragging the dead Doom Wikia site up with them, but it's not the best resource to use by a long shot.

 

[Tain]

since I'm shameless I'll plug this messy ugly lil tweak I made to zdoom years ago that 1) makes death permanent and 2) utilizes Oblige to generate randomized episodes if you choose. It also comes with some other difficulty modes, like a variant of Ultra Violence with respawning monsters and Berserk-only mode.

 

[Peltz]

John Romero, John Carmack and Adrian Carmack are easily the most influential people in my life as far as gaming is concerned. I was "that kid who's parents had a computer" in school and all my friends would come over to play doom. I never gave a shit about Mario or sonic, I had doom. When my friends were wowed by goldeneye I was playing Quake!

Doom1/2 hold up incredibly well and the modding community combined with the games being open source will keep me entertained by this series for the rest of my life.

Masters of doom is absolutely worth a read!

Edit: The No-Clip features on doom and John Romero are excellent as well.

Doom was pretty impressive. I remember going to a friend's house and watching him play on a giant projector with a joystick kinda like this one:

My parents refused to get a computer though.

 

[Shadowman16]

I've fallen back into a Mega Man hole since I'm replaying all 6 games again via the Legacy Collection. Even though I've played these games through dozens of times prior and don't find them difficult per se, outside of the original game which had some boss attacks that were a pain to dodge (Fire Man I'm looking at you, Elec Man is a bit of a dick as well) I've come to the conclusion that MM3 is probably the hardest of the bunch to do a buster only run on - some of the bosses are just really intense battles that can still go either way for me - Shadow Man is a nightmare to fight since his attacks are so random (or at least it seems that way), Gemini Man isn't too bad when you get him down, but he still deals a ton of damage, Spark Man's huge spark attack seems to have an enormous hit box making it tough to dodge and Needle Man's needle attacks are fairly tough to dodge as well (Magnet, Top, Snake I've no issues with and I've got a decent track record against Hard Man).

That's not counting the rematches against the MM2 bosses either. Their hit boxes are just nuts, doing buster only runs against guys like Wood Man is a nightmare! Still absolutely love the game though, its probably held up so well for me all these years because it continues to challenge me (though with a few E Tanks I did once manage to do a no death run on it!).

Anyway, I'm finally looking to get back into doing my Capcom retro playthrough picking up at the Famicom port of Willow. I blame the arcade version of Willow for me taking a break from retro... its a bloody awful game, at least the Famicom port is completely different and looks like a Zelda rip off, I have hopes that it'll at least be decent fun if not a great game.

 

[socksfelloff]

Doom was pretty impressive. I remember going to a friend's house and watching him play on a giant projector with a joystick kinda like this one:


My parents refused to get a computer though.

Yup I totally played doom on a joystick for fun!

I was of the opposite upbringing. My parents thought game consoles were a waste of money and that I should be spending my time learning programming on a computer instead.

The only programming I did were DOS commands to launch my games LOL

 

[blast processed]

I wish I could get Brutal Doom to work on my Mac. I've tried the GZDoom workaround, but no go. Anyway... I agree Doom has better enemies and the super shot gun, but Doom 1 has better level design. The big outdoor areas in Doom 2 are such a pain to play.

 

[Laevateinn]

Is there any way to play Doom 64 as a regular Doom WAD? Doom 64 is too dark and I hate using the N64 controller.

 

[Shadow Hog]

I wish I could get Brutal Doom to work on my Mac. I've tried the GZDoom workaround, but no go.

What were you using if you weren't using GZDoom? Zandronum? Cuz, like, GZDoom or Zandronum (in hardware-accelerated mode) were sort of mandatory for most of the effects to actually work.

Is there any way to play Doom 64 as a regular Doom WAD? Doom 64 is too dark and I hate using the N64 controller.

Doom 64 EX. Requires a ROM of the game, though; what I linked doesn't include it (obviously).

The ZDoom devs (well, GZDoom and QZDoom now, since plain-jane ZDoom is discontinued) have a doom64/ branch, but aside from the recent introduction of Doom 64-style lighting, work on it is slow going. There are some mods to try and recreate it, but most of them add their own shit while doing so, so the only way to play it about as originally intended is EX, which isn't ZDoom-based at all.

 

[blast processed]

What were you using if you weren't using GZDoom? Zandronum? Cuz, like, GZDoom or Zandronum (in hardware-accelerated mode) were sort of mandatory for most of the effects to actually work.

Doomsday

 

[Shadow Hog]

Yeah, no wonder. Brutal is a ZDoom-based mod. Doomsday is not a ZDoom-based port.

GZDoom wasn't a workaround, it was a requirement.

 

[cyborgnumberblue]

You guys want to see some gore?

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

You guys want to see some gore?

Dude FUCK THAT

which reminds me that my copy of dragon force is still sealed.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

You guys want to see some gore?

LOL

let me know what you think of the controls. admittedly, this released before most devs really established best practices for 3d movement, but if you can soldier through it, it's a fun and charming game

will play it tonight and give some impressions =)

 

[cyborgnumberblue]

Dude FUCK THAT

which reminds me that my copy of dragon force is still sealed.

you should play it, it's fun.

This is mine from when I got in back when it was released in '96. Definitely overrated and overpriced, though.

 

[BTails]

That hurts so bad. Why is it never a cheap game that gets snapped?

 

[cyborgnumberblue]

That hurts so bad. Why is it never a cheap game that gets snapped?

Dude, tell me about it, fucking Jurassic Park on Sega CD was in the same box and looks pristine.

 

[blast processed]

Dude, tell me about it, fucking Jurassic Park on Sega CD was in the same box and looks pristine.

Hahaha sorry had to laugh. That's terrible tho

 

[Laevateinn]

That hurts so bad. Why is it never a cheap game that gets snapped?

You should have seen my copy of Street Fighter II: The Movie: The Game before I threw it away.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

you should play it, it's fun.

This is mine from when I got in back when it was released in '96. Definitely overrated and overpriced, though.

This is like literally true for every saturn game at this point.



On another note, look what "unexpectedly" showed up in the mail

 

[Laevateinn]

This is like literally true for every saturn game at this point.



On another note, look what "unexpectedly" showed up in the mail

The part of me that wants to buy every Saturn game agrees, the part of me that loves every Saturn game massively disagrees.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

The part of me that wants to buy every Saturn game agrees, the part of me that loves every Saturn game massively disagrees.

Haha, I love my saturn games but where prices are now there is no way I would buy 90% of them if I didn't own them already. They're good but they're not all $100+ or even more. As awesome as panzer dragoon saga is, it's not worth the $600 or whatever it's up to now.

 

[Laevateinn]

Haha, I love my saturn games but where prices are now there is no way I would buy 90% of them if I didn't own them already. They're good but they're not all $100+ or even more. As awesome as panzer dragoon saga is, it's not worth the $600 or whatever it's up to now.

I'm all about the Japanese games though so it tends to be cheaper for me. Long boxes are the worst.

 

[blast processed]

I'm all about the Japanese games though so it tends to be cheaper for me. Long boxes are the worst.

This hurts my soul.

 

[Spladam]

Lastly, here is the wiki. The Wikia has long since abandoned by the community at large, but it can't be closed because of Wikia's rules. It may constantly get better search result rankings, either because Wikia is a corporation that can pay for them, or because there's so many wikis using Wikia that they're dragging the dead Doom Wikia site up with them, but it's not the best resource to use by a long shot.

I just meant that was the wiki for Brutal Doom, it gives a quick and clear rundown of what V20b has to offer. I wasn't trying to link the Doom wiki, just an info page on Brutal Doom so they could see what it was all about, did you click the link? It's definitely not a necessity, but it does help with the aging of the game, giving it a modernized polish.

Also
A dude I ran into on the Tech Support thread found a treasure trove of classic PC, Amiga, and C64 games on craigslist, he sent me a PM with a list of some of the stuff he's found in it so far:
- Full Throttle in the limited edition horizontal box.
- Day of the Tentacle, floppy disk version
- King's Quest II-VI, for some reason there are three different copies of King's Quest IV
- Adventures of Willy Beamish
- An absolute assload of Amiga exclusives that were never ported to PC
- Blade Runner
- Some SSI Goldbox games
- A few sealed Atari ST games I've never heard of - Weird Dreams and Risk
- An early port of Tetris from 1986
- Red Baron, Falcon 3.0
- Dragon's Lair, Space Ace 1-3
- King's Bounty for the C64, the spiritual predecessor to the Heroes of Might and Magic series
- Two copies of the original Age of Empires, one in a larger box. The source code for this game was supposedly lost so it will likely never be re-released in its original form
- Some more recent games in the DVD-sized boxes like Painkiller and Far Cry
- Tempest 2000 for the PC. I thought it was an Atari Jaguar exclusive but it was ported to PC. Who knew.
- The original copy of Civilization 1.

I was overcome with nostalgia, and quite impressed. I asked if maybe he would share some pics over here, so he might stop by.

 

[Morfeo]

The only programming I did were DOS commands to launch my games LOL

LOL. This was exactly my situation as well. I learnt a ton of advanced technics to get games running, but never much programming.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

I just meant that was the wiki for Brutal Doom, it gives a quick and clear rundown of what V20b has to offer. I wasn't trying to link the Doom wiki, just an info page on Brutal Doom so they could see what it was all about, did you click the link? It's definitely not a necessity, but it does help with the aging of the game, giving it a modernized polish.

Also
A dude I ran into on the Tech Support thread found a treasure trove of classic PC, Amiga, and C64 games on craigslist, he sent me a PM with a list of some of the stuff he's found in it so far:
- Full Throttle in the limited edition horizontal box.
- Day of the Tentacle, floppy disk version
- King's Quest II-VI, for some reason there are three different copies of King's Quest IV
- Adventures of Willy Beamish
- An absolute assload of Amiga exclusives that were never ported to PC
- Blade Runner
- Some SSI Goldbox games
- A few sealed Atari ST games I've never heard of - Weird Dreams and Risk
- An early port of Tetris from 1986
- Red Baron, Falcon 3.0
- Dragon's Lair, Space Ace 1-3
- King's Bounty for the C64, the spiritual predecessor to the Heroes of Might and Magic series
- Two copies of the original Age of Empires, one in a larger box. The source code for this game was supposedly lost so it will likely never be re-released in its original form
- Some more recent games in the DVD-sized boxes like Painkiller and Far Cry
- Tempest 2000 for the PC. I thought it was an Atari Jaguar exclusive but it was ported to PC. Who knew.
- The original copy of Civilization 1.

I was overcome with nostalgia, and quite impressed. I asked if maybe he would share some pics over here, so he might stop by.

That guy is me.

There is an absolute assload of games in this cache and way too many for me to take pictures of individually so I just took a picture of the haul when I first got it a few months back. I'll put the Google link up to share the photos for anyone who wants to check it out:

https://goo.gl/photos/nRpyPJGHMTF1VE6L8

This isn't even close to the totality of what I got, it's just all the photos that were decent enough to be shared.

I took the pictures over a long period of time due to a move so they vary in lighting and quality.

 

[Laevateinn]

I need to get an Amiga

 

[Spladam]

That guy is me.

There is an absolute assload of games in this cache and way too many for me to take pictures of individually so I just took a picture of the haul when I first got it a few months back. I'll put the Google link up to share the photos for anyone who wants to check it out:

https://goo.gl/photos/nRpyPJGHMTF1VE6L8

This isn't even close to the totality of what I got, it's just all the photos that were decent enough to be shared.

I took the pictures over a long period of time due to a move so they vary in lighting and quality.

Hole. Lee. Shit.
Wow, I had those same copies of Populous and Seven Cities of Gold. It's amazing that another person owned Seven Cities of Gold, hahahaha. Wow, That was a pretty epic collection, and I don't use the word epic that often. The ORIGINAL spectrum holobyte release of Tetris, original Bard's Tales, and Civ 1. So many of the boxes looked to be in really good condition. Wow.

 

[socksfelloff]

Well...There goes my entire night troubleshooting a damn Master System.

4 controllers, 3 of them had a different button that wouldn't work and 1 was OK. I took the controllers apart, cleaned all the gunk off the shells/buttons, wiped the contacts on the boards and put them back together...Now the 1 working controller doesn't work at all and the other 3 are still malfunctioning.

Fuck.

Do a quick search and find the controller ports often have broken solder joints so I crack the MS open and find a broken solder joint. Fucking Aye lets play some SEGA.

Fuck

Still 3 controllers malfunctioning in the same way and the 4th is still totally dead.

So I troubleshoot the controllers and find the 3 malfunctioning controllers all have 1 pin each on the connector that's shot. Great. The 4th controller ended up being a broken ground wire inside the cable. I cut it back 3 times to finally get passed the break and re soldered it to the controller board.

Now I need to search for some new cables online or just make my own DB9 cables. Sometimes I love Retro and sometimes I hate it!

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

Hole. Lee. Shit.
Wow, I had those same copies of Populous and Seven Cities of Gold. It's amazing that another person owned Seven Cities of Gold, hahahaha. Wow, That was a pretty epic collection, and I don't use the word epic that often. The ORIGINAL spectrum holobyte release of Tetris, original Bard's Tales, and Civ 1. So many of the boxes looked to be in really good condition. Wow.

Nice to see the rare Gaffer who grew up with PC gaming. I feel like an anomaly here sometimes, most guys here grew up on consoles and transitioned to PC later. I've been mostly a PC guy since the early 90's. I'll see what I can do about uploading the late 90's, early 2000's stuff on the weekend.

 

[BTails]

That collection is EPIC. I love all the old computer game boxes, so many of those Sierra ones bring back a HUGE amount of nostalgia for me.

Flipped halfway through the gallery, gonna spend more time when I'm not on mobile so I can really appreciate it.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

That collection is EPIC. I love all the old computer game boxes, so many of those Sierra ones bring back a HUGE amount of nostalgia for me.

Flipped halfway through the gallery, gonna spend more time when I'm not on mobile so I can really appreciate it.

Yeah, there were some cool finds in there that aren't pictured. I'll get to them this week or next. I uploaded some more photos for you guys.

It struck me going through the photos how much stuff PC games used to come with. Companions of Xanth for instance came with an actual paperback novel (it's based on a fantasy series that's ongoing to this day).

I had a great time looking up all the games I never heard of on Wikipedia.

Some notes:

- Jumpman is a Donkey Kong clone for the C64
- Double Dragon had a freaking C64 port?!
- Dune 1 was a turn based strategy game, Dune II as we all know was the first RTS
- The original King's Bounty was an awesome find - Heroes of Might and Magic is one of my -
favourite series and this game was the spiritual predecessor.
- Discworld came on 13 floppy discs (LOL).
- Nobunga's Ambition is a pretty obscure NES strategy game, the series has had an even more obscure PC port. Came in a VHS style clamshell case.
- The C64 version of Nightmare on Elm Street has no relation to the NES version, it's a top down survival horror game.
- That box of Elder Scrolls Arena there? That's the Deluxe version of the game. It's one of the rarest versions of the game in existence. Unfortunately, it's missing the mousepad that has a map of Tamerial on it. The Codex Scientia (it's just a strategy guide) alone often sells for $200 on eBay. A complete version of the game easily goes for in the $500 range.
- Might and Magic boxes are extremely large.
- You might not know it, but Shadow of the Comet game is worth a chunk of coin on eBay as well. Have no idea why.
- The source code for the original Age of Empires was lost. It will likely never be re-released or remastered so boxed copies and piracy are the only way to play the original. Great manual too. I learned a lot about ancient civilizations as a kid reading it. I actually have a second copy of the game fully boxed for sale if anyone wants it.
- EA made the best boxes in terms of efficient use of space.
- I suspect that version of Tetris I have is the earliest PC port of Tetris. 1986 made by Spectrum Holybyte (Microprose).
- The Adventures of Willy Beamish was just released on GoG, check if out if you wanna relive the 90's.
- There's a flight sim there called Black Knight. It's probably the rarest but least wanted game in the collection. Just illustrates the challenge of PC gaming collecting. You could have a rare as hell title but nobody cares about it. This game is particularly interesting because it comes with a VHS tape.
- Many of those Amiga titles were never ported to the PC. They came out pretty late in that computer's lifespan.

PC games need to be released on folios more often IMO. The Bard's Tale and Legacy of the Ancients are my favourite covers.

 

[Fularu]

That guy is me.

There is an absolute assload of games in this cache and way too many for me to take pictures of individually so I just took a picture of the haul when I first got it a few months back. I'll put the Google link up to share the photos for anyone who wants to check it out:

https://goo.gl/photos/nRpyPJGHMTF1VE6L8

This isn't even close to the totality of what I got, it's just all the photos that were decent enough to be shared.

I took the pictures over a long period of time due to a move so they vary in lighting and quality.

I knwo every single one of those games

I feel old now

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Nice to see the rare Gaffer who grew up with PC gaming. I feel like an anomaly here sometimes, most guys here grew up on consoles and transitioned to PC later. I've been mostly a PC guy since the early 90's. I'll see what I can do about uploading the late 90's, early 2000's stuff on the weekend.

I was into both consoles and PC as a kid, though I don't talk much about PC stuff now... mostly because PC fans are so goddamn annoying, and RetroGAF doesn't tend to have a lot of PC talk. But some of my favorites from back in 'the day' are Shogo, Time Commando (yeah, I know it sucks), Rollercoaster Tycoon, Deus Ex, etc. A lot of PC games have aged horribly, and I'd argue most of the stuff from the pre-3D accelerator era is pretty much unplayable... but yeah, there are some real classics on there, and a lot of shit I still need to go back and rediscover.

 

[blast processed]

I was into both consoles and PC as a kid, though I don't talk much about PC stuff now... mostly because PC fans are so goddamn annoying, and RetroGAF doesn't tend to have a lot of PC talk. But some of my favorites from back in 'the day' are Shogo, Time Commando (yeah, I know it sucks), Rollercoaster Tycoon, Deus Ex, etc. A lot of PC games have aged horribly, and I'd argue most of the stuff from the pre-3D accelerator era is pretty much unplayable... but yeah, there are some real classics on there, and a lot of shit I still need to go back and rediscover.

Yeah, this is pretty much me as well. I had consoles in the 90's, but PC was my main up until 2002. It's hard to find PC gaming enthusiast nowadays, which is why I created this thread... http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1214023

 

[davidwhangchoi]

i played on the apple II E and commodore 64. G. I.Joe, karateka, beachhead II were awesome. on my friends Tandy, i watched him play Dexter all the time.

playing some megaman legends for the 1st time just finished the intro dungeon:
- airship reminds me of final fantasy.
- is Roll megaman's girlfriend?
-megaman is so messed up.

Spoiler

the airship has a malfunction and Barrell says he can't do it by himself and asks for help, Roll says i'm busy steering the ship. Megaman doesn't offer to help and they crash. what a guy!

-i'm at the Cardon Forest.

so far it seems pretty fun. the controls are manageable and works like a tank.
i think it's a good pickup.

 

[Fularu]

Nice to see the rare Gaffer who grew up with PC gaming. I feel like an anomaly here sometimes, most guys here grew up on consoles and transitioned to PC later. I've been mostly a PC guy since the early 90's. I'll see what I can do about uploading the late 90's, early 2000's stuff on the weekend.

I went :

MSX --> Atari 520 STF / SMS -->Amiga 500 / MD / SNES / PCE-CD --> Amiga 1200

My first PC was in 1997 (after my Saturn and PSX)

 

[Timu]

I started PC gaming in 2001...and I love it. I still go for older PC games from the 90s as well.