Agreed. That's what we did in tech school instead
of studying. At the time, we had a 33 mhz, 44 mhz,
and a 66 mhz, and you couldn't hardly stand to
play on anything save the 66 without going mad.
Good days
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Agreed. That's what we did in tech school instead
of studying. At the time, we had a 33 mhz, 44 mhz,
and a 66 mhz, and you couldn't hardly stand to
play on anything save the 66 without going mad.
Good days
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8 MHz, and we tied onions to our belts, cos that was the style at the time.
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I had an Amiga 1200 - greatest computing machine of my life. Ran at 14Mhz, but I added Fast RAM to pump it up to 28 MHZ!!!
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Holy crap! Battle Chess was awesome.
Slowest machine I owned was a 286 with CGA graphics. I was only six years old, so I don't know how fast the thing was.
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If we go for slowest owned, mine was commador 64,
and was also around 5 or 6 ish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
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Hmm, 8MHz was first PC, a crappy Amstrad 8086 XT which nonetheless had a VGA screen - just checked it was a 1988ish Amstrad PC2086.
The first proper computer we had was an Acorn Electron though, with its 32K of RAM and a top speed of 2MHz. Damn those were the days - I would have killed for a C64 back then.
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Meanwhile, just to round things off, I have two PCs at work, my regular Windows XP hunk of crap, and a glorious IBM PS/2 Model 80, which is connected to my ICP/MS, and which runs SCO's (may they burn in hell) XENIX operating system.
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You have excellent choice in games. I've played several of these, and many are a lot of fun. I think some of them (baldur's gate for example) can still be purchased online direct from the supplier, but I'm not 100% positive.Originally Posted by Sradac
I love this series, and was really happy this one came out. If the battle system was a bit less clunky and the level scaling balance fixed a bit, this would probably have been the best in the series. As it is, I like Wiz 7 better. One of these days I'll have to take the time to play Wiz 4, which I've heard has quite a reputation.
Great game. I wish they had done a better job making this more PC friendly rather than basically a straight port from PS to PC.
One of the best RPGs I've ever played. I didn't care that much for the expansion; you didn't miss much.
Both great games.
I like this game, and the competitive aspect was very well done (although the learning curve for that is pretty steep). Nightfall was okay, never did factions.
I don't dare count how many hours of my life were consumed by this...
See: Half-life. The fact that this game is still being played by a huge community of players is really testament to how good it is.
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Bolded are one's I've played/beaten.
Started (and completed) Half-Life 1 yesterday. Can't tell you how many times I've played through that game.
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If we're throwing around old games we've played, I couldn't tell you how many countless hours I have sunk into TIE Fighter. I literally broke two different joysticks over the course of 2 years. The best was in college when I'd sneak into a classroom in the evening and play on the classroom PC connected to the video projector. The later sequels - X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance just never seemed as good. XvsT was focused too much on multi-player in an age when most people were on dial-up, and Alliance had too many "sit in the turret and shoot down incoming missiles" missions. Nobody seems to be doing simulator-style space shooters anymore. Too bad, as that's one of my favorite game styles. I've spent a lot of time with the old Wing Commander:Privateer and Freespace 1 and 2. (now there's a franchise that needs to be revived)
I also played a lot of an obscure isometric shooter called Crusader: No Remorse. Got the demo on the disc in a copy of PCGamer, and for some reason, it caught my attention enough that I bought the game.
I also loved the old LucasArts adventure games. Monkey Island, The Dig, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle... The genre was basically dead for about a decade, but lately it actually seems to be making a bit of a comeback. I've got seasons 1 and 2 of the new episodic Sam and Max game series, and they're awesome. The puzzles aren't too ridiculously obscure, and the Sam and Max humor hasn't faded a bit.
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