Technically not pre-internet, but my brother and I did use these two heroes as a guide because our parents were tying up the dial-up.

Head Ninja In Charge said:

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Technically not pre-internet, but my brother and I did use these two heroes as a guide because our parents were tying up the dial-up.

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Oh, X-Play back on G4. Man those were good days. Then you could watch the Man Show at night lol

I had to look him up... Adam Sessler is only 51. That receding hairline did him Zero favors in his 20s. I always assumed he was late 30s / early 40s when I watched Xplay.

I feel bad now... I always sorta disliked him for trying to dress and act young... Lol, he was young.

Best game on box art? Ultima 3 - Still one of the greatest games of all time if you account for tech at the time.



Worst game? The Hobbit..... buggy as hell on PC

Games in the Ultima series were phenomenal.

The hairstyles. Lmao.

Man I miss the old sports games. It felt like NBA Live/2K had a run of years where I didn't even have to think twice when it came out, I could just grab it and they were great.

I played the heck out of The Bard's Tale on our Apple IIc

Zork taught me autocannibalism is not the answer.

CC09LawAg said:

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Man I miss the old sports games. It felt like NBA Live/2K had a run of years where I didn't even have to think twice when it came out, I could just grab it and they were great.

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When I got really good at NHL 94, I started playing as the Ottawa Senators since they were one of the worst teams in the league so it evened things out a bit. After that, every time a new EA sports hockey game came out I would play as the Senators.

Eventually wound up becoming a big fan of the REAL team. Used to pay for the Center Ice package on cable so I could watch their games.

Dude, Best Buy?!?

How about back when you had to go to the "game store" over by Safeway down from campus to rent games on floppies where they were pinned to the walls in zip-lock baggies with their respective game manual(s)?

1991-1992 ish…

Hagen95 said:

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I played the heck out of The Bard's Tale on our Apple IIc

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He'll yeah! Green screen ftw!!

That was about 1984/1985 if I recall correctly I was about 13/14/15

Since we are on the subject of pre-internet games...

Anybody know if there a semi-legit way to play Urban Strike? Used to be on the Sega collection on Steam but that has been delisted best I can tell. I just really want to blow **** up with an attack helicopter.

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Best Buy? lol yall mother ****ers talking about Best Buy?

I got the Atari 2600 version of ET in the early 80's for Christmas. I got all yall beat.

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Babbages FTW!

I remember checking out the games in Nintendo Power. One issue featured a lot of hype on Hudson Hawk. I rented it due to that issue and boy did that game SUCK...

Oh yeah... I rented plenty of games based on Nintendo Power hype.

But the good news was even if the game was sorta lame, at least I knew the tricks and tips to get past the super annoying parts that otherwise would have me rage quiting.

I worked at Babbage's from 89-93. Still have my name tag and company watch. We had access to all the software to try things out, so not really any mystery shopping for me. We also would post outside a large cardboard cutout listing what was top selling per category, app, pc games and console.

That was back when you could actually buy different operating systems from the store. OS/2, Geoworks, DR DOS, etc.

Cromagnum said:

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The hairstyles. Lmao.

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Oh John, pride goeth before the fall...

Do you guys remember a game called Descent? It was like a space hovercraft game or something. I had the demo of that and played the hell out of it. lol. I was a dork. I have the entire JANES stuff too like Longbow and other flying games. Wow. Good times.

Double dragon 3, so much regret

Descent was great!

My sister worked for Atari and provided me the console and games! Her leaving Atari coincided with me not playing video games much. So it all worked out.

8 player descent on 10b2 was awesome... until someone had to leave

Jason_Roofer said:

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Do you guys remember a game called Descent? It was like a space hovercraft game or something. I had the demo of that and played the hell out of it. lol. I was a dork. I have the entire JANES stuff too like Longbow and other flying games. Wow. Good times.

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JANES looks at Clancy like where did we go wrong?

Descent was okay but it always reminds me of the Virtual World game no one wanted to play. Those Battletech pods were pretty awesome back in the day as well.

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Teslag said:

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Best Buy? lol yall mother ****ers talking about Best Buy?

I got the Atari 2600 version of ET in the early 80's for Christmas. I got all yall beat.

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Babbages FTW!

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The video game cages at Toys-R-Us.

Jason_Roofer said:

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Do you guys remember a game called Descent? It was like a space hovercraft game or something. I had the demo of that and played the hell out of it. lol. I was a dork. I have the entire JANES stuff too like Longbow and other flying games. Wow. Good times.

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I had that game. Played it with my Microsoft Sidewinder joystick.

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Back in 1992 or so, we installed a golf game on one of our PCs at work. We had an absentee boss who hid in her office all day long, so we would gather in the "golf game" office and hold tournaments.

We had one color monitor in our entire department, and I had an early version of Sim City I loaded on that PC. Since it wasn't in my office, I would wait until everyone left for the day to play.

Remember the dark maroon code sheets that kept you from sharing disks? You'd have to have that sheet to log into the game.

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Some good work memories from the 486 PC days. In 1989-91, we had Madden Football, all of the Accolade original "Test Drive" games, and Accolade Grand Prix Circuit on a PC in our back office in the room where our AS400 was installed. Played those a lot when we weren't making our own custom coax cables for setting up new consoles.

Later, I had a b/w IBM Thinkpad laptop with the little red button Trackpoint(tm) pointing device in the middle of the keyboard. It could run Lucasarts TIE Fighter. Under the red eraser button, the plastic Trackpoint knob had a square hole in the top just the right size for a wooden matchstick. I'd put a matchstick in it and instantly had a mini joystick.

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Anyone remember Incredible Universe on NW Highway in Dallas around the mid-90s? After it closed, it became a Fry's Electronics. I loved going there because they had a ton of demos.

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Yes! Incredible Universe was, well, incredible. Much better than Best Buy or Circuit City in future years.

This was my favorite TRS 80 game by far. I had most of the Avalon Hill computer games then, and quite a collection of AH physical wargames like Panzerblitz and Squad Leader. AH's computer games were written in BASIC, so it was easy to hack and change things around. I can tell you from personal experience that the aircraft capacity on the carriers consisted of 3 variables for each carrier; fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers. The US fleet never lost Midway with 999 of each plane type on board all three carriers. LOL