Most nostalgic games

[wyvernfaire]

After sugar_cookie mentioned Heroes of Might and Magic yesterday, I started getting really nostalgic about all those ancient games that are just barely hanging on at the edge of my memory. Games like Ecco the Dolphin, Little Big Adventure, Earthworm Jim, and all the old LucasArts point 'n' clicks...

I thought I'd make a post here since I'm curious about what games make everyone else feel nostalgic, and if there's anything you remember playing that you wish you could get a hold of today! :)

Comments

[waterfall8484]

Ah, LBA! I've only ever played the second one, but I liked it a lot. :~)

The game I miss the most is probably Civilization 1, just for nostalgia's sake. My mum and I were given a *coughrippedcough* game, so we didn't have the manual and every time a security question came up we wrote it down, and tried the answers until we got the right ones. :D And I really wish I could get Civ 2 Gold Multiplayer edition on Steam *sigh*.

I also miss one of the King's Quest games, which I eventually found somewhere, now that I think about it, with a DOS emulator and everything...

Mostly I miss my old GameGear though, as it eventually broke. My classmate and I would swap our games all the time, and he always finished mine before I did! :D Except for Wonder Boy, which apparently never ended. He left it paused overnight one time, and he still didn't get to the finish.

I'd say The Longest Journey too, but I discovered last year that they sell it online, so I have it now! \o/ Best Norwegian game ever made.

[sugar_cookie]

Steam has Civ 2?! OMG! I had that for the ps1. :O

[sugar_cookie]

Ahh, I got excited and I don't see it on there or GoG. And the searches I did say it's troublesome to work with Windows 7 64bit. :(

[waterfall8484]

Yeah, they don't, which is why I wish I could get it... I think it works fine on my W7 64, though I may be misremembering.

[wyvernfaire]

Haha, I feel like such a Civ newbie when you say that! The oldest Civ game I've played is Civ 4 (I came to the series pretty late...)

I remember King's Quest! That's another series I was thinking of yesterday. I think the one I had was The Princeless Bride (thank you Wikipedia!), and I found it really really difficult. IIRC were a lot of moments where you had to get the timing spot-on, or else it was a game over. And it was a pretty creepy game in places - I think there was a bit where you had to steal bones from a coroner or something?

I've seen some of The Longest Journey games in stores around here, but I've never picked up a copy. What are they like? :D

[waterfall8484]

The one I played was the one with the princess, and it was also pretty scary at times... if you went to one area you had to run away before a giant could eat you.

The original Longest Journey is great, I've not played much of Dreamfall so I don't really know. They are both adventure point and click games, but TLJ has a really captivating story and solid worldbuilding.

[sugar_cookie]

You can get some genesis games off Steam in a Windows friendly non-pirate emulator version. I did. :)

Have you looked at Good Old Games? http://www.gog.com

I miss my Sega Saturn and games like Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighters Megamix, D, and Lunacy.

[wyvernfaire]

I think I bought some stuff from GoG ages ago, but I totally forgot about its existence until now. It's a brilliant site, I don't pirate/emulate games so I get really excited whenever I can find retro games for sale :D

I never had the Saturn, so I don't think I've played any of those games. I miss some of the games for the Genesis, though. (I think there was a Sonic game which had a Knuckles expansion pack, and you had to plug one cart into the top of the other cart or something. Crazy old technology is great.)

[sugar_cookie]

They just had a special (I dunno if it's still going on) and a plethora of different Sonic games on Steam hehe.

[wyvernfaire]

I think I already have one of the Sonic anthologies on Steam! (Also I just noticed they released FFVII on Steam. It has achievements. FFVII! With achievements! Exciting.)

[sugar_cookie]

FFVII is on my wishlist! At the very top actually lol! I know it was just released, but I'm hoping it's going to go on sale so I can snag it. XD

[wyvernfaire]

Yesss, it went straight on my wishlist too :D The summer sale can't come soon enough. Hope they end up releasing VIII and IX on Steam as well.

Did you know some of the early FF games are available on Android? I found out the other day and it was another awesome moment of realising that old games are being made super accessible. I don't know if they've been released on iOS too, but I would assume that they have.

[sugar_cookie]

I don't have a phone. :(

[wyvernfaire]

Aw. Well, there's always the Ouya! (... has anyone actually bought an Ouya yet?)

[waterfall8484]

Cool, I'll have a look then. I keep forgetting GoG exists so I never go to look. :D

[thousanth]

Omg ECCO. Dude, I used to hire that game pretty much every weekend! (Yeah, I don't know why I didn't just buy it either) I never really completed it but I had so much fun being the dolphin. :3

[wyvernfaire]

Ah, back in the day, when hiring games was the done thing! I wonder why game-hiring isn't done so much any more. I remember hiring games right up until the era of the Gamecube, and after that I just started buying everything instead.

I don't remember whether I completed Ecco or not, but it was so tricky in places.

[albatrosswing]

OMG. I loved Ecco. But I kept dying LOL.. I liked Maniac Mansion.. that was my favorite. :D

[wyvernfaire]

I never played Maniac Mansion but Day of the Tentacle was hilarious!

[albatrosswing]

Yeah the sequel. :D I loved them. :) Still do.

[waterfall8484]

Day of the Tentacle is good fun, I should replay that. (And give it to my bf, because he's never played it - sacriledge! :D)

[anissu]

OMG, Ecco, just give me Ecco please? I loved playing that game!

Or another classic I remember playing was "Booger Man," both gross and entertaining. x3

But the ones that make me most nostalgic would be the ones I played with my brother and dad, Skitchin', Road Rash, Sonic Spinball, and Crue Ball. I would love Skitchin and Road Rash the most!