Post by euphoricdan on Dec 18, 2013 22:33:45 GMT -5
Greetings everyone. Take a step into the time machine. 
So I was looking over a lot of the posts and I noticed there were a lot of discussions about current and latest games. I thought it would be interesting to delve back into the past of our gaming heritage. I don't really want to be to strict with defining what an "older game" is as we have a modest age diversity here, but I would like to here what others remember fondly from their past. I am quite especially interested in hearing if people might of had some very obscure childhood games as I have found when talking about older games with friends that they have never even heard of titles I might name.
So feel free to join in and share!
You can share anything about your title in question obscure or popular, it might have been known to have certain mechanics that current games don't do very often, it might simply be that it brought you and your friends closer, or was just a really fun game, or maybe caused you a lot of frustration. All and any platforms are welcome (If it happens to be a very obscure platform feel free to elaborate) but what ever the game may be feel free to share your own and discuss with others.
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I guess I should begin with my own childhood favorite the original first Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem, Apogee Software, 1991). When ever talking about Duke Nukem's past the first thing I usually hear people mention is Duke Nukem 3D but I never got a chance to play that one as a young sport (only delving in later in life). This first outing of Duke from Apogee Software (R.I.P) was one my first side-scrolling shooters I can remember. One odd thing I remember about it was that it was also an episodic game. And annoyingly as a kid I only had a Apogee compilation floppy disk which only gave me the first episode, But man. Would I play the hell out of that first episode!
. I recently got a chance to play the other episodes and I kinda wish I hadn't cause I noticed the quality of the game kinda starts to drop midway through the second episode X(. An interesting thing about the compilation floppy that I remember was that a few of the games had very similar sound effects, another game Crystal Caves (Crystal Caves, Apogee Software, 1991) the main gun it that has the same sound effect as Dukes one. I'm not sure if that is a sign of laziness, artistic design or limited resources But all in all I do remember these games quite fondly.
So I was looking over a lot of the posts and I noticed there were a lot of discussions about current and latest games. I thought it would be interesting to delve back into the past of our gaming heritage. I don't really want to be to strict with defining what an "older game" is as we have a modest age diversity here, but I would like to here what others remember fondly from their past. I am quite especially interested in hearing if people might of had some very obscure childhood games as I have found when talking about older games with friends that they have never even heard of titles I might name.
So feel free to join in and share!
You can share anything about your title in question obscure or popular, it might have been known to have certain mechanics that current games don't do very often, it might simply be that it brought you and your friends closer, or was just a really fun game, or maybe caused you a lot of frustration. All and any platforms are welcome (If it happens to be a very obscure platform feel free to elaborate) but what ever the game may be feel free to share your own and discuss with others.
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I guess I should begin with my own childhood favorite the original first Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem, Apogee Software, 1991). When ever talking about Duke Nukem's past the first thing I usually hear people mention is Duke Nukem 3D but I never got a chance to play that one as a young sport (only delving in later in life). This first outing of Duke from Apogee Software (R.I.P) was one my first side-scrolling shooters I can remember. One odd thing I remember about it was that it was also an episodic game. And annoyingly as a kid I only had a Apogee compilation floppy disk which only gave me the first episode, But man. Would I play the hell out of that first episode!
. I recently got a chance to play the other episodes and I kinda wish I hadn't cause I noticed the quality of the game kinda starts to drop midway through the second episode X(. An interesting thing about the compilation floppy that I remember was that a few of the games had very similar sound effects, another game Crystal Caves (Crystal Caves, Apogee Software, 1991) the main gun it that has the same sound effect as Dukes one. I'm not sure if that is a sign of laziness, artistic design or limited resources But all in all I do remember these games quite fondly.
The Directional Pad controlled the camera and L1/L2 were used for other camera controls. 
