Best Old Games

[Sanada]

Are so many great games I remember, most seem to have already been mentioned.

Theme Hospital - Loved this. Should play it again at some point.
Destruction Derby 1 and 2 - Preferred DD2 more as it seemed faster paced. Got both for PC but they don't run on XP Got both for PSX anyway.
Constructor - This game owned but was really hard to beat I found.
Kiss Psycho Circus - Not that old but was fun.
Project Nomads - Loved this game. You build a floating battle island. Bit cartooney but fun never the less.
Nuclear Strike - A 3D Desert Strike type game and loved it. You could destroy pretty much everything on the map.
Star Fighter 3000 - Fun game. Fly around blowing shit up.

You can still buy most of these. I found DD2 and NS in Staples for £2 each and DD1 in some cheap bin in Morrison's. Most of the others are newer and a bit easier to find. There's always eBay anyway.

 

[Hazar]

wow, alot of fond memories here

another great abandonware site is http://www.abandonia.com/genre.php?genre=action&page=0

some of my favorites:
commander keen series
dune 2
sim city 2000
earthworm jim
day of the tentacle
Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantis
one must fall, damn that was a fun game
tie fighter, wow, awesome game, still playing it now
red alert if that counts

 

[Gargantou]

Oh oh, and I HAVE to mention Frontier Elite 2, I love all the Elite games, open-ended space games ftw.
It was one of the most technologically impressive games off its time considering how huge it was etc.

 

[Mutley]

Commander Keen <3

 

[Steven]

Whats a kick ass text based game?

 

[The Brick]

Zork!

 

[Homless Snark]

Aw hell yes Pyramids of Egypt, game was so simple but so fun, and got really hard later on. I didn't know that John Romero made it until now..hmm




There was also this old game that I can't remember, there was a TV show (when i lived overseas but i think it was a US channel) where kids would play against each other m-player. It was a top-down view of two little dudes or something, and you collected a coin, (actually maybe it wasn't m-player but they took turns)... i can never remember it.

 

[Raxxman]

heh just beat my housemate 3 out of 3 on worms armagedon!

 

[Mutley]

Which of these are multiplayer? Anyone found any good multiplayer ones?

 

[Gargantou]

Depends on if you mean internet based multiplayer or both on the same comp, getting internet-multiplay to work on ol' DOS games is rather hard..
Anyway, a good multiplayer game imo is the one that in a sense laid the groundwork for the whole 'artillery' aspect of rocketlaunchers, nades etc in games like worms..
Scorched Earth!

 

[Bob_Marley]

Operation wolf is king of old school shooty games!