Topic: Best 'old school games'? - page 9. (Read 14304 times)

FF4 (SNES version, ditch the remakes; a little cheesy at times but so frickin' epic, incredibly fitting music)
FF6 (need I even comment?)       (SNES version of course!)

The rest are mere games, but very good:

FF Tactics (PS; best strategic battles)
Dragonquest 3 (the SNES remake; fun, great use of randomness)
Dragonquest 4 (NES; best RPG of this type)
Dragonquest 8 (PS2; fun, long, graphic style ages well)
Soul Blazer (SNES; cute, fun, feel-good action-RPG)
Secret of Mana (SNES; fun, neat Bali-inspired music)
Lost Odyssey (XBOX; spiritual successor to Final Fantasy, emotionally powerful and "makes you a better person" (like FF4/FF6))
SMB3 (duh)
Super Mario World (duh)
Super Dodgeball (NES; hugely fun game back in the day, especially 2-player)
Kickle Cubicle (NES; obscure sleeper hit, great puzzle game, makes you smarter)
Zelda 3 (duh)
Tetris Attack (SNES; dumb name, absolutely classic game, nothing to do with Tetris, makes you smarter)
Dungeon Crawl (free PC game but feels old skool/roguelike, extreme hardcore, ultra-addictive, can play for years)
Super Bomberman (SNES; fantastic party game, never found a better game for 3-4 players besides maybe Mario Kart battle mode)
Twin Seeds 2 (obscure free PC "bullet hell" game)
Street Fighter 2 (arcade original version and Champion Edition; after that they fell off a lot; need a very good joystick)

The real "classics" would have to be games that started genres on their own, like Quake, Silent Hill, GTA III, Half-Life, Starcraft, Legend Of Zelda, Mario, Pac-Man, Star Wars KotOR, etc.

me too and i can earn some money there 

Dungeons and Dragons is pretty good

Step slip attack ? May be you dont understand, its not your fault either. In this game we used to 'slip' by stepping forward as much as we could and if we would touch the guy with still foots (having just one chance to move) , the attack would be successful.

I love this game!

TETRIS legendary 

Never played Carmagedon – always heard they were good though...

My favorite old school game is Duke Nukem

Tony Hawk ?

Runescape 2007 is awesome, but only if you can handle the 1000 pixels, and the quarter screen game window.

Fallout 1 and 2.   Very fun, very hard.     They are time vampires though.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (NES)
Superman (Nintendo 64)
Big Rigs (PC)

final fantasy 7, super mario RPG, doom, symphony of the night.

Pacman,
Super Mario,
Super Smash Bros

Super smash bros is still one the BEST games when you play with your friends and family

warcraft 3 and its not even close

I'll toss a couple of oldie goodies out that I was hooked on that I have not yet seen mentioned.

Empire:


And Empire Deluxe:


Stunning Graphics.


And a few years later:

Master of Orion and MOOII Battle At Antares:


Babe-o-licious Elerians:


I recall having to upgrade the rig to play both of these state of the art games.

And something a little more recent that is still playable. This one soaked up many, many hours:



Rogin?

The dig, from Lucas Arts

harvest moon
underground
mario bross
sonic
gta san andreas (awful whenever play this game  )

For me it's MUD, I don't remember having so much fun with any other game.
And since "all you do" in that game is to write text commands on a shell, I would say that is pretty old school xD