For me, it was the game Rocket Jockey released by Sega Soft in '96. It was perfect. The game featured a surf rock soundtrack by Dick Dale. The entire premise of the game was to ride around on rockets and using long cables to yank your opponents off theirs. Referees were also fair play. I don’t think I’ve met anyone else who has played the game, so if you have, let me know!

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    I really loved Tie Fighter from 1994. The music was pretty cool because it changed based on the state of the mission you were on and star wars music was a cheat code to my feelings.

    I also thought it was so cool when you’d complete secret objectives and they’d bring you in to the emperor’s secret order and tattoo your arm. I thought that was just fucking great. Those cut scenes were so cool.

    Also thanks to all of you who posted cool older games im going to try some of these. I’m thinking about trying fallout I’ve never played any in that series.

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      Honestly Lucasarts of the early-90’s to mid 2000’s had such a high batting average.

      Tie Fighter really captured the feel of the original trilogy that only a few games have actually done, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight both did the same.

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    I was a big LucasArts graphic adventure game fan. Maniac mansion, Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones, Loom, Monkey Island Then all the Sierra games: leisure Suits Larry, Police Quest, King’s Quest, Camelot…. Good times.

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      Loved the older fallout series but wow that gameplay was unforgiving. I remember dying constantly, though I was probably just bad.

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        Yeah, the unfortunate downside to the Fallout games is that it gives you a wide variety of potential character builds, but unless you’re somewhat proficient in combat, your odds of survival are slim. Which, I suppose, would be accurate to a real-life post-apocalypse scenario

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    Jazz Jackrabbit, and all of its versions and the sequel. Banging soundtrack too

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    Scorched Earth Worms UT2K Quake 3 Arena Tribes Descent Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries You Don’t Know Jack Where in the World is Carmen San Diego

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          Oh yeah, absolutely loved Titanfall. I’m still praying for a sequel. The multiplayer in that game was incredible.

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            It’s a travesty they didn’t already get TF2 done with the continued sales of the first game and huge success of Apex.

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    The Moraff adventure games. Moraffs World and Moraffs Dungeons of the Unforgiven.

    Also Castle of the Winds.

    It’s either tough or impossible to get purchased copies of any of them now, but that means there are sites willing to host the full unlocked versions of them now. As far as I know, the creators of both are still alive though. So I suppose if you tried really hard you might still be able to get money to them.

    In both cases they were games I played when I was a kid and they stood out as games I wanted to come back to when I was less bad at stuff. And in both cases I did, and little me was right.

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      I remember the death messages of Castle of the Winds: RIP Killed by Huge Ogre or RIP Killed by Kobold. I had never seen or heard of an Ogre before and thought it was “org” so I pronounced it that way too for the longest time. Until Shrek was released.

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        I vaguely remember the death message said “another one bites the dust” and I had no idea what that meant.

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      I played one of the Moraff games (I think Dungeons of the Unforgiven) and remember it being like an acid trip. In retrospect I probably didn’t have the colors set up right.

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    The original “Master of Orion” was great, and I also spent countless hours playing “Archipelago”

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    ID games of course (Keen/Wolf3d/Doom), Sim City series. Raptor, Warcraft I&II, LucasArts games.

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    Me and my sister were crazy about Zoo Tycoon, but we weren’t super good at it. We would run the zoo into the ground and then release the T. Rex.

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      Releasing the T. rex and plopping guests into the shark tank and removing the ladder were important parts of a successful zoo. I wish the Zoo Tycoon series kept the same level of freedom the original has, the new one was depressing to play.

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        I didnt know there was a new one. We played the 1st and 2nd ones.

        I feel like anything new would lack the magic from back then.

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    SimAnt holds deep reverence with me since I remember playing it at my friends house all the time as a kid.

    Lands of Lore, Ultima Underworld, Wing Commander, and Master of Orion, because I played them with my brother all of the time.

    And Police Quest and Number/Word Munchers because they were some of the first I played in school.

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      Oh and King’s Quest V (and really all the Sierra games, for that matter) have honourable mention because I played it ALL THE TIME at my dad’s and I miss those days.

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    So Im a Star Wars nut, but here goes:

    Episode 1 Racer

    Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight

    A couple other Lucasarts games:

    The Curse of Monkey Island

    Grim Fandango

    There are so many more, but those are my choices for least talked about entries