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Ask HN: What “retro” PC game(s) do you miss but have not played in years?
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- trcollinson 11y agoI can't think of a game right off the top of my head (I don't, and honestly haven't, played that many). But I wanted to comment on your site. Wow that's pretty awesome! Can you share a bit more about the technology behind it and who you are? It looks like you are using Meteor at some level or another. Very neat idea!
- blooberr 11y agospace empires 3! my favorite indie 4x game
- blooberr 11y agoalso betrayal at krondor
- roschdal 11y agoFreeciv https://play.freeciv.org/ https://play.freeciv.org/
- scmoore 11y agoNot sure how "retro" it is but I played a lot of Tribes 2 and would play it again.
- timdavila 11y agoCommander Keen.
- DaSilentStorm 11y agoDungeon Keeper is an all time favorite
- pjungwir 11y agoBelow the Root Robot Odyssey ZZT Bolo . . . a lot more retro than Warcraft. :-)
- kazinator 11y agoIf it has to be IBM PC (not other classic machines like Apple II, Commodore64, Atari ST, ...), then Sopwith comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_%28video_game%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_%28video_game%29 Haven't played in around 27 years. Wow, a whole site dedicated to this: http://www.sopwith.org http://www.sopwith.org
- tcbawo 11y agoXcom was a lot of fun. The Incredible Machine - I hope my kids can play this when they get a little older
- arh68 11y agoI miss The Dig [1], one of those SCUMM games. Maybe Age of Empires I/II? Also, Myst & Riven are classics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dig
- gesman 11y agoXonix
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- yellowapple 11y agoThere's an old collection of games called Aviation Adventure that I was addicted to as a kid. One of the games that came with it was "F4U Sortie" (or something like that), involving having to fly an F4U Corsair through German radar defenses in order to deliver messages to people or something. That would be a fun one to play again.
- partisan 11y agoCarmageddon!
- lewisl9029 11y agoI'd say Heroes of Might and Magic 3... But I'd be lying because I still play it occasionally at small LAN parties with friends. Also, not retro by any measure but Supreme Commander (1) is still my favorite RTS by far.
- jabv 11y agoAh, so close. I was going to say M&M 6. My uncle introduced me to the game when I was a kid, and it was the first game I ever got hooked on. I read through the walkthrough book he gave me like it was a novel. I knew everything about everything in that game!
- csorrell 11y agoKings quest 1-5
- jasonkester 11y agoCivilization I was the best of the series, and my vote for best video game of all time. The only one that improved on it was Alpha Centauri, which got a lot of the automation right. All the other Civ sequels have just found ways to add more "work" without actually making the game any more fun. Master of Orion (again, the first one) was pure awesome and I still dig it up to play it at least once a year. It's one of those games where you wish that somebody would build an interface that ran the original executable in the background to power a more modern UI. There's nothing that needs changing. Nothing that could be changed without making it worse. As MOO2 and MOO3 demonstrate. Ultima 3 & 4 were the best of their series, and (combined with a hex editor) got a lot of my generation thinking about the mechanics of game programming. Lode Runner would be cool to see again. Not sure how a modern version would work for today's audiences. At least you have the several failed remakes to look to for inspiration on what not to try. There are lots of others. Entire genres, in fact.
- Mimu 11y agoI would second Civilization. I think it was my first videogame, my dad showed it to me. One day I tried democracy because it should be the best thing since we were using it in real life, what a disaster every decision I make was denied, I couldn't do anything. My dad told me to just put communism and do whatever I want. Easy.
- tobylane 11y agoI used to miss Theme Hospital, but like many DOS retro games it's been cloned. CorsixTH https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH has a day old beta for a release https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/releases/tag/v0.50-beta2 https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH/releases/tag/v0.50-beta...
- seekingcharlie 11y agoTheme Hospital & Sim Tower!
- ice303 11y agoFor me it has to be: Ultima 7: The Black Gate Ultima Underworld 1 Master of Magic Pizza Tycoon
- todd8 11y agoPlanetfall, by Infocom. It was a text based game that I never quite finished. Funny and with good puzzles.
- jack9 11y agoCrystal Cave
- blueside 11y agoeverquest and leisure suit larry
- tehwebguy 11y agoRed Alert 2