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Post by DEATH on May 27, 2004 9:26:05 GMT -5
yeah, it was street rod....i also have the sequel, street rod II, which is the same graphics engine and everything (yay..... :  except it's MUCH more realistic about modifications, and also MUCH more difficult because of the realism. |
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Post by The Shadow on May 27, 2004 9:28:10 GMT -5
At the risk of making this a computing/web discussion, I think I've found some things on JavaBoutique.com that, if I'm not mistaken, will allow the user to create some primitive games and tests. Primitive is, after all, what I'm after. Anyway, I'm going to be reading up on that stuff, and hopefully I'll have figured out something helpful by sometime this century.
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Post by The Shadow on May 27, 2004 9:30:37 GMT -5
Whoops. Yeah, I remember how incredibly difficult it was to turn and such.  |
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Post by ActsOfStupidity on May 30, 2004 20:24:44 GMT -5
My favorite thing to do was just screw and unscrew the screws into the motor-thingies and...um...I forgot what the other thing was called.
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Post by DEATH on May 31, 2004 0:06:14 GMT -5
it was actually distributer timing, but they just called it "tuning" on the game....you know, the up-arrow/down-arrow thing
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Post by ActsOfStupidity on Jun 1, 2004 20:03:04 GMT -5
heck if I know...Mafia's cars rule all. I recently discovered that playing too much CounterStrike at the Sutton's can give you twitchy muscles that don't help during baseball.
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Post by The Shadow on Jun 3, 2004 9:20:47 GMT -5
Well, Roxanne proved her worth yesterday by finding my copies of Age of Empires II: The Conquerors expansion and Rogue Spear, so I let her watch as many movies as she could cram into one day and returned to my throne as the greatest AoE II commander of all time. To see if it really was like riding a bike, I put myself in a four-player deathmatch (2 on 2) on Hardest...I regretted that soon enough...three hours later, I emerged victorious, my crack team of conquistadores, paladins, and sappers having scored 208 razes and 977 kills (almost my best record yet...doesn't quite beat my 1,042 kills, as accomplished by landing 140 elite longbowmen on a beach and having 20 elite cannon galleons patrol the coast).
I have decided that one of the best multiplayer games has to be 007: Nightfire. Fletcher brought that and Ghost Recon (another great game) with his GameCube last weekend, and we played much. IT IS AWESOME!!!
Right, I actually have a five-page geography essay to turn in in a few hours, and I haven't even selected my topic yet, so off I go.
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Post by DEATH on Jul 20, 2004 0:23:53 GMT -5
new vote.......
"basketball" from 1976 on the Atari 2600.
just awesome.
if you need a reference, it's the Atari-like game that the air-traffic controllers are playing on the movie "Airplane".
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Post by DEATH on Sept 20, 2004 0:30:49 GMT -5
How could we fail to mention civilization!  one of the greates DOS and even Windows games out there! |
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Post by The Shadow on Oct 26, 2004 12:13:30 GMT -5
Actually, I sucked at Civilization, but was AWEXOME at Civilization II...High Priest Shadius Caesar of the Romans, whose ICBMs utterly destroyed Babylon and Athens sometime in the second century BC...lol.
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Post by DEATH on Oct 20, 2005 14:18:27 GMT -5
I vote HOT ROD: AMERICAN STREET DRAG into the catagory of greatest 98/ME/XP games. Much fun to be had. Especially when playing with the Shires, and cramming supercharged big block V8s into cars that probably also appear in Mafia.....it's was freakin old. And it's color was rust. But it was not slow!
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Post by DEATH on Oct 20, 2005 14:23:29 GMT -5
And the new Aleph One "Mac -> PC" port of the latter two games of Bungie's Marathon Trilogy (unofficial prequels to Halo) automatically puts them in the 98/XP catagory for greatest FPS's. Especially since Bungie is letting people download the games and level/character/campaign editorrrs for FREEEE!
The original DOOM trilogy (DOOM, DOOM II and FINAL DOOM) is pretty awesome, but I'm afraid it's pretty much not even close to as good as the Marathon games, which came out around the same time. DOOM I and Marathon I are pretty close, but DOOM II is pretty much totally inferior to Marathon II, and FINAL DOOM shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence with Marathon Infinity.
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Post by The Shadow on Oct 21, 2005 12:30:25 GMT -5
I have a new entry for the Best X-Box Multiplayer Games category, and it is Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. Sure, the single-player campaign is fun, but man oh man, does the multiplayer PWN! Especially on the map where Thomas and I decided to ignore the mission requirements (Americans must recover and deliver codebook, Germans must defend codebook) and have our opposing teams charge into each other for some fierce close-quarters butchery. Possibly one of my favorite sequences was the time Thomas and I were on opposite sides of a road when we spotted each other:
Thomas and Sheldon: *target each other's teams and give "ASSAULT" order*
Sheldon: *foolishly tosses hand grenade into center of road*
Americans and Germans: *scramble onto road just as grenade explodes; two of each fly into the air*
Sheldon: *panics and begins spraying wildly with his MP44*
Thomas: *sneaks away in the confusion to recover the codebook*
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except it's MUCH more realistic about modifications, and also MUCH more difficult because of the realism.
