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Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 14:49
by Senna
Pro Pinball the web, Timeshock, Big Race USA, Fantastic Journey;
Oh man what a great games, btw they were very good in the time those pinball games were done, i still play them today great games, post ur old games also there; Lets remenber our kid starts on gaming:).
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 15:51
by Anarchid
clone of tunneller i wrote in gwbasic.
also, retal.
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 18:49
by KaiserJ
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 19:02
by smoth
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 20:02
by KaiserJ
0oh, i remember alien carnage. i have the box somewhere!
whats that fps second from last?
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 20:24
by smoth
strife. Probably the best fps as far as stories go. Some awesome plot twists...
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 20:50
by KaiserJ
damn, i had the shareware one of that (never saw it in the store)
i feel super left out... i wonder if it's abandonware yet because i'd love to play the whole thing
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 20:54
by smoth
btw, there is more than one ending.. just so you know. Try to avoid spoilers..
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 21:40
by Forboding Angel
Wow some awesome games there
Sopwith Camel
Commander Keen
Halloween Harry/Alien Carnage
You guys forgot some real gems though.
Crystal caves/Secret agent
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Jazz Jackrabbit
Rise of the Triad
Cyclones
Duke Nukem 1 / 2
Crusader
Oi and so many more. Good memories.
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 08 Mar 2012, 21:58
by smoth
Forboding Angel wrote:
Jazz Jackrabbit

Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 02:52
by Das Bruce
Oregon Trail. Kill ALL the bison!
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 03:09
by det
All I recognize is commando.
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 19:17
by KaiserJ
mine were:
commando
sopwith
lemmings (really guys? you missed out)
the last ninja
castle wolfenstien
commander keen
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 22:20
by Forboding Angel
Even to this day, I still can't understand how lemmings would have been fun after 5 minutes, which is precisely why I never bought the game lol
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 23:20
by Pxtl
Forboding Angel wrote:Even to this day, I still can't understand how lemmings would have been fun after 5 minutes, which is precisely why I never bought the game lol
It was a puzzle game for like 10-year-olds. You have N tools to apply to the levels and you apply them in a way that makes sure you get the most lemmings to the end. This meant you had to worry about running out of tools, about not saving enough lemmings... and because the lemmings don't stop walking, it had a lot of rushing and high tension.
Although if you played it today it would be boring as heck since the tools are introduced one-at-a-time in a long-assed set of introductory missions (heck, this was back when *mice* were a new thing in PC gaming, so they gave you time to get acquainted).
But yeah, it was a solid puzzle-game with an RTS twitch-micro element added on.
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 23:43
by CarRepairer
10 year olds? Did you try the hard levels? One of the last ones drove me up the wall. I remember eventually finding a walkthrough guide for that level (was it on the early web? I can't remember) and the sheer evil of it actually involved sacrificing a large portion of your poor lemmings at some point (each level had a percentage of lemmings you had to save so some could be lost). It was evil and complex.
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 09 Mar 2012, 23:56
by Pxtl
CarRepairer wrote:10 year olds? Did you try the hard levels? One of the last ones drove me up the wall. I remember eventually finding a walkthrough guide for that level (was it on the early web? I can't remember) and the sheer evil of it actually involved sacrificing a large portion of your poor lemmings at some point (each level had a percentage of lemmings you had to save so some could be lost). It was evil and complex.
I'm mostly basing that on how *incredibly* long the tutorial period of the game was.
Yeah, I know it got pretty hardcore way later on. I'm just sayin' it's good for kids because I actually set up Pingus (the FOSS remake) to my nieces and they love it and they're about that age, and iirc that's about how old I was when I played it. Never got through to the end, though.
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 00:32
by BaNa
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 00:51
by Forboding Angel
Oh I forgot about jetpack. That was a great puzzle game.
http://youtu.be/Tvsix4aouLo
Re: Old games never die! Pro Pinball
Posted: 14 Mar 2012, 04:09
by dimm