Old Skool Games

[RogueAgent]

Wondering how many people would be interested in some good old Quake1 CTF or Starcraft at the next TeamDamage. They used to be big and a lot of old timers I used to play with seem to have gone missing over the last year. Maybe we can get a bit of retro going in some organised games.

Anyone interested ?

[Satan]

oooher, ctf !!! gogogo

[Mr_Anderson]

Well i'd like to play some sc (mind u i'll get owned) but a game or 2 would be cool. If i can get my joystick i wouldnt mind a few flight sims like European air war, Xwing Alliance (or xwing vs tie fighter) but i really wanna play some european air war!!! Also i'd love some Half life death match :D

[Mouse]

ahh yes good old HL DM :P

i have CS beta 1.0 :P but i cant get it working at the moment...

there is a program called 'retro cs2.5" apparently its like beta 5.x and u can run the latest hl patch with it...so yeah im downloading it now

[cpd]

Gee, I wonder who suggested that. Cough.

Retro CS is pretty cool. Back to ye olde days with a scope as alt-fire on the colt. Whee!

I'd say Carmageddon, but then we'd have to install IPX. *shudder*

[RogueAgent]

Actually, I was think more old skool as before CS.
Half Life DM could be a go-er tho Mr A. Havent chucked 30 people in a HL DM server in ages....
Its been so long I cant even remember the name of the map we used to play :/

[Lord Shaper]

if I get there I'm in!

[cpd]

Rise of the Triad. Once again, IPX. Bah! Stupid game companies.

[Alpha_7]

Actually, I was think more old skool as before CS.
Half Life DM could be a go-er tho Mr A. Havent chucked 30 people in a HL DM server in ages....
Its been so long I cant even remember the name of the map we used to play :/

BootCamp I believe..

[Satan]

if i never play hl dm again it'll be too soon

[RogueAgent]

Ah yes, Boot Camp - thanks Alpha.
Fun times. I can see that happenning again soon.....

ROTT was just that....ROT !
Never made an impression in my book.
But theres nothing wrong with IPX games. It all used to be IPX back in the old days, and I understand that IPX is more efficient on a LAN than TCP.....just not as versatile I guess.

Every old skool LANner should have IPX installed. Its just making sure you are all using the same frame type that matters. Ethernet 802.3 is the one to use from memory....?

Hexen the original....now that was a cool deathmatch game :)
/me realises he's in an empty room talking to himself

[Lord Shaper]

How can you not mention Duke 3d, Shadow Warrior, and redneck rampage then!!!

[RogueAgent]

Yes....I know.

Duke3D used to be my favourite game. Maybe I overplayed it so much back then I'm not missing it yet ;)
Shadow Warrior, the demo absolutely rocked. Lot of fun times at the old Cyberelectric with that one. We used to play 2 v 2 v 2 v 2 comps :lol:
Pity the actual release sucked so bad.
I'd give that another go for the hell of it.
"Lo Wang - love you long time !"

As for RR, never really got into it. Didnt seem like anything particularly new or different at the time.

[Yoda]

yes 802.3 is the one we always used to use.

I liked Hexen but it never went beyond "something interesting", Duke3d was alot of fun, I feel the same way about shadow warrior, and as for Redneck rampage, meh.

[Mr_Anderson]

I'd like to play some doom 2 with u mouse (and neone interested) time to go all old skoolin with no mouse just keyboard :P

Rogue: Ahh its cool about the map theres only a handful anyway u'd find the map easy enuff, my fav is the 1 where u can launch the nuke, heh thats the coolest

Carmagedon was pretty funny , i'd play that i got my copy round somewhere, i also some C&C Red Alert would be fun fkn tank rush baby TANK RUSH!

[Scorp]

Q1 CTF for sure...I havn't played with my grapple in eons

C'mon buttstench! I saw you sign up! say something! ;)

[Alpha_7]

I'd like to play some doom 2 with u mouse (and neone interested) time to go all old skoolin with no mouse just keyboard :P

Rogue: Ahh its cool about the map theres only a handful anyway u'd find the map easy enuff, my fav is the 1 where u can launch the nuke, heh thats the coolest



HL map with with Nuke Is called Crossfire I believe..

and yes, lots of fun.. but can be annoying when someone constantly sets off the nuke..
but a great map for defending a prizes position..

[Yoda]

Yeah we fired this up a little while ago, still a heap of fun. ;)

cross bow rocks.

[Mouse]

i'll definatly go old skool and use the keyboard with ya ando :D

ahh yes the good old nuke *cough* WLF *cough* me winning *cough* :P alpha that was the MOD for HL called Rocket crowbar...

and im sure it was the bootcamp map, the one called crossfire is the one with the helicopter :P (i would of used that instead) hehe

[Gutty]

Hey all you old Skoolers!.
long time, and some of the older guys know me. I havent played anything in ages, but I was thinking to maybe try turn up to a few gaming events, if I can fit in the time....

I doubt I can make the next team damage, but hopefully I can jump online and get some keyboard/mouse skills back and turn up to the following team damage..

I just hope you run some old skool stuff if I do make it cause I cant play anything else, and even then I am gonna have trouble!.

Gutty.

[Alpha_7]

i'll definatly go old skool and use the keyboard with ya ando :D

ahh yes the good old nuke *cough* WLF *cough* me winning *cough* :P alpha that was the MOD for HL called Rocket crowbar...

and im sure it was the bootcamp map, the one called crossfire is the one with the helicopter :P (i would of used that instead) hehe

Sorry getting to of my favourites confused.. (its been awhile..)

Mouse your right.. Nuke and I remember Crossfire as the one with cliffs ?? now.. and the weird alien jump pads ???

Not sure about the chopper... and I've never played Rocket Crowbar.. so not sure why u thought I was playing that..

[RogueAgent]

Gutwrench !!
I saw you sign up and wondered when you were gonna post. Good to see you on the forum man and good to hear you're keen to get back involved in some action.
You'll have to get the old Sardo Numski to come along too and we will Quake it up old style ;)

On HL DM, I think Alpha is right. Crossfire I thought was the name of the map with the big nuke-proof bunker ??

[Mouse]

oh yeah...sorry i thought u were talkin about the mod Rocket crowbar, which has a hand held nuke... (its how i won the WLF comp :P) and this one is in bootcamp

yeah theres an airstrike (or nuke if u will) on crossfire and that big bunker thing :P its awsome when the big siren goes and everyone runs for the bunker...aww yeah

[Yoda]

As I remember if you span the turrets above the bunker around it made it impossible to go up the ladder. ;)

All comes flooding back.

[cpd]

All of a sudden I remember this map... and I start getting this siren in my head. *shudder*

Bad memories. Funny, but horrible. Eg. 16 people exploding all at once.

[Mr_Anderson]

16??? i think not my man


32!!!!!

[Gutty]

You'll have to get the old Sardo Numski to come along too and we will Quake it up old style

Yeah I will try although he doesnt have a pc!, and mine is getting old too. time to upgrade.
Ill see if Dazza[Dark] is keen, although he works shift, and is lost in the world of everquest :?

Gutty

[Scorp]

Heya butstench! long time!

You still hittin the gym? I'll have to take a day off sometime and come down for a workout...

[Yoda]

Yo gutty, been a long ass time... hopefully seeya at the next one...

Get sard to come, as long as he doesn't let any farts fly... jesus they were painful.

[RogueAgent]

I'm sure we can dig up a PC from somewhere for Sard. Might not be all that crash hot, but it should play Quake ;)
I still have a couple machines from the old shop here that I reckon I could use for the LAN until we sell them.

I'd be worth it just to hear the Coppolla boys do 'shout-fest' one more time :D

[Gutty]

Hey Scorp and Yoda
Yeah I am still hitting Gym, usually 3 times a week, but I am trying for 4 days..Lack of time makes it hard, due to work etc....
trying to be a little more serious with taking protein and watching my diet. I am trying to lose bodyfat, but eventually hope to increase size. Damn hard to do without some kind of aid (Steroids!!), or super strict diet!.
Me Sard and Daz train at Gym in Shellharbour now, I think its called fitness something!

As for Sardo's farts.... no chance of him leaving them at home.

It would be good to get the 3 of us turn up to a team damage, although we would be like Newbs!!.. None of us has played anything in quite some time.

Gutty

[Trojan]

gutty, scorp, rogue, yoda, sardo, dark, starting to sound like to good old days. the best group of quake 1 CTF players this country has ever seen.

gutty are you familiar with the release of a game called "temple of elemental evil" it even includes the village of hommet. you may have to upgrade you PC for it though.

i would love to be there for the first event but alas i will be drinking my way across the US of A at that time i will be back arounf mid to late october. see you then.

bring on the shoutfest. you idiots

[eza]

i have nfi who any of these guys are, but i am looking forward to meeting them, except ermmm that fart guy, but, lets just say i hve been known to blow 1 or 2 smellers. or "eggs" as they've been called before. :wink:

[Corporal]

could ask who you are as well eza :/

[Lord Shaper]

Ask Yodes who he is...

I'm sure he'll have some stories to tell!!!

:bash:

[Gutty]

gutty are you familiar with the release of a game called "temple of elemental evil" it even includes the village of hommet. you may have to upgrade you PC for it though.

i would love to be there for the first event but alas i will be drinking my way across the US of A at that time i will be back arounf mid to late october. see you then.

bring on the shoutfest. you idiots

I didnt but I will have to get it when it comes out, looks really good. I have been looking around for some good RPG's lately, still playing Neverwinter nights occasionally, bought it yonks ago, but never completed the adventure. Never tried playing it online either.
I have a 1.5Mhz machine with 512MB mem, but its not DDR, and the video card is my old viper 770!!. Hope to upgrade in near future.

Gutty.

[Gutty]

I'm sure we can dig up a PC from somewhere for Sard. Might not be all that crash hot, but it should play Quake
I still have a couple machines from the old shop here that I reckon I could use for the LAN until we sell them.

I'd be worth it just to hear the Coppolla boys do 'shout-fest' one more time

Yeah I am sure we can, Ill see if Sards keen. Dark has a decent Pc, so he should be right. I have most of the quake stuff still on CD, but I lost all the config stuff!!. Spewing.

Ill let you know. Sardo still goes out most weekends, have you run into him lately ?

gutty.

[Gutty]

i have nfi who any of these guys are, but i am looking forward to meeting them, except ermmm that fart guy, but, lets just say i hve been known to blow 1 or 2 smellers. or "eggs" as they've been called before

We used to play at the old CyberElectric years ago, Night time quake CTF and deathmatch. Those days certainly have a lot of fond memories for me, had some really great times, thanks to Rogue letting us play there.
I still yearn for those days sometimes :>),

Gutty...

[Yoda]

Your machine doesn't sound that bad gutty, throw in a better video card and you'd be golden...

[Trojan]

I see that some people were not to familiar with some of the nanes of the old timer gamers. I wonder if it would be possible to get a team like rogue dark guty and scorp. and challenge all comers to a Quake CTF or even DM. it would be interesting.

[eza]

lol lord shaper yoda has never beaten me over the head with a sledge hammer, yet. :roll:

[cannon fodder]

perhaps he should eza :lol:

[Mr_Anderson]

I'll take on neone in HL DM

Me and scrop and warchild always had close battles in TD RF comps

[GreatHornedDragon]

I'll never forget the one Clash of the Clans that I went to... in a team with Dr Claw, Seaquest and Bionic. We lost to the Mohicans something like 215-2, hah, that was gold!

Still, a lot of fun was had that day ;) Watching the replay of me running round in circles trying to get into the teleport on DM6 was a classic.

[eza]

lol dwight that would've been mad a** fun. if i lost that bad im suer i would've felt sick :oops: lol we should get a dedicated server running these old skool games, they sound fun....

[sw@t]

trying to be a little more serious with taking protein and watching my diet

hmmmmm...

protein suppliments = bad........

just watch how you take em :P if you stop going to the gym, that muscle you make will turn back again to body fat... because your metabolism gets use to the influx of protein.... etc etc etc :P

hmmmmmmmm everquest.... *shudder*

:shock:

[Dandaman]

RougueAgent, you mentioned Starcraft? I will definatly be up for some starcraft any day of the week. The masses don't seem to have the intelligence to play it so it will have to be the OLD School players. I do still play it so you better be in practice.

[[FG]Hef_Gargit]

http://www.gaithergraphix.com/art4sale/zombie.jpg

BACK FROM THE DEAD!

[Trojan]

at the last TD me and scorp fired up and had a few litte quake 1 deuls.

oh my god. the thing that struck me striaght away was the incredable speed of Quake 1. There is no game that can match it i could not believe i used to play a game so fast. no wonder i'm shit at the lastest games they are too slow. :shock: :wink:

I urge everyone to check out quake 1. the fastest deuling, deathmatch, CTF action around.

[Lord Shaper]

starcraft oldschool????

I don't think so....

Try gauntlet on a Commadore 64

[[FG]Hef_Gargit]

ill see you gauntlet, and raise you Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago, Apple IIE style.

[Lord Shaper]

that wasn't multiplayer...

but on that note I'll take your where in the world is carmen sandiago and raise you a turtle in basic from 1983 at nareena hills primary school

[Trojan]

Tragically I can go back way beyond all that. yes I can remember the start of it all.

that’s right what is now called pong. a black box with smaller black boxes with what looks like light dimmer knobs on them. it had two amazing game styles. tennis where each person was on the other side of the screen and "squash" where each person was on the same side of the screen and the ball (ie large square pixel) was bounced of the line at the other end of the screen.

space invaders in the shops 20 cents a go.

the first lord British (that eventually became Ulitma) was a vector graphic game on the apple 2e. no point to it just go down into a vector drawn dungeon kill stuff get treasure and complete quests for lord British. like go down and kill a rat the return.

Has anyone else heard of a microbee or a vic20. the microbee had a great vector starwars game. Tie fighter were [-0-] and tie interceptors were <-0-> nice.

Through from the past where some great games that if remade today would absolutely rock.

Mail order monsters – raise money buy monster parts put them together to create a monster get certain “powers attack and defenses” and then battle your mates monster. Com 64

Atari 2600 pele soccer nice

C64 – some space game can’t remember the name you flew around hyperspaced etc shot things that were trying to shot you.

The ancient art of war – barbarians V archers V knight – old XT goodness.

Yodas previously mention defender of the crown though that is a bit more modern.

Escape from colditz and WW2 text adventure on the micro bee. Escape from the nazi’s golditz prison..

Any many many more

We have come a very very very very very long way

[Lord Shaper]

I remember programing music on microbees and a mate had a vic 20 which we would play dig dug on...

[cpd]

C64 – some space game can’t remember the name you flew around hyperspaced etc shot things that were trying to shot you.
I used to finish Bubble Bobble on an alarmingly frequent basis. Say once every 2 days.

[Lord Shaper]

I remember knowing the movements to get unlimited lives on the arcade machine for bubble bobble and playing it at Wollongong Tafe

[VenoM]

before cs, or before half life...

Starcraft
Doom2/ opengl version
descent 1/2/3
warcraft 2
carmageddon etc :o
all great fun :o

[cpd]

carmageddon etc :o
At 320x240. :D Damn that was fun though.

[eza]

i got into the whole "LAN" business at a net cafe playing DoD, then i met CS :twisted:

[cpd]

http://www.users.on.net/hoogs/dodgethis.jpg

[Lord Shaper]

gold!

[Dandaman]

The sadest computer game that i ever got addicted to was Railway Tycoon... OMG that was such a pointless game now that i think about it. Civilization was such a better stratergy game. Its a pitty to see some old games with there new version to not be as playable as the old ones where. Im not sure what a lot of programmers are doing in the gaming industry. A new version of a game is supposed to imporve.
Ie is faster, has refined graphics (They don't have to be extreme resolution) and is playable over and over again.

What else should a new version of a game have? more boobies?

[Lurch-o-Rama]

Penetrator on the Dick Smith System 80
This arcade game let you fly above a scrolling landscape and deliver the final knockout blow with a bomb down a very narrow (and missable) tube (shades of Star Wars). Good sound effects and good fun. The arrow keys took a thumping on this one.
http://www.webweavers.co.nz/system-80/software_penetrat.gif

LOL!