Elite / Frontier Elite makes another top-10 of alltime list
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I'm not quite sure whether you don't get my irony or I don't get yours. (-;
Infestation and V2000 are difficult to get to run on modern PCs. I've tried with DosBox and gave up.
I just tried to run Infestation on Windows XP (don't have anything more modern than that) and have to confirm that sadly it runs laggy to the extend of being unplayable.
Not a big problem for me though because I never could throw away a computer that was still in a working condition, so I could always fire it up on one of my Windows 98 PCs (two of them being still in regular use to take advantage of some older hard- and software anyway). So if you really have an urge to play it - such an old PC should be quite a bargain on Ebay. (-:
For what it's worth in no particular order my personal topo 10
1) Elite (of course) (Amiga) & Frontier First Encounters (PC)
2) Sabre Wulf (Spectrum 48k)
3) Pinball Fantasies (Amiga)
4) Pirates (Amiga)
5) Monkey Island Amiga)
6) Damocles (Amiga)
7) GTA Vice City (PS)
8) Modern Warefare 2 (PC)
9) Jimmy Whites Snooker (Amiga)
10) Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (Amiga)
Spent a lot of time on all of these, still am on a few of them
1) Elite (of course) (Amiga) & Frontier First Encounters (PC)
2) Sabre Wulf (Spectrum 48k)
3) Pinball Fantasies (Amiga)
4) Pirates (Amiga)
5) Monkey Island Amiga)
6) Damocles (Amiga)
7) GTA Vice City (PS)
8) Modern Warefare 2 (PC)
9) Jimmy Whites Snooker (Amiga)
10) Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (Amiga)
Spent a lot of time on all of these, still am on a few of them
my personal top ten in no real order, i couldnt bare to leave certain ones out so i decieded to do an oldies list and a newer ones list
oldies all on the amiga apart from one
1 frontier elite 2
2 sensible world of soccer
3 ufo enermy unknown
4 worms
5 cannon fodder
6 skidmarks
7 zool
8 any dizzy title (spectrum)
9 lemmings
10 flashback
now for the newer ones
1 knights of the old republic 1 and 2 (xbox)
2 mass effect 1 and 2 (xbox 360)
3 fallout 3 (xbox 360)
4 fable 1 and 2 (xbox 360)
5 dragon age origins (xbox360)
6 football manager series (pc)
7 fifa series
8 toca touring cars (playstation 1)
9 grand thieft auto vice city (xbox)
10 jade empire (xbox)
oldies all on the amiga apart from one
1 frontier elite 2
2 sensible world of soccer
3 ufo enermy unknown
4 worms
5 cannon fodder
6 skidmarks
7 zool
8 any dizzy title (spectrum)
9 lemmings
10 flashback
now for the newer ones
1 knights of the old republic 1 and 2 (xbox)
2 mass effect 1 and 2 (xbox 360)
3 fallout 3 (xbox 360)
4 fable 1 and 2 (xbox 360)
5 dragon age origins (xbox360)
6 football manager series (pc)
7 fifa series
8 toca touring cars (playstation 1)
9 grand thieft auto vice city (xbox)
10 jade empire (xbox)
I wonder if GOG ( http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/ ) could do something with Infestation and V2000?
I can't believe I forgot to mention this one. No 3D-graphics, no 2D-graphics, simply no graphics at all, and still a brilliant game. The text parser was fantastic, a field of AI that entirely vanished in (commercial) computer games which is a shame. When adventure games were dumbed down to graphics plus multiple choice I completely lost interest in the genre.
WE STICK OUR GRAPHICS WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE. (Infocom Ad)
To be honest, I am not sure Bungarus, but a very similar game to the Infocom titles of the day. I have the 3rd version on my C64 Forever emulator, must have a look......
Edit: fired up the C64 emulator (in plus 4 mode) but no credits came up so did a quick search online and found this http://www.commodore16.com/index.php/software/47-games/365-williamsburgadventure3.html
Apparently it was created by a company called Microdeal in 1985
Edit: fired up the C64 emulator (in plus 4 mode) but no credits came up so did a quick search online and found this http://www.commodore16.com/index.php/software/47-games/365-williamsburgadventure3.html
Apparently it was created by a company called Microdeal in 1985
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Think I need a top 50 can’t get it down to ten.
fortunatly all list are personal flavour and will never reflect all players alltime greatest. though ranking games of different genre's is senseless, imho.
even if i never played it civilisation is one of the absolute classics you will find it along with elite, simcity (which i rank much higher then sims, get's boring after a while, classic sc i still play sometimes). what about zelda? railroad tycoon (i miss the dispatching in later clones)? racing games (countless, my favorite; sports car gt, needs wheel and pedals to be played well), sport sims in general, hard to find a unbeaten one. boulder dash, galaga? (all clones included and "deluxe" foremost, a womens favorite as i know, played by all my girlfriends, even if they didn't liked cumputer games overall, it must by that shiny glittering stuff, i don't know), "kaiser" (c64). a very personal selection sim-earth (i wonder who else plays this game). if you like to loose the battle allways, play global effect. donkey kong & mario (snes) spend many h'rs with my family in front of. one you might never heard of, vectron, advanced dungeons & dragons it's a predator. lemmings, a classic which i never liked to much. i don't like war kind strategy games, or simple beat'em ups, maybe tiny troops (remember?). settlers, a must, especially the original amiga version (two players on one machine). populous, to go on, sadly you needet two machines linked to play together (no web those days) pc crap.
no not especially pc, to play some games together on one machine without ai is allways "easier" then otherwise (remember old inty, often no ai only p vs p, because of lack of cpu power and media size, even in strategy games such as utopia), they didn't do it to sell the games double simply, imo.
i nearly forgot, ports of call, play the amiga version emulated, the pc release is crap (and it shows off the levels of those days). two sega classics sonic and shinobi, some might utter golden axe (not me).
best selled is not very improving, maybe most copied (pirated) over a long timespan or the percentual amount of, would give a better result.
even if i never played it civilisation is one of the absolute classics you will find it along with elite, simcity (which i rank much higher then sims, get's boring after a while, classic sc i still play sometimes). what about zelda? railroad tycoon (i miss the dispatching in later clones)? racing games (countless, my favorite; sports car gt, needs wheel and pedals to be played well), sport sims in general, hard to find a unbeaten one. boulder dash, galaga? (all clones included and "deluxe" foremost, a womens favorite as i know, played by all my girlfriends, even if they didn't liked cumputer games overall, it must by that shiny glittering stuff, i don't know), "kaiser" (c64). a very personal selection sim-earth (i wonder who else plays this game). if you like to loose the battle allways, play global effect. donkey kong & mario (snes) spend many h'rs with my family in front of. one you might never heard of, vectron, advanced dungeons & dragons it's a predator. lemmings, a classic which i never liked to much. i don't like war kind strategy games, or simple beat'em ups, maybe tiny troops (remember?). settlers, a must, especially the original amiga version (two players on one machine). populous, to go on, sadly you needet two machines linked to play together (no web those days) pc crap.
no not especially pc, to play some games together on one machine without ai is allways "easier" then otherwise (remember old inty, often no ai only p vs p, because of lack of cpu power and media size, even in strategy games such as utopia), they didn't do it to sell the games double simply, imo.
i nearly forgot, ports of call, play the amiga version emulated, the pc release is crap (and it shows off the levels of those days). two sega classics sonic and shinobi, some might utter golden axe (not me).
best selled is not very improving, maybe most copied (pirated) over a long timespan or the percentual amount of, would give a better result.
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Never heared of it. Do you have a link?
No, the game is long gone. Maybe I will post something about it here. Where have you played Jumpgate? On mightygames?
Perhaps I should explain:
When the contract with Mightygames, the European publisher of Jumpgate, expired and was not prolonged because Mightygames was about to be shut down by it's parent company, the US server became the "worldwide server".
They installed a new billing system some time ago which makes it easy to pay the subscription from outside the US; in Germany you don't need a credit card, an ordinary bank account is sufficient.
When the contract with Mightygames, the European publisher of Jumpgate, expired and was not prolonged because Mightygames was about to be shut down by it's parent company, the US server became the "worldwide server".
They installed a new billing system some time ago which makes it easy to pay the subscription from outside the US; in Germany you don't need a credit card, an ordinary bank account is sufficient.
I agree. It should have been #1
Elite will be making it into top 10 lists for as long as there's electronic-based entertainment.