Oldschool >

See also:

• Oldschool emulation

• Oldschool music

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• Comedy > Comedy in games -- Has many oldschool game references.

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• 2005-12-27 -- I tried going through various games, but I'm just not into it anymore. I really miss Starcraft and all kinds of oldschool games. I need to get back into oldschool emulation one of these days, so I can play the old classics. What sucks is revisiting the things I used to love just doesn't really do it for me anymore. I even tried telnetting into an online version of NetHack, but.. there was no love left in me. Sigh.

Tags ∞

A general list can be found at /tag/oldschool-games

Think of the platform, operating system or device.

• Amiga > /tag/amiga-software+games
• Commodore 64 > /tag/commodore-64-software+games
• DOS > /tag/dos-software+games

• Game consoles > /tag/game-consoles+hardware >

  • Each one will have a tag for its games, e.g.
    -- PlayStation > /tag/playstation-1-games
    -- PlayStation 2 > /tag/playstation-2-games

Text-gaming ∞

Console text-based games.

/tag/text-games

• Telnet-games exist.

• NetHack and Angband were favourites of mine back in the day. Unfortunately Angband had a very serious flaw that I ran into, and gameplay became impossible at one point. I literally couldn't progress any further than I had! =(

  • When I went back to check out an online version of NetHack, it just wasn't the same. I didn't really tune in.

Text-input into games has been great fun, starting with Hero's Quest - (1989 game). Unfortunately it started and ended with that game, since future games in the franchise largely abandoned this as a primary way of interacting with the world. Quite unfortunate.

I never got into the very very oldschool text-only games. They just weren't any fun. No randomness.. well, no real gameplay.

I loved playing ncSnipes on the Novell network way back in the day. That was a blast.

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TODO -

• Text: Go over mudding -- links, reviews, blabla.. discuss Shadowwind, that light one.. (arg, forgot the name) -- and terms like Kevterm, JMC, Mudconnector Java, zMud...

• review mudding and the concept of a randomized world.. the concept of unlimited areas based around my theory of areas sharing the same 'real life space' but using different virtual numbers.

To do - Check notes ∞

1. Follow resources to get more links. See if some of these resources can be permanent references so I don't have to maintain big lists.
2. Follow up with dead links, see if the project moved. If not found, check archive.org for reference at least.
3. Test DOS-only items under DOSBox / DOSEMU / VMWare / etc / whatever.

4. Test Windows-only items under Wine / VMWare / etc / whatever.

Resources ∞

• https://www.gog.com/

  • Formerly "Good Old Gaming", and has classic games updated to work in the latest operating environments. DRM-Free!!

• https://web.archive.org/web/20210424012524/http://www.snesfun.com/

  • SNESFUN Play Retro Super Nintendo / SNES / Super Famicom games online in your web browser free
• http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
• http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/List_of_commercial_games_released_as_freeware
• https://slashdot.org/story/08/12/15/1933218/great-games-to-put-on-a-free-pc ^[ 1 ] was https://ask.slashdot.org/story/08/12/15/1933218/great-games-to-put-on-a-free-pc Slashdot thread: Great games to put on a free PC?
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140109102726/http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/
• http://www.reloaded.org/ Abandonia Reloaded
• https://www.mobygames.com/ Moby Games
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130515023345/http://retrograde.trustno1.org:80/ Retrograde Station
• https://www.atariage.com/ AtariAge
• http://www.defunctgames.com/ Defunct Games
• https://www.arcade-museum.com/ The International Arcade Museum - Antique Coin-Operated Machines

• https://www.arcade-museum.com/

  • The Killer List of Videogame - the authoritative database on coin-operated video-games

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140724165945/http://www.remakes.org:80/ Retro Remakes -- Remade games

  • http://www.remakes.org/website/index.php
• https://web.archive.org/*/www.ggdb.com/ The Great Game Database -- Arcade games.
• https://web.archive.org/*/www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/index.htm The Dot Eaters - Videogame History 101
• https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/more-lightweight-diversions/ more lightweight diversions - has some interesting references.
• homeoftheunderdogs.net
• https://web.archive.org/*/www.hotud.org/
• http://www.abandonwarering.com/
• https://aplaces.net/

https://www.arcade-museum.com/

** was http://www.klov.com -- The Killer List of Videogames

• http://pirates.emucamp.com/index2.html

• http://cadaver.homeftp.net/games.htm

To do after/later ∞

Begin with a quick review of each item.

Later, find proper resources (check with the oldschool databases) and, only if necessary, follow up with an in-depth review.

Contact the database guys and let them know my intentions. Ask for a link and some hype. Check their site for any reference stuff to use (classic/popular/high-rated freeware)

WORKING ∞

Linux Games ∞

As far as I'm aware, there are no actual classic games which were released on Linux.

Classic Linux Games - Text/Console ∞

• Nethack / Angband, and many many remakes/ports/hacks

• Telnet games are universal.. if I go there, then I should get into Telnet BBS' too.

Oldschool games ported to Linux ∞

• /tag/oldschool-games+linux-games

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• UFO: Enemy Unknown / UFO Defence (Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, PlayStation, Windows)

  • UFO2000 (only inspired by, not a clone)

• Sopwith (DOS - CGA)

  • http://sdl-sopwith.sourceforge.net/index.shtml SDL-sopwith
  • The source was released as GPL.

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• The Legend of Zelda (Famicom Disk System, NES, GBA, Virtual Console)

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20170718035234/http://zeldaclassic.armageddongames.net/ Zelda Classic

• http://www.icculus.org/jumpnbump/ Jump'n'Bump

  • This would need to be specially compiled for Linux. Shouldn't be hard.

• Ultima VII (DOS)

  • http://exult.sourceforge.net/

• Death Track got a Windows remake, but I didn't find anything for Linux. =(

DOS Games ∞

• /tag/dos-games

Games I liked:

• Forgotten Worlds

  • Included in Capcom Classics Collection

• Other Doom-like games were really good.

  • Heretic (video game)
  • some star wars one
  • some game where you had two guns.
  • .. should I focus on pre-Quake?
• Warlords (1990 video game)
• Warlords II

• Hyper Dyne Side Arms

Other games ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070301104057/http://andy.durdin.net:80/keen/modding/ -- Commander Keen has a bunch of cool mods.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140216101746/http://mysterial.linuxgangster.org:80/ -- Unreal Tournament has some cool mods.

• Streets of rage remake

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• There was a syndicate followup, with multiplay ability called Syn Wars - Syndicate is original EA (Electronic Arts)

• River City Ransom - NES Game

  • There are some River City Ransom hacks out there for NES emulators.
  • River City High - Comic
  • RCR MP3's
• Hook (pinball) was a great game!

• Dopefish

  • http://www.dopefish.com/fishinfo.html -- the dopefish has appeared in a bunch of games I like.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20170718035234/http://zeldaclassic.armageddongames.net/

Related ∞

• http://www.nintendorecords.com/ -- Speed records on the NES

• http://tasvideos.org/

  • was http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/ -- tool-assisted console gameplay movies
• http://tasvideos.org/ ^[ 2 ] was home.comcast.net/~arcthelad/ and then bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/ or thereabouts.

• http://allowe.com/

  • Al Lowe worked with the old Leisure Suit Larry and other games. None of which I've had the pleasure of playing. =(