My 3 Pc Time Capsule
<div class="IPBDescription">Lost gaming Treasures of the past found</div> Well I found my old PCs (450mghtz IBM Aptiva) a 386 anda 486 today and I turned them on to see what was on there and oh my.
What a treasure trove lol.
A Gaming time capsule. I havnt used them in a very long time. The more I looked the farther back in time I went. Waay waaay back.
i started with my old IBM Aptiva 450, my first "modern" PC.
I had my "awsome" Voodoo 3 PCI gfx card in there so i could get the better anti aliasing effects off of XWing vs TIE fighter.
I still had files on there from old classics like MDK and C&C Tiberian Dawn and C&C Red Alert.
I had Napster on there lol!
I also found update patches for the earliest versions of CS and DoD from way way way back lol. The famous "The Killing Grounds DOD map packs 1 and 2 and the first version of Sven Coop.
I had stuff from Half Life: UpLink The Offical HL demo mission and the first Delta Force game too from before they were released.
I had saved screen shots of the very first Max Payne betas, expired internet links to Sierras new ground breaking RTS game Homeworld and the Team Fortress 2 sites.
I also found countless MS paint doodles, Old school reports from before I was even in High school, that were transfered there from even older PCs Ive had.
The very best though is i found more stuff from my really really really old 386 and 486 PCs
I had an MSDOS copy of one of the very first Duke Nukem games. Im talking about the side scroller one not the First person shooter ones.
All 9 episodes of the origional castle wolfenstein, StarControl 2, Hoverforce, testdrive 3, and other games from that old school gaming company called Accolaid.
Dominos pizzas "avoid the noid", Midnight mystery Mansion, reader rabbit etc and countless other past greats like F16 Fighting falcon and Battle over Brititan and M1 Abrams Tank sim. You know the games were the manual is actualy a small book.
I found some of the gaming manuals. yea they are books. The tank sim came with like the operations manual for the real thing lol and tank ID cards given out to real soldiers. the Battle over Britian came with a book on WW2 planes and the F16 game had a huge manual on then modern day F16 armments how to land a real F16 etc.
wow todays game manuals are like a small brouchure add comapired to these things.
wow. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Its like looking back at some of my earlier gaming moments. going way back to the late 80s early 90s ooh what a proud history. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
What a treasure trove lol.
A Gaming time capsule. I havnt used them in a very long time. The more I looked the farther back in time I went. Waay waaay back.
i started with my old IBM Aptiva 450, my first "modern" PC.
I had my "awsome" Voodoo 3 PCI gfx card in there so i could get the better anti aliasing effects off of XWing vs TIE fighter.
I still had files on there from old classics like MDK and C&C Tiberian Dawn and C&C Red Alert.
I had Napster on there lol!
I also found update patches for the earliest versions of CS and DoD from way way way back lol. The famous "The Killing Grounds DOD map packs 1 and 2 and the first version of Sven Coop.
I had stuff from Half Life: UpLink The Offical HL demo mission and the first Delta Force game too from before they were released.
I had saved screen shots of the very first Max Payne betas, expired internet links to Sierras new ground breaking RTS game Homeworld and the Team Fortress 2 sites.
I also found countless MS paint doodles, Old school reports from before I was even in High school, that were transfered there from even older PCs Ive had.
The very best though is i found more stuff from my really really really old 386 and 486 PCs
I had an MSDOS copy of one of the very first Duke Nukem games. Im talking about the side scroller one not the First person shooter ones.
All 9 episodes of the origional castle wolfenstein, StarControl 2, Hoverforce, testdrive 3, and other games from that old school gaming company called Accolaid.
Dominos pizzas "avoid the noid", Midnight mystery Mansion, reader rabbit etc and countless other past greats like F16 Fighting falcon and Battle over Brititan and M1 Abrams Tank sim. You know the games were the manual is actualy a small book.
I found some of the gaming manuals. yea they are books. The tank sim came with like the operations manual for the real thing lol and tank ID cards given out to real soldiers. the Battle over Britian came with a book on WW2 planes and the F16 game had a huge manual on then modern day F16 armments how to land a real F16 etc.
wow todays game manuals are like a small brouchure add comapired to these things.
wow. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Its like looking back at some of my earlier gaming moments. going way back to the late 80s early 90s ooh what a proud history. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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how times have changed <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Too bad it's all about money nowadays.. *looks at avatar*
thank god for mods.
oww duke.. erm.. wasn't there a crack in the "wrong" boxes? or maybe the trick was to shoot it from a distance..? yeah, shoot it from a distance.
to avoid getting hit by the tnt explosion. or fireworks. something red.
The little ? boxes were a darker shade of grey if I remember correctly.
lol rmember if you shot the turkey leg with your laser gun it would expand to a full turkey and give u more health? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
lol I remember all this stuff.
Duke nukem was all kid friendly and funny back then I remmeber him saying in a conversation with the games endboss that he would beat him and get back home in time to watch Oprah. (<=== TV talk show for u out of US people)
Now duke nukem is all vulgar and profane with lots of sexual comments.
not saying its good or bad or anything.
the last duke nukem game is 8 years old, I wouldn't call that 'now' <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*edit* oh wait, there were Duke console games. I think. right? (I've never played those)
The little ? boxes were a darker shade of grey if I remember correctly. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's distressingly simple, really.
The little ? boxes were a darker shade of grey if I remember correctly. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's distressingly simple, really. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You should have gone to Specsavers.
And I remember Star Control 2 was pretty good also. It was just so damn complicated and HUGE that when you figured out what to do, Ur-Quans smashed you to bits.
And what would the world be without Wolfenstein 3D?! ACHTUNG!
Ya... Those were the golden days *wipes away a tear*
Old is when you find your Alone in the Dark directory there.
Duke Nukem qualifies <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
SPEEDBALL 1 AND 2
I remember M1 Tank Platoon!
Old is when you find your Alone in the Dark directory there.
Duke Nukem qualifies <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
heh dont forget starcontrol, testdrive, wolfenstein, hoverforce etc... I found those too and the others i mentioned.
<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> I just found some other ones too im still going through stuff. i just found this touch screen phone computer hybrid from the mid 90s lol
WOW that game ROCKs
I had my "awsome" Voodoo 3 PCI gfx card in there so i could get the better anti aliasing effects off of XWing vs TIE fighter. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow.........that makes me feel really nostalgic.....I played CS on a Voodoo 3 until the summer before NS came out. That thing is still in my sister's comp.
But going back to old games for me would be either playing nibbles on an Apple 2 again, or playing Face Maker on a TI 99/4.
It was top of the line with it's CD-Rom drive...so pffft <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
Couldn't play Sim City 2000 with a boot disk. It had classics like Colonization, Sim City, Sim Ant, Oregon Trail - <i>with color!</i> - and that weird word processor that was blue screen and you had to have all your F1-F12 keys memorized to exit, print, make a new doc and stuff. [then in 1997 I found like the first version of Microsoft Word on it...that would have been nice sooner...]
Hooray Windows 3.1 and DOS...oh yea, no graphics card - if it weren't missing the power cable I could hook it up and find out the specs.
Then there's the older machine, it ran lemmings, mario brothers and some game with chickens, eggs and a road...all on floppies.
Only DOS on that beast.
[edit] My brain is working faster than my fingers...[edit]
lol thats the game everyone played in the school computer labs.
I found lemmings to on my 486.
Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle and Prince of Persia, aaaaah, nostalgia!
Also I believe in the side-scroller version he was called Duke Nukum, with a u.
My knowledge pwns you.
I went home last week and dug out old games. I mean OLD games. The newest thing I found was an old 286 with a bunch of games on the big floppies. Yeah, the 5 1/4 ones that hold 1.2 megs. I played Hugo's House of Horror (great game!), Word Munchers, Oregon Trail, Commander Keen, and Ninja!!!.
I also found my Commodore64. That thing was what got me into gaming. I was playing Frogger on it before I could walk. Lots of classic games on that.
I unearthed an Atari2600 as well. Played old sk00l Pong on it =D
The last thing I found was a Vic-20. Yup, a Vic-20. Now thats ancient.
God, I feel like an old fogey now.
tank vs tank, flying with airplanes, tennis, midgetgolf.. good times
.. digdug? I remember playing digdug...
It's been a while though, so my memory might decieve me <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*edit* nooo, I had the newer atari 7800. pwned <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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btw, first pc: 8086 XT (I think), 640 kb ram, 20MB hd, hercules graphics on a glorious black and amber phosphor monitor.
The green ones were easier on the eyes though..
I wanted a green one <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> lol
Commander Keen! Oh I remember that game along with Wolf 3D and Qbasic Gorrillas.
Anyone else remember Sopwith? Where you flew a green, pixelated biplane and strafed and bombed the red airbases, factories and tanks, whilst attempting to defend your own base? And if you completed it, you flew off into the sunset?
Or how about Team Yankee, where you lead an armoured platoon against a Soviet invasion?
*Starts feeling old at almost 19. Its not helped by the feeling that from now on each birthday marks off another year of my life with little to gain.*
LOL J/K. Man, I can't wait for HL2.
You oughta see the "Case" for my Falcon 4.0. Its a friggin BINDER.
My knowledge pwns you.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-3D Realms+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (3D Realms)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->There is frequently a great deal of confusion over the correct spelling of one of Apogee's most prized characters, Duke Nukem. The original spelling for the name was "Duke Nukem"; however, during the code fix stage between v1.0 and v2.0 of the original game, Apogee found a character overseas named "Duke Nukem" that was thought to be copyrighted. So, for v2.0 of the original Duke game, the name was changed to "Duke Nukum." Then, during the programming of the next Duke Nukem game (Duke Nukem II), it was discovered that the character they found overseas was not copyrighted after all -- and so the original name was reinstated. "Duke Nukem" is also the spelling used in all successive games that featured the character.
The spellings "Duke Nuke 'em," "Duke Nuke'um," "Duke Nuke'm," "Duke Nuk'em" or other variations are not, and were never, correct. The correct spelling of the game is "Duke Nukem"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Your knowledge = pwnt
~ DarkATi
Never played Commander Keen :\
Oh yeah, Might & Magic and Myst. Sonic 2 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
[EDIT] P.S. Post 300, skankoids [/EDIT]
Including:
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Wing Commander
Syndicate
X-Wing VS TIE fighter
Civilization
Railroad Tycoon
Sim City
Sim City 2000
Command & Conquer
DOOM
Wolfenstein 3D
Lemmings
Master of Orion
X-Com
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Those are the most notable....