Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lane Larson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Speaking of old games... Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:58:59 -0500 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <7B2cnV7H9IfsW7_7nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ttg1/4vXHyxP+W+GgGQAuQw1XvavRUJhh+g26/pCDCP0NDcUbG Cancel-Lock: sha1:FKrEci/4xwIneho70Z9Nk1OuyHQ= sha256:gPpmMmbGONTGpIK+dmwdBXOqjxwSdy1yVDfHmzxO33o= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2286 Justisaur wrote: > On 4/19/2024 12:30 PM, Ant wrote: >> ... Which ACTION PC games do you still own when you bought them back >> then? My parents still kept my Fire Hawk (Thexder 2) which I discovered >> in my toy box that they kept. I remember playing that game on my IBM >> PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC back then. :O > > Elite may be considered an action game, space combat after all.  I have > a copy of From Dusk 'till Dawn which was 2001, that might be my oldest I > still have.  I don't actually remember ever playing it though > > I wasn't really all that that big on action games, more RPGs, I'm not > really sure what my first action game was.  If I say one that I really > got into, it's probably Magic Carpet or Wing Commander III.  Populous > maybe, I'm not sure that counts either?  I played WCIII on a friend's > Computer first and only got it many years later.  I'm not sure when I > actually bought it.  I don't have any of those left of course.  I had > Doom of course at some point, probably years later than it came out too. >  I had an Atari ST after my C-64 that I played a of games on.  I might > count my intellivision before the C-64, All I remember liking was the > D&D game, tennis, and blackjack, though those aren't PC games. > That Intellivision AD&D game was good. That's why I think they will have something powerful in the VR version.