OTHER 20+ Year Old Elf Simulators

[loramin]

I know everyone here is very focused one particular 20-year old elf sim, but I just wanted to remind everyone that the Internet Archive (ie. the people behind the Wayback Machine, which is used for so much classic research here), also have another project: making old DOS games available to play on the internet.

Just recently they added a ton of games to it, and they can all be played in your browser; see for yourself: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games.

Of course, they have classics like Bard's Tale, Wizardry, the old Sierra * Quest games (King's Quest, Space Quest, etc.) ... but they also have a ton of lesser-known, but still really awesome (if you can get past the UI/graphics) RPGs.

For instance, if anyone is looking to lose a few weeks to a classic they may never have heard of, check out:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Magic_Candle_The_1989

[Whirled]

This is awesome. Thank you so very much

[Tenlaar]

I was going to play some more green beta but now that I can play Sex Vixens From Space...

[Chortles Snort|eS]

DiS AnotheR WorLd mE beeN ViSIt sinCe 1995

https://www.openttd.org/

[aspomwell]

Wow, very cool! Thanks for pointing that out!

[stebbins99]

Oh man, thank you for mentioning Bard's Tale! I got that as part of a "10-pack " of games from Interplay as an impressionable youth in the early 90s. Tons of discs to load into the tower

[Skunkranger]

Curse of the Azure Bonds Yesssssss!!

[Baler]

If I have to only play a certain era of games. It would be the dos era of games.
I love dos games.

Thanks for sharing that amazing resource Loramin!

[Canelek]

This one was my favorite for the C64:

http://i.imgur.com/r5Oxe9w.jpg (https://imgur.com/r5Oxe9w)

You can play through your browser here:

https://classicreload.com/legacy-of-the-ancients.html

[GinnasP99]

This is what I played before everquest
http://www.realmsofdespair.com/

25 year old fantasy text MUD

[Mblake81]

DOS games

Ah, before Microsoft got into the home console market. :o

https://i.imgur.com/WtheoWb.jpg

[Baler]

Killing nazis was a big part of my childhood

https://i.imgur.com/hY9xxjl.png

[AenorVZ]

https://i.imgur.com/yHaMZKn.jpg

[Chortles Snort|eS]

me dabbleD in deeZ big siP claSsiX ovA dA yRS 2

Red Alert
https://cncnet.org/

Doom
https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/GZDoom

[stebbins99]

Darklands was one hell of a game! Pretty sure my copy came on the huge 5 1/2 floppy disks. Almost felt ahead of its time

[Baler]

https://meridian59.com/

https://i.imgur.com/5AStmmb.jpg

[AgentEpilot]

I beat oregon trail deluxe without anyone dying. Beth was about to be put down though, bitch got bitten by 3 snakes, caught a fever twice, dynsentary, and broke her arm about four times. Despite her best efforts I coasted to oregon with her still wasting oxygen!

[bigjeff100]

If I have to only play a certain era of games. It would be the dos era of games.
I love dos games.

Thanks for sharing that amazing resource Loramin!

Commander Keen is a dos game, yeah? Grew up with that game, and some scuba diving educational game i can't remember the name of..

[pink grapefruit]

when i was a kid my dad was like "oh u like video games huh? ;)" and made me play this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F4_kzb_vzg

[Mblake81]

which game is this?

Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant.

[Aescher]

This summer I built up Baldur's Gate Trilogy from my old disks after I read the Green anoucement. Old black stone UI with the liquid gold progress bars and all.

[Baler]

Commander Keen is a dos game, yeah? Grew up with that game, and some scuba diving educational game i can't remember the name of..

Operation Neptune maybe?

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Talking about educational games one a few people may remember is Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain. Where you catch gnomes.

[uygi]

Dude... I opened that... and played wold3d... and when I got into the hallway with the secret door for the small machine gun, I immediately knew exactly where I was and how to open it. It's been like 25 years since I played it. Damn... some things just never go away.

[Jimjam]

Its not computer, but tabletop. Mordheim was released in 1999. Nothing more fun than gathering a party of greedy mercenaries to scour through a haunted city destroyed by an evil meteor for arcane artefacts!

Oh, the one thing more fun than that is to smash down any other warbands foolish enough to also be searching the ruins for shards of magical spacerock.

[loramin]

Its not computer, but tabletop. Mordheim was released in 1999. Nothing more fun than gathering a party of greedy mercenaries to scour through a haunted city destroyed by an evil meteor for arcane artefacts!

Oh, the one thing more fun than that is to smash down any other warbands foolish enough to also be searching the ruins for shards of magical spacerock.

I approve of this attempt to derail my thread about 20+ year old computer games with a post about a 20+ year old miniature game :)

https://i.imgur.com/vkMfQug.gif

[Mblake81]

Daggerfall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-60aIfXG39A)
https://i.imgur.com/vTEZn5W.gif

Ultima 8: Pagan
https://i.imgur.com/PvS5JmJ.jpg

Ultima: The Black Gate
https://i.imgur.com/Z1Ya6pj.jpg

Betrayal at Krondor
https://i.imgur.com/7wtSgXF.jpg

Ultima Underworld
https://i.imgur.com/rN59r3j.png

Eye of the Beholder
https://i.imgur.com/yg3KmiI.gif

Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen
https://i.imgur.com/4REASzM.png

Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager
https://i.imgur.com/4lqP50b.jpg

Anvil of Dawn
https://i.imgur.com/oYq97Q3.gif

[loramin]

Anvil of Dawn
https://i.imgur.com/oYq97Q3.gif

I love how the sword swings to the right and down, but the blood spurts off in another direction, from another point on the body :D Gotta <3 these old games

EDIT: The more I stare at it the more I realize it's actually kind of, sort of close to being right. It's almost like an uncanny valley thing, where being "kind of close" makes it look more wrong.

[Mblake81]

EDIT: The more I stare at it the more I realize it's actually kind of, sort of close to being right. It's almost like an uncanny valley thing, where being "kind of close" makes it look more wrong.

Yea, I was more focused on his flesh being consumed by arcane fire then watching the skeleton disintegrate.

[Baler]

Ultima: The Black Gate
https://i.imgur.com/Z1Ya6pj.jpg


Ultima 7 is my favorite game of all time.

I still play ultima online :)

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ps. Anvil of Dawn is critically under-rated

[metatron]

anyone happen to remember an aol neverwinter nights? or a sierra inn shadow of yserbius?

[Mblake81]

stone/artwork UI & viewport. Original EQ.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos
https://i.imgur.com/XIk4bWb.jpg

Black Crypt
https://i.imgur.com/mnlIKIT.png

Shadowcaster
https://i.imgur.com/RreGfQi.png

Ambermoon
https://i.imgur.com/aX2wMAu.jpg

Realms of Arkania 1&2
https://i.imgur.com/ONA0WMk.jpg

Ravenloft: Stone Prophet
https://i.imgur.com/FhtWtpI.jpg

[sacman08]

Old School Runescape is still going strong and is even mobile now.

[Mblake81]

Old School Runescape is still going strong and is even mobile now.

https://i.imgur.com/NzR5m3j.gif