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Which Classic Games Have Aged Well?
thesp writes "We're all waiting for the releases of the next great games (naming no names) which have been mentioned over and over again here on Slashdot. No doubt they will look gorgeous and even be playable on not-too-unreasonable hardware. But there are some games that have an inherent capability to expand to take advantage of higher resolutions and improved rendering as the technology progressed. Would Slashdot like to suggest other titles that, although consigned to multipacks and bargain bins, have aged well and are even more beautiful in their old age, on modern systems, than they ever could be at the time of their release?" This may be subtly different to titles with "Olympian system requirements" at time of release, a category that definitely includes Ultima IX.
Three game series' that were great back in their hey day were the Sonic the Hedgehog Series (sega / dreamcast. saturn kind of sucked), Mario (nes / snes / 64 / gc. all good ), and can't forget about Donkey Kong Country.
Whatever happened to Rare, makers of DKC? I think it'd be awesome if someone came out with a really good remake of some of these classic games. Maybe I'm wrong and the classic days of 2-D games is gone forever, but I hate to see these classic characters die off.
I'd love to see these guys reincarnated on the XBOX or GC or PS3. Anyone else agree? I mean, if they were able to remake Asteroids into something halfway decent, I'm sure they could do something cool with interesting characters like these.
Oh yah, another really old school game that'd probably be cool redone is Contra.
My favorite game is still Tempest. There are some others that have come close like Test Drive: Le Mans on the Dreamcast.
Solitaire. Minesweeper. Tetris.
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Say what you will, I've played this game off and on for ten years and it's still lots of fun.
What I've found interesting about the game is that it doesn't have a retro feel, or make me long for the "good ol' days"; because all the levels are randomly generated it's always fresh and new as if playing for the first time.
Both excellent space shooters with ace intro sequences, great graphics and HUGE ships.
Still awesome.
Thank God for emulators!
Ms. PacMan, Dig Dug, Galaga, Q*Bert, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Centipede.
A lot of the old Coin-ops were bad, and the sequels of good ones (Super Pacman, Dig Dug 2, etc) were pretty bad too. But a few of them never get old. I can't help but play a classic when I find one at a bar or restaraunt. As long as it's not a hacked version, or someone decided to set the DIP switches to things I don't care for...
Let's not forget Tetris. Puzzle games never get old.
Time pilot has to be one of the best shooters out there. Easy to learn, strangely addictive, with great control. It's MAME's killer app baby!!!
I always wished that someone would do a 3D-accelerated re-make of Betrayal at Krondor, a really nice but unappreciated RPG game that Sierra put out in 1993. It's got some primitive 320x200 software rendered 3d graphics, which could look a lot nicer on modern hardware.
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A great game regardless. It's based on the writings of Raymond Feist, who was highly involved in the game design, so it's a got a very rich game world and storyline. Aside from the main story you can just travel around and explore, lots of non-essential side quests and fun things to do. And it was released for free by Sierra awhile ago, so you don't have to feel guilty about downloading it
the first system shock is heads and shoulders above the second, esp. with the voice logs (excellent voice acting). I've tried system shock 2 a few times but every single time I gave up bored a few levels in, nowhere near as immersive (or creepy) as the first.
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Total Annihilation is another game that aged really well, I'd like to try SMAC but nobody seems to sell the Linux version anymore and the win32 one seems out of print as well
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For my money, there's no more intense game out there to this day than Robotron. And, I have real joysticks for my PSX so I can play Robotron for real! (Thumbpads do not cut it.)
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Quake 3 is not only as fun today as it was when it first came of, it also looks *gorgeous* and runs smoothly on almost any system you might come across today. Can't say that about most classics...
Deus Ex's system requirements were unreasonable when the game came out, but the GOTY edition on just about any modern hardware runs great - same with Morrowind, that game on highest settings can still tax a pretty strong computer.
Serious Sam and Serious Sam II don't seem to have aged at all, and run spectacularly well on modern hardware.
He decided to just watch the government, and kind of scale it down to size, and run his life that way. --Laurie Anderson
Several LucasArts adventures have aged very well: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 1, 2 and 3 (I don't mention Grim Fandango because it is too recent to say it has "aged" - but it is a brilliant game). Of course, the reason they have aged well is that nowadays the rare adventures that get produced generally suck.
Star Control 2. If you've played it, you know, if not, the open source re-make is making good progress. A shame that #3 was so bad.
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I am VERY surprised that Blizzard isnt doing a Starcraft 2 on the Warcraft III engine...
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