What was your favorite game that is no longer made?

[Javaman]

Mine was Elite Frontier. I loved that game.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

1. Elite!!!!!

:bounce:

Man, I LOVED Elite!

And Frontier was amazing! The first game I bought when I got my new (showing my age) Amiga 1200.

Played Freelancer a few years ago. Not bad, very Elite-esque, but not the greatest game.

[Javaman]

2. I still look up info on it...

apparently the original designers of the game had a falling out. One wants to remake the game and the other is a complete boob and won't give up the rights to it. So it stays in "one of the greatest games of all time" limbo. :(

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

42. Being an Amiga Owner..

Is simply indicative of your essential good taste, sense of style and fundimental k3w3ln3sS. d00d. ;-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Sam 'n' Max Hit the Road, Starcraft/Broodwar, Duke Nuke'em

[Hatalles]

4. Yeah... I miss a lot of the classic LucasArts Adventure games.

Sam and Max... (BTW, there's an episodic sequel being released by a new developer... LA has no involvement)... Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis... the list goes on.

[YOY]

5. Notice a trend with all of those

NOTHING TO DO WITH STAR WARS but still extremely popular with many gamers.

Unfortunately LA knows an easy buck...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

39. Wow, I just played "Tentacle" for the first time (ScummVM emulator), as

well as playing Maniac Mansion for the first time, and replaying Sam 'n' Max.

What a great game Day of the Tentacle is!

[Atmashine]

6. Master of Magic

I miss you.

And TIE Fighter.

[YOY]

7. We all miss MoM!

Done so well for what it was worth!

[Sin]

8. Descent Free Space

Great space fighting sim with awesome sci fi story line in it. They only made 2:( and they left the second one open ended just like first even more so I think. then i think the company sold it off or just didn't make any more and to this day I still wonder what would happen in the 3rd

If you haven't played and have a flight stick laying about give them a whirl there really good.then you will be in the same boat as me unfortunately :(

[Atmashine]

10. That game's neat.

Been looking for it forever. Suppose I'll just have to ebay or amazon it.

[Sin]

12. Yea there quite good

The Story line is like a mixture of Wing commander The short lived Series "Space Above and beyond"
and id even say stargate thoe the games out date the Series.Your going to love the capital ship battles in 2 they are just plain crazy nothing like seeing flack burst all around you impacting off your shields as you divert power from the rear ones Then Suddenly the wing man to the right of you gets hit by a ion beam head on and whats left of his hull breaks through shields and cripples your ship. Ahhh now I feel like installing it again :)

[Guy Fawkes]

15. There were three Descent games.

For a while, you could buy all three in a pack, too.
www.descent-freespace.com
and, for DIII: www.descent-3.com

[Occulus]

9. I haven't heard of another Mechwarrior game yet

I really liked those.

I don't really have a 'favorite' game, though... though I suppose maybe when Bethesda stops making Elder Scrolls games I'll have cause for some serious complaints.

I loved the Myst series, I think it has lots of life left, but they've ended the line. I have all six of those...

speaking of which, why is "End of Ages" titled as "Myst V"? It's the sixth game.

Heh.

Dungeon Keeper. I want another one of those, using the Source engine.

There are just so many. Not to derail, but this is one of the reasons I'm so against copyright law as it pertains to abandonware; there are many games out now that can be modded to hell and back and completely alter the look and feel of the game to the point that it's a completely different game. Gamers could bring updates to the favorite old games, and likely would do so but for copyright.

Anyhow.

[ContraBass Black]

19. Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries is doing well.

Head over to http://mektek.net and have a look.

[NewHampshireDem]

11. Thief

I don't understand how Looking Glass Studios bought the farm. Thief was terrific and helped redefine the FPS genre.

It is also a crime that there has never been a System Shock 3. :sniff:

[Atmashine]

13. Yay, Thief!

That game's awesome too. The second game is as fun as the first (less zombies too) and awesome plot. I haven't finished the third one yet. Looking Glass didn't deserve its fate..

[Systematic Chaos]

14. Might and Magic (before 3DO ruined the franchise)

And the great classic Ultima games.
Oh, and Wizardry!!

Just give me more classic, old-school RPG's. :)

[SlavesandBulldozers]

21. the original Might and Magic was fantastic. one of my first games.

on the apple IIe. 1985.

21 years. sniffle sniffle.

[RoyGBiv]

41. Absolutely ...

I played the original, then hacked the original, then wrote an detailed document instructing others how to do so. It was a well-distributed document for the time, but I haven't been able to find it lately. Anyway, by "hacked" I don't mean "cracked." I mean, literally, "hacked." The game was configurable in a sense. You just had to understand the player save files and how they stored information. It had a lot of easter eggs in it as I recall, things that either weren't easy to find or things that you wouldn't notice unless you were specifically looking for them.

One of the greatest things about the game, I thought, was the mapping and how that fit into solving some of the quests. The original box gave you grid-based mapping paper, and the instructions told you that mapping was a good idea. Turned out that to solve the final puzzle, you either had to map or guess well because the "password" was spelled out if you did the map.

I loved that game, on so many levels.

I played one of the "Heroes" versions recently, and it just wasn't the same.

[DrGonzoLives]

16. Fallout

Fallout is one of those games that would be absolutely perfect as a MMORPG.

[lovelaureng]

18. I had some fun with Fallout as well.

The skills that you got didn't make too much of a difference in the game I noticed.

[Ioo]

17. RAMPART (SNES)

I loved that game!!!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

22. one of the great SNES games. probably the best. good call.

great game.

[Kellanved]

20. a few

I loved Terra Nova,
the Lucasfilm adventures,
Tie Fighter (Alliance was OK, but it aged worse),
Master of Orion 1 and 2 (3 doesn't count),


ahhh, memories

[SlavesandBulldozers]

23. Ancient Art of War at Sea (mac). absolute favorite.

2400 A.D
Might and Magic.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. I LOVED the LAND version of that game. What a great early game.

Formations. High ground terrain advantage. Supply lines. Good times!

I seem to recall that if you were winning a campaign, it gave you the option to accept the opponent's surrender or "crush him". I never seemed to be able to resist the temptation to "crush".

[SlavesandBulldozers]

26. ahaha. "crush him". always a great game option.

[DrGonzoLives]

25. Add another two

Dragon Warrior III for NES
Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Probably my two favorite adventure/RPG games, especially the first of the two.

[NuttyFluffers]

27. not made as in the series is dead? or just a really old game?

i'll assume as in dead series.

Gemfire
Aerobiz
Uncharted Waters
Warsong/Langrisser
NiGHTS
Space Channel 5
Jet Set Radio
Mappy

i'd personally run a bulldozer over 50% of the games out there now if i could get a good sequel to any of those games.

[sam sarrha]

28. Crimson Skies... they promised a High Road to Revenge Movie and it

didn't happen..they punked out and made a child's game for X-Box
and sold all their PC games and hardware off

i played in the Combat Zone Leagues for 5 years till the CHEATING Hacker socially challenged Foul Mouthed adolescent Freeper Assholes ran off the serious players and the Zone dropped it.

my thanks to SAF_Pterapod.. a great leader, pilot and wonderful person.. for years of enjoyment and friendship

[Mojambo]

29. High Heat Baseball. n/t

[benEzra]

30. Space Taxi for the Commodore 64...

though that really dates me... :)

[lazarus]

31. Total Annihilation

Gods how I love that game. I need to go looking for it again.

I still don't know how Cavedog folded, they had a great game going, then decided to just drop it and go to a different game. Stupid.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

34. Psst...

Check out Supreme Commander

The navigation is a little wonky on that site, and you need the Flash player installed.

It's made by Chris Taylor (creator of TA), and from what I've seen, it IS Total Annihilation 2.
Someone else still holds the "Total Annihilation" name, but Supreme Commander looks fantastic.

[architect359]

45. Holy moly!

Thanks for the heads up on that. TA was one of my favourite games that I load once in a while and play. It's good to see that this is out there. And you're right, it IS Total Annihilation 2! Awesome!

[cleofus1]

32. i miss

alien carnage (i still had the disk) but it will only play in DOS...

[Greyhound]

33. Deus Ex original was great, IMO. Sequel sucked hard. n/t

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

35. Interstate '76!

Man, that game was awesome.

Muscle cars.
Guns.
Funk.

What else could you ask for? :shrug:

[malmapus]

36. Space Quest series

I miss good ole Roger Wilco sometimes lol

[CabalPowered]

37. I just started playing Starflight again. 1987 space conquest game. anyone?

[Mojambo]

40. Oh man, I remember playing Starflight

In middle school, my friend and I used to stay up all night playing that sucker.

[CabalPowered]

43. Ya I did the same!!

:thumbsup:

[jayfish]

38. Single Player "Phantasy Star" And The "Elite" Series.

Jay

[NuttyFluffers]

44. new single player Phantasy Star in Phantasy Star Universe

can play by yourself offline. can choose to play online to find more background details of the story. available for Xbox, PS2, and PC. i wanna play now, but i can't. too much school right now and no money for getting a system to play it.