Re: Speaking of old games...

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:30:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (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

It, of course, depends on how you define "still own".

If you accept the fact that I imaged all my floppy disks to hard-drive
(well, technically first to ZIP drive, then to CD-ROM, then to DVD,
and finally to hard-drive), then I still own /all/ the DOS-era games I
purchased back then. I even have the manuals! I just don't have the
original media or boxes for most of them. I honestly don't remember
which was my first PC game: "Nuclear War", maybe? "Vette"?
Technically, it would probably be "Gorilla.bas", since it came
pre-installed with DOS. None of which I still own the floppy-disks for
;-)

But if you're a bit pickier and insist that the games must be
floppy-disk, then the number drops dramatically. I think "Wing
Commander" would be the oldest PC action game I still own on original
media ("Ultima VI" is older, but it's a CRPG so not eligible in this
contest. It's one of the few games I still own 'complete in box',
though). A few others include "Terminator 2029", "Zone 66" and the
older "Battletech" games (although, while the Battletech games were
/released/ prior to "Wing Commander", the disks themselves are a
compilation set dating back to 1993 and that's when I bought them).

My games on CD-ROM are far more numerous. I can't remember which was
the first game I purchased on CD-ROM, but "Kings Quest V" was probably
one of the first.

Of course, over the years I've since acquired many of the DOS-era
games that I missed the first time around. Some of those even predate
the 90s! But - again - I don't think they count because I didn't add
them to the library until decades after their release.

I think I still have my original Zork disks and a copy of "H.E.R.O"
for the Apple II lying around somewhere, though. But you specified PC
games so we're not counting those either.