What old games would you like to see "reinvented"?

[Zulu Romeo]

Personal choice would be a remake of Elite.. that game had a very simple technology compared to today but i've wasted weeks and months on it and manually docking in a rotating space station still took skill (which is why the autopilot was the first thing to be bought when i could afford it).

I think everyone bought a docking computer to help them land in Elite once they were able to. My favourite Elite experience was in Frontier: Elite II with the bigger scope, landing on planets, lots of different stations, being able to fly almost anywhere and attempt slingshot manoeuvres, and of course the notorious Newtonian flight model. Doing nuke missions was fun, though.

I think the best current Elite clones would be a choice between Freelancer (a relatively old game now, but still popular) or the latest iteration of the X Universe games, currently X3: Terran Conflict (which puts a somewhat different spin on Elite but is still updated to this day). Of course, a proper update to Frontier is what I ultimately want.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Personal choice would be a remake of Elite.. that game had a very simple technology compared to today but i've wasted weeks and months on it and manually docking in a rotating space station still took skill (which is why the autopilot was the first thing to be bought when i could afford it).

I think everyone bought a docking computer to help them land in Elite once they were able to. My favourite Elite experience was in Frontier: Elite II with the bigger scope, landing on planets, lots of different stations, being able to fly almost anywhere and attempt slingshot manoeuvres, and of course the notorious Newtonian flight model. Doing nuke missions was fun, though.

I think the best current Elite clones would be a choice between Freelancer (a relatively old game now, but still popular) or the latest iteration of the X Universe games, currently X3: Terran Conflict (which puts a somewhat different spin on Elite such as not being able to land on planets and having sectors in a grid system, but all the basics are still there, and is my personal favourite). Of course, a proper update to Frontier is what I ultimately want.

I quite liked Freelancer even if it wasn't quite as open-ended as I'd have preferred.

I wish the Battlecruiser series had ever lived up to their promise and potential. They could've been the best open-ended space sims ever but they were constantly hampered by using last-generation technology and being horrifically bugridden. They also forgot to insert the "fun."

 

[Zulu Romeo]

You must have been rich to have run that game, i would look at that and Wing commander 3/4 and sob at the PC requirement....seeing as at the time i only had a meagre 386SX.

I had a 486DX-33 - Strike Commander only just managed to run on a custom boot disk, but was slow all over. I think its recomended processor requirement was a 486DX-50. With some tweaking of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS I could get X-Wing running easily - the first A-Wing training mission always slowed my computer down, though.

It struggled to run TFX and all 8 of its floppy disks, however.

I remember editing those files with edlin and praying to a couple dozen gods every time that I didn't fuck it up bad enough that I'd have to reinstall DOS.

Yeah, back then MS-DOS Editor and EMM386.EXE were my best friends. I think we should return to the old days and give PC gaming back to those who could tell their expanded memory from their extended memory.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I had a 486DX-33 - Strike Commander only just managed to run on a custom boot disk, but was slow all over. I think its recomended processor requirement was a 486DX-50. With some tweaking of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS I could get X-Wing running easily - the first A-Wing training mission always slowed my computer down, though.

It struggled to run TFX and all 8 of its floppy disks, however.

I remember editing those files with edlin and praying to a couple dozen gods every time that I didn't fuck it up bad enough that I'd have to reinstall DOS.

Yeah, back then MS-DOS Editor and EMM386.EXE were my best friends. I think we should return to the old days and give PC gaming back to those who could tell their expanded memory from their extended memory.

DOS=UMB for the win!

MS-DOS Edit is still included with Windows (at least as of XP). Brings back memories.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I remember editing those files with edlin and praying to a couple dozen gods every time that I didn't fuck it up bad enough that I'd have to reinstall DOS.

Yeah, back then MS-DOS Editor and EMM386.EXE were my best friends. I think we should return to the old days and give PC gaming back to those who could tell their expanded memory from their extended memory.

DOS=UMB for the win!

I was more of a DOS=HIGH,UMB person myself.

MS-DOS Edit is still included with Windows (at least as of XP). Brings back memories.

Ah, those were the days, of HIMEM.SYS, IRQs, DMAs, and when WIN.COM launched Windows 3.1 and not a website.

 

[Lonemagpie]

X Wing (and TIE Fighter) - not least cos the consoles need an arcade flight sim

Ocarina Of Time

 

[SPCTRE]

Ah, those were the days, of HIMEM.SYS, IRQs, DMAs, and when WIN.COM launched Windows 3.1 and not a website.

I hate you guys, you're making me miss MS-DOS Win98 at least you could reboot in MS-DOS mode. *sigh*

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Ah, those were the days, of HIMEM.SYS, IRQs, DMAs, and when WIN.COM launched Windows 3.1 and not a website.

I hate you guys, you're making me miss MS-DOS Win98 at least you could reboot in MS-DOS mode. *sigh*

Back in the day, we used to refer to Windows as "Program Manager."

By the way, did anyone use DOSSHELL?

 

[SPCTRE]

^ I used Norton Commander - nothing that fancy

 

[Owain Taggart]

Ah, those were the days, of HIMEM.SYS, IRQs, DMAs, and when WIN.COM launched Windows 3.1 and not a website.

I hate you guys, you're making me miss MS-DOS Win98 at least you could reboot in MS-DOS mode. *sigh*

There's always Dosbox

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Ah, those were the days, of HIMEM.SYS, IRQs, DMAs, and when WIN.COM launched Windows 3.1 and not a website.

I hate you guys, you're making me miss MS-DOS Win98 at least you could reboot in MS-DOS mode. *sigh*

Back in the day, we used to refer to Windows as "Program Manager."

By the way, did anyone use DOSSHELL?

*raises hand* I referred to it affectionately as "DOS' Hell."

 

[Owain Taggart]

I used to use something called Q-Dos, short for Quick Dos. It was installed on my Dad's Acer Lunchbox, one of the laptop precursors.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I used to use something called Q-Dos, short for Quick Dos. It was installed on my Dad's Acer Lunchbox, one of the laptop precursors.

Yeah, I once fixed a computer that was running "DR-DOS". Evidently Digital Research had their own DOS clone.

 

[Geck]

Darklands. An epic sprawling RPG with basically infinite gameplay. One of the best PC games of the 90s that was undermined by too many bugs. With today's technology I think it could be breathtaking.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Darklands is another one that had a great concept not fully exploited by the execution.

 

[Yoda]

Edit seems to be gone in Win 7, either that or it's just not in the default path. It's pretty annoying too. If I'm in a command prompt and just want to edit some .ini file or something I don't want to have to notepad it. Yeah, you can launch it from the command line just like edit, but then it drags you back into the Windows world and it's just not the same

I don't know if there's anything I need to see re-invented. I do like the trend of retro-style games like Super Meat Boy and Mega Man 9/10 though.

 

[Capt_Pickirk]

Flashback for the sega mega drive should be remade with today's graphics

 

[verjesh1]

I woud like to see another time that is
1 Contra
2 Mario
3 Taken Three
4 Mustapha
5 Bubbles

 

[BigFoot]

The Wing Commander series.

This.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I had a 486DX-33 - Strike Commander only just managed to run on a custom boot disk, but was slow all over. I think its recomended processor requirement was a 486DX-50. With some tweaking of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS I could get X-Wing running easily - the first A-Wing training mission always slowed my computer down, though.

It struggled to run TFX and all 8 of its floppy disks, however.

I remember editing those files with edlin and praying to a couple dozen gods every time that I didn't fuck it up bad enough that I'd have to reinstall DOS.

Yeah, back then MS-DOS Editor and EMM386.EXE were my best friends. I think we should return to the old days and give PC gaming back to those who could tell their expanded memory from their extended memory.

God the trouble i had when CD-roms drives came out and i had to fit that driver with the massive Soundblaster Awe 32 driver soundcard i had at the time into the start up, and still have enough to start the game.....i can tell you that thick Dos 4 manual took many a free trip across the room at high speed.