MetaFilter posts tagged with Games and nostalgia

Focus on the background: animated GIFs of fighting game stages

filthy light thief — Sat, 11 May 2013 07:28:29 -0800

"I have a huge collection of fighting game backgrounds as gifs. Figured you guys might appreciate it."

The Extraordinary Quest to Put All the Super Mario Games On One Timeline

reenum — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:27:31 -0800

Stephen Totilo of Kotaku tries to determine the correct chronology for all the games in the Super Mario canon.

My guy rode an excitebike

Christ, what an asshole — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:06:36 -0800

The Games We Play. [SLYT] And you thought you were the only one.

"I heard human blood boils in space..."

stratastar — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:54:37 -0800

Humanity’s long war with the nefarious space-cat Kilrathi has been revived in the fan made Wing Commander Saga : The Darkest Dawn! The Wing Commander Series of space-combat games was made by Origin Systems, combining pulpy sci-fi with WWII history and combat. The series originated in 1990 and lasted through 1998 (G4TV History of Wing commander Parts One, Two). Late era games featured full-motion cut scenes starring Malcolm McDowell, Mark Hamill, Clive Owen, and John Hurt, but the series ended ignominiously with the release of the eponymous movie (game creator Chris Roberts’ first and last chance as a Hollywood director). Darkest Dawn a culmination of 10 years of work has resulted in a two-campaign game with “50 missions, 2 campaigns, 60 voice actors, dozens of Terran and Kilrathi spaceships and roughly 70 cutscenes,” using the open source Freespace 2 engine. Related mefi links : Origin’s Privateer, Richard Garriott’s manor.

Boxing Day

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:58:28 -0800

Boxer - the DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac, making it beautifully, trivially easy to run DOS games [via]

I'm Remembering

reenum — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:29:36 -0800

I'm Remembering has pics of things that people aged 30-40 will remember from their childhood and adolescence. Who could forget Tiger Handheld games, Hypercolor shirts, Paint With Water books, Surge soda, Scholastic Book Club, Slice cola, Madballs, Ring Pops, and, last but not least, Zack Morris's cellphone?

FridayFlashFilter: Nostalgia with Gorillas and Nibbles

filthy light thief — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:36:12 -0800

Let's take a jaunt back, to the early days of DOS, from the early 1980s to early 1990s. Way back to IBM PC DOS 1.00 and 1.10. Back when Bill Gates wrote code. This was the time of avoiding donkeys on the road (gameplay), gorillas lobbing explosive bananas over skyscrapers (gameplay) and a hungry line named Nibbles [a variant of the older Snake game] (gameplay). So have at it! Gorillas recreated in Flash | Flash tribute to Gorillas, with updated graphics | Snake | two-player Nibbles | Radical Snake (now with curves) | Snake (like Radical Snake, but with landscape obstacles) | Nibblets (All 10 original levels from the QBasic game Nibbles, but with a new control system) | Snake/Nibbles for Vim (download) | Donkey (QBasic source code)

Too bad the guy was only thirty eight - just two years older, he'd have been worth three times the points...

Artw — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:52 -0800

Did you grow up anticipating sports where death would be likely, if not certain? Almost certainly played by convicts, possibly with robot limbs? And which would be even more likely to have chainsaws and flamethrowers not usually found in the sports of today? Those We Left Behind’s look at Future-sports of the past, in videogames, movies and comics is for you!

Let's go Nintendo

dhammond — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:56:22 -0800

Everything you need to know about playing Nintendo.

At least you won't die of dysentery in this one.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:40:26 -0800

Thule Trail is a cute modern remake of The Oregon Trail.

This has destroyed my productivity, now it can destroy yours...

greycap — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:47:23 -0800

Steem is an Atari ST emulator for Windows and Linux that is very simple and user-friendly. More details on installing are in a helpful beginner's guide, but you're probably most interested in the games, of which there are lots [more inside].

A blast from the past

Bravocharlie — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:35:19 -0800

The Usborne Guide to Computer Games 1982 is full of fun ways to make traditional video games more exciting and contains some very accurate predictions.

play c64 games online

mathowie — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:02:44 -0800

c64s is a pretty amazing site. Much of the popularity of the old c64 was in its wide array of games and this site offers a way to play most of the popular ones all in your browser (in java). Waste time today by reliving those old early 80s memories.

Dizzy - I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning...

greycap — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:11:30 -0800

Dizzy was looking forward to the round-the-world cruise. When he told the other yolkfolk about the good deal he found, they wondered just what lay ahead of him... A standalone PC emulation of the Commodore 64 version of Treasure Island Dizzy, by Eighties programming prodigies the Oliver Twins.

liberated games

crunchland — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:13:36 -0800

Doom , Doom2, Duke Nukem 3d, Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II, Quake, Quake 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein : Enemy Territory, plus dozens more.

bog leech

jimmy — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:18:22 -0800

BOG LEECH! Game sprite horrors! Lovecraftian nightmares!

stbalbach — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 07:09:42 -0800

A Scranton, PA man is auctioning 250,000 pieces of software mostly games from the 80s and early 90s composed of around 20,000 unique titles (2MB Excel Spreadsheet) for $250,000. He says its the worlds biggest collection and many games are rare and in demand. You will need trucks and warehouse. If anyone can afford to sit on these for a few decades untill the 80s generation gets old and nostalgic it could be the Schoyen of early computer gameing software.

Save pinball!

justgary — Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:56:31 -0800

Save pinball! "It's an American icon," said Stern, ever the salesman. "Pinball is cool because it is retro. It's a Volkswagen bug, a PT Cruiser, khaki pants."

Su — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:14:38 -0800

The Accidental Video Game Porn Archive.
I don't really need to say anything else, do I? Didn't think so.

Pitfall.

ig — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:36:45 -0800

Pitfall. Hard to believe it's been twenty years.

MAME - I'm Gonna Live Forever

SiW — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:03:26 -0800

MAME - I'm Gonna Live Forever (Flash link) I found this on the author's Tehkan World Cup site. It's an amusing trip down the MAMEory lane of classic arcade games. How many can you name?

The giant list of classic computer programmers

moz — Fri, 06 Jul 2001 14:11:02 -0800

The giant list of classic computer programmers takes you back to a time when one person could realistically author a computer game and have it published. Of course most of the people on this list will have worked on small teams to produce games, but the diversity of the games on these people's resumes is awesome. In particular, I notice Michael Cranford (responsible for The Bard's Tale I and II, the Centauri Alliance, and ports of Donkey Kong and Super Zaxxon) and Robert Woodhead (Wizardry 1-5). As an interesting sidenote, Robert Woodhead went on to Animeigo, a japanese animation publishing company in the US. What memories of these old sk00l games do you have?

Remember the old Sierra Games?

ellis — Thu, 05 Apr 2001 01:56:51 -0800

Remember the old Sierra Games? Remember back in the early 80's when King Quest hit the streets? Did you ever think to your self how they created that game? Sierra used a gaming engine called Adventure Gaming Interpreter, or AGI for short, for many of their popular adventure games. This engine which was "hacked" in the early to mid 90's, and there are groups of people that still develop games to be used with home made hacks of this engine. Find out how you can make your own games like KQ or take a look at what have people created or are creating right now, here. There's even someone saying that they are porting the hacked AGI stuff to Dreamcast.
-Ellis of the now dead Geeknews.com

mathowie — Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:15:20 -0800

I was flooded with retro-memories of Commodore 64 music at c64audio.com. I distinctly remember playing boulderdash and hearing this for hours.

I found these FUTURE JOES

CrazyUncleJoe — Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:34:36 -0800

I found these FUTURE JOES (GI Joe 2010 series) while following a link from Rebecca Blood's site for the Navajo Code Talker GI Joes. Perhaps it's showing my age, but I really want one. Of course, I also want some of the Nisei soldiers so that I can reenact those POW camp scenarios that I used to subject my GI Joe to as a kid. I know where the bodies are buried. Hey, how come The Grim Reaper Site didn't have questions about GI Joe? Was your GI Joe a) home on leave when you were concieved b) 12" c) 12" with lifelike hair and beard and realistic scar d) 12" with Kung Fu Grip e) really an Action Man f) a little pussy 3" action figure g) $50 and from the "Collectible Collection"? h) dolls are for girls.