Constructor Classic 1997
One of the oldies but goldies. Enjoyed countless hours playing this game both as a child and now as an adult
– Real player with 64.0 hrs in game
Constructor is a DOS game from 97, where you control a mafia-oriented construction company.
Although disguised as a building game, it is mostly a war of dirty tricks. After you build some houses and handle some tenants, the game becomes a mess of stealing properties, thugs wrecking havoc on the streets, gangsters killing foremen, and fake repairmen causing gas leaks. And it is BEAUTIFUL.
There are 5 levels of houses and tenants, two tenants per level. Each tenant has different demands concerning their house and garden decoration, as well as money, lifetime and other stats. These tenants will provide moneys for the funs, but keeping them happy can be a pain. Besides those there are several undesireables, such as hippies, thugs, psychopaths, clowns and ghosts.
– Real player with 17.2 hrs in game
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0
Absolute belter of a game. Played this and F19 and the original Gunship! back in the nineties on a Commodore Amiga 500 then on a 1200 Amiga. (also played Gunship! and F19 on a Commodore C64 complete with wire frame graphics!) Later played on a PC not as good as on the Amiga’s. but then no PC is as good as the Amiga.
The game still is one of the best OK I am lucky I still got the original manuals, maps and keyboard overlays etc. which makes the games much more enjoyable for me than for those who do not. So here I am a 68 year old playing these games from decades ago which says a lot about the standard of gameplay from Microprose. In fact I am still playing my Microprose collection Gunship!, F19, F117A, Pirates!, Red Storm Rising, etc. on the Amiga 1200 (how many pc’s form the eighties are still going strong?) but well done to those involved in bringing this and other classics to a new generation.
– Real player with 28.1 hrs in game
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If you are experiencing crashes with this game, load through Steam instead of your desktop shortcut and select “Play F117A in DOSBox Daum”. This should clear up your problems.
Sid Meier has always made amazing games in any genre he turns his hand to, and this was a great simulator in it’s day. Like all early 3D games, it hasn’t aged well superficially, but the gameplay is still very much enjoyable today. I’d love to see a modern remake with improved graphics and physics, and a more in-depth & cinematic career mode (but retaining the random mission generator).
– Real player with 25.2 hrs in game
Falcon A.T.
Needs a proper remake.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
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Aaa.. yes. I have had and played this game when I was 8 year old. Really needs to have a good PC to play this game sooo many years ago and I got killed a lot.
As a dosbox game that released on 1988 It had amazing graphics and details at the time but it wasn’t that big of hit because of tough control, and high spec recommendation. So 28 years later I have just got this game on steam and I have tried to replay it. YEs.. I still suck at this but it’s much more managable. You really need to actually like retro graphics to be able to enjoy this game at this day and age. Control is still really iffy but takes a bit practice and you will be fine.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Mr Zig
(Warning: Mr Zig features strong themes of Tobacco and may not be suitable for younger viewers)
Do whatever a Zig can with Mr Zig! A surreal adventure game ripe with dark humour and constantly varied gameplay.
Traverse a strange, warped and crumbling world littered with succulent meats and techno medicine just right for plundering.
Dare you wish to enter a zigs home? perhaps explore a fever dream or two?
Learn the dark secrets of the island and figuire out just what is going on at the abandoned factory.
Mr Zig may cause, but not limited to:
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Bone itchiness
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A fear of bright colours
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Dizzyness
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24 hour cold sweats
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Electronic arm spasms
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Advanced muscle delay
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An obsession for wearing odd boots
Police Quest: SWAT 2
This game is awesome. By modern standards some of the gameplay can be frustrating, but when you figure out the quirks of getting your officers to do what you want them to do it’s a lot of fun. On the missions with badguys with booby traps it does take some strategizing to complete them without blowing your guys up.
People having trouble with the game being choppy - Shrink the size of the main game window and it will run wonderfully. This game is almost 20 years old. In this era developers were just making everything up as they went, and clearly they weren’t thinking about how to code it to fill up a 1900x1200 screen efficiently. The way a 2D game worked in that era is basically putting countless little graphics up on the screen at once, and the game simply gets swamped.
– Real player with 35.1 hrs in game
An excellent game.
It has been 17 years (!!!) since I last played, and I feel incredibly old, yet very happy, to be writing this.
Police Quest: SWAT 2 is one of the early old-timers to introduce tactical, real-time squad-based gameplay to PC gaming, and was first released by Yosemite Entertainment for Microsoft in 1998. Which means that I was 6 when this came out. 6!
The series spanning the original SWAT to SWAT 4, has been a rather broad, somewhat eclectic mix of genres including Strategy Adventure (SW 1), RTS (SW 2) and FP Tactical Shooter (SW 3/4) spanning separately across the four titles, but SWAT 2 remains my firm favourite.
– Real player with 25.4 hrs in game
Princess Maker Refine
Tediously fun. for the first game in the series. When i first played it with a friend we made up the game of our daughter’s name and such, we got the best ending for our Elegant child be coming a noble woman. of course we didn’t know how endings works the first time. and the last ending i got for this game is her getting the noble woman Variant two, it all came full circle!
once you get really into it. you fine out what you have to do to get all the other endings. if your looking for a specific ending. Here’s the easy way to do it.
– Real player with 50.5 hrs in game
As a fan of the Princess Maker series and it’s western spiritual successors (Cute Knight, Long Live the Queen), I largely bought this as a curiosity to kill time and hopefully encourage the translation of PM 3-5. That’s where the series gets really interesting. As a piece of gaming history, it is amusing enough but hasn’t aged overly well. If you’re interested in the PM series, Princess Maker 2 is hands down the better place to start.
Gameplay consists of scheduling three classes/work placements for you daughter each month between the ages of 10 - 18. These placements then increase or decrease a selection of stats, with the goal of balancing these and developing your daughter into a successful adult (or not, as the case may be). For example, if you send your daughter off to work as a Hunter expect her Dexterity to rise, but her Glamour to crash. There is also the chance to send your daughter off adventuring in the wilderness, complete with simplistic RPG combat. Unlike PM2 your general success in the various ending seem to be tied to her Reputation as opposed to individual stats.
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe
RCT Deluxe is one of those rare old gems that, no matter how much people try, has yet to have a spiritual successor fully recapture its essence or innovate in a meaningful way, and the reason for that is in the game’s fundamentally brilliant design: it’s a concise, well-balanced blend of extreme customization and structural rigidity, two seemingly-conflicting ideals that are perfectly intertwined. Coaster design, park layouts, scenery, and other aspects offer near-infinite variety, but the isometric view and deceptively simple and intuitive grid system offers a very acute precision to coaster refinement that allows a player to master the art of designing and redesigning coasters.
– Real player with 377.0 hrs in game
Where to begin? RollerCoaster Tycoon is arguably the best tycoon game of all time. The game’s development was mostly credited to only one man (Chris Sawyer), and was released in 1999. There were four games that defined my childhood. The Sims, Age of Empires II, Dungeon Keeper 2, and this.
RollerCoaster Tycoon truly gives you the power to make exactly the kind of amusement park you want to build. Even in the scenarios, it largely feels like a free building game; the game does not ask you to do anything you don’t want to do. For example, instead of asking you to build a park based on nothing but rollercoasters like some games might have implemented, Rollercoaster Tycoon simply plops you down on a plot of land and basically says, “Get this many guests and have a good park rating in three years. Have fun and buh-bye!” This game should be truly applauded for being a tycoon game that is not only great fun, but never turns into a chore by forcing you into situations where you feel you’re only doing something to beat a level. It gives you an end goal, and it’s up to you, the player, to decide exactly how you’ll get there.
– Real player with 125.4 hrs in game
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack
Where I grew up, in rural eastern Ukraine, in the early 2000’s, there was no internet, no smartphones, no kfc and NO FREE PORN! There was however intel pentium…and Roller Coaster Tycoon!!. I remember spending hours, meticulously building my park from scratch, earning milions on big rides and food, attracting 6k+ guests into my park…and then torturing them, by cutting off the escape routes, flooding paths and charging $15 for toilet. And it was magical, pure joy. Even now, with the graphics definitely looking tired, it will bring you hours of very simple fun, build a ride and see how much you can charge before guests say its enough. Or starve them, then build one burger bar, put a very steep price and watch money flooding in. Or even better, build a coaster that will eventually crash, then comfort all the mourners with free black balloons…and free rides on the coaster that just has crashed! Yes, this game was always my favourite, a safe haven where I could unleash all my sadistic fantasies! And after all these years, nothing has changed, I still love to see the message ‘Robert D. has just drowned’.
– Real player with 963.3 hrs in game
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is likely my favorite game of all time.
I’ve put much more than 500 hours into it spanning my entire life and continued to play it as a non-steam game whilest it was not available on Steam. When I saw that it was, my wallet got sad, because in just a few moments my money was gone.
This is in my opinion THE best RollerCoaster video game in existance, and well for that matter in my opinion the best Tycoon game of any developer. Everything is made to a precise definity and managing your park is easy, but at the same time heavily difficult! The more you know about how to play this game, the more fun it becomes.
– Real player with 153.6 hrs in game
Sid Meier’s Covert Action (Classic)
I found this while looking for other Sid Meier games and bought it for only .97! Covert Action is a great game from way back (I still have the original 3.5 in disk.) Can’t believe I am still playing it 25 years later. If you feel a need to kill terrorists, this game will do it in a low-intensity way.
If you are looking for state of the art, forget it. This is very retro and very simple, yet addictive. Big pixels, keyboard controls, and music from the dawn of audio cards. But the game is still loads of fun, in a mindless, relaxing way. You chase spies, unravel conspiracies, break codes, and, if you want, plant bugs, tap phones, and track cars (the latter are not totally necessary to win.) Mostly you break into safe houses and crack safes, shoot the guards, and hack the computers.
– Real player with 163.2 hrs in game
A wonderful game! I can’t believe this was released in 1990! It has great graphics, depth, and functionality for the time period. Reading the 60-70 page manual is a must. If you can commit yourself to that, there’s a very immersive game waiting for you.
What I really like is the subject matter. You are Max Remington, the world’s only free-lance spy. So good, you only work at the direct request of the American President. At his request, you’ll investigate vast conspiracies, uncover clues, find the culprits, and arrest them before they can commit their devastating crimes. An intriguing premise (if not the most realistic), but what really makes this game stand out is it was made at that special time where the Berlin Wall had fallen, but the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. As such, your enemies aren’t the KGB (though the KGB has a presence) but other international terrorists. It’s really fascinating from a historical perspective.
– Real player with 135.3 hrs in game
F-117A Stealth Fighter (NES edition)
I took me two atempts to get warm with this game but then it was fun.
I got it for 1 euro in a sale and its worth that. For just 1 euro you can bomb beautiful places like Libya.
Good classic for people that like that charm. Very well emulated.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
This is not the original F-117A game…horrible.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game