Enough of these gay JRPG threads. Lets have some proper boomer games from the 80s.I'm playing CARRIER COMMAND on the Atari ST, realeased in 1988.
>>12161004Based boomermaxxer. I remember playing it on Genesis but if ST has a port of 688 Attack Sub play it, it's fun. Came with a thicc ass manual too. I know it's on DOS.
>>12161004Brings back memories
Boomer games would be like computer space or some shit
>>12161137I know, I meant it in the general 4chan use of the word boomer to mean 'anyone over 35'.
>>12161004Stunt Car Racer, also for Atari ST.probably its best racing game
>>12161004Red Baron 3D
Apart from Carrier Command I also played a bit of the classic Dungeon Master. Still have my old hand-drawn maps.
>>12161004Carrier Command looked fantastic back in the day. However, I was too stupid to understand anything about it.Midwinter was also really cool. But very frustrating to play.
>>12161554I worked out how to play Carrier Command just by fiddling about with it, without a manual (I, like so many, got it on a pirate menu disk).I'm playing it now and the enemy carrier is way faster and trying to keep up with its movements is hard.
All time favourite Atari ST games:Space Harrier (picrel)VirusCarrier CommandDungeon MasterCaptain BloodBard's TaleStarrrayHostagesSpeedballPopulousGunshipRed Storm RisingPiratesSupremacyHunterCaptiveRick DangerousMidwinterSim CityStarflight
>>12161247I loved the career mode (or whatever it was called) in this game.
>>12161247as a boomer i agree with this statement
>>12161453Hissssa, Zed, Wuuf, Gothmog. I ground so much, they were all pretty much Lo masters in every discipline
>>12162710That floppy drive is an absolute unit. Never realized they were that big compared to the Atari 800 itself.
>>12162837They were as expensive as the Atari 800 too.
>>12162710that image is too beautiful to be real
>>12161247I don't remember Red Baron 3D looking so good, I must have played it in software rendering or something
Choplifter.This game was the hottest action game of 1982, released on Apple II's, VIC-20's, and Atari 8-bit computers. It was so popular, it continued to get ported from 1983 to 1987 on a range of home computers(US, EU, and JP), consoles, and even to the arcades. It wasn't just a fun and intense action game, but also technologically impressive by being an early pioneer of parallax scrolling backgrounds.
>>12163481Think it's CGI. The broom in particular looks fakey
I love this nigga like you wouldn't believe.
Mercenary 2 : damoclesThis is an awesome game.
>>12161920 >>12162267 >>12163568
>>12161004>Atari STbased, have midwinter for the Amiga
This thread is better than the other threads.
>>12163742Classic lite-sim. Bombing cuban villages has never been more fun.
>>12163891find yourself in that concrete pool in the middle of desolate wasteland. what kind of purpose did it have? swim it up til you reach the surface. walk away from the pool or the tentacles will appear out of the water and pull you back in. walk a bit. theres some minor earthquakes and some deadly leeches crouching the floor, not much else. then that lion appears... run!
>>12161004>>12161247>>12163742>>12163872>>12163891>>12163975>>12164932Please permit early nineties games too OP.>>12164959good times
Beat this game the other day. Very good, one of the best I've played yet, though Pool of Radiance is still the best of the lot. Been slowly going through all the old D&D games last few years. I see why people in the know praised these games. Uploaded my characters to the next game but haven't started it yet.
>>12165931The Gold Box games are great in regards to their consistency. There isn't a single stinker among them. Unfortunately, most of them are 7/10. There's a few 8 and 9's scattered here and there.
Anyone else play Fuji Golf for Windows 3.11?
>>12166341Disagree, everything from Curse of the Azure Bonds on out is either mediocre or shit. Eye of the Beholder was fantastic but wasn't part of the gold box mainline; most of the non-mainline games were total shit.
>>12165931Began Pool of Radiance and it's pretty hard game without a guide. Constant encounters are mind numbing.
>>12166931Random encounters aren't endless in most areas. Once you clear them out, you don't get more.
>>12161004Things like this are boomer autism games, and they are gayer than the gay club you always go to. Grandfag.
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>>12166967Carrier Command is much less "autistic" than you think. It's a light strategy game crossed with a very light vehicle simulation that borders on arcade. The UI is the most intimidating part of it.
>>12166341There is a lot to be said for releasing a 7/10 (often 8) RPG every single year. One of the advantages of playing old games is that there are just so many of them so you'll never run out of things to play.
>>12166959Not to mention that you can avoid or scare off many of them.
>>12166959nuclear trvke, i almost think thirdies have a better overall gaming experience because they just play bangers and fan mods/content/romhacks from past generations on their weaker hardware and avoid all the MTX and predatory slop
>>12161004I had the ZX Spectrum port of Carrier Command it was fucking superb. That and Fighter Bomber were the only two games that could drag me away from Elite.
>>12166796>Disagree, everything from Curse of the Azure Bonds on out is either mediocre or shit.Okay, well you're the outlier then. Most RPG fans agree that Gold Box games were consistently "good" if not merely above average. It's how they made a name for themselves both back in the day.
>>12166796>Eye of the Beholder was fantastic but wasn't part of the gold box mainlineEotB wasn't even made by SSI, it has nothing to do with the Gold Box games.>>12168494Secret of the Silver Blades isn't as well regarded. Some people don't like the Savage Frontier games either, considering them outdated by that point, though I thought they were great.
>>12168502I've finished Silver Blades. I liked the idea of the game but was a bit mixed on execution. It has the same theme of methodically clearing an area of evil as Pool, which I liked. However, there was some damn annoying things, such as really rough encounters in the town every time you go back to sell or train. And the mines section was very lazy and unimaginative.I still enjoyed it enough that whenever I decide to revisit them, I'll play it again.
>>12168502Treasures of the Savage Frontier is considered the worst of the Gold Box games. Secret of the Silver Blades is considered monotonous but still polished.
