Is anyone a fan of shareware games?
That_Annoying_Kid
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<div class="IPBDescription">Apogee etc</div>When I was a young warthog shareware apogee games that came on 3.5 floppy games were the bees knees
Now that broadband is pretty prevalent, and these games were shareware / now abandonware certain people have popped up and kept them alive
Two of my favorites are down below:
<a href="http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/203/Alien%20Carnage%20-%20Halloween%20Harry.html" target="_blank">http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/203/Alie...en%20Harry.html</a>
<a href="http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24056/Secret+Agent.html" target="_blank">http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24056/Secret+Agent.html</a>
You have to emulate dos, or have a really old computer. But it's worth it, they are super fun.
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Raptor: Call of the Shadows is pretty amazing
also Castle and moreso the Island of Dr Brain were fun as ****
and of course Lemmings etc
I showed my buddy a screenshot from the island of Dr. Quandry and we all remember that ****** monkey
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Now that broadband is pretty prevalent, and these games were shareware / now abandonware certain people have popped up and kept them alive
Two of my favorites are down below:
<a href="http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/203/Alien%20Carnage%20-%20Halloween%20Harry.html" target="_blank">http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/203/Alie...en%20Harry.html</a>
<a href="http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24056/Secret+Agent.html" target="_blank">http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24056/Secret+Agent.html</a>
You have to emulate dos, or have a really old computer. But it's worth it, they are super fun.
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Raptor: Call of the Shadows is pretty amazing
also Castle and moreso the Island of Dr Brain were fun as ****
and of course Lemmings etc
I showed my buddy a screenshot from the island of Dr. Quandry and we all remember that ****** monkey
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I even got the plugin that makes it like EV:O and EV, as well as other stuff
<a href="http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/94/One+Must+Fall+2097.html" target="_blank">One Must Fall</a> was always one of my favorite old school games...
There were also all the Commander Keen games...
Instead of Raptor, I always played <a href="http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/296/Tyrian+2000.html" target="_blank">Tyrian</a> which also had one of the best worms like games as an easter egg (iirc, the code to activate it was <strike>kaboom</strike> correction: It was called destruct :P)
Press start+d or start+m
I played the HELL out of Raptor: Call of the Shadows. I bought the full version recently; much harder than I remember.
--Scythe--
Edit: OMFG: <a href="http://cd.textfiles.com/nightowl/" target="_blank">http://cd.textfiles.com/nightowl/</a>
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Well aware of the keyboard shortcut brah, there was a time when my father would take the wireless mouse so all
I had to operate was the keyboard. They also sealed the CPU in a cabinet that locked (but not the power cord so I set BIOS to turn on after power failure and then induce one etc
Thansal: giving one must fall a look see. Commander Keen was a fun series, as well as 2d duke nukems
DrFuzzy: I played a ton of the early 3d stuff: Catacombs 3d, Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, DOOM II, DOOM III, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3d...
Anyone ever play f-15E strike Eagle? Wasn't that you Scythe with the crazy flight sim? Also Which night owl merits the most attention? What is your favorite weapon and stage on raptor
I even played a couple fun 7'' floppy games in my day
Other than that: <a href="http://www.mobygames.com/game/moonstone-a-hard-days-knight" target="_blank">Moonstone</a> is, in my mind, one of the greatest games ever and I still cling on to the hope that someone will remake it.
By the way, fans of Secret Man might want to know that Apogee also made another game was very similar to it: <a href="http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/crystal-caves" target="_blank">Crystal Caves</a>
The full version is freeware these days. The first episode is quite a lot of fun, but I think the two later ones are a bit repetition from the more annoying levels of the first.
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Chrystal Caves is awesome. In my books it's probably better than the secret agent.
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Also, out of all Apogee shareware, I think <a href="http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/monster-bash/" target="_blank">Monster Bash</a> is probably my all time favourite. At least the shareware episode is great.
Well aware of the keyboard shortcut brah, there was a time when my father would take the wireless mouse so all
I had to operate was the keyboard. They also sealed the CPU in a cabinet that locked (but not the power cord so I set BIOS to turn on after power failure and then induce one etc
Thansal: giving one must fall a look see. Commander Keen was a fun series, as well as 2d duke nukems
DrFuzzy: I played a ton of the early 3d stuff: Catacombs 3d, Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, DOOM II, DOOM III, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3d...
Anyone ever play f-15E strike Eagle? Wasn't that you Scythe with the crazy flight sim? Also Which night owl merits the most attention? What is your favorite weapon and stage on raptor
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You linked Secret Agent in the OP. What other secret agent would I be talking about?