Well yesterday afternoon I found one of my long-lost favorite CDs. It's called Game-O-Rama. It came free with our Windows 95 in 1996. So that means I've had this game for 11 years. I love this CD. It has 99 demo games on it. They're really fun though. I was really happy to find this CD. I was also really happy to find out that about a third of the games still work on Windows XP! Considering that these are the really old games that run on MS-DOS, I figured they were too ancient to run on modern computers. I mean, some of them are designed for IBM computers! XD Yeah... Ancient. A lot of these games are made by Epic Megagagames or Apogee (3D Realms now, cuz they changed the company name). This CD has the original 2 Duke Nukem games and the original Wolfenstein 3D. I figured these were some titles people would know since they recently did remakes of these for... XBox I think. Return to Wolfenstein castle or something? I forget. I'm not really crazy about these games myself, but they're the popular ones. My personal favorites are Hocus Pocus and Commander Keen, and have been since I was in like Kindergarden are something! -^^- Yes, I really love this CD! I'm thrilled to have found it! -^^-
In other news I procrastinated about writing that essay that's due on Tuesday... <_< >_> but I'll do it later today... after I play Game-O-
Rama a little more... *a full time addict*
Oh yes, my brother's standing next to me. He wants me to mention that we're gonna buy Duke Nukem Manhattan project and Duke Nukem forever when it comes out. He's a big fan of the Duke Nukem stuff. I don't know why, but he says: "yeah... killing aliens is fun. And mutants too! Woo-hoo! Go mutants!" (no really, he just said that)
May the gods of sporks and insanity be with you always
~xanth~
Hocus Pocus by Apogee.
Look at these graphics, they should give you an idea of just how ancient this game is. This is actually pretty good graphics for the time.
I remember this level, I think it was level 3. Yeah... I was really hooked on that CD. You know, on my first time playing this again yesterday, I beat the demo game (about 10 levels).
PS: If anyone wants to look at some of these games the Apogee ones are at
http://www.3drealms.com/games.html under "Old Games Still Available For Purchase".
The ones by Epic Megagames are available for download at:
http://www.classicdosgames.com/epic.html (Jazz JackRabbit was the best, but it stopped working once we got a computer more advanced than 95 T-T)
~xanth~
May the gods of sporks and insanity be with you,
~Xanth~
