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Aug. 10th, 2011 02:07 pmOh my God, guys. Completely unexpected nostalgia.
I was on Tumblr (which I sure comes as a massive shock to you all), when on my Dashboard, lo and behold, ( appears this .gif )
For those of you who don't know, that's from an incredibly old PC game called Dogz (which was designed to run on Windows 95, good God, has it really been that long since I've played it?) It was a sim game, where you could adopt dogs and tend to them, be either cruel or kind, train them, etc. What I thought was interesting about it was 1.) depending on your choice of treatment, your dog could, in fact, run away, and 2.) despite being horribly pixelated, digital puppies, when I decided to test this out, I realized that mistreating the little sprite actually made me feel guilty. Anyway, immediately after seeing this .gif, I went and tried to find a trustworthy site that I could download the game from, or at least the demo version of said game. Sadly, the only one I found that I was pretty confident wouldn't riddle my computer with viruses also wouldn't run, because the game is incompatible with any OS beyond Windows 98.
However, this little burst of nostalgia is sending me searching for all sorts of other games that I used to play. I was never a big PC gamer, but there are a few games from my childhood and young adulthood that I'd love to play with again.
Such as:
( The 7th Guest )
( Treasure Quest )
( Amber: Journeys Beyond )
Are there any bizzare, obscure, or just generally "old" computer games you guys wish you could still play? (There was also one for MS-DOS, Jesus, that I was probably playing at nine or ten - Fire King, but I remember so little of it (besides the fact that I like playing it) that I can't in good conscious list it.) Of course, there are also all of Infocom's text-based games (of the Zork variety), but those, of course, aren't actually that hard to find ;)
I was on Tumblr (which I sure comes as a massive shock to you all), when on my Dashboard, lo and behold, ( appears this .gif )
For those of you who don't know, that's from an incredibly old PC game called Dogz (which was designed to run on Windows 95, good God, has it really been that long since I've played it?) It was a sim game, where you could adopt dogs and tend to them, be either cruel or kind, train them, etc. What I thought was interesting about it was 1.) depending on your choice of treatment, your dog could, in fact, run away, and 2.) despite being horribly pixelated, digital puppies, when I decided to test this out, I realized that mistreating the little sprite actually made me feel guilty. Anyway, immediately after seeing this .gif, I went and tried to find a trustworthy site that I could download the game from, or at least the demo version of said game. Sadly, the only one I found that I was pretty confident wouldn't riddle my computer with viruses also wouldn't run, because the game is incompatible with any OS beyond Windows 98.
However, this little burst of nostalgia is sending me searching for all sorts of other games that I used to play. I was never a big PC gamer, but there are a few games from my childhood and young adulthood that I'd love to play with again.
Such as:
( The 7th Guest )
( Treasure Quest )
( Amber: Journeys Beyond )
Are there any bizzare, obscure, or just generally "old" computer games you guys wish you could still play? (There was also one for MS-DOS, Jesus, that I was probably playing at nine or ten - Fire King, but I remember so little of it (besides the fact that I like playing it) that I can't in good conscious list it.) Of course, there are also all of Infocom's text-based games (of the Zork variety), but those, of course, aren't actually that hard to find ;)
