Yeah, good call.
IIRC, the guys who wrote Zork went on to become Infocom; that's what the Z in Z-Machine stands for.
Aside from Infocom spearheading the 'interactive fiction' text adventure genre, the Z-Machine format was notable for being basically a virtual machine running platform-independent data files. And people are still developing for it today.
does it really make sense to credit one with influencing the other?
Yes, of course it does! Why wouldn't it?
Ox, my dos window is non-scalable... any way of getting dosbox to run larger than about 500x350 ?
As Cougar says, Alt+Enter switches to fullscreen mode.
Also, you can speed up/slow down the emulation with Ctrl+F11/Ctrl+F12, which helps with all the various graphics detail options in Frontier.
Well, they are both implementations of the same idea at different times, no? Ie drive around and cause mayhem.
Just because one came before the other doesn't mean it was an influence, generally speaking. It may have actually been cited as a direct influence, I dunno.
Goldeneye 64.
Atari ping pong (?)
Asteroids
Jack and Daxter
Err, that's it!
The Flying Ox - MemberOx, my dos window is non-scalable... any way of getting dosbox to run larger than about 500x350 ?
As Cougar says, Alt+Enter switches to fullscreen mode.
Also, you can speed up/slow down the emulation with Ctrl+F11/Ctrl+F12, which helps with all the various graphics detail options in Frontier
without derailing too much, i don't really want full screen. but anyway... doesn't matter.. lol
Have you tried moving your face closer to the screen?
You need to amend the config file to change the display resolution, IIRC.
Cougar - Member
Have you tried moving your face closer to the screen?
Well it's a laptop, i wasn't planning on strapping it to my head 🙂
Freespace 2 on PC.
totaly unlimited 3 dimentional movment, good missions and hard as ****!
other than that:
sonic
Comand and conquer
FF VII
metal gear solid / Syphon filter / Splinter Cell
Colossal Cave
Pong
Elite
Doom
can't decide...
metal gear solid / Syphon filter / Splinter Cell
ooooh forgot about them, the first MGS was amazing and paved the way again.
What an interesting thread!
Unfortunately, i'm not really old enough to comment directly, as i missed the early days of PC gaming. For me however, Portal was a revolution in Gaming. Made in someone's lunch hour, and tacked onto the Orange Box, it really did buck all the trends; and GLaDOS is one of the best characters ever written.
Crysis is also a standout title of recent years. To think, it's still a real test of a gaming machine's rendering and processing, and it's five years old! In an industry that moves as quickly as PC gaming, that's something special! (lets just forget how crap it gets when the aliens arrive, shall we?!)
"You move EAST
Thorin Enters"Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold.
> KILL THORIN
I'm afraid you can't do this now.
some great choices there everyone 😀
if any of you haven't played doom for a while (pc) may i suggest jdoom.
have just downloaded it recently (you do need the original doom wads files!) it is bloomin awesome (doom now in true 3d! 😀
you can also play hexen/heretic with the game engine too 8)
GIBLETS!
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Pong
Space Invaders
Asteroids
Galaxian
Defender
Superfrog
Resident Evil
Gran Turismo
Ssx
Metal Gear Solid
Call of Duty
Minecraft
New Zealand Story - best cheat code ever.
Not sure if anyone's posted this yet but hello 1980's again 😀
[url= http://www.zxspectrum.net/ ]Online ZX Specturm Emulator[/url]
my little netbook has quite a few emulators running on it.
the N64 is a little choppy and buggy but not too pad.
great to play all the classics 🙂
Man I'm feeling all nostalgic now, some serious memories in that Speccy emulator. Way of the Exploding Fist - first of the 1 on 1 combat genre maybe?
Just played Atic Atac for the first time in about 20 years.
Three keys, one part of the ACG key, 75% scored.
I don't think I've [i]ever [/i]done that well. (-:
Important games to me are ones that give an adrenalin boost to the industry rather than just being groundbreaking.
Elite is a groundbreaking game but i wouldnt say it was a revolution - so id go with.
Super mario bros - Gameboy / SNES
Tomb Raider- utter brilliance
Tetris - try to put it down on the gameboy!
Doom / Quake - which spawned a zillion games inc Call of Duty
Outrun- the only game you had to que for at the local muzzies!
Don't really think you can point to 1 game, but if I have to doom/doom2 would be the one. But there's also sorts of seminal moments, I think you probably need to base it on genres.
For me, off the top of my head special mention to, street fighter 2, tekken 2, age of empires 2, sensible soccer, fifa99, proevo 2006, F197, colin macrae rally, wipeout, metal gear solid, unreal tournament, counter strike, and bringing it up to the modern era, for me battlefield 3 is a massive jump on the competition.
biggest thing for gaming I reckon was the playstation though, that was when games started to get really good and mature. Before then, grear games were few and far between and you didn't know any better, so nostalgia kicks in(well apart from sensi and street fighter 2, they're still great game today!)
