I am up to the fourth mission and never got this far before. I chose the war one and it is really difficult. I've restarted a few times because I kept running out of money, but I'm doing some nice trading of weapons and oil now.
Two rogue Roman legions appeared on the map and I have one legion and some riders. Unfortunately the riders get owned really quickly. I'm only just getting my second legion together so I'll have to let them destroy half the city before I can take them.
The worst thing is when you run out of money and everyone is angry with you. Caesar is pissed and won't lend you anymore money. The Gods start to get cranky because you're not building enough temples or having enough festivals. So you raise taxes which doesn't do too much and the people start to leave.
It's really important to get trade happening early.
Let's talk about fun old games ITT, in a bit more detail than we usually do. What did you like or dislike about your chosen game?
Loved this point and click adventure. Humour that suited me way back in the mid nineties. Great artwork for the time. I never played any of the sequels though, should I?
Actually I think I might grab Scumm and play it on my phone now. BBL.
I do love Caesar 3 however did find it very hard to balance everything.
I love Age of Empires II, however i wish it was a little more balanced like TA: Springs. I hate when u only need one type of unit and you can kill pretty much everything on the map :)
First computer games I ever played were an ASCII Star Trek and a text Adventure on a HP 1000 minicomputer using Terminals in 1977 at the Mt. Gravatt Teachers College which is now part of Griffith Uni. They were created by HP as testing programs once a HP 1000 had been deployed.
Haha Sfb, I was almost the same. My pairs did their degrees there. Coincidentally they were my erm, isp for a while when I took up arms. Castle Wolfenstein Apple IIE for life yo. :p
First actual PC games I played was probably stuff I played on shad's PC because I didn't have one at the time. Stuff like Wolfenstein and Dune 2 and X-wing.
But I had consoles (Mega drive -> Master system -> Atari 2600) before then, so the first games I played were prolly Atari 2600 games, like River Raid or Commando.
Going back even furthur, the very first thing I ever played would have been those old Nintendo Game and Watch hand-helds. Had a few different ones of them, had a dual screen donkey kong one, and one where dudes jump out of a burning building and you need to catch them on a stretcher and bounce them into an ambulance.
First game for me was on an TRS-80 and I had to code that fucker from scratch (well actually copied it from a magazine that had the code published in it).
Going back even furthur, the very first thing I ever played would have been those old Nintendo Game and Watch hand-helds. Had a few different ones of them, had a dual screen donkey kong one, and one where dudes jump out of a burning building and you need to catch them on a stretcher and bounce them into an ambulance.
I had the Green House one, where you have to spray the bugs. That must have been 25 years ago!
anyone know a site that lists games from 80's and 90's? there's two games i loved playing as a kid but i can't remember their names.
one was a platformer where you were some guy traversing through crypts, pyramids etc. there was traps and monsters and the game was only rendered in like orange and fluro green i think.
the other was an adventure style where you're some guy that enters a haunted house and you input text to move around and perform actions to get out. i remember to get into the house you had to pick up a pumpkin head then drop it to reveal a key that was inside.
I started off with a 2600 but it's the too many C64 games to list in the 80's that I remember the most, moved onto the SNES in the early 90's and then into PC games in the late 90's. A lot of those early PC games in rav's clip I recall being on the C64 at the time. Couldn't get enough of the Gold Box RPG's & The Bard's Tale series.
First PC games were Monkey Island & Wolf 3D that were installed on the school computers. PC gaming is great, but it's been all downhill from those two. :D
one was a platformer where you were some guy traversing through crypts, pyramids etc. there was traps and monsters and the game was only rendered in like orange and fluro green i think.
I'm still playing Homeworld too DC. It's a great game with beautiful music but I don't like that you need to wait around for an hour to finish harvesting each level.
I bought the sequel on eBay a while ago so I'm looking forward to playing that too.
Heh, Viper119, that image reminds me of a similar game (Rampage?) where you had 2 players on the xt keyboard controlling beasts that demolish buildings and rip people out of the windows and devour them hehe. Good times. :)
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IBM XT, aw yeah. Had a HDD and everything!