March 16, 20196 yr Sega was my generation. Bill Walsh college football. We had a rule where you couldn't be colorado ( kordell stewart) because he was ranked a 100. Also, our rule was if you went up 21 before the end of the 2nd game over, pay your $5 bet. Most games ended 90-85 or similar. PGA Tour golf was the other. If you didnt shoot 55 or under you would get smoked. Got dayum, those fun days were a quarter century ago for me. Yall go...
March 16, 20196 yr Asteroids and Donkey Kong at Abbey Inn and Centipede at Posse East. That was pretty much it.
March 16, 20196 yr FIFA, Tiger Woods and NCAA 2001-2006 We had a drinking Tiger Woods game were shots of Crown Royal were used. Hole in one shot, put one in the water shot.
March 16, 20196 yr Super Techmo Bowl. I figured out that, if you ran the option against the computer, the games almost always ended up close. IIRC, this was the version in which you could play an entire season + playoffs, so with close games it was kind of fun to run through a season.
March 16, 20196 yr August 1999 - December 2003. PS1, PS2, N64, GameCube Perfect Dark + Goldeneye - Lots of fun times had there with multiplayer. NCAA basketball tourneys in the dorms. I won 1999 version in my dorm... Duke. Thanks Dunleavy. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1-4. I dominated THPS 2. Officer Dick was bomb character Senior - I jammed to White Stripes Elephant while playing Metroid Prime. Loved that game. Tiger Woods golf on Game Cube. Lots of fun in the house with that one too.
March 16, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said: Super Techmo Bowl. I figured out that, if you ran the option against the computer, the games almost always ended up close. IIRC, this was the version in which you could play an entire season + playoffs, so with close games it was kind of fun to run through a season. The hell kinda tecmo bowl had the option?
March 16, 20196 yr Freshman year - it was all Starcraft in the Simkins dorm. Late freshman year - we got really into Tribes. Early sophomore year - Tribes 2 Junior to senior years - I got really into Asheron’s Call (MMO). Ended up like the 4th highest level guy at one point and later sold my account for $2400... perhaps a factor leading into one additional semester being required to graduate...
March 16, 20196 yr I worked with some buddies in the Physics Lab in RLM. We used to go in there after hours and play Doom deathmatches all night long. Had to scoot out of there real quick when the profs started coming in the next morning. This was early 1994, when networked computers weren't so common. It was sweet
March 16, 20196 yr My senior year there was a Missle Command game in the varsity cafeteria that I played almost every day
March 16, 20196 yr Old motherfuckers in here. We played a fuckton of CoD, NCAA 14, FIFA, and GTA in college. But the most fun was breaking out the old N64 (that my parents bought for me in 1999) and playing Super Smash Bros. Fun fact: That machine & it’s original controllers, and the game still work flawlessly. They’re nearly 20 years old.
March 16, 20196 yr Microleague Baseball on my IBM PC clone. I'd still play it today. 1980 Astros, FTW.
March 16, 20196 yr Halo 2 on the university LAN. Get on any time, day or night, and there was always plenty of people playing. Good times.
March 16, 20196 yr Freshman year, the only system anyone had in the dorm was an N64 so it was lots of Goldeneye and Mario Kart.Roommate got a PS2 sophomore year so it was mostly NCAA Football, GTA, SSX, and Dynasty Warriors for the next three years.
March 16, 20196 yr 29 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said: Man, I'd love to have all those quarters back. you can’t put a price on joy.
March 16, 20196 yr 1997 to 2001. NHL and Madden 95 on Sega. The amount of tournaments we had in our apartment off Riverside was outrageous. Most picked the Blackhawks or the Red Wings on NHL. If you made little Gretzky’s head bleed (you are so money and you don’t even know it) you got bonus points. Edited March 16, 20196 yr by Newy25
March 16, 20196 yr Tekken 3 I think on playstation Wow in the early years for pc. Simcity, the first one that was more 3 dimensional than before on pc. Goldeneye was probably my favorite first person game.
March 16, 20196 yr Halo-we had 100ft network cables we would string between apartments, or people would move their TV's around. We'd have 16 playing at once. GTA, tiger woods 05, NCAA Football 02-05. MVB baseball 05.
March 16, 20196 yr PS1 NCAA Football with Ricky on the cover. Tony Hawk 1 Hot Shots Golf 2 PS2 Tony Hawk NCAA Football Smugglers Run
March 16, 20196 yr PS1 NCAA Football with Ricky on the cover. Tony Hawk 1 Hot Shots Golf 2 PS2 Tony Hawk NCAA Football Smugglers Run My younger brother had that NCAA with Ricky on the cover. I can’t remember if I was playing against his best friend or him, but I couldn’t run for shit. That go route on the left sideline was open for days though.
March 16, 20196 yr 40 minutes ago, DallasHorn26 said: Halo-we had 100ft network cables we would string between apartments, or people would move their TV's around. We'd have 16 playing at once. This. I bet I would still know a lot the maps like the back of my hand.
March 17, 20196 yr 6 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said: Man, I'd love to have all those quarters back. Fuck. Yes. Had a standup game literally given to us for the place we lived in the last 2 years of college. Used to set that up with about 500 credits at the beginning of the night of a party. "Wizard needs food...badly"
March 17, 20196 yr 1997 to 2001. NHL and Madden 95 on Sega. The amount of tournaments we had in our apartment off Riverside was outrageous. Most picked the Blackhawks or the Red Wings on NHL. If you made little Gretzky’s head bleed (you are so money and you don’t even know it) you got bonus points. Riverside? The Metropolis?
March 17, 20196 yr 3 minutes ago, Nivek said: Riverside? The Metropolis? The Landings at College Park. Not even sure it’s there anymore.
March 17, 20196 yr 23 hours ago, markstanco said: Sega was my generation. Bill Walsh college football. We had a rule where you couldn't be colorado ( kordell stewart) because he was ranked a 100. Also, our rule was if you went up 21 before the end of the 2nd game over, pay your $5 bet. Most games ended 90-85 or similar. PGA Tour golf was the other. If you didnt shoot 55 or under you would get smoked. Got dayum, those fun days were a quarter century ago for me. Yall go... Loved Walsh football... Used to run Alabama and the option, milking the clock. My brother would get the kick and drive for a score. I'd take up the rest of the half on a TD drive, and do the same thing after getting the second half kickoff.
March 17, 20196 yr 10 hours ago, bluto said: The hell kinda tecmo bowl had the option? None. Iirc, you pressed "A" to hand the ball off. If you selected, say, a run to the right, you could either keep it (QB) or pitch it to the RB. It's obviously been awhile, but I think that's how it worked. Also choosing Tampa Bay ensured you had the slowest, shittiest players. This was more fun to me than winning every game 50-0. Edited March 17, 20196 yr by Knoxtnhorn
March 17, 20196 yr 34 minutes ago, Buffsoldier said: "Wizard needs food...badly. Red Warrior is about to die. Green Valkyrie is now IT. Well before college for me but freakin' loved Gauntlet.
March 17, 20196 yr 10 hours ago, Richter said: Junior to senior years - I got really into Asheron’s Call (MMO). Ended up like the 4th highest level guy at one point and later sold my account for $2400... perhaps a factor leading into one additional semester being required to graduate... The seamless and gigantic world of Dereth was unlike anything before or since. I gimped my way through two years on Darktide as a three-school Aluvian archer mage with dagger (so borked). Not perfect, but one of the most unique and original games I've ever played.
March 17, 20196 yr 20 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said: None. Iirc, you pressed "A" to hand the ball off. If you selected, say, a run to the right, you could either keep it (QB) or pitch it to the RB. so it didn’t have the option? or it did?
March 17, 20196 yr 3 minutes ago, futureman said: so it didn’t have the option? or it did? The game did not.
March 17, 20196 yr so it didn’t have the option? or it did?It was a pass play. You only had like 8 plays.
March 17, 20196 yr 4 hours ago, victory88 said: army brat playing games in college I remember playing lots of pong in elementary school. When I was at UT we were too busy drinking, chasing tail and cheering Earl to a Heisman to waste time playing video games. YMMV.
March 17, 20196 yr There werent many compelling consoles in the 80s and cool kids that played video games did so on a PC of some sort. I could have had a PC for the asking (and a little fudging about how useful it would be in engineering), but I knew it would become a monster distraction. Like it was for the guy across the hall during finals. Edited March 17, 20196 yr by TwiceHorn
March 17, 20196 yr None. I was too busy getting drunk, getting high or getting laid during college(wonder why I lost my scholarship). I owned an Atari 5200 as a kid, then the next system I owned was a PS1 like 10 years after college. I did play some Mike Tyson Punch-Out on a neighbor's NES, back when I spent the summers during the late years of elementary school in my dad's travel trailer(he worked in TN and during the summer, instead of him driving home for the weekend, me and my mom would spend them up there). Never played SEGA or SNES until after I finished all the rpgs on the PS1, PS2 and PS3, then went back and played all of the ones from them, on a emulator.
March 17, 20196 yr 15 hours ago, ernest_t_bass said: Perfect Dark + Goldeneye - Lots of fun times had there with multiplayer.
March 17, 20196 yr NHL 95 on the PC. I would always be the Vancouver Canucks and Pavel Bure was a fucking goal scoring machine.
March 17, 20196 yr Author NHL 95 on the PC. I would always be the Vancouver Canucks and Pavel Bure was a fucking goal scoring machine.I believe it was either NHL 91 or 92 where you could be the Blackhawks and never lose.
March 17, 20196 yr Asteroids, whatever that game was where you shot incoming nukes, and Digdug (I could probably get halfway through that now on muscle memory.) I wish I could play the 1980s version of Seven Cities of Gold again. I found the 90's version online on an abandonware site, so I guess that's good.
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