What was the games you were really enjoying playing on computer in 1999 (It doesn't have to be a game FROM 1999, just can't be one dated later than that)?

Me, I was playing nethack back then. And its still what I play now.

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Then/ Now
Half-Life and Counter-Strike beta / CS:Source
Thief Gold / Fan Missions
Heroes of Might and Magic 3/ Fan Maps rarely
SWAT 3/ SWAT 4 rarely

Adom.  Still playing it too.

planescape torment i think (not sure how old it is but im pretty sure it qualifies)
final fantasy 8
and more than likely a bunch of other rpg's and stuff since that i cant remember offhand.

Unreal Tournament. Diablo II.

Don't really play either of those anymore...but I'd pick up DII again in a heartbeat

Arena
Gold Box D&D games.

I can't place the time exactly for many games. I know for a fact I was playing a lot of F/A-18 Hornet (and Hornet Korea) from GraphSim around that time. I was probably still playing Myth: The Fallen Lords since it was released in '97. In the late '90's I was also heavily into Marathon and derivatives, including Prime Target, Damage Incorporated, and ZPC.

For me, it was lots of SSI stuff, I think.  I had a Steel Panthers addiction that took years to cure.

Quote from: Elliot Wilen;277987I can't place the time exactly for many games. I know for a fact I was playing a lot of F/A-18 Hornet (and Hornet Korea) from GraphSim around that time. I was probably still playing Myth: The Fallen Lords since it was released in '97. In the late '90's I was also heavily into Marathon and derivatives, including Prime Target, Damage Incorporated, and ZPC.

Howdy there fellow Mac user

Have you checked out Aleph One yet BTW. It's basically Marathon for OSX and since all the games in the series ave gone opesource, you can DL them all for free! Somebody even upgraded the texturemaps so that they look decent running at modern monittor resolutions.

baldur's gate

Let's see...ten years ago would have been sophomore year of college.  My computer at the time was getting old, so I think I was mostly playing stuff like Civ 2 and the Fallout games (along with a fair amount of PBEMs).  I wasn't a big computer gamer during this time, though; it wouldn't be until the more "tactical" FPS games started coming out over the next couple of years and when I got a new PC that I'd really get into computer gaming again.

I don't play computer games anymore outside of flash or browser games.  I was a console gamer for several years, but over the past year or so that's dropped off quite a bit too for me.  I guess I've just moved on to other things.

Quote from: KrakaJak;277990Howdy there fellow Mac user

Hey there, buddy.

QuoteHave you checked out Aleph One yet BTW. It's basically Marathon for OSX and since all the games in the series ave gone opesource, you can DL them all for free!

No, I haven't looked into it yet, but I did come across mention over at Wikipedia when I was refreshing my memory with regard to dates.

I just dug up the link to the download site: http://source.bungie.org/get/

Note to all you heathens: It's for Windows/Linux, too.

If anyone can still get their hands on ZPC (or better yet, if it were released for this Aleph One thingy), they should. Marathon is awesome, immersive, like a drug, but ZPC even takes it up a notch (albeit with one quite frustrating level early on).

EDIT: Oh, hey, looks like you might be able to download ZPC for PC and Mac via this. Some info, and the cover art here. But, it's for specialized tastes...gamespot review.

Yup, Ten Years ago?... let's see

Nethack/Rogue.
Still have it, still play it from time-to-time. Best Free Game Ever.

Empire Deluxe.
Based on an old game called Empire. Features hidden movement, and multi-player internet tcp action for up to seven players? Simple units, random terrain generator, no two game random games replay the same way twice. Publishing ceased for this game because it was originally an open source game published under the Gnu license. Stolen and released as a commercial product by the late edition authors. They did provide a much improved graphic interface. This edition was pulled from the shelves and and the security features were disabled. You can once again download this from tucows or one of the many abandonware sites. Just remember there is no password for game access now.

WarHammer 40k: Chaos Gate.
This was undoubtedly the best Warhammer offering available. Players take control of a squad or platoon and fight their way through the galaxy in a variety of missions. It was great that a player could pick out the units before a mission. This added an interesting element to the game. The downside was it could only be played multi-player in a hot seat fashion. This is the game that led me to appreciate the Warhammer 40k universe.

Baldur's Gate.
In 1993 I had called on Bioware on some non-gaming business at their programming lab in Orange County. The programmers there informed me they had a new D&D game in development that would soon see the light of day. Originally written for 2nd edition, production was halted or significantly slowed when TSR collapsed and resumed again when Wotc announced 3rd edition. The game was rewritten for 3rd edition and a buggy release occurred in late 1998 I think. Once we had the patch file, This was one of the best games around though, and showed the promise of what could be in converting tabletop games to the PC. Too bad the Aurora toolset never quite fully developed in a manner to support GMs. Autogenerators would have gone a long way towards that filling in the background and letting the GM concentrate on developing a few good story arcs. Mod authors had to cope with placing every bloody brick and tree into a scene, as well as event triggers. This, the fact that you had to upgrade your graphics and RAM on your PC in order to play it at the time, and the closed 3rd party mod publishing license ensured this game remained just out of reach of the coveted Best Game Ever spot. My Dad started playing D&D after visiting me and playing Icewind Dale on my home PC.

Civilization 3
By Sid Meier. Total Awesomeness! The Civ series easily received my vote as one of the best turn based strategy games ever.

Alpha Centauri
Another Sid Meier's production, in conjunction with Brian Reynolds. You are setting up a Colony on the nearby star of Alpha Centauri. Your ship was damaged in transit, you had to evacuate and make an emergency landing. The colonists have split into factions over ideological differences, and there is some friction as they are all now competing for the role of supreme leader of the new world, a very plausible scenario. There's tech development, Aliens, and Nukes, did I mention Nukes... You can actually launch weapons that destroys opposing factions cities and devastate large areas of the countryside. Very impressive. The Aliens are hostile towards everyone, however, not intentional so, it's becuase of how they are made up, and what they are made of. Multiple paths to victory, Internet TCP multiplay for up to six players, ties with Civ for best turn-based strategy game.

Age of Wonders/ Lords of Magic
A couple of turn based fantasy games. Still play these from time-to-time as well. I haven't tried to play these via the internet, but if you can, they'd probably be a fun game.

Oh yeah, Fallout! based on the earlier Post-apocalyptic game Wasteland. I wasted plenty of hours on these too...

Starcraft
Sci-fi Real-time game. A great storyline, kept me guessing right up until the very end. Plenty of ambiguity and choices with ethical consequences.

Troubled Souls.

Great music - I could listen to it for hours.

Baldur's Gate, certainly, but I have recently re-installed Planet's Edge and Starflight.  Good old-timey fun.