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Ask HN: What “retro” PC game(s) do you miss but have not played in years?

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trcollinson
I can't think of a game right off the top of my head (I don't, and honestly haven't, played that many).

But I wanted to comment on your site. Wow that's pretty awesome! Can you share a bit more about the technology behind it and who you are? It looks like you are using Meteor at some level or another. Very neat idea!

blooberr
space empires 3! my favorite indie 4x game
scmoore
Not sure how "retro" it is but I played a lot of Tribes 2 and would play it again.
pjungwir
Below the Root

Robot Odyssey

ZZT

Bolo

. . . a lot more retro than Warcraft. :-)

tcbawo
Xcom was a lot of fun. The Incredible Machine - I hope my kids can play this when they get a little older
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yellowapple
There's an old collection of games called Aviation Adventure that I was addicted to as a kid. One of the games that came with it was "F4U Sortie" (or something like that), involving having to fly an F4U Corsair through German radar defenses in order to deliver messages to people or something. That would be a fun one to play again.
lewisl9029
I'd say Heroes of Might and Magic 3...

But I'd be lying because I still play it occasionally at small LAN parties with friends.

Also, not retro by any measure but Supreme Commander (1) is still my favorite RTS by far.

jabv
Ah, so close. I was going to say M&M 6. My uncle introduced me to the game when I was a kid, and it was the first game I ever got hooked on. I read through the walkthrough book he gave me like it was a novel. I knew everything about everything in that game!
jasonkester
Civilization I was the best of the series, and my vote for best video game of all time. The only one that improved on it was Alpha Centauri, which got a lot of the automation right. All the other Civ sequels have just found ways to add more "work" without actually making the game any more fun.

Master of Orion (again, the first one) was pure awesome and I still dig it up to play it at least once a year. It's one of those games where you wish that somebody would build an interface that ran the original executable in the background to power a more modern UI. There's nothing that needs changing. Nothing that could be changed without making it worse. As MOO2 and MOO3 demonstrate.

Ultima 3 & 4 were the best of their series, and (combined with a hex editor) got a lot of my generation thinking about the mechanics of game programming.

Lode Runner would be cool to see again. Not sure how a modern version would work for today's audiences. At least you have the several failed remakes to look to for inspiration on what not to try.

There are lots of others. Entire genres, in fact.

Mimu
I would second Civilization. I think it was my first videogame, my dad showed it to me. One day I tried democracy because it should be the best thing since we were using it in real life, what a disaster every decision I make was denied, I couldn't do anything. My dad told me to just put communism and do whatever I want. Easy.
ice303
For me it has to be: Ultima 7: The Black Gate Ultima Underworld 1 Master of Magic Pizza Tycoon
todd8
Planetfall, by Infocom. It was a text based game that I never quite finished. Funny and with good puzzles.
blueside
everquest and leisure suit larry