I'm older than you guys so my nostalgic games are much older: Master of Orion, Jane's Longbow 2, the original SimCity, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Ace of the Pacific, Civilization II, Populous. I still have the strategy books for SimCity, Civ II, and Master of Orion.
Civ 2 was an honorable mention for me, along with Aces of the Pacific (or Aces over the Pacific?) . And Simcity very easily could have been too -- how many cities died to young Tortuga spawning godzilla... Instead of Longbow 2 it would have been F-17 Stealth Fighter. And I remember playing SWotL! So many games....
@@TortugaPower I do have F-117 and played it a lot. But the previous game, F-19, holds more fond memory for me. I was in the Air Force at that time and I remember we used to play it a lot on one deployment. We would take turn flying missions during off times. Longbow 2 holds special memory for me because that was my first 3D-accelerated flight sim. The game comes with a special version for Voodoo cards; and flying at night with the NVG 3D effects was very cool. I bought a Voodoo card just for that game.
@@TortugaPower Ha, ha, I thought you just dropped the 1 in F-117. F-117 was just a slightly improved version of F-19; I think the resolution was higher. They just changed the plane shape when the gov reveal the F-117.
Panzer General 1 is the best game, and it will forever be in my heart. I remember how many hours and even days I spent on this game. I used Airforce in mass, annihilated enemy forces even before they could come to my units.
You could pretty much find an old catalog from SSI and that would be on my list. Gettysburg and that series and Pool of Radiance and that series come to mind. Can't remember if Colonial Powers (Risk on steroids) was SSI or not. Played the heck out of that. Then I expanded from SSI when CIV was released. I just saw someone stream Warlords from SSG, played that a ton.
I enjoyed playing the Red Baron series of games when I was a kid. My brother and I played a lot. Also the Mechwarrior Series of games were some of my favorite. My brother and I also played the Wing Comamander series of games. There are so many great games that I miss playing and you guys just made me miss the. More and made me feel old..... jerks! lol
PTO 2, Aerobiz Supersonic, and Nobunaga's Ambition: Lord of Darkness were my gateway strategy games, and all still hold a very special place in my heart....back in the days when Koei made great strategy games....
Remember when the History Channel made video games? Looking at you Great Battles Medeival and Civil War: A Nation Divided. Played the crap out of those games
I wonder about that. How much involvement they had. Because Take Command: Bull Run said History Channel on the box, but it was not actually made by The History Channel, I don't think it was published by them either, I think it was published by a Activision Subsidiary that specialized in more niche titles, so I'm not sure what the involvement of The History Channel was... maybe just a stamp of approval for some nominal $?
I played a lot of old SSI games, especially panzer- and allied general and Steel Panthers 1,2 and 3. Later alst Steel Panthers world at war. I played a ton of civilization 2. I downloaded scenarios for that game from civfanatics. I absolutely loved a user made scenario called Al-Andalus about the early reconquista and El-Cid.
I've played a tiny bit of Civ 6, and binged Civ 2 one night at a friends, but otherwise I never really played them. Colonization though which is kinda Civ-ish was one I played a ton of.
Some great games on your list. I played a lot of War in Russia when it came out, not bad for it's day. Also still enjoy HOI2 and it's variants. I agree that Sid Meier's Gettysburg is the real gem of the bunch. The Civilization series are definitely an honorable mention, my favorite being Civ 5.
Decent lists. IMO the early 2000s is so prevalent because of 3d graphics and real time gameplay. For instance, Baldur's Gates two big innovations were pauseable realtime party combat (i can't remember if Neverwinter released earlier) and meeting/finding your party instead of creating them.
my very first game that hooked me was called submarine commander on the commador vic 20 about 40 years ago, i loved it, you could hide on and around the sea bed, find crevices,
Its funny you say that because I was always under the impression as a non-civ gamer, that 4 was the most well regarded, but no one mentioned it really on the pod.
I've played them all (but not Alpha Centauri) as they came out and the only ones I dislike are 5 and 6 (hours of play... nothing happens). Civ 1, 2, and 3 were incremental improvements (which is selling them short, amazing games). 4 really brought a lot of changes. Railroad Tycoon 1 predates Civ 1 by a year, I think there are a lot of the Civ foundational design concepts in RC1.
@@gregmonforton4103 I enjoyed 5 more than 4, and Civ 2 was nearly in my top 5. There are so many games that come to mind from my childhood that very easily could have been on here. If you ask me next week, maybe my list is different :)
Hi, I remember playing a game called Ipanzer 44, it was a mix of tank simulator and you also command other forces like infantry, It was hours and hours of fun,,, do you guys know it? i wonder if you can play it nowadays
Ahh, Eve online - played 8 years w/ 3 accounts. It was fun, but by the end (~ 2018) it had gotten to toxic for me. I do miss hauling freight HS/LS/Null .
I loved the first CoH and Panzer General (though 2 hit more for me than 1)! I also enjoyed Myth: The Fallen Lords (Bungie RTS before Halo), Civil War Generals 2. I still have my WW2O CD-rom. I'd have to add: Goldeneye64, Civilization 2 and Half-Life 1 and 2.
I didn't mention FPS titles but I nearly picked Doom 2 because my father and I would run a phone cable to direct connect and play MP that way. My whole family can recall that wire running all through the house :D Myth, I played it and it kicked my childhood butt. So it's made some memories but I guess I suppressed them :)
@@TortugaPower Absolutely! I played PGA Tour Golf on DOS with my dad and also the original Prince of Persia. He loved DOS, but gaming never really went further than those. My friend and I spent hours playing Red Storm Rising (not giving much a care for the sub warfare as watching the strategic map change colors) and that led to my later obsession with C&C Red Alert. Of course, strategic gaming took over once I got my hands on HoI. Thousands of hours have vanished behind those titles. Can't forget the time sunk in Sim City 4, which was a personal favorite and I've reinstalled and role-played about every Total War from Shogun in 2000 to Rome 2 a half-dozen times. I could go on and on... from my sister crushing me playing SNES Street Fighter 2, late nights in boarding school with a room full of people watching me beat Metal Gear Solid over a single weekend, the glory days of MoHAA multiplayer and the ridiculousness of early CS, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat, all the way through to frustrating and fantastic matches on World of Warships today. I'm so glad I landed the luck of being there from the infancy of modern-gaming to what it is now! Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Now where did I leave that copy of Pathways into Darkness?
Son, when I was a kid computer games didn't exist. Well, I was allowed access to my junior high school's mainframe in order to learn programming, which allowed me to play things like the original ASCII Star Trek and Lunar Lander, but gaming back then was recreation, not a religion, and it was limited to board and card games.
I'm older than you guys so my nostalgic games are much older: Master of Orion, Jane's Longbow 2, the original SimCity, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Ace of the Pacific, Civilization II, Populous.
I still have the strategy books for SimCity, Civ II, and Master of Orion.
Civ 2 was an honorable mention for me, along with Aces of the Pacific (or Aces over the Pacific?) . And Simcity very easily could have been too -- how many cities died to young Tortuga spawning godzilla...
Instead of Longbow 2 it would have been F-17 Stealth Fighter. And I remember playing SWotL! So many games....
@@TortugaPower I do have F-117 and played it a lot. But the previous game, F-19, holds more fond memory for me. I was in the Air Force at that time and I remember we used to play it a lot on one deployment. We would take turn flying missions during off times.
Longbow 2 holds special memory for me because that was my first 3D-accelerated flight sim. The game comes with a special version for Voodoo cards; and flying at night with the NVG 3D effects was very cool. I bought a Voodoo card just for that game.
@@TuanNguyen-wj2yz Sorry I wrote the wrong title, it was F-19 Stealth Fighter :)
@@TortugaPower Ha, ha, I thought you just dropped the 1 in F-117. F-117 was just a slightly improved version of F-19; I think the resolution was higher. They just changed the plane shape when the gov reveal the F-117.
Master of Orion II is amazing!
Panzer General 1 is the best game, and it will forever be in my heart.
I remember how many hours and even days I spent on this game. I used Airforce in mass, annihilated enemy forces even before they could come to my units.
You could pretty much find an old catalog from SSI and that would be on my list. Gettysburg and that series and Pool of Radiance and that series come to mind. Can't remember if Colonial Powers (Risk on steroids) was SSI or not. Played the heck out of that. Then I expanded from SSI when CIV was released. I just saw someone stream Warlords from SSG, played that a ton.
I enjoyed playing the Red Baron series of games when I was a kid. My brother and I played a lot. Also the Mechwarrior Series of games were some of my favorite. My brother and I also played the Wing Comamander series of games. There are so many great games that I miss playing and you guys just made me miss the. More and made me feel old..... jerks! lol
Anyone here old enough to remember Age Of Rifles on MS-DOS came out in 1996. I would constantly play that game back in the 90s.
Very cool topic and conversation. Nostalgia what would we do without it. Remember Talonsoft?
PTO 2, Aerobiz Supersonic, and Nobunaga's Ambition: Lord of Darkness were my gateway strategy games, and all still hold a very special place in my heart....back in the days when Koei made great strategy games....
Harpoon 1 and 2. Absolutely loved that game and played on my Dad's old 386 and 486 computers.
I've played CMO, but never the Harpoon series. I'm aware of it obviously but never played it.
@@thehistoricalgamer I played Jane's Fleet Command back in the day; similar play in a lot of ways; lots of fun. :)
I had Jane’s Fleet Command also!
The first Harpoon was my obsession for a full year, but man it was buggy.
Remember when the History Channel made video games? Looking at you Great Battles Medeival and Civil War: A Nation Divided. Played the crap out of those games
I wonder about that. How much involvement they had. Because Take Command: Bull Run said History Channel on the box, but it was not actually made by The History Channel, I don't think it was published by them either, I think it was published by a Activision Subsidiary that specialized in more niche titles, so I'm not sure what the involvement of The History Channel was... maybe just a stamp of approval for some nominal $?
My favorite old game - Sid Meire's Alpha Centauri.
Which only happened when it did because EA made Sid abandon the wargames... EA robbed us of Sid Meier's Waterloo! *shakes fists.
Thank you for another great episode
I played a lot of old SSI games, especially panzer- and allied general and Steel Panthers 1,2 and 3. Later alst Steel Panthers world at war.
I played a ton of civilization 2. I downloaded scenarios for that game from civfanatics. I absolutely loved a user made scenario called Al-Andalus about the early reconquista and El-Cid.
Great Video and thanks -
RRTyc II had the stock market aspect.
The original Civilization and Panzer General were the ones that got me started
I've played a tiny bit of Civ 6, and binged Civ 2 one night at a friends, but otherwise I never really played them. Colonization though which is kinda Civ-ish was one I played a ton of.
Some great games on your list. I played a lot of War in Russia when it came out, not bad for it's day. Also still enjoy HOI2 and it's variants. I agree that Sid Meier's Gettysburg is the real gem of the bunch. The Civilization series are definitely an honorable mention, my favorite being Civ 5.
Great lists. Men of War was a big one for me that didn't happen to make the lists.
Decent lists. IMO the early 2000s is so prevalent because of 3d graphics and real time gameplay. For instance, Baldur's Gates two big innovations were pauseable realtime party combat (i can't remember if Neverwinter released earlier) and meeting/finding your party instead of creating them.
Pretty crazy that two of the games here are still best in class, Silent Hunter III, and IL2
European Air War remains the best WWII flight sim ever made.
my very first game that hooked me was called
submarine commander on the commador vic 20 about 40 years ago, i loved it, you could hide on and around the sea bed, find crevices,
"I don't even remember what Civ 4 was about". IT'S THE BEST ONE (with BTS DLC).
Its funny you say that because I was always under the impression as a non-civ gamer, that 4 was the most well regarded, but no one mentioned it really on the pod.
I've played them all (but not Alpha Centauri) as they came out and the only ones I dislike are 5 and 6 (hours of play... nothing happens). Civ 1, 2, and 3 were incremental improvements (which is selling them short, amazing games). 4 really brought a lot of changes. Railroad Tycoon 1 predates Civ 1 by a year, I think there are a lot of the Civ foundational design concepts in RC1.
@@gregmonforton4103 I enjoyed 5 more than 4, and Civ 2 was nearly in my top 5. There are so many games that come to mind from my childhood that very easily could have been on here. If you ask me next week, maybe my list is different :)
Im nostalgic for Scramble: Battle of Britain.
Hi, I remember playing a game called Ipanzer 44, it was a mix of tank simulator and you also command other forces like infantry, It was hours and hours of fun,,, do you guys know it? i wonder if you can play it nowadays
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Never played Eve Online in my life... Looks at Avatar...DOH!!!
Ahh, Eve online - played 8 years w/ 3 accounts. It was fun, but by the end (~ 2018) it had gotten to toxic for me. I do miss hauling freight HS/LS/Null .
That's about when I stopped playing as well. Always was a mining guy. Definitely miss the game.
I loved the first CoH and Panzer General (though 2 hit more for me than 1)! I also enjoyed Myth: The Fallen Lords (Bungie RTS before Halo), Civil War Generals 2. I still have my WW2O CD-rom.
I'd have to add: Goldeneye64, Civilization 2 and Half-Life 1 and 2.
I didn't mention FPS titles but I nearly picked Doom 2 because my father and I would run a phone cable to direct connect and play MP that way. My whole family can recall that wire running all through the house :D
Myth, I played it and it kicked my childhood butt. So it's made some memories but I guess I suppressed them :)
@@TortugaPower Absolutely! I played PGA Tour Golf on DOS with my dad and also the original Prince of Persia. He loved DOS, but gaming never really went further than those.
My friend and I spent hours playing Red Storm Rising (not giving much a care for the sub warfare as watching the strategic map change colors) and that led to my later obsession with C&C Red Alert.
Of course, strategic gaming took over once I got my hands on HoI. Thousands of hours have vanished behind those titles.
Can't forget the time sunk in Sim City 4, which was a personal favorite and I've reinstalled and role-played about every Total War from Shogun in 2000 to Rome 2 a half-dozen times.
I could go on and on... from my sister crushing me playing SNES Street Fighter 2, late nights in boarding school with a room full of people watching me beat Metal Gear Solid over a single weekend, the glory days of MoHAA multiplayer and the ridiculousness of early CS, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat, all the way through to frustrating and fantastic matches on World of Warships today.
I'm so glad I landed the luck of being there from the infancy of modern-gaming to what it is now! Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Now where did I leave that copy of Pathways into Darkness?
@@Desertfoxrommel41 Feel the same way, recently started looking how I can play some of the oldies. But what to play first...
Civil War Generals 2 easily could have been on my list… probably should have been if I’m being honest.
Did that golf game require you entering random menu info as copy protection? I played a ton of an old golf game that did that.
Anyone play the games made by SSG? Carriers at War, Europe Ablaze, Warlords. For me, these were epic.
I am going to click like now and start laughing ...
boomers remembering days when they didnt have to wear diapers
Boomers? lol...
Son, when I was a kid computer games didn't exist. Well, I was allowed access to my junior high school's mainframe in order to learn programming, which allowed me to play things like the original ASCII Star Trek and Lunar Lander, but gaming back then was recreation, not a religion, and it was limited to board and card games.