Photos of some of the ancient PC gaming stuff my parents have kept in my room

[Godwhacker]

I’m visiting my folks with the missus in tow, and just started poking around in my room. They repaint it a slightly different colour every two years but leave all the crap in place. Here’s some of the things I’ve found

Remember the original Rainbow Six? I do, it was good. Note also the demo for UFO and the shareware edition of Tyrian 2000.

I imagine I got these in Virgin Megastores. Basingstoke had an HMV too. I remember trying to discover jazz and seeing ‘Kind of Blue’ and ‘A Love Supreme’ and ‘Sketches of Spain’ etc and thinking that I had to start with those. Fun fact: if you walk into Fopp in London and go to the jazz section you will see the same bloody records as if nothing has happened since the sixties.

I have no memory of Scorched Planet or Legend of Ancient Dragon. Powerslide was terrible but Screamer was great

Z: Steel Soldiers anyone? FX Fighter was shit.

Finally, PC Zone’s review of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen. I never played it but 82 translates to ‘Very Positive’ in Steam review scores.

[thischarmingman]

I do remember the first rainbow six and yes it was great and ooh I remember that cd cover as well. Thanks for sharing!

[alms]

Thanks for sharing!

/20/20

[BillButNotBen]

Scorched Planet

I think I played a demo of this. I don’t remember the name, but the gameplay vid on youtube looks familiar.
Almost all the other game cds are ones I had also (Except Ancient Dragon) . Even FX Fighter (which was shit, but we were desparate for any kind of fighter on PC then).
Screamer was indeed great, though once again what I really wanted was Ridge Racer.

I even had most of those cover disks, suck as the Z one and the System Shock 2 one. Plus I had that Deep Space Nine magazine issue.

Unfortunately my mother threw out most of the stuff a few years after I moved out.
Watch out!

[ToomuchFluffy]

I had to throw away all of the old Game Star- and PC Games-magazines at some point not too long ago. I did keep various reviews though: Planescape: Torment, Baldur’s Gate 2, Icewind Dale and such. I distinctly remember not being particularly interested in a lot of those back then, but the glowing BG2-reviews did eventually persuade me to give the genre a try.

[Godwhacker]

Unfortunately my mother threw out most of the stuff a few years after I moved out.

Watch out!

My parents aren’t great at chucking stuff out, for better or worse. They have a box in the study with the label “Don’t know what it is but think we ought to keep it” written on it.

They’re surprisingly tech savvy though for their age. My Mum is an Apple fiend and my Dad loves Linux, although I had to install it on his machine for him.

There’s more actually good stuff in my room, like the manual for the original Fallout aka The Vault Dweller’s Survival Guide, I just thought it more fun to show off a mixed bag

[Godwhacker]

Actually here’s a couple more

Lemmings 3D was really good, though I never played the full thing. Also, a demo for BC Racers, which is the best Mario Kart clone ever as far as I’m concerned

This now looks like something you might find in the wasteland

I miss real manuals, and boxes. However if I had one for every Steam game I have, I’d have no space left in the house.

[Godwhacker]

I even had most of those cover disks, suck as the Z one and the System Shock 2 one

Z was a bit of a disappointment. It was supposed to be a realtime strategy game, but was totally unbalanced, in that if you started losing it was virtually impossible to stop. Again, I only played the demo.

[LexW]

FX Fighter, wow, I remember people trying to make out that was good, but it was just astonishingly terrible. Still I’m pretty sure me or my brother paid money for it so I guess there’s that. I definitely had the “Complete Quake” cover disk. I suspect it might still be knocking around somewhere. Shogo MAD was awesome and it’s honestly a little surprising it hasn’t inspired some kind of sequel or remake or something.

[BillButNotBen]

All the old Monolith Lithtech FPS games were great and could do with modern sequels.

[ToomuchFluffy]

I miss real manuals, and boxes. However if I had one for every Steam game I have, I’d have no space left in the house.

You are right, I had to buy some old retail copies of games that aren’t available digitally and some of these (Submarine Titans, Dawn of Magic, Rising Kingdoms etc.) came with pretty good manuals. There is something very satisfying about them that is hard to describe. I suppose it’s since they often provide something that the game itself does not.

[Goodson]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Shogo! I remember being in awe of that Lithtech engine. It was buggy as hell, though.

[Chaz]

Deep Space Nine: The Fallen was actually rather good. Well I enjoyed it anyway. I’ll always remember a scene in the game where you run across the top of a crashed saucer section from a Federation ship down on a planet, before going inside. It really gave me a sense of how huge these ships are, which I’ve never really got from any else Star Trek related. Probably the best Star Trek game I’ve played, although Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force comes a close second.