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Anyone remember this game (1990) called countdown?

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:03 am
by [xeno]Julios
http://www.abandonia.com/games/298/down ... ntdown.htm

took me ages to figure out how to finish. There was one part i was stuck for what seemed like over a year, until a friend figured it out.

good ol days before internet walkthroughs existed.

what was cool about countdown is that you didn't need a fancy soundcard to hear the music and speech - so on the old 16 mhz PC with no soundcard, you could actually hear what sounded like real music. And there was ingame digitized video!

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:04 am
by [xeno]Julios
http://www.abandonia.com/games/74/Flashback.htm

this game also rocked my world :)

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:22 am
by Psyche911
Heh, Flashback.

I never got past what I think was the 2nd level.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:38 am
by blakjack
never played that one, but speaking of good sound from a pc speaker, one game came to mind for me. world class leader board golf. "looks like he hit the tree, jim!" i remember being amazed at that :drool:

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:01 am
by MKJ
flashback was cool

until i played it about a year ago again after being in a nostalgic mood.. didnt remember it to be so -slowwwwww-.

oh well :D

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:03 am
by Doombrain
flashback was great

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:05 pm
by Deathshroud
Yea, I just found this game on that site. There goes the rest of my afternoon. ;)

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:47 pm
by Guest
lol that game looks hilarious!

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:14 pm
by Timbo
Does Richard Whiteley make an appearance?

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:33 pm
by tnf
YES. I loved the access adventure games. God, jules, I am really starting to miss the good old says of mediocre graphics with digitized background and shitty sound. For some reason, I still think I had more fun when games where in the technological 'stone age.'

Proof, IMHO, that a good game transcends all the graphical bells and whistles you can think of.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:46 pm
by saturn
[xeno]Julios wrote:http://www.abandonia.com/games/74/Flashback.htm

this game also rocked my world :)
Flashback was awesome, quite difficult at the end. I loved the futuristic city design.

Who remembers the game from the same developers that came out before Flashback and used vectorbased gamefigures too?

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:03 pm
by mik0rs
Image

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:21 pm
by [xeno]Julios
tnf wrote:YES. I loved the access adventure games. God, jules, I am really starting to miss the good old says of mediocre graphics with digitized background and shitty sound. For some reason, I still think I had more fun when games where in the technological 'stone age.'

Proof, IMHO, that a good game transcends all the graphical bells and whistles you can think of.
tnf - did you play the white chamber?

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:21 pm
by [xeno]Julios
saturn wrote:
[xeno]Julios wrote:http://www.abandonia.com/games/74/Flashback.htm

this game also rocked my world :)
Flashback was awesome, quite difficult at the end. I loved the futuristic city design.

Who remembers the game from the same developers that came out before Flashback and used vectorbased gamefigures too?
prince of persia?

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:21 pm
by tnf
[xeno]Julios wrote:
tnf wrote:YES. I loved the access adventure games. God, jules, I am really starting to miss the good old says of mediocre graphics with digitized background and shitty sound. For some reason, I still think I had more fun when games where in the technological 'stone age.'

Proof, IMHO, that a good game transcends all the graphical bells and whistles you can think of.
tnf - did you play the white chamber?
No, not yet. haven't had time.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:28 pm
by [xeno]Julios
tnf wrote:No, not yet. haven't had time.
*cough*

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewto ... c985f8802d

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:35 pm
by saturn
[xeno]Julios wrote:
saturn wrote:
[xeno]Julios wrote:http://www.abandonia.com/games/74/Flashback.htm

this game also rocked my world :)
Flashback was awesome, quite difficult at the end. I loved the futuristic city design.

Who remembers the game from the same developers that came out before Flashback and used vectorbased gamefigures too?
prince of persia?
I've found it, it's Another World aka Out Of This World:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?n ... This+World

The sequels were Flashback and Fade to black

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:06 pm
by [xeno]Julios
very cool - thanks.

I played fade to black briefly. I remember a magazine describing it as a thinking man's doom. (as in ID software doom)