Cleaning out my office and I found these gems

21 days ago by hactar42 to c/retrogaming

AngryCommieKender 22 points 21 days ago

Make a copy of those Black and White discs. You can't get that game anywhere anymore.

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hactar42 6 points 21 days ago

Hopefully I find my USB CD drive and I can get it up on the Internet Archive

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AngryCommieKender 7 points 21 days ago

I meant purchase, but always good to have backups on the archive! It may already be there.

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JigglySackles 6 points 21 days ago path: 0 25940045 25945649, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
bwrsandman 4 points 21 days ago path: 0 25940045 25949403, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
mattmaison 21 points 21 days ago

@hactar42

I always wanted to play Spore, but I never have.

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Evil_Incarnate 18 points 21 days ago

Have a look at Thrive, it's still in development but the first couple of stages are playable.

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Martineski 17 points 21 days ago path: 0 25938804 25939238 25940005, hotness: undefined, score: 17, children: 0
eurodyne 8 points 21 days ago

It was actually a pretty fun game, and if I recall correctly, eventually free. You might actually be able to find it online somewhere.

Although I’m not entirely sure if you wanna call it a game, per se… It was more like an evolution engine wherewith you got to experiment with different traits combinations, and eventually end up with an evolved creature of sorts. Interesting and amusing.

It seemed like something one might find in a fifth grade biology class as a teaching tool. But fun!

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Hawke 18 points 21 days ago

It was supposed to be an evolution engine. That’s how they developed it and how the tech demos and marketing pushed it.

But then it ended up being simplified and gamified so much that it basically didn’t matter what you did, so the only fun part was making your creatures look like penises.

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eurodyne 1 point 21 days ago

LMAO— ok, true…

But I actually bought the game (yes, once upon a time people used money and exchanged it for software) and the original version was just the evolution engine. There was actually some controversy at the time that the game didn’t actually contain any “game“. Eventually, further updates turned it into the “penis creation engine“ you described.

But who doesn’t love a lovely, well designed penis?

It really was a shame that they never turned it into a “best designed penis competition” game. I believe I would’ve been very good at that.

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CobraCommander 5 points 21 days ago

The game was hobbled in development. I remember reading the early development stories and stuff as it was being made and they wanted to make a serious evolution sim. EA basically forced them to make it a light hearted kiddie game and so it pretty much died on release.

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Hawke 2 points 20 days ago

I was there, I bought it too. At release it was already dumbed down so much that it did not live up to the expectations from the tech demos.

Thrive is very much a spiritual successor to those tech demos.

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mattmaison 6 points 21 days ago

@eurodyne

Yeah, it sounded so cool, but reading reviews they always make it sound like it wasn't much fun and didn't live up to it's potential.

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eurodyne 9 points 21 days ago

It absolutely did not live up to its potential. It could’ve been a lot more, and that was very clear every time you played the game. But what could it have been? Even the game creators didn’t really know in what direction to take it. They created something very interesting, but had no real path to develop it into an actual game. It was just an interesting novelty, and that’s what they released. An interesting novelty.

Still, though, it was fun to play with.

It really reminds me of no man’s sky

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saltesc 4 points 21 days ago

It's definitely worth at least one playthrough. You'll likely do a few replays.

Easy, casual, like a linear sandbox for lack of better terms.

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mursejoy 2 points 21 days ago

It wasn’t and it didn’t. Cool concept, primitive execution.

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alexquiniou 4 points 21 days ago path: 0 25938804 25945462, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
MonkderVierte 2 points 21 days ago

I did recently, got nightmares from it.

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MyBrainHurts 1 point 21 days ago

HA, I just thought the same thing!

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dalekcaan 15 points 21 days ago

Man, I always loved the Harry Potter games on PC. Exploring the castle with early 2000s graphics and sound was such a vibe. Of course, this was before Rowling's whole... everything.

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EggInDisguise 6 points 21 days ago

I mean, the racism and bigotry was always in the books, her money has just more open about her hate for specific groups.

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idiomaddict 8 points 21 days ago

It’s fucking blatant, too. White British people in the nineties/early two thousands might well have had a blind spot (not an excuse) and not realized that “Cho Chang” was as fucked up a name as it was, but I simply cannot believe that nobody noticed the only explicitly Irish character was constantly sneaking whisky and making explosions.

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hactar42 5 points 21 days ago path: 0 25940923 25941101 25943442 25943987, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
dalekcaan 6 points 21 days ago

In hindsight yes, but at the time I was probably around 8, so it didn't register back then.

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lesnout27 4 points 21 days ago

Yeah me too! Especially the second game was my favorite as a kid! Did you know that the soundtrack was made by the same dude who made the Skyrim Soundtrack later?

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criss_cross 3 points 21 days ago

Yeah I loved the Legend of Zelda feel to the old games. The platforming was wonky as a result of not having a jump button but everything else hit so well.

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LifeInMultipleChoice 2 points 20 days ago

I was surprised to not see The Sims: Making Magic when I saw that. Figured it would have been up their alley

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Objection 13 points 21 days ago

I had no idea The Sims Medieval was a thing lol

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GCanuck 11 points 21 days ago

It’s barely SIM game. In spirit maybe, but you’re not building homes you get a premade house and then do SIM adventure type stuff.

I actually rather enjoyed the game as a casual relaxing kind of game.

I don’t recommend it at top price, but if you can get it for less than $10 or $20 it’ll be worth the money.

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umbraroze 3 points 20 days ago

The Sims Medieval is a weird game. It's barely a Sims game in the sense that you create characters, can edit the character's homes a bit, and the characters have needs you need to take care of.

But it's actually this weird RPG-like game where the characters play parts in stories and ongoing narrative. Basically you create characters for specific roles, and pick mini-stories to play through. Kind of hard to explain.

Also it's running on The Sims 3 engine so it's full of jank from the get-go, and it's basically unsupported by EA, and - and! - delisted from Steam in favour of Origin/EA app.

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ace_garp 13 points 21 days ago

Hell yeah.

Spore has been reborn as a FOSS remake, Thrive

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Logarrhythmia 2 points 20 days ago

Played it just the other day. Can’t wait until it’s finished. So far I got to the terrestrial blob stage.

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yermaw 13 points 21 days ago

Black and white is on my "please god make a VR port" list.

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bwrsandman 4 points 21 days ago

Same here but after prototyping, the issue is that the game would require you to face down which is a very good position in XR.

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NikkiDimes 3 points 21 days ago

Omg, beating the crap out of your creature would be so awful lol.

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Landless2029 3 points 21 days ago

Wow that'd be awesome. Played sitting at a table. Oof good times.

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rainbowbunny 2 points 20 days ago

What's the game like?

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yermaw 5 points 20 days ago

Its like a blend of Populus and Creatures.

Youre a god and have to look after your villagers (or torture them into submission/worship) and keep them safe from a rival god, the more villagers you have the more belief (mana) you get, and you've got a giant creature as a pet that learns from you to help.

I got annoyed with a quest and threw the quest-giver-villagers into the sea. My pet saw me do that and decided thats what we should do. He went back and forth from the village throwing every villager into the sea one by one and completely destroyed my run.

10/10 experience.

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Cascio 11 points 21 days ago

One mystical day will get a Black & White remake

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Ruusunmarja 11 points 21 days ago

There is an opensource project called "openblack" to run Black & White. 😊

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bwrsandman 3 points 21 days ago path: 0 25947108 25949336, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
Dzheyk 8 points 21 days ago

Still have my copy of a collectors edition of Spore. Gotta be one of my favorite game cases by far.

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popcar2 7 points 21 days ago

The 3 classic harry potter games in one CD? Daaaaamn, what a steal.

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hactar42 2 points 21 days ago

It's actually 3 CDs. I never actually played the Harry Potter games. I didn't read the books until 2015. They are my wife's from before we met.

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RebekahWSD 7 points 21 days ago

I adored the Sims Medieval. And Spore. But medieval was fun with the adventures and making a little medieval town and such.

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froh42 5 points 21 days ago

4x sims. Thank the gods you were not caught in Russia.

(If you don't know what I'm taking about google for "russia sims nazi")

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DutchJ 4 points 21 days ago

Dude FS2004 unlocks so many memories for me

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compuglobalhypermeganet 4 points 21 days ago

What is column 1 disk 2?

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ganryuu 11 points 21 days ago

Probably Black and White, seeing as it's Lionhead and there's the expansion pack below it with similar art.

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RickyRigatoni 3 points 21 days ago

FS2004 was great. More simulators need to take notes on the training materials they use in it, I can probably fly a real plane at this point.

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Logarrhythmia 1 point 20 days ago

I have quite a few thousand hours in that game, of which about 900-1000 was on vatsim trying to get into a virtual airline. Tempted to get it to run again.

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bracelet4002 2 points 20 days ago

Sims medieval is such a banger.

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randamumaki 2 points 21 days ago

One of these is not like the others.

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hactar42 3 points 21 days ago

Most of these are my wife's. Flight Simulator and Black and White are mine, the rest are hers.

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atomicbocks 2 points 21 days ago

Your office? What do you do or what did the person that had your office before do?

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hactar42 2 points 21 days ago

That was me. I just have too much crammed in my cabinets that I never open because they are a massive mess. I have the week off work, so I thought I'd make my office a place I'd enjoy to be in. These games were mixed in with some DVDs, a couple of VHS tapes, and CDs of wedding photos.

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atomicbocks 3 points 21 days ago

I’m jealous, I’ve never had a job that gave me the luxury of making my office a place I enjoy being.

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MrsDoyle 2 points 21 days ago

I had Flight Simulator! Crashed so many planes. Happy days.

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Aeao 2 points 20 days ago

I don’t think I ever got passed the training in black and white but I liked the game.

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billwashere 1 point 20 days ago

All I found was 15 year old documentation, broken hard drives, and bulldog clips when I did mine.

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BaraCoded -2 points 21 days ago

I see no game

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