What game do you miss playing?

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Is there a game that you wish you could play again, but you can’t anymore because it doesn’t run on modern systems or the servers shut down? What do you miss about it?

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The old Wing Commanders, especially Armada and Privateer. I’m sure I could figure out how to run them, but I don’t really have a proper PC anymore, and I definitely don’t have a joystick. There was something about the whole thing — the blueprints that came in the box, the goofy cats who were the enemies, the dogfighting. I just really loved the whole franchise.

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Xenon 2, old shoot em up for PC

Maybe runs on dosbox, no idea since I don’t have the game itself ..

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CP/M - Adventure - Colossal cave, 550 pt version, along with my maps I used to have. I never did complete the game, Also wouldn’t hate playing some Targ, or Star Trek. I’m sure it wouldn’t be the same to me compared to when i was in my single digits, but still

C64 - The EA games of old, Mail Order Monsters, Seven Cities of Gold, M.U.L.E. Archon, Racing Destruction Set, etc. I know there are emulators and even re-release/remakes in the case of M.U.L.E. and SCoG, but it just doesn’t feel the same. I think again nostalgia takes over. I could go on with C64 games, Ultima IV, Summer Games, Aztec, Space Taxi, Wizard, the list really does go on.

PC - Funny enough almost every game I immediately think of I’ve found a way to play online or they’re on GOG or remastered - Planecape Torment, Rick Dangerous, Total Annihilation ,Wing Commander, how I’d love for a new Wing Commander type game that doesn’t over-promise/under-deliver.

Xbox - Gladius, dunno why, there are tons of turn based games done better. I think it’s part nostalgia.

I think when it comes to games now, it’s more like - I miss the spare time to play the games with the friends I used to play them with. I try to find a game to play with my old roommate from time to time, but both of us cant stay up til all hours of the night. We just can’t bounce back from being up late and have to work in the morning on weekdays, and errands/family obligations on the weekends.

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Hey, Taxi!

Pad 5, please.

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Mostly nostalgia probably but classic club penguin.

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There was a community made canvas done recently, and there was a club penguin club that drew a club penguin penguin.

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It’s left of the duck :)

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I realllly miss playing Jak-X Combat Racing online. I was so good at it… I would almost always destroy everyone in death matches and races… forgettaboutit. I could drift off a cliff and throw a salvo of rockets at you from mid air and hit another weapon pod when I land and murder someone else. GAH. I’ve played it recently on an emulator but it’s really not the same when you can’t murder real people. :(

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