Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

By the way, am I the only one who think that Gamespot reviews tend to get biased towards Quake-like games? 😖

I think they just go by what's popular at the time and like all reviews, it's personal bias might show. Just like I tried WoW but thought it was dull, but millions of people can't be wrong. I also think L4D is totally overrated, played maybe 4-5 hours with friends and was unimpressed but it's still an extremely popular game.

Although I picked up the original Emergency Room PC game back in Sept. of 2009, I've just got it to run in DOSbox yesterday. This was my very first "doctor-type" game that I bought at the local mall in 1996-7, but since I traded it in at Electronics Boutique (now bought out by GameStop), I have regretted this since it has the 400 emergency medical cases of which I treated only a fraction of these, so got this copy off of Amazon.

(bump) Although I brought this game off of ebay Oct. 25, it didn't arrive at our house until Monday of last week. Played it on a Dell Inspiron netbook under Windows 98SE in VPC - this game plays great, never mind the language difference.

Hmmm... seems to me your last two posts were accidental double-posting.

I have deleted one of them.

I got this game - Dragon Lore, the legend begins - from ebay for just £7.99 and that included postage. And it's in great condition!

There's some info about this old Cryo adventure (1994 DOS) game on mobygames -

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/dragon-lore … e-legend-begins

Been wanting this game for 10 years now, finally picked it up for 5.76 after shipping.
May or may not retro but hard to find for the PC non the less.

I don't know if I'm allowed to say it in this thread, but I got these games (after playing Santa to myself by shopping on ebay and half.com) for Christmas -

China Forbidden City;

London CITY 2000;

plus the free Tex Murphy 1 + 2 d/l's.

I just bought RealMyst from gog.com, for $6. That's a good deal, because this game always costs quite a lot on ebay. It's a "real 3D engine" revamp of Myst, the original point and click "slide show" 3D adventure game. Some screenshots on mobygames are here -

http://www.mobygames.com/game/real-myst/screenshots

Hello all - I just bought this game from someone at MysteryManor.net, and it arrived at our house last week.

I have it installed in DOSbox on my netbook but am waiting 'till I get a laser printer before I print out the w/t before I play it.

EDIT - Couldn't wait until I get a laser printer, so am printing the w/t so I can play it right now.

(bump) Yep, I bought another game - it cost under $2 not counting the S & H. I thought this was a bargin so I couldn't resist.

I already have Lords of the Realm II (but no box) and Lords of Magic SE (w/ box) but couldn't pass up this lot for $18.50 shipped. If you don't have Lords II in your collection, your only half a retro gamer. 😀

Wow I love them both. Lords of Magic had some issues but it still was an awesome game!
Nice!

F2bnp wrote:

Wow I love them both. Lords of Magic had some issues but it still was an awesome game!
Nice!

It's best if you play the Lords of Magic: Special Edition, where they fixed several issues. I can't remember any problems when I played SE, course its been 10 years at the least.

Picked up the expansion pack to Hexen II, The Portal of Praevus. Hehe the chick on the disk looks kinda kinky. 😊

bought realms of the haunting for £1

Regarding the PC game Hexen, I used to see this sitting on the shelf at Electronics Boutique at the mall in 1996 - 7, and at the time, I thought I wanted to buy it because I thought it would be a nice spooky Halloween game about witches, but I never got it. Today, I never regretted not buying Hexen at EB back then b/c now that I'm a more experienced gamer (I was a naive gamer back in '96 - '97 and bought any old game, incl. fighting games) who is a lot more careful when it comes to buying games - I now stay away from games that have fighting in them, and Mom was right when she told me in mid-2000/late 2000 that better games will be out on the market when I mentioned to her that I missed out on getting Hexen 5 yrs ago at the time, b/c in early 2001 I bought 3 Blair Witch games - Rustin Parr, Legend of Coffin Rock, and The Ely Kedward Tale. I've already played these games once already, I agree with Mom now when she told me about better games coming out if I'd be patient, and now I no longer regret missing out on buying Hexen. I'm going to hold on to these Blair Witch games and do a replay of all 3 volumes one of these days.

Cheers!

Just bought this game off of Amazon.com for $37 -

Never have played the first Lords of the Realm. Picked this up for $10, came with all the goodies on the inside.

Hello, don't know if members are allowed to post pics of Win 95/98 games here - so am giving it a whirl.

I just got this game several weeks ago.