After reading something about dosemu and dosbox, it made me remember my favorite adventure game of old... Maniac Mansion. I was quite young when I started playing it, and remember it being one of my biggest passtimes.

I never quite beat it, though..

I just found the original box, with wall poster, user guide, and Nuke-o matic alarm code book.... Then I downloaded dosbox and tried to install it... Success, the disks still work!

So now I've been working on beating it, trying to remember everything I used to know.

What are some of your favorite older games?

--Shade

PS- another interesting thing about this game is how many platforms it went to.. Amiga, Apple, PC, Nintendo, there are more.

i think ill take the dos game (i forget its name), it placed you in Vietnam i think (there were brownish/tanish people with big hats and raggedy cloths), and it looked like a jungle place, so i think its in Vietnam.. ... anyways you just went around killing everyone.. was a pretty fun game

wolfenstien 3-d got it for my pocket pc

u could also play it and many other old games by using scummvm

" ScummVM is a 'virtual machine' for several classic graphical point-and-click adventure games. It is designed to run: Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more"

http://www.scummvm.org/

I've always been a console gamer, so my favorite game is from megaman series of course Megaman IV in the old NES

btw do you know any good nes emulator ala nesticle??

tetris - for sure

but also some others like:

hangman
gchess
trek
quiz
snake
...

Hmmm.....
What I'm running on my DOS-machine :
-Eye Of The Beholder I , II & III
-Ishar I , II & II
-Elite I
-Wingcommander I - IV
-Legends Of Kyrandiia I , II & III
-Return To Zork
-Zork Nemesis
-Prince Of Persia I
-Loom
-Lands Of Lore I & II
-Betrayal At Krondor
-Bard's Tale
-Zork I , II & III
-Hell
-Epic Pinball I & II
-Civilization II + Expansion&scenario-packs
-[edit] I just found my "Queen, The Eye" again. JOY!

*Looks at own list*
"Will they figure out my stance on FPS's from that one?"

Still looking for Tristan ; Best pinball-simulator EVER.
I lost my original copy to a dog that came with some friends.......

And WP 5.0 ; Still the master!

Dosbox is nice , but :
-it wouldn't let me save Elite. (corrupted saves)
-No sound in Discworld 1 , no matter how hard I tried.
I gave up on it after that.

Now I have my happy DOS-machine , gently humming next to me , hooked up with a KVM-switch.

Commander Keen, Monster Bash, Ken's Labyrinth, Duke Nukem, and a bunch of others.

For Commander Keen, Monster Bash, and Duke Nukem, I use Dosbox. For Ken's Labyrinth, I use LAB3D-SDL (which I've hacked quite a bit). I also play a hacked version of Rise of the Triad using OpenGL -- I've even created 3D models to replace some of the sprites. If anyone is interested in it, I'll try to find a way to post it somewhere.

That sounds pretty cool, jspenguin.

I'm starting to look into a few more older games.

Commander Keen is another one I used to play alot.

Then there was a much older one, called chopper commando..
3 color graphics, green red and black --- you flew a chopper in a 2d world dropping bombs and flying simple missions. Pretty cool

--Shade

wings of fury definitly also a small chopper game like the one mentioned above and I "altered" the "snake" program wich came wich qbasic so we could play it with four players.. now that was really fun

greetz,
.-=~ iluvatar ~=-.

maniac mansion kicks!! I have the NES Cartridge.. but no NES .... of course I have the rom and an NES emulator as well

pong, 'nuff said.

You've just read my mind. My favorite game is also Megaman IV from the old NES. Lol, it's not that strange either that we use similar Niknames..ghehe. I still remember the password for the last stage: A1, A4, B5, E2, F1, F3. Answering your question, there're plenty of emulators of NES for Linux. The best one is FCEU, but it's nearly impossible to compile, thanks to the poor (if any) documentation. Another good one, but not as good as FCEU is TuxNes. There's a nice, simple but efficient gui for it called GTuxNes. You can get rpm's(goddess bless those who made those packages) for those two here:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat.../idg/Emulators

Now answering the original questions, my favorite games are:

- Megaman series for Nintendo. All of them, IV is my favorite. All other Megaman goes here too....

- Street Fighter 2 and 2'. Can't remember how many times I've skipped school to play this on the arcades...

- Outrun. My first game for PC.

- Alteredbeast (arcade)

- Sonic 1,2,3 and Knuckles (megadrive/genesis)

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Arcade Game (Arcade and NES)

- Ninja Gaiden (NES)

- Battletoads (NES)

- Pitfall (ATARI2600)

- H.E.R.O (ATARI2600)

- Alone in the Dark (PC)

- Doom 1, 2, Final, could not forget this one..heh (PC)

- Super Mario World (SNES)

- Commander Keen series (PC)

- Castlevania 1, 2, 3 (NES)

- Flashback (SNES, Megadrive/Genesis)

And probably a hell lot more that I've forgotten. DOSBox rules, I wish wine worked more like that. Sadly, some games are too slow to be playable, but still, great compatibility list. Would be better if Wine decided to be an emulator for once and worked .

This brings another question: Older games offers a much bigger challenge then today games. Before, Megaman's enemies could take a hell lot of energy from Megaman. Castlevania on the NES was great and difficult. I just don't see more challenge today with games. Or either they are too difficult to be funny (after all, you've to be able to beat the game, we are the heroes for goddess sake) or too easy, or even a combo, a long, long long easy boring game...

The Ultima series, from Akalabeth to Pagan, plus Underworld I & II
Wing Commander I-III (III being the best; I wasn't all that keen on IV, but it was still good)
Privateer +Righteous Fire
Maniac Mansion was fantasic... Sam n Max Hit The Road was better.
X-Wing/TIE Fighter
Any of SSI's Gold Box series
Might & Magic (early--through V)
Is HoMM2 old enough to count?
Betrayal At Krondor (one of the best RPGs ever)
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
Wolfenstein 3D
Rise Of The Triad!
Terminal Velocity

That probably doesn't even come close to being complete, but oh well...