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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I heard my Nokia getting a text message through the distortion in the speakers by just looking at this photo

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

Dun dudun dun dudun dun dudun duuuuuuuuuuun.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

I actually got this from the snap store on Ubuntu

[–] manigordo@lemy.lol 4 points 2 days ago

Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.

[–] manigordo@lemy.lol 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Many of the older games suffer from bad graphics but the game play still holds up. I played OpenRA with some friends at a good old fashioned LAN party when we all didn't have computers that could play the latest games or budget issues to purchase the latest games. We set up in different rooms to form teams and it was super fun. A side benefit is that nobody had all the maps, hints and cheats memorized so we were on equal footing.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Gentlemen... it is a nuclear device." "T-T-Time-Time is running out."

[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

dadadaaa dadadaaa dadadadadadadaaaa

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[–] Cactusfighter@lemmy.org 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

RA and RA2 were so awesome.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's like they were doing their best Sean Connery impressions

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yuri's Revenge with the Devastator mod.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I personally think Yuri’s Revenge brought about a bit too much mechanical cheese, and prefer vanilla RA2 - but I won’t begrudge a fellow fan their preferences!

o7

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

i appreciate the convenience of launchers taking care of installation and setup without hassle in the background, but i do miss when installers hyped the game sometimes. seeing warheads being readied, hearing marching steps while the game was installing was a pretty cool way to build anticipation. it helped that the game was awesome, of course.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

My now over 20 years old self built rig still runs. It's a time capsule, running winxp with photoshop 7. It has Winamp and all my old music. And it has games like red alert 2 and generals zero hour.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can we play Age of Empires after this?

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Age of Empires Il still has a very active scene with new content all the time. In fact there's a new expansion dropping this week!

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is AOE 2 the one where you could use a cheat code to spawn in a blue sportscar with a machine gun on the front?

I seem to half-remember taking a few of those into France a few times lol.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is. But there was a black sportscar in AoE 1, as well. And a laser gun warrior and a similar looking dude shooting miniature nuclear missiles.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Don't point that thing at me!

[–] nebthron@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I still hope theres copies of the takes that didnt make it if thats the best one

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Awesome! Love your period hardware. I have a complete XP setup, but I would love a 95/98 setup. No more room.

I did install 86Box last week, though! And installed 98SE. I was also partying like it's 1996 with Microsoft Hellbender!

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah, decoding the morse code at the back of the counterstrike manual to find the instructions for unlocking the secret ant missions. I think it involved clicking on the speaker looking thing in the top right of the menu while pressing shift

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s weird this picture looks like it shouldn’t be this high resolution.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Oh, not denying its legitimacy. Just not used to such a high quality picture of such an old machine.

Nah dude, Daggerfall. Daggerfall Unity is the best of both modern and old school, especially with the DREAM mod.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Gonna go fire up Wing Commander 2.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't there a thing where if you clicked on the speaker in the top right corner you could play against ants or something

That was part of the counterstrike expansion.

[–] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There was a function in WORD, where ants could walk around your text...

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[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Take me back.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

!retrogaming@lemmy.world

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...

Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There's Company of Heroes with realistic units and "order based" real-time combat, alas, it is not very large scale.

Closest I remember to your description is another very old game: Sid Meier's Gettysburg. But that was limited by the possibilities of its time.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Company of Heroes

Worth checking out, though, thank you1 <3

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Still have mine in a shoebox somewhere

My childhood!

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