Q: Who’s the most boring Steam member?
A: I am! I am!
I’m actually surprised Half Life isn’t one of my top three.
THEY’RE CLASSICS FOR A REASON, LEAVE ME ALONE
Fight me.
Modern games just don’t compare, man. Quake is amazing.
It’s Mahjongg, not Yourjongg, get your own!
Back when I was a kid/teen, I had this computer game called Moraff’s Maximum Mahjongg. It was just a bunch of different versions of solitary mahjongg. My mom and I used to play it all the time. I’m sure I still have the CD somewhere, but the odds of it working are like zero.
Anyway, I’ve been really wanting to play it lately, and after a bunch of searching online, I was able to find a version that actually worked and got it installed!
Even the main menu brings back the memories.
SO MANY MEMORIES
The music, also, is something I’ve still got deep in my brain.
Yay!
Quake?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Yo, look at how CRISP Quake looks on this new monitor:
That’s wild. I love it.
And yes, I’m playing an early 90s game on my new fancy compy. That’s how I roll.
Twisted Christmas
This is the time of year where I want to hunker down in my room, turn the overhead lights off and the Christmas lights on, and play through this wonderfully ridiculous Quake map:
I remember playing this when we lived on Tamarack, which was…4th grade? I distinctly recall switching between this and the “Santa Tracker” website on Christmas eve, haha.
Man, I miss those days.
The Manhole
Cyan, Inc., the company that gave us the wonderfully whimsical Cosmic Osmo (which I played constantly as a child), Myst (which I owned but never played) and Riven (which I also never played), also gave us this odd little game in 1988:
This is actually not the original game; this is the CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition, which is the one I had as a kid. I remember enjoying this game quite a bit, but watching this playthrough, some of it actually looks kind of terrifying.
Ozzie’s World
OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THIS GAME
I played this a LOT, hahaha. I remember playing it when we lived out in Troy.
World Reference 3D Atlas ‘98
Bro, I was JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS the other day and suddenly a playthrough of it showed up in my YouTube suggestions. Google, you’re scary.
Did anyone else have this CD?
Quake and the world Quakes with you
So as you may know, I’ve gone back and forth about getting a tattoo, mainly because my interests are hard to tattoo and because I’d want to make sure it was something I really wanted to be permanently etched on my body.
I think, though, I’ve finally decided on what I would get: a tiny little Quake logo. Probably on my ankle.
Why?
- It’s easy to tattoo.
- On that part of my body, I could either cover it up or show it off, depending on how I was feeling.
- Quake is a very meaningful game to me for many reasons. It was one of the very first computer games I played as a kid and I continue to get tons of enjoyment from it even though I’ve played through it thousands of times.
- The game brings back a lot of memories.
- My little gaming nickname, Nailpit, comes from Quake. My favorite weapon was the Super Nailgun and so my little seven-year-old self thought Nailpit was a good derivative of that.
- With a tattoo, I’d always worry that the thing I’d get tattooed would eventually lose its meaning. I’ve enjoyed Quake for such a significant portion of my life that I don’t think such a worry applies.
Anyway.
HEY LOOK IT’S QUAKE
Everyone knows I love Quake.
(watch with the captions on, they’re pretty great)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has an original Quake CD.
5:13: “Episode 1: the one everybody played because it was a shareware.” Hahaha, I actually got a hold of Quake because the guy who was working on our house at the time had a pirated version of the whole game. Same thing with Half Life, if I’m remembering correctly.
5:46: I’ve been playing this game for like TWENTY FIVE YEARS and I never noticed that it was the Nine Inch Nails logo on the nail boxes. Though to be fair, I play original Quake, which is so freaking pixelated it’s a wonder I can recognize the nail boxes themselves.
The NAILGUNS. I love the nailguns. My “Nailpit” name was oh so cleverly derived from them when I was seven.
But no, really. It’s an extremely linear game that’s exactly the same every time you play it, but like I said, I’ve been playing this for 25+ years and haven’t gotten tired of it. It’s exactly my type of game and is very satisfying to play.
Thinkin’ Things
So I have NO IDEA what triggered my memory of this, but back when I was in elementary school, my dad had gotten me the Thinkin’ Things collection (original, Collection 2, and Collection 3). These were three computer games that consisted of sets of puzzles, interactive playthings, and things that made a lot of music/sound.
I LOVED them. I have so many memories of playing through them for HOURS at my dad’s condo on that old Mac computer that he had.
Here’s a place where you can play the first one.
My favorite was the shapes that all made different sounds (the icon with the white dot grid and the geometric shapes on it)
And the second one.
I think my favorite game in the second collection was the one where you could draw a path and have a set of shapes follow it (the one with the window/circles icon).
I can’t find an interactive version of the third collection, but here’s a YouTube vid:
The one with the balls and the sand (7:34), OH MY GOD I LOVED IT. I remember all of these sounds, man. And the half time one (25:01) EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Yay nostalgia.
Did anyone else have these games?
Pantsylvania
Have I mentioned this game on here before? I’m not sure and I’m too lazy to check (pro blogging, yo), so I’mma mention it now.
Among the funky computer games I played as a kid was this one called Pantsylvania. I remember playing this with my friend GE in Troy a lot. It was basically this game where you could explore the town of Pantsylvania through several different buildings and with the guidance of different characters that had you do different things in the buildings. It was super point-and-click fun for young kids and I remember really enjoying it.
The frog gets a lot of hate, apparently. He was my fave.
Edit: here it is if you want to play it yourself!
COME ON, IDAHO TRUCKIN’
Ever since SCS Software announced that Idaho was the next state to be added to American Truck Simulator, I’ve had the expansion at the top of my wishlist on Steam.
I have never been so excited for a game expansion in my life.
They’re even putting in those little historical marker signs. I recognize those little buggers!
ALSKJFLSFJSALFKAJSFAKSLJF I don’t know if you’ll be able to drive through Moscow, but there’s no way they’re not putting Lewiston and the Lewiston grade in there.
EEEEEEEEE EXCITED
BALLS TO THE W A L L
YESSSSSSSS Idaho is coming!
I seriously hope they’ll have Lewiston/the Lewiston grade in there. It’ll be so weird to be playing this game in a region that I know in person.
*excited screeching*
UTAHHHH
It sounds like the next state being added to American Truck Simulator is Utah.
That’s got to mean they’ll do Idaho at some point. I bet they’ll do Colorado too pretty soon. I’m not sure which one they’ll do first (or if they’ll do something like Texas instead), but I think it’s a good sign that Idaho will happen.
THAT WOULD BE SO COOL
Hahaha, oh dear
This game makes me appreciate the relative realism built into ETS and ATS.
Maddie, does watching this guy’s mad pro bus skillz give you heart palpitations?
WASHINGTON, YO
AWWWWWW YEEEEEAHHHHH!
Gonna play this bad boy right now.
Edit: crap, I started my dude in Tucson, so it’s going to take me a while to get jobs that’ll take me to Washington. Darn, I guess I’ll have to truck more.
‘Murica Truckin’
OH SHIT
American Truck Simulator is getting a Washington state expansion!
That means Seattle, Spokane, and…maybe Pullman??
SUPER COOL I NEED IT
Edit:
It looks so freaking pretty, holy crap.
Next they need Idaho. I bet a lot of people would be like “lawl, why the potato state, there’s nothing there!”
Um.
- Yellowstone
- Craters of the Moon
- Rocky Mountains
- Shoshone Falls
- Hells Canyon
- The Lewiston grade (super cool for truckers?!?)
I think all of those things would be cool.
Anyway.
DUSK
Zomg, do you like FPSs? Are you stuck in the early 90s? Do you think Quake is still one of the best games ever made?
THEN YOU NEED TO TRY DUSK
It’s so good.
I’m not very far in, but—let me say it again—it’s so good. Most video games don’t hold my attention for very long for some reason. It takes a really special game to keep me actually engaged for any stretch of time. This list of games includes:
- Quake
- Half-Life
- Fallout 3
- Rock Band
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- The Sims*
I can now add Dusk to that list. I could play this for hours at a time.
GET IT.
*The Sims is…special. I will spend three hours making a family, but as soon as I’m tasked with building them a house, I “nope” outta there to go make a new family. I’m one of those Sims players.
Oh, The Sims…
HAHAHA, oh my god.
“Put ‘em in the Fun Pit.”
“Go back to Thanos. See what he’s up to. Oh, he’s playin’ football!”
I like to think this is how they storyboarded Infinity War.
Euro Truck Simulator 2, aka The Best Game Ever
Read the title.
You: “A trucking simulator? Really?”
Me: “Really.”
You: “But that sounds boring.”
Me: “SORRY, I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER MY SCANIA”
It’s very fun. Very relaxing. I delivered beets to Kiel. I only crashed into a few cars. Europe has too many roundabouts.
Have a video! Not mine, obviously.
Super fun, seriously.
Edit: SCREW YOU AND YOUR BACKWARDS WAYS, ENGLAND! SCREW YOU SCREW YOU SCREW YOU
BLACK MESA: The Update
THIS FREAKING GAME IS FANTASTIC.
I’ll post more about this when I don’t feel like crap (I’ve got a really bad headache right now), but here are some of the things that are great:
- Better graphics. WAY better graphics. Like, holy crapples.
- More diverse set of scientists. It’s not just the same three guys and a gaggle of their clones.
- The scientists/security guards are hysterically snarky towards Gordon. It’s fantastic.
- While most of the game is the same, there ARE some new/different parts, which is great because I’d basically memorized the original and could go through it quite easily.
- Gordon Freeman is still very much Gordon Freeman.
WOO!
BLACK MESA
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS
WHY THE HELL HAD I NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE?
Half Life is my favorite game, dudes. I want this.
Edit: Nate bought this for me. Nate makes bad life decisions.
Construction Complete
I am DONE with grandma’s house in The Sims! Finally!
The outside/front yard:
The dining room/kitchen:
Another shot of the kitchen:
The living room (and the other dining room past it):
The living room as viewed from the dining room:
The bottom floor:
Another shot of the bottom floor:
The backyard/pool:
The master bedroom:
Another shot of the master bedroom:
And the bird’s-eye shots from above for each of the three floors, because getting good/close screenshots of every room in this house is impossible:
I miss you, grandma!
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