The Old School

PlatypusMan · Snowy Owl Joined: Jan 17, 2006 Posts: 167

Browsing the shelves at Wal-Mart one day, I happened across the Doom Collector's Edition. Thinking, "What the heck, I played it as a kid, I wonder if it's still awesome", and it was only $10, I purchased it; threw the cd in my D:\ , installed the game, and proceeded playing, and you know what.

Doom is still the creepiest, yet most awesome FPS experience of all time; even better than I remembered. The great graphics (for its time), and downright deranged level design, and the rush of being confronted by a horde of demons, armed with only a shotgun...such a great feeling.

I found that, with all of these new games coming out, what with their fancy graphics and all, the older games are still the ones that are the best. Seamless gameplay, no problems running (unless you run a machine with a version of Windows older than 98, Me pretty much dumped GOOD DOS support and in NT and XP DOS game support is pretty much nonexistent (and a DOS emu that will play games at a playable speed isn't around yet, unless you have an uber-computer)), and the nostalgia makes playing them an experience you just can't get with the newer games.

Anyone else have an experience like this, where you would happen across a game you haven't played in ages, and yet it is still awesome, or feel the same way about Old School Awesomness?
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