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Joined: Feb 22 2010 Posts: 351

I don't know if the rest of you are old enough to remember when the CD rom was like the 2nd coming of Jesus. VIDEO AND REAL MUSIC WOW!! The early systems seemed to their own vision of the future. The Mega/Sega CD seemed to focus on FMV games (Sonic CD could have been done as a Cart game I think) While the first CD Rom on the market seemed to have a focus on improving over the Hucard experence...HuCards what? I'm talking of course about the PC Engine CD Rom.
Remember the only home port of Street Fighter 1 was the PC Engine CD Rom.

Then the 32 bit systems came and the media was no longer a novelty. Load times however annoyed us all.

So going back to the golden Era what were some of your favorite CD Rom games?

They can be PC, Sega CD and PC Engine games I guess I'll toss in the 3D0 and Amiga 32 as well they pretty much everything pre PS1/Saturn is what I'm talking about

Posted: Feb 22 2010 02:18 pm

I vaguely remember when they were a really big thing, since I was pretty young at the time. (I was born in 1987.) However, I do remember wanting a Sega CD as a little kid, but never getting one. The games for it looked so damn cool.

I also remember wanting a Sega Saturn as a little kid, but never getting one until the summer of 2008. Now that I have one, I think it was heavily underrated.

Edit: I misread the last paragraph. I thought you were also mentioning the PS1 and Saturn era, but that was second generation. My bad.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 02:37 pm

I recall the first thing I ever saw on a CD Rom was a video of the Hindenburg disaster. The tragedy of the explosion was overpowered by the sheer awesomeness of seeing such a thing on a computer.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 02:38 pm

By PC Engine, I assume you mean Turbo CD.

Joined: Feb 22 2010 Posts: 351

Yeah Turbo CD as it was known to the 12 people in the US that bought one.

But since the TG-16 and it's CD rom attachment were both 1. hardly bought by anyone and 2. shunned by hardcore PC Engine fans. I'm referring to the PC Engine Super CD Rom.

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

I recall the first thing I ever saw on a CD Rom was a video of the Hindenburg disaster. The tragedy of the explosion was overpowered by the sheer awesomeness of seeing such a thing on a computer.

DUDE I remember seeing that on a school computer myself back in the day I think it was like 1995/96 I was in 7th grade EPICNESS!

Posted: Feb 22 2010 03:11 pm

Yeah, I think the big thing was to watch the videos on "Encarta." Pretty sad...it was a crappy CD encyclopedia. Before CD, I remember my dad getting mad at Sierra for putting Kings Quest 6 on something like 12 floppies and taking-up SO much space (a few MB).

Posted: Feb 22 2010 03:23 pm

On our first real PC, we used to watch stuff on Encarta all the time too and it was amazing. My dad also bought me the CD-Rom version of Kings Quest 6 for my Junior High graduation gift and it's one of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten.

I had a SegaCD too and loved Mad Dog McCree, Sewer Shark, and Tomcat Alley. FMV was the wave of the future and it was pretty amazing stuff when I was 13. Little did I realize what a real piece of junk that thing was.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 03:41 pm

Awesome, early CD-Rom games:

Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (PC/SegaCD/TGCD)
Had FMV in a little box in the middle of the screen. First game I ever played with real actors.

Here's a clip from the TG version. (I had the PC version.)

Denfender Of The Crown 2 (CD32)
My favorite Amiga CD32 game of all time.

Even more impressive, was that the enitre game was made by one guy! (Programming, Art, & Music)

Road Rash (PSX, 3D0)
Another early CD-ROM game. (I'd consider only PS1 games that came in the larger cardboard boxes as being "early" CD-Rom games. A lot of fun, but not quite as good as the Genesis ones.

Wing Commander 3 (PC, PSX, 3D0)
The first game to really try to be a interactive movie. Came on 4 discs, and an impressive cast for a Videogame at the time. (Mark Hamill, Tom Wilson, Josh Lucas, Malcolm McDowell, and John Rhys-Davies)

Joined: Feb 22 2010 Posts: 351

I used to think Dragon's lair was all sprite work and that shit was pre CD rom Laserdisc we hardly knew ye

We didn't use Encarta it was some other CD rom based Encyclopedia. The best part of that was the soundbytes of world music it had.

The Shurlock Holmes games were awesome anyone remember those?

FMV games kinda need to make a comback. Think of what they could do with them on the Wii....

Posted: Feb 22 2010 04:22 pm

I thought the ports of Starblade (3DO, Sega CD, PS1) was pretty cool. Rail shooter by Namco.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 04:29 pm

I never really got into CD Rom games till later in life. While I do have games like Crime City and Angel Devoid, it didn't sink in on how I could exploit them till later in life.

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Godofhardcore wrote:

Yeah Turbo CD as it was known to the 12 people in the US that bought one.

But since the TG-16 and it's CD rom attachment were both 1. hardly bought by anyone and 2. shunned by hardcore PC Engine fans. I'm referring to the PC Engine Super CD Rom.

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

I recall the first thing I ever saw on a CD Rom was a video of the Hindenburg disaster. The tragedy of the explosion was overpowered by the sheer awesomeness of seeing such a thing on a computer.

DUDE I remember seeing that on a school computer myself back in the day I think it was like 1995/96 I was in 7th grade EPICNESS!

why would hardcore fans shun it coming out in another country? or was tehre some sort of difference that I'm unaware of?

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Feb 22 2010 04:33 pm

Nobody has mentioned Night Trap yet?

I kind of like the Jurassic Park Sega CD game.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 06:52 pm

The Journeyman Project (we had turbo, I heard the original had quite a few problems).

Joined: Feb 22 2010 Posts: 351

FNJ wrote:

why would hardcore fans shun it coming out in another country? or was tehre some sort of difference that I'm unaware of?

Simple less games came out in the us most of them were censored There was an annoying region lock on Hucards (CD Rom game not so much) For the most part the Japanese PC Engine games were superior to their TG16 counter parts.

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The shock of seeing cool FMV was numbed by how shitty Night Trap actually was. I still enjoy fuckin' with it every once in a while though, for sure. Anyways, here are a few of my favorites from our first CD-ROM based computer:

Wing Commander 3 - I never got bored with Wing Commander, even when they put all that FMV in there. I forgive them because I like Mark Hamil enough to put up with it.

Earthsiege 1 and 2 - Badass mech murder game.

Kings Quest VIand VII - No one needs an explanation of Kings Quest. I've beaten them all but these are my favorites.

Loadstar : The legend of Tully Bodine - Very lame rail shooter/FMV game.

The 7th Guest - It was fun my first play through, but I probably won't revisit this one for years.

SWAT - Looking back it was sort of shitty, but I played the holy fuck out of this game. Qualifying with the gun was tedious but I did it over and over anyways.

Johnny Mnemonic - Super lame interactive movie.

Rebel Assault - Mundane Star Wars bullshit I could never bring myself to play again.

Toonstruck - Awesome adventure game with Christopher Lloyd lending his voice talents. I still never beat it.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 07:38 pm

YES, "The 7th Guest" was fantastic, as was its sequel "The 11th Hour." Henry Stauf was a sick fuck.

Posted: Feb 22 2010 08:35 pm

I'm currently Attempting PHANTASMAGORIA! after I got it at GoG.com so far man I dunno...

Posted: Feb 23 2010 06:44 am

I used to laugh my ass off at Phantasmagoria's special effects. Back when I was a wee kid, they scared the piss out of me.

My favorite game on the CD-Rom would have to be Simon the Sorcerer 2 from AdventureSoft. It's as if Terry Pratchett has made a video game!

OH WAIT HE HAS

Posted: Feb 23 2010 07:11 am

Ah memories. One of the first games I played with my dad on his brand new 486 PC computer was 7th Guest. Being only 13 at the time, I'm sure I wasn't much help with the puzzles, but we had a blast regardless. We also eventually played Phantasmagoria too when I was older (we played everything Sierra) and remember what an amazing game that was at the time. Interactive FMV pasted onto CGI backgrounds, wow.

Posted: Feb 23 2010 09:33 am

Speaking of Sierra, here's something that Fernin once HUGGED me for.

That's the first video game I ever owned. It came with a magazine and it was sheer awesomeness.

Nostalgia, bitches.

Posted: Feb 23 2010 09:59 am

We upgraded to a pentium from a 386...it was AMAZING. And though games like Torin's Passage and the later Police Quests, Space Quests and Kings Quests looked great, they pushed the hardware of 486s and pentiums to the limit. They ended-up all choppy.

On CD-ROM, one of my favorite games was Dragonsphere. It was a Kings Quest/Quest for Glory rip off. Also, Sam 'n Max Hit the Road was one of the first CD-ROM's we bought...

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Back in my day, computer games were for shit. We used the PC speaker and we liked it.

Posted: Feb 23 2010 01:16 pm

Thorton02 wrote:

Back in my day, computer games were for shit. We used the PC speaker and we liked it.

Remember Acess Software, and how they used "RealSound" which could produce digital sounds like recorded music and speech through the internal speaker?

I had a few games that used it. Mean Streets, I think, was one.

Posted: Feb 23 2010 01:21 pm

People who go back and play old PC CD-ROM games as abandonware don't understand how annoying they were. Back when CD-ROM drives came out, they would only spin like 2X. The loading times were awful. Hell, the loading times were awful on the firstgen PSX consoles. So imagine that, only doubled.

Of course, most of them let you do a full or partial install, so problem solved. That was the real draw of CD games. It was one disc, instead of 4-12 disks. Of course, then you eventually got games like Phantasmagoria which used 7 CDs. SEVEN FUCKING COMPACT DISCS.