Computer Game Poll

[author_by_night]

Okay, so I think the majority of my flist here are my fellow late 80's-early 90's people, born to the computer games era. My friends Apryl and Julie (julibeth) and I are discussing old computer games because of this site. 

So, poll time! You'll have to put in the answers in the comments, since polls and I don't get along, but oh well.

What early-mid 90's computer game(s) was/were your favorite(s? Feel free to pick more than one!

1. Creative Writer (though it was less of a game and more of a junior word processor if I remember correctly)

2. Hollywood High

3. King Quest

4. Oregon Trail

5. Carmen San Diego

6. The Petz series (Dogz & Catz - aren't they up to seven now? Probably more).

7. Dangerous Creatures

8. Pepper's Adventures in Time

9. The Magic School Bus games

10. Tree House

11. Zookeeper

12. Other

Personally, mine were 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10 &11 (respectively, depending on my age - some were when I was really little, others when I was older-ish.)

I'd love to hear!

Comments

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

I'm so lame (and old). I was terrified of computers up until I was required to use them at university, so the last thing I'd ever want to do was play games on one!

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I know a few people personally who never used one until they had to.

[locked-door998.livejournal.com]

Oregon Trail was ♥ back in the day. I miss it. I wonder if I can buy it someplace...

[wahlee-98.livejournal.com]

You can play the Apple IIe version here (http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html). Might be a bit old-school for you, though. :P

[locked-door998.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thank you!

THE MEMORIES SEND ME INTO FITS OF CAPSLOCK.

[abbers44.livejournal.com]

PETZ. OMG PETZ. CARMEN SAN DIEGO. ORGEON TRAIL. GOD SD:LKSDFJS:LDK.

I also had this invention game, where you could make better mousetraps and robots. Oh, and a Monty Python game. as;ldkfjas;flsdf I was such a nerdy little kid.

[valerie-valerah.livejournal.com]

Haha, I don't really remember those games. I do, however, remember old DOS games like Gorillas (two purple gorillas on either side of a "city" throwing exploding bananas at each other. You had to put in the angle and velocity. It was great). I remember one called Comet, which was a little space dude traveling around. Lemmings was an ultimate favorite, though, and I would totally still play it. I also recall Jazz Jackrabbit, that was another huge favorite. Another one that my brother and I played all the time was Pod, but that was a little later. I think it was mid to late nineties.
It's so funny how I've gone from Gorillas to Sims2 :P

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Pod sounds familiar...

[valerie-valerah.livejournal.com]

It was a car racing game on an alien world. The premis was that some sort of weird virus was threatening the world, and the only way off was one escape pod, so whoever was left had to race for their lives. It's a lot of fun. You can design your cars and pick which tracks you want to race. Haha, after talking about it I feel like playing it again :P

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Cute. :)

[delleve.livejournal.com]

I was alllll about Oregon Trail. Oh yes.

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Oh iw as going tos ay I enver played computer games, but i did play Oregon Trail. It was required for a class project.

Kinda fun.

I also played this Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Game but no one in my family could ever figure out how to get into the cave area with the knight's tomb -_-

I'm was born in 1981 and . . that's pretty much it . . .

[victorialupin.livejournal.com]

I had Carmen San Diego, but it got boring really quickly for me. I can't remember which one I had, but it seemed like I didn't learn anything new after a while.

I loved the Magic School Bus games. Especially the dinosaurs one, because I spent my childhood wanting to be a paleontologist. I'm pretty sure I got the majority of my science education from those games and the television show, rather than from school.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

That's how I was with Dangerous Creatures. Though when we started talking about "nocturnal" and "predator" and "prey", my hand was up, and my science teachers would be baffled, because I never raised my hand in Science.

[talimeeka.livejournal.com]

OMB, I used Creative Writer fo everything up until the third or fourth grade! I even used it for reports and stuff. It was also brilliant for making banners!

And Oregon Trail is a given. :)

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I used CW until after sixth grade, when Dad explained to me that "in seventh grade, people use Microsoft Word."

[harriet-wimsey.livejournal.com]

Oh, what fun! It's a toss-up between Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail. Those are both great. We still have them, too, but I don't think they're installed on our latest computer.

[gijane7702.livejournal.com]

Oregon Trail!! I ROCKED at that!! My little family always made it!

Carmen SanDiego...wicked game!!

Great question! I wonder if you can find these games anywhere.

~C

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

On the site I linked, and I'm sure on ebay and amazon.

[gloryforever.livejournal.com]

Carmen SanDiego is teh favorite of mine :-) But I think "late 80s" is a bit generous when defining me

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

You're about my age, right? So you would've been between two and five in 1988. I meant more in terms of six and up.

I was born in 1985... started using a computer in 88 when I was three.

[pickleprincess.livejournal.com]

OMB, totally Oregon Trail. I OWNED that game. I LOVED the magic school bus games too, though. And do you remember Storybook Weaver? Maybe that wasn't as big, but it was so much fun. Oh, and of course Dinosaur tycoon. I don't remember what that game actually entailed, but I do remmeber that every time we got to go to the computor lab I'd switch between that one and Oregon Trail. Oh, and Amazon Trail too, do you remember that one?

AND WAIT! There was this game with a dragon... I'm a little sketchy on the details... there was a dragon and a coloring page. WHAT WAS THIS GAME CALLED? I loved it.

I feel like this was more than you asked for? haha, I didn't think I'd ever get so excited about those games.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Amazon Trail... I think so, but when I looked it up I just got Lost Secrets, so maybe it had two names?

And yeah, me either.

[lady-sarai.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! Carmen San Diego! Where in the world IS she?! =D AND I watched the TV show. ::hums theme song::

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, forgot it was a tv show!

[antonia-east.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, Creative Writer! And Fine Artist as well.

And the Treehouse.

Okay, now I'm seven.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* Oh, I know it.

[petitecrivan.livejournal.com]

I only know #1.

Did you ever play Storybook Weaver? I had great fun with that. You made up a story, then created the picture of it. I think that's one thing that really got me started on writing.

[purple-ladybug1.livejournal.com]

Wait, that might have been one of the games I played at school. Fun stuff. My best friend and I always tried to get the computer with that game.

[ziasudra.livejournal.com]

Oregon Trail and Carmen San Diego!!!

Actually my all time favorite was the PC version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I started playing it when Version IV came out on floppy disks back in '91 or '92, and now they've moved on to video game consoles in something like Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI (or XII). I was such a history nerd ;)

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too. Or just educational game nerd.

[jamc91.livejournal.com]

GAMES!!! *flails*

Sorry. I love games, as you may have noticed.

Unfortunately though, I have nothing to contribute to your poll. I don't even remember using computers at all then. *shrug*

[daniellafromage.livejournal.com]

I'd have to go with #6 - I loved Catz especially - because I never had any of the other games (I've never heard of most of them!). I was an Amiga girl until about 1997 and they had some crazy shit, though.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Amiga?

[shalli.livejournal.com]

Number 3, hands down! Kings Quest! All of them. And I've still got them all. And I've been thinking of playing them again lately, because they're brilliant.

[purple-ladybug1.livejournal.com]

I had Africa Trail, which was a new and cooler version of Oregon Trail. It was nifty. At school, I loved playing games in computer lab, but I don't recall any of their titles. Oh, and my brothers and I ADORED Castles, Seige and Conquest. It was the best game EVAH!