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[Derek]

Next week I'd like to focus on classic indie game underdogs.  I've gotten a lot of requests to feature oldies-but-goodies on the frontpage recently, and it seems like now is as good a time as any.  They don't have to be old as dirt... a couple years old is fine.  It's preferable if the game is on the lesser-known side.

So yeah, I'm taking suggestions in this thread - if we get enough good ones, let's do it.  If you can write a short review or synopsis of the game for the frontpage, that'd be fantastic, especially if it's peppered with some personal anecdotes.

This is also the place to give a yay or a nay to what's already been suggested, for whatever reason.

Game Ideas Thus Far:

  Triumph! War 2099 (via me)
  Front Line (via FishyBoy)
  Wings 2 (via Evil-Ville)
  Triplane Turmoil 2 (via email)
  ZZT Recommended Games (via auntie)

[xerus]

Classics?  More like ASSICS

Lyle in Cube Sector!

[Derek]

Hey dude how many old ass Klik games do you have lying around that don't exist on the internets anymore?

[xerus]

Hey dude how many old ass Klik games do you have lying around that don't exist on the internets anymore?

Ahh not many unfortunately, old klik games were many, many computers and hard drives ago.  I wish I still had my computer from when Klik Cafe was all the rage.

[Oddball]

I'd recommend Naked Wars by the Pickford Bros. It's a play-by-email turn based strategy. Not very well known, but definitely a classic.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOKVbB9TLT8

Site: http://www.naked-war.com/

[xerus]

What about the Klik game that defined an era:  Destruction Carnival.

[c-foo peng]

ARM JOE
2D Fighting game based on Les Miserables. Classics adaptation done right (take that Dante's Inferno)!

[ChevyRay]

Haha, I've never even heard of any of these games. This is gonna be a great week for me!

[Noyb]

Hey dude how many old ass Klik games do you have lying around that don't exist on the internets anymore?

The Daily Click recently dug up some old klik games from the Click Café days. Includes Destruction Carnival, Nastyman, Eggit, Freddy Trims a Tree, some of Derek's old work, among others: http://www.create-games.com/newspage.asp?id=3273

Some klik adventure games are still up online:

• The old Stollesoft Monkey Island fangames: http://stollesoft.jennula.com/
• Datadogg's Monkey Island fangames: http://www.boxofmystery.com/?page_id=8
• Scurvyliver's That Night Before: http://scurvy.adventuredevelopers.com/tnb.html
• The old VRealware games: http://www.vrealware.com/

If you want, I can check a few of my old computers to see if there are any good klik games buried there.

God, I feel old now.

[Amon26]

The indie status on this could be questioned, but I hold it as an overlooked gem so I'm throwing it a bone.

Iron Storm is a 'what if' action shooter taking place in a 1964 where the first world war didn't end.  Graphically, it's no technological marvel, you won't find anything magical here. There are no ragdoll physics or stamina bars.  However, the "charm" comes from its interesting perspective, beefy sound, and the sensation that everything in this world is heavy, rainsoaked, and almost broken.  The trench combat is also unnervingly tense.

Imagine a more steampunk, lowtech version of Killzone.  If that tickles your fancy then check it out.

youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWqpSJOmbT8
wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Storm_(PC)

[Derek]

Hey dude how many old ass Klik games do you have lying around that don't exist on the internets anymore?

The Daily Click recently dug up some old klik games from the Click Café days. Includes Destruction Carnival, Nastyman, Eggit, Freddy Trims a Tree, some of Derek's old work, among others: http://www.create-games.com/newspage.asp?id=3273

Holy fuck!  That's amazing!  Thanks, Noyb.

If anybody has Sword of Cobalt, please let me know.

[Edmund]

im stepping into my way back machine and going to 2001!.... do do do do.

look what i found!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/12725 (eat that! i was making art games before all yall mutha fuckas!)


also this
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/131729

GO TEAM ME!

no honestly you cant get away from the physics game that started it all.

Bridge Builder.
http://crypticsea.com/bridgebuilding/index.html

-Edmund

[Glaiel-Gamer]

Here's some of my classics from when I was a preteen

http://www.glaielgames.com/playgame.php?id=7
http://www.glaielgames.com/playgame.php?id=6

and a few from a while ago

http://www.glaielgames.com/playgame.php?id=32
http://www.glaielgames.com/playgame.php?id=39
http://www.glaielgames.com/playgame.php?id=45

[xerus]

Let us celebrate some of Tommy Refenes's early flash work.

Also HOLY FUCK!!!!! http://www.create-games.com/download.asp?id=7747  SPACE HERDY!  I fucking loved the music from Space Herdy.

[BMcC]

Destruction Carnival, yes!  I remember a day when, like, every game I downloaded was "inspired by DC" in some way.

Derek, I think it's time for me to cover a certain legendary game creator...  I'll give you a hint: "Retarded goats."

Also, you call dibs on Triumph?  Dag.