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« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2007, 02:59:12 PM » |
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Technically Shareware (I think?) but anyways.
Before there was Smash Bros, there was: MARSHMALLOW DUEL!!
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« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2007, 03:08:37 PM » |
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GANJA FARMER! also technically shareware, but one of the first indie games ive ever played. http://www.evilx.com/ganjasoft.html |
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« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2007, 05:35:05 PM » |
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Super Mario War! I found it in a PC gaming magazine that I used to subscribe to. If it wasn't for Super Mario War I don't even know if I would have stumbled into the freeware/indie scene.
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« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2007, 05:47:22 PM » |
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Possibly Aldo's Adventure or Secret Agent.
It's hard to remember the boundaries between swapping disks, calling BBSs, and using the Internet.
I also liked to order freeware and shareware from catalogs--some friends and I went in together and got a ton of those 5.25" disks.
The first free game I actually downloaded from the Internet was probably ZZT.
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« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2007, 06:58:00 PM » |
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Super Mario War! I found it in a PC gaming magazine that I used to subscribe to. If it wasn't for Super Mario War I don't even know if I would have stumbled into the freeware/indie scene.
Great game. It was on FGOTD |
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« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2007, 07:01:37 PM » |
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I am also in the camp of having downloaded a lot of freeware from BBSes back before the internet. I'm afraid the exact names of those games are now lost to the mists of time.
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« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2007, 09:26:04 PM » |
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Scorched Earth was probably the first game I downloaded that made an impact. But talking strictly freeware, I think the first were some walkaround RPG demos made with VERGE that someone in my Starcraft Clan introduced me to. We were going to make a Starcraft RPG!
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« Reply #22 on: December 20, 2007, 04:24:51 PM » |
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The then shareware game, now free ware game that I remember the most from being a kid is Castle of the Winds.
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« Reply #23 on: December 20, 2007, 09:32:57 PM » |
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Yipe 1 for the pre- powerPC macs
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« Reply #24 on: December 20, 2007, 10:35:12 PM » |
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Possibly Fishhead 3, or Pleurghburg: Dark Ages.
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« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2007, 01:03:20 AM » |
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I'm pretty sure the first freeware game that I downloaded was jumpnbump. Which, by the way, is awesome.
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« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2007, 10:47:41 PM » |
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we use to duke it out the whole afternoon! I played it against both of my brothers all afternoon yesterday. The first freeware game that I got, though, was Bert the Barbarian. |
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« Reply #27 on: December 26, 2007, 07:07:32 PM » |
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For me, it was probably Noctis.
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« Reply #28 on: December 27, 2007, 12:55:14 AM » |
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Jump n' Bump!
OH DEAR LORD YES. Fucking Jump n' Bump-was-my-first-freeware-game fanclub! |
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« Reply #29 on: December 27, 2007, 05:54:57 PM » |
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Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue...the DOS one. Those robots scared me  |
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