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Title: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: Jack Burton on April 21, 2014, 03:31:50 pm
Hi guys,

What are your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s?

Here are a few that come to mind for me:

Dragon Warrior (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c7QLSPFgSCI/TXesyBEXMhI/AAAAAAAAB6o/CzYrvdqzCRE/s1600/dragon_warrior_box_us.jpg)

Star Control II (http://www.star-control.com/sc2/images/sc2_melee1.jpg)

Space Quest IV (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/spacequest/sq4.jpg)

King's Quest V (http://nerdtrek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Kings-Quest-V.jpg)



Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: Space Avenger on April 21, 2014, 08:11:29 pm
Its not really early 90s but I like Pokemon. Even tough I can tell most people in the shoutbox don't, lol.


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: BloodyCactus on April 21, 2014, 08:38:44 pm
ultima 3, 6
wasteland
magic candle 1
pool of radiance
curse azure bonds
rogue
dungeon master
eye of the beholder
bards tale 1/2/3


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: DaCord421 on April 21, 2014, 09:16:03 pm
The Legend of Zelda
Final Fantasy


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: John's Arcade on April 22, 2014, 09:23:36 am
Ultima III - wow I loved that game on my 800XL.

And, Zelda.


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: lesoleil70 on April 22, 2014, 11:50:00 am
(http://www.gamesniped.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/lucasfilm-loom-boxed-talkie-cd-rom-game-sealed.jpg)



Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: offset on April 22, 2014, 01:33:55 pm
Questron on my Commodore 64, oh, and +1 on the Bard's Tale series



(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Questron_C64.png)


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: Chuckie egg on April 22, 2014, 05:20:26 pm
Great thread
The 80s & 90s were the best for RPGs
As they left a lot to the imagination
I liked
Zelda
Secret of mana
Baulders  gate
I played a lot of D&D as a kid and collected Warhammer figures
Great time to be a kid


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: VertexGuy on April 22, 2014, 07:38:05 pm
(http://www.gamesniped.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/lucasfilm-loom-boxed-talkie-cd-rom-game-sealed.jpg)



I played this for the turboduo when it came out.. still have it.


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: Jack Burton on April 22, 2014, 11:09:11 pm
Great thread
The 80s & 90s were the best for RPGs
As they left a lot to the imagination
I liked
Zelda
Secret of mana
Baulders  gate
I played a lot of D&D as a kid and collected Warhammer figures
Great time to be a kid


I forgot about real role playing games.... I loved D&D... I loved Car Wars... You ever heard of Car Wars??? Man that was so epic

(https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.pinterest.com.s3.amazonaws.com/736x/a7/60/d7/a760d7553e21ea6d85e0e24829ed6c08.jpg)


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: Chuckie egg on April 23, 2014, 01:51:15 am
Car wars was awesome

Do you remember rune quest and traveller ? 


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: lesoleil70 on April 23, 2014, 03:32:48 pm
Can't remember if I posted it anywhere here before, but here's a link to zork I, II, and III for a legal free download for pc and mac

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html (http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Screenshot_of_Zork_running_on_Frotz_through_iTerm_2_on_Mac_OSX.png)


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: lordkahless214 on April 23, 2014, 04:35:16 pm
Well, my top 5 video faves are

Legacy of the Ancients on Commodore 64
Earthbound on Super Nintendo
Phantasy Star 2 on Sega Genesis
Spellcaster on Sega Master System
Auto Duel on Commodore 64

Pen and paper is
AD&D
Call of Cthulhu
Star Trek
Marvel Super Heroes
Price of Freedom


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: VertexGuy on April 24, 2014, 02:32:32 am
I was on a bike or skateboard somewhere or at a party lol.


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: BloodyCactus on April 24, 2014, 08:03:39 am
legacy of the ancients was fun. I think it was the second last game to use that engine. Legacy of Blacksilver was the last, and imo better of the two. rumours of a third never turned out. (LOA/LOB/LOC!)

I liked Questron 2 probably more than the others but Legend of Blacksilver was good too, I think it was the only one of them all (questron 1,2, ancients, blacksilver) not made by the same people, and it shows. Lot more refinements in the Q2 engine.


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: VertexGuy on May 01, 2014, 06:55:29 pm
SNATCHER for the pcengine cdrom, psx, sega Saturn , and Y's 1 and 2.

(http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb392/turbografx/snatcher-620x528.jpg) (http://s1203.photobucket.com/user/turbografx/media/snatcher-620x528.jpg.html)


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: Player 2 on May 04, 2014, 10:03:14 am
Dragon Warrior IV is my favorite 80's RPG.  Suikoden is my all time favorite RPG series but it started in 1995 I think.


Title: Re:
Post by: Tighe on May 04, 2014, 06:05:34 pm
Star Control 2 is an epic game! Never really considered it a RPG, You can play it on PC and android now as the source code was released open source, but they Fred Ford and Paul had to change the name to Ur-Quan Masters because they sold the name.

Also, my favorite RPGs back then were:
Sword of Vermilion (Genesis - by Yu Suzuki)
Luna the silver Star (Sega CD)
Phantasy Star (master system)
Super Mario RPG
Shadow Gate
Earthbound


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: airsoftmodels on May 07, 2014, 11:12:56 am
I had Ultima III and Ultima IV for the Apple //c, but I think Wizardry started it all in 1981!


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: P-feif on May 07, 2014, 03:04:03 pm
Not really into the RPG's too much but I had one for my Playstation I that I reall liked. It was called Gardians Crusade. That's the only video game that I have ever compleated.


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: DaCord421 on May 07, 2014, 08:18:47 pm
Star Control 2 is an epic game! Never really considered it a RPG, You can play it on PC and android now as the source code was released open source, but they Fred Ford and Paul had to change the name to Ur-Quan Masters because they sold the name.

Also, my favorite RPGs back then were:
Sword of Vermilion (Genesis - by Yu Suzuki)
Luna the silver Star (Sega CD)
Phantasy Star (master system)
Super Mario RPG
Shadow Gate
Earthbound


Damn. I almost forgot about Sword of Vermilion.


Title: Re:
Post by: DaCord421 on September 10, 2016, 10:24:26 pm
I beat that game so much that if I ever played it again, I won't need the maps and guide for the game.


Title: Re: Your favorite RPGs from the late 80s or early 90s
Post by: ChasinTheTrane on March 13, 2017, 06:53:32 pm
It's hard to go wrong with Secret of Mana!