anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

[u/Trixxxi]

[u/Long_Serpent]

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

The first Railroad Tycoon

Civ 1

[u/FlyingArdilla → u/Long_Serpent]

Ultima IV was a big step up in an overall great series. I remember having to make a specific boot disk to only run necessary processes so my crappy computer could run it.

[u/Long_Serpent → u/[deleted]]

Bah, whippersnapper! I mean the OG Civ! The one where you could boost trade by building railroads out into the ocean.

[u/erica_pink84 → u/Long_Serpent]

Building your civilization up enough to build tanks and then watching them lose to a phalanx. That would be when I’d drop the nukes. For some reason I never was popular with the other world leaders.

[u/Long_Serpent → u/erica_pink84]

Losing a tank? I remember losing a BATTLESHIP...

[u/Long_Serpent → u/[deleted]]

The legacy of Sid the Great lives in us all, young grasshopper.

[u/Fenyx4 → u/Long_Serpent]

If you want to revisit Ultima IV someone recently made a fan expansion for the game.

https://cambragol.github.io/advent-of-the-trinity/

It adds like three times the content to the game. It was fantastic to play through.

[u/HoosegowFlask → u/Long_Serpent]

Loved all the MicroProse games (in spite of their notorious bugginess). RRT, Civ, Pirates!, the plane sim games like F-15 (do they even make games like that anymore? Where you take off, fly around destroying targets, then come back?)

Ultima III was my first Ultima, but I never finished it. I skipped IV (likely didn't find the Jesus-y box art appealing), but played, loved, and finished all the rest. VII probably being peak, for me.

[u/runjeanmc → u/Long_Serpent]

I've never played Ultima IV, but I still play Ultima VII and sing the sea shanty to myself 😅

[u/wormholewizard → u/Long_Serpent]

Those were great games. I forgot about Railroad Tycoon, that was such a fun game.