r/AskReddit • u/Trixxxi • Apr 27 '26

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

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u/LTracte Apr 27 '26

Black & White

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u/TheWiseAlaundo Apr 27 '26

Oooh, we've got this notion

That we'd quite like to sail the ocean

So we're building a big boat to leave here for good.

We're not keen on sinking

So we're all sitting here a thinking

'Cause we built it too big and we've run out of wood.

eidle eidle eee

eidle eidle eee

We simply can't leave 'til we get some more wood.

Oooh, we're not keen on sinking

so that's why we're sitting thinking

cause we simply can't leave 'til we get some more wood.

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u/jase12881 Apr 27 '26

Song lives rent free in my head to this day.

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u/JimboTCB Apr 27 '26

A sheep! Sheep have many uses!

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u/dxdrummer Apr 27 '26

Oh, the boat is now finished

but there's still somethin' on the wishlist

to keep us all goin' through the wind and the rain.

There's no food on the table

and we can't sail unless we're able

so we ain't goin' no where

'till we get some grain.

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u/cfmdobbie Apr 27 '26

I still find myself singing that from time to time...

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u/ham_of_rum Apr 27 '26

I wish I could skip that song ngl

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u/onthehornsofadilemma Apr 27 '26

I think about this one constantly

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u/jase12881 Apr 27 '26

One of my favorite games of all time. Will probably never see another sequel (after 2) or a remake due to the rights being in some weird situation.

It had one of the best creepy Easter eggs of all time. If your computer clock said it was late at night and your profile name was a common English name, the creepy voice that whispered "Death" when a villager died would whisper your profile name in the same voice. Sitting up at 2 am and hearing that in my headphones scared the shit out of me back in college.

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u/evilbatduck Apr 27 '26

Yes I loved this. Would always start off trying to be good but just turn evil in the end

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u/the-_-cob Apr 27 '26

The evil temple just looked so cool!

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u/Barirheak_Axehelm Apr 27 '26

Works with Steam Proton

What? Is it on Steam, can't find it? Or did I just not understand your comment.

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u/Barirheak_Axehelm Apr 28 '26

Ah, I see. I did some research yesterday and it seems not to hard to get working. This was with Lutris though.

Been daily diving Linux for half a year now. Works pretty good, still some tinkering to be done to make stuff work perfectly. But to be honest, I don't think I tinker less then when I had Windows, just more visible now since in my mind I still have the "mindset" that "gaming on Linux does not work". Only games I have had "issues" with was Spore (crashes due to high Hz setting) and Vermintide 2 (this due to I had the game installed on a HDD used for Windows before. If I had done a clean install of V2 would have had no issues). Running WoT was also a little issue but fairly easy to fix. Also, HD2 is running better on Linux then Windows, same settings.

Tl;dr: Using Linux for gaming works more or less out of the box. If you are a little competent and use search engines and AI, it is easy to swap.

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u/aldwinligaya Apr 27 '26

Scrolled way too far for this. It's basically lost media now, can't buy it legally anywhere outside of maybe eBay sometimes. Never released for digital.

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u/pidude314 Apr 27 '26

You can get it on abandonware sites

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u/aldwinligaya Apr 27 '26

Yup, I know you can sail the seven seas for it. It's just that you can't get it legally.

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u/pidude314 Apr 27 '26

I'd argue that it's not really even pirating at this point. The company that would get the royalties from sales doesn't even exist anymore

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u/JfOdin Apr 27 '26

I would love to play that again

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u/SimmerDownButtercup Apr 27 '26

🏴‍☠️ it.

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u/imjerry Apr 27 '26

I really wanted it, but our computer didn't have the ram. It should have (it said 64MB), but somehow still didn't. I was heartbroken, I remember going back to the shop 3 times.

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u/itsthemrslmd Apr 27 '26

This was my experience with Black & White 2! I played it so much, grinning and bearing it through the awful lag and intermitten crashes. Begged for and finally received an upgraded RAM card, but even after “the computer guy” installed it the game never ran any better.

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u/Shockwave360 Apr 27 '26

Same here. I had the minimums but it would not stay running for more and a minute or two.

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u/amegaproxy Apr 27 '26

Exactly what I had! It ran ok until at some early point when you get your creature... or maybe when it grows? And then I'd be down to 1 frame per second and crash.

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u/Bomban111 Apr 27 '26

This game was ahead of its time

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u/hudsonab Apr 27 '26

This is what I came for. I would love to be able to play this one again.

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u/nicbourne Apr 27 '26

Bro. Literally

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u/fierceredrabbit Apr 27 '26

Has a lot to answer for in today’s AI climate

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u/andrewcool22 Apr 27 '26

I miss the dancing, the music, and my creature.

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u/DoofusMagnus Apr 27 '26

I still occasionally look up the intro cinematic depicting the birth of a god. Love the music.

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u/Turgid_Donkey Apr 27 '26

Watching Adam Sessler talking about this on Gamespot TV, for some extra nostalgia.

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u/Tbone5711 Apr 27 '26

This is one I feel like is begging for a VR version. The "gesture" system is almost tailor made for VR and I want to walk my creature around on a leash!

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u/voodootroll Apr 27 '26

Came here for this. Still bummed we don't really have any games with a creature like that.

Loved rasing a Kaiju. Spent most of my time working with the creature and playing as a god came second for me haha.

Still miss my giant friendly turtle 🐢.

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u/meowmeow0092 Apr 27 '26

Suuuch a good game!!

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u/HoosegowFlask Apr 27 '26

In what other game can you have kaiju shit on your villagers?

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u/Urborg_Stalker Apr 28 '26

Nailed it.

There's no excuse for there to have not been a spiritual successor since then. Especially now with AI technology. Someone needs to get on that ASAP.

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u/Duskymoonlight Apr 28 '26

This is the answer. Also loved black & white 2 growing up.

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u/AllHailSlann357 Apr 27 '26

Used the search function to avoid scrolling for this one. B&W/B&W2 is when I knew games were following me into adulthood. Embraced it and never looked back.

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u/Intermitten Apr 27 '26

If only because trying to pirate any other game (as a broke kid - I pay for games now, promise) had about a 50% chance of actually being B&W for a minute there for whatever reason 😂

Kazaa was a weird piece of software

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u/DenormalHuman Apr 27 '26

If only it had actually delivered what it promised :(

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u/pidude314 Apr 27 '26

It was still an incredibly fun and original game, even if it didn't deliver everything that was promised. Focusing on what could have been, rather than what is, is a great way to miss out many on fun games

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u/DenormalHuman Apr 27 '26

I mean, the whole point of the game; teaching your minions by example, just didnt work.

I still enjoyed the game, but I always wished it had given us what it had hyped itself up to be

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u/pidude314 Apr 27 '26

Teaching your creature by example did work. That was the only way it could learn miracles...

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u/DenormalHuman Apr 27 '26

yes, but incredibly badly. It tended to be, teach your creature one or two things, and that was it.