[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/vr/ - Retro Games

View post   
File: 8 KB, 320x200, 1955-echelon-dos-screenshot-front-view-tower-in-the-way.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5369951 No.5369951 [Reply] [Original]

Back when 3D gaming was considered the final frontier these pioneers let gamers have a taste at the potential of the 3rd dimension.

Hard Mode: No Wing Commander, No Star Wars

Pic is "Echelon", explore an alien world, find artifacts, and piece together a map to a space pirate base.

>> No.5369958

Privateer, Spelljammer

>> No.5369959
File: 8 KB, 320x200, 608827-starglider-ii-amiga-screenshot-outside-view.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5369959

>>5369951
How about "StarGlider II"?

>> No.5369961
File: 23 KB, 220x304, 220px-Starmaster_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5369961

>> No.5369962
File: 2.59 MB, 638x396, SpaceRogueDocking.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5369962

>>5369951
Or maybe "Space Rogue" if you like some RPG with your space sim?

>> No.5370297

Moonfall on the Amiga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAaWQmrX2cE

>> No.5370684

>>5369951
mercenary 2 and 3
ringwars

>> No.5370702

Sundog: Frozen Legacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunDog:_Frozen_Legacy

Not for the feint of heart. You have to buy parts to repair your ship, fly through a kinda small galaxy that is fully realized with 100% mapped terrain planets you could never fully explore. Space combat, trading, muggings on foot. This is about as close to Star Citizen as the Atari ST ever got.

>> No.5370748
File: 12 KB, 640x400, sundog-frozen-legacy_3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5370748

>>5370702
walking around on your spaceship was top comfy

>> No.5370927

>>5370748
Eat dat Cheeseburger! Slot that shunt.

>> No.5370952
File: 125 KB, 800x929, MV5BODExMDQ0YTctYjdkYS00ZWNlLTk3MDgtNTJlM2VlYWU2ZmQ4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzMxNDQ0NQ@@._V1_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5370952

Master of Orion series

>> No.5370976

>>5370952
>MOO
>underrated

>> No.5372420
File: 662 KB, 316x197, damocles.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5372420

>>5370684

>> No.5372428
File: 5 KB, 960x600, Space-Rogue_03.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5372428

>>5369962
This was the first game I ever got to play, on the first "real" computer my family ever bought. Packard bell 286 with a VGA card, i wanna say around 1989-ish. The Apple II version is also extremely worth checking out if you're into Apple II at all.

>> No.5372434

>>5372420
So awesome.

>> No.5372529

>>5372420
Played the shit out of Damocles when I was young. Had no idea what I was doing, mostly pretended to live in one of the houses.

*cracks*
Kids today will never understand.
*sips*

>> No.5374106
File: 21 KB, 640x400, nomad.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5374106

>>5369951
Project Nomad was a pretty good trading / exploration game from 1993 that approximately nobody ever heard of. I found an abortive attempt at a let's play with a buncha screenshots here:
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/lets-play-nomad.4987/

>> No.5374118
File: 7 KB, 320x200, Mean Streets_4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5374118

How about /ourguy/'s first adventure?

>> No.5374318
File: 6 KB, 320x200, starblade-10.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
5374318

Silmarils' Starblade
though it has very limited "3D flight" sections and the game itself is cryptic as fuck