Just the other day my relatives came to visit me with their 5 year old daughter. And, having driven away the emperor’s room with Pekarik from his throne She demanded me from my chair to turn on some gamulka. After digging a little through the disks, I found games that were almost 15 years old! Nostalgia hit me like an electric shock (it’s somehow strange to talk about nostalgia at 18 years old). After suffering for a couple of days, I couldn’t stand it and decided to write this post 🙂
I hope it won’t be boring. Let’s get started!
The slaughter has begun
My very first game! With what interest I watched how my father played it. How happy I was when he let me talk in it too! How interesting it was for me to look at dismembered enemies! How many memories remain..
I wonder if anyone pressed F1?
In general, the disk with Quake 2 appeared immediately after my father bought PeKarik in 1999. Soon there was already an armful of game discs at home (some will be mentioned here). I remember how my father spent hours fiddling with the settings (for some unknown reason they didn’t last long). And one day, having been pretty tortured, he wrote down all the parameters on a paper sticker, which, unfortunately, did not live to this day 🙁 That’s why I was very happy when I found that very disk from that very time, turned on the game and stuck in it for a good number of hours.
Antimass spectrometer. Cascade resonance. Deafening Explosions. Screams and screams of scientists. You hear it too?
If "quack" was just an interesting and intuitive meat grinder, then Half-life was the first game where I shit myself I was afraid to go further! I was very often overwhelmed by animal fear of flattery in the cracks and ventilation 🙂 The local dismemberment caused disgust and interest at the same time (the corpse was ground into a skull, heart, lungs, leg bones, intestines. All this was accompanied by blood and a characteristic sound).That’s probably why I’m not afraid of blood 🙂
Even today, so much blood and meat looks good
The Half-life disc appeared almost immediately after the “quack”. My father turned on the “halva” and we both just couldn’t tear ourselves away from it. And literally the next night I had a nightmare where I was being eaten by a barnacle 🙂
Good old fargus
Jokes aside, but Fargus translated the game very well. Not without flaws and logical errors, of course, but the voices were wonderfully chosen. I wonder why my father always called Freeman’s main weapon a stalk?
3.Age of Empires I/II
Let’s take a little break from shooters:) Father loved not only to kill evil spirits in batches, but also to develop/conquer peoples. His (and, accordingly, mine) first strategies were “empires”. My father didn’t play them very often, preferring the Cossacks, but I liked it.
Perhaps the most beautiful was http://bidbingocasinoonline.co.uk/ the 1st empire
An interesting feature of the “empires” was the depletion of all resources (especially quickly stone and gold, of which there were few). So we must hurry to conquer other nations!
These were relatively simple and at the same time spectacular strategies that are still interesting to play. Their coolness is evidenced by the fact that my mother (who has a negative attitude towards games) used to play Empire 2! How she liked the regime of regicide (since then she clearly knows what a trebuchet is).
Death of the king = instant defeat. And no one cares that you still have an army 🙂
4. Cossacks 2 – War Again
One of the most epic RTS
As I wrote above, my father gave preference to these “Cossacks”. How he liked her! Especially the mission where you do not directly control soldiers and units, but only through messengers 🙂
Not the same mission, but this one was far from easy
And what a well-thought-out strategy it was – the more inhabitants, the faster the food decreases until starvation, a large army – be kind, spend a little gold on maintenance (otherwise it’s a riot). Do you want to shoot? So keep coal and iron in stock! Well, at least the resources were endless 🙂
It was very difficult to feed this handsome man. But it was worth it!
Naval battles deserve a special mention – they were amazing, loud and very spectacular!(words are no longer enough, this needs to be seen and heard).
He needs no introduction
Here the story with Half-life repeated itself – turned it on and stuck for a long time. Both. Perhaps the most dynamic shooter of my childhood. How I loved the pump action shotgun!
They were all dead. The last shot put an end to this story. I took my finger off the trigger. It was all over
Surely you already have the same soundtrack from the menu spinning in your head. Well, if not, then
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Of course, being a 6-year-old child, I was not imbued with the plot or atmosphere. I just liked to run and shoot from the air 🙂 I remember how I couldn’t pass the level where I had to escape from the D-6 bunker (I wonder why secret bunkers in games are often called D-6?) and I had to scream heart-rendingly call your father for help. Or how I didn’t understand what an hourglass was for (only a couple of years later it dawned on me that it was bullet time). Or how my father once got so carried away by the game that he didn’t prepare dinner for me. I had to starve until my mother returned 🙂
Have you found this secret room??
By the way, a long time ago Maxim Kulakov streamed this great game together with Maxim Solodilov. There is a recording on SG. Who knows, maybe this stream will continue 🙂
In the breaks between shooting vortigaunts and defending his fortress city, it was fun to chase Kuzya – now he’s on a parachute, now he’s climbing mountains, now he’s riding ostriches, playing mahjong, riding on trolleys 🙂
The game is filled with children’s humor (especially in the moments when Kuza was taken by a player’s mistake).
Another crazy bird
All games with Kuzya were filled with puzzles, riddles, reaction tests and beautiful scenes of failure 🙂 And if it didn’t work out pile on defeat the treacherous Scylla, remember: “Even if today is unlucky. But the game goes on, call Kuza!».
This is the end of my nostalgic post. I hope you, my dear reader, found it interesting to reminisce with me about these retro games! Perhaps you remembered something yourself. Thank you for your attention and
Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
Half-Life
Max Payne
Cossacks: War Again
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Best comments
When I read posts like this I feel old. My childhood is a dandy, a little sega and Sonya in the early 2000s. I even croaked on it.
I associate Kuzya with television shows. Call and play using your phone right on the air. There was also an e-sports show at the beginning of the 2000s, on STS, where guys were divided into teams and played games – Contra, NFS and FIFA. That’s it.
The very first was Ramble – racing on Sonya.
Then GTA:VC
Diablo II
Asterix & Obelix XXL
Blade & Sword
Stronghold 1
Unreal Tournament 1999
Three games: Vice City (a friend brought the game and first of all entered the code at the very beginning of the game on the PANZER tank), Spider-man 2 (on the back of the game box there was Shocker and Black Cat. There weren’t any in the game, which is why I was incredibly disappointed with the game… even though I later found out that on the back there were screenshots of the version for the second curling iron, which is 3 times better than the pitch version) and How to get your neighbor 1. I only started using a computer in the 21st century. The last century was spent more with consoles.
Kuzya the enchanted mirror. I don’t remember the others, either they didn’t exist, or in fact there were already computer versions.
Kuzya is still coming out. And… I won’t say anything.
My first joker was Serious Sam. At that age he made a strong impression on me. It’s a shame that the developers have abandoned this series now. I hope for her resurrection soon.