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Back on my 486sx I had a demo of this awesome pinball game of Epic Pinball, and a few months ago came across a full copy and immediately snagged it. Unfortunately I had a bunch of trouble of running it properly but tonight I stopped being lazy about it and took the few seconds to find a DOS emulator.
Admittedly, the full grouping of tables isn't all that great. Some of themes are very Chuck-E-Cheese-esque and a few of the tables are too empty to be very interesting even beyond the dumb decorations. But I can sweep all this aside since it has my favorite table of the lot: A dedication to Jill of the Jungle. I loved that one as a kid and would play just that table for hours, part of it being the music and part of it being probably the most well set up table of the group (which as it turns out, holds true for the full product as well). This game and that table in particular are pretty much the sole reason I ever got interested in pinball.
Enigma is also a pretty interesting table as while it's the most sparse of the lot with only two ramps and... well, that's it, you can progess through "levels" by doing things like collecting a certain number of spawning items or playing breakout or what-have-you. Not the greatest table but it's a pretty cool concept for pinball.
Not sure if there any fans or if this was big at all, but running it gave me a nice bit of nostalgia for the night. Makes me want to fire up Tyrian and Syndicate again, I haven't played those in years. I think I'll do a search for the regular Jill of the Jungle game as I remember it being pretty good.
I remember going to computer shows and getting the latest Shareware titles for something like 3 bucks or less a piece. Wolfenstein, Comander Keen, Duke Nukem. I'd play these over and over again always ignoring the "BLAH BLAH, FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS IN EPISODE 2, BLAH BLAH 30 BUCKS!!!".
Yeah, I wouldn't mind paying to play episodes 2 and 3 now.
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Another great, old-school Epic game is Fire Fight. Its a lot like the Strike series that was on Genesis and PSX (Soviet, Urban, etc.). Really great game.
I dont know about the older games, but episodes 2 and 3 of Duke Nukem 3D are *garbage*. I guess it makes sense to make the free episode the best one.Yeah, I wouldn't mind paying to play episodes 2 and 3 now./
I enjoyed Epic Pinball. And yeah Jill of the Jungle was good. It looked amateurish but the gameplay was there.
Epic Pinball was awesome. I really want to play that shit now. And OMF. Dammit. Wish I had Virtual PC on here.
Hah, I remember when my dad used to take me to computer shows at the nearby convention center when they had them a couple times a year. I was really into Doom mods when I was younger, so I can remember going crazy at tables with all sorts of mods on floppies. Lots of cool stuff came from those shows, but I remember the time we were tricked into buying Rise of the Robots before I saw any reviews...Originally Posted by Revoltor
RotR aside, I miss that stuff. Old shareware games are awesome.
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I remember Epic Pinball... hell, I still have four of the tables on diskette, Cyborgirl being the best of them.
You guys know how easy it is to find full versions of this stuff, now? Some companies out and made them public domain. Lemme give a look and see what I can find.
http://www.epicclassics.com/
THere. You have to pay, though.
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Wow, I remember playing all those games on the demo disc that came with my gravis gamepad that I bought for my Packard Bell.
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I loved epic pinball. I think I still have it on my HD(transfer from older HD). I figure it was Chux who originally had the floppies for the game and let me borrow them.
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I actually had Epic Pinball on my old 486... I remember having to do all this wacky shit in Dos just to get the game to play and even then the sound would cut out mid-game... it was fun for a couple maps but pinball is only so entertaining... I got bored quickly. I think I spent more time moving shit around memory wise (remember mem-maker?) than actually playing that game. I used to spend hours and hours with these fighter plane sims though, like F-119 stealth fighter and such.
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Jill of the Jungle shareware. 229k. Damn. I think what amazes me most is remembering how I had to delete that to make room for other games.
I think my HD back then was about 100MB but most of that was Windows 3.11 and various software. I had about 25~30MB total that I could install stuff on, which I only really remember because the demo for MKII took up over 20MB and I had to delete almost everything to make that fit.
Nice list of demos and such here.
Also, just in case there's anyone that hasn't played it yet, check out Abuse. It's now freeware and here's an unmodified version. Crackdotcom went under years ago and I used to have a copy of Abuse on CD which is long gone, but hey. Anyway, the full version also features a level editor and I *think* the ability to create your own graphics. Great stuff.
Raptor was another old favorite of mine, I loved saving up enough cash to get a couple of auto-turret guns and just mow down everything.
Here's Fire Fight as recommended by Diffx but I can't get it to work. It just screeches a lot and shuts down, anyone have any ideas?I used to have to do things like that for all sorts of games, I was constantly editing the autoexec.bat and whatever other major file was needed on a bootdisc so that I could load up with the best settings possible.
[edit] It's also cool because in order to get a recognized joystick for those games I had to bust out with my old 4-button Gravis gamepad, the same one I've had since that 486sx.
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