my first game is "crying freeman". i don't think i can find it on tdc anymore. it was made in TGF and it was the first thing on the front page when i visited the dc for the first time ever. does anybody remember it?
it started with a photo of a tatooed yakooza (cant spell?) back tinted in blue and then the game was a shooter with 8 direction movement.
The first game I downloaded was a virtual pet battling game by a member named ZYX. I can't remember the name, but you'd be given a pet at random at the start of the game and have to battle other pets in combat. In addition there were two elements: heat and cold. Your pet would also die of old age eventually, so you had to be efficient if you wanted to defeat the final boss before then.
Originally Posted by Strife The first game I downloaded was a virtual pet battling game by a member named ZYX. I can't remember the name, but you'd be given a pet at random at the start of the game and have to battle other pets in combat. In addition there were two elements: heat and cold. Your pet would also die of old age eventually, so you had to be efficient if you wanted to defeat the final boss before then.
Gaah, what was the name of it? ;
actually that sounds very good. way too good. the graphics must have been awful and it must have been buggy or something but some pokemon clone where your critter can die because of age and you have to rush sounds like one of the best things ever. i totally want to play this one now.
@circy: but were those the first click games you PLAYED? i started kliking in 1994 so my first klik games where on share ware CDs and also came with computer magazines where readers could submit their content which was either qbasic text adventures, knp games or command and conquer maps (later not in 1994). so those gaming mags had a lot of german content / self made games by kraut while those shareware CDs were international and contained a lot of american content. it was kind of cool to see the differences between american and german click games in the days before the interwebs.
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WTF is wrong with TDC always logging me out when i want to post a reply > : C thx for that aaargh
I remember not knowing what Klik & Create was, but even then it sounded pretty cool. Until I found MMF in the early 2000's, I had been looking for it ever since.
I do not remember my first download and play from TDC, unfortunately.
They were definitely the first klik games I ever played. That is, of course, if you don't count the sample games included with the Click products I didn't even get on the internet properly until 1999.
Dunno about TDC, but the first Klik game I downloaded was some scuba diving game I found in AOL games back in the mid/late 90s. I knew it was a klik game because of the default counter graphics.
Since so many folks are talking about their first klik game evar, I might as well add my two cents.
Back in the day, my dad bought me this CD set called Over 1000 Games. There were a few klik games on there, but the first one I found/played was this mouse shooter called Cheese In Space. It used the spaceship console background from Klik & Play, and it was impossible to lose. You could just sit there and let all of the junk food and such pile up on the screen and you wouldn't get penalized for it. Once the game was closed, an ad for Klik & Play appeared, and being a giddy 10-11 year old kid who always wanted to make his own games, I begged for my parents to order it for me, and they did. The rest is history.
Also, OMG I remember Choppy the Porkchop! =D That really was a dumb game, but the kind of dumb that had its charms. It was on the same CD. I also remember playing Amazing Mazes to Amaze, What A Hell! (also known as What A Day!), and Defense of the Squid Man, which were actually pretty decent titles. I found another klik game called Star Gypsy on a different CD called Galaxy of Games, and it was also pretty kick-arse.
I can't remember the name of the game but I do remember the game fairly well. It was a bog standard scrolling platformer with some weird alien/monster as the main character and basic springs and jumps.
The trouble is it used a fairly big screen size and my pc was too crap to run it full speed when it started scrolling.
Went I first got on TDC, there was a news post about a new game called 'Super Smash Bros. Awesome.' Like so many other people, I downloaded it. I definitely recommend this high quality game
Originally Posted by MasterM actually that sounds very good. way too good. the graphics must have been awful and it must have been buggy or something but some pokemon clone where your critter can die because of age and you have to rush sounds like one of the best things ever. i totally want to play this one now.
No actually the game wasn't really buggy at all.
I downloaded it too the summer of 2005, it was pretty awesome, and then I tried to make a similar game after being inspired by it. I didn't have the skills back then though. ha.
I think the first game I downloaded was one of the NastyMan games, after being disappointed I downloaded the game on the top downloads list.
@UrbanMonk: so whats the name of that game? i want to try it myself now
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@Andy: Could it be Gobbin Cram? you played a green alien and you can move it's arm with it's gone in like 180° directions or something if I remember correctly?
I don't know if there was a Daily Click when I first found these guys, but the first klik game I played was a couple of monkey island fan games by an australian guy called Matt Shaw, I think. I think they were called Cuthroat Island?
Originally Posted by MasterM @UrbanMonk: so whats the name of that game? i want to try it myself now
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@Andy: Could it be Gobbin Cram? you played a green alien and you can move it's arm with it's gone in like 180° directions or something if I remember correctly?
Just did a quick search for Gobbin Cram. Nah thats not it. It was much more colorful and might even have been a demo/abandonware thing. Quike frankly it was a generic platform game.
Originally Posted by Alonso Martin I don't know if there was a Daily Click when I first found these guys, but the first klik game I played was a couple of monkey island fan games by an australian guy called Matt Shaw, I think. I think they were called Cuthroat Island?
i think i remember those. really would love to play them all now.
personally i am very bothered about all the great games that are forever lost. i love that about newgrounds. people uploaded their games 10 years ago and they are still on that page. i wish there was a script on TDC that every time someone submits a game it will automatically be uploaded to rapidshare, mediafire, megaupload etc etc so they will be online forever
Yeah, that bothers me too MasterM. I really want to find that virtual pet game and play it again.
And to add insult to injury, most of the time you can't even get the original authors to upload it again, because they consider their older games to be shameful and don't want to release them again out of embarrassment. I think that was one of the main problems with the Legend of Flan series, with was otherwise a really solid collection of MMORPG's. It shall be missed. D:
I'm just glad I managed to find the Warbot / Elektroid series and upload it to my MediaFire account. It remains one of my absolute favorites.
Hey, here's a bunch of these old games: I especially remember Naimistath & Miraculous quest (I did a fan game on it once, and I still have the crappy source somewhere! ).
I didn't know that site was still up! I've missed looking at the Naimistath screenshots in the Projects section. It's a huge shame the game never got completed, I love Owen Lyndsays graphical style.
If any of the old-skool klikkers are around and somehow have a copy of this handed to them in beta can they let me know?
yes ive loved Miraculous. man how i loved it! i loved it so much i wanted to make something like it as well so i ended up doing a TEXT ADVENTURE IN MMF LIKE OLD SIERRA GAMES like kings quest, leisure suit larry or space quest. i tell you mmf isnt made for that. strings dont really work and i entered so many different possibilites of stuff people could enter - dang.
anyways years ago like 8 years ago or even way more in the past ive emailed the creator of Miraculous quest and asked him some stuff about his game. it took him one year to reply - he checked his email after one year. now here is the funny thing: i had already given up that email account and bothered to check in after ONE YEAR after i had recieved his email. so it was a conversation where it took both of us 1 year to reply.
anyways do you still have your clone, alonso? id like to see it.
also cant we introduce an upload script like ive suggested?
Lol, it's been so long ago. Back then, there was like another TDC, maintained by ChrisD and not Clubsoft.
First klik game I downloaded was some K&P platform game I found on download.com. Heh, back then, there weren't really any klik sites (or at least a lot of people didn't know them) so many klikers just uploaded crappy games onto Download.com. But games back then were so bad so even the k&p games could stand out with the rest. And they were so bad that nobody cared that the graphics were all from the library.
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Originally Posted by The Chris Street I didn't know that site was still up! I've missed looking at the Naimistath screenshots in the Projects section. It's a huge shame the game never got completed, I love Owen Lyndsays graphical style.
If any of the old-skool klikkers are around and somehow have a copy of this handed to them in beta can they let me know?
You mean Naimistath X? You might be able to get the original game from the VReal site still. I think I had two versions of Naim X
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I didn't even get on the internet properly until 1999.
T'was awesome times!
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