/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7800870
Halo

Doom
Quake
Half-Life

Whatever they were doing

Monster Bash
Jazz Jackrabbit
Jill of the Jungle
Warcraft 2
Age of Empires

Mostly games by devs that fell from grace
Obsidian Software
Maxis
Epic Megagames
Sierra Online and subsidiaries
Bethesda
Lucasarts Interactive
Microprose
Early EA games
Apogee / 3D realms

Douk
Blood
Shadow Warrior
All the best shootan games were made in the US.

>>7800870
There aren't any

>>7800936
wtf is douk

>>7800951
Douk Noukem

>>7800951
>>7800953
FUCK YEAR

>>7800870
Deus Ex
Planet Escape Tournament
System Shock series

>>7800951
>>7800953
>>7800956
???
nothing shows up on askjeeves about that can I have a link?

>>7800870
US gold Amiga games

Sim city games
Fallout RPGs
Jazz Jackrabbit
Unreal series
The Monkey Island Games
Civilization series
Need For Speed games
Deus Ex
Duke Nukem
All id games and most goldsource games

Note what platform all of this is for

Tons.

iD Software got their start as a ragtag bunch of dudes breaking off of a company called Softdisk, based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Their breakout hit was the sidescrolling platformer Commander Keen, which was a big hit because they had figured out how to make a smooth sidescrolling game like that for PC, previously exclusive to consoles and arcades.
Moving to Madison, Wisconsin, they would focus on making a first person action game, more advanced and way faster than their previous ones (Catacombs 3D, Hovertank 3D), this would be Wolfenstein 3D, the prototypical first person shooter. Though plain compared to most notable games coming after, it's still kinda fun for how past paced it gets, and has a great cartoony charm.

iD Software didn't enjoy Madison, the place they got was shitty, and the winter was miserable to guys who'd mostly have lived in warmer states like Louisiana, California, and Kansas. On the suggestion of Scott Miller of Apogee, their publisher at the time, they moved down to Mesquite, Texas, because it was always warm and there was no state income tax, so iD Software made the move and finished development of Wolfenstein 3D there. With the experience and success of Wolfenstein 3D, they would go on to develop Doom (ditching Apogee as a publisher along the way).

Texas, by the way, and particularly the Dallas area, has been quite significant in the last 30 years of software and hardware development, and games are no exception.

>Wolfenstein 3D
>Shadowcaster
>Rise Of The Triad
>Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3
>Heretic, Heretic 2
>Hexen, Hexen 2
>Duke Nukem 3D
>Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Quake 4
>Shadow Warrior
Among these are some of the most significant first person shooter games of the 1990s, developed partially or fully in Texas. Of course there were other studios elsewhere developing the same genre, Valve are situated in Seattle, Washington, and published Half-Life in 1998, one of the most important first person shooters of all time. This also barely scratches the surface of all other kinds of American games.

The West Coast has always had the largest concentration of game developers in the US and Texas is another "island." Microprose were based in Maryland since they were actually a US government front organization which is why they always made military sims.

>>7801717
>The West Coast has always had the largest concentration of game developers in the US and Texas is another "island."
True, but some of those 'islands' were quite significant, like Texas.

>>7801090
Retro Studios(Metroid Prime) is also based in Texas.

>>7801747
Texans sure like to shoot, must be why they figure so prominently in 90s and 2000's FPS development.

>>7800870
I can't find a list of US made games :S

>>7800870
all of the good 'merican games are on PC.

Burgers were releasing absolute trash on the consoles between Atari and the PS1 era.

>>7802326
You don't like;
>SMASH TV
>Mortal Kombat
>Zombies Ate My Neighbors
>Robocop Vs. Terminator
?

Like others have said, U.S. devs were mainly on the PC side of things back in the retro days.

The best US made Mega Drive (Genesis) game is probably Road Rash 2. The Ecco games, the Shiny games, Klax, Talespin and Bubsy are all worthwhile as well.

Tyrian.

>>7800870
US was on top of its game in the /vr/ era. Today they are the ones lagging drastically behind EU/Japanese studios

The Lost Vikings

>>7803171
today they are getting bought by china, just look at blizzard for example.

>>7800873
jesus i'm old

>>7803262
>bought out by china
>but not actually hit by their autistic censorship so you still have shit like all the faggotry in Overw*tch
Truly the worst of both worlds.

>>7800870
Quake 3 and UT are tons of fun with friends/classmates/randoms.