/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6199139]

Retro casual games thread.

[Anonymous No.6199142]

>>6199139
I still don't know how to play freecell.

[Anonymous No.6199153]

>>6199139
I, unironically, play this on my phone every time I take a shit.

>>6199142
I used to as a kid. But can't, for the life of me, remember.

[Anonymous No.6199540]

>>6199142
>>6199153
Play that Microsoft Game Collection thing on GBC and read the rules for Freecell. That's how I learned.

[Anonymous No.6199880]

>>6199139
I remember one of my proudest life achievements when I was a teenager was to achieve a score of over 13,000 on this.

[Anonymous No.6199947]

>>6199139
Where I can download this win95/98 version of solitaire, please? I really like the back of the cards, and spider solitaire sucks. Not to mention that sweet animation when you win.

[Anonymous No.6200070]

Get on my level fuckers

[Anonymous No.6200082]

>>6200070
>Solitario
>football bux
ok nerdo max

[Anonymous No.6200095]

It always impressed all the kids in class when i cleared minesweeper or solitaire cause no one else new how to do it.

[Anonymous No.6200105]

I really want to play 3D Space Pinball again, but I don't find the files on the internet

[Anonymous No.6200113]

>>6199880
FWIW, if you finish the game in under two minutes, you get about 6000 points. (Default settings: draw 3, timed game.)

I have no idea how fast you have to do it to get 13k...

[Anonymous No.6200284]

>>6199142

You should give it a serious try, it's a fun little game. It's not complicated or hard to learn.

[Anonymous No.6200464]

freecell is the most pure skill based solitaire.
>all the cards are in plain sight
>you only need to think to solve it
is quite rewarding for that.

unlike fucking spider
>98% of the cards are hidden
>pure rng if you are gonna get the card you want or another dupe

klondike has rng but is pretty fair.

[Anonymous No.6200472]

>>6200105
look up "Full Tilt! Pinball"
there is an iso with the original (not windows-bundled) space cadet and two other tables
it's higher res than the bundled space cadet, too

[Anonymous No.6200482]

Massive nostalgia for solitaire.
I played it from time to time as a kid but never could win a round. I just fucked around with the cards. As an adult, I was once sitting with a new PC (around 2006 or so), with some new games like Doom 3 and others installed, and I remember that for whatever reason I preferred to go and play solitaire. Played the shit out of it and won it for the first time, and then several times.
I played it at nights during the week after classes, helped me ease my mind and relax, while I played Buck-Tick's Hurry Up Mode album on repeat.

[Anonymous No.6200584]

>>6200105
I remember that you could type “hidden test” and drag the ball around with the mouse

[Anonymous No.6200613]

>>6199947
>I really like the back of the cards
Me too. I used the Fish one and the one in OP's pic the most.

[Anonymous No.6200717]

>>6199139
With all the people playing solitaire over the years, why is there no regular solitaire contest like in poker?
Why can't you play it for money in Vegas?
And before someone says it's all RNG, there are strategies and tactics for this game

[Anonymous No.6200773]

>>6199142
Kind if like a reverse solitare.

[Anonymous No.6200856]

>>6200095
i still play minesweeper to this day its great

[Anonymous No.6201629]

>>6200472
Holy shit anon fucking thank you, hope you get all the whores you want!

[Anonymous No.6201630]

Any mobile version of the Microsoft Fun Pack you recommend? There are tons of clones on the appstore/playstore but maybe you found a good one to play.

[Anonymous No.6202640]

>>6200095
Anybody here really good at Windows Minesweeper? I'm still wondering if it was a bullshit claim or not but I remember many years ago in a discussion on Usenet where people were talking about their best times on the expert mode of Windows Minesweeper. Someone claimed that his very best time was something on the order of 30 seconds. I think the best I've ever done on expert mode is maybe 200 seconds.

What are some of everybody else's best times for the expert board?

[Anonymous No.6202861]

>>6202640
there was a youtube video from like 2006 where someone did expert in 60

30 is a bit dubious but not impossible with a bit of extreme luck

[Anonymous No.6202928]

>>6200070

not retro

[Anonymous No.6202970]

Back up, only the best card game for PC ever.

[Anonymous No.6203032]

>>6202640

My best times were 9s, 50s, and 99s on the three difficulty levels. It took me a while to get down to that 99... I wouldn't be surprised if somebody somewhere could do it in 30 though. A quick Google search suggests that the currently accepted record is something like 31 I guess?

[Anonymous No.6203341]

>>6202640
i've never cleared it. i always guess wrong when there's no more absolutely safe tiles.

[Anonymous No.6203432]

>>6202861
>>6203032
>>6203341
Thanks. I figured that the world record could e 30 seconds or so but this was back in the day when there was no YouTube or e-celebrities so it wasn't worth it to become autistically good at a game. Every one I knew of played Minesweeper casually.

I think my best scores were 6 seconds on beginner, 18 seconds on intermediate, and the 200 or so seconds on advanced.

[Anonymous No.6204285]

>>6202640
on intermediate i can get under 40s often
on expert i cant really get faster than like 86s

[Anonymous No.6204289]

>>6200472
>>6201629
there are some slight differences between the bundled-with-windows and the 'retail' version of space cadet
sound effects, certain mission changes ,etc

[Anonymous No.6204295]

Where are my hover boys at?

[Anonymous No.6205054]

>>6204285
>on expert i cant really get faster than like 86s
That's a pretty awesome score. You're really flying and also have to have some luck when dealing with situations where not enough information exists to know whether a square has a bomb or not.

[Anonymous No.6206138]

>>6204295
I played the shit out of it on my first PC, good times.

[Anonymous No.6207009]

>>6199142
Freecell is very simple. Hearts, on the other hand...

[Anonymous No.6207085]

Legend of Soltar will always be the best version of Solitaire.

Too bad you need that fucking orb to play it.

[Anonymous No.6207646]

>>6207009
Hearts is awesome.

[Anonymous No.6207696]

>>6207009
>>6207646
Isn't Hearts just Spades but for old women?

[Anonymous No.6208217]

>>6207696
Still impossible

[Anonymous No.6208242]

I remember learning a trick t win solitaire every time about a decade back, but for the life of me I can't remember it.

[Anonymous No.6208249]

>>6204295
>ywn be 13 with a Compaq Presario Pentium-100 playing Hover for the first time again
>with Dark Forces installing in the background

[Anonymous No.6208305]

>>6208242
There was a hidden feature that would divulge what the next card in the deck was. However, that would not guarantee a win.

[Anonymous No.6208309]

[Anonymous No.6208769]

>>6202640
there's a lot of hidden powerlevel minesweeper players that just don't talk about it. I suspect it's because it's readily available and some people just have just been playing it at work or whatever for 20+ years.

[Anonymous No.6208804]

>>6202970
I have the 98 version of Hoyle Card and Board games, but it wouldn't install on newer windows, so I downloaded the 2013 release a few years ago.
Besides letting you buy things with the in-game currency, it's practically identical to the old game.

[Anonymous No.6209053]

>>6204295
Superior hover game coming through