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Remember having old PC video games that you had fun with? Games prior to 2002, or XP! My oldest desktop is a WIN 98 machine with some nice old games! Like No One Lives Forever, NOLF 2, Microsoft Combat Simulator, Mafia, Homeworld 1, HW 2, etc.
Problem is, maybe I lost the play/install cd that came with these games! So now my only hope is to torrent them.
I remember having fun with the Wing Commander Series too. And Dynamix's Red Baron was a lot of fun on a 486.
I remember sneaking an install of my latest video game at work in 1995 when my boss bought me the fastest 486. Nowadays such games and PCS can't compare to what's available today!
And I remember being addicted to The Bard's Tale on the Commodore 64. The 2005 InExile game version was good too.
On the Atari 2600 I remember Haunted House. Got an "Updated Version" on the Steam 2011 Halloween Sale - it's an ok game for $5 and way better than the original!
Now I just wonder how I can run NOLF and Homeworld on a Win 7 Prof computer. Didn't try to install it yet... looking for my original cd's or else I'll have to torrent them!
It's about time they make an updated version of NOLF, Homeworld, and MS Flight Combat Simulator.
If you want to be able to play some of your old favorites on a new box, I would highly recommend looking at Good Old Games, or GOG.com. I've found some of my old favorite PC games like Myst & Riven, Goblins, Phantasmagoria, etc. There are a lot of old games to look through, and they're usually fairly cheap.
I saw a computer game I used to enjoy playing the other day but they have the Wii version now. You Don't Know Jack Is a great game. Might actually have to get that one.
My favorite (non-3d) oldies were all late 90's stuff: Baldur's Gate (1 and 2), Icewind Dale, Diablo (1 and 2), Dungeon siege, Myth and Planescape.
All things considered, those old isometric view games look pretty good even today, where as early 3D stuff just looks beyond corny-bad. I downloaded Elder Scrolls Daggerfall the other day and just can't play it; the game mechanics are so bad and the scenery so nauseating that I just couldn't ever have fun with it.
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