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by cg it

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I've just gone through a bunch of old PC games in the attic, the ones I didn't give away because I might play them someday, and figured I'd give Descent II a whirl. After that, Baldur's Gate.

Of course running them on Windows 2000 turned out to be interesting. Even on Windows XP.

So I'm trying Windows 98 SE. Thank god I didn't throw out all those drivers I burned to CD years ago.

So anyone else out there that likes to play those old PC games we had to have and played for weeks and months at a time?

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by deadly ernest

many more. I even have a recently rebuilt old machine running Win 98SE to run them on, sweet system - P3 550 MHZ with 1 GB RAM - just hums. Even tried an early version of Tetris on it - hit play and there's a flash of colour and it asks if I want to play again, all within two seconds - it's an old 386 version designed to run at the speed of the system clock - very funny to watch.

Sim City 2000, Caesar 3, Wolf 3D, I think you get the drift.

by cg it

with 512MB and a VooDoo 5 5500 I kept around. Windows 98 SE.

There's one DOS game I play aDark Sun... RPG ...I remember back in the mid 90s playing it for hours ..and just broke that one out.

Unreal II is a blast as well. Napalm and flame thrower.

by deadly ernest

the ground in front of you and a wall of flame races off turning everyone in that direction into crispy critters and then a pile of ash that falls nicely to the ground.

by the 'g-man.'

Dragging the old 386 around my mates to be hooked up with a serial cable for some DOOM or Duke 3D deathmatch.

Glory Days!

by night.lancer

Oh God yes, i used to have a pile of ISO's of old games on my media drive, i remember games like system shock 2, the origianal close combat and the such, i loved those games

by jackofalltech

I use it to play all the old DOS games, including the first Tomb Raider, Hexen, Heretic, Descent, ROTT...

by cg it

Was a huge Unreal Tournament Fan simply because of the bot AI. It was frightening because it was so realistic plaing against them.

by ed woychowsky

Tachyon: The Fringe
Rise of Nations
Age of Empires
Age of Empires II
Age of Mythology
Age of Mythology: The Titans
Star Fleet Command III
Star Craft

And, others.

by dadspad

When my son was about 8 or 9, Space Quest by Sierra came out. We had a lot of fun on this one. They were expensive, so could not get all the games. Of course, my son passed me quickly. :)

He is now in the military in his 20's. Amazon, last Christmas, had a sale on the Sierra collection series by VIVENDI JEUX, Vivendi has licensed a program called DosBox to act as middleware between DOS emulation and Windows XP. I bought him Space Quest collection, Kings Quest, Police Quest and Liesure Suit Larry. All full collections. All games he played and some he had not.

I wanted to get the Monkey Island collection, but they are still marketed by Lucus and too much money.

They were a blast to play, even if you had to type in commands on the first couple.

by gsg

I have terrible hand-eye coordination, so I pretty much don't play anything that requires skill. I was doing the happy dance when I found out that Lucas Arts was releasing "The Secret of Monkey Island" with newly remastered video and audio. I missed it the first time around and only came in on Escape from Monkey Island.

Gotta love that you can solve a puzzle because you just happened to pick up a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. Used that one twice. And insult sword fighting is always fun.

I downloaded it from Steam, which I've never used before, for only $10, so from the amount of enjoyment I've gotten so far, and I'm only 1/3 of the way through (still have to rescue governer Elaine from LeChuck the ghost pirate), I'd say I got my money's worth.

I hope they re-release Grim Fandango the same way.

by the scummy one

I have kept a Win98 box around -- not connected to the network though.

I also have all of the patches on a dvd just in case they are needed.

by jck

If I ever get the weekend free to do it, I still need to take all my C-64 disks that still work and hook up a C-64 to PC interface I bought...and transfer them all to PC and burn them to CD.

Karateka
Jumpman Jr.
Gateway to Aphsai
Zork
Pirates!

Oh yes, the good ole days :)

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