Old Games + Old Hardware

Alright, fair enough man, and yeah, it's a great game, although I prefer RPGs with more open world, it dosn't have to be Elder Scrolls scale freedom, but newer BioWare games have too linear/little locations, they still awesome games though.

 

Unreal Gold
Duke Nukem 3D
Resident Evil 1 -3
7th Guest
AvP classic 2000
Simcity 2000 & 3000
Rayman 1
Quake 1 -3 (including expansions for 1 and 2)

 

Win98 4 lyfe

 

Starcraft and Brood war of course!

 

I've got loads of classics. Thankfully all work on Windows 7.

Others that have issues are run using dos box or patches of some sort to get them working!

A list of some games at the top of my head:

Command & Conquer 95
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Firestorm Edition
Unreal Tournament 99 GOTYE (With hi resolution texture pack)
Unreal
Unreal Return To Na Pali
Duke Nukem
Doom (with high resolution pack, brutal doom mod & metal soundtrack)
Doom 2 - Hell On Earth
Quake
Quake 2
Heretic
Hexen
Wolfenstein
Death Rally 1998 (original version)
Rise Of The Triad
Soldier Of Fortune
Soldier Of Fortune Double Helix
Shadow Warrior
KKND2 Krossfire
Blood
Alien Vs Predator
Quake 3 Arena
Kingpin Life of Crime
Carmageddon
Need For Speed
Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed
Halo
Halo 2
Half-Life/Counter-Strike (All)
Manhunt
X-Files Game
Decent
GTA
GTA London
GTA 2
Age Of Empires
Far Cry
Midtown Madness 1 & 2

 

Age of Empires
Diablo
CnC Red Alert (What a game that was)
Wolf

 

rainbow six

 

Interstate 76 was the first game i owned when i got my very first pc.

 

Yeah was a good game also 76.

 

Ive just given Star Trek Elite Force II a go, and it works on Win 7, was very surprised, loved playing that back in the day, also found how to get it into 1080p

 

I been playing some Max Payne 1 also, still a classic, gameplay, the story etc.
Has a nice Urban Dark feel to it.

 

agreed wonderful game at a time when shooters had meaning ,at least all releases back then were great.

 

Alien Trilogy

 

Plus it can be patched to support Direct3D (and Glide) with the Gold Upgrade.

Interstate 76 and the original Driver were the driving games back then...

Unreal and Max Payne already mentioned and a lot of other excellent games.
Have nothing to add really.

 

Why not run them on modern machine with DOSBOX ? I do and works great.

 

It's not that expensive to find yourself a Win98SE capable computer and play the games on the hardware that was current at the time of their release. This gives you more hardware and config options than DosBox in my opinion. I have most of the games listed in this thread back to around 1995. I also have a MAME setup for arcades that plays games *SPAM* back to the late 70's early 80's (not remakes). It's interesting to see how the gaming experience and the hardware have in many ways become inverted over time. Games used to be fairly complex while the hardware was primitive. Now the hardware is sophisticated and the games are getting really dumbed down.

 

Any game on GOG should run fine on that setup


http://www.gog.com/games/all


I have an old packard bell Pent 266 MHZ 500 gig HD 250MB Ram 2 Voodoo 2 -12 MB Video cards in SLI . With a 15 Inch CRT Monitor , Was my first computer and its still running strong lol