07-10-2006, 02:07 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Older/Classic PC Games...
I am getting a bored at work and wanted to ask all you pc game players out there what are some good recommendations for older pc games.
My laptop at work is older. It has 256 megs of ram and a 1.2ghz Celeron. Right now I have Starcraft, Diablo 2, and both Fallouts. Any ideas for fun games to play at work would be much appreciated.
thanks
Redman
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Last edited by RedMan12; 07-10-2006 at 02:20 PM.
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07-10-2006, 02:14 PM
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Unreal Tournament. I'm still amazed by how good it is and how well it runs on low powered systems.
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07-10-2006, 02:23 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Quake 3 should run fine on that. When we used to run it during lunch time we all had P3-733's with 128 MB of RAM.
Of course nothing beats the Microsoft Arcade which had exact arcade replications of Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, and Tempest. 
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07-10-2006, 02:25 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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quake 2 with the RocketArena mod. You should be able to run that. Mind you, you will need a few people to play with, unless you are able to install a few bots.
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07-10-2006, 02:28 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Civ II.
Of course that game is a little old for that computer. All you need for Civ II is a Pentium 90 with 8MB ram (16MB if you want to see the animated heralds!).
Civ III would work though I think. They're both great games.
And I second UT. I used to have a P2 400 with 64MB and UT ran perfectly on it.
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07-10-2006, 02:28 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Enemy Territory
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07-10-2006, 02:28 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Can't go wrong with Counter-strike.
You probably wont be able to play CS:Source, but the whole 1.6 will probably run just fine on that laptop.
Baldurs Gate 2, if your into those kind isometric, top down slow paced, story driven RPGS.
Deus Ex was pretty good, and it doesn't require much actual power.
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07-10-2006, 02:31 PM
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I thought you were referring to really old classic games, such as Space Quest, Kings Quest and Police Quest.
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07-10-2006, 02:34 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Buff
I thought you were referring to really old classic games, such as Space Quest, Kings Quest and Police Quest.
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Those work too. Pretty much any game that will run on this.
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07-10-2006, 02:37 PM
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Franchise Player
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How has no one mentioned the greatest P.C. game of all time
3D Pinball: Space Cadet
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07-10-2006, 02:47 PM
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Screw all those newer games.....Get some REAL old games, the goodies that you should have stored in the back of your closet on the 5.25" floppies. You know, the Commander Keens, the Police and Space Quests, the Lemmings, all those good ones. Hell, take a further trip back in time and dig up the Jousts and the Galaxias of the time.
The best part is, you can run them in a window that will quickly close when you need to shut down as the boss walks by.
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07-10-2006, 03:12 PM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Screw all those newer games.....Get some REAL old games, the goodies that you should have stored in the back of your closet on the 5.25" floppies. You know, the Commander Keens, the Police and Space Quests, the Lemmings, all those good ones. Hell, take a further trip back in time and dig up the Jousts and the Galaxias of the time.
The best part is, you can run them in a window that will quickly close when you need to shut down as the boss walks by.
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Pfft.
M.U.L.E., Archon, Racing Destruction Set, Impossible Mission, Hard Ball, Summer Games, Raid Over Bungling Bay
Those were the days
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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07-10-2006, 03:18 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I used to play Hardball I and II, Test Drive I and II and Faceoff quite a bit on our old PC about 15 years ago.
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07-10-2006, 03:19 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Pfft.
M.U.L.E., Archon, Racing Destruction Set, Impossible Mission, Hard Ball, Summer Games, Raid Over Bungling Bay
Those were the days
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Good old Commodore 64!
You missed Raid Over Moscow in that list.
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07-10-2006, 03:22 PM
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Thanks guys. Keep em coming. I am gonna check out some of the ones you guys mentioned.
I remember this game from about 12 years or so. It was an overhead game and you played as a dinosaur and you could customize different body parts and evolve. It was an overhead game for pc. Its not E.V.O. for SNES either. Anyone played this one before or have any ideas what it's called?
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Last edited by RedMan12; 07-10-2006 at 03:29 PM.
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07-10-2006, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Pfft.
M.U.L.E., Archon, Racing Destruction Set, Impossible Mission, Hard Ball, Summer Games, Raid Over Bungling Bay
Those were the days
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I had a Commodore 64 too dude, and I've made my decision.
Only game worth playing on C64 was Persian Gulf Inferno.
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07-10-2006, 03:26 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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We used to have a Commodore 64 at my Junior High and used to play Lemonade all the time at lunch. And some other game where the only thing I can remember is it said "stay awhile, stay forever".
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07-10-2006, 03:26 PM
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Any one of the Command and Conquers.
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07-10-2006, 03:27 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Alone in the Dark, Descent, Duke Nukem (and Duke Nukem 3D), Warcraft II, Civilization, Command&Conquer, Quest for Glory -- all games that were a lot of fun back in the day.
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07-10-2006, 03:27 PM
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n00b!
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You wanna go real old?
Day of the Tentacle is one of the best games I've ever played.
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