View Full Version : In need of old, yet good, games


Thor
04-27-04, 04:54 AM
Only me!

I've recently aquired a new laptop. Actually, when I say new I mean old. Really old.

It's only a 150mHz, 32mb of RAM, Win98 jobbie but it does play DooM quite well.

So, I'm here today to ask if anyone knows of anywhere where I can find any old games which would be able to play (available for free and to download). Any link will be helpful. Except ones where I can find new laptops! Or that one with that stoneage PC! I'm looking at you Avatar!

Thanks

Dreamwalker
04-27-04, 05:22 AM
Try it here (http://www.alex-soft.net/), they got many old games.
This site (http://www.gamehippo.com/) also has many free games.
But this (http://www.free-games.to/) is my favorite site. You get games like GTA or Wolfenstein 3d and Doom 95 here.

Stryder
04-27-04, 05:36 AM
Another is: http://www.the-underdogs.org/ (You should be able to even get away with some DOS games) and you might even be able to run STARCRAFT :D

Thor
04-27-04, 09:27 AM
Thanks guys. Completly forgot about the original GTA. Wolfenstein doesn't like playing on the laptop for some reason.

Stryder, I love that site so much (went there a year or so ago), so thanks for the remind.

Xerxes
04-27-04, 05:21 PM
Alpha Centauri, SimCity, Civilization 2.

There are also a huge number of high quality dos or text based games. Nethack for example.

Thor
04-27-04, 05:23 PM
I feel insulted about the mere mention of 'text based games'. Do I hear Zork making a come back?

*You hear footsteps in the distance*

*You opened a door*

I have Alpha Centauri somewhere...how about Age of Empires? Galactic Battlegrounds worked on it, albeit it was so slow.

Voodoo Child
04-28-04, 05:33 AM
Civ II can be easily obtained of Kazaa. If you dl the mame emulator you can play old arcade games.

S.O.L
04-28-04, 06:08 AM
Get G-Darius, Thor.

If you don't then i'll personally stick my knife where the sun don't shine. The buttock that is....(only in Joint ops)

Thor
04-28-04, 07:26 AM
"Civ II can be easily obtained of Kazaa."

I don't think I'll like it. Too much playing CivIII will prolly make me disgusted with CivII.

" If you dl the mame emulator you can play old arcade games."

I have the ZSnes emulator and I must say, it struggles even with that.

I just downloaded my old favourite game, Hi-Octane. Oh I loved that game so much!

SOL - You're on!

Absane
04-28-04, 08:19 AM
I like Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis. I never finished the game but I just recenetly installed it on my 3.06 GHz Win XP 512 meg RAM laptop. lol. I also put Doom and Doom II on it. I actually really want to put Duke Nukem 3D on it because it was the first first person shooter game I played that used the mouse for aim. Doom II didn't use it, but doom and doom II were my first FPSs. Duke Nukem 3D is the reason why I play games inverted now... I am part of the small group of people in the world that play that way.

DCLXVI
04-28-04, 09:39 AM
I like Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis.

I loved that game, I must have finished it at least 10 times. There are three distinct ways to play through it and a few different endings depending on how you go about doing stuff down in Atlantis.

I was a sucker for adventure games back in the day, I think I've finished 95% of all Sierra and LucasArts adventure games that have been published.

cosmictraveler
04-28-04, 10:22 AM
http://spacetemp.tripod.com/SpaceWar.html


http://spacetemp.tripod.com/asteroids.htm


http://spacetemp.tripod.com/PacMan.html


http://www.spaceday.com/en/mission/summer/index.php



http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/


http://java.sun.com/applets/other/Hangman/index.html



http://www.hackernetwork.com/flash/stickdeath9.shtml


http://www.oska.com/combo_dl.php?product=Tahni&id=82689 (this is a sexy site animated.)


http://www.pcgameworld.com/game.php/id/1160 ( great free download site)

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/home/

http://www.candystand.com/


http://www.americasarmy.com/


http://www.simnasa.org/


http://www.miniclip.com/

Captain_Crunch
04-28-04, 10:41 AM
GTA might not run on a flat screen, I can remmember trying it on my PC flat screen and it wouldnt work. Also, it was designed for 95 so there may be compatibility issues but I dont think 95 and 98 are too different.