System Shock 2
Quake 3
Unreal

starcraft is the BEST!
my friends and i recently started playing on battle.net again and its just as good as before

oh yeah
freespace 2 beat this game
more capital ships + bigger capital ships = more fun

Doom I
Doom II
Quake II
Day of the Tentacle

and FUTURE SHOCK and SKYNET if I can figure out how to make 'em run on new machines :(

XCOM UFO Defense is still the greatest PC game ever, and it's great to see several new games trying to capture its turn-based alien-shooting gooshiness.

Dopewars! A text based drug dealing adventure!

someones probably said it, but the first ever lemmings, so much fun confined in such a small space!

Dune
Believe it or not! It still is one great game to me

I still play some Unreal Tournament every now and then, and some Quake II.

i wish i could still play kings quest series.. but no more dos, blah

Infocom
 

I still play X-Com and TFTD.
Master of Magic and Master of Orion 3 also are still kicking around on my hard drive. So is Arcanum (although thats not that old yet) =P

The only old games I play regularly are X-COM: UFO Defense and a bunch of emulated SNES and NES games.

Every once in a while I reinstall these goodies:
Lords of the Realm II
System Shock 2
Command and Conquer
Full Throttle
Fallout
Baldur's Gate
Quake 2

Man, just hearing Descent mentioned brings back memories. I used to love that game, God bless the bucket o' sunshine!

P.S. Hello Krycheck :D

Starcraft! come on people... it's a classic right?

Sword of Aragon
Fantasy General
Dungeon Master

And of course, Starcraft.

STARCRAFT FOR LIFE.

I...just....can't....stop....


Oh, and ZORK was possibly the coolest text based game. EVER.

i still play quakeworld...

but a really cool older game that i think everyone will enjoy is called dungeon keeper, i saw it in teh store teh otehr day (with dungeon keeper 2) for 10 bux!

if you see this game, get it.

Work harder! *slap*

Ah good old Dungeon Keeper. You've just inspired me to reinstall it :D

I completely forgot that Oregon Trail existed, I have to play it now. I always lost everyone to Cholera, damn that cholera!

also wolfenstein 3d and duke nukem 3d

I started playing streetrod 2 lately, plus all of the original leisure suit larry games

Every now and then I pull out my Quest for Glory games (formly named Hero's Quest). Love 'em. A fan-based company called Tierra is supposedly remaking QG2 with VGA graphics.

I definately remember wasting a lot of time playing Ski Free (though I don't know where my 2001 windows games CD is to re-install it). All I remember is getting to the bottom of the slope and that damn dog tripping me. Micro Man was another cool one off that disk.

I really enjoyed Command & Conquer back in the day (with my then-awesome Pentium 100!!). I used to deathmatch my friends in that every night (caused quite a few fights too ;) ).

Baldur's Gate II (if that's considered old... it came out in like 2001 right?)

Anyhow, my computer is getting pretty ancient so I probably won't ever be playing "new" games on it. Therefore all my games are old! :D

-Tracer

The original Command & Conquer and Red Alert. :)

Also C&C Tiberian Sun, I consider that an old game now.

scorch, i loved it growing up and i still do

Scorched Earth? with the little tanks? I assume this is what you are talking about, fun simple game

Well..the oldest computer game I'm still playing is Starcraft: Brood War. Man does that game own ^_^

Starcraft (the best game ever).. my dad and my little brother recently whipped out the old sega genesis and have been playing the shit out of Sonic 2, thus i've had to play it a lot to get past some stuff for them.

Haha, I agree with Oregon Trail! That game kicked ass!

Doom
Quake
Jones in the fastlane, god that brings back some seatjumping memories :)

Oregon Trail is the hottest i wish i still had that.
I still play Star Wars Rebellion!
I love that game

Holy christ! Stars! thats anoldie but goodie. I still mess with sim earth...and alpha centauri

starcraft

colonization
x-com 2
syndicate
theme hospital / park
snes roms

Its all about the CS! I just still cant belive they made it for XBOX...WHAT TRASH!!!

Don't worry- some of us feel it's trash on the PC platform also. I still get the feeling it's only popular because so many people have inadequate hardware to keep up with current games.

Re: Old PC games you still play
 

I used to love those games. I origingally played them on the C64 but now I havent got a computer that is slow enough to run them and I doubt I could find them if I did. I bought the newer release of Pool of Radiance to play but its not quite the same.
I also still play Railroad Tycoon and the Sims on my computer that I have now.

i play battlezone 2 sometimes, and i've been trying so hard to find interstate '76 and '82. Can you please contact me Zerrform about that?

Dont know if these are old but StarCraft,warcraft, and diablo.

I still starcraft play every once in a while.

I bring up good ol' Wolfenstien 3d a good bit. It seems to be a big time killer while my teacher is lecturing about something inane.

Starcraft
Warcraft2
Close Combat/3
Civ 2

DIABLO greatest game ever made

StarCraft. It's quite possible that I was given up for adoption by a South Korean family.

populous is a good one, but civ is the best

Freespace 2! I was looking around on ebay just for fun, and I noticed that a few of of the collector's editions were selling for over $70!

Colonization, HA! I thought I was the only person who played the crap out of that game for years after it became out-dated.

Recently played through Fallout & Fallout 2 (at work no less).

It's been awhile since I have played last but I always come back to Steel Panthers: World at War. Such an excellent game.

Well... I still putz around with Day of the Tentacle every once in a while, but it gets easier everytime. :D

Actually, most of the old games I play are Lucasarts. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle, etc. Those were, and still are, some awesome games.

Sudden Strike 2

trying to find/dig up:

dr. brain
designosaurus

both games i played as a kid and were super-great

wing commander, diablo 1,2,lod and metal slug

FALLOUT!!!!

I still play The Incredible Machine every once in a while.

Never gets old and doesn't need fancy graphics or sound

Wheel of Time

WheelofTime

It's the first game I played on the PC. An extremely fun FPS game, that came out 1 month before Unreal Tournament did. So, I think that is the reason it never got too big. It has an inovative kinda gameplay to it (for it's time). Personally, I still think its the only of it's kind out there. I have been playing the game for 5 or 6 years, and I still find new ways to do things. Check it out. I know some true game fanatics will like it.

Morrowind..I still havnt completed the main storyline though im about to.

tank wars get a cpu clock prog for it heh

Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri, I've had it for over five years now and I still enjoy playing it (as the Spartans).

I finally got around to beating the main quest for morrowind. A little anti climatic though.

scorced earth! now that's old school fun!

I remember Scorched Earth! I gotta find my cd... erm.... floppy.

I still play Starcraft occasionally, but I always get beat.
CS, but its not old anymore. Damn Steam.

One Must Fall: 2097.. yeah!

Guys who want to play these old games: http://www.the-underdogs.com has a TON of abandonware/freeware/shareware (I think this is OK to post since it's not really commercial games). They also have reviews and stuff of commercial games with links to where you can buy them for cheap.

A great program to emulate dos is called dosbox: http://dosbox.sf.net . They even have a database of games and how well the games play in dosbox. Very cool.

Scorched Earth. Wow, haven't thought of that game in a loooong time. Time to dust off my floppy (if I can find it).

Rogue.


Oh, and King's Quest 3 (two 5 1/4 inch diskettes that had to be loaded on the hard drive of the 286 clone in my hubbie's office...)

hmm lets see, out of "oldish" games, I still play...
Full Throttle
Dark Forces
Duke Nukem 3d
All the Leisure Suit Larry games
Where in ____ is Carmen Sandiego
Street Rod 2
Wolfenstein
Doom 1&2, though I play them with the GL mod
Quake 1&2
Oregon Trail

I tried playing Age of Empires again recently but discovered the game play was soooo much slower than even AoEII and AoM that I had to quit...it just took too long to get anything done.

I still enjoy playing AoEII from time to time, though.

On my ebay wanted list:

Full Throttle
Space Quest Collection
Police Quest Collection
Kings Quest Collection (notice the pattern?)

Going to crack on with Sam and Max and The Dig (Robert Patrick) soon...

Well it looks like some frineds and I are going to LAN through Serious Sam this weekend. Nothing like spending a Saturday with some friends twitch gaming powered by Mountain Dew and sugary snacks. Maybe we'll play through Serious Sam: The Second Encounter another weekend. Good times, good times...

As a side note, I see that Serious Sam 2 (not SS:TSE) is coming out soon. Sweet. Hopefully more developers will use these absolutely beautiful game engines.

Happy now - finally picked up Full Throttle.

All for the costly sum of £3 - probably about $5

Tetris

And there's an ice cream truck in my neighborhood that plays the Tetris theme :)

I always liked the Wing Commander series. But I lost the slowdown emulator needed to play them. And even then, it'd still crash now and then.

Oldest pc game I actively play is probably Starcraft... I've got a few that I would play if I could run DOS games, like X-com terror from the deep, or duke3d, but I don't miss them too much with the newer games that are out now :P

Xcom bring back memories. I think there was a prequel that I used to play called UFO Enemy Unknown.

I have the latest UFO game called Aftermath (I think) which looks like it could be quite similar. Not got around to playing it yet

Starcraft....and I will probally play it untill they finally make a Starcarft II....which may never happen

Starcraft
Doom
Quake III
Tetris.

FALLOUT and FALLOUT 2. Right now Im going through FALLOUT 2 with a massacre character: no quests, no BS trading or talking, just wiping out every city I come across.

Maybe I should seek professional help

Oldest PC Games I Still Have Installed/Play Every Now & Then.
 

Crusader: No Regret
Crusader: No Remorse
Descent -The original NOT the second one cause that really sucked!
HomeWorld
MechWarriors 1, 2, 3, & 4 with the add-ons
Return Fire
Tyrian 2.0
This Means War!
Maxis Sim-Tower
Speed Rage

&

LemPaint :hmm:

Although, I can't stop playing FreeLancer and Morrowind (GOTY Edition)... probably due to the fact that both have a BUTT LOAD of mods written for them. :thumbsup:

Ahhh, I LOVE old games, because theres the fun factor that keeps bringing you back, with the added joy of all the good memories associated with them.
Every couple of months, I find myself playing through Fallout and Fallout 2 again. Easily my favorite RPGs ever. I can't wait for Fallout 3! Its being done by Bethesda Softworks, which is the same people who did Morrowind and that entire series, so I know that its in good hands... :) I also play some from when I was little, from time to time, from the Super Solvers series. Most notably Gizmos and Gadgets, so simple, but so much fun, Number Munchers and Operation Neptune. And just today I reinstalled Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Classic game that never gets old (to me atleast). If you like that series, then be aware that a Heroes 5 is in development. (yay!)
Another one is Gazillionaire, very fun trading game in space. Thats pretty much it.

Professional? Naw. I made it my personal quest with my solo PC to wipe out every living being in Amn. So far, so good.

I have seen great old school games here.
But where is SimCity2000???? One of the greatest games ever.
Duke Nukem and all is ok. But sim city 2000 rocked, I still play it a lot.

Hehe, my friend picked up Oregon Trail at a garage sale this last weekend. I'm looking forward to installing it on my computer and giving it a go.

Quake III
Tetris
liero ;)
well thats all

http://www.solidsharkey.com/oregon.html

You can pick up the Apple IIe emulator and the Oregon Trail ROM at the above link. I played it a few months back and actually made it all the way to Oregon - something I never accomplished back in junor high. Good times, good times.

Wolf3D
Spear of Destiny
Doom 1 and 2
Mechwarrior - the original (NOT Mechwarrior 2)
Quake & Quake 2
BIG fps fan here!!

I've been playing a bunch of Civ3 via email lately.

Oh and I just bought UT2004 from GoGamer for $12 or something ridiculous like that. I haven't installed it yet though. Thats pretty old. I was playing the original UT a couple months ago with some other guys after hours at work. Ran well on our work machines. If you install the last patch for the orig UT it doesn't need the CD to run so we could get a decent LAN game going without using a cracked exe.

Not exactly cool to the developer of the game, but...

Prince of Persia from my old 286 VGA - from an era when a whole game fitted on a diskette

oh and arkanoid 2 - revenge of Doh

Scorched Earth
Sid Mier's Pirates! (Although the new one now)
Shadow Warrior

It is a bummer though, there are some games that have a hard time running on WinXP.

Shadow Warrior just hit open source, it's not all bad!

I can't believe no one mentioned Wizardry. I think that game came out in 1980. One of, if not the first RPG's for the computer. I still play that occasionally. I also play a Doom clone called Heretic on occasion.

nethack is evergreen
i started playing C&C gold few days ago
currently trying to find a comp with win98 to play older gmaes like betrayal at krondor