Best games for old computers?

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:33 pm

Well I have a pretty old computer, what good games should I get for it? Pre-old counterstrike days.

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:45 pm

Hm...how old we talkin'? Just some older games off the top of my head that I really enjoyed

Duke Nukem 3D
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
Descent Freespace
Quake II
Hexen II
Theif
Jedi Knight
Crimson Skies

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:49 pm

300mhz, 160ram,uhh..

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:12 pm

stagg wrote:300mhz, 160ram,uhh..

You should be able to handle most, if not all of the games he listed.

I had a 300 mhz computer with 32 meg ram, and these are the games I always played:

Diablo (haven't tried Diablo II)
Starcraft
The Sims
Quake 1 (back in the Mplayer.com days)
emulators

I can't list much because I never really played many PC games back then. Infact, I have a PC fully capable of games now but I still hardly ever play PC games.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:16 pm

Unreal
Unreal Tournament
Doom
Myst
Riven
Deus Ex
Oni
Future Cop LAPD
Mechwarrior
Myth

And here's a freebie... the Marathon series.

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:22 pm

Chuckie Egg

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:43 pm

half life 1 should run OK enough...

for the rest i agree with Q1 and Q2, unreal and UT and the likes, they are good games, starcraft is pretty nice too

but stagg, here is a suggestion, the next time you have 400 bucks and feel like blowing it on a PDA, how about upgrading your PC? 300 mhz is really dreadfully slow..... i wouldnt even want to do office/internet stuff on that thing, never mind gaming

Post by **melancholy** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:54 pm

The Neverhood.

atf487 · Post by **atf487** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:31 pm

commander keen
command and conquer: red alert

and yes, upgrade that pc, if it is your main one.

for ~220, my 1.3 ghz duron with 256 megs of pc100 ram is becoming a sempron 64 2800+ (over clocked to 2.2 ghz or so) with a gig of ram, and onboard video thats better than my current card.

Matisfaction · Post by **Matisfaction** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:41 pm

SENSIBLE WORLD OF SOCCER!

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:44 pm

Age of Empires I/II + expansions.

cyberinsekt · Post by **cyberinsekt** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:25 pm

Civilization II is possibly the finest Civ game of them all and is very addictive.

CupNoodle · Post by **CupNoodle** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:01 pm

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Fallout and Fallout 2.

Post by **melancholy** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:03 pm

-Orbo- wrote:If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Fallout and Fallout 2.

Considering I bought the Fallout/Fallout 2 dual pack at Deals for $1, I must agree with you.

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:07 pm

The original Rainbow Six, possibly Rogue Spear.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:04 pm

Get Day of the Tentacle; Sam and Max; and Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity...

all are games that I still enjoy today.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:17 pm

Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:300 mhz is really dreadfully slow..... i wouldnt even want to do office/internet stuff on that thing

It should be enough for office/internet stuff if you use some lightweight Linux distro, or (yuck) Windows 98.

ace · Post by **ace** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:51 am

melancholy wrote:The Neverhood.

If that is the claymation game, I agree.

I also agree with the fallout series - two of the best RPGs I've ever played!

arrowhead · Post by **arrowhead** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:23 am

I like the kings quest series and old text based adventures, although thats probably not what you are looking for.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:44 am

Stormwatch wrote:
Disheveled DrFreeze wrote:300 mhz is really dreadfully slow..... i wouldnt even want to do office/internet stuff on that thing
It should be enough for office/internet stuff if you use some lightweight Linux distro, or (yuck) Windows 98.

well yeah, but i dispise win98, and im not adept enough to go all linux on a system like that, it would take me weeks to have it set up propperly

besides, any 300 mhz machine will have a ram limit, 128, maybe 256 mb ram, and that doesnt cut it for me really, seeing how i always have multiple firefox tabs open, winamp running, 256 mb is a minimum for me