Old PC games that still work

[Akitu]

I had a few of old games, not even sure if I have the disks for them anymore: Starcraft, MOHAA, Q3, Q2, C&C:RA2, SimTower, CloseCombat 2, Cod1&2..

I know most haven't worked since XP, even with compatibility mode. I got cod1 and 2 to work on Win 7, but they're newer than the others.

And I really wanted to play SimTower and CloseCombat 2 again.. Guess I need to find an old Win95 machine..

MOHAA, there's a name that takes me back... For a brief 5 minutes, I was the best player in the world at one point.

[CompyTech]

MOHAA, there's a name that takes me back... For a brief 5 minutes, I was the best player in the world at one point.

Oh yeah was good times. Was also the same time I got my first cable internet connection, a whopping 256kbps i think.

I was one of those that loved the bazooka, until it got nerfed, because it was considered the "noob toob". I got better, I was ok at it, I even joined a clan on GameSpy breifly..

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[CompyTech]

You can try using XP Mode and see if you can get more games to run. Note this only installs on Windows 7.

I tried it I have Win7 pro.. But no dice. Either it would start and not work or not work at all. So I gave up. I use Steam now generally for all my games now.

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[JVergin]

I had trouble with some older games on XP mode in Windows 7. However, installing XP via VirtualBox seems to work properly even will full screen games.

[Iowatech]

I had trouble with some older games on XP mode in Windows 7. However, installing XP via VirtualBox seems to work properly even will full screen games.

I'll try that out and see if I can get it to work on Win8 (the website says it should). Thanks!

[Taggerung08]

The holy Splinter Cell Trilogy (Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory) still works in W7 without any trouble.

Thank god they didn't make any more games than that. It would have been a disaster to the series.

[Phrag]

One of the first PC games I remember playing almost constantly was Novalogic's Delta Force 2. Loved it.

I remember it came with a demo of Tachyon: The Fringe, which I managed to get my hands on only the other month through Steam.

[Iowatech]

I think the first game I had was called something like Starquest: Trade Routes of the Nebula. It came on two 3.5" floppy disks. Some of the critters that lived in the nebula were pretty hard to trade with, as they'd rather shoot my spaceship until it exploded. And the fuel for my spaceship turned out to be an ancient intelligence that lived on a geological timescale. Sucked to be them.

[Josh93]

CROC 2 legend of the gobbos. lolwut

[Akitu]

I just picked up the Dungeons and Dragons anthology from gamersgate. I've had fun playing Baldur's Gate II right now, modded for W7 and high-res monitors.

Looking forward to playing through these classics.