I did have a cousin with an Atari 2600 and a huge pile of games though, so I really did play these early ones, just not in the actual years of their release.Ĭontinue reading “Favorite games from every year of my life – Part 1” Author Virtuanaut Posted on MaCategories Games Tags 3do, actraiser, arcade, atari 2600, berzerk, bionic commando, capcom, contra, crusader no remorse, defender, doom, dos, favorite games from every year of my life, Games, heretic, joust, king's quest, legend of zelda, nes, origin, pc, sinistar, snes, star control 2, strider, super mario bros., windows, wing commander 2 7 Comments on Favorite games from every year of my life – Part 1 Now Playing: Clyde’s Adventure These first few entries will be pretty brief since I was busy spending the first few years of the 80’s learning to walk and use a toilet and such. Yes, I am so old that I have to break this up into multiple parts, but OH WELLLLLLLL! Now on with the self-explanatory show… No, I was not invited or challenged, deal with it.
Maybe someday in the future they’ll all be simplified and/or fixed to easily run, but until such a day arises you’ll just have to resort to some of the following methods.īefore I discuss any of the trickier, more obscure methods, let’s talk about the simplest solution that’ll work for the majority of games from the pre- Windows 95 era: DOSBox.Ĭontinue reading “A guide to playing old PC games” Author Virtuanaut Posted on SeptemOctoCategories Games, Misc Tags a guide to old pc games, dgvoodoo, dos, dosbox, Games, pc, pcem, vmware, windows, windows 3.1, windows 95, windows 98, windows xp 3 Comments on A guide to playing old PC games Now Playing: Eye of the Beholder 2 (PC) These days many of the most popular old PC titles are available on places like GOG.com, all set up to work on most modern systems with no effort required aside from a simple installation, but there are still many, many games that haven’t received such fancy treatment. Sometimes you may have the itch to go back and play an game from the olden days of PC.