I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum’s basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it’s never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005.
Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn’t want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience.
Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn’t have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz).
So what were your favorite games from the 90’s and early 2000s?
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ME is a bold choice regardless—those installs always seem to destroy themselves before long in my experience (admittedly from quite a while ago now)
As for games (in no particular order):
- Command & Conquer (basically all of them up to including RA2)
- Diablo 2
- Warcraft 3
- Dungeon Keeper
- Theme Hospital
- Rollercoaster Tycoon (and RCT2)
- Unreal Tournament 99
- Fury 3/Terminal Velocity
- Z
- Age of Empires 1 & 2
- Pharaoh & Caesar 3
- MechWarrior 3
- Serious Sam
- Sim City 3000
- Quake 2 & 3
- Half Life
- Deus Ex
I’m definitely forgetting some
My childhood! Though I was more of a MechWarrior 2 guy.
Sim City games were so cool back then! I hate what they did with them as they progressed.
512MB RAM? Go wild cowboy. As for games:
- Arcanum
- Planescape Torment
if no one mentioned them.
