What games do you miss, PC, console, or handheld?

[Gingerbread Demon]

Crimson Skies. OMG many hours playing this trying to finish it, this was when games didn't hold your hand.

In The 1st Degree, FMVV game with multiple endings, choices used Apple Quicktime, now that was a pain on PC.

Star Trek A Final Unity

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I miss Black & White. I adored the game back in the day. It refuses to run on any of my modern laptops, and my Win 95 comp that I've kept around is just a tiny bit too old to run it. Ack.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I miss Black & White. I adored the game back in the day. It refuses to run on any of my modern laptops, and my Win 95 comp that I've kept around is just a tiny bit too old to run it. Ack.

I remember Black & White but never tried it or got into it. Found this video so maybe of some help

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[Alexander Corrino]

I've tried pretty much everything people suggest to get it to run on different systems (Win 7, Win 10, Win 11) but nothing has worked. My laptops weren't/aren't gaming laptops tho, so maybe that has something to do with it also. But still - thanks!

 

[Phoenix219]

I miss Black & White. I adored the game backi in the day. It refuses to run on any of my modern laptops, and my Win 95 comp that I've kept around is just a tiny bit too old to run it. Ack.

i still run windows 7 on everything, on purpose, and i have one old XP computer that runs a lot of emulators and displays on a CRT. between those two i haven't found much that won't run.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

i still run windows 7 on everything, on purpose, and i have one old XP computer that runs a lot of emulators and displays on a CRT. between those two i haven't found much that won't run.

What about the Wing Commander games?

Those were really finicky to get going

 

[Alexander Corrino]

i still run windows 7 on everything, on purpose, and i have one old XP computer that runs a lot of emulators and displays on a CRT. between those two i haven't found much that won't run.

My Win7 laptop got closest to running the game - it showed the title screen, which is more than any of the others did But yeah, there are so many editions and variations of those modern systems, it's often impossible to find the exact thing that prevents an older game from running. (This is one reason why my brief love affair with PC gaming ended with Win 98 and why I'm a console only player nowadays.)

 

[Phoenix219]

My Win7 laptop got closest to running the game - it showed the title screen, which is more than any of the others did But yeah, there are so many editions and variations of those modern systems, it's often impossible to find the exact thing that prevents an older game from running. (This is one reason why my brief love affair with PC gaming ended with Win 98 and why I'm a console only player nowadays.)

i used to have to install all of these visual basic libraries, each year there were different ones, 32 and 64 bit, andit was always something different that various games were looking for. a friend of mine that does this for a living, has a thumbdrive that automatically installs all of them at once. it very well may include whatever missing thing is keeping your game from running. i will see if i can ask him what exactly he is doing lol.

 

[Phoenix219]

What about the Wing Commander games?

Those were really finicky to get going

haven't tried them, but i'm guessing i have them all in a DOSbox archive on an emulation hard drive. i will look into it.

 

[Stoo]

I miss Black & White. I adored the game back in the day. It refuses to run on any of my modern laptops, and my Win 95 comp that I've kept around is just a tiny bit too old to run it. Ack.

Is any of the info here useful? There's something about DRM that doesn't work on modern windows, but can be removed with a fan patch.

What about the Wing Commander games?

Those were really finicky to get going

Might just be easiest to buy them again on gog.com.

 

[F. King Daniel]

A text adventure called Federation on the ZX Spectrum 128. My version had pictures of the rooms in the spaceship you were exploring, which the versions downloadable don't.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I remember Black & White but never tried it or got into it. Found this video so maybe of some help

I fell into the hype with that one, and I remember being quite disappointed. It very hyped up at the time of release, being one of the first games that was covered widely by the media. There were lots of interesting concepts in that game, but it basically boiled down to being an RTS with a unique way to control it, and being that I wasn't used to RTS games at all, I felt it was both underwhelming and extremely frustrating, and the controls added to that frustration.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I miss handheld games with VFD displays..... Had quite a collection but over the years they gradually died, I think capacitors getting old and leaky

 

[B.J.]

I miss handheld games with VFD displays..... Had quite a collection but over the years they gradually died, I think capacitors getting old and leaky

I know it's not the same, but there's several of these in the Internet Archive:

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

One of which is the Pair Match game that showed up in Ten Forward sometimes!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I know it's not the same, but there's several of these in the Internet Archive:

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

One of which is the Pair Match game that showed up in Ten Forward sometimes!

That's actually pretty cool.

BTW which one showed up in tng?

 

[BillJ]

The Dreadnaught Factor for the Atari 5200.

 

[B.J.]

That's actually pretty cool.

BTW which one showed up in tng?

I named it above, it's the pyramid shaped thing called Pair Match. I don't think it was used as a game in TNG, more usually like a server call button.

 

[Kor]

As a young lad I really liked this game on Windows called "The Humans," which was a puzzle thing kind of like the Lemmings games but with cavemen and dinosaurs.

Kor

 

[B.J.]

As a young lad I really liked this game on Windows called "The Humans," which was a puzzle thing kind of like the Lemmings games but with cavemen and dinosaurs.

Kor

I remember that! Looks like all 3 games are in a bundle on GOG for $6.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

And before the Sims we had Little Computer People in the 80s. I remember playing that on a Commodore 64 and it was fun