Forked Thread: Old PC games you wish you could play again

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Add Populous to my list. Came up in unrelated conversation yesterday and now I really want to play it again.

 

[Merkuri]

Add Populous to my list.

Apparently the original Populous has been re-made for the Nintendo DS:

IGN: Populous DS Preview

 

[ssampier]

I had the cd for Simcity 2000, but I can't find it. I loved building things with unlimited money (cheat) and then knocking it down again.

Arcanum.

Infocom's text-based adventure games.

Ah, but you can:

Zork I, II, and III for FREE download.

 

[Desert Hare]

Alpo! *pop*

Lemmings!

 

[Merkuri]

Lemmings!

Lemmings online!

But in my experience it starts to slow down if you have more than a certain amount of lemmings on the screen.

 

[Desert Hare]

Lemmings online!

But in my experience it starts to slow down if you have more than a certain amount of lemmings on the screen.

You have my eternal gratitude.

 

[Mercutio01]

Zork Nemesis. Zork Grand Inquisitor. Neither run on my Vista PC. They did work on my old XP computer, though. Return to Zork, which didn't run in XP either.

 

[possum]

Tie Fighter/X-Wing, Jedi Knight II (if I had the original Dark Forces I'd add that), SimCity 2000, Civilization II. Haven't tried Baldur's Gate series and Icewind Dale on my Vista comp yet.

 

[vectner]

I've been wanting to play Freedom force lately. SP2 killed it, and they never patched it

There is also an old Skyrealms of Jorune RPG, Alien Logic, that was a blast (of dysho)

Edit: Freedom Force has patch 1.3 that fixes the SP2 problem. I have been paying it the past couple days. Great stuff!

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Baldur's Gate 2, as well as Tome of Blood and some community expansions all load fine on Vista. Well, with a LITTLE wrangling. Nothing ever works out of the gate.

I also got System Shock to work on my Vista laptop as well a couple months ago.

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