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I think you could be on to something.
Tom and Jerry: Yankee Doodle's Cat-Astrophe 1990
Here's a side-by-side: https://imgur.com/a/s5Cmj
Also, how did you get that?!
Found somewhere to play it online! Even supports full screen!
Edit: DOSbox should run this version for a possibly better experience.
Ah, yes. I remember seeing a game with the most realistic awesome graphics ever in a computer store... back in what was probably '97. I never got its name.
Syndicate had these amazing high detail little men running around. http://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/s/syndicate-20t/syndicate_8.gif
Or how cool the flowing water looked in water of Command and Conquer.
Formula 1 in 1998 looked like a TV broadcast if you put the graphics on max... (if you looked past the 10fps I got on my 486)
I remember how amazed I was that you could see your tiny men's beards in CoH. It actually looked better zoomed in than some of the older FPS'.
There are dozens of us!
Seriously, that game ruled when was a kid. Doom was an absolute No-no in my ultra-religious family, so Chex Quest was a godsend.
/u/draxhugo, /u/Deranged_Cyborg and any late comers needing a nostalgia kick. All of the Chex Quests are now abandonware
I remember this game... looks like I'm taking a trip down memory lane tonight.
Here's the link for whoever wants to join in on the nostalgia.
Clarification/Edit: You have to run it through DOSBox or Boxer (thanks vostok1) if you want to play it on a modern machine.
Just play this classic gem until they remake what you want. Dinopark tycoon was my favorite growing up. http://www.myabandonware.com/game/dinopark-tycoon-1ps/play
Or Treasure Mountain, or KidPix, or Midnight Rescue.
Or my personal favorite as a kid, Storybook Weaver
For anyone interested in playing it again, you can get it here. It's abandonware now, so free to play. I think DOSbox is the easiest way to do it, just drag the .exe onto the dosbox shortcut.
BTW, this was the touching reddit post awhile back that helped me re-find this game.
Definitely old games. I'm a big fan of old Sierra games like King's Quest and Space Quest.
If you google abandoned games, a few sites will pop up. This is the one I use. Just make sure you also find the manuals for old games, because they were often used as authentication to start some games. Also make sure you save frequently because it is possible in older games to get stuck because you didn't perform a certain mission first. Space Quest was like this.
You are saying that we should buy the game? You are saying it to the community which is only waiting for cracks? Community where members are so desperate that they think someone like you can actually crack Denuvo or Origin? This "release" is a spam. You dont deserve any support or respect. The only thing you ever tried to emulate is Revolt or other known group. The big problem is that you dont have the experience or education to do anything like they do. You are making your releases big but they are unstable just as your emotions.
It looks like a damage control. You know you wont be able to crack anything so you tell us how bad are we for not supporting you for your not working cracks, troll us with this release of abandonware and basically say "fuck you poor plebs", then make people think that you will continue cracking under bigger name (spoiler: you wont).
Also here is a better release: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/fifa-99-a5l
> I didn't think it would be so unreasonable than on a whole new generation of consoles a similar jump would be possible.
The graphics are essentially a free upgrade (just the DLC that costs), and it's still Skyrim, not an entirely new game.
There's also diminishing returns with graphics, so you'll be disappointed if you expect a "similar jump" as to what we had years ago.
For example, compare the jump from Doom 2 (1994) to Half Life 2 (2005), to the jump from Half Life 2 to games now.
Im watching Sips play Shardlight and while not at all a humorous game like QFG, its making me feel all nostalgic.
In case anyone's not aware myabandonware.com lets you play Quest for Glory inside your browser (what an age we live in).
Your hometown was accurately depicted in this game and I can't wait to travel there and take archery classes from you little yellow kiwis.
There was a pc game that came in a box of Captain crunch. I can't remember what it was called. But I remember playing it.
While IDK what your brother likes, you can probably find many older, simpler games on that website. Perhaps start here.
I don't really know diddly about the ROM scene, but one thing I do know is that some of these games can get INSANELY FAST becuase they don't seem to have a defined pace. Rather they kind of expect the CPU to set the pace. Modern CPUs are obviously much faster than the games are deigned for so you might want to look into programs that will under clock the CPU to run with the game.
My experience comes from Wings of Fury which was a blast when I was a kid. it's fairly simple, kill the bad guys and don't let you ship sink, but I could see it being confusing as I had issues learning how to do stuff. They key was trial and error, there was no explanation of what to do from the game (ex. the first time I had to take out a concrete bunker). Anyway, when my nostaligia kicked in and I found it via abandonware I ran into the CPU problem. I never really solved the issue, I found a remake (but I never got into it, I guess I preferred the old, pixel style game).
What you are doing is nothing short of awesome, best wishes!
The actual Command and Conquer is available free since it is abandonware. You don't need an old version of windows, just a DOS emulator, I suggest D-Fend.
There's also thousands of other old great games like SimCity 2k, Civ 1, and a lot of games from my childhood I thought I could never play again. I can't recommend it enough.
The game "Crosscountry Canada" taught me this.
After searching for it just now out of nostalgia, I found that it's abandonware and can be downloaded here.
I played all these. The only one I still can't remember is the one at the tv station. Robots would attack you with math questions and if you got them right they would explode letting you go on your way. Who made these games? That would help remember it.
EDIT Solved: Midnight Rescue
Thanks for that site, OP
I couldn't help but think of that old PC game, Outpost when watching this trailer. That game was... Interesting.
This is the first I'm hearing about this game, and it looks like it might be fun. I'm just wondering how the game will play. The trailer sort of makes it out to be a simplified city builder of sorts with some other elements. I guess that makes since coming from the devs of tropico and publisher of Cities: Skylines.
Me too. I figured it was an exercise class for your sphincter.
Clench, release, clench, release, clench....
I'm used to this level of realism.
I didn't play it back in the day, though I was just checking it out a few weeks ago online (http://www.myabandonware.com/game/battletech-the-crescent-hawk-s-inception-ev/play-ev) I think there may be some weird race conditions going on because I wasn't able to get very far.
So let me turn the question back to you: what were some of your favorite things about that game?
I agree with /u/FozzTexx — you're thinking of an Apple II series machine. Oregon Trail on the Apple II has the color palette you've described.
I always confuse Bibleman with Captain Bible, the hero of a quite terrible DOS game that my family had in the mid '90s. It is full of incredibly bad theology and the entire gameplay mechanism revolves around using prooftexts to defeat some cyber devil's lies.
There's also Jill of the Jungle, a DOS game from 1992. The third episode, Jill Saves the Prince, flipped that trope early by having Jill rescue a prince from captivity instead of the other way around. But the whole thing was less obvious and ham-fisted than her hypothetical concept.
One of my favorite games ever (the first episode more-so, though).
The original Castlewolfenstein on the Apple IIe featured a AWXD for movement and a KO;. for aiming your gun. S stopped movement, L fired.
ID were huge fans of the original Castle Wolfenstein took the AWXD, changed it slightly to AWSD and published Castle Wolfenstein3d. Everybody else has parroted them since.
If you're interested, here's an abandonware site with the original game: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/castle-wolfenstein-3l
Possibility of getting any work done the rest of the day... Zero.
Thanks OP!
This is where I learned to never pick up a hitch hiker.
Ninja Edit: You can also try it for free.
Double Ninja Edit: Here's that shanky fucker.
I remember that log and the 2 sand banks very clearly. Awesome art!
I used to play the hell out of that game. Steep learning curve, and things didn't seem to always work as intended but once you figured it out it was fun. One of the few games I actually finished.
I found a download of it on a site called myabandonware.com. not sure if it's legit or not. But seems to be floating around still.
According to this excellent guide you could purchase an 8MB maximum SRAM card that:
>"must be PCMCIA Revision 1.0 compatible and must be able to operate at 3 volts. As far as memory cards are concerned, however, there isn't much difference between PCMCIA 2.0 and 1.0, so Rev. 2.0 memory cards should work fine."
Put it into the Poqet PC, format it, put in into a more modern laptop with the same size PCMCIA slots, copy stuff onto it and then put it back into the Poqet.
you can get zork for free here.
Good luck!
Im new to the Vita scene but from my experience some games like the half-life port and hexen2 port require you to move files from a PC installation of the game for your vita to use.
And after looking up Another World release page which is linked on VitaDB, you need to do exactly that:
>A Vita system with Henkaku installed to run homebrew. Install the vpk file in your Vita Put the original data files in the folder ux0:app/SOMO00002/DATA Original files can be downloaded in serveral sites, for example: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/out-of-this-world-18g#download
VPKs can install all damn day, but without those files there is nothing for it to run.
Lost Mind of Dr. Brain features multiple puzzles, one with trains on a track and another with pipes.
But that's a long shot seeing as you didn't mention the giant talking rat.
EDIT: Thank you, /u/parkerlreed! This is a big milestone for me and I very much appreciate it.
Sounds similar to M*a*t*h*s Circus, also called Maths Circus. From what I found, it was at least available on Acorn Archimedes (source), and Acorn is the company that made the BBC Micro.
In this reddit thread someone also mentions playing Maths Circus on the BBC Micro.
No. In classic roguelikes nothing transfers. Every run is done from scratch. Most also don't provide an internal way to keeping multiple save files. You get one save file which is only there because the game it too long to finish in one session. Here is the original rouge game if you want to try it. press F1 to get a list of what keys to press to do things.
You were a trucker driving across Canada picking up different products (commodities) and dropping them off in other cities.
Here is a link to it if you're serious about playing it. http://www.myabandonware.com/game/crosscountry-canada-14h
Reminds me heavily of an old DOS game called Shortline, which is abandonware now. You can even play it in your browser!
The 1986 version is the one I know and remember
Dude, do you have to complain about every single FSX post? I have yet to see you add anything positive to the conversation here.
Some people can't afford fancy computers, expensive cars, or exotic vacations. But they still want to enjoy themselves. All you do is crap on other people's posts, and as a flightsimmer since the days of Chuck Yeager's and Microsoft FS 1.0, I'm getting really sick of it, and I'm sure there are others here that would agree.
Try contributing some worthwhile advice instead of denigrating every post and attempting to make others feel bad.
EDIT: Here. Download this. Imagine when that was cutting edge.
I didn't have time to test the dl's but this site looks promising:
Usually old games can be found with words like "abandowares" or "abandowarez". There's also big databases in torrent sites (I guess) which hold nice collection of old games. Other than that your pretty much dependant from p2p downloads.
>No, my argument is that games are an infinite good and not property at all
They're not infinite. They have a shelf life. The software tool I make today won't be useful in 20 years. The game I make today will not compete in 5 years (and won't be played outside of a small core audience). Games aren't as timeless as books - when was the last time you fired up a copy of Zork (the original text based game)? When it came out, it sold. You couldn't sell that today - nobody would buy it. If it were an infinite good, it would be timeless - as good fifty years later as the day it came out, but we know this isn't the case. You can make nearly infinite copies, sure, but they're all depreciating at the same rate as the original in entertainment value. Look at movies for another example: When it came out, Mabel's Married Life did well. It was a 17 minute silent movie. Would such a movie do as well in the theater today? Arguably, no. It has been surpassed, but in its time it was a good movie. Games have a similar shelf life: nobody has even heard of the game Aliants these days, but I owned a copy and played it quite a lot back in the '80s (never did win).
Back then, copying a game was an expensive proposition - was it any more or less piracy to copy games then as it is now?
Take a look at the burger and drink shop middle of the picture. Exactly what you made.
Edit: Here's the fry shop
[](/gameover)I credit two games with getting me into RPGs at a young age. The first is the board game Hero Quest. The second is a dungeon-crawler CRPG called Castle of the Winds. That led me into more well-known rogue-likes, primarily Moria and Angband.
Take a look at robot odyssey! It's rather different from what you're suggesting, but it has the same core concept and might give you ideas. It's a game from the 80s, in which you program robots with logic gates to help you escape from an underground dungeon. Not a roguelike by any means, but it's to to this day one of my favourite games.
EDIT: you can get it from here, and play with dosbox. I also recommend patching it, but the patch is a pain in the ass to apply since it's written for an outdated version of python2.
>This might have been acceptable a decade ago, but today it's competing against The Last of Us, Pillars of Eternity, Uncharted, Undertale, Witcher 3, Tales from the Borderlands, The Stanley Parable and Bloodbourne.
Betrayal at Krondor was released in 1993
If anything, I'd say game writing has gotten worse over the years, not better. Now the production quality has improved, and some people consider a mediocre story told through voice-acting to be far better "writing" than a great story told through blocks of text, but that's a separate debate.
SpaceKids! Demo playable in browser at Archive.org. S skips scene, F plays 2x speed, space pauses.
Also looks like My Abandonware has the full version.
1) KQ III was out for MS-DOS
You can get DOSBox and play the game.
Software this old and for older platforms tends to be called "abandonware." The copyright may still be held by someone, but I'm not sure who, and it's often available for download on various websites.
I found this: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/kings-quest-iii-to-heir-is-human-8c.
Here's a tutorial on how to play games like this in DOSBox.
Also, @Sara, thanks for visiting our subreddit!
Edit: If you can actually buy the game from gog and benefit the copyright holder (and hopefully that's the same as the person who made it), definitely do that! I wasn't aware the game was still being sold. Damn!
Looks like it isn't being sold by anyone, its up on some abandonware sites. I doubt you will be able to find it for purchase
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/wizardry-the-return-of-werdna-the-fourth-scenario-k8
DOSbox should run this version for a possibly better experience. If you have a better suggestion, PM me or comment and I'll add it to the comment.
So you're asking if it's possible to make a 3D video game that uses hand drawn images instead of 3D models? Tada!
In all seriousness I doubt that anyone would want to use Sprites/Images instead of models. Drawing 8 different versions of the same thing for every single item would be a lot of work. Not to mention animations and the big fact that technology with 2D imagery in 3D space has not advanced at all since polygons have been used.
All I can think of is Earthworm Jim, although that's on SNES. Green background, orange foreground. Lanky with white jumpsuit.
Mario Teaches Typing.
You're hammering away on the keyboard sounding super important, not touching the arrow keys nor clicking, and improving your typing skills at the same time. All the while pounding on Koopas and Goombahs, avoiding an octopus, and stickin' it to Bowser. If you're caught you are literally working on developing an essential computer skill that will make you a more valuable worker.
Play online: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Mario_Teaches_Typing_1992
You can also install it here: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/mario-teaches-typing-1gl
Enjoy!
Found one screenshot of a possible platforming section. Looked through the assets of the Windows 3.1 version and found some pics of a seal and penguin too.
Just a forewarn, Severance isn't really a ton like Gothic. I do agree with his recommendation in the general sense to play it because it's absolutely awesome (if not a bit confusing sometimes). It's not quite as World driven as Gothic, not nearly as many NPCs to interact with aside from stabbing them, and has far fewer RPG elements going on. Lots of focus on combat which is done really well and you get to choose from a handful of characters to play as, all with varying styles of combat and a different background. Also, the multiplayer arena was actually a helluva lot of fun.
All that being said, it's Abandon ware!
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/blade-of-darkness-455#download
Gog used to have it I believe, but it was pulled at some point and disappeared otherwise. I can confirm the above link works. Be sure to get the patch file as well
It sounds a lot like this Loderunner variant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner_Online:_The_Mad_Monks%27_Revenge
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/lode-runner-on-line-the-mad-monks-revenge-3m6
My believe comes mostly from the mutated insects that look like they Came From The Desert and the practical tire pauldrons. The believe scale maxes out. Feel Believe 2015.
Here is a place to get Oregon Trail
http://www.myabandonware.com/search/q/oregon+trail
You may also want to check out GOG and Steam. they both often have older games very cheap.
Try this http://www.myabandonware.com/game/warcraft-ii-tides-of-darkness-2sh Or this http://en.war2.ru/downloads/ If neither will work i'll leave you to google other options yourself. I was too lazy to search for my disk, that i am not even sure exists anymore, so I downloaded mine already packed in dosbox app(i play on mac), but lacking the VO of mission briefings and cinematics. But it is 20 mb instead of 500. Hope this doesn't count as piracy since wc2 is effectively abandonware https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware
Cannon Fodder? was that available for a PC? (or Cannon Fodder 2, for that matter, even though the first one was infinitely better :P)
EDIT: Yeah, Cannon Fodder 2 was available to the PC (DOS) Here's some screens and info: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/cannon-fodder-2-2p9
I remember playing the first version this when I was in primary school. Couldn't remember what it was called so thanks for refreshing my memory. Turns out it is on myabandonware
I don't know about this specific collection, but you can download pretty much all of such old games ~~for free (and legally)~~ on abandon-ware sites like
http://www.abandonia.com/ or http://www.myabandonware.com/
Abandonware means that the games are ignored by their owner and there's no real way to officially buy or get them anywhere. "Although such software is usually still under copyright, the owner may not be tracking or enforcing copyright violations".
IANAL, so download at your own risk
Jill of the Jungle (1992) - it was a trilogy. Here's another link if you want to play it again.
Yep, that's where this site really shines. It's great for those titles that aren't 'hall of fame' material.
Now, I'm off to download SimFarm. Yes, that's a game about simulated farming and I love it. Strawberries make a good early game crop IIRC. Lil protip for the one other person that likes simulated farming and downloads it.
Makes me think of Caesar II. That's exactly what you're talking about, but might be a little dated.
Just looked it up, it's apparently abandonware now.
I just checked - the manual has a-left shift-z-x for the wasd keys! I remapped everything to the numpad when I played it, one of my first PC games back in the day.
I loved this game, very atmospheric and oppressive, with huge levels and even free-form driving sections. I have very strong memories of some of the environments to this day. It must have been overshadowed in history by Quake, it really does not get the recognition it deserves.
This one's pretty cool, takes a while to figure out how it works (it's all command driven, quite unusual even back when I tried it first in the 90s) http://www.myabandonware.com/game/ega-trek-1km/play-1km
I owe my FI to playing "jones in the fast lane" as a kid (play free at http://www.myabandonware.com/game/jones-in-the-fast-lane-1xb/play-1xb)
Work work work. No relax. School school work work. Eat the cheapest foods. Buy the cheapest clothes. No furniture. Once you've maxed the other stats, focus on happiness stat 100%.
I played the original, Drug Wars, which looked like this. It was basically a drug version of Lemonade Stand.
Just found a picture of Tiberium didn't even notice the logo in the corner:) was 9 when Tiberium Sun was released:) this is what I remember. Tiberium Sun
Is this Math Blaster?
https://r.mprd.se/Sega%20Genesis/Titles/Math%20Blaster%20-%20Episode%201%20(U).png
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Ah, it was called "silly" mode in the options menu. See p 41 here: http://www.myabandonware.com/media/files/manuals/s/simant-the-electronic-ant-colony_dos_04bx.pdf
Hands-down my favorite part of the game (in fairness, I was terrible at it so never got very far).
I actually try to make the console good looking at times, it seems easier with console's monospace than GUI's pretty-hard-to-understand scales. My truest inspiration.
Whoa! I'm pretty impressed this site has Nightmare on Elm St and The Black Cauldron those two games were a childhood staple. And the Kings Quest ones.
If you like RPGs and the concept of Roguelike, then Ragnarok (apparently aka Valhalla) would be my hands-down recommendation! Actual story-lines. Missions and quests and a variety of creatures and characters drawn (albeit somewhat loosely at times) from Norse Mythology! I ran it on an old XP laptop, and have not yet tried to download and run the version I am linking to here since I just don't have the time to start this adventure again right now, but it is so worth it!
Mix potions! Write scrolls. Gain mithril armour. Create rune blades! Defeat GODS!!! It's brilliant!
and from like 1993!!!!
If anyone knows of anything similar to this, I'd love to hear about it! (aaaahhh! No I wouldn't! No time, dammit! ;-) )
Not to put too fine a point on it but
Damn Windows kids with your mice and your clicks and your screensavers that aren't fractals.
On the video game front, I'd like to link an old game: Master of Magic (The link goes to GOG where you can buy it. Alternatively, you can find a DOSBox version if you're on Mac.)
If you read the reviews you will see a steady stream of "Best fantasy 4X game ever" and similar.
Want to know more? Take Civilization and cross it with Magic: the Gathering. Five color-themed schools of magic, hundreds of spells, dozens of creatures, fourteen races with a dozen or more units each, two worlds (Arcanus and Myrror) to explore...there's more replay value than you will ever be able to use up. Among the strategies you could try:
- Slings and Arrows: Endless hordes of happy little hobbit slingers!
- Hero Hit Team: Heroes with artifacts that let them rain down fire and destruction!
- Black Hearts: Shadow Demons or Wraiths: cast them early, cast them often, kill everything that moves.
There's tons more.
CONS: The game was made in 1994 so the graphics and music are awful by modern standards. The AI also isn't as good as one would like.
Aside from those, this is an amazing game.
Apple ][ wasn't cartridge-based, so I'm not sure why you say "ROMs." In any case, it seems the Apple versions are hard to find, I suppose because these mainly got published via companion disk to a magazine (Softdisk).
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My guess would be that the DOS versions are going to be easier to locate. For example: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/dangerous-daves-risky-rescue-1z1
What an amazing and underrated game that was. Played both 1 and 2 to completion which I can't say about many games.
Edit: Just found out that BZ1 is available free here and that Rebellion are working on a remake.
Also BZ2 here.
Well, if we talk about what this game reminds of… It's pretty much a spiritual successor to a very old game called Shortline. Really took me back to my childhood :P
NBA Live 95 was also on PC (as were the previous basketball games made by EA). There were plenty of basketball games before the yearly EA Sports releases started, many of those on PC. Some examples.
However most sports games haven't been on PC for a decade now and that has an effect on what platform people will buy those games on.
Sport games in general have a less video game focused audience. People in the market for sport games generally play only the most popular titles and don't bother with games intended for niche or core gamer audiences. Those type of people tend to play on the well marketed consoles, especially in the US.
As a result of these factors, as well as insecurity towards believing 2K takes PC seriously (NBA 2K14 was a last-gen port and many doubted they would make 2K15 up to par with current consoles) PC sales for 2K15 are about 1/10th of what they are on PS4.
It's easily available lots of places, I believe Blizzard might have actually officially released it for free. Even if they didn't, here is one place I found it.
Railroad Tycoon 2 Platinum. I became a robber baron at eight years of age.
Could it be The Lost Tribe? I played this a lot around the same time.
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-lost-tribe-1na
You can get it working with DOSbox. Pm me if you need help.
Never had the full version (too young at the time and my dad wasn't about to pay for computer games and nintendo games).
But now: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/epic-pinball-1z6 (haven't tried this yet)
google led me to this page just now: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/where-in-the-usa-is-carmen-sandiego-enhanced-1jp I haven't tried downloading it from that page yet, though, so download at your own risk
There's that BBC typing course (which I just realized they've changed up since my kid used it last): http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr
If your kids are younger, you might enjoy setting up Mario Teaches Typing: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/mario-teaches-typing-1gl (it does take some skill because you have to install an emulator)
the other one my kids have tried has been this one: http://bigbrownbear.co.uk/learntotype/ but i think you already have to be familiar with touch typing before you can properly use it - it's more for practice.
we live in the us, i have no idea why both of my links are from the uk - how weird is that? the future is now.
Is this done? D:
Been PC Gaming my whole life. First game was some DOS game based off The California Raisins
My current rig is running an AMD FX-8350 processor, with just a minor 5% OC, a 990FX MoBo so I can use NVIDIA SLI with a AMD processor (At the time it was shockingly difficult to find a mobo that fit that niche.)
I need to upgrade my graphics cards some day, I have a pair of GTX480's right now. They pack such a punch for the price point, and I can still play pretty much everything @ max settings, but I keep seeing people post threads like "Such a huge upgrade!" showing them upgrading from like 600-series chips, so now my 480's feel super old, even though performance-wise I have no complaints...
Anywa, then an array of HDDs for 6.5 TBs storage at 7200 RPM, and a SSD drive for booting and often-used programs at 250 GBs, and 16 GB of RAM (Some day I can expand up to 32, that's this MoBo's capacity.)
SteamGauge shows that more than 50% of my play time is spent on games that cost less than $10 - AKA: I love indie games. And PC gaming is the frontier of indie games. Without PC gaming, there's a good chance I wouldn't game nearly as much - and I may have even been a productive member of society! Thank goodness that didn't happen! ;)
Awesome. And I hadn't even noticed that part about it being an add-on. You can find Test Drive III on that Abandonware site too, so with DosBox you'll have a good shot at playing it again.
Battlezone 2. Part RTS, Part FPS. It's one of my favorite hybrids, and truly a hidden gem.
Some sites are claiming this to now be abandonware (it's about 15 years old now), but I don't know if it's true or not.
They're used to writing with a controller. It is nearly impossible. That's why PCMR grammar is much improved because of the ease of the keyboard.
Mario Teaches Typing, FTW! http://www.myabandonware.com/game/mario-teaches-typing-1gl
It's downloadable here : http://www.myabandonware.com/game/catacomb-27y but you'll need Dosbox to run it I think...
There's an online version here, but it may just be a demo : http://www.classicdosgames.com/online/catacomb.html
Did you install from this site?
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/mechwarrior-4-mercenaries-3ak
The mtx version gets all fucked up sometimes and some antivirus software even quarantines their MW4.exe. I installed from abandonware and haven't had any problems aside from the resolution on widescreens.
Since PSN+ games are just old games with a very small market for sales (thus given freely as a perk) I motion that every single game on this site be counted in favor of the PC.
The pathfinding upset me the most. When where you place fire stations doesn't matter, it's just not worth it.
I've got Anno 2070 and Cities in Motion 2, but haven't given them a try yet for comparison.
Sim City 4 is still my city simulator of choice. Alternatively, if you want to go old school, you can get Sim City 2000 for free: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/simcity-2000-1nf
There isn't a ton of young kid appropriate stuff on Steam besides what's already mentioned here... I might add Scribblenauts Unlimited is on my list for my daughter when she's old enough to be getting into spelling and exploring new words (there was an age once where I was fascinated by the dictionary - that would be the target).
Right now my kid (under 1 yr) actually enjoys FreshPaint for mess-less artwork, (I remember playing with Paint a lot in Windows 3.1), though she hasn't yet caught on to use only one finger at a time (2+ fingers at once either pans or confuses the app into doing nothing).
A few legal and freely downloadable older PC abandonware classics might work great but I haven't tried myself just yet (think I will)... see here http://www.myabandonware.com/ Back in the day a lot more PC games were developed with all ages in mind.
Games I'd be interested in trying from that site include Oregon Trail, Simcity 2000, Where in the Wcorld is Carmen Sandiego... lotsa good stuff for youngsters =)!
Well, the feeling is mutual! You made my day! :)
Test Drive 3! I loved that game! Did you know that when you changed the radio station, you had about a half second of invincibility? We'd run straight towards a cow and change the radio station. It's still a joke among us.
And Hoverforce. My best friend had that game! It was great! You can still get it too: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/hoverforce-1vq
We're not stopping at the HD game either. We're making a completely new adventure too. It's called Project 6014. Trailer and demo
My dad and I played the first jetfighter and I've never been able to find it. Seriously, at this point I'll pay whatever was the release price for it.
edit: holy shit http://www.myabandonware.com/game/jetfighter-the-adventure-gr
DOSBox can be a little tricky to use, so I'd look up a guide if I were you.
EDIT: I actually just found D-Fend Reloaded, which might be easier to use than DOSBox. I haven't actually tried it yet, so you'll have to see for yourself.