What are your favorite PC games from 1995-2003?

[princealfie]

I'm looking for various old school PC games that were built for Windows 95 to XP. Looking for ones which have max specs on anything that's with a 8 MB or 16 MB requirement on video card.

Collecting them is hard. In fact I'm especially looking for ones that have full install without disc needed to play. Thanks!

[topgunn]

Starcraft and Diablo II and pretty much every game made by Blizzard are great. There a NoCD cracks that are widely available. Some folks may be morally opposed to using these cracks but since I have legally bought the game and I don't want to swap CD's I don't lose any sleep over it.

[jdechko]

The original Half-life would probably run on that type of system.

System Requirements (http://www.ultimate-gamer.com/halflife/hl.htm)

That was one of the things that made HL so great, was that it could play on a ton of different configurations. (Maybe not very pretty, but play nonetheless).

[AndyR]

Any of the Monkey Island games!

[LethalWolfe]

Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith (the expansion pack)
Shogun: Total War
Unreal Tournament

To name a few.

Lethal

[lmalave]

Heh, this is a little bit outside of your range, but the 2 "Ultima Underworld" titles from 1992 and 1993 were so far ahead of their time. I think they only play under DOS, though. If you haven't heard of them: They're first-person 3-D role-playing game a la "World of Warcraft". No multiplayer obviously, though. To this day this the two Ultima Underworld my favorite single-player role-playing games. The gameplay and interface were amazingly elegant. You could actually control *everything* with your mouse (the closer the arrow-shaped mouse cursor was near the edge the faster you ran). And it wasn't just hacking and slashing, there were also a fair amount of puzzles, etc. to solve.

[mdntcallr]

starcraft was amazing. So was Warcraft.

Another one is great, Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

One which is free and a great game it it works on your computer is RTCW: Enemy Territory.

Enemy Territory is a free game. so no need to go search for it.

[greatdevourer]

Unreal Tournament GotY :D So many hours wasted on that game :) Then my disk got scratched beyond use :(

[mdntcallr]

Unreal Tournament GotY :D So many hours wasted on that game :) Then my disk got scratched beyond use :(


mmm yesss.. this original UT. was sooo much better than the ones now.
new ones kinda actually stink.

[greatdevourer]

mmm yesss.. this original UT. was sooo much better than the ones now.
new ones kinda actually stink. Oh yeah! Although Onslaught is pretty darn fun. Btw, is it available free (legally)?

[Dagless]

I did like Max Payne 1 but I really can't get into it now. Sim City 3000 was probably my favourite, or Worms Armageddon. Mostly stuck with Doom and Duke 3D through them years.

[princealfie]

Sweet, looks like I am getting a good start to having the chance to dig some gems from the past. I miss the gaming from those days.

[Patmian212]

Might be pushing the system requirements but I LOVED Freelancer. Its one of the only things I truely miss on PCs. Warcraft II(not III) I also fell in love with.

[princealfie]

Onslaught is free. Here it is: http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p24916.htm

[greatdevourer]

Onslaught is free. Here it is: http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p24916.htm Ah, sorry. I meant UT:GotY itself, seeing as I killed my disk. And Onslaught is a gametype of UT04

[tominated]

how bout some snes emulators? i am always on bsnes playing super mario all-stars

[Eidorian]

Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Quake I/II/III
Unreal Tournament
Starcraft
Half Life
Myth I/II
Homeworld
Homeworld: Cataclysm
Starfleet Command I/II/III & Orion Pirates

[sikkinixx]

Max Payne 2, Fallout 2, Freedom Fighters, Sim City 4 hmm.. thats all i have on my CD rack right now, but im sure there are more :D

[greatdevourer]

I think Splinter Cell 1 counts - great game, although little replay value

[slackersonly]

diablo 2 and civ3 would be top of my list

[blitzkrieg79]

My top three games of 1995-2003 are as follows:

3.Return to Castle Wolfenstein (if I remember correctly the minimum specs are 500MHZ processor, 128 MB RAM, and 16MB video card)

2.Half-Life (I think it should run on a 166 MHZ, 64MB RAM, 16MB video card)

and number one goes to...

Warcraft 2 (it will run on a 486 based machine, with 8/16MB RAM, and basically a 1/2 MB video card will do, I spent so much time playing that game it ain't even funny, it is the most played game of my lifetime :D )

[bobber205]

I like all the love for WC II. Fun game.

But look at the first one! OMG. really low system requirements for that... :D

[Chrispy]

Starcraft and Diablo HANDS DOWN for me. Soooooo many nights playing that over a "direct cable connect" network in Win 95 and then 98 when I got that. Oh the memories haha.

[poopyhead]

7th guest
11th hour
and for a touch of class
anything with "leisure suit larry" in the title

[quikssurfer]

easy.. phantasmagoria

[Antares]

Warcraft, Starcraft, Tomb Raider (original...but doesn't hold up now for replay), Heroes of Might and Magic II and III.

[kalun]

Favourite:

Strategy:
Starcraft (If this is not on your list, you have a problem, please go seek help)
Homeworld (good old homeworld....)
Total War Series (got to love a few thousand troops chopping each other)

FPS
HL: CounterStrike

Notice that AOE is not in the list. I seriously wonder how can anyone say that AOE is the best game ever. It is not a bad game, maybe average at best. All the unites is freaken the same (in aoe2 you get 1 special unit per faction..that's it!)! And you don't get huge battles like totalwar!

[ToastMaster]

Original Unreal (and Unreal Tournament)

Homeworld original (better than 2 in my opinion)

Original Hitman

[austincolby]

Star Control and Star Control II...

Dune II... "You are under attack!"

Classics still worth playing over and over...

[mcmadhatter]

rollercaoster tycoon 1 and 2

(I got rct1 running on a 90Mhz P1 with s3 graphics (4mb), took ages to get to the start screen but it played ok)

[princealfie]

Wow, I'm going to have to hunt down a whole slew of these wonderful gems. THanks for your help! :D

[ReanimationLP]

Doom 2 : Hell on Earth
Warcraft II
Starcraft : Brood War

Doom 2 is FUN online. Get a program called ZDaemon to play online.

[Mr B]

Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith (the expansion pack)
Shogun: Total War
Unreal Tournament

To name a few.

Lethal


Shogun: Total War is a great, great game.

Uesegi Kenshin is the biggest badass ever.

[Digidesign]

damn this thread is a trip down memory lane...


Phantasmagoria
Freaked the hell out of me when my friends and I played it in college late at night. I ended up scrounging around the internet to pick up a used copy just for nostalgic sake. The music was well done too and the protagonist was cute as hell.

Dune II
Best music in a video game for its time (and one of the best of all time IMHO): Spice Opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_Spice_Opera)

Wing Commander IV: The price of Freedom
Mark Hamill + Back to the future's Biff + Malcolm McDowell + a porn star = one entertaining "movie" video game.

Privateer 2: The Darkening
This is the first time I ever saw Clive Owen. To me, he will always be Lev Arris.

[princealfie]

Thanks for the responses guys... I can't wait to dig up more of these gems.

[WillMak]

Counterstrike Classic would be my fav for that time period. I still play it today but I remember when I use to play that game on a 300 mhz celeron with 64 MB of ram and a cheap 16mb 3dfx voodoo banshee and performing great!

The Zork games were also pretty fun as well.