good games for old windows?

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got a thinkpad 240, 400 mhz, 192 ram, windows 2000

got any good suggestions for games?

puzzles, rpgs, rts, strategy would be my prefs

or maybe some really fun platformers.
 
Commander Keen
Halloween Harry
Epic Pinball
The Incredible Machine
Kings Quest VI
Day of the Tentacle
Age of Empires
Civilization II
StarCraft
Snood

Just a few I could think of off hand
 
Look at the bargain shelf for those CD cases with collections of Win95/98 era games for $5 to $10. There are tons of old games that should run decently.

The game sections at shareware sites like Download.com should have a lot to offer as well.
 
[quote name='opportunity777']Wing Commander[/QUOTE]
I was gonna mention that, but he didn't mention that genre...

But yeah, WCI, II, and III are some of my all-time favorites. WC Armada is another fav.
 
Half life 1 should run on that.
Diablo
Diablo 2
StarCraft
WarCraft (...so I'm a Blizzard whore... sue me ^_^)
Monster Truck Madness is mindless fun
Theme Park by Bullfrog is a GREAT game.
Syndicate
 
[quote name='Kayden']Half life 1 should run on that.
Diablo
Diablo 2
StarCraft
WarCraft (...so I'm a Blizzard whore... sue me ^_^)
Monster Truck Madness is mindless fun
Theme Park by Bullfrog is a GREAT game.
Syndicate[/QUOTE]
Blizzard whores are the best kind
 
Diablo
Castle of the Winds 1 and 2 [both have been released as freeware]
Heroes of Might and Magic III should run, if not, 2.
 
I know this isn't gonna be a very popular suggestion given previous threads, but if you are the type of person who doesn't mind bending the law a lil' bit, you'd be well off with a Snes emulator and some games. You can catch up on any old school console gaming you may have missed. Oh, remember to delete ROMs after 24 hours otherwise bad things might happen someday.
 
[quote name='Heyricochet']What I was just playing today, the Neverhood. Great adventure game.[/QUOTE]

Thats pretty rare if I am not mistaken.
 
[quote name='Moxio']Lemmings.[/QUOTE]


They should make one for the DS now that you mention it.

What about Goblins. I never got around to playing it although a few people I knew did.
 
I agree with the suggestions of Heroes of Might and Magic III and Civ II (I've been playing Civ II again on my A64 2800+, still fun). Master of Orion II is always good strategy fun too.

Baldur's Gate I of course! Baldur's Gate II might run tolerably as well if you have room for a full install - I upgraded my PC to a Athlon 750mhz for BGII back in the day, but before that I was running it on my K6-2 350mhz/ Voodoo 3 2000 system.

I would add in Betrayal at Krondor. Excellent, excellent RPG, and they made it free when one of the sequels came out. Older graphics, definitely, but an awesome RPG. I still have my original CD-ROM version of it. It's better with the CD music if you can find a legit release of it - but apparently the Sierra classics version is missing stuff, so try to find the original...more information here...

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=116
 
IMO Best RTS ever - will run great on that spec machine still - plenty of ppl still playing it online for multiplayer action. Gamespy also voted it # 1 RTS of all time - over Starcraft... Let the flaming begin.
 
[quote name='BigC777']IMO Best RTS ever - will run great on that spec machine still - plenty of ppl still playing it online for multiplayer action. Gamespy also voted it # 1 RTS of all time - over Starcraft... Let the flaming begin.[/QUOTE]
TA is an excellent RTS to this day. Waay Deeper than StarCraft. BigC, in case you havent heard, there is an open-source remake of TA called 'Sprung'. You may want to check it out.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/27/1644211&from=rss
 
[quote name='Snake2715']Thats pretty rare if I am not mistaken.[/QUOTE]


Yep, I've been looking for it for awhile now and finally found it on the underdogs. I also found a Duckman adventure game that looks cool.
 
Flame Dragon 2

It's a chinese turn-based strategy game. It's kinda like Final Fantasy Tactics, cept I think it's way better. Instead of the fight scene being those little sprites, it's a close up and I always enjoy watching it. No world map, you just go stage after stage.

I'm actually starting a translation project on it so non Chinese/Korean speakers can play it.
 
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. possibly with its expansion pack, Alien Crossfire.

it's basically Civ 2, but colonizing another planet. i loved this game back in high school, and need to get another copy.

used to be incredibly expensive and rare (especially the expansion), but then EA rereleased them for a little while in a "laptop collection" bundle with Red Alert 2, Sim City 3000, and Tiger Woods
 
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