Old PC games that you'd like to play, but can't run on your new computer?

[Octorok]

Hugo's House of Horrors. Look it up. It runs on my computer like a dream...

That is the best brag I have heard in a while.

I didn't overly like Hugo games as a kid, but I played them for ages because it was all I had.

Brag? How so?

I grew up with games far advanced of Hugo's House of Horrors, me being born in 1995 and it being released 1990, but I played it at the advice of my older siblings and twas very awesome, but damn difficult. Took my family 13 years to beat without a guide. Hugo's House of Horror 2 is three times as hard, so talk to me in about 33 years...

In all seriousness, Theme Hospital anyone? Christ that game got difficult. Took my family a decade to beat, and a proper decade not like Hugo when we weren't playing it, for ten whole years we'd play it a few times a week to try and beat it. I would often just cheat and build gigantic lavatories and staff rooms.

 

[Baggie]

If your games were made in the past 8 years, you're not thinking old enough.

1) Interstate '76

THIS. SO MUCH THIS.
God that was a fun game.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Undying, but for a few weeks now, there isn't a single fucking game that will run on my computer anymore... Now I know how Mac users feel...

 

[tomvw]

Thief, System Shock (got SS2 to work though) and the original FEAR (refuses to run on any of my machines due to some USB-related bug)

 

[theultimateend]

X-com is such a great game I wish I could play it now that I am older. Instead people just keep producing RTS instead. The turn based combat is so much more fun to me.

It is possible. I'm playing it on a Windows 7 system.

 

[Chechosaurus]

I haven't tried yet but as far as I'm aware, I can't play Heroes of Might and Magic III on Windows 7. Also, I don't think I can play Might and Magic VII or VIII. I'm gonna have to pick them up from home next time I'm back and try them out.

 

[DazZ.]

Hugo's House of Horrors. Look it up. It runs on my computer like a dream...

That is the best brag I have heard in a while.

I didn't overly like Hugo games as a kid, but I played them for ages because it was all I had.

Brag? How so?

Sounded like you were bragging your computer was good enough to run it, it obviously wasn't written like that but that's how I read it in my head. (Didn't seem like a serious brag, more a comical one.)

 

[Comma-Kazie]

Re-Volt and the original Lego Island, although I'm working on a fix for them--yay for nostalgia!

 

[Vitvol279]

Populous and Theme Hospital. I've tried everything i can think of, and i can't get them to play right.

 

[dommyuk]

Diablo and Diablo II, respectively.

I've been told that D2 can work on Vista (Blizzard's patched it up and everything), and it does indeed not crash, but it's always been horrifically buggy to the point where I simply couldn't play.

Diablo, though? Fat chance in hell.

Diablo 1 and 2 works fine on my Vista PC.

I can't play Outcast, the engine is completely reliant on processor speed, most of the game works fine, but when running through certain areas the game forces you to walk very slowly through it and the rideable creatures designed to make your journey faster, don't move at all. CPUkiller almost works with getting my processor speed low enough, but it's either to slow, or has buggy animations. Which is a shame because it's one of the most awesome games of the 90's. :'(

 

[Radelaide]

KotOR I/II.

Tried installing both.
Disaster occurred.

This. Vista really doesn't like them which is a shame since the only other time I played them was on the xbox.

Kotor 1 works perfectly fine on my Vista x64.

 

[teh_gunslinger]

A really old Star Wars game which went through the first movie (and for some unexplainable reason, Hoth)

It was literally the first game I played, needed a joystick for the controls and everything. The newest computer it would run on was a Windows 97. Anything newer and it just wouldn't play. I got very sad when we had to get rid of the 97, but I was only using it for playing this game.

Rebel Assault?

System Shock 2.
Cant exactly say that any new games wont run on it

Lots of help and some good mods like the SS2 Mod Manager and texture updates can be found here [http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php/index.php].

X-com is such a great game I wish I could play it now that I am older. Instead people just keep producing RTS instead. The turn based combat is so much more fun to me.

You should be able to run it with DOS box. At least I can do it Vista 64 on the Steam version so I see no problems that would prevent you from doing the same. The game is worth a bit of hassle.


And anyone having problems with Baldur's Gate it should look into modding it with Tutu. That moves it into the BG2 engine and should make it much easier to run as well as allowing higher resolutions. Link here [http://www.usoutpost31.com/easytutu/].

 

[teh_gunslinger]

Splinter Cell and KOTORs don't work on Vista. Anybody know if they work on Windows 7?

Whoever was in charge of the back compatibility on Vista needs to be shot.

What Splinter Cell? I have problems with the first one in Vista 64 but Chaos Theory works if you crack the DRM. Seems Starforce never bothered to update that pos malware.

 

[Inverse Skies]

A very, very old car racing game which was called Stunts on my cousins PC but I belive its real name was Crash Course. It was so buggy and rubbish, half the time the opposition cars wouldn't race in anything other than the first level, but it was soooooo fun! As a kid anyway. Oh, and Lemmings 3D, I always wanted to play more of that game.

 

[Nimbus]

[HEADING=2]Argh![/HEADING]

System Shock 2.
That is all.

 

[Garla Mapit]

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

 

[Garla Mapit]

A very, very old car racing game which was called Stunts on my cousins PC but I belive its real name was Crash Course. It was so buggy and rubbish, half the time the opposition cars wouldn't race in anything other than the first level, but it was soooooo fun! As a kid anyway. Oh, and Lemmings 3D, I always wanted to play more of that game.

I remember Stunts. I used to play it as a kid as well. Although all I ever did was build the tracks because the racing was so hard/terrible.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I remember Stunts. I used to play it as a kid as well. Although all I ever did was build the tracks because the racing was so hard/terrible.

No way! You remember it as well! How classic was it! I remember making terrible levels with loops and stuff which the coms never worked in... ahh good times.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Grim Fandango. It just doesn't work.