what is everyone's fav old pc game?

With a computer like that I'd probably settle for Baldur's Gate, Mech Commander 1, Magic the Gathering for single player and maybe Neverwinter Nights 1 and Navy Field for multiplayer. 190mb RAM might not be enough for NWN 1, though.

Morton and Dagger's suggestions, plus X-Wing Versus TIE Fighter, Diablo 2, Half-Life, System Shock 1 & 2, Freespace 2, Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale, Homeworld, Dungeon Keeper 2, Ground Control, Ultima 7/Forge of Virtue/Silver Seed, Deus Ex, wow..., just realized how much of my youth was spent in front of a 15" CRT. I think most of those will run with your specs.

I always liked original super mario bros on consoles. Not that it is any help in your situation

oh and to say HOTU is an abandonware site full of FREE games - not pirated so relax !...

Gothic 1&2 (you have to play them in sequence to get the full effect)

Baldur's Gate 1.

edit - Gothic series are RPG's.

just to throw some rts into the mix, empire earth, stronghold and turn based, civ and alpha centauri.

Couldn't agree more, that game is probably my favorite game of all time.

Other FPS games that would be good are Half-Life and Quake 2, which you can still find people playing online.

I think Civilization II was pretty good as well.

Heya,

Diablo II, Lord of Destruction. (Free online play, RPG/Hack&Slash)
Fallout 1 & 2. (Post apocalyptic RPG series and not for kiddies)
Baldur's Gate II. (Amazingly long and immersive RPG that probably is second to none to date)
Raiden II. (Fun arcade style space shooting game, non stop action, simple and challenging)
Quake II CTF (Free online capture the flag the way Quake II defined every variant to date, so fun still)

Cheers,

Thief 2: The Metal Age

Go run Crysis on the recommended specs (another game graphically ahead of its time).

Yes he can run it, but it will not be anywhere near as smooth as the other games listed which is the point i wanted to make.

I played Deus Ex originally with these specs:

Celeron 466
Voodoo 3 3000 (16MB of RAM I believe)
either 64 or 128 MB of RAM (I can't remember)
Creative Soundblaster Live!

I played at 1024x768 and the game ran smooth as silk.

wow so many replies! thank you all for your suggestions... special thanks for those who listed the genre's too..... as that will reduce my researching time in half! hahaaha...

i have deus ex and it runs pretty choppy... although it does work...

i have only so much of disk space... thats why im being so picky... thanks a lot guys for all your responses...

anymore suggestions are welcome!

/goes and installs Deus Ex on his crappy old 800mhz lappy xD

Honestly i thought it wouldnt handle it, i stand corrected. More fun me on the train to work.

Ironsung....everyone has a fave old game mate thats why you get so many responses
Another one i havent seen mentioned is Grim Fandago....Monkey Island with more dead people.

To many to just name one: "not in order"

Warcraft 2 & 3, Starcraft, Red Alert 1 & 2, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Counter Strike, Quake series (before 4), Unreal Tournament.

Best,

3Ball

Fave old skool game - Frontier Elite.
I played for 24hours once without even going to the toilet!

^ + 1

Agreed. I cant even remember much other than the fact that, after i installed MOO and MOO2, i didnt so much as move, get food or drink or got to the toilet from 11am till about 4am the next morning. After that my mother thought that game were the devils instruments

And then Diablo and Starcraft were installed...

Dune 2000 and any older Cnc Game

Doom series, Quake series, Unreal series, Diablo series, Duke Nukem 3D, Half-Life and so on. Quake 1 is probably my favorite out of everything, followed by Quake 2 in close 2nd. I'm betting all these will run in XP

I've finished it, super mario world was a great game but I liked Super Mario Kart even more. I have plenty of others, but since this is a PC's thread...

Kings Quest, maybe Heroes of Might and Magic, Alpha Centauri for example

AoE I & AoE II
Civ II
Caesar 3
MOO2
Hardwar
Freespace will probably run, not sure about Freespace 2.
Need for Speed 3 was fun

That should keep you busy well past Christmas... and Easter!

I'm actually replaying Caesar 3 at the moment! (Passing time until I order my new PC...)

If you want a really fun free old game - Lords of the Realm and it's expansion are on the underdogs, last I checked.

It's a great real time/turn based hybrid.

Age of empires 2. One of the best games i have ever played. And since a few other people have brought up emulators. You should also check out Earthbound.

Thief Dark Age
Thief Metal Age
Baldur's Gate 1-2
Planescape
System Shock 2
Dungeon Keeper 2
Masters of Orion
Tribes Vengeance

All of these will run on XP, some may give you issues with dual core CPUs but you should be able to enter the Task Manager (ctrl+alt+del), goto Processes, rt clk the process (ie: Thief.exe) and select Set Affinity (uncheck CPU 1). Again, this is ONLY for dual core CPUs. This drove me nuts until I found the cause and fix for it on some Thief fansite.