Good Old PC Games

Any name some good old (cheap) pc games, any genre.

Please could you post like so:

Game name - genre

I am mainly interested in RPGS, Strategy and simulation and similar XD

Thanks,
Blade

Zeppelin - Giants of the Sky - simulation

For loads of other free old games:
http://www.abandonia.com

warcraft 2+3, starcrafd, kknd, kknd crossfire, command n coqwuer red alert, dune 2000...

Jagged Alliance 2, Earth 2150 (best: Moonproject), Fallout, Baldurs Gate 2 + Planescape Tourment, Ceasar 3, MDK
Diablo (actually all Blizzard games belong in such a list)
Civilization 2
Quake!

oh god how i love MDK

all dos games

cosmo-platformer
raptor-sidescrolling shooter
kings quest-intriguing adventure game
ancients: deathwatch-fun rpg

Grim Fandango, Soldier of Fortune, Operation Flashpoint..

Strategy:
Age of Empires I and II are always fun.
Empire Earth I on LAN is awesome! Beating up your prehistoric enemy with nukes never gets boring. Campaign is quite good too.

FPS:
Quake II, fastest death matches ever.
Battlefield 2, not that old (2005-ish) but still doesn't need that good of a computer.

Simulation:
Zoo Empire, Underrated.
<forget the name, 3D jurassic park or something>, Made in 2003, and is still worth playing
H.A.W.X, I know this only just came out, but it's the only modern game my computer has ever been able to play on high.

I only played MDK 2... is MDK (1) better?

prince of persia!!!!
(amiga)

Without going back too far:

Red Faction (1) - FPS
Aliens vs Predator 2 - FPS
Freespace 2 - Space Combat (FREE NOWADAYS!)
Freelancer - "Open" Space Combat
Psychonauts - Jump'n'Run I guess
Homeworld - RTS
Ground Control - RTS
Spellforce 1 or 2 - RTS / RPG mix
Grandia II - RPG
Vampire - The Masquerade - RPG
Flatout 1 or 2 - (Very fun) Racing

Enjoy your meal
Toast

Diner Dash (Not that old, 2003 i guess).
The Sims 1 (Not very cool, but good for 1999 )

Gothic I + II + Addon - RPG
TechnoMage (I think it is funny ) - RPG
Monkey Island (I wonder why no one metioned it) - Adv
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - Action-Adv

Yes, Gothic 3 was crap, compared to 1 and 2,
In 2 I enjoyed the addon the most (brought back the
"Camp" athmosphere of the first game), although
after finishing the addon mission, it was unplayably hard in the main quest.

I bought 3, but this game has bad graphics (the landscape was ok, but especially
the people look silly)
and a much worser gameplay. So I quit after playing it 2 hours.
Was a nice example of destroying a working game-concept
by trying to appeal to the international market, and
rushing out the game too quick.

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Monkey Island is an Amiga game for me. Never played the
PC version.

Add Half-life 1, Battlezone 1, Prince of Persia and Thief: The Dark Project and you pretty much have named all of my 'favorite games of all time'.

Wing Commander: Privateer - best space sim ever (imho). There's also a remake which is worth playing. (Privateer Gemini Gold)

Wing Commander 2 + Mission Packs - 2nd best space sim ever (imho 2 :D)

Privateer 2 - 3rd bes...yadda yadda, you know the drill ^^ Great story.

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn - RTS with a great charme

The Settlers 2 - RTS, I loved this game

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - jump 'n run (co-op! yay!)

Unreal Tournament 1 - i still play it

quake 3 - i still play it, too

GTA - top down mission based action thingyfoo. FREE NOWADAYS. Soundtrack still rocks, so does the motorcycle ,the tank and the tanker-truck

Total Annihilation + Expansion - Awesome RTS for it's time. Hundreds of different units. Pseudo 3D. Did i mention it's awesome?

Discworld - Adventure, great humor, nice graphics

Simon the Sorcerer 1+2 - Adventure, great humor, nice graphics

Floyd - Adventure, nice humor and graphics

Broken Sword 1+2 - Awesome Adventure

Bleifuss Fun - Yeeeeee! How about a remake!?

Dungeon Keeper 1+2 - Honestly, i want a remake!

Nuclear Strike - I played the demo a 100 times...I'm still playing the full version. Great 3D Shot 'Em Up Game with lots and lots of things to destroy and many user driveable/flyable vehicles

Raptor - Cool Shot 'em Up

Tyrian 2000
- BEST! SHOT 'EM UP! EVER! FREE NOWADAYS! [GET IT HERE]


Some games that seemed very obscure to me when i was a child:
- Phylox (what the hell is this game about??? Why am i flying through a gastro-intestinal tract at the beginning of the game in a flying chair?)
- Skunny (i liked the games...but for some reason there was always something strange about that squirrel)
- Tex Murphy Overseer (What the...wait...i ... uuh...what?)
- Prisoner of Ice (I nearly scared myself to death when that alien broke out of the cargo room in the submarine. Never touched that game again until some weeks ago. Game seems pretty boring now)
- Magic Carpet (I loved the intro, i liked the game...i hated those nasty looking worms which threw fireballs at me all the time and scared the shit out of me when i was a child. Don't get me wrong, i like the game, but it's more of a hate-love here)


I could go on and on as there were a lot of great games in the DOS and WIN95 era, but those are the ones that just jumped into my head while thinking about the topic.

Raptor? I like Demonstar a whole lot better though. Has the same kind of quality gameplay.

Good list though!

Ahhh, oh and I forgot Outcast as one of my alltime favorites.

Somebody remember the old "DUNGEON" at the Atari / C64? Sometime i still play it today.

When you talk about old consoles - I really like to play with my Sega Mega Drive - i have 15 games

wing commander prophecy - space sim
freelancer - open space sim
settlers 2 - rts
jagged alliance 2 - tbs

and my personal all-time-favourite
imperialism - tbs/sim

Since one in the series has been mentioned, I have to recommend:

Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight with the SaberX mod

It's a thousand times better than JK2 or JK3....JK2 and 3 are crap in comparison.

Ah, when it comes to Turn Based Strategy games, I really really like Silent Storm a lot. Great game and the destructible environments were awesome.