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Posted: Sep 04 2009 02:05 am

So I went to one of my friend's house, and he was playing some age of mythology. Once a long time ago I was a computer game player of games like starcraft or fallout 2, so I recommended a couple of games that he should give a try. The first being impossible creatures, an RTS where you combine animals to make your units. The second was Planescape: Torment, a game that given half a chance I will sing the praises of as the high point of all western RPGs.

Alas, you can't buy them save for a ridiculous price on E-bay. Damn it, these are comp games, we can have them on a legit download site for $10-20 dollars, its not like we have to fire up a CD factory or shit. Just bugged by it.

Joined: Nov 02 2008 Posts: 725

I'm having a hell of a time finding the TNT Evilution wad.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I think it's impossible to find "Mission Force : Cyberstorm" That game was the shit. Upgradable Mech RTS in Windows 95!!1!!1!

Also, Knyte if your listening I know you would know this. What was the name of that game that either came with some copies of Windows 95 or was on a Microsoft Entertainment Pack CD. It involved flying around in some spaceship thing and I think the word "Hell" was in the name of the game.

Joined: Sep 04 2009 Posts: 1

I may have just signed up to post this, but I hope this helps people who are looking to buy old PC games Smile

http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/

Posted: Sep 04 2009 08:42 am

The computer game they played in the movie Big. You can't find that anywhere.

Joined: Mar 13 2009 Location: Arlington Posts: 467

I don't think that game exists. It's probably just a screen shot that was made for the movie. Why? I don't know. I found this a while back when I was looking for the game in the middle of the night.

I checked the movie credits, and no credit is given to the game publisher, which there would (should) be if it was a real game. There are these credits:

Computer Image Designed by SMA Video Inc. (now SMA Realtime, Inc.: http://www.smavid.com/)
Computer Display Engineered by David Satin (David Satin is now EVP, Secretary, and Treasurer of SMA Realtime, Inc.)

So, I think it isn't a real game, and instead a special effect.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=12520

Posted: Sep 04 2009 09:51 am

I 2nd GOG has a good place to start finding older PC games. Other than that, there's always abandonware, though it is alot harder to find older PC games that were cd-based. It's easy to host files that are only 1 MB - 40 MB each, but it's alot more expensive to host a bunch of files that are all 400 - 700 MB each.

Posted: Sep 04 2009 10:20 am

(no abadonware, gamez, warez, or ROM site links, please)

Be careful of sites like Gog that will try to sell you games from $6-$10 that are completely free now and public domain (such as Cannon Fodder)

Posted: Sep 04 2009 12:53 pm

joshwoodzell wrote:

What was the name of that game that either came with some copies of Windows 95 or was on a Microsoft Entertainment Pack CD. It involved flying around in some spaceship thing and I think the word "Hell" was in the name of the game.

It wasn't Descent was it?

Posted: Sep 04 2009 01:56 pm

Age of Mythology? I bought it at Staples yesterday... Confused

They also had Rise of Nations and a few other RTSs.

Posted: Sep 04 2009 01:59 pm

Valdronius wrote:

joshwoodzell wrote:

What was the name of that game that either came with some copies of Windows 95 or was on a Microsoft Entertainment Pack CD. It involved flying around in some spaceship thing and I think the word "Hell" was in the name of the game.

It wasn't Descent was it?

Fury3 was my first thought. Turns out that had a sequel called Hellbender, which is probably what he means.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Hellbender! Thats it, thanks a lot Tyop. I played the shit out of that game because it was free and I was too poor to buy Descent.

Posted: Sep 04 2009 03:13 pm

I remember trying to get Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries to run on anything besides my old Windows 95 machine. Apparently there are patches for Mechwarrior 2 to run on XP and Vista, but not for Mercs.

Posted: Sep 04 2009 03:27 pm

I remember in 1997 when I had a 386sx comp that I couldnt find games for it anywhere. There was no place in my hometown of Memphi that sold floppy disk games like I needed. This was in the day before the internet and ebay.

Joined: May 05 2007 Posts: 40

Aqua Hedgehog wrote:

I'm having a hell of a time finding the TNT Evilution wad.

Torrent it if you don't want to buy the Doom Collectors Edition

Just seach for Final Doom on what ever torrent site.

Hope to see you on Skulltag

Posted: Sep 04 2009 04:59 pm

RobotGumshoe wrote:

So I went to one of my friend's house, and he was playing some age of mythology. Once a long time ago I was a computer game player of games like starcraft or fallout 2, so I recommended a couple of games that he should give a try. The first being impossible creatures, an RTS where you combine animals to make your units. The second was Planescape: Torment, a game that given half a chance I will sing the praises of as the high point of all western RPGs.

Alas, you can't buy them save for a ridiculous price on E-bay. Damn it, these are comp games, we can have them on a legit download site for $10-20 dollars, its not like we have to fire up a CD factory or shit. Just bugged by it.

I used to own Impossible Creatures. I didn't like it that much (there's not really enough customization options for me) but have been itching to play it recently.

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

Pandajuice wrote:

(no abadonware, gamez, warez, or ROM site links, please)

Be careful of sites like Gog that will try to sell you games from $6-$10 that are completely free now and public domain (such as Cannon Fodder)

correction GOG will try and sell you Cannon Fodder 2
for $6 - $10 dollars, which is most certainly not a free game, as far as I checked.
The first one is though!

also they have gothic 2 for like 9 bux, whereas trying to find a copy on ebay almost cost me 60 bux!

Posted: Sep 05 2009 02:28 am

Char Aznable wrote:

I remember trying to get Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries to run on anything besides my old Windows 95 machine. Apparently there are patches for Mechwarrior 2 to run on XP and Vista, but not for Mercs.

Yeah good luck, all the patches I've tried never worked. The best I got was the game to play minus sound effects and music.

Joined: Nov 02 2008 Posts: 725

hobojoe44 wrote:

Aqua Hedgehog wrote:

I'm having a hell of a time finding the TNT Evilution wad.

Hope to see you on Skulltag

Found it. I should be on IDESE with my forum name. I also found the full Doom 1 wad on a rom site (the DOS version) which runs in Skulltag.

Posted: Sep 05 2009 11:01 am

Kojjiro! wrote:

correction GOG will try and sell you Cannon Fodder 2
for $6 - $10 dollars, which is most certainly not a free game, as far as I checked.
The first one is though!

Umm, is this not the original Cannon Fodder on Gog's site? http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/cannon_fodder

In fact, I don't even see where they offer Cannon Fodder 2.