Oldest game still on your HD

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2005-06-01 07:14am

Age Of Empires One and Two

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-06-01 07:32am

Hmn...to bad I recently uninstalled Moo2.

So its Freespace 2, though including SCP makes it 2005.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-06-01 07:42am

Total Annihilation

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-06-01 08:08am

Executive Suite (1982)

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2005-06-01 09:06am

Fallout 2 - One of the best games ever. I still use the original CD I got at the time of it's release, and it periodically returns to my hard drive in all it's sprite glory.

Master Of Orion 2 - not on my hard drive right now, but it will certainly return at some time in the future. It always does.

Space Empires IV Gold - not that old, but still has five years under it's belt. Again, it cycles in and out of the HDD, and I always keep the CD within reach.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-06-01 09:08am

Theme Hospital, I guess. I've got Fallout 2 somewhere, but I've never installed it.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-06-01 09:25am

Sacrifice

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2005-06-01 09:33am

Dark Forces and Command & Conquer, both of which were released in 1995.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-06-01 10:12am

either Commander Keen 4, or the original sim city. both lurking on my hdd somewhere.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-06-01 10:47am

Not sure which is older, Master of Orion or Renegade Legion: The Battle for Jacob's Star.

Kaintukee_Bob · Post by **Kaintukee_Bob** » 2005-06-01 11:17am

The Oregon Trail.

What? It's fun to make a group and run them into the ground.

Fun to see exactly how many times Jane can survive a snakebite before she just gives up the ghost...

Guy N. Cognito · Post by **Guy N. Cognito** » 2005-06-01 12:15pm

I'm surprised only one other person has MOO2 on their computer. I always keep it on, incase I feel like ruling the entire galaxy.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-06-01 12:31pm

Baldur's Gate.

Post by **Edi** » 2005-06-01 12:49pm

Oldest? Well, where to begin? Right now, Warlords III: Darklords Rising. The older episodes of the Might & Magic series (the Xeen ones) are going in, so is Age of Wonders. Summoning is always a nice one, and I just recently had X-COM: Apocalypse on.

My rig is five years old, so it can't run the newer games, and frankly, there has been little in the past few years that has even interested me all that much. Always something, but even the newer games I've bought I've gotten for next to nothing from bargain bins.

Edi

McNum · Post by **McNum** » 2005-06-01 01:06pm

I think it has to be One Must Fall 2097 from 1995.

Good game...

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2005-06-01 01:48pm

Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games.

Bow down to the Funky Bomb =D

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-06-01 02:15pm

VF5SS wrote:Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games.

Bow down to the Funky Bomb =D

Since we're on Scorched Earth, I need abit of help making it run, its giving me error:

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C:\DOCUME~1\HOMEUS~1\Desktop\scorched\SCORCH.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

I tried running under compability, still no workie.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-06-01 02:35pm

Homeworld, bought about a week after it came out back in 1999 (I think). Although I just deleted it from the harddrive about 2 minutes ago. I'd put XWA and FS2 back on in a heart beat, but for some reason, they don't seem to want to run on my laptop, and I couldnt get my joystick working with the latter on the laptop.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-06-01 02:43pm

Ace Pace wrote:
VF5SS wrote:Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games.

Bow down to the Funky Bomb =D
Since we're on Scorched Earth, I need abit of help making it run, its giving me error:
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C:\DOCUME~1\HOMEUS~1\Desktop\scorched\SCORCH.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
I tried running under compability, still no workie.

I assume you're on XP - what version of the game are you trying to run ?

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-06-01 02:46pm

Your right, XP. 1.5, I just tried running it in admin, no change.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2005-06-01 02:53pm

Maniac Mansion.

Quadlok · Post by **Quadlok** » 2005-06-01 02:56pm

X-Wing Collectors Edition, though thats on my old computer. On the computer I'm on now, Escape Velocity, which is from '95 I think.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-06-01 02:57pm

Ace Pace wrote:Your right, XP. 1.5, I just tried running it in admin, no change.

Get the windows version of Dosbox, install & start, mount the "scorched" folder as c: drive, and run the game.

To mount a folder as a drive, just type
mount <drive number> <folder>, eg
mount C C:\DOCUME~1\HOMEUS~1\Desktop\scorched

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-06-01 03:03pm

Ace Pace wrote:
VF5SS wrote:Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games.

Bow down to the Funky Bomb =D
Since we're on Scorched Earth, I need abit of help making it run, its giving me error:
Code: Select all
C:\DOCUME~1\HOMEUS~1\Desktop\scorched\SCORCH.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
I tried running under compability, still no workie.

Get Scorched 3D

http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

Same game just nicer.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2005-06-01 03:54pm

Command & Conquer. I've been missing the GDI disk for about 6 years now, though.