I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum’s basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it’s never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005.

Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn’t want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience.

Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn’t have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz).

So what were your favorite games from the 90’s and early 2000s?

  • @[email protected]English
    15•17 days ago

    Great list, pretty much my childhood. I’ll add some more:

    • Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1/2
    • Empire Earth 1/2
    • Civilization II
    • Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
    • Theme Park (World?)
    • Populous: The Beginning
    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 day ago

      Great list, I’ll add some more

      • Alpha Centauri (Alien Crossfire Expansion optional but encouraged)
      • Bladerunner
      • MechCommander 1
      • MechCommander 2
      • Civilization: Call to Power ( Often Neglected Cousin of the Civ games, but I always enjoyed it)
    • @[email protected]English
      4•17 days ago

      Yes to all of those, though I never actually played empire earth, so that goes on my modern day list

      • @[email protected]English
        2•16 days ago

        There is some weird difficulty scaling on EE with faster cpus iirc. I got it on gog last year and its significantly harder than I remembered it being.