/vr/ - Retro Games

Tonight has been nothing but absolute shit and all I want to do is play a 22 year old computer game

I've been trying to play the Game of Life (1998) and nothing has worked. It worked well on my laptop, once I got a few things on there everything was fine, besides the color, which corrected itself. Now when I play on the laptop, the color is fucked up again despite no changes being made. Anyway, so I tried it on my desktop so I could do netplay and nothing has worked.
I tried to run it in compatibility mode for Windows XP, 98, 95 and none of them worked
I tried using the vgVoodoo controller and it did nothing
I even went with some guy's registry entry and adjusted it all but not even that worked.
the game just fucking refuses to work and I've about had it, I just don't understand why nothing can be done for this game
Any suggestions I'm absolutely open to and any help whatsoever I'd appreciate. I hope you guys can understand, I just want to have fun, that's all I ask for