/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5124368]

If you could chose any old PC game to play right now on an old Win98-PC wich game would it be?

[Anonymous No.5124372]

nesticle with a complete romset

[Anonymous No.5124374]

Douk Noukem

[Anonymous No.5124380]

>>5124368
first diablo or first gta

[Anonymous No.5124385]

ToEE.

[Anonymous No.5124398]

>>5124368
forgot to add F-22 Lightning II

[Anonymous No.5124409]

>>5124368
Fallout 1 or starcraft.

[Anonymous No.5124415]

>>5124368
Right now, big red racing. Was thinking about it the other day.
"That ain't mah belly button!"

[Anonymous No.5124427]

>>5124368
unreal

[Anonymous No.5124449]

>>5124368
Command & Conquer

[Anonymous No.5124454]

>>5124368
Heavy gear 2.

[Anonymous No.5124461]

>>5124368
Chaos Overlords
It spergs out on newer systems

[Anonymous No.5124478]

Jedi Knight Dark Forces II

[Anonymous No.5124517]

Martian chronicles

[Anonymous No.5124696]

>>5124368
Something that wouldn't run so I could see the dumb confused look in your face

[Anonymous No.5124712]

>>5124368
Age of Empires 2

or

Roller Coaster Tycoon

[Anonymous No.5124717]

Kingpin

[Anonymous No.5124718]

>>5124368
Battlecruiser 3000AD 2.0

[Anonymous No.5124732]

>>5124712
My dude, both these games run better now on your fancy new computer than they did back in the day. Just grab OpenRCT2 and AoE:FE mod (or AoE:HD if you want to pay for a DRM version).

[Anonymous No.5124748]

I would play EverQuest. I would be in Blackburrow on my human bard. I would be playing my Space Ghost coast to coast cd and Brack would be talking shit. My mom would be cooking tacos and it would be raining outside. I would be running a second pc where I would be reading sailor moon fanfiction and trying to hide my boner because I am experiencing smutty writing for the first time and it has anime girls I LIKE in it. I can still feel emotions and I am experiencing joy...

[Anonymous No.5124770]

Interstate '76
GOG version not playable - if you got it to work, please explain what you did
Ran perfect on my long gone 98 machine

[Anonymous No.5124774]

Quake II with CD soundtrack

[Anonymous No.5124775]

>>5124368
dark forces

[Anonymous No.5124776]

>>5124517
seems like shit

[Anonymous No.5124778]

>>5124368

[Anonymous No.5124796]

>>5124368
the only old PC-game what came to mind would be Gothic (2)
but I doubt Win98 is the best solution for that

(yes, I am a filthy millenial)

[Anonymous No.5124803]

>>5124449
What mod is this?

[Anonymous No.5125116]

>>5124368
Settlers 3: Amazons campaign

[Anonymous No.5125124]

>>5124368
Tomb Raider, either 3 or The Last Revelation. Perfect games for Win98

[Anonymous No.5125132]

>>5124368
Baldurs Gate or Fallout 2

[Anonymous No.5125134]

>>5124796
Dont you mean Zoomer Gen Z
Im a millenial and i posted >>5125132
Millenials were born from like 80 to 94 people get millenial confused with 2000+

[Anonymous No.5125162]

>>5124770
https://www16.zippyshare.com/v/Vp8dMvFE/file.html
Use this fixed exe for the gog version. It limits the game to 30fps and 640x480. However, getting it to work properly with a 3rd party software to limit the framerate (e.g. rivatuner) may be better than using the forced framerate executable.

[Anonymous No.5125186]

>>5124803
None. Westwood Online multiplayer from 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.5125190]

super maryo bros

[Anonymous No.5125198]

>>5124368
Half-Life retail

[Anonymous No.5125210]

first, I have a PIII V3 3000 right next to me right now
second, I've been dealing with picrelated these days, so that's it then

[Anonymous No.5125234]

>>5124748
>your

[Anonymous No.5125251]

>>5125134
>Falling for generation memes

>"demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s"
A millennial could be born in 1980 or 2000 and have very little /vr/ in common.

[Anonymous No.5125279]

I'm trying to think of a game that's hard to emulate. Maybe Fury3.

[Anonymous No.5125290]

I keep an old windows 98 pc around just for this purpose

didn't have to pay anything for it either

[Anonymous No.5125301]

>>5125290

[Anonymous No.5125303]

>>5125301
i gotchu bruh

[Anonymous No.5125312]

>>5124368
Prob Daggerfall
Otherwise Sam 'n' Max

[Anonymous No.5125348]

>>5125210

best way to play the Myth games?

[Anonymous No.5125390]

>>5124368
Mechwarrior 2. If I can't that to work then I'd try P.O.D.
I know they re-released the latter on GOG but I got an original CD lately and even if it was only a buck I really don't feel like rebuying it just to play the damn game on a post Windows 98 PC.

[Anonymous No.5125573]

>>5125162
Well, that fixed the graphics problem but it's crashing so often ("I76 has stopped working") I have to still consider it unplayable. Thanks, though.

[Anonymous No.5125590]

>>5125312
Those are DOS games and will work fine with DOSBox on any modern PC

[Anonymous No.5125604]

>>5124368
Streets of Simcity, since it cant reliably be played on any modern PC

[Anonymous No.5125687]

>>5124368
Westwood Blade Runner

[Anonymous No.5125693]

Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries

[Anonymous No.5125718]

My old crt computer monitor is really washed out and the osd adjustments don't help much. Any idea how I can fix this? Is there some sort of calibration software I can run or maybe windows has an adjustment feature I haven't found or is the thing most likely dead?
I really want to play some old pc games

[Anonymous No.5125931]

>>5124368
Outlaws
Road Rash
Motocross Madness
Doom
Tomb Raider
NFS 3 Hot Pursuit
Grand Theft Auto 1
Leisure Suit Larry 7

[Anonymous No.5126216]

>>5124380
Diablo for me, probably.
>>5124454
Actually need to finish my 98SE build so I can run this without hacks. Another fine choice.
>>5124748
What a time to be alive, right?
>>5125693
This will probably be the most played game on my Super Socket 7 machine. MW2 starts having jump jet bugs once your processor goes over a certain speed.

[Anonymous No.5126449]

>>5125303
Water doesnt actually hurt anything.

I left my laptop out in the rain for an entire night. It still runs better than other laptops not exposed to rain, lol.

[Anonymous No.5126515]

>>5124368
iron helix

[Anonymous No.5126525]

>>5125718
I'm not a crt expert so can't tell if it can be fixed, but you won't fix it from within windows. probably an electrical issue.

[Anonymous No.5126585]

>>5125718
>https://www.repairfaq.org/samnew/tvfaq/tvebaowop.htm
With the age, it probably has dried out caps.

[Anonymous No.5126634]

>>5126585
>>5126515
Thanks, boys. On my way to get electrocuted.

[Anonymous No.5126648]

Quake 3 Arena. I don't know wtf this game isn't discussed more frequently, especially as an iteration of it is alive to this day.

[Anonymous No.5126664]

>>5126648
perhaps it's a bit late for /vr/, or that it's a multiplayer only game - same as counter-strike isn't discussed much despite having a successor alive to this day.

[Anonymous No.5126669]

>>5126648
quake 3 is propably the best shooter i have ever played. i play to this day

[Anonymous No.5126671]

>>5124461
You sir are a fine upstanding white gentleman that is welcome in my exclusive club for gentlemen of the empire at any time!

[Anonymous No.5127002]

desu building a Win-98 PC this year was the most fun retro related thing ever, I'm having more fun than with my old consoles

[Anonymous No.5127241]

>>5127002
building is the fun part. wait until you get to drivers/software/networking. I ended up having to use an old switch to hard wire everything using static ips. that's before you sneaker net everything to the machine to try drivers and games. not the hardest thing ever but things like wireless and plug and play USB are nice.

[Anonymous No.5127345]

Deus Ex

[Anonymous No.5127415]

>>5127241
You really nailed it on this. Drivers, networking, and software can be a real chore. While building my 98SE/XP machine I had to try several XP service packs until it allowed proper networking and Windows updates. Of course, because I threw two gigs of RAM in it, my 98SE partition won't boot so now I have to look into HimemX. It's all very cool in theory but can be rather frustrating in practice. And fuck Blizzard for patching Diablo II so badly that it locks my machine when I try to get on BNet. Is that how it's gonna be? Fine, I'm installing PlugY and taking all my shit offline. And don't forget VXD vs. WDM drivers.
I did score a wired-only Linksys fast ethernet switch from a Salvation Army, actually. Kinda curious to use it with the handful of relevant consoles and PC's. Adds a nice authentic touch compared to the rest of the gigabit ethernet stuff I have.
>mfw trying to properly enable 3D audio effects

[Anonymous No.5127440]

>>5125604
holy shit, had that exact rig right there

played sim city 3000, the sims 1 on that shit like crazy when I was about 8

[Anonymous No.5127454]

>>5124368
G-Police

[Anonymous No.5127541]

Network Q RAC Rally. One of the first games I had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH88vccgH-I

[Anonymous No.5127768]

[Anonymous No.5128095]

Carmageddon with some mods

[Anonymous No.5128109]

>>5125134
People born in the first couple years of the 80s are often not very Millennial in their behavior and outlook. It's the late 80s and early/mid 90s faggots that really gave Millennials their reputation.

[Anonymous No.5128141]

>>5125303
>Let it dry properly for few days
>Works perfectly fine
Still, using isoprophylol would be better, because you can achieve the same effect within hours.

[Anonymous No.5128163]

I don't know, the term "millenial" was just a funny term that came up a lot a few years ago and the way it was used was about people born in 1995 or at most 1990. That may not be the academic usage but that's how it was used. Young people may of course be perfectly smart and informed, but usually they're not, and it can be funny to just roll your eyes and say "millenials". I look back and cringe and hope nobody ever finds things I wrote online when I was 15/16.

Thing is, now even those millenials are like 27, married, with kids, millionaires etc., they're no longer clueless. So now when someone immature says something really dumb we needed a new term and it's called zoomers, the zoomer generation.

[Anonymous No.5128175]

>>5128163
>look back and cringe and hope nobody ever finds things I wrote online
Yeah, anybody who's been on the internet long enough will agree with that. I still get embarrassed remembering stupid arguments about religion I had on GameFAQs as a 13/14 year old.

[Anonymous No.5128178]

>>5128141
>Let it dry properly for few days
>Works perfectly fine
>5 years later
>every known possible trace completely corroded through
mmmmmmgrayon

[Anonymous No.5128198]

>>5127241
why would I need a network acces to this old rig?only thing that gave me trouble was the IDE controller

[Anonymous No.5128206]

Crysis for the sake of memories

[Rican asshole No.5128251]

>>5124368
Space Cadet Pinball.

[Anonymous No.5128267]

>>5128095
Carma II for me.

[Anonymous No.5128279]

>>5127454
played that couple months ago with a wingman filghtstick, great fun, but hard as nails

[Anonymous No.5128286]

>>5124368
> be me
> reboot to ms-dos
> load up duke nukem or commander keen
comfy af.

[Anonymous No.5128316]

do you guys like my cable managment?

[Anonymous No.5128486]

My "shit i found at thrift shops" build is coming along nicely; this day I acquired two vidya cards and what appears to be a generic ISA SB16 clone for 4 bux apiece. I wonder if Win98 even lets you use multiple video cards? Welp only one way to find out

[Anonymous No.5128501]

>>5128486
>rage pro turbo
remember to try out wipeout in it's proprietary API

[Anonymous No.5128526]

>>5124368

Virus (fully known as Virus: The Game)

Damn cool thing

[Anonymous No.5128547]

>>5124770
I put together an old rig just to play this a few years back lol

[Anonymous No.5128558]

>>5128206
>Win98-PC
>Crysis
I'm sure such a computer can't even run Crysis.

[Anonymous No.5129585]

>>5128251
I would say something about missing the point, but you seem to be self-aware enough on your own.

[Anonymous No.5129627]

>>5128558
Crysis supported Win98 SE/ME and DX9.
Also Windows 2000.

[Anonymous No.5129629]

>>5124368
RCT

[Anonymous No.5129635]

Downloading particularly terrific, happy clips of people having fun from filesharing sites. Or Red Alert.

[Anonymous No.5129640]

>>5127768
whoever coded this game must be a wizard, this thing still works on Windows 10

[Anonymous No.5129672]

Quake 2 or AOE 2

[Anonymous No.5129674]

>>5124368
Jagged Alliance 2

[Anonymous No.5129698]

>>5128095
You can download it onto your phone via android

[Anonymous No.5129743]

>>5129627
Even a few Windows 7 computers can barely run the game on a modern framerate and resolution so unless you're some technical wizard and you're able to crank out 200% performance out of a over 20 year old potato it seems very unlikely to me that people can play it on such an old rig.
Also, Crysis is 7 years too late to be considered /vr/.

[Anonymous No.5129748]

>>5128286
As much as I like playing Duke Nukem, I'd never go back to play it on DOS now that Eduke and other alternatives (like Megaton or World Tour) are perfectly playable on modern PCs. Same with Doom, it's just much more fun to play it through Windows but hey, maybe I'm biased because I only played it through Eduke and DOSbox in the past 5 years and I don't remember how much different it plays compared to actually playing it on an actual DOS computer (c'mon it's been 18 years since I actually used MS-DOS natively, I can't remember everything as well as I used to).

[Anonymous No.5129804]

>>5129743
>Even a few Windows 7 computers can barely run the game
>Windows 7
>operating system
>no mention of hardware whatsoever
It's playable on a 6800GT and high end Pentium III/Tbird setup. Potato-tier settings, but still playable.
And you can definitely use better hardware than that. Win98 will happily run on P4s, A64s or even more modern CPUs and you can run a 7900GT or GTX on it. Hell I've had it running on a Core2 myself even though it could only use the first core. PCIe cards work fine provided they have 98-compatible (or can be made compatible) drivers. The OS just thinks they're regular PCI cards.

[Anonymous No.5130257]

Dune II

[Anonymous No.5130304]

>be me
>try to install windows installer 2.0 on w98
>shitbox PC won't boot
>no idea why
>remove all the expansion cards
>it boots again
>no idea why

[Anonymous No.5130318]

>>5125134
Millenials are different than millenials meme, sort of like how boomers (your grandparents) are different than boomers meme

[Anonymous No.5130325]

>>5130304
update:
its the stupid SB Live soundcard

[Anonymous No.5130358]

>>5128316
it good

[Anonymous No.5130406]

>>5130358
its as good as it will ever get with this tiny case

[Anonymous No.5130673]

Half Life 2.

[Anonymous No.5130675]

>>5124368
Operation Neptune

[Anonymous No.5130843]

So many games, but I would definitely be running the DOS games Frontier : Elite 2 and Frontier : First Encounters. You just had to alter the memory settings for the Windows start-up to get them to run. DOSBox has never been as smooth for me.

[Anonymous No.5133021]

>>5124712

Are you me? My fucking bro.

I'd go with either those two or Team Fortress Classic.

[Anonymous No.5133161]

>>5129674
I never managed to get into Jagged Alliance 2. Never felt engaging to me, despite absolutely loving tactical shooters.

[Anonymous No.5133228]

>>5130673
Not /vr/

[Anonymous No.5133341]

>>5124368

Carnivores II

[Anonymous No.5133353]

>>5124368
Heavy Gear

[Anonymous No.5133385]

It's as real as it gets.

[Anonymous No.5133426]

>>5124368
A 3d accelerated version of Mechwarrior 2. None of them work on Windows 8/10, and I kinda want to verify a collision glitch that can kill you in the dos version.

[Anonymous No.5133502]

>>5133426
Which version? PowerVR?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWzWdwj9NvU

[Anonymous No.5133698]

>>5124368
dreamweb

[Anonymous No.5133717]

Mechwarrior 3
SWAT 3
G-nome

>>5125132
>>5125134
Not surprising a millennial retard thinks only win98 is needed to play two monumental games that still run fine on newer hardware.

[Anonymous No.5133721]

>>5133717
Would also add Simcity 2000 Special Edition. Still have a CD release from my youth and refuses to install on anything running Vista or newer.

[Anonymous No.5133775]

>>5124368
GoldSrc Half-Life

[Anonymous No.5133795]

>>5133426
I have the ATI version, actually. I've already seen that video, though.

[Anonymous No.5133801]

>>5133795
>>5133502
Oops, meant to respond to you.

[Anonymous No.5133826]

>>5133228
>Not /vr/
It runs on windows 98 & is 100% acceptable for conversation.

[Anonymous No.5133839]

>>5133228
>Not /vr/
It runs on windows 98, and is approved for conversation per the "Rules Sticky". It is irrefutable. It is "Retro" because of the platform it was released on.

Counter Strike Source

[Anonymous No.5134115]

>>5133839
>Writing a lenghty excuse to post game
Pro tip: nobody gives a fuck, so why you even bother?

[Anonymous No.5134118]

>>5133839
Doesn't it require Steam? If so, it doesn't run on Windows 98 any longer. Or was that just for the multiplayer?

[Anonymous No.5134138]

>>5124368

Dune 2000, shit was so ca$h.

[Anonymous No.5134147]

>>5124368
simant

[Anonymous No.5134203]

>>5134138
Dune 2000 was one of the only RTS games I still played many years after they became less popular. The fact it still works on Windows XP is nice too but I have no idea if it would still work on Windows 7 and later without patches.

>>5133426
>>5133717
They really need to get Mechwarrior 2 and 3 running on more modern operating systems but those and other mid to late 90s 3D games don't seem to work well unless it's a FPS or a strategy game (well, I don't consider MW a FPS series like say Quake or Half-Life at least).

[Anonymous No.5134230]

>>5124368

Shark : Hunting the Great White!

[Anonymous No.5134308]

>>5124368
Mechwarrior 3

[Anonymous No.5134341]

Return to Castle Wolfenstein because I've been playing it recently and holy shit it is such a ghosting mess on an LCD screen, and I have a nice monitor. Game still looks good but something about the color palette was clearly designed with CRT screens in mind.

[Anonymous No.5134365]

>>5128198
>why would I need a network acces to this old rig?
Thats so short sited. There is so much that you can do when networked.
I network mount ISOs to play even on a Win95 machine. Shit, I've done it on a 66Mhz 486 with Win95 and it worked fine. Didn't have to worry about getting CDRs burned. And it lets me easy transfer things since network drives are WAY more reliable then USB drives on 9x. Shit, I've had network drives setup on 3.11 even and that was nice, fucking network streamed DOS games lol.

[Anonymous No.5134431]

>>5124770
I know it's not really convenient but you probably can run in a VM without issues, or PCem.

[Anonymous No.5134628]

>>5134365
eh, USB 2.0 works fine for me

[Anonymous No.5134667]

>>5134118
Does doom with all of its modifications and updates run on windows 98 any more? The game was released for a platform. The platform was windows 98. The contemporary version is irrelevant....No different then Shenmune I & II on the Xbone/Ps4. They are retro because of the platform they were released on, which was the dreamcast in that case.

[Anonymous No.5134673]

Does doom with all of its modifications and updates run on windows 98 any more? The game was released for a platform. The platform was windows 98. The contemporary version is irrelevant....No different then Shenmune I & II on the Xbone/Ps4. They are retro because of the platform they were released on, which was the dreamcast in that case. Besides, these games also run on Linux. In addition, you can find ways to remove the requirement to use steam.

[Anonymous No.5134680]

>>5134118
>If so, it doesn't run on Windows 98 any longer.
Does doom with all of its modifications and updates run on windows 98 any more? The game was released for a platform. The platform was windows 98. The contemporary version is irrelevant....No different then Shenmune I & II on the Xbone/Ps4. They are retro because of the platform they were released on, which was the dreamcast in that case. Besides, these games also run on Linux. In addition, you can find ways to remove the requirement to use steam.