PC gaming is a real pain

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theRepublic said:

Chemical said:

mike_intellivision said:
My problem with computer gaming is that you can't play the old games on the new hardware.

And while I don't mind keeping around old consoles, it was tough having to have a whole bunch of old computers.

So I gave up on PC gaming about the turn of the century.

I don't have as much time as I once did, so I don't mind not getting every game. But I imagine that a good laptop for a couple of grand would be kewl.

Mike from Morgantown

 

I have no idea where did you get an idea that you cant play old games, I have no problem playing games back from early 90s, if by old games you mean like 80s then I have no idea because I never tried to play any games from back then.

This isn't entirely true.  It takes quite a bit a of work to get an old game to work right on a newer computer.  These games just weren't built for the newer operating systems, so you will frequently run into problems.  I would say that the average user has little chance of making it work.

I wanted to play Red Alert, a game originally made for Windows 95, on my Windows XP computer.  I did get it to work ...  for the first 5 missions or so.  Then the game would just crash at the same point over and over again no matter what I did.

It's a major pain in the ass, and I would say you are almost as limited in BC in both PC and console gaming.

You can play 20 year old games on PC. There's DosBox and ScummVM, to help you play old games. There's emulators that let you play old console games, and even some let you play straight Sega CD, PS1 and PS2 games straight from your original discs.