PC Love?

[markopoloman]

I loved Decent. More than the Doom/Quake games!
I have to admit that I never actually 'owned it' back in the day

More PC love is needed though - console fanboys just want to throw the same old crap at the PC (complicated getting games to work/got to upgrade every 6 months/all good games are ports of console stuff etc.)
I say good luck to Valve if they are trying to get a PC out there for the simpletons

[Katzkatz]

Descent is available on GoG, by the way. If anyone wants it. It can make you dizzy. A great game. I think the sequels are on there as well.

With both GoG and Steam, the PC does still have quite an impressive gaming presence. Games like Skyrim and Left 4 Dead still get ported to the PC. There are some good little indie games out there as well.

More PC love is needed on here.

[Sel Feena]

^ It would be nice to see a little more coverage to homebrew stuff, including PC games, but then there's only so much room in the mag. I really enjoy reading the mini interviews with homebrew coders. And given how much stuff is out there, choosing what does go in must be a nightmare.

It would be nice to see more retro PC stuff in there, if only because it passed me by completely growing up. I played Doom but honestly that's about it. Really liked the feature on point & click games that was in a while back.

[Montytom]

My first pc was an acorn a3010. I thought it was amazing playing chuck rock zool and my personal favourite fervour
oh too find one again

[Antiriad2097]

Games like Skyrim and Left 4 Dead still get ported to the PC.

I think you may have got something backwards there.

I can't imagine not having a PC for gaming. Its handy for playing the proper version of games instead of the cut down console version

[markopoloman]

Indeed. Skyrim on PC is a far superior product than it's cut down console ports!

[MaverickUK]

I must admit, I do miss the lack of PC love in Retro Gamer. That's one I the reasons I started up my own Tumblr site mainly about Retro PC games (http://www.strifestreams.com/)

I did a post today about Liero - which isn't *that* old a PC game, but looks and plays like one of the classics.

Quoting myself:

Liero is similar to Worms - very similar - except real-time and very fast paced! The video I’ve linked to here is from the finals of a 2007 tournament, so the players are using their skill with the core weaponry in the game.

One of the killer features of Liero is that you can download and install additional weaponry very easily, so once you’re bored of the default load out you can install some pretty crazy guns!

[Katzkatz]

Games like Skyrim and Left 4 Dead still get ported to the PC.

I think you may have got something backwards there.

I can't imagine not having a PC for gaming. Its handy for playing the proper version of games instead of the cut down console version

Whoops. The thing that I was sort of alluding to, was that games still get made for the PC. Even in this day and age of the 'super' consoles! Admittedly, sometimes the PC version does suffer(e.g. Deus Ex 2).

[JazzFunk]

Just spent the last year and a half thinking I couldn't run Kingpin on my XP PC because it never booted up past the title screen and is supposed to have major issues/not work at all on XP PCs that use ATI/nVidia graphics cards (I have an ATI graphics card!) SO, I've downloaded several variants of "atioglxx", which is a file/patch that's meant to make the ATI/nVidia graphics drivers work with this game, and also others which use the Quake 3 engine, like Soldier Of Fortune, on XP PCs. It never worked, just made it freeze up rather than 'encounter a problem', so have long thought my copy of Kingpin (one of the PC games I've always wanted to play) would NEVER work on this PC.

So, in a mad fit of frustration the other night, I steel myself, get all determined to have one last-ditch attempt at getting this game to work. I try extracting the file to where kingpin.exe is, doesn't work, then I leave it in the folder near kingpin.exe, plus several permutations of that, all to no avail. THEN, I discover there's *already* a version of "atioglxx" included on the disc (must be a newer, 'patched' release)...SO....I take a gamble and delete "atioglxx"...and the game bloody WORKS(!!!)

Bloody game didn't even need the f*cking file, I could play Kingpin all along!!!!!!! / /

[theantmeister]

So I was bored yesterday and I decided to try installing Windows 3.11 on Dosbox.

I followed this guide and it all went pretty smoothly. My Windows disks were a little "rusty", in that I needed to retry a load of times before I copied the files off. Also, there appears to be a bug in the Mac version of Dosbox where high colour (>256) display modes make everything go yellow. Man, I hope that gets fixed sometime soon.

Anyway, once I had it installed I loaded up my Star Trek Interactive Technical manual. It seems to work, but some of the videos are still missing (I think?). Quicktime was a bugger to install, the version on the disk didn't work, so I had to get 2.1.2 from here. Anyway the quicktime VR sections work now, apart from the ship's external view for some reason.

I also installed Outpost, which works flawlessly. Even better than I remember it running on my actual PC back in the day. Still a crap game mind.

I must have a look around, I'm sure I've got more Windows 3.1 games sitting around somewhere...

[theantmeister]

*bump*

Found this on Kotaku today: The history of PC gaming in 151 seconds.

Good times. Good times.

Oh, also, I found a Windows 3.1 copy of Civilization 2 in a charity shop. Haven't got around to installing it yet.

[edit] Here's the full list of games in the video.

[theantmeister]

[scunny]

Like many I have noticed this thread rather late.

I have always enjoyed PC gaming, when i was a much younger man I recall my big brother getting a PC for his college, £700 bought him a PC with CGA monitor and twin 5 1/4" floppy drive. No hard drive! It was state of the art! It had an operating system called "GEM" which involved swapping numerous discs just to get it to load up. When it finally did load I used to play some simple games on it, i remember Alleycat, PC Pool and Sopwith.

Since then I have always enjoyed PC gaming, when i started work in 93/94 I used to get PCs on buy it now, pay in a year. Always a depressing thing to do as in a years time it is worth nowhere near what you paid yet you still have to pay it.

Through the years I have played so many games that I have ploughed a lot of time into, the highlights are

Master of Orion 1/2
Master of Magic
UFO: Enemy Unknown
Privateer The Darkening (Great shot Lev!)
Bards Tale
Eye of the Beholder
Lands of Lore 2
Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat
Doom 2
Quake
Battle Isle Incubation
Yhe old SSI D&D games like Pools of Radiance, Curse of the Azure bonds etc
Worms

and many many more, I will always have a PC to play games on, I have all the consoles but for me the PC will always hold a special gaming place.

[Wol]

I could play Kingpin all along!!!!!!! / /

I loved Kingpin might have to get it again, the first online game I played on my 28.8 modem, good laggy times.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein using GameSpy server finder was also a good PC memory for me, if any of you guys are up for some larks on Steam just search for WOL

[Doddsy]

When I owned an Amiga we also used to scorf at people who owned a PC after all it was always viewed as a business machine. During the early 90's I lost interest in games. I played a few on my Amiga...until about 1996 when my brother got a PC and it kick started my interest in games. I played Duke Nukum and after playing Alien Breed 3D on the Amiga I knew its days were numbered. Lately I just use my PC for applications. I got an XBOX 360 because I was fed up with PC game incompatibility problems.