Excuse me while I install DosBox and reinstall C&C from my original DOS CDs. Now I'll install all the other ones except for Generals and C&C4, then call it a day.
But seriously- I'm a big C&C fan, I still have my DOS CDs and I will until they get lost in a move. I remember being young, getting to the first Commando mission and then being stuck for days, trying to figure out what to do. I remember installing RA1 and nearly shitting myself in excitment when Kane walked on screen. I remember Kane taking over as your commander in the 8th NOD mission. Oh god, what did they do to you C&C?
Everything up until a point was brilliant, and then they brought out Generals, a game that didn't really work as a C&C game because it didn't follow the way C&C played.
When C&C 3 was released, I was excited that after so damn long of waiting, I was gonna play as NOD again in an epic story...but it was different, and didn't feel quite the same, but the cutscenes and Joe Kucan kept me playing. RA3 was...wait...why was Tim Curry playing a Russian?
C&C4...god, I heard that even Kucan didn't like it.