Good ol' games for good ol' gutless computers

[balimuzz]

The original Homeworld.

I actually liked the second one better. It felt like a refinement of the first one, and it was a lot less punishing.

 

[countrysteaksauce]

How about the first Unreal? (not the Tournament) One of the best fps i've ever played.

This is a good point. The single player mode is very long and interesting.

 

[clicklick]

Painkiller
Max Payne
Need for Speed 5: Porsche Unleashed

Although these games require a bit of power, you can still enjoy them at low settings imo.

Most I wanted to mention have already been posted.

 

[imperialwar]

Try using DOS Box [http://www.dosbox.com/]...

Yup I already have DOS box and it still crashes after about 30mins game play

 

[Yog Sothoth]

Try using DOS Box [http://www.dosbox.com/]...

Yup I already have DOS box and it still crashes after about 30mins game play

Hmmm, that's unfortunate... I use Windows XP w/ DOS box as well, but haven't had any problems like that... Guess it's to be expected when you're trying to play a game that's 20+ years old....

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

I've been playing Warcraft III for 7 years now, on 3 different PCs. No game has as much replay value as that.

I imagine you could run Halo: CE on a pretty crappy PC on low settings, that has ridiculous replay value as well.

 

[Damian Domino Davis]

Oh dear christ. I can't even play Halo CE on this machine without my computer suffering temporal discretion, but by God it's freaking liberating to design for it. Map layouts, weapon models, doesn't even matter. (Smug Maya grin.)

 

[balimuzz]

The original Homeworld.

I actually liked the second one better. It felt like a refinement of the first one, and it was a lot less punishing.

Yeah, but it was a lot more graphically taxing than the first one.

Are you kidding? I run it on my crappy old Mac with about 50 other applications open! It was easy to run.