Great Old PC Games

These were the games that I/we played more than any others until it was time to move on to better hardware so that we could catch up with the games from two years previous. By shopping later, the hardware upgrades were cheaper, there was a chance of getting important feedback that was in the gaming news and newsgroups over a couple of years with respect to possible problems with games, which were the most popular games, program fixes issued, etc., and also of getting the software at a lower price more justifiable to me.

Here then is the brief list of my favourite games from personal computer gaming past and present. I prefer the world conquest type of game as this type seems to allow lots of room for AI programming and gives a wide range for scenarios and random story-lines, I believe and which I prefer. I wonder at the level of detail programmed into the more modern games. Certainly we have many talented individuals working on our behalf.

For the most part, this list is in chronological order. I still play Rise of Nations from time-to-time.

1. Leaderboard Golf for the Commodore-64
2. Summer Games for the Commodore-64
3. Fury 3
4. Wolfenstein 3D
5. Doom II
6. Descent II
7. Warcraft II
8. Simcity 2000
9. LinksPro CD Golf
10. Age of Empires II Conquerors
11. Empire Earth 2
12. Rise of Nations

Each of these games provided a fairly involved interaction from the PC gamer, either in concentration (e.g., the golf games), or in physical stamina (e.g., summer games on the C-64). The evolution in graphic detail, AI, and depth of play, even up to Rise of Nations, which must be 5 years old now, has been quite remarkable, and yet, all of these games were, and are, to some degree, still involving and entertaining.

Happy gaming!