PC Gamer, best 50 classic games issue?

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Jan 8 10:39:39 2002

>> > Someplace, maybe even this list (my brain is that shot from a cold),
>> > mentioned an issue of PC Gamer that had a run down on the 50 best classic
>> > computer games, AND how to get them working etc. Anybody know which issue
>> > that was? A little groups.google.com searching shows it likely isn't
>>either
>> > the the top 50 lists in the last couple years, but I seem to remember
>>it as
>> > recent anyway.
>
>> They do this annually, although a lot of the classic games are starting to
>> drop off the list. I'll have to dig through my stack of magazines.
>
>Shouldn't be a big deal to a CC-Member ... just setup a system as
>described on the package and inset the disks :))

Minimum requirements are the easy part. The hard part is how new of a
system breaks the game, with a minefield extending from W3.1 on a P90 to
W98 on a PII 233 MMX. Support for games often drops suddenly, so that
fairly dopey advances can be problems. Also locating updates from dead
companies can be a task too.

When a game comes out there may be literally hundreds of decent web pages
with tips and information. A year or so later half a dead links, and many
pages that do exist are stale (not updated) or hollow (file links are 404s).

Kind of strange, with the really old games the problem is finding a working
copy, and with the middle aged games its getting the copy to work.
Received on Tue Jan 08 2002 - 10:39:39 GMT