Author Topic: Good games for older laptops/desktops (Read 6038 times)

woodyear99 · « **on:** January 11, 2009, 12:34:26 AM »

Hi

I have an old Intel Centrino laptop and have been playing some fun games on it. Since it aint the most powerful machine I wanted some new games that could still run on old hardware. I noticed a few new games have come out in 2D using physics as the main gameplay mechanic. Give these a try you might get addicted :p

World of Goo - http://2dboy.com/games.php

Crayon Physics Deluxe - http://www.crayonphysics.com/

Peggle Nights - http://www.popcap.com/games/peggle-nights

My question is does anyone know of any other recent games that run well on older laptops? With multiplayer?

Carigamers · « **on:** January 11, 2009, 12:34:26 AM »

AR!Ø · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2009, 02:22:39 AM »

The Age of empires series might suit you well with an older machine. Try empire earth 2 and see how that runs. you can also emulate as well, N64 games shouldn't be too troublesome and there are lots of great games for GBA.

TrinireturnofGamez · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:14:23 AM »

Warcraft , Half Life , Medal of Honour , Quake , Max payne and other games made 2001 and prior would run just fine .

Some very good 2d RPGS like Baldurs gate will also make you a happy man.

you'd get alot of value also from SNES emulators (super nintendo) gameboy and other low end programs.

Nephilim · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:18:27 AM »

Geometry Wars is also on PC via steam, is like 5USD for it or sum, Steam has lots of nice small games like that.

Crixx_Creww · « **Reply #4 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:31:07 AM »

max payne would need a T&L compliant card to play as well as spiderman

conquer online will run very well
as well of course star craft,diablo 2, gun bound
oh and you may also try soul reaver 1 and 2... infact iam going to go .. acquire soul reaver 2 right now never got to finish it, was loving it but then life got in the way.

Black and white 1 will also play, but it will leach your soul worse than WoW so beware.

Carigamers · « **Reply #4 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:31:07 AM »

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #5 on:** January 11, 2009, 12:13:38 PM »

dota and starcraft, nuff said

shivadee · « **Reply #6 on:** January 11, 2009, 12:28:29 PM »

Diablo 1 and 2.

Crixx_Creww · « **Reply #7 on:** January 11, 2009, 06:57:51 PM »

re enjoying soul reaver 2 right now
my god, graphics wise, we have come a long way in a few short years, at the time, soul reaver 2 had un paralelled graphics on the pc arena, being a port from ps2

woodyear99 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 11, 2009, 07:21:05 PM »

Yeah I found an old Playstation magazine from 2001, after looking through the screenshots, really amazing at how things have improved. Everything looks so blocky etc. Also made me realize at how little exclusives there are this time around, back then with Xbox being pretty low on the map the whole magazine was filled with pretty much exclusives......

Archer · « **Reply #9 on:** January 11, 2009, 09:47:53 PM »

Try call of duty 1,Soldier of fortune 2, Unreal tournament. I know of many others but can think of them all right now, these should do the trick. Have fun

woodyear99 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 11, 2009, 09:50:53 PM »

Hmm the original UT? I bought it years ago, ppl still play that? lol

shivadee · « **Reply #11 on:** January 11, 2009, 11:09:49 PM »

Quote from: woodyear99 on January 11, 2009, 09:50:53 PM

Hmm the original UT? I bought it years ago, ppl still play that? lol

Yeap lots of ppl still play it.

woodyear99 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2009, 03:26:58 PM »

I totally forgot about good old emulation for snes games. Been looking around for an emulator that supports lan and got an old copy fo znes.

Tetris 2 is really good and works surprisingly well on these laptops. I was wondering if yall could recommend some other good snes multiplayer games? The puzzle ones seem to go down good lol.

Are there any emulators for other systems that have easy to setup lan games?

Thanks!

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #13 on:** March 29, 2009, 08:10:43 PM »

why stop at snes? I love me some znes action but Mame has SOOO much more to offer.

The complete set of mame roms runs over 10gb and new games are being added all the time.

you're bound to find something you love.

A lot of great multiplayer action too since most arcade games were designed for 2 players. I like that most of 'em are co-op, which is a good thing if you're looking for some casual mp sweatage.

Just broke out mame again today to entertain some kids. Plug in a few gamepads and show 'em the coin button, voila. Whole day of distraction idmc.

Some real gems on there, I ended up wading into the fray a few times myself.

Running on a laptop, hooked up to a TV on Svideo (which mame32 loves, graphics wise, the games render arcade perfect)

woodyear99 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 30, 2009, 02:13:25 PM »

Noob is there any MAME emu that supports netplay? We like to use our laptops to play via lan since less hassle with getting extra controllers etc...

TriniXaeno · « **Reply #15 on:** March 30, 2009, 02:29:06 PM »

"shudders @ the thought of getting controllers being considered a hassle"

Any old controller would do, cheap usb ones abound. Keeps the "arcade-ey" feel.

You're getting games that people would have spent a million quarters on for free. Least you could do is pony up the dough for a decent controller or two. lol

As for multiplay,

Good luck and good hunting.

woodyear99 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 30, 2009, 02:49:51 PM »

Lol I used MAME before just been trying to get the girlfriend into playing games as well. So far she really likes to play that Tetris 2 game on zsnes via lan hehe

Hsaka · « **Reply #17 on:** April 12, 2009, 04:29:49 AM »

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 is my favourite MAME puzzle game

Try it out if you haven't played it yet.
Netplay is possible via Kaillera Mame : http://www.kaillera.com/download.php

woodyear99 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 12, 2009, 09:33:50 AM »

Haha Hsaka you know I just bought this to play with my girlfriend on PSN. It is fun we played for hours.

Thanks though will definitely download this as well for when we not home. Older games are great!
Is it easy to setup a server though for lan play?

Philosophical45 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 12, 2009, 10:30:42 AM »

hey, i remember that SF2 puzzle game... lol. used to play that alot when i worked in DIPU. good times, good times..lol

Carigamers · « **Reply #19 on:** April 12, 2009, 10:30:42 AM »

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