It annoys me how most dvd/cd games came with a code or you have to pay a crazy amount for retro titles. im looking for game si can test on a 32 bit, 2gb of ram pc or even turn it into a retro gaming machine. i have a bunch of blank dvd’s laying around so should i put some on a dvd by chance. where do i even find retro games that can be put on a dvd for free?

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      • Novemberwind@beehaw.org
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        Well, my top games there would be the LucasArts Adventures like Monkey Island 1+2 and Indiana Jones Last Crusade + Fate of Atlantis. But also Sierra Adventures, Prince of Persia, SimCity… (all DOS games, that’s the only thing I had). Lots of other games I forgot right now, and everyone probably has their own top picks, too.

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    1 year ago

    If you’d like to talk about older games, feel free to pop in at !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

    As for retro games, GOG was fantastic for this, but their current launcher is a significant downgrade over the old one, I could reference locations to find these games that are hard to even buy, but I don’t know what is allowed on this instance.

    There are two instances that would be great to discuss this further, one is FMHY and the other is dbzer0.

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      The good thing about GOG is basically everything retro doesn’t need that launcher if you don’t like it. 8 myself, haven’t had any problems with it though.

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        That being said, I’ve run in to too many games that were fixed for Win7/8, but not touched since Win10 came out and I had to get refunds, which is not an ideal system with GOG.

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    Besides GOG, which has been mentioned in other comments, there’s also Zoom Platform (basically Good Old Games 2.0) and Project EGG {Japanese store/kinda preservation project (kinda since it uses some basic DRM) for games mainly from non-MS-DOS PCs}.