1. Wasteland and the Fallout series
2. Unreal Tournament
3. Steel Panthers: World at War

1. Ultima series (primarily III - VII)
2. Starcraft
3. Wasteland and the inspired Fallout I/II

Holy crap you guys are bringing back some memories.

Full Throttle, Bioforge (this was that cybernetic game by Origin right?), Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, etc.

My votes:

1) Earl Weaver Baseball - this game was so far ahead of it's time it wasn't even funny
2) Sim City - in it's purest form, still being duplicated to this day
3) Any of the old Sierra "Quest" games

Jeff

1. Civilization
2. Star Control 2
3. Ultima VII: The Black Gate

1. Half Life & Mods
2. Total Annihilation & Add ons
3. XCom 2

Quake 2 w/ CTF mod.....so many college hours wasted

1. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
2. Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
3. The Secret of Monkey Island

1. Civ 2
2. Heroes 3
3. Baldur's Gate

1. Ultima IV

2. Baldur's Gate

3. Fallout

1. X-Com
2. Dune II
3. Syndicate

Unreal Tournament 2003
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (greatest adventure game ever!)
Warcraft III

Unreal Tournament
Quake II
Max Payne or King's Quest VI

Those are all games I can still go back and play.

I can't really get into old FPS games, and despite how much I loved 'em - I can't play the Gabriel Knight games anymore or a lot of old adventure games like I used to.

For me, it has to be:

1. Descent I
2. Quake 2
3. Half-Life

Grim Fandango was a great game though, but I still play the above three just for the fun factor.

Neitzl

Yeah, those adventure games tend to not be very replayable... at least for me. It's hard to decide on the best games of all time because I would rank them differently depending on whether I am considering the most fun experience I had at the time, or, which three games I would want if I was stuck on a desert island right now with no other games for the rest of my life...

I agree on the top 2. Especially when you look at the number of people around the world that play SC ...

I'd love to know this:
does anyone have any idea how I could possibly make Syndicate work in windows 2000? I'm trying to dig up my old windows 98 cd but haven't found it yet and not sure it would work on that anyway.

Also trying to play mechwarrior 2: mercenaries and that doesn't work either!

classic pc gaming is a bitch!

back on topic, i love:

Baldurs Gate 2
Warcraft 2
Ultima 4/5/7

Chris

Between Civilization, Railroad Tycoon and Wing Commander Privateer.

You tell me that. Been playing some DOS game on my Win98 with frequent lock ups. Not to mention that sometimes the games are too fast for my machine.

you need CPU Killer!

http://www.cpukiller.com/products/cpukiller/index.html

Yeah I'm having problems with this crap too.

So I found an old pc of mine in my closet which will now be officially my "classic pc". Going to install:

Lemmings 2
Heroes 1, 2
Xcom: UFO Defense
Scorched Earth
Abuse
Sam and Max


I want to install Syndicate but for the life of me, cannot find it. This sucks. Anyone know how I can get it over the net legally somehow? Do really old games ever go up for download for free or anything? Or am I just talking outta my @ss?

Half-Life
Diablo 2
Unreal Tournament

www.theunderdogs.org

Hmm. Based soley on single-player play:

1) System Shock 2
2) Fallout 1 & 2
3) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

There are a few other contenders, but these are what came to mind.

Broke mine down into 2 different groups

Best non-sports
1. Ghost Recon
2. BF 1942
3.Half Life Counter Strike

Best Sports
1.High Heat 2002
2.Formula One 2002
3.Nascar Racing 2003 season

boot into dos, which in win98 means restart in msdos mode or use F8 and select command prompt, instead of playing from in Windows

and if anyone wonders why the bump happened, I was searching the forum for mechwarrior and found this thread, I recently started replaying some DOS games on my win98se machine and thought I'd help