Cinderella’s Castle Designer
Do you have a little one who enjoys interior design? Give them something to do other than crayoning on the walls by letting them design the interior of a whole dream castle. Rather than portcullises,...
View ArticleStar Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, to give it its full title, is the sequel to the 1995 DOS game Star Wars: Dark Forces. While the game is a sequel to Dark Forces, it’s also the first game in the...
View ArticleWizball
When you’re an evil wizard, career opportunities don’t come along all that often. Sure, you could probably apply to work in the banking sector if you could prove you were evil enough. To that end, Zark...
View ArticleMetal Fatigue
There’s an unwritten rule in Japanese science fiction, add a giant mecha suit (think robots, but with human pilots) into the mix and everything is ten times better. Metal Fatigue takes this approach...
View ArticleDownloads are down!
Update – We’ve been able to buy a little more bandwidth from our lovely hosts, meaning the site isn’t at risk of going down, and we’re starting to migrate the downloads over to external hosting sites...
View ArticleThrust Xtreme
A faithful remake of the classic BBC Micro/Commodore 64 game, Thrust Xtreme sends brave pilots once more into the treacherous caverns of the evil space empire. Using your ace pilot skills, you will...
View ArticleArmor Command
Another entry into the PCs gigantic back catalogue of real time strategy games. Armor Command tried to mix things up by adding 3D views for each unit, allowing you to experience the combat from a more...
View ArticlePariah
Jack Mason might be a medic, but that doesn’t seem to stop him from blasting his way through waves of enemy soldiers. By the end of the opening levels of Pariah you’ll have amassed a significant body...
View ArticledgVoodoo2 adds DirectX 8 Support
There are a number of very useful compatibility tools for the PC that help all manner of older games run better, but the most significant tool to arrive in recent years is dgVoodoo2. This software is a...
View ArticleTwitch stream your old games – For free!
Twitch streaming is super popular, but as you may have noticed, the modern recording/screen casting tools often don’t work with older games. I’ve just posted a video to my Youtube channel that shows...
View ArticleWipeout XL
As you might imagine, here at Play-Old-PC-Games.com we love PC gaming, but we also have a soft-spot for our PlayStation consoles too. The PS4 in particular has seen a lot of use since we got a copy of...
View ArticleAlice updated for Windows 10
American McGee’s Alice behaves very curiously when installed on a Windows 10 machine. When you try to install it, the games installer seems to skip over several files during the installation process....
View ArticleLaser Squad Nemesis
Way back in 1998, strategy gamers were getting excited about the original Laser Squad game on the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Though the game featured just a handful of levels, it set the template...
View ArticleDiablo
Way back in 1996, Diablo took the classic Rogue template of randomly generated dungeons laden with monsters and treasure and updated it for then cutting-edge PC hardware. It was a critical and...
View ArticleDesperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
The wild west might not be the most common setting for videogames, but that’s not to say there haven’t been some classic titles set in this often romanticised period in American history (as well as...
View ArticlePeter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
Movie tie-in games are often poor quality, rush-job affairs, but Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (herein referred to simply as King Kong) is actually a polished and very...
View ArticleMen of Valor
It’s a pretty safe assumption that most soldiers who fought in the Vietnam war wouldn’t care to re-live their experience, but that’s exactly what this first person shooter lets you do. That is minus...
View ArticleThe House of the Dead 2
Some videogames may have huge budgets, motion capture stunt-men and top voice actors, but it is often the ones that don’t that end up being all the more memorable for it. Anyone who played through the...
View ArticleMotocross Madness
They might not be endearing themselves to PC gamers these days, but at one time Microsoft were doing some pretty cool things for gaming on Windows. Their luxury joysticks were the envy of simulation...
View ArticleBugs Bunny & Taz – Time Busters
Everyone’s favourite wise-cracking hare and the slobbering, rambling Tasmanian Devil make an unlikely duo in this 2000 platform adventure. Thanks to the bungling Daffy Duck, Granny’s Time Regulator has...
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