Recommend where I can download an old game

[stavros]

I've never been a big gamer, and hence I think this my first ever visit to this sub-forum. My apologies if it's been answered previously.

I had a game which I played on my old laptop, but whose CD ROM won't load on my new machine, for reasons beyond my comprehension. Where would you learned folks recommend as a reputable site to download it from? Is Games4Win OK?

 

[Supine]

What game?

 

[Crispy]

Highly likely it just won't play on modern machines/windows. Some games have fan patches to fix this. Some can be run in an emulator. Some are available in official form at www.gog.com, updated to work on modern machines.

 

[cybershot]

https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/


My Abandonware: because old video games were better

 

[mrs quoad]

Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards Game Download

Your secret is safe with us, op ​

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I'm no gamer either, but have found myself playing a game called Machinarium. It's hard, it's frustrating, it's a noggin breaker, but so simple & playable. Thank God the internet is full of cheats!

 

[mrs quoad]

I'm no gamer either, but have found myself playing a game called Machinarium. It's hard, it's frustrating, it's a noggin breaker, but so simple & playable. Thank God the internet is full of cheats!

If you enjoy this... a couple of similar / related games came out pretty much contemporaneously. Similar feel, similar look, same basic gameplay (well, point-and-click). Botanicula, Samorost, and the Tiny Bang Story spring to mind. (A couple of others I'm thinking of are, I think, mobile only. City of Secrets?)

 

[Mr.Bishie]

If you enjoy this... a couple of similar / related games came out pretty much contemporaneously. Similar feel, similar look, same basic gameplay (well, point-and-click). Botanica, Samorost, and the Tiny Bang Story spring to mind.

Nice one!

 

[Crispy]

Machinarium has a lovely soundtrack (as do other Amanita Design games like Botanicular and Samorost). All by Tomas Dvorak aka Floex, whose music is worth checking out.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Machinarium has a lovely soundtrack (as do other Amanita Design games like Botanicular and Samorost). All by Tomas Dvorak aka Floex, whose music is worth checking out.

Have you played Machinarium Crispy ? I'm well fuckin' stuck!

Just had to post on the Steam forum as I can't go any further! It's not the busiest sub forum either, so I may have to wait a while

 

[Crispy]

I have. Try me!
been a while though...

 

[Mr.Bishie]

It’s the Tic Tac Toe puzzle. There’s no cheats. Apparently after an update it’s become nigh on impossible on iOS (I’m playing on a Mac) so I’m stuck! Seems a bit shit when you pay for old games & can’t progress with online walk throughs.

 

[stdP]

Probably best to start a new thread (or find a Machinarium necro) but yeah Machinarium's a classic, and Dvorak's score is one of the best I've heard for a little adventure game.

I got stuck on the noughts and crosses for ages as well and I had to try dozens of time before I could beat him (I've always sucked at this game). Concentrate first on blocking him from ever getting three or four in a row and then concentrate on trying to make diagonals around his pieces and eventually he won't be able to stop you making a 5 in a row.

 

[dessiato]

Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards Game Download

Your secret is safe with us, op ​

They were fun.

 

[stavros]

What game?

Arcade Pool II. It's not really really old, and I think I got it for a tenner originally. I found it a lot more realistic than the pool games I've found to play online, although, as my OP suggested, I'm not really up on where on the interweb these things are.

It had some neat variations on the standard UK and US pool games, such as killer and time trial:

 

[stdP]

Arcade Pool II is listed as an MS-DOS game rather than a Windows one per se, so DOSbox might work. The DOSbox support page shows the original as being supported, and the wikipedia page says that the sequel was merely an updated version of the original so (fingers crossed) it should work...

 

[stavros]

Arcade Pool II is listed as an MS-DOS game rather than a Windows one per se, so DOSbox might work. The DOSbox support page shows the original as being supported, and the wikipedia page says that the sequel was merely an updated version of the original so (fingers crossed) it should work...

OK, I'm not confident enough to say I understand the whole DOS thing.

I found this link to download it, saying it's freeware. Am I safe to use it?

 

[mrs quoad]

Arcade Pool II. It's not really really old, and I think I got it for a tenner originally. I found it a lot more realistic than the pool games I've found to play online, although, as my OP suggested, I'm not really up on where on the interweb these things are.

It had some neat variations on the standard UK and US pool games, such as killer and time trial:

8 ball pool.

Any mobile platform.

Free. Outstanding physics. Full range of ball spin (&c&c). Master spin, and you shall smash the world.

 

[fishfinger]

OK, I'm not confident enough to say I understand the whole DOS thing.

I found this link to download it, saying it's freeware. Am I safe to use it?

I don't know about that one, but this one works (google drive link) DOWNLOAD GAMES ARCADE POOL II (2) FULL FOR PC ( FREE ) - InfoBerkah Manfaat

 

[stavros]

I don't know about that one, but this one works (google drive link) DOWNLOAD GAMES ARCADE POOL II (2) FULL FOR PC ( FREE ) - InfoBerkah Manfaat

Thanks for that.

Am I being monumentally thick in clicking on the button which says "DOWNLOAD NOW"? All I get is an image shot that button.

 

[TruXta]

What could go wrong?

 

[friedaweed]

Hot mod an old Xbox. We've got about 700 games on ours.

 

[TruXta]

Hot mod an old Xbox. We've got about 700 games on ours.

And they're pretty decent for playing ripped films off as well with XBMC.

 

[friedaweed]

And they're pretty decent for playing ripped films off as well with XBMC.

Yeah. I followed a youtube video which included putting an old hardrive in an xbox we got from the carboot for a fiver and uploading an emulator from a flash drive. All a bit easy for such geeky fun.

 

[TruXta]

Yeah. I followed a youtube video which included putting an old hardrive in an xbox we got from the carboot for a fiver and uploading an emulator from a flash drive. All a bit easy for such geeky fun.

A mate of mine made a good few quid on the side doing mods to game systems, making fake satellite cards and so on. I seem to recall he quit around the time Xbox came around, partly because it got so easy to do just via software rather than heavy physical moddin.

I remember him doing this massive and really intricate soldering job to attach a new chip into a PS2 motherboard - definitely a job for steady hands.

 

[fishfinger]

Thanks for that.

Am I being monumentally thick in clicking on the button which says "DOWNLOAD NOW"? All I get is an image shot that button.

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Click the hi-lighted words "google drive"


That will allow you to download "Arcade pool 2 infoberkahmanfaat.rar". Just unarchive the file anywhere. The game is in there. I've checked it for viruses (It's clean) and the game works.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Internet Arcade : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

1785 arcade games for your playing pleasure!

Quick guide on how to play on the Internet Arcade - Armchair Arcade

 

[stavros]

Click the hi-lighted words "google drive"

View attachment 150807
That will allow you to download "Arcade pool 2 infoberkahmanfaat.rar". Just unarchive the file anywhere. The game is in there. I've checked it for viruses (It's clean) and the game works.

OK, I've got it now and it all looks like it should. However, the gameplay is a lot slower and less reactive than my original version. Was this case for you and, of not, is there any way of me improving it?

 

[fishfinger]

OK, I've got it now and it all looks like it should. However, the gameplay is a lot slower and less reactive than my original version. Was this case for you and, of not, is there any way of me improving it?

It runs fine here on windows 7. What version of windows are you using? and have you tried running the program compatibility troubleshooter?

 

[stavros]

Windows 10 for me. And I haven't run a programme compatibility troubleshooter, as I'm not really sure what it is and how to use it.