I was playing some Quake 3 and listening to chip tunes last night. So maybe it is kind of pathetic to think of a lost friend by playing a video game while listening to cheezy musak, but it does. It’s good to look back once in a while, just as long as you don’t try to stay in the past. Time marches on, as they say.
I was thinking of games I used to play on my 286 and 486 this afternoon and decided to go looking for some of them. If you want to play these games, you will most likely need to use a program called DOSBox, which is an x86 emulator. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (its open source).
These are just some of the games I played on my 286 and then my 486. There are a few others I don’t have here that I played, I’m sure, but some titles aren’t easily available (even though they are no longer sold).
What is it with arbitrary lists of best games, best websites, ultimate guides of supremeness, and any other random list of things a blogger pulls out of his ass that are so popular on Digg? These lists are news worthy and/or highly entertaining? They must be, since they get thousands of diggs. So, keeping in the spirit of unrivaled lists of bestness, I give you Shewbox.org’s top 17 pictures of Concrete Blocks!