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Recently, we've also been blessed by the arrival of bouncing baby Good Old Games, a retro-only download service specifically dedicated to re-releasing history's finest PC games - made to work with modern operating systems and entirely DRM free.

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Secondly, digital distribution services вЂ“ notably ValveвЂ™s Steam and the great-in-the-States-but crap-over-here Gametap вЂ“ are gradually adding classic games to their online stores вЂ“ legal, free from floppy disks, and dirt-cheap. In short, a game consisting of 320x240 pixels, each the size of a babyвЂ™s fist, no longer causes quite so many people to scoff dismissively at it. In terms of that incredible back catalogue, PC gaming history is currently undergoing two very important changes that may rescue it from the impotence of dusty floppy disks and pop-up-infected abandonware sites.ДЇirst, PC gamersвЂ™ values are changing вЂ“ the audience is moving away from the graphics-hungry and into a breed thatвЂ™s more prepared to judge a game on its less superficial merits.

The platformвЂ™s infinitely adaptable, itвЂ™s currently hand in hand with the dramatic rise of casual, ad-supported, digital download and subscription-based games, and itвЂ™s got a back catalogue several hundred orders of magnitude huger than any other gaming system. After all, people have been predicting its demise for some 20 years now вЂ“ itвЂ™s all piracy this, expensive hardware that, niche appeal this, compatibility problems that. It may even have expired while you were distracted by this introduction. No, really, itвЂ™s going to cop it any day now. I repost it here with minor updates, and tired resignation about how many comments will say 'what, no game X?' No wordcount in the world is big enough to encompass everything that should be mentioned - but it'll certainly be useful if the comments thread becomes a juicy list of olden gems for other curious readers to hunt down. My objectivometer must have been out for repairs that week. Clearly too, it's more shaped by my own experiences and influences than by anything like objectivity. It's a very broad overview of some of the choicest morsels of PC gaming in the late 80s to mid 90s, primarily the pre-3D age, and aimed at those who didn't grow up with a beige box rather than at those who did. This feature was written for PC Format magazine what feels like a million years ago.

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