Yeah, it was one of the best games of the 1990's. It was released November 19th, 1998, which was 16 years ago. There have been a lot of great games released since then, many of which no longer work. As an example, a game a really liked is Throne of Darkness which was released September 24th, 2001. I used to have a copy back in 2001 but lost track of it somewhere along the way since then. (My bet is one of my kids took it to one of their friend's house to play and never brought it back.) I've looked for another copy for years, and two weeks ago I found a copy on Ebay for $10.00. So I ordered it and a few days later it arrived in my mailbox.bobbobby wrote:Half Life is one of the best games of the decade.
The disks were pristine, not a scratch on them. I was quite pleased. So I installed it immediately, ready to spend hours playing this rare game. But it wouldn't work. An error came up about something called FT_Thunk in kernel32.dll. I searched the Internet for a solution but found nothing. It seems that any game that needs FT_Thunk won't run in Windows XP SP2 or later, and I of course have SP3.
More good examples are Aces of the Pacific and Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers. I couldn't get those games to work either, also due to Micro$oft having removed something from Windows that they need to run. And there are many others as well, that I'm sure I'm forgetting about that I have installed that failed to work. Old games don't always work anymore. Some do, some don't, and that's the way it is. Of course, I have some old computers lying around that I can install Windows 95 or 2000 on and then I can play them. But none of them will run on this computer...
After some months doing it, I reached level 52 on Steam. Now I want to reach level 100, but it should take a very long while.
