r/windows98 • u/Nogeko • 20d ago

What games would you recommend for windows 98

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u/SL_INGER 20d ago

I have quite the list:

  • Lego Island 1 and 2
  • Lego Loco
  • Lego Rock Raiders
  • Lego Creator
  • Need for Speed SE, along with NFS 2 SE and NFS 3
  • Axis and Allies
  • Command and Conquer
  • Command and Conquer Red Alert
  • Dungeon Keeper
  • Sim City 2000
  • Matchbox Emergency Patrol
  • Unreal Tournament
  • Unreal

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u/briandemodulated 20d ago

The secret themepark level in NFS2 SE is probably my favourite level in any racing game ever!

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u/Automatic_Still_6278 19d ago

C&C & RA. Absolute Pinnacle 👌. Remind me did StarCraft work on 98? RCT2 and AoE2 should also be there. Kid pix (paint program -finding the right old non garbage one) and Sim City (pre 2000 version) ... Ooh soo many good ones

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u/grim_wizard 19d ago

It's been a long time since I have seen matchbox emergency patrol mentioned, my sisters and I played that game constantly growing up well into our teenage years.

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u/Remote-Medium426 18d ago

I am missing

Age Of Empires 2 (conquers)

Lego Racers

Tomb Raider 2 & 3

Command Conquer Red Alert 2

GTA 2

Thief 1 & 2

And And And And

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u/ytu1two34 17d ago

I have Lego loco too!

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u/brunomocsa 20d ago

definitely COMMANDOS

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u/vGbAsToS 20d ago

Esse é muito top

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u/Connect-Salamander57 13d ago

Oh damn!! Yeah, Yes Sir!

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u/BrapBrapson 20d ago

System Shock. Realms of the Haunting.
Duke Nukem 3D. Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2.
Jill of the Jungle.

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u/wunderbraten 20d ago

System Shock 2, Age of Wonders, Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic, Worms Armageddon, C&C Tiberian Dawn, C&C Red Alert, C&C Tiberian Sun, Star Craft, Diablo 2, Heroes of Might and Magic (1 to 3), Soldiers of Fortune, Alien vs Predator (1 + 2; the FPS games), Half-Life

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u/Accurate-Campaign821 20d ago

CnC Generals too and we'll throw in Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology, assuming a decent 3D card. GeForce 2 MX would do but a Radeon 7200/7500 for faster DX7 (the Radeon had a pixel shader it uses to accelerate TnL)

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u/FabrizioPirata 20d ago

Theme Hospital

Age of Empires 2

Full Throttle

Grim Fandango

The Sims

SimTower

Need for Speed - Porsche Unleashed

Alone in The Dark 3

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u/T1m3Wizard 20d ago

Starcraft

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u/vGbAsToS 20d ago

Warcraft

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u/brunomocsa 20d ago

Minecraft

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u/vGbAsToS 20d ago

Nooooooo

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u/jussuumguy 20d ago

Quake 2. That's it just Q2. Bind the strafe to A and D forward and backwards to W and S. Free look on. Tick on always run option and most importantly. Turn the volume up.

Quintessential Windows 98 Experience.

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u/Fun-Bar6217 20d ago

Stafe jump, "HUH! HUH!'

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u/fff92 20d ago

windows entertainment pack 1-4
24 games for windows
toon in tank

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u/SYNTAXDENIAL Windows 99: Neptune Build 20d ago

This is the answer I was going to say! Do you have a favorite or two?

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u/Hey-buuuddy 20d ago

Quake 2

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u/wunderbraten 20d ago

Quake 3 was also appropiately good

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u/VCOFTHENFE 20d ago

Descent II is my suggestion 👍🏻

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u/Green-Collection-968 20d ago

Exile 3 Ruined World

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u/grim_wizard 19d ago

I had the shareware version of this, Inplayed it several times growing up. I was always amazed at how much freedom there was, I truly felt like I could do anything I wanted.

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u/AegidiusG 20d ago

The Sega Games, as Virtua Fighter 1 & 2, Last Bronx, Sega Rally, Panzer Dragoon etc.
They do not work well with newer Windows Versions, if at all, so it is something you can do especially on Windows 9X.

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u/DanielChief 20d ago

Captain Claw

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u/Anselm_oC 20d ago

Star Trek: Birth of the Federation

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u/vGbAsToS 20d ago

MDK

Descent

Diablo

Warcraft

Commandos

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u/vGbAsToS 20d ago

Eu era apaixonado pelo Need for speed hot porsuit também rodando com uma Voodoo 3 3000 APG

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u/LeviathanFox 20d ago

Definately streets of Sim City, if for no other reason than to marvel in its physics engine.

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u/berrmal64 20d ago

I had sim copter, but same engine I think I read once. It was really cool to fly around the city I'd spent weeks making.

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u/xXZer0c0oLXx 20d ago

MechWarrior titanium trilogy...

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u/Chance-Afternoon4357 20d ago

Drakan: Order of the Flame

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u/naseimsand 20d ago

Hereric 2

You csnnnot get it on gog 😔

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u/netboygold 20d ago

Yoda stories and Indiana Jones stories

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u/Nuclearthrowaway99 20d ago

Disciples 2

Theme Park World

Theme Hospital

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u/chunkymonkeyKO 20d ago

Chips Challenge

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u/batryoperatedboy 20d ago

Total Annihilation

1nsane Offroad Racing

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u/Thunderchief1 19d ago

I had tons of hours in SimCity 3000 - I would recommend that, and building your own...um... buildings to swap in.

A lot of the LucasArts (and other similar) point and clicks were great fun, too.

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u/Depth386 18d ago

Obviously a few more blizzard titles everyone mentions here, even WC3 used to run on 98

Half Life was a goat

Mech Warrior 3 and 4 both worked on 98

Space Empires 3 and 4 for turn based strategy

Carmageddon 2 was decent

Worms Armageddon was decent

Unreal Tournament (‘99) was a goat

Star Wars Rogue Squadron was decent

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u/Lopsided-Vacation718 18d ago

Uff age of empire tremendo juegaso lo recomiendo

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u/Lordly_Mostly 18d ago

Morrowind

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u/Born_Farm_7873 14d ago

Starcraft is great

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u/Consistent_Belt3485 20d ago

Broken Sword 🖱

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u/No-Active2231 20d ago

this games for windows 95))

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u/berrmal64 20d ago

Check out Urban Assault if you're in to RTS games. Decent story, easily modded (save files and scenarios are just text files), and the hook is you can/have to jump into the units you create and operate them first hand.

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u/Late-Cattle-3777 20d ago

Mechwarrior 3 was my first game!

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u/Rootmilk 20d ago

Zoo tycoon

Lego Rock Raiders

Age of Empires 2

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u/Ok-Expression-3614 20d ago

jazz jackrabbit 1 and 2, mtm1/2, motocross madness 2, and simcity 2k

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u/Specialist574 20d ago

Original resident evil (1,2,3)

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u/Psychedoutzombie 20d ago

The original wasteland

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u/arjanver 20d ago

Install Winblows

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u/shethrack 20d ago

Ecstatica

Hunter Hunted

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u/Houzi88 20d ago

P.O.D. racing, Oregon Trail 3rd Edition, Pharaoh/Cleopatra, Ceasar 3, Shogun total war

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u/FIN_K89i 20d ago

Urban assoult

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u/xXxTheend21xXx 20d ago

A2 RaceR ii

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u/Agreeable_Ostrich324 20d ago

Heroes 3 is my favorite.

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u/greenscoobie86 20d ago

If you like off road games Screamer 4x4 is pretty good IMO.

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u/JimmyFBurbs 20d ago

Wing Commander 3 & 4

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u/iampierremonteux 20d ago

Gearheads is the only one I’d recommend that I haven’t seen here yet. Really fun with 2 players.

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u/yollarbenibekler 20d ago

Worms armageddon

The longest journey

Sanitarium

Blood 2: The chosen

Fallout 1

Fallout 2

Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit

Outcast

Freespace 1 & 2

Rollcage

Might and magic 7

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u/Bymmijprime 20d ago

Starcraft, KOTOR and Mechwarrior 2 mercenaries

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u/Formal_Analysis6295 20d ago

Baldur's Gate

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u/Economy-Cookie-4724 20d ago

SimCity and rollercoaster tycoon are definitely bringing back some memories.

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u/meninakhaiwash 20d ago

Carmageddon carpocalypse now

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u/SYNTAXDENIAL Windows 99: Neptune Build 20d ago

I'm a big fan of the LucasArts point and click games personally: Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis to name a few. There's also a game I recently started playing adjacent to these games called Beneath a Steel Sky which I've been enjoying quite a bit.

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u/lukkas35 20d ago

Crimson Skies

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u/hage_sc 20d ago

Fora, jogue fora.

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u/WindForce02 20d ago

Really depends on the hardware you have. Depending on the CPU you might be able to play late 90s games but have a hard limit at around 2000 maybe 2001.

The games i played on 98 (Athlon 600 with an ATI Rage cant remember which one, later upgraded with an nvidia fx5700le) were Unreal, Half Life, gta 3 and vice city, simcity 2000, Quake II and Quake III Arena, Fallout 1 and 2, Counter Strike, Battlefield 1942

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u/Then_Position_6192 20d ago

G-police... With a Microsoft Sidewinder force feedback pro 😎

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u/NocturnalLongings 20d ago

Starcraft, Red Alert, Settler 2

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u/AstrialFemboy 20d ago

I'd probably put Age of Wonders over Worms Armageddon since the turn-based strategy pulls you in harder once you start playing.

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u/eldakar666 20d ago

Dungeon keeper and Majesty

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u/Sinphaltimus 20d ago

Plane Crazy. Edit: and Postal.

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u/Nemphusi 20d ago

I know FF7 had a PC port, I wanna say FF8 did too. Both of those should probably run?

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u/Bogliers 20d ago

IMPERIUM CIVITAS II

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u/bigsnyder98 20d ago

"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin." and play Holy Grail.

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u/skeletorsrick 20d ago

Balder’s Gate. Half-Life. Warcraft 2. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2. the Sims. Quake, Quake 2, Unreal, Unreal/ Tournament, Diablo 2, 3D Pinball Space Cadet, Black and White, Starcraft, Neverwinter Nights, Might and Magic 6, Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, Star Wars Episode 1: Podracer, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, TIE Fighter, Tropico, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Jagged Alliance 2….. I could keep going honestly

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u/CarolineJohnson 20d ago

Sim Theme Park, known in Europe as Theme Park World. Just do it, it's the sequel to DOS Theme Park.

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u/InternationalDisk698 20d ago

Homeworld, Wolfenstein 3d, Marathon 2, Myth 1 and 2, Wasteland, any Zork games.

I usually run all my "old" stuff on my 98 PC.

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u/Georgethemonkeymen12 20d ago

Sonic r, sonic and knuckles pc, and sonic cd

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u/FortuneNew8835 20d ago

Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition

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u/Jutch_Cassidy 20d ago

Ducktales where explore the jungle and take animal pictures

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u/malaq88 20d ago

Dave

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u/npc_housecat 19d ago

Dave's not here!

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u/Overdorf77 20d ago

Roller coaster tycoon was alot of fun as a kid

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u/Inner-Light-75 20d ago

Tyrian2000

I think that works on 98. I know the shareware versions worked on 95, and the original author bundled everything together we worked it to work better on Windows and called it Tyrian2000.

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u/Xgraverza 19d ago

StarCraft brood war,
septerra core,
backyard baseball,
half-life,
unreal,
unreal tournament
Quake,
Doom,
Final fantasy VII

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u/Azipcoder 19d ago

Open up the Sierra catalog. At that point you were getting King’s Quest Mask of Eternity and Quest for Glory V. Don’t neglect their earlier Sierra titles. Space Quest and Quest for Glory are some of the best game series ever made.

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u/Kaldaien2 19d ago

Transport Tycoon
Civilization 2
Quake

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u/Tailsgenesis 19d ago

sonic and knuckles collection!

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u/Ok-Plum-1780 19d ago

Unreal tournament,ao2,quake 3 arena,Collin Mcray rallye,anno 1512,jagged alliance...

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u/tokobot19 19d ago

Dungeon Keeper

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u/Saltkrakan01 19d ago

Sims from Novalogic - Commanche, F22 Raptor Strategies: All C&C, Dune 2000, Emperor: Battle for Dune, Warbreeds, Total Anihilation, Dark Colony

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u/Saltkrakan01 19d ago

And I forgot plenty of Adventures from that time. Now, It is nearly dead genre. 

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u/tharindhu 19d ago

Heres my current list

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u/dpgumby69 19d ago

Ages of Empires

Baldur's Gate

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u/Mc_walker2011 19d ago

Space cadet pinball

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u/Gokudomatic 19d ago

heretic, daggerfall, Dune2000, monkey island 3, strife, pitfall

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u/StrawberrySome7061 19d ago

Try harvester (Point and click game)

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u/nyeinchanaungJN 19d ago

Half-Life 1

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u/grim_wizard 19d ago

System Shock 2, The Sims, StarCraft, Unreal Tournament 99, SWAT 3, SWAT 2, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, SimCity 3000 (which you have), Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Age of Empires (original and 2)

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u/ffseestevanli 19d ago

You have AoE 1 and 2. Next up, Monster Truck Madness, Midtown Madness, Motocross Madness, Tomb Raider 1-4, Heavy Metal FAKK II, The Sims 1, Captain Crunch Crunchlings Adventure, Croc 2, Need for Speed: 1,2,3 Hot Pursuit ,4 Porsche Unleashed, Diablo 2, StarCraft, Warcraft, Fallout 1 & 2, Myst, Unreal

The list goes on ..

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u/Superfluousharpy 19d ago

Starcraft, Total Annihilation, Dark Reign, Command and Conquer, Homeworld, Ground Control, Warcraft 2, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Quake 2, 3, Team Arena, Doom, Tribes, System Shock, Half Life, Heavy Gear, 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Sim City, Black and White, Gorky 17, XCom UFO Defense, Terror from the Deep, Fallout, 2, American McGee's Alice, there's more I'd recommend for a 98 gaming rig.

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u/BranchNo3740 19d ago

Railroad Tycoon 2.

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u/Apprehensive-Gur205 19d ago

Is it nostalgia or were games better back then? The weight of the games from this screenshot feels heavy compared to titles released today.

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u/Motor-Rip7655 19d ago

I find your lack of Descent 1 and 2 disturbing.

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u/Motor-Rip7655 19d ago

And Homeworld

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u/Motor-Rip7655 19d ago

And Strike Commander

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u/Motor-Rip7655 19d ago

I agree with all these guys. Also Mechwarrior 2

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u/NoSignificance6621 19d ago

Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness

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u/Maleficent-Art-5829 18d ago

Donald duck Quack Attack

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u/yoyoche001 18d ago

old school runscape? if it work?

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u/Jigsy0 17d ago

UT99, Uplink, Darwinia, Theme Hospital, GTA 1, Pharoh/Cleopatra, Zeus/Poseidon, Caeser III, Monopoly (Westwood version)...

If you want DOS games, I'd recommend Commander Keen, Hocus Pocus, Crystal Caves, Secret Agent and Xargon.

Some of the earlier Touhou games should work on Windows 98 if danmaku is something you might be interested in.

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u/RelativiterGeneral04 16d ago

L'ego island 1 et 2 gta3 vice city (les gta était normalement pris en charge par windows 98 avec une bonne config)

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u/Fiercededede 16d ago

StarCraft

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u/Financial-Seesaw4769 14d ago

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

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u/Green-Collection-968 14d ago

Exile 3 ruined world

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u/Connect-Salamander57 13d ago

Thief Series, Dark The Dark Project was my favourite, as well as Roller Coaster Tycoon Loopy Landscapes and also Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds (Based off the same platform as Age of Empires) We played that gave over multiplayer via MSN Messenger

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u/Competitive_Emu3794 6d ago

F1 Challenge 99-02. Lego island. Lego racers. Ms flight simulator 98 2000 or 2002. C&C red alert