GameRecommendationFilter: Help me find games that involve evolving technology, trade systems and small business simulation. [more inside]
posted by Elminster24 on Jul 11, 2009 - 6 answers

I'm trying to remember the title of a space combat and exploration shareware game for the PC from the early 1990s. [more inside]
posted by greycap on Jan 12, 2009 - 6 answers

YAWWTPCGQ (yet another "what was that PC game?" question) [more inside]
posted by Iosephus on Nov 14, 2008 - 5 answers

The details are sketchy, but I remember playing a fantastic platformer in which the player controlled a rabbit. Before you say it, I'm pretty damned confident it wasn't from the Jazz Jackrabbit series, nor was it Toxic Bunny. [more inside]
posted by jhighmore on Oct 21, 2008 - 9 answers

Games PC CPUFilter: Is it worth upgrading from an Athlon64 3500+ Venice to a 4000+ San Diego? (plus a bonus question on 3GB RAM in XP and dual channel memory). [more inside]
posted by boosh on May 30, 2008 - 12 answers

Help me shoot my wife: suggest a first-person shooter we can play against each other. I'm on a Mac (pentium macbook pro); She's on a PC (about four years old, without the latest and greatest graphics card). We have a home network. [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Dec 13, 2007 - 27 answers

I've got a month off and I need a new game to play. I bought Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind in a bargain bin on a whim, played it and really liked it. What other games would I like? [more inside]
posted by ninazer0 on Sep 13, 2007 - 17 answers

Neeerrrrrrrrdfilter: I want to play Bioshock. Help me find the most economical way to upgrade my video hardware so that it will run the game satisfactorily. [more inside]
posted by killdevil on Aug 22, 2007 - 20 answers

I'm looking for a good NON text based Gangster/Mafia themed Strategy game, similar to (but hopefully better than) Gangsters or Gangsters 2. Single player preferred but Online game acceptable. [more inside]
posted by DetonatedManiac on Jul 28, 2007 - 1 answer

What's the name of this computer game from the mid-late 1980s? [more inside]
posted by spork on Jul 4, 2007 - 6 answers

Looking for another game in the same vein as Seven Kingdoms or, failing that, Netstorm. [more inside]
posted by TrueVox on Jan 27, 2007 - 4 answers

Now that the dust has started to settle after the first round of the “next-gen” console battle, i think it's time to bite the bullet and decide how my next 2 years of gaming will be spent... X-Box 360, PS3, Wii, or a new PC? [more inside]
posted by willie11 on Jan 22, 2007 - 24 answers

I seem to remember an old game possibly on the C64, but more likely on the PC. The premise of the game was to drive around in a drilling unit and drill for diamonds (I think). The more you collected in a specific time, the more you won. [more inside]
posted by fox_terrier_guy on Sep 8, 2006 - 10 answers

Game controllers for the PC? Tell me about them? [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on Dec 23, 2005 - 26 answers

I have very fond memories of playing a graphically-simple game in the late eighties or possibly early nineties. It was set in the future, in a plague-ridde, post-apocalyptic America. You were a gang leader, and your job was to assemble gang members, vehicles and guns and essentially deliver America from ruin. [more inside]
posted by dbarefoot on May 11, 2005 - 11 answers

Do you remember an old PC puzzle game called 'Revelation?' [MI] [more inside]
posted by suchatreat on Dec 13, 2004 - 3 answers