help me find a particular website that previously appeared on metafilter... [more inside]
posted by thermonuclear.jive.turkey on Sep 14, 2009 - 8 answers

I love Sid Meier's Pirates! I loved the original back in the '80s, and I love the remake even more. What other games might I love? [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Sep 13, 2009 - 18 answers

What command and conquer style computer game should i play? [more inside]
posted by freddymetz on Apr 30, 2009 - 26 answers

Help name the first computer game I ever played. In preschool. Circa 1985. A few sketchy memories inside. [more inside]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur on Feb 2, 2009 - 4 answers

Trying to remember the name of an old mac computer game: Like chess, but the board could be set up differently, with blank spaces around which pieces had to move . Pieces moved like both checkers and chess. Some of them were "magical" -- could teleport to other spaces or serve as a wall. Certain spaces on the board were also magical -- destroying pieces, etc. Any ideas? Thanks.
posted by gb77 on Jan 15, 2009 - 9 answers

Nostalgia has left me attmepting to rediscover a series of online point-and-click adventure games I played when I was younger. Its basic premise was a spoof on Sherlock Holmes and Watson, and you solved murder mysteries in Victorian era England. Anyone remember anything? [more inside]
posted by Rocky Dennis Memorial Inner Beauty Pageant on Dec 19, 2008 - 5 answers

What is this old computer game that was a top-down open space shooter? Note: I am fairly confident it is not Escape Velocity. [more inside]
posted by stresstwig on Oct 21, 2008 - 6 answers

Cheap gaming laptop recommendations [more inside]
posted by Kudos on Sep 22, 2008 - 6 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

I'm writing a little shareware game for Mac/Win/Linux. But I have no idea how to promote it apart from putting it on Download.com and del.icio.us. How do I get people to notice it? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Mar 13, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm trying to find an old computer game that we used to play in school (probably around late 80s). It was a text based RPG with puzzles and magical items. [more inside]
posted by mrbloo on Mar 5, 2008 - 14 answers

When I was very young, my family had a TI 99/4A home computer. One of the games we had on it was this version of football. I need to find something like it. [more inside]
posted by mkb on Feb 6, 2008 - 5 answers

Is there anywhere online (or in book form, if necessary) that I could get the scripts for the Leisure Suit Larry games, specifically the first one?
posted by mdbell79 on Sep 30, 2007 - 1 answer

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

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

Why do the economic models in computer games always suck? [more inside]
posted by Meatbomb on May 31, 2007 - 28 answers

Need help with an old computer game, possibly Apple II. [more inside]
posted by sleevener on Mar 14, 2007 - 25 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

GameFilter: I need a part-time game to play at work. [more inside]
posted by backseatpilot on Nov 7, 2006 - 24 answers

What are the most addictive, not-too-hard-to-master, good-for-casual-gamers multiplayer computer games out there? Cool graphics appreciated. Strategy games preferred, but not required...
posted by shivohum on Oct 19, 2006 - 30 answers

What computer game did we play at school circa 1993? [more inside]
posted by decathecting on Oct 8, 2006 - 9 answers

It taught me how to read a map... What was this "educational" computer game from the 1980's? [more inside]
posted by peppermint22 on Jun 26, 2006 - 9 answers

If Valve's Steam means that games developers can do away with publisher, distributor and retailer overheads... um... why isn't everyone doing it, or similar things?
posted by Pretty_Generic on Nov 10, 2004 - 13 answers

A friend is trying to remember an old computer game... [more inside]
posted by obiwanwasabi on Sep 9, 2004 - 4 answers