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Now that I have built my system, I was wondering whether there are any sites that one could download vintage games like those made by sierra/lucas arts. I don't mind buying games, and it is my intention to buy the ones that I enjoy. I already know I will buy all the space quest, LSL and police quest games.
 
I have a CD with about 100 games from 1992 - 1994 that a friend of mine put together back then. He had excellent taste in games. :) If you'd like a look at the list lemme know and I'll send you the particulars.
 
PM hargle. He's done amazing work archiving and making so many classics available.
 
Its not online but suprisingly goodwill and thrifts like savers. I know those places suck for console system games but there gold mines for old school big box PC stuff. I routeinly find cib old school games for 2-5$ at these places. This includes stuff from the 80's and mid 90's not just win 9x games. I've lived in both Pittsburgh and phoenix and found nice stuff in both areas so its can't be a regional thing.
 
So far I have never seen diskette based games really here on LI. But they pop up on Goodwill's website regularly.
 
Here's a list of games on the CD mentioned above:
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Terminator 2029
Seven Cities of Gold
A-10 Tank Killer
Mystic Towers
Alone in the Dark
Ambush at Sorinor
The Elder Scrolls: ARENA 
Battle Chess 4000
BloodNet
The Blue and The Grey -- Civil War/Military Simulator.
The Bard's Quest I 
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold 
Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space 
Shadow Caster
Civilization Master Edition 
Comanche : Maximum Overkill Enhanced
Comanche Missions Disk 2
Corridor 7
Caeser DELUXE
Dark Legions
Darklands
Darksun - The Shattered Lands
Stephen Kings - The Dark Half 
Detroit
DOOM v1.1
Might and Magic V : Dark Side of Xeen
Might and Magic V - Crack/Patch
Might and Magic V - Save Game Editor
Might and Magic V - Trainer +???
Dune I
Dungeon Master
Dungeon Hack
Frontier Elite
Empire Deluxe
Entity
Eye of the Beholder I
Eye of the Beholder ][
Eye of the Beholder ]I[
F-14 Fleet Defender
Falcon 3.0
Mig-29 - Falcon 3.0 Data Disk
Fantasy Empires
Final Fight
Front Page Sports Football Pro
Microsoft Flight Simulator v5.0
Microsoft Flight Simulator - AddOn
The Great War!
Hand of Fate 2 - Kyrandia ][
Hand of Fate 2 - Kyrandia ][
Isle of the Dead
King's Quest 6
Betrayal at Krondor
Lemmings ][ - The Tribes
Links Golf 386
Lands of Lore
Mantis Experimental Fighter
Speech Pack/Mantis Experimental Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Monopoly - Deluxe Addition
NCAA
NHL Hockey
Great Naval Battles of North Atlantic
Ultima VIII - PAGAN
Spectre VR
Pools of Darkness
Populous ][
Prince of Persia ][
Privateer
Protostar
Patton Strikes Back
Al-Qadim
Ravenloft - Strahd's Possession
Rome - Pathway to Power
RailRoad Tycoon Deluxe ][
Return to Zork
Sim City 2000
Strike Commander
SSN-21 Seawolf
Serf City - Life is Feudal
Street Fighter ][ - Hyper Edition
SimAnt by Maxis for DOS
SimCity Classic
SimEarth
SimFarm
Sim Health
Microsoft Space Simulator
Spear of Destiny
Spectre
Star Control ][ 
Stunt Island
Star Trek: Judgement Rites
Stronghold
Stunts!
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Syndicate
Tie Fighter
Reunion
Starlord
The Summoning
Twinion
Ultrabots
Ultima Underworld
Ultima Underworld ][
Forgotten Realms - Unlimited Adventures
Warlords ][
Wing Commander Academy 
Wing Commander I
Wizardry 7
Castle Wolfenstein
World War ][
Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator
Here's the extra DOOM stuff:
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COMMERCIAL DOOM.WAD v1.0 Extra-Hard
DOOM - Nine New Levels
DOOM - New Sounds taken from "Aliens" You MUST have the Doom Audio Editor.
DOOM - Put in Barney the dinosaur
DOOM - Add-on .wad for "Doom Beast"
DOOM - Beavis and Butthead audio patch
DOOM - Professional AddOn for Level 2
DOOM - Hall of Fame: 17 .LMP files of Battles
DOOM - Use to install the HARD version.
DOOM - Deathmatch scenario: Hellsinki
DOOM - Editing Utilities v2.0 - Map Editor
DDOO - Deathmatch scenario
DOOM - The Best Graphical Editor
DOOM - DATAfix 1.0c - Removes dir C:\DOOMDATA
DOOM - Editor - The Real Thing v2.60b
DOOM - Editor v4.0
DOOM - Editor v2.0
DOOM - Network Menuing System v2.0
DOOM - Episode 4: Yahoos in Hell
DOOM - Episode 5: New Monsters/Scenary,
DOOM - Faq (Fequently Asked Questions) v5.0
DOOM - Faq v5.5.
DOOM - Fixes a bug in Sersetup, allows 14.4k
DOOM - Ghetto Patch - Changes sounds.
DOOM - Gravis Ultrasound Patch.
DOOM - New Warehouse Level.
DOOM - Hockey .WAD file.
DOOM - Many Modem Init strings, even USR.
DOOM - New Add-On .WAD levels (5 new levels)
DOOM - 32 New Sound Effects for v1.2
DOOM - Six New Episodes for v1.2
DOOM - sets up modem like it's a network card
DOOM - 1.2 SERSETUP fix - no more jerky games
DOOM - PacMan Graphics/Sound Patch for v1.2
DOOM - Sound Editor v1.0
DOOM - SerSetup for up to 19200k modem speed.
DOOM - Better Serial Drivers
DOOM - 1.2 SERSETUP replacement to get 14.4k
DOOM - Thing Editor
DOOM - problems with USR sportsters explained
DOOM - Voodoo Sounds to replace the originals
DDOOM - Nine New .WAD adventures
DOOM - Add the troopers from Wolfenstein
DOOMMORF - 160 frame animation of monsters
RunDOOM v2.2á - Front end shell for DOOM 1.2
RunDOOM v4.0 - Front end shell for DOOM 1.2
DOOM - Utilities: Inc. Savegame Format
 
PeterLI said:
So far I have never seen diskette based games really here on LI. But they pop up on Goodwill's website regularly.
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just last week I found the original simcity, alone in the dark and kings quest V on diskette mostly CIB at Savers. few weeks before that I picked up A-train, F-19 stealth fighter and Gunship 2000 in perfect condition and CIB. most of the stuff I find is mid 90's stuff on CD but older stuff i would definitely not call rare, at least in my searches.
 
I think I picked up Gunship 2000 before and found it wasn't the old Gunship I remembered. But yes, thrift shops aren't often but sometimes you do find some nice dos games. I may have mentioned it earlier in this thread also but Half-Price Books while often questionable pricing sometimes carries/gets old games donated that they sell off. I know over the years I've found Alone in the Dark and 7th Guest there although usually not in original boxes.
 
oh yhea. half priced is another good option. erratic pricing at times though. I did pick up a sealed People's General and that weird win9x KISS FPS game for $2 on my last run there.
 
Games to download? I've used this site for a while - The House of Games. This site has a really cool collection of old Vintage games to download, some of which even have screencaps of the game itself along with text manuals of the game.
Definitely worth a look.

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/
 
If you want vintage games but don't care whether they are boxed or not, then www.gog.com is your best bet for cheap games (most are $5-$10) and they have a very wide selection.
The games are packaged with DosBox to run on modern systems and use some kind of custom instaler, although you could probably get them to run on period hardware with a bit of work.
They run a summer and winter sale where games are half off, they frequently run other sales that are up to 75 percent off. You can build quite a library very quickly that way.
The only bad thing is they don't really have much from before the early or mid 90s so if you're looking for really old stuff from the 80s, with the exception of a handfull of titles you're probably going to be out of luck. Most stuff is from the 486/Pentium/Pentium II/III era, with a few more modern games.
 
Hi,

gog.com is great if you still want to financially support the original developers/publishers. In most cases the games there come with exclusive bonus stuff like wallpapers, pdf manals, maps etc.

Then there is archive.org, where Jason Scott and his folks provide great (huge) bundles of platform-specific collections. Have a look around starting here: https://archive.org/details/software
 
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