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Danitos, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Trackmania Nations Forever

If you like, there’s a paid version with more enviroments Trackmania United Forever

IronKrill,
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Best suggestion in this thread! Trackmania Forever slapped when I had a low powered machine.

Danitos,

Saaaame. And the online lobbies were such a blast. Good music, people somehow with colorful names, encouraging chat, 0 toxicity and random but good tracks.

Esjott, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

Could give Ultima Online Outlands a try? But careful, addicitive but fun!

nandeEbisu, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

There was this side scrolling space themed bullet hell adjacent game they had on the computers when I was in elementary school.

webp,

There was this one with math equations that would fall to the bottom and you had to solve them quickly

nandeEbisu,

This had 0 educational value except for levels being named after metals. That’s where I learned what Tungsten was.

asgardius, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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@Grumpy404 I know 3 games that can run smooth on that hardware

  1. Taisei Project
  2. The Red Robot Radio
  3. Midori in the Magic School
    These games are open source and linux native
Ashiette, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

It’s… an old game. Maybe it ran on DOS, but it sure was Windows 95 era.

It was a game for kids where you had to spell words. It took place in Africa I believe, because I remember vividly that there were hippos. You had to solve puzzles before spelling words.

I might be misremembering the following : you played as a boy with a loincloth. When you succeeded in solving a puzzle he rowed upstream on a raft. I think I remember a man with a mask, might have been the kid himself.

That’s about everything I remember about this. If someone knows anything…

kindred,

Sounds like Spelling Jungle. I remember that game had the dumbest ending - something about leaving the hose faucet on.

Edit: it was a faucet

Ashiette,

Of that was it, thanks !

Snowpix, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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For me it was a game that used to be on Adult Swim’s website, it was a top-down open world pizza delivery game in the style of the first two Grand Theft Auto games. You had to deliver pizzas to some funny characters without crashing and damaging them or running over too many pedestrians and getting caught by the police. With the exception of mimes and guys in hot dog costumes which gave you bonus points, of course. You’d get fired if you got caught by the police too many times or wreck too many pizzas.

Ended up finally finding it last year, it’s called Pizza City. It’s no longer on Adult Swim, but has thankfully been preserved on other sites like Kongregate and archive.org. Still holds up to this day as a fun game!

SaintNyx, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

It was zool and commander keen for me. Hard to describe and find the answer on Google for odd candy mountain game and game with trees with weird ass eyes. Anyways, found it eventually lol

Gremour, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
sailormoon, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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Nanosaur

Redacted, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

Theres a shitty flash game i spent years playing that ill never find again. Top down worms game very similar to vampire survivors in gameplay, only many years before it.

Clearwater, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I grew up playing a very specific Minecraft trial world. You spawn on a beach with a single tree. Immediately inland was a large plains biome, but about 100 blocks to the side was an oak forest. In there (still visible from spawn), was a single large hill with a small cave in it which poked though it and made for a good base.

I am rather confident it was a Minecraft trial edition world. I believe I reset that map several times over before discovering how to make the trial last forever. However the trial seed on the wiki does not match for any game version. (It does match a different world I remember playing at least.)

I’ve probably spent about 10 hours over the last couple years periodically going on the hunt for it, and at this point I’ll give out a small bounty for information.

toeblast96, (edited )

what platform? pc/ console?

I know pcgamer had a demo on pc but not sure if that sounds like your description

Clearwater,

It was PC. I’ve tried the PC gamer demo and the “North Carolina” seed for all probable game versions (1.3 to 1.6), and the base world generation just doesn’t match. There is a hill nearby which could be close, but the biomes are all wrong.

There is a chance, albeit not very high, that it was a cracked version of the game using a seed I simply forgot with time, but it would be quite difficult to brute force that since I would then need to figure out both the version and seed. Given I am fairly certain I generated the same world a few times, it’s possible I might be able to guess it.

DeadDigger, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

A round based strategy game with a hex based grid I think there where generic military units like warships u boots pioneers infantry trucks helicopter destroyers. It had a very rudementry 8 bit graphic and it is not Panther panic

SlurpingPus, (edited )

Perhaps the ‘Battle Isle’ series?

P.S. Or ‘Panzer General’ or another of the dozens wargames made by Strategic Simulations Inc. There were quite a lot of hex wargames back in the nineties.

DeadDigger,

Sadly no. The units whee represented by pictograms from the sideview.

But yeah the problem is that there where so much and so many different ones, even made as shareware slop

SlurpingPus,

You could try looking through Category:Computer wargames as to whether any of the titles click.

If the game wasn’t on DOS or Windows, the choice is smaller, but alas I don’t see a list on Wikipedia with platforms. MobyGames might have it. Alternatively, I had a script somewhere that pulled the platform and other info from all pages in a category, but not sure currently where it is.

Tattorack, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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This is me with SHMUPS. Oh, sure, I can find databases of the ones that were popular, but in the early to late 2000s there were so many PC SHMUPS with mouse controls that came on demo CDs or you could get from the front page of any demo shareware website…

Now all forgotten.

Some of them I used to play a lot and want to play again, but can’t for the life of me find back.

SlurpingPus,

You could try r/tipofmyjoystick on Reddit, describing the game as much as you can remember. 2000s wasn’t even really the peak of the genre popularity.

kamen, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

If I remember the name I’ll tell you.

From the ones I do remember: Airfix Dogfighter was cool.

DylanMc6, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants
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