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missingno, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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squirrel, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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Grumpy404,

I’m actually the creator of that community…

squirrel,
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Oh, nice :)

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

For me it was a golf game but it was probably ASCII only, played on a green monitor, sometime in the late 70s. I loved that game. Either that or my memory is playing tricks with me.

AmbitiousProcess,

Is it Focal Golf?

Would look something like this, but… green, of course.

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You could also check out this post on Atari Archive, this video by them too, and this collection of software you could search through using Ctrl + F and then “Golf”. There’s a lot of possible matches there.

There doesn’t really seem to be a lot of actual playable options or even recordings of a lot of them, though.

YurkshireLad,

Awesome thanks. I don’t think it’s Focal. It was a computer my friend’s dad brought home from work and I don’t think it was on tape.

Catoblepas,

There’s a non-zero chance it was a game someone he worked with just made. My dad used to work with a guy that would program playable text based games during his down time (this was in the 90s), he ultimately went on to work at an actual game company from what I remember.

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

It’s definetly not for everyone but space station 14 can be a lot of fun.

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

The legend of Kyrandia or something

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

Croc 2! I love him so much.

umbrella,
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croc was so whimsical and fun

Soggy,

I prefer the first one but I love the little WAPOW boy either way.

Ashiette,

Both of these games were awesome. I used to play the first one from the beginning every week with my childhood best friend because either we didn’t have a memory card or the game did not accept saves.

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

Not smooth but Guild Wars 2 can run on those specs, obviously on very low settings.
Path of Exile should work also. These specs af not that bad. Most 10+ year old games should run easily. I would just check steam for older F2P games, there are a lot more. I think swtor and eso should run also. Those had F2P tiers.

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

Try incremental games like Cookie Clicker.

PapstJL4U, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?
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I would take a look at Warframe.

www.protondb.com/app/230410?device=steamDeck

I like the gameplay and it ran on every hardware.

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

mech, (edited ) do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

I remember a top down game from the late '80s or very early '90s where you drive a car along a highway and try to defend yourself against other cars using different weapons and tire-slashing spikes mounted to your wheels.
You’d start inside a semi-truck, drive out of it backwards, and at the end of the level, the truck would re-appear and you have to drive into it again.

SlurpingPus,

‘Spy Hunter’? It was on a whole bunch of platforms.

mech,

YES, that’s it!

SlurpingPus, (edited )

Yeah this one was easy. I even forgot about the trucks (probably because they weren’t there in ‘Super Spy Hunter’, which started as a clone before having been released as a sequel).

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7ab4716a-5728-4283-be3d-8f9ce1ea35a3.gif

SlurpingPus,

Btw, there were sequels ‘SpyHunter’ in 2001 and then ‘SpyHunter 2’, for PS2/Gamecube/Xbox and desktops — though not with the top-down view.

And there’s the 2012 ‘Spy Hunter’ for PS Vita and 3DS. Apparently also with the view from behind, and this time with poor reviews.

coaxil,

Major motion?

youtu.be/bASGBe6jhes

One of my favs growing up

BlameTheAntifa, do gaming w Gaming with the Girlfriend

I’m confused. Is his girlfriend Vanduul?

QuadratureSurfer,
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She’s a “loot goblin” wearing the Snow Camo Geist Stealth outfit.

LolcatXTREME, do games w Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

That’s super based of them actually. A game for everyone is a game for no one as they say. Difficulty options if it makes sense and the game is designed around it, sure. But if a game is designed to be played a certain way and you bypass it you’re ignoring a purposely designed experience the developers made for you, and I think it’s fine to force people on to a level playing field.

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