Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

Civilization and games like it are everywhere, thanks in part to their incredible addictiveness. However, they focus almost entirely on the expansion and exterminate portion of the 4X model, with diplomacy, city creation, and military conquest being the biggest parts of the game. Conquest of the New World flips this on its head by focusing more on the exploration and exploitation parts of 4X, and it makes it one of the most unique strategy games around. It recently gained new life on GoG.com, so let's delve into the classic 4X action and see if it is as good as we remember it to be.