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!

The evolution of the modern first-person shooter is on-going. Each iteration of technology has brought the genre to more and more people, and the multiplayer components have only been growing. First came Doom, with LAN-based gameplay. Then came Quake, with some of the first internet support amongst first-person shooters with QuakeWorld. After that, it was a join effort between Quake, Unreal, and Half-Life to bring mods and easy internet play to the masses. The next game in the cycle, however, would cause a massive explosion of players into the fold of internet gaming unseen since Doom. Counter-Strike is that game, and for quite a long time it reigned loud and proud as the king of online shooters and online games in general. Even now it takes up a significant share of the market, with both it and its sequels being heavily played casually and professionally at all skill levels. That's a game with longevity.