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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!

Before Peter Molyneaux was known for grand, sweeping statements about his games that he often failed to deliver on, he headed up the tiny studio known as Bullfrog, one of the originators of the god game genre. With games like Populous or Theme Hospital, Bullfrog helped to establish sandbox, open-ended games as a viable way to entertain. One of their best known, and best overall, games is Dungeon Keeper. A strange look into the seedier and hilarious side of adventuring, it was a big hit when released and is still a fantastic game, especially for strategy fans that are looking for something a little different from the normal, modern fare.

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!

Bullfrog was well-renowned amongst PC users by the time 1997 had rolled around. A list of some of the best PC games was their resume, many of which could be featured in later Boot Disk articles. Games such as Syndicate, Populous, Theme Park, or Dungeon Keeper. However, when it comes to the twisted, eccentric sense of humor that Bullfrog put in all its games, there's one that stands out among the rest. That game is Theme Hospital, spiritual successor to Theme Park and quite simply one of the best management sims around. It's a little hard to find, but it's worth it, and the cohesive art style mixed with the hilarious gameplay never gets old.

It's a game that many PC gamers fans have wanted to see revived and a new rumor suggests it may actually happen. Gamesindustry.biz is reporting via unnamed sources that Electronic Arts may be publishing a new version of Syndicate, the sci-fi tactical action game that was first released in 1993 via the now defunct Bullfrog Productions.

According to their story, the new Syndicate game is being developed under the code name of Project Redline at developer Starbreeze. The Chronicles of Riddick game developer supposedly has been working on the game since August 2007. However the article states the new Syndicate game is still a long way from completion as Starbreeze is also working with EA on a previously announced game using the Jason Bourne license. EA has not yet officially commented on the report.

One of the most beloved PC game franchises in history is coming back, but not in the form that most gamers might have wanted. The franchise is Dungeon Keeper, the strategy game where you are the bad guy in a fantasy universe setting traps and monsters to defeat the AI controlled heroes. Developed by Peter Molyneux at his original game developer Bullfrog, the original game was released in 1997 with a sequel released in 1999 (Molyneux had left Bullfrog to form Lionhead Studios soon after the completion of the first game in the series)

Today the Chinese game publisher NetDragon Websoft announced that it has acquired the rights from Dungeon Keeper's current owner Electronic Arts to create Dungeon Keeper Online, an MMO title that will be made strictly for the Asian game market (although the press release does say it's possible it could be released to other markets as well). Details of the game itself haven't been revealed but the license allows NetDragon to use the "themes, characters and other game content" of the Dungeon Keeper series. In the meantime Western gamers will have to make due with the Overlord games which have some of the themes of Dungeon Keeper.