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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!

While we personally enjoy the second game in the Grand Theft Auto series, it's not the game that most people think of when they consider Grand Theft Auto. Despite our love of arcade games and mass destruction, the top-down viewpoint of Grand Theft Auto 2 just isn't for most people. Rather, when Grand Theft Auto comes up, one game in particular stands out among the rest. Grand Theft Auto 3 was a revolution in the mainstream, combining sandbox gameplay with a detailed criminal narrative that engaged players greatly. It's been the template for every Grand Theft Auto game since, and even if we aren't as fond of it as we are its predecessors, it's still an undying classic worth being revisited on a regular basis.

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!

Shortly after Descent 2 was finished, the developer, Parallax Software, split into two different developers. The first was Outrage Entertainment, who produced Descent 3. The other is Volition. While Outrage has since gone defunct, Volition is still going strong, thanks in part to the success of the Saint's Row and Red Faction franchises. These are not the games that put them on the map, however. Freespace is the game that cemented Volition as a rising star in the game development community, and thanks to GoG.com, newer players can enjoy this space simulation classic. It's easily on par with other esteemed franchises like Wing Commander and TIE Fighter, and it has aged considerably better than its colleagues.

Download the Freespace demo right here on Big Download!

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!

Descent 1 and 2 are classics of the first-person shooting genre. While they were not best-selling games upon release, they were the first true six-degrees-of-freedom games. Not many games have been made in the genre since (Shattered Horizon is the only recent one that leaps to mind) but there was a third, slightly less regarded Descent game. This doesn't mean it is a bad game, though. In fact, Descent 3 holds up far better than one would expect, and shows just how much the developer matured in the time between the first two and the third. Thanks to GoG.com, we can revisit this classic once again.

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!

Macro-management strategy is a sub-genre normally delegated to your average 4X game. Tons of units, governance of vast and expanding bases, and complicated strategic maneuvers are features not normally given to your average tactical or real-time strategy game. Supreme Commander and Sins of a Solar Empire are two of the exceptions, but they have a predecessor that lays some of the groundwork for their inner workings. No, it's not Total Annihilation. It's M.A.X. (Mechanized Assault and Exploration), a turn-based strategy game that incorporates elements seen in the more popular grand strategy games of today. Thanks to the folks of GoG.com, people new to strategy gaming can experience MAX for a fraction of its original cost, and everyone knows that we love to revisit classics!

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!

It's time for the last game we are going to cover in the Heroes of Might and Magic series. No, it's not Heroes of Might and Magic 4. Rather, we're talking about the original gangsta. The RPG-strategy hybrid that started it all. Heroes of Might and Magic may not have a lot of the later improvements that the series slapped on, but it just makes the experience that much more pure. Playing the first game is a reminder of just how much the series has progressed and how much we love roaming around wiht our heroes, smashing apart armies and towns. It may be old and it may be less complicated than its successors, but it's still amazing.

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!

There's two great Western-themed games coming out soon. The first is Rockstar's sequel to the original Red Dead Revolver. The second is multiplayer third-person title Lead and Gold. However, both of these games, and virtually every Western game, owes a debt to a LucasArts classic. Before they pimped out the Star Wars license like no other, LucasArts did work in other areas. This includes Outlaws, which was one of the first truly atmospheric Western games. Its graphics may be quite dated at this point, but there's no doubt that it's a classic.

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!

Peter Molyneux is known for his grandiose statements and his involvement with several of the most famous gaming franchises out there. Populous was a game he worked on, as was Theme Hospital, Fable, and Dungeon Keeper. However, perhaps the best-known example of his excessive hyping is the real-time strategy game Black & White. While it was certainly built up in the eyes of the public far more than it should have been, Black & White is hardly a bad game. In fact, looking back, it's a classic that got hammered initially, but only grew more and more likable as it aged. While that describes a lot of games, it fits Black & White the best.

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!

Flight simulators are among the most niche of the niche games. They focus on a particular genre (flying combat) and take it to such an extremely realistic level that most players can't get into the game. However, there is one flight simulator that manages to be both realistic and fun to a general audience. Released in 2001 by Ubisoft, it was before a time of restrictive DRM and needless DLC, and even now sits as an example of what continued support can do for a game's legacy. I'm talking about IL-2 Sturmovik, and its attention to detail in every aspect of the game makes it a classic of the flying combat genre.

Download the IL-2 Sturmovik demo right here on Big Download

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!

First person shooters have been evolving throughout the years. Doom bears little resemblance to the modern first-person shooter, except maybe in the dark and gritty nature of its visuals. Even then it's not that similar. The arcade gameplay of years ago has been moved to the side in favor of expansive storylines and heavily scripted scenes. While this is entertaining, sometimes people just want to hop into a game and blow some baddies away with little thought. Since the Doom and Quake franchises have been moving away from their roots, it's up to other developers to pick up the slack, and CroTeam took the challenge. Their first massively successful game, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, blew gamers away with its focus on simple and endearing fun. While they have since remade the game in HD, the original is still worth a look. After all, it can run on practically any system now!

Download the Serious Sam: The First Encounter demo right here on Big Download

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!

Now that Red Alert and Tiberian Sun have been released as freeware in anticipation of C&C4's release, Red Alert 2 is the oldest Command and Conquer game that one can still buy. For many people, it's also the best game in the franchise. This may be due to the fact that this was the last Command and Conquer game (RTS, anyway) Westwood Studios ever made. After Renegade, which wasn't an RTS, Westwood largely moved to Petroglyph and the series was taken over by internal EA studios. Red Alert 2 is the last main Command and Conquer game to bear the Westwood label, and it is definitely worthy of it. After all, nothing quite says "awesome" as 10 bomb-bearing airships descending upon an enemy base!