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If you love the classics, this tidbit of news will likely get your attention. The trademark-obsessed web site superannuation has discovered that Electronic Arts has renewed their trademarks on four of their properties. Two of them are from their former Bulldog studio (Theme Hospital and Populous). The other two are for their racing game Road Rash . . . and Wing Commander.

Personally we would love to see EA try to revive the Wing Commander series first. There are lots of sim games (including EA's own Sims series) and racing games (including EA's own Need for Speed and Burnout series) But the space combat-sim genre has been regulated to smaller developers like 3000AD and Egosoft. We would love to see a big budget space-based action game for once. We really would.

It's the weekend and that means its time to look through the web for some more PC game price cuts. GoGamer.com, as they usually do, can help out on this search as their latest 48 hour madness sale runs through 3 am ET Saturday morning.

This time you can save on items like the recent RTS title Stormrise which is only $14.90 during the sale and Tom Clancy's HAWX for $29.90. Older games also got their prices slash including the original F.E.A.R. for just $7.90 and Theme Hospital for just $9.90. GoGamer has also put in some Mac games on sale including the classic Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 for just a buck.

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.

Our five part look back at a lot of the terrific PC games of the 1990s is extensive, but there are always games that you think about afterward that should be included in any retrospective. Today we do a quick addendum to our series and add 10 more PC games that we loved (and still do).

Click on these links to check out the previous installments in this series.
1990-1991
1992-1993
1994-1995
1996-1997
1998-1999

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The economic news in the real world isn't good and it looks like its going to get worse before it gets better. While corporations go bankrupt and more people lose their jobs as a result, we at Big Download have to ask ourselves, "Why don't business people take more hints by playing games?"

Yes, there are a ton of different economic models in various PC games over the years. You can manage to grow a whole city from nothing in a game. You can even grow an entire nation or even a vast space empire through the use of managing your money and available resources. Indeed the in-game activities of certain MMO games can actually be felt in the "real world." Here's a quick look at how managing your money in certain games is a good thing. Perhaps our current political and economic leaders can learn a thing or two.

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