Hey Digitalpress! ( Classic Computer Gaming? )

[FxMercenary]

Hey forums! I was sitting here this morning reading some posts and I noticed something. There are more and more posts popping up about classic computer gaming and I was wondering, is it time for a new forum section for computer gaming?

Now, I know that this forum started out for retro console gaming, and then modern console gaming, but hear me out.

I started collecting for Nintendo and Super Nintendo, then moved forward to N64, Genesis, 32x, CD, Saturn, PS1, PS2 then PS3, Wii and 360. But somewhere along the line I got the sudden urge to build a Retro Gaming PC for games like Duke Nukem, Doom, Warcraft II, Starcraft, Diablo etc...

I know that some of people dont have alot of experience building PCs, and may be curious about doing so, and are even looking for some good tips on what games to pick up, and what hardware to look for to get some of those old games to run again ( hardware problem free )

I think a classic PC Gaming section would be perfect here at digitpress, who knows we could even have some fun long distance gaming nights for Warcraft II or something =)

What do you guys think?

[Jorpho]

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[FxMercenary]

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Yes I do realize that there are other forums to find information at, I just think that it would be cool if there was a section here at digitalpress for the members here to share things and play together.

[Kid Ice]

Yes I do realize that there are other forums to find information at, I just think that it would be cool if there was a section here at digitalpress for the members here to share things and play together.

Agreed. A classic computing section is long overdue.

[Flack]

We had one as a forum du jour for a while ... not sure if the idea ever flew for making it permanent or not.

[Trumpman]

Yeah, we did have one as the forum du jour, but I agree that it would be nice to have a separate classic PC gaming thread. I've recently been getting into DOSBOX, which is great, and it's definitely a different beast than classic console gaming. I'm definitely for this.

[Jorpho]

We had one as a forum du jour for a while ... not sure if the idea ever flew for making it permanent or not.

It kind of died after a while, as I recall.

[cyberfluxor]

We had one as a forum du jour for a while ... not sure if the idea ever flew for making it permanent or not.

Yeah, I really liked it but it didn't receive much traffic from the read/respond counts. It was located further down the sub-forum ladder and that may have accounted for it or that it really isn't much of a topic. I struggle to meet others interested in classic computing/gaming. Most of those that were into it have moved onto newer hardware and phased out of gaming and thus into the IT/security realm. I can see most members just posting about troubleshooting and to keep more gaming topics abound it'd have to include modern PC gaming, which inturn would become a "I have the latest & greatest graphics card" match. It's the sad reality of that spectrum of gaming.

I've wanted to help an organization with older computer game scans and reviews, but every site I've been referred to is either too small to make an impact, appear as a dead community, or treat submitted work as proprietary information not to be shared. If DP were to open its arms to the beast of computer games it would be a huge undertaking.