Game Collection CD's

[Jasongroovemachine]

I've been kinda wanting to get back into some of those old freeware/shareware games that you'd get on a cd back in the day. I remember we had one called 101 Games For Windows and another one that just had a smiley face as the label. Does anyone happen to remember these things?

Maybe a place a guy can possibly look up some information on them?

There's one game I've kinda been dying to play. I can't remember what it's called, I just know it was on one of those discs and was kind of a space... colonization... trading.... thing? I'd know it if I saw it but I'm afraid it may be lost to the sands of time at this point.

I've done the basic ol' internet searching but I've had no luck thus far so I thought I'd come to the experts.

Thanks a bunch for your time.

 

[srimasis]

You can also buy a steam game bundle.
And give some more about that game, that would be helpful.

 

[Math Geek]

i remember those disks and had a few myself over the years. but can't say i have seen one in a long time. walmart still has some disks with a bunch of stuff on them but i have not really looked at them to see what is included. i doubt it is the old 100+ shareware/freeware type stuff we used to see though.

i do see old disks at flea markets and at some thrift stores. but that would be very hit or miss and means you have to look around a lot when the opportunity presents itself.

sadly i can't offer any definitive answer as to where you can find these old disks. but with some luck you may find one here or there....

 

[Jasongroovemachine]

Yeah, I pop into my local thrift stores once a week or so but that's pretty unlikely. I think most folks used em till they were too scratched to care about and trashed them. Which is probably what we did.

I didn't know steam had that stuff, I'll have to look.

The game I'm looking for specifically is a little weird, but I remember it being really fun.

You pilot a ship that just kinda moves from planet to planet on a 4 square grid of a galaxy. You have your own planets (green), the enemy planets (red), and neutral planets (grey), and the idea is either by aggression, colonization, or support you try and turn the neutral planets and eventually the enemy planets into your own.

It was "top down" if you can call it that. There was some combat that generally consisted of just shooting lasers at your opponent. You could also attack the planets directly with biological or nuclear weapons.

You had about 8 ships to pick from I think? One of them being a rather wicked looking smiley face, but other than aesthetics they were all the same.

A friend of mine just did an LP of Gazillionaire Deluxe, that's what got me thinking about this. It's similar to that in some ways, but much more actiony and much less commercey than GD.

That or I made it all up.