# Your favorite classic PC game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-classic-pc-game/161253>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 14, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-classic-pc-game/161253 "2003-03-14T03:41:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-classic-pc-game/161253/81 "2003-03-15T16:15:57Z")

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[Duke Nukem]  
It’s time to kick ass, and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of gum.  
[/Duke Nukem]

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-classic-pc-game/161253/82 "2003-03-15T16:37:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Chandeleur \*  
> \*\*[Duke Nukem]  
> It’s time to kick ass, and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of gum.  
> [/Duke Nukem] \*\*

That line is taken from John Carpenter’s _They Live_, as you no doubt know. One of the few lines in the game not ripped from _Army of Darkness_.

Hail to the king, baby!

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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-classic-pc-game/161253/83 "2003-03-15T16:54:56Z")

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**Might and Magic IV** : Clouds of Xeen and **Might and Magic V** : The Darkside of Xeen were cool as hell. You could combine their installation to create one massive game called the World of Xeen, which let you play both games simultaneously, with additional original gameplay.

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**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-classic-pc-game/161253/84 "2003-03-15T17:17:31Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \*  
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> Alas, it was never updated or rereleased, and requires huge chunks of DOS conventional memory. Windows ME will not accomodate this _at all_, which sucks. My original discs for the game have since bit the dust, but I do have the game loaded on my machine … I just can’t run it.
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> I’ve been trying to find some sort of DOS emulator or something that would let me run it. I may just break down and partition some space for it and load up DOS 6, if I can remember how to do all that convoluted configuration.  
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You should make a boot disk. I had to do that to run some games back in the DOS days even when that was the base OS on my system (I had Win 3.1 but rarely used it, and it was basically a DOS shell). You can download a program to create a DOS bootdisk at [www.bootdisk.com](http://www.bootdisk.com), and then, with a little research, you should be able to tweak an autoexec.bat to free up the right amount of memory. Ten years ago I probably could have written an appropriate autoexec.bat right now for you, but I’ve forgotten a LOT of stuff about DOS.

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