Computer games used to be sooo much better than they are today...well, not really :-)

There are still good games being made, games that have sound and graphics and whatnot that are lightyears beyond what you had ten or fifteen years ago.

Old games can't compete with that. But they can compete when it come to gameplay, at least some of them can. Two types come to mind; simple, but addictive strategy games...and roleplaying games where dialogue and story is the focus, not combat or graphics. The former category includes things like Master of Orion 1 + 2 and Master of Magic. Not very complicated games, but you just can't stop hitting that 'Next Turn' button! And things like Planescape: Torment and Baldur's Gate might not be much to look at, but the gameplay is way beyond much of what is made within that genre today.

Anyway; the best place to get these old classics is GoG.com - literally filled to the edge with Good Old Games ;-) GoG will charge you a few pennies for the games, but there are some advantages - they generally include ALL expansions, patches etc. for their games, and they are optimized to run on modern-day Windows OS.

You can find many of the same games floating out there in pirated versions - on 'abandonware' sites like Abandonia.com. But why spend time hunting down a torrent, searching for patches, and trying to get it to work on your 64-bit Win 7 if all you are going to save is 5-10 USD? So not worth it. Granted there are many games which will run using DOSBox (a brilliant piece of software!), but others will not. Especially those pesky WIN95 games! Win 3.1 is often better...since many games of that era came packaged with a separate DOS version :-) But still so not worth it!

So go GoG and enjoy loads of fun titles!