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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    11/27/09

    In reply to NES Netbook
    As a kid I had an original GameBoy back pack. This makes me want to see if I can find it.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Lose $80 on a Netbook With $180 Times Reader Subscription
    I can understand subsidizing the Kindle, for instance, since that offers a more convenient way of reading NYT content in places where a laptop wouldn't make sense (subway, breakfast table, park) but a netbook just seems silly and invites obvious comparisons to just browsing the content on the web.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Nethack.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    If you can find copies anymore, there's always Yoda Stories and Indiana Jones' Desktop Adventures for some solitaire-intensity adventure gaming.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    There's a ton of great indie games that would run fine on netbooks. My personal recommendations would be Audiosurf, World of Goo, and Darwinia.
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    Image of Whitson Gordon Whitson Gordon
    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Morrowind would definitely run pretty well, and if you've never played it before, certain aspects of it might still blow your mind (like how incredibly huge and open-ended it is). The graphics are not one of them, but hey, you're on a netbook, what do you expect? Great game though.
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    11/24/09

    @Whitson Gordon: This really depends, the recommended specs for that game may be low but performance varies by machine, a lot. Mostly it has to do with openGL issues.
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    11/24/09

    @ament001: Well, true. But if World of Warcraft is on the list...Morrowind can definitely be on the list. It ran tip-top on my crappy old white MacBook, so I imagine it would run pretty decently on a netbook.
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    11/24/09

    @Whitson Gordon: The reason I say it can vary is I used to run it on an old 1.6 ghz celeron with a Xpress 200m, and it ran horribly. Like I said though, I think it stemmed more from the cruddy openGL support than anything else.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Fallout 1 and 2, C&C Red Alert, Icewind Dale, and Baldur's Gate play like a dream on tablets.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Quake III arena ftw!
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    I completely forgot about Sins of a Solar Empire. The game is best played with a friend or friends, and I've had matches online that lasted days if not weeks (the ability to save a multiplayer game was an awesome inclusion, considering how long a 40+ planet, multiple star system game takes to complete). But with a game of that scope, I need a much bigger screen.
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    11/24/09

    @thechansen: LOVE that game. And I still haven't even tried the multiplayer?! That sounds awesome. Back to the point though, it's not cpu and graphics intensive to choke netbooks?
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    11/24/09

    @ninjamurf: Well according to liliputing its fine, and I used to run it on a desktop without a proper video card, so it might.
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    Image of blash blash
    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Grab a bunch of them, set up a LAN, and play either Age of Empires 2 or CS 1.6. Half Life and Diablo 2 are awesome but they're single player games.
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    Image of EvilTaxi EvilTaxi
    11/24/09

    @blash: Diablo II plays best in multiplayer. That's like saying L4D is awesome but it's a single player game.
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    11/24/09

    @EvilTaxi: hmm well I had Diablo 2 before I had a good net connection.. so I stand corrected.
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    11/24/09

    @blash: I remember playing on my 28.8k connection before dropping for a 56k modem. :D
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    11/24/09

    @EvilTaxi: 28.8? Lucky...
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    SCUMM games, Battle For Wesnoth, X-Com (Wine/Dosbox), Fallout 1 and 2, Ultima 7 running through Exult, Pop Cap games, World of Goo, Sim Tower, and Sim City 2k are the only ones I've tried on my netbook, my ion nettop is a little more forgiving, but not much. I reckon most games off of GOG.com should work. Who needs moderns when there is so many classics to play through still. Hell if you like turn based strategy, Wesnoth alone can keep you going for literally years with the amount of content available, and its even better seeing how it is free.

    Torchlight despite the "netbook" mode was a no go for me. I still suggest you buy it for your main PC. Game is so Diablo awesome it hurts.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Mouse Hotel
    Oregon Trail
    Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
    Leisure Suit Larry
    Pong
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    Image of elvisml2 elvisml2
    11/24/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: You're either really retro, or you really don't like netbooks.
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    11/25/09

    @elvisml2: A little of both. The keyboards are too small for me. 12" is as small as I can comfortably get.
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    11/25/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: That's what she said.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Descent, Wolfenstein, Doom (II), SimCopter, Dune II...

    ....Have I mentioned I haven't played video games (outside HL2/Portal) since about 2000?
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    11/24/09

    @OCEntertainment: You haven't missed much, trust me
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    11/24/09

    @RickyRogers: I trust you, anonymous internet person. ;-)
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    11/24/09

    @OCEntertainment: Damn right you do, you similarly anonymous person from the internet.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    Probably could handle GalCiv2
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    11/24/09

    In reply to 5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
    I've been considering a netbook just for use as an emulator machine. As long as it has enough HDD space for a complete MAME ROM set.
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