Old Gamers Never Die: A Quick Update on New Games in My Library

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A view from the periscope from my not-so-new game "Cold Waters."  © 2017 Killerfish Games

 As you might recall, I have a Steam account that I opened when I bought Sid Meier's Civilization V in the Spring of 2015. I still lived in Miami then, and though she only had a few short months to live, my mom was still alive. And because I was so damn busy, tired, and stressed out by my dual role as homeowner-to-be and my dying mother's primary caregiver, I just thought Steam was for that game and didn't bother to learn that it was a company that not only helped Civ V work well online, but it was a source for downloadable games from various developers and publishers. 

I started buying downloads of games from Steam directly about a year-and-a-half after I moved to Lithia, Florida, in 2016. I did so because streaming/downloading games in the 21st Century is as routine as buying "in-the-box" games that you installed with floppies (the late 1980s to early '90s) or CD-ROM discs in the late 20th Century.  In many ways, it was necessary, since my two Lenovo laptops don't even have physical media drives.

Thanks to Steam, I have been able to get a mix of new or at least semi-new games, including Ultimate General: Civil War, Armored Brigade, Strategic Command WWII: World at War, Cold Waters, Ultimate General; Gettysburg, War on the Sea, and Gary Grigsby's War in the West. 

I have also found and bought games that I used to own on DOS and early versions of Windows (and in at least one case, a game that I played on my Apple IIe, Crusade in Europe, which thankfully also had an IBM/MS-DOS port). 

So, as of June 11, 2022, here are some of the new "old school games" that I've successfully bought and installed via Steam this year: 

© 1985, 2022 MicroProse & Atari
© 1989, 2022 MicroProse, Atari
  • Crusade in Europe (IBM/MS-DOS version)
  • F-19 Stealth Fighter
  • F-117A Nighthawk: Stealth Fighter 2.0
  • M1 Tank Platoon
  • Command & Conquer Remastered (new to me since I never played it back when C&C was new)
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