My Wife's New Laptop... A gamer's story.

It came as a gift from my Wife's mother. At first, it was a Gateway. My wife said, "too big" and having no say in the matter, a Toshiba Satellite then came to be known in the house.

I laughed at its specs, little loser. 4500MHD integrated graphics...please. I have no need for such a puny machine. I can't play video games on it, not good ones.

Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. My aging PC spoke to me. "I only have an 80 gb hard drive. What games do I currently have installed?" Well, Dragon Age: Origins, The Witcher, Deus Ex, Morrowind and Team Fortress 2 on Steam. Wait, oh I get it, I have a back catalog of video games for the PC that I don't have room for. The laptop has a 500 gb hard drive... curious.

I then tried Pirates! Live the Life on my wife's laptop, we share, so I can use it too. Nothing special to note other than it works.

I then installed Max Payne 2. The first thing I noticed is that it supported the laptop's native resolution, 1366 by 768. That's cool. I cranked the graphics up, I crank them up and then work my way down, and it worked like a charm. I had never finished Max Payne 2, so my mind about this piece of hardware is changing.

I now think about other old games I have that could use some new love.

Games I own that should run on my Wife's laptop.

I might try a few more, but this is a pretty good list and that's not counting Max Payne 2.

	1. Grim Fandango How about that.
	2. Deus Ex Why not? The laptop has 500gb of memory.
	3. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Sure.
	4. The Longest Journey Gotcha.
	5. No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way Haven't seen you in a while.
	6. Sid Meier's SimGolf Where's my sequel?
	7. Beyond Good & Evil A good one.
	8. Medieval: Total War A pretty old game, should play on the laptop.
	9. NASCAR Racing 2002 Season Not as good as 2003, but cool none the less.
	10. MVP Baseball 2005 One of the best ever.
	11. Madden NFL 2005 I haven't played a Madden game in a while. Roster sucks, but who cares. Maybe there's a mod.

All is forgiven little laptop, all is forgiven. Game on.

Thanks for reading.

It came as a gift from my Wife's mother. At first, it was a Gateway. My wife said, "too big" and having no say in the matter, a Toshiba Satellite then came to be known in the house.

I laughed at its specs, little loser. 4500MHD integrated graphics...please. I have no need for such a puny machine. I can't play video games on it, not good ones.

Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. My aging PC spoke to me. "I only have an 80 gb hard drive. What games do I currently have installed?" Well, Dragon Age: Origins, The Witcher, Deus Ex, Morrowind and Team Fortress 2 on Steam. Wait, oh I get it, I have a back catalog of video games for the PC that I don't have room for. The laptop has a 500 gb hard drive... curious.

I then tried Pirates! Live the Life on my wife's laptop, we share, so I can use it too. Nothing special to note other than it works.

I then installed Max Payne 2. The first thing I noticed is that it supported the laptop's native resolution, 1366 by 768. That's cool. I cranked the graphics up, I crank them up and then work my way down, and it worked like a charm. I had never finished Max Payne 2, so my mind about this piece of hardware is changing.

I now think about other old games I have that could use some new love.

Games I own that should run on my Wife's laptop.

I might try a few more, but this is a pretty good list and that's not counting Max Payne 2.

	1. Grim Fandango How about that.
	2. Deus Ex Why not? The laptop has 500gb of memory.
	3. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Sure.
	4. The Longest Journey Gotcha.
	5. No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way Haven't seen you in a while.
	6. Sid Meier's SimGolf Where's my sequel?
	7. Beyond Good & Evil A good one.
	8. Medieval: Total War A pretty old game, should play on the laptop.
	9. NASCAR Racing 2002 Season Not as good as 2003, but cool none the less.
	10. MVP Baseball 2005 One of the best ever.
	11. Madden NFL 2005 I haven't played a Madden game in a while. Roster sucks, but who cares. Maybe there's a mod.

All is forgiven little laptop, all is forgiven. Game on.

Thanks for reading.

cool, that u got a new laptop that can play some games. have fun playing with it i guess.

" cool, that u got a new laptop that can play some games. have fun playing with it i guess. "

There are a ton of roster mods available for Madden 08, which plays exactly like 05 on the PC. Football Freaks' website has it set up where you can download the most recent players, and even new draft classes so you can have guys like Ndamukong Su and Sam Bradford in the game with their portraits and everything. From what I've heard, it's pretty impressive.

You pretty much got all the games I would put on there... except for one. But it requires a bit more finesse to run it, so you've pretty much got all you need. 
 
/Played the hell out of SimGolf back in the day, loved that game

Laptops aren't that terrible.  I can run Rome: Total War on my netbook, which essentially gives me access to portable Total War.  You may even be able to get Medieval 2: Total War to run on your laptop.  It runs great on mine.
 
SimGolf is the bomb. **Looks at wiki scores for it** Hehehe.  I adore that game.  I have played through it so many times it's almost sad.

I can think of many more great games you can run on that PC but I think those 10 should last you long enough. Medieval Total War and Morrowind so to speak (especially since it has great mod support). Ha. Turns out a lot more people enjoyed SimGolf then I previously thought.

" I can think of many more great games you can run on that PC but I think those 10 should last you long enough. Medieval Total War and Morrowind so to speak (especially since it has great mod support). Ha. Turns out a lot more people enjoyed SimGolf then I previously thought. "

I got a lot of good use out of my old laptop, they should never be dismissed. Also remember you can still play VVVVVV on ANY laptop, so no worries :D

I have a shitty laptop too. I use it to hold all my iTunes stuff and also to play Blizzard games in a LAN setting. For something that is unable to do anything else, it's a pretty good Warcraft III machine.

" I'm going to assume that Torchlight will work on the laptop, havn't verified it though. But it has a netbook mode for a reason i'm assuming.  You seriously installed that stuff on an 80GB harddrive? oh boy...  I'm considering getting a new laptop, that alienware m11x, hmm...but do i want to add 900 for 8gb of ram? "

 

Games I own that should run on my Wife's laptop.

I might try a few more, but this is a pretty good list and that's not counting Max Payne 2.

	1. Grim Fandango How about that.
	2. Deus Ex Why not? The laptop has 500gb of memory.
	3. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Sure.
	4. The Longest Journey Gotcha.
	5. No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way Haven't seen you in a while.
	7. Beyond Good & Evil A good one.
	8. Medieval: Total War A pretty old game, should play on the laptop.

All is forgiven little laptop, all is forgiven. Game on. Thanks for reading. "

Nice little story. Also, amazing selection of old school games.

Keep backing it up with the Total War series, might as well play Shogun instead. How bout Age of Empires I? "Hoplites!" Or Diablo II?

[ x ] OP should post pics of wife

" [ x ] OP should post pics of wife "

i dont enjoy playing games on a laptop.

You're getting a lap what from your wife?