Mean Streets under Virtual PC

re: Mean Streets under Virtual PC

mcgurk — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:22:51 GMT

Dude... Mean streets. The soundtrack was the best EVAR. Also: "They're in my head! THEYRE IN MY HEAD!!!" And it all played through the system speaker, no sound card needed.

re: Mean Streets under Virtual PC

Xepol — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:36:17 GMT

Hey, ya, Max - you are on to something there.

Someone alert the XBox Live Arcade team - I WOULD DEFINITELY PAY 800 to 1000 points to play each of these again!

re: Mean Streets under Virtual PC

Xepol — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:34:50 GMT

I've got Under A Killing Moon, which I tried running under VPC about a year ago. It acted pretty funny, but it kinda played. It would probably have worked better if I had not lost the manual over the years - the controls were not exactly intuitive!

Dang I loved that game. State of the art multimedia in it's day, and it even ran smoothly on my 486dx4-100 with 4 megs of ram... Oh where has the technology curve taken us?

re: Mean Streets under Virtual PC

Max Battcher — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:16:36 GMT

I think that a new Tex Murphy game would be awesome on the 360... Just think about using MS' highly touted WMV 10 HD codecs for some awesome FMV scenes. I would sell school kids into slavery for even just a 720p Tex Murphy trailer. I'd certainly buy an HD-DVD drive for a full game, and that would decide the format war for me personally...

Sigh.

Unfortunate that Microsoft had to help kill one of the more truly unique game franchises...

re: Mean Streets under Virtual PC

InlandAZ — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:28:54 GMT

I've had it installed for quite some time - it's one of my favs. Martian Memorandum plays as well.

The only improvement these old games still need under VPC is sound - it's really bad for most of them. DOSBox runs Win 3.1 (w/Games installed) with perfect sound - can't VPC address this directly?

I'm a big VPC fan by the way - just looking for some improvement.