Mum and Dad play a variety of Tetrisy, Mah Jong and Solitaire/card type games. These are naturally shareware type games, most probably bought off the shelf for $10 at the local Harvey Norman. If you make these kinds of games and intend to sell them, ignore the "crusty old computer that Mum has" market at your own peril, cos loads of non-serious gamers go in for these types of games and have pretty old systems with pretty old software.
My brother prefers commercial strategy games, MOO 2, Dune, Command and Conquer, etc.
Both machines would run BlitzPlus games just fine though (Mum's needed an upgrade to DirectX for Blitz3D though), as would most other 95 machines still in service I suspect. DirectX 7 is still available and only a 6MB download in any case.
I'm quite surprised to learn that BlitzPlus needs DirectX just for the GUI components however.
My brother prefers commercial strategy games, MOO 2, Dune, Command and Conquer, etc.
Both machines would run BlitzPlus games just fine though (Mum's needed an upgrade to DirectX for Blitz3D though), as would most other 95 machines still in service I suspect. DirectX 7 is still available and only a 6MB download in any case.
I'm quite surprised to learn that BlitzPlus needs DirectX just for the GUI components however.