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This is what I did for a long time, just enforced by owning an older PC/laptop. I don't get to play things that tax my computer, but only rarely do I want to.

That makes my gaming experiences very different from someone playing 2560xwhatever with all settings on Ultra. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing. But I tend to emphasize gameplay over shinies.

Along those lines, Monaco is fabulous.

True. But for many games, especially FPS, players spend most of their time playing multi-player. By now, the 2006-2010 probably won't have many players online.

> a shrewd single-player gamer

;)

Still though, for popular multi-player games there are still many active servers/players.

Also, relevant XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/606/

This works for games that sold well. For niche stuff, those games can become hard to find just months after release.

Or GoodOldGames (GoG), or Steam or whatever :) .