I’ve been daydreaming lately about reviving an old video game. I’m not even sure what I mean by that. But, I’ve always wanted to run a game server of some dead internet game. Keeping it alive.
I voiced this idea with my son and he immediately loved it.
So, I pulled out a pencil and paper and we just started brainstorming and jotting our thoughts down. Games we like. Genres we like. Text based games vs FPS vs RTS.
We did this for about an hour. At the end I asked him to rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is the best. We went through the list and there were only two that ranked 10: Unreal Tournament and Dark Age of Camelot.
He’s too young to have played either of these games. But in the next few days, I’m going to research them both and pick the one that looks the easiest to install in 2026. Will be a fun bonding experience…
Oh, and he came up with the name for this project: Video Game Archaeology.
