What a waste

[sylvar]

I saw a copy of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided at a library today.  What good is that?  You still have to buy a subscription, don't you?  That library is going to get nothing but complaints about that title.

OK, game fans: please recommend a few PC titles that libraries SHOULD buy.

Comments

[meandering.livejournal.com]

Half-Life, HL2, Starcraft, Jedi Knight. Hmmm... Moonbase Commander!!!

Games for Libraries to Buy

[jurph.livejournal.com]

Something older like Civ II, or even the original Civilization. Maybe burn it to CD even though it came on floppies, and set the preferences up so that all the educational bits are turned on before you burn it. They can copy it to hard disk to play the strictly-fun version... or they can run it from CD and get edutainment.

[cadrys.livejournal.com]

The 'Reader Rabbit' series seems quite good from my vantage point (looking over Lovebug's shoulder) Lots of learning in bite-sized doses, frequent incremental rewards to keep interest, low footprint to install and run.

Ed: HL2 is out for the same reason SWG is--one must register the CDkey online to play the game at all.

Puzzle solving, cute music, and cartoon violence : Lemmings!

Anything that teaches basic economic theory--such as supply & demand, guns vs butter, or the *magic* of compound interest. [No, I have no idea of such a game, but if more people understood those concepts, we'd have fewer problems with consumer debt!]

Good 'collection' of basic strategy games. (Bonus: those will almost certainly be freeware)