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Playing Need for Speed II in a Virtual Environment
Hello Steemian, how are things going? Today, here I am again to share some experience on playing old school games. In this article, I want to try to play my favorite game when I was a kid. It is Need for Speed. The game that I will be playing is a need for speed II. Actually, the one that I want to play is the first need for speed. But, I have some problem trying to run the game. Probably, there is a problem with the one that I download. Next time, I will try looking for another one and try the game.
Anyhow, before I am going to play the game, I would like to share how I installed the game and tell you a little bit about the game itself. Ok, let's remember about the game.
Need for Speed II
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Need for Speed II is a game released by EA (Electronic Arts) in 1997. It is a racing video game that is a part of the need for speed series game. Need for Speed II is a second installment of the franchise. It was developed by EA Canada.
For those who love playing racing games and want to bring back some of the sweet memories from old days, you should check out this one. The game is very interesting with lots of car to choose to drive. There also various track to choose from. For cars that you can choose to drive quite good. There are 3 classes of the cars. Class A, B, and C. Each class have a different type of cars and different performance. Class A has the highest performance, then followed by Class B, then Class C. For each class, there are also some bonus cars.
Class A:
- Ferrari F50
- Ford GT90
- Lotus Elis GT1
- Mclaren F1
- Bomber BFS (Bonus cars special edition)
- FZR 2000 (Bonus cars special edition)
- Tombstone (Bonus cars special edition)
Class B:
- Isdera Commendatore 112i
- Jaguar XJ220
- Ford Indigo (Bonus cars)
- Italdesign Nazca C2 (Bonus cars special edition)
Class C:
- Italdesign Cala
- Lotus Esprit V8
- Ferrari 355 F1 (Bonus cars special edition)
- Ford Mustang Mach III (Bonus cars special edition)
Those are the list that you can choose from, and the good thing is, you can choose whatever class of cars do you want and then you also can choose what class of cars your opponent is. You can choose cars from class A to drive and choose class B for your opponent in single-player mode, and you will beat your beat opponent easily. However, if you want some challenge, try beating class A cars with class C. Hmm…That going to be tough, isn't it?
For gameplay, there are also several you can choose from. There is single player, where the player can play against the opponent on a track with a certain number of laps. Usually it is 4 laps. And you have to be number one to win the game. Then, there is a knock out mode, where the player that finished last in each lap will be eliminated. In order to play this mode, the player needs to complete the tournament mode. Which bring us to the third mode, Tournament mode. In this mode, the player will involve in a series of games and the player who finish with the highest point will win the tournament.
Well, now let's see how I set up my computer to play this old school games.
As the old games usually do not run well on current systems. I set up a virtual environment to play this game. I install the games in a Windows XP in a virtual machine. The virtual machine I use is virtual box. But, you also can choose another virtual machine such as WMware (for Windows), VMware Fusion, Parallel (For Mac systems). The reason I use Virtual box is that it is free, while VMware and Parallel is quite expensive software.
Oke, the specification I use in my Virtual box are:
- Windows XP 64bit SP 3
- Memory: 512 MB
- Video Memory: 16 MB
- Storage: 10 GB
here is the image of my virtual machine specification
While the system requirement for Need for Speed II is:
OS: Windows 95/98/XP/2000
CPU: Pentium
Processor: 233MHz
Memory: 16MB
Graphics Card: 8MB
Hardrive Space: 50MB
Sound Card: Windows Direct X
Mouse and Keyboard
Installing the game is usually pretty easy. For old games like this, there a lot of websites that provide a free download. Just fire up google and look for one. The file that you download usually come in an archive, It is not setup files that we use to have in old days. So, after you download, you only need to extract the archive and look for the application type files. It is the one with the extension of .exe and the name of the file usually the abbreviation of the game names. In this case, most of the time the file name is like "nfs.exe" or "nfs2.exe".
