C&C1 is now freeware

[lazygecko]

August 31 marks the 12th anniversary of the franchise, and as a little treat you can now download the first game from the official site:

http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.aspx?id=61#NewsMain

[OverCoat]

Gonna make you sweat

[Majin GeoDooD]

Nifty.. I already own it for PC and PS1 though.

[Blake]

I'm a mechanical I'm a mechanical I'm a mechanical man.

[Liontamer]

Cool stuff. Glad EA let it out there for $0. I blogged about it briefly. Great catch, Dan. You should get a shot at scoring one of the games.

[Smoke]

I'll stick to my C&C First Decade boxset. At least it doesn't require extra steps to get running on XP.

Although it does demand a few huge patches and 7 serial numbers during installation.

[Doulifée]

I'll stick to my C&C First Decade boxset. At least it doesn't require extra steps to get running on XP.

Although it does demand a few huge patches and 7 serial numbers during installation.

so true... but red alert go throught random crash, especially when unit are in the right upper corner of the map .. strange.

[anthonium]

Awesome!!! I used to own this game but lost it years ago. I can't believe such an old game requires a 580mb ISO for each disc. This is gonna be a while but well worth the wait.

[Chickenwarlord]

Indeed, this is a nice find.

[Smoke]

Awesome!!! I used to own this game but lost it years ago. I can't believe such an old game requires a 580mb ISO for each disc. This is gonna be a while but well worth the wait.

It's called cutscenes and not too much compression since there's plenty of space on the disk anyway.

[The Coop]

Hope this isn't their way of "fixing" the problems in The First Decade set.

[Azure Prower]

The orginal C&C. Meh. Call me when Red Alert goes freeware. Haven't played that game for ages.

[I-n-j-i-n]

I'm a mechanical I'm a mechanical I'm a mechanical man.

One of the most memorable soundtracks for me. For some reason, I don't care too much for the recent C&C games though they are all technically great. The first one just has a charm about it.

[KWarp]

Interesting. Free is quite an offer.

[I-n-j-i-n]

It was a great offer even when it cost $49.

[L.T.W.]

It was a great offer even when it cost $49.

Indeed.

That game was great on its time, and for me is as great as it ever was.

For some reason I like this game better than C&C3

I don't know about anyone else, but I think the old C&C has something the other does not, I just cant explain it.

Oh yeah and the music is just fantastic, something the C&C3 could really improve on.

[IckesTheSane]

They've got a present for us!

As an aside, someone mentioned Pandora.com in another thread. Creating a station with the search of Frank Klepacki, the composer for the music of C&C1 and C&C:RA (and tons of other stuff) bring up pretty similar stuff. I haven't listened to it a lot yet, so I don't know if they actually have any of his music, but it's worth checking out.

And I typed my post left-handed

[Rambo]

Man, this is awesome. I was gonna buy this if i ever saw it in stores again... so this is freaking great. !!!

Thanks Gecko!