The one Battlefield game I actually played is gone and almost lost to time forever – Destructoid

One of the few games for the PC, I had a CD in childhood, was Battle Field 1942. Of course, children should not play The battlefieldBut the beginning of the 2000s was when the today's base of military games players for everyone under the age of 14 began to take shape. I remember how I found flying helmets after the shot in the head was especially impressive, which is a little disturbing today.

I definitely can’t remember when I played the game, but it was probably about 2005. Now, 20 years later, I am not interested in Battle Field 6Which is not around the corner, but I could not help but wonder if I could survive the memories of explosion of tanks and shooting soldiers with my sniper.

The years of history have disappeared

It turns out that if you do not have a compact. Battlefield 1942, You cannot play the game in 2025. No one can. The only way to have legal access to the original The battlefield If you add it to your collection at Launcher's, Origin, Origin when the company gave it in 2012 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the franchise.

In fact, you can also buy used compact -boys on ebay for $ 10 or cheaper, but you have no guarantees that it will work in a modern operating system, such as Windows 11.

The oldest title in the franchise in the EA online store is Battle Field 3 (2011). The same is true for couples. Battle Field 3 is the only name with the official support of the company and the series closest to the origin, which also means 11 games covering 10 years The battlefield History, it is impossible to play on the main PC platforms. The situation will probably not improve. WITH EA Sale 55 billion dollars to private investorsIt is unlikely that everything will change. The new owners want to make a profit, and this, of course, is not from supporting the game of 2002, about which millennia, like me, is nostalgic. Therefore, I decided to see if I could at least play one of these lost games.

Battlefield: Vietnam, continuation Battle Field 1942was the closest to find a way to play the origin of the franchise. The game files that I found to install it were on the ZIP file on one of these websites to preserve the game with a long section “How to install” with eight steps to launch the game in Windows 10 or 11. This included the launch of the file. So far you can run Battle Field: Vietnam On a PC, you cannot force him to work on modern PlayStation or Xbox consoles using retro-compatibility, and they are not in packages of collections for digital loading.

It seems the only hope that remained in the salvation of history Battle Field 1942 And playing the game today is the post of the Steam community. He has another compressed file that sets for you a corrected game with a bunch of corrections and updates created by the community. If not for these fans, it would be literally impossible to play the first The battlefield When is it today, if you had not had an original compact -dissection that has survived the test of time since 2002.

And all these fans are actually illegal, because EA still owns the right to the game; He just decided not to sell it anymore. It is unlikely that any company will follow the final user to pirate an abandoned game, but people retain Battle Field 1942 And Battle Field: Vietnam Alive will always be at risk of their distribution. We need bold groups of people to take actions that can cause them problems in order to preserve these games.

Indeed, just stop killing games

This abandonment is not unique for The battlefield And EA, but other companies made efforts to preserve many of their old games. Nintendo has produced digital loads for its largest retro shits on its new consoles since WII. Other developers release packages with their old names, such as Konami Caslivania Collections and Sega's Sonic OriginsFeature, they could simply leave gaming servers working with rare updates, such as Valve, with the old Countertop Games

It is a pity that it is so easy for gaming companies to erase the history of their own franchises. Battle Field 1942 Out of modern standards, but he holds the key to what made the players fall in love with the series, and that made him survive for more than two decades. Preservation of the game also respects the memories of the players and the origin of the gaming design, which made the game grow to the point that it is today.