"Games that don't work"... that doesn't count games I can't beat, does it? ; )

I think I have only one, and that's since been solved with a recently updated executable: gOg's original release of Space Rangers 2: Dominators.

Oh, the second Red Baron game for me won't play sound, but I haven't been bothered to look for a solution. That's on my get-to-it-eventually list, once I get tired of Mount & Blade Warband about three decades from now.

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In other words, none that I've tried playing so far. If 8 for some reason doesn't like a particular game, I just start up the XP VM.

EDIT: I complete a game's campaign, delete it from my list, and forget that it ever existed. The only games I have on my second HDD are Blizzard's games and Legend of Grimrock, as I'm always playing the first ones, and going to be modding LoG so I want the game to be packaged together with the mod.

Plain Sight: it always crashes whenever I want to start a game, single player, multi player, and even the tutorial. What's worse the damn thing wouldn't uninstall and it wouldn't let me delete some of its files unless I used an unlocking program.

Stubbs the zombie will not work on newer computers

So far this is the only game (out of over 300) I have that just wont work - because of my ATI graphics card. I was stupid when I bought it and didn't read the requirements.

Of course I have a massive backlog that haven't been played through - so many have only been superficially tested.

GamersGate is extremely easy for amateur developers to get onto..still not as easy as Indievania but you should look up the 'Save The World Game' they let on there last month.

I get a lot from Gate but I try to be extremely careful with what I buy from them and I also realize that some purchases are going to require external and unorthodox means to get them working - For instance a couple of the titles on GG - The publisher bought rights to resell the game, knew how to properly rip the games from their original CDs but did not know how to crack the physical CD dependency DRM.

Obvious solution is a quick Googling for the game's nocd fix / patch but Gate can't legally suggest that.
Bloodlines VS ATI = Sad times. Once I went nVidia I no longer had issues.

Would also suggest using older graphics card drivers if using an older graphics card instead of the most up to date ones.
Yeah, but you're a programmer - you just recode the broken ones. =P
It works for me but it's online only and requires other humans to play....if no one else is playing, there's no reason to install it anyway. XD
I can get it to run pretty well but I"m using a single core processor teamed with XP and a nVidia graphics card.

The only game that I can think of that didn't run on my (newish) gaming PC was Puzzle Agent... which came as an unpleasant surprise.
Apparently it does not like nVidia GTX460 graphics cards.

And strangely enough none of this is mentioned on the Steam store page... even though it seems to be a common issue with people who own this card.
Luckily, it runs fine on my old MacBook.

SWAT 4 Gold because GameFly killed the activation server. The only thing even more pathetic than that is that they now generate new serial keys for it; but you can't use those keys either.

Other than that, I don't have a single game that doesn't work on any of my OSes, because I've simply gotten refunds for the few others that never did work at all.

This is bad, Stubbs is actually a pretty good game. At least it's different than anything else in the market. I played it a very long time ago when i had an ATi X1600Pro.

This is very weird. Stubbs uses Halo's engine, and if i recall correctly Halo does work on modern PCs.

So far the only digital game i couldn't get working was Beyond Good and Evil. GOG's version didn't and even retail didn't work. I searched online for a fix, but i didn't try too hard to get it running because i just bought the HD version on PS3 instead.

Most of the time i do anything possible to get a game working. I hate when things don't work, and i take it as a challenge. Heck, i spent 2 days setting Virtual Machines to get Meat Puppet working on my PC (this was for the physical version, though, there is no digital for this one). And that game sucks, i had more fun getting it to work than playing it.