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I have always wanted to play the Homeworld series of games, but missed them on the computers they were designed for.
Is it possible to play old games like that on a Win7 system?
I want to play No one lives forever 1 & 2 again. It is possible to download a patch for old games to work on win 7. I did that and it worked but i couldn't play much cause the cd's were scratched. You could try and search for a patch for the Homeworld game.
Its normal to like playing old video games. I like to play my Atari and ColecoVision. I also have several dos games on my computer.
As for playing dos on Windows 7, get D-Fend Reloaded, its a dos emulator for win 7. (It includes the dosbox emulator if you prefer to work things from the command line like on an original dos pc.
Make sure its the 64-bit Windows version
(32 bit is for win xp)
I exclusively play old games, with the PS2 being my favorite system by far.
I could be wrong, but it seems like the newer material is mainly about graphical realism. Not really interested.
I prefer the older games. My favories are on super nintendo and playstation 1. I like the really old games too like nes, genesis, atari, intellivision, colecovision, etc. I used to have the biggest collection but sold it years ago because it became a hoarding problem. I often regret selling my old collection. Sometimes when something is gone you miss it the most. I will rebuy my collection on ebay one of these days. I used to find all that stuff in thrift shops and thought i would see them again but its been about 10 years since ive seen the good stuff there. I think they sell anything good on ebay now.
As you deviated from the core of the question, I'm just gonna comment on the title. Yes, it's normal to want to play old video games!
Classic video games are, in general, a lot more relaxing to play; as in a 2D environment there is a lot less going on to focus on. Not only that, but the colours are more stimulating, and the music is usually amazing. Back in the day, the video game design teams were around the same size as they are today, but because the games were simpler, they could afford more time to focus on perfecting the details. They could afford a good composer for the soundtrack and had time to make the games longer.
I think the boom in 2D games for phones is not only nostalgia or due to the capabilities of the phones themselves; it's just what the majority of non-gamers of today would rather play. Many of these games are free and easily accessible, and great ways to kill time, even for people like me who don't normally play video games.
I've never heard of the game you mentioned and I have no idea if it can be run on your system, but I do know that there are ways for any Windows computer to play old DOS classics like Commander Keen, Hocus Pocus, Secret Agent, and Cosmo, just don't ask me how, I know next to nothing about computers.