9 More Amazing Video Games (You Can’t Actually Play Anymore)

5. Battlefield 1942

Even though Battlefield is a household name now, it took a good while before the series reached Call of Duty levels of popularity. Before Bad Company introduced console players to the shooter series properly, DICE's brainchild dominated the PC space, giving players an all-out-war experience unlike anything else.

It was Battlefield 1942 that really first highlighted just what the series was capable of though. Launching in 2002, the WW2 shooter took conflicts from across that period and used them as the background for huge multiplayer battles between 64 soldiers.

In a lot of ways, it was essentially the same game that DICE are still making today, and that led to a huge following at the time, and it even received a console sequel/reimagining years later in Battlefield 1943.

Due to the age of the game and just how much the franchise had progressed since those early days, support for it was stopped after GameSpy - a company which provided matchmaking middleware for a bunch of big multiplayer titles - closed down.