{"id":1364,"date":"2007-10-12T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2007-11-03T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T12:56:28","slug":"free-game-command-conquer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Free Game: Command &#038; Conquer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 12th anniversary of Command &#038; Conquer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commandandconquer.com\/intel\/default.aspx?id=61#NewsMain\">the original game is now available as a free download<\/a>.  You&#8217;ll need some CD burning software (like Nero) as the game is available as two ISO files, each of which contains one of the game&#8217;s original CD&#8217;s.  Just burn the images to two CD&#8217;s, apply the patch (to make the Win 95 based game work on XP) and enjoy.  <\/p>\n<p>I never got into Command &#038; Conquer.  Nothing against the franchise, I just never got around to trying it.  I&#8217;m not a big RTS guy to begin with, so this isn&#8217;t much of a surprise.  Having said that, this game was huge in its day.  If you ever wanted to see what you missed, now would be a good time.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commandandconquer.com\/intel\/default.aspx?id=61#NewsMain\">Get the original Command &#038; Conquer here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/time-to-freely-command-conquer.html\">the Rampant Coyote <\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 12th anniversary of Command &#038; Conquer, the original game is now available as a free download. You&#8217;ll need some CD burning software (like Nero) as the game is available as two ISO files, each of which contains one of the game&#8217;s original CD&#8217;s. Just burn the images to two CD&#8217;s, apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-free-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}