Most modern PCs, especially laptops and mini-desktops, no longer come with CD/DVD-ROM drives. If you dug up your original jewel case from 2002 but have no hardware to read it, the game will obviously cry out for the disc.
It was the final boss of the Prehistoric Age. And unlike the game itself, you couldn't cheat your way past it (unless you had the cracked .exe). please insert the empire earth cd
We look back on it with fondness not because it was good design—it was terrible design—but because it was a shared struggle. Every Empire Earth veteran has a story of the time the CD check crashed their game just as they built a nuclear submarine. Most modern PCs, especially laptops and mini-desktops, no