heroes of might & magic series are prolly excelent games to play with dial up and back in the old days i played starcraft & half life 1 mods with my good 'ol 56k and least starcraft worked perfectly

Then you have "play over email"... You can even do with a homing pigeon, but a dial-up is even greater :)

This goes mainly to turn based strategy games, of course. Reccommended: The Steel Panthers series (freeware).

But If you want other genres, then I guess POEM won't do.

"Police Quest: SWAT 2" don't demand to much I think...It don't look like that kind of game anyway :D

C&C:Renegade
fastest internet games in history of gaming(No lag)

runescape?
you can play the games of redmoon,(knightfight,monstergame,techwarrior,etc)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tulac @ Oct 22 2006, 01:10 AM) [snapback]262756[/snapback]</div>Yep. Starcraft, Warcraft, C&C etc.

Soldat also goes pretty well.

NetStorm: Islands at War. 's abandonware, too.

transports tycoon
OPEN TTD is the new game, try is very fun

If you're looking for something like an MMO, try "The Realm." It used to be made by Sierra but was sold to Codemasters, and I have no idea who owns it now... could still be Codemasters. My dad and I used to play it back in the day when we had two 56k connections, but we finally got bored and moved on one day. That's a $5 a month for playing, though. As far as I know the game is still up and running- I almost started playing again late last year.

Another good one is "Dark Ages". Not the Dark Ages of Camelot, but "Dark Ages," by Nexxon. I think that's $10, but fully playable on dial-up and is really fun if you get into the community aspect of it (you can level up by teaching classes on poetry... I did that once XD)

If you're meaning multiplayer of any type, then just look around- there's plenty of em.

Cheers,

-Fae