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Hi guys big question I have old games on this computer at my parents and i am trying to get them on my new pc how can i transfer them?

Depending on the games, it may or may not work.

Get a USB flash drive (and make sure it's big enough for your games) and follow the directions here: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/104/~/transferring-files-onto-a-usb-flash-drive

That will get you the files themselves. A lot of times games need registry entries and system files to work that only get dumped where ever they need to be during installation. If that's the case, you're pretty much stuck. Civ 4 comes to mind.

There ARE ways to get it done, but I could probably not explain them in a way that would not only result in causing more confusion.

Honestly unless you know what you are doing I would say the only way to do this is to reinstall everything. I tried this once and it was a big headache.

Especially with games that require the CD in the drive to play. If you simply transfer the files without reinstalling then it won't have the proper triggers.

damnit it is battle march "the game i am trying to move

That's like 5 years old, right? Yeah. Good luck with that.

You could probably move a DOS game my way. I have some Win 95 era RPGs I've been afraid to lose and I've been migrating them from computer to computer since, well, my Win 95 computer millions of years ago.

You're not going to be able to just drag and drop something like that and expect it to work though.

Is the old computer still used?

If not, life might be easier for you to just buy yourself an external hard drive caddy and USB it into your newer one.

Would that work for games, though?

Functionally, I don't see any way that would wind up with an outcome different from my initial suggestion. The Operating System is "effectively" the magic here he needs.

If his new computer had an identical CPU and motherboard to the old computer, he might be able to just make a bit for bit clone of the hard drive using Clonezilla and plugging in the hard drive he made the copy of. I can almost guarantee that's not the case though.

Alternatively, he could also use something like the VMWare disk virtualization tool, but the performance of running the game in a vm would be so bad it wouldn't be worth the time and effort, if the game would even run at all.

I generally just hold my two electronics up against each other and drunkenly bellow at them until they do what I want.

Works most of the time.