"and there would be earthquakes in unusual places, because the inner earth was being destabilized by having oil taken from the seabed." - Does that mean we destabilize earth by pulling oil from beneath and it will be the end of humanity?
I believe they assumed the system clock would run at a specific rate, and tied in their internal timers to that clock rate. Most of these games probably ran on DOS, and were real mode (with complete, direct hardware access) and assumed you were running a iirc 4.77 MHz system for PCs and whatever ...
And I know this cause I had the same thing happen when I was trying to run crescent hawk's revenge close to a decade ago
"Why an SSD, you ask? Because trying to load Shogun 2 off a hard drive is like trying to eat soup with a fork. " Shogun warrier eat ramen soup, have no problem with fork.