Seventeen years ago the very first Command & Conquer game was released. Since then there have been a number of games released in this series. If you purchased each of these games as they came out, then most likely you cannot play them on your current generation computer, especially if you try to play them over a network. Well EA has done us all a favor. Not only have they updated the games for Windows 7 / Windows Vista, but they have bound them all together in the Command & Conquer The Ultimate Collection. This collection includes the following series and games: