Will video games work on my netbook?

[sonjeriff]

I recently bought a disk drive for my Acer Eee PC with Intel Atom processor. I wanted to buy some games like Orange box to play on it, 1: is windows 7 too new to play a game from like 2000 on? and 2: will my netbook be able to handle the graphics?
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[Joe Forster/STA]

Laptops are known to contain video cards that compromise higher performance for lower power consumption so you won't be able to play very modern games on it. See the system requirements of games...

[kokousic]

With atom processor no modern games will run.