This is really a great game. I'm shocked at how promising the balance and pacing of it is.
I've been looking for my RA2/YR disks so that I can have an RA2 LAN before RA3 comes out! Of course, I remember I had to fight RA2 to get it to run on XP, let alone the Vista x64 that I'm on now. D:
Red Alert 1 was also one of my favorite RTS games. It wasn't too whacky, like the RA franchise is now, but it also wasn't too close to just plain modern combat.