BLAUcopter
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This guy knows what's up. I'd also include Blackthorne by blizzard into this list, oh and Z: Steel Soldiers!
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Plus a lot already mentioned in here. There is so much more but I can spend all day, lol.
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Favourite Old DOS Games? And I mean OLD.
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CrustyBritches
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My dad bought an Amiga 2000 for himself and an Amiga 1000 for us back in '89. Amiga really was the most amazing thing at the time I loved it. The 2000 had a HDD, 2 3.5" floppy drives, and didn't need a Kickstart diskette!1!1 The games were a whole gen ahead of their NES counterparts. Amiga has text-to-speech built into the OS, so games like Earl Weaver Baseball and Discovery used this for a sort of ancient voice acting.
Didn't seem like a big thing in the US at the time, we were the only people I knew that had one. Some choice cuts from Amiga...
#1: Defender of the Crown, Cinemaware:
#2: Earl Weaver Baseball, Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower:
#3: Discovery, Artifactory:
Mostly played on this badboy:
Didn't seem like a big thing in the US at the time, we were the only people I knew that had one. Some choice cuts from Amiga...
#1: Defender of the Crown, Cinemaware:
#2: Earl Weaver Baseball, Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower:
#3: Discovery, Artifactory:
Mostly played on this badboy:
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Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for a significant GOG sale on those for a while. I somehow never played them back in the day despite being very aware of their good reputation.
lefty1117
Gold Member
Of course I should mention The Bard's Tale series ... the original three not that early 2000s arpg. Good time to mention it since the remasters are out now on Steam!
Mangar is back!
Mangar is back!
pramod
Banned
Yeah they are like crack....I actually tried to avoid playing them recently since once you get started the hours will just fly by without you noticing...since it's a very low stress and "casual" type of game...although that doesn't mean it's not difficult to beat.
zombie_gamer87
Member
Blackthorne (1994)
Tyrian 2000 (1999)
Tyrian 2000 (1999)
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Was it isometric?
Mattyp
Gold Member
No but that post did actually jog my memory thinking about it instead, and could find what I was looking for
https://www.dosgames.com/game/crime-fighter/
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Don’t think I ever played that. Adding it to the list!No but that post did actually jog my memory thinking about it instead, and could find what I was looking for
https://www.dosgames.com/game/crime-fighter/
Wolfgang Jr
Banned
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
Gobliiins 3
Budokan
Gobliiins 3
Budokan
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Mr Branding
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Let me mention some of my best gaming memories as a child and post these amazing games which I've played to death:
Tyrian
Vigilance on Talos V
The game that later made me love the Soulcalibur franchise, Battle Arena Toshiden
Rebel Runner
Heroes of Might and Magic
Tyrian
Vigilance on Talos V
The game that later made me love the Soulcalibur franchise, Battle Arena Toshiden
Rebel Runner
Heroes of Might and Magic
GetOffMyLawn
Neo Member
Shadow President (1993)
Destruction Derby 2 (1996)
Destruction Derby 2 (1996)
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Oh yes, Blackthorne was fantastic! I even got the 32X version when it came out a year later.
Shotpun
Member
Dune RTS.
I never could get into Dune 2, even back then the command one unit at a time limitation made it really hard for me to like the game. Warcraft increased the max to four but that still wasn't enough for me, still kinda have a soft spot for the game in my heart. Then came Command & Conquer and blew my socks off.
zombie_gamer87
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Alone in the dark (1992)
Xane
Member
This is my boy!Thank you a lot for mentioning MW2, i played it a lot as a child, my gosh what a game ! Would love a remaster too. I loved using flying bots to destroy things. BTW it was beautiful for the age.
To me, my fav DOS game ever :
DESCENT
I love everything in this game.
I still play Descent to this day.
Makariel
Member
I liked the second one more, even though some of the puzzles are bizarre. The character is just moving like a tank in the first game, minus the firepower.
zombie_gamer87
Member
Pray for Death (1996)
OldBoyGamer
Banned
Carrier command?
OldBoyGamer
Banned
Flight sims like Falcon ruled the roost back in the day.
Has anyone mentioned Geoff Crammond's F1GP? Best of class racing game. To date Codemasters and other top Racing games continue to fail to add the 'suggested gear' assist that is far better than the racing line.
The Star Wats Jedi series were very good. If memory serves k d of them was one of the first FPS doomcones Gay let you look 'up' but they did it using the PgUp and PgDown keys instead of the mouse to look around?
And has no one mentioned the Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dake series?
Has anyone mentioned Geoff Crammond's F1GP? Best of class racing game. To date Codemasters and other top Racing games continue to fail to add the 'suggested gear' assist that is far better than the racing line.
The Star Wats Jedi series were very good. If memory serves k d of them was one of the first FPS doomcones Gay let you look 'up' but they did it using the PgUp and PgDown keys instead of the mouse to look around?
And has no one mentioned the Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dake series?
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Makariel
Member
Just check the first reply on page one
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
I don’t think the Infinity engine games came out on DOS?
amigastar
Member
Falcon still kicks ass today, with the BMS 4.33 Mod
Also Geoff Crammond's F1GP was my first more serious Racing game on the Amiga and made me fall in love with Racing Sims.
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OldBoyGamer
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Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
No big deal. Probably a better loose rule would be computer games pre 1996-1997? That’s around when the DOS to Windows transitioning was happening, I think.Yeh I wasn't sure tbh but people started adding Amiga game so....
Viktorija Levi
Neo Member
Memories Memories .....
Of course Prince of Persia - cant forget the sounds ))) reminds me of my childhood and old PC
Who don't remember Lemmings? Maaannn - loved them
Of course Prince of Persia - cant forget the sounds ))) reminds me of my childhood and old PC
Who don't remember Lemmings? Maaannn - loved them
Lort
Banned
llien
Member
Great thread!
I remember being absolutely blown away by Karateka. I played it endlessly!
Jordan Mechner was doing amazing work at the time.
Unforgettable:
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
I didn't have a PC until Windows 95 was a thing, so never really got to experience the horror of DOS, instead I grew up with an Amstrad CPC464 in about 1987 - taught myself some programming at 7 because I was a weirdo - and an Atari ST in 1989 (was making games in about 92 as I got the hang of STOS) - the latter was a really formative experience for me, an amazing computer that could do so much. Highlights for me:
F19 Stealth Fighter
Midwinter 2
Damocles (Mercenary 2)
F19 Stealth Fighter
Midwinter 2
Damocles (Mercenary 2)
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
Can a mod please delete my previous post as I cocked it up? Thank you
I didn't have a PC until Windows 95 was a thing, so never really got to experience the horror of DOS, instead I grew up with an Amstrad CPC464 in about 1987 - taught myself some programming at 7 because I was a weirdo - and an Atari ST in 1989 (was making games in about 92 as I got the hang of STOS) - the latter was a really formative experience for me, an amazing computer that could do so much. Highlights for me:
Honourable mention for Geoff Crammond's F1GP, which someone else already mentioned - started a long love affair with racing sims (probably also pushed along by the wonderful arcade games that came with my ST, Outrun and Super Hang On), which has led to me getting a VR setup with wheel and pedals to race in Assetto Corsa, iRacing and RFactor 2). Another for Sim City original version. No later version grabbed me in the same way, the pure fucking addiction of that game was amazing.
F19 Stealth Fighter
Flight sims didn't usually do much for me, but this one grabbed my by the bollocks. Brilliantly addictive, the 3D was decent enough, the enemies were dumb enough to have some fun with and the between-mission screens were beautifully drawn and animated. The huge box, the enormous manual which contained so much extra information that you didn't really need but added wonderful flavour to it.. I miss those days.
Midwinter 2
Another amazing Microprose classic. Another huge box, another wonderful manual, a silly mini novel, brilliant 3D though I now find the controls more or less unworkable and can't quite fathom how 11-year-old me played the game, that trademark Microprose gorgeous pixel art between missions, complex missions in an open world where you could go anywhere and do anything. Such an incredible game.
Damocles (Mercenary 2)
Occupies a similar place in my heart to Midwinter 2, albeit this is a little earlier, and a little more British. The ship's computer was hilarious, the references to Maggie Thatcher thoroughly on point, a whole solar system to explore where you could do anything you wanted, even after the comet hit the planet and in theory you'd failed. Stunning game.
Operation Stealth
The first adventure game to really grab me, a wonderful rip off of James Bond films, with all the tropes, gorgeous to look at and while suffering some dodgy translations (it was a French game by Delphine who would go on to make Cruise For A Corpse [a game I wanted to love but could never get into], Another World and Flashback, and who had previously made Future Wars).
Nebulus (aka Tower Toppler)
Came with my Atari ST and it was an absolute bastard. Seriously bastard hard. This game caused me no end of ballache.
Mad Professor Mariarti
I spent hours on this as a kid, puzzling through the 5 levels of weirdness. Tbh the collision detection was utter shite, there was no scrolling (it was flip-screen) but there was some inescapable charm.
I didn't have a PC until Windows 95 was a thing, so never really got to experience the horror of DOS, instead I grew up with an Amstrad CPC464 in about 1987 - taught myself some programming at 7 because I was a weirdo - and an Atari ST in 1989 (was making games in about 92 as I got the hang of STOS) - the latter was a really formative experience for me, an amazing computer that could do so much. Highlights for me:
Honourable mention for Geoff Crammond's F1GP, which someone else already mentioned - started a long love affair with racing sims (probably also pushed along by the wonderful arcade games that came with my ST, Outrun and Super Hang On), which has led to me getting a VR setup with wheel and pedals to race in Assetto Corsa, iRacing and RFactor 2). Another for Sim City original version. No later version grabbed me in the same way, the pure fucking addiction of that game was amazing.
F19 Stealth Fighter
Flight sims didn't usually do much for me, but this one grabbed my by the bollocks. Brilliantly addictive, the 3D was decent enough, the enemies were dumb enough to have some fun with and the between-mission screens were beautifully drawn and animated. The huge box, the enormous manual which contained so much extra information that you didn't really need but added wonderful flavour to it.. I miss those days.
Midwinter 2
Another amazing Microprose classic. Another huge box, another wonderful manual, a silly mini novel, brilliant 3D though I now find the controls more or less unworkable and can't quite fathom how 11-year-old me played the game, that trademark Microprose gorgeous pixel art between missions, complex missions in an open world where you could go anywhere and do anything. Such an incredible game.
Damocles (Mercenary 2)
Occupies a similar place in my heart to Midwinter 2, albeit this is a little earlier, and a little more British. The ship's computer was hilarious, the references to Maggie Thatcher thoroughly on point, a whole solar system to explore where you could do anything you wanted, even after the comet hit the planet and in theory you'd failed. Stunning game.
Operation Stealth
The first adventure game to really grab me, a wonderful rip off of James Bond films, with all the tropes, gorgeous to look at and while suffering some dodgy translations (it was a French game by Delphine who would go on to make Cruise For A Corpse [a game I wanted to love but could never get into], Another World and Flashback, and who had previously made Future Wars).
Nebulus (aka Tower Toppler)
Came with my Atari ST and it was an absolute bastard. Seriously bastard hard. This game caused me no end of ballache.
Mad Professor Mariarti
I spent hours on this as a kid, puzzling through the 5 levels of weirdness. Tbh the collision detection was utter shite, there was no scrolling (it was flip-screen) but there was some inescapable charm.
Lort
Banned
Koala Driving a Ferrari
Member
I guess that this thread is a good place to post this...
I've just started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 for the first time and I think it's absolutely brilliant. And now I'm totally in the mood a good Star Trek game.
It got me wondering whether the DOS Star Trek titles are worth jumping into. Specifically:
Any thoughts or opinions on them? I was a kid when they came out but I always picked up the boxes for them longingly whenever I was at a store or game shop. I always wanted them but I never ended up getting a chance to experience them during in the era.
Should I hunt down a copy on eBay for my retro rig?
I've just started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 for the first time and I think it's absolutely brilliant. And now I'm totally in the mood a good Star Trek game.
It got me wondering whether the DOS Star Trek titles are worth jumping into. Specifically:
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Star Trek Judgement Rites
Any thoughts or opinions on them? I was a kid when they came out but I always picked up the boxes for them longingly whenever I was at a store or game shop. I always wanted them but I never ended up getting a chance to experience them during in the era.
Should I hunt down a copy on eBay for my retro rig?
I'm new be nice
Member
Lamborghini is kinda my quintessential DOS game. I remember buying the Floppy and being so disappointed that our computer couldn't run it (may have been a bug, may have been specs, I was too young to know). So when we got a new computer I was so thrilled that it worked.
It's actually not THAT great... I could only really make it 3 races in. The main thing that I always thought was neat was that it had a whole Cop system in it, which was long before Need for Speed and the like. Really gave you a good rush when you're a kid.
"I'm breakin the laaaaw!!".
Games available in-browser here: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/lamborghini-american-challenge-2nc/play-2nc
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Shotpun
Member
I guess that this thread is a good place to post this...
I've just started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 for the first time and I think it's absolutely brilliant. And now I'm totally in the mood a good Star Trek game.
It got me wondering whether the DOS Star Trek titles are worth jumping into. Specifically:
Star Trek 25th Anniversary Star Trek Judgement Rites
Any thoughts or opinions on them? I was a kid when they came out but I always picked up the boxes for them longingly whenever I was at a store or game shop. I always wanted them but I never ended up getting a chance to experience them during in the era.
Should I hunt down a copy on eBay for my retro rig?
Both of them are at GOG.com and according to this compatibility sheet they got at vogons both come with images of the original CD versions, so you don't necessarily need to go hunting them unless you like to have the physical copies.
Can't say much about the games as I haven't played them, I did once watch a full playthrough of 25th anniversary out of curiosity and it seemed to be very faithful to the original series so if you like that I'd imagine you will also like the games.
zombie_gamer87
Member
Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion (1991)
RobotXTaisen
Member
Oooh very nice, I remember playing an old demo of Destruction Derby on my first PC!Shadow President (1993)
Destruction Derby 2 (1996)
It was on those weird looking CD compilations full of demos, budget games and wallpapers, common at time in my country
the memories, aww
Nymphae
Banned
CROSS COUNTRY CANADA
https://classicreload.com/crosscountry-canada.html
We used to play the shit out of this game in school, trying to break the game systems in any way we could. We would put chains on our tires in the summer, speed everywhere, and swear like truckers at every command prompt.
There were legends of people who had come across hitchhikers on the road, who were then killed by said vagrant on route to the destination.
https://classicreload.com/crosscountry-canada.html
We used to play the shit out of this game in school, trying to break the game systems in any way we could. We would put chains on our tires in the summer, speed everywhere, and swear like truckers at every command prompt.
There were legends of people who had come across hitchhikers on the road, who were then killed by said vagrant on route to the destination.
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TFGB
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I wasn’t a DOS gamer (I’ve never been a PC gamer) as I was a ZX80/ZX81/48/128 Speccy kid from 1980 onwards ...but not sure about posting Speccy games in here? :/
In ‘86 I was given an Atari ST (and subsequently saved up for an Atari ST Mega 4 primarily for Cubase & music production), and I did play a few games on it that I beilieve were also available on MS DOS - mainly:
Starglider (1986), by Rainbird Software which was the sister company of the successful Firebird Software, both created and owned by British Telecom. A quality product throughout (even the packaging) and the digitised speech and music helped to set a benchmark at that time in pretty much every aspect of game design and execution:
The Pawn (1986), originally developed by Magnetic Scrolls as a text-only adventure in 1985 and published by Sinclair Research for the Sinclair QL, Rainbird software once again came up trumps when they re-released it a year later for the ST & Amiga (and many other platforms including MS-DOS) with beautiful pixel-based graphics, the likes of which were a rarity in those days. It featured a complex parser system which also felt incredibly intelligent at the time and was used on later Magnetic Scrolls adventures such as The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter.
Rocket Ranger (1988), a Cinemaware game that holds a dear place in my heart. I didn't have the ST version of the game, but I was always bunking off school with my best mate at the time and going round to his gaf to play this on his Amiga. I just remember the game being extremely atmospheric, and I can't forget the codewheel that came with the game which was a rudimentary form of copy protection.
Speedball (1988), a Bitmap Brothers classic with music by the genius David Whittaker. I spent hours on this game even though I was pretty crap at it, but it was immense fun at the time.
In ‘86 I was given an Atari ST (and subsequently saved up for an Atari ST Mega 4 primarily for Cubase & music production), and I did play a few games on it that I beilieve were also available on MS DOS - mainly:
Starglider (1986), by Rainbird Software which was the sister company of the successful Firebird Software, both created and owned by British Telecom. A quality product throughout (even the packaging) and the digitised speech and music helped to set a benchmark at that time in pretty much every aspect of game design and execution:
The Pawn (1986), originally developed by Magnetic Scrolls as a text-only adventure in 1985 and published by Sinclair Research for the Sinclair QL, Rainbird software once again came up trumps when they re-released it a year later for the ST & Amiga (and many other platforms including MS-DOS) with beautiful pixel-based graphics, the likes of which were a rarity in those days. It featured a complex parser system which also felt incredibly intelligent at the time and was used on later Magnetic Scrolls adventures such as The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter.
Rocket Ranger (1988), a Cinemaware game that holds a dear place in my heart. I didn't have the ST version of the game, but I was always bunking off school with my best mate at the time and going round to his gaf to play this on his Amiga. I just remember the game being extremely atmospheric, and I can't forget the codewheel that came with the game which was a rudimentary form of copy protection.
Speedball (1988), a Bitmap Brothers classic with music by the genius David Whittaker. I spent hours on this game even though I was pretty crap at it, but it was immense fun at the time.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
I wasn’t a DOS gamer (I’ve never been a PC gamer) as I was a ZX80/ZX81/48/128 Speccy kid from 1980 onwards ...but not sure about posting Speccy games in here? :/
In ‘86 I was given an Atari ST (and subsequently saved up for an Atari ST Mega 4 primarily for Cubase & music production), and I did play a few games on it that I beilieve were also available on MS DOS - mainly:
Starglider (1986), by Rainbird Software which was the sister company of the successful Firebird Software, both created and owned by British Telecom. A quality product throughout (even the packaging) and the digitised speech and music helped to set a benchmark at that time in pretty much every aspect of game design and execution:
The Pawn (1986), originally developed by Magnetic Scrolls as a text-only adventure in 1985 and published by Sinclair Research for the Sinclair QL, Rainbird software once again came up trumps when they re-released it a year later for the ST & Amiga (and many other platforms including MS-DOS) with beautiful pixel-based graphics, the likes of which were a rarity in those days. It featured a complex parser system which also felt incredibly intelligent at the time and was used on later Magnetic Scrolls adventures such as The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter.
Rocket Ranger (1988), a Cinemaware game that holds a dear place in my heart. I didn't have the ST version of the game, but I was always bunking off school with my best mate at the time and going round to his gaf to play this on his Amiga. I just remember the game being extremely atmospheric, and I can't forget the codewheel that came with the game which was a rudimentary form of copy protection.
Speedball (1988), a Bitmap Brothers classic with music by the genius David Whittaker. I spent hours on this game even though I was pretty crap at it, but it was immense fun at the time.
Yeah, Speccy games are fine. The more, the merrier.
Man, those games look interesting, I’ll have to look into them. I was ADDICTED to Speedball 2 on the Amiga back in the day.
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
Damn how could I forget Speedball? I only played Speedball 2 but it was absolutely brilliant, I still to this day play it on an emulator once in a while, it's STILL good.
Also forgot this absolute classic..
Mega Lo Mania
Simple RTS of sorts I guess.. you breed men, send them down the mines, and once they've mined resources you research and build weapons to fight your enemies. The sound was what really did it for me, in much the same way as Stronghold did when I discovered it about a decade after it came out (your people loathe you sire). The highlight for me is probably 'ergonomically terrific' and 'we're running out of elements' which I insisted on misinterpreting as running out of elephants. Much funnier that way in my mind. Only had an ST format demo disk as a kid but played it years later on an emulator and absolutely loved it.
Also forgot this absolute classic..
Mega Lo Mania
Simple RTS of sorts I guess.. you breed men, send them down the mines, and once they've mined resources you research and build weapons to fight your enemies. The sound was what really did it for me, in much the same way as Stronghold did when I discovered it about a decade after it came out (your people loathe you sire). The highlight for me is probably 'ergonomically terrific' and 'we're running out of elements' which I insisted on misinterpreting as running out of elephants. Much funnier that way in my mind. Only had an ST format demo disk as a kid but played it years later on an emulator and absolutely loved it.
On a friend's 286 with Hercules card in glorious black and white. Look at that monochrome monster:Anyone here played Alley Cat?
?
(there are smaller clones and I don't really know what was in his computer)
Also from that time: California games
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a multicultural team of v
Member
I think an interesting complementary thread to this one would be for Windows 3.1 games. That platform usually seems ignored in retro discussions, I guess because the library was't huge.
But it did have Castle of the Winds so.....
But it did have Castle of the Winds so.....