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[Guybrush Threepwood]

I just discovered DOSBox and I'm in the mood to play some classic DOS games that I haven't played in many years or haven't played at all.

I'm open to all suggestions.

 

[Deleted member 30609]

the first thing that came to mind is Monkey Island.

...sorry I can't be of more help.

 

[CoG]

Ultima Underworld 1 & 2

 

[Zapperkhan]

Zany Golf!

 

[Conrad Link]

Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion.

 

[nubbe]

Loom, Day of the tentacle, Fate of atlantis, The Dig, Wing Commander 1-6, Xwing, Tie Fighter, X-Wing Alliance, Dark Forces I-II, Ultima games, Privateer 1-2, System Shock, Theme Park, Doom, Quake, Free Space, Sherlock Holmes, Risse of the Traid, Command and Conqure games, Cannon Fodder 1-2, Dungeon Keeper, Populus, Alone in the Dark, Falcon 4.0, Dagger Fall, Hardware, Frontier, Full Throttle. Baulders Gate 1-2, Grim Fandango, Capitalisim, Settlers games, Blade Runner, Unreal, Gabriel Knights, Police Quest... and stuff

 

[Alex Connolly]

Nothing has captured the feeling of the first book better than the original Cryo Dune game.

 

[Dobkeratops]

UFO: Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep.

 

[nestea]

Maniac Mansion, Commander Keen, Railroad Tycoon and Scorched Earth.

 

[NaughtyCalibur]

Scorched Earth and Commander Keen are all that come to mind. I remember wasting so much time on Scorched Earth back when I was in Jr. High. It's such a great time waster.

 

[Zhuk]

Wing Commander: Privateer

 

[Visualante]

Sokoban

 

[Animal]

Terminal Velocity.

 

[Grimmy]

In my recent best WRPG list:

Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Betrayal at Krondor
Eye of the Beholder II
Ultima Underworld

My adventure games list:

The Colonel's Bequest
The Conquest of the Longbow
Gold Rush!
King's Quest VI
Quest for Glory series

 

[Zhuk]

Terminal Velocity.

I got this for my 9th birthday present, and I played it for years after, even experiencing it on LAN. A true classic!

 

[Link1110]

Space Quest 1-6
King's Quest 1-6
Full Throttle
Day of the Tentacle

 

[Animal]

I got this for my 9th birthday present, and I played it for years after, even experiencing it on LAN. A true classic!

I hear ya brother. My childhood is full of good memories of playing Terminal Velocity with friends over LAN.

 

[Ridli]

X-Com! (Also known as UFO: Enemy Unknown)

Even after playing the sequels I still come back to this fine example of turn based strategy. The melding of base-building and resource management game with a fine strategy game is great by itself - but the setting of a futuristic world* fighting off alien invaders makes this a DOS-era classic. It's also easily available on Steam (with the dosbox tweaks made for you) for about 5 dollars.

*Futuristic world actually set 10 years in the past.

 

[Lionheart]

Theme Park!

*Insert endless puking sounds*

 

[DieH@rd]

Redneck Rampage

 

[camineet]

This was THE game that got me into PC gaming in the early-mid 1990s:

 

[Danne-Danger]

Tyrian

 

[Zhuk]

This was THE game that got me into PC gaming in the early-mid 1990s:

Strike Commander[/QUOTE]

Another classic game that blew me away when I first played it, made by the same guys who did Wing Commander and Privateer. Great graphics, great gameplay and some 'adult' themes thrown into the storyline to boot:lol

 

[Rolf NB]

Another day, another Dungeon Master thread.

 

[kmfdmpig]

Master of Magic

 

[Templar Wizard]

Everything by Origin, especially BioForge

 

[camineet]

Another classic game that blew me away when I first played it, made by the same guys who did Wing Commander and Privateer. Great graphics, great gameplay and some 'adult' themes thrown into the storyline to boot:lol

Strike Commander basicly demanded you have 486 to play it smoothly even though a 386 was the min requirement IIRC. I didn't own a PC back in 1993-1994 but my best friend had a 486 DX 66 MHz, and I bought him this game for his birthday, he really liked it

I never played Privateer but now I think im gonna try to get into it.

 

[Funky Papa]

Terminal Velocity.

Boy, the world really needs another Descent resurgence. I know I am ready.

As for the suggestions, frankly, the DOS era was truly golden. I mean, I had a ball with my friend's consoles at the time, but there wasn't a single week without a heavy hitter coming to the PC. It was surreal.

Here are some ideas. The bolded ones shouldn't be missed under any circumstances:

• Doom series
  Duke Nukem 3D
  Rise of the Triad (aged, but still enjoyable)
  Blood (FUCKING AWESOME terror/gothic first person shooter)
  Realms of the Haunting (first person adventure with some action, hard to find)
  I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (disturbing adventure with a Harlan Ellison script, based on the novel of the same name)
  Dark Seed (another disturbing graphical adventure, this one with graphics by no other than HR Giger)
  Raptor (space shooter, very enjoyable)
  Command & Conquer (reinstalled and played religiously every year)
  Dune 2 (strategy, worth of it just for the Sound Blaster Pro music alone)
  The first two X-Com/UFO games
  ANY Lucas Arts game (Monkey Island series, Full Throtle, Sam & Max, Loom, Indy series, X-Wing/Tie Fighter sims... shit, just point your finger, they were all fucking awesome)
  SYNDICATE. Repeat with me: SYNDICATE.
  Out of this World
  Gabriel Knight series (adventure)
  Larry series, from 1 to Love for Sail (adventure)
  Wing Commander IV
  Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret (3rd person action)
  Z (fast tactical strategy game by the Bitmap Bros, super fun)

And those just from the top of my head.

 

[Teasel]

anything by bullfrog duh
also x-com:terror from the deep

 

[CiSTM]

Boy, the world really needs another Descent resurgence. I know I am ready.

As for the suggestions, frankly, the DOS era was truly golden. I mean, I had a ball with my friend's consoles at the time, but there wasn't a single week without a heavy hitter coming to the PC. It was surreal.

Here are some ideas. The bolded ones shouldn't be missed under any circumstances:

• Doom series
  Duke Nukem 3D
  Rise of the Triad (aged, but still enjoyable)
  Blood (FUCKING AWESOME terror/gothic first person shooter)
  Realms of the Haunting (first person adventure with some action, hard to find)
  I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (disturbing adventure with a Harlan Ellison script, based on the novel of the same name)
  Dark Seed (another disturbing graphical adventure, this one with graphics by no other than HR Giger)
  Raptor (space shooter, very enjoyable)
  Command & Conquer (reinstalled and played religiously every year)
  Dune 2 (strategy, worth of it just for the Sound Blaster Pro music alone)
  The first two X-Com/UFO games
  ANY Lucas Arts game (Monkey Island series, Full Throtle, Sam & Max, Loom, Indy series, X-Wing/Tie Fighter sims... shit, just point your finger, they were all fucking awesome)
  SYNDICATE. Repeat with me: SYNDICATE.
  Out of this World
  Gabriel Knight series (adventure)
  Larry series, from 1 to Love for Sail (adventure)
  Wing Commander IV
  Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret (3rd person action)
  Z (fast tactical strategy game by the Bitmap Bros, super fun)

And those just from the top of my head.

Listen to this man ! That list is full of awesomenss. I will add orginal Warcraft, Crusader No Remorse, Master of Orion II and Star Control II to that list.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Civilization 1

 

[Funky Papa]

Listen to this man ! That list is full of awesomenss. I will add orginal Warcraft, Crusader No Remorse, Master of Orion II and Star Control II to that list.

I can't believe I forgot those (well, actually I ninja-edited Crusader into the post after hitting the submit button).

 

[ViperVisor]

Indy 500

 

[Monkeylord]

 

[goldsoundz]

anything by bullfrog duh

I LOVE(D) Bullfrog! I actually got another copy of Theme Park for PC last year on Goozex, but I can't get it to work.

 

[CiSTM]

I can't believe I forgot those (well, actually I ninja-edited Crusader into the post after hitting the submit button).

There is so many great dos games out there that you will always miss something :lol

 

[Bluemercury]

Boy, the world really needs another Descent resurgence. I know I am ready.

As for the suggestions, frankly, the DOS era was truly golden. I mean, I had a ball with my friend's consoles at the time, but there wasn't a single week without a heavy hitter coming to the PC. It was surreal.

Here are some ideas. The bolded ones shouldn't be missed under any circumstances:

• Doom series
  Duke Nukem 3D
  Rise of the Triad (aged, but still enjoyable)
  Blood (FUCKING AWESOME terror/gothic first person shooter)
  Realms of the Haunting (first person adventure with some action, hard to find)
  I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (disturbing adventure with a Harlan Ellison script, based on the novel of the same name)
  Dark Seed (another disturbing graphical adventure, this one with graphics by no other than HR Giger)
  Raptor (space shooter, very enjoyable)
  Command & Conquer (reinstalled and played religiously every year)
  Dune 2 (strategy, worth of it just for the Sound Blaster Pro music alone)
  The first two X-Com/UFO games
  ANY Lucas Arts game (Monkey Island series, Full Throtle, Sam & Max, Loom, Indy series, X-Wing/Tie Fighter sims... shit, just point your finger, they were all fucking awesome)
  SYNDICATE. Repeat with me: SYNDICATE.
  Out of this World
  Gabriel Knight series (adventure)
  Larry series, from 1 to Love for Sail (adventure)
  Wing Commander IV
  Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret (3rd person action)
  Z (fast tactical strategy game by the Bitmap Bros, super fun)

And those just from the top of my head.

Add these:

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
Cruise for a Corpse
Quest for Glory seires
Police Quest Series
Larry series
countdown
mean streets
....

 

[Gattsu25]

Crystal Caves
Download (Demo)

Enter an underground world of treasures and traps. This colorful EGA game (VGA compatible) rivals any commercial game with its arcade quality, puzzles and graphics. As Mylo Steamwitz, you'll enter cave after cave of adventure, gathering the treasures of each, while evading hazards galore! This game features the smoothest animated graphics ever seen in an Apogee game.

*Character is upside down in second pic.


I loved this game, as a kid.

 

[M.J. Doja]

Full Thrattle was a cool game.

Command and Conquer had the BEST soundtrack for the mid-90s

 

[Dead Man]

Eye of the Beholder was a great proto WRPG. First person, pseudo 3d, turn based. Kickass.

 

[Funky Papa]

Add these:

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
Cruise for a Corpse
Quest for Glory seires
Police Quest Series
Larry series
countdown
mean streets
....

Absolutely. Also, Under a Killing Moon, Lost Eden, Beneath a Steel Sky, The Lost Vikings, and the Discworld and Alone in the Dark series.

Crap, I could be here all day.

 

[blu]

another fuckin' world (AKA out of this world), or for that matter anything from delphine software (flashback, etc).

little big adventure, and anything from adeline software

anything from bitmap brothers (lots of amiga/atari st makeovers)
anything from lucas arts (star wars fighter series, quests, etc)

anything from westwood (mainly quests, but also the landmark dune2)

alone in the dark, the original, and the only truly good one. infogrames.

retaliator (a fighter sim), or anything from ocean (really diverse catalogue) for that matter.

stellar 7, and many other from dynamix.

LHX, when EA actually used to make good games.

TFX - the fighter sim that made me say 'wow' for the first time, developed by DID, published by ocean.

privateer - elite's genome on the pc.

 

[CiSTM]

Some must play FPS games.

Hexen

System Shock

Shadow Warrior

Dark Forces

More blizzard love

Black Thorne

I really loved black thorne when I was kid so awesome game.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Note that virtually all the games suggested in this thread are still available for sale somewhere.

 

[Funky Papa]

Dark Forces was, and still is, the only Star Wars action game that matters.

alone in the dark, the original, and the only truly good one. infogrames.

The first two sequels were pretty good. After that, tough...

Note that virtually all the games suggested in this thread are still available for sale somewhere.

And some of them are actually offered as freeware (I <3 Revolution Software).

 

[rpmurphy]

 

[HowardRoark]

Terminal Velocity.

THIS. Loved that game, played it to death.

 

[nincompoop]

Hell yeah, the PC was the REAL king of 16 bit platformers! Check out Commander Keen 4-6 and Duke Nukem 1 and 2, for starters.

 

[Prime crotch]

So long Titus, you were loved.

 

[Ifrit]

Terminal Velocity.

I loved that game, never got to play the full version though.

:lol Episode three is called The Man God