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[Krathoon]

Come one, come all. It is the old DOS games thread.
Blow the dust off your old DOS games and present them here. There may be some rare gems no one have heard about.

Lately, I have been playing Brain Dead 13. It is kind of like Dragon's Lair, but better.
You really have to respond quick when there is a fork in the road.


There are lots of humorous deaths and resurrections.



Here are a bunch of deaths.



Also DOS gaming is where you can play some Dune. Even gog does not have those games.


Also, don't forget about Tex Murphy.

 

[Krathoon]

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

In Search of Dr. Riptide

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[Oberstein]

Yeah, I remember that...

 

[negator2vc]

that's an awesome game

 

[VN1X]

I mainly grew up playing games such as Redcat, Stunts, Prince of Persia, Jazz Jackrabit, Wolfenstein, DOOM, etc. Loved those games.

 

[alucard0712_rus]

Those games are aged better than N64 games.

 

[jshackles]

I spent an ungodly amount of time in my youth playing this game:

 

[negator2vc]

Since most players already know Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and other famous adventure games
how about any unknown gem with character selection similar to RPG (and similar to the far more recent "Unavowed")

Bureau 13

 

[zaanan]

MegaRace

 

[Krathoon]

Don't buy old games on floppies on eBay. Odds are that the disks are bad.

I ran into that with Lemmings 2.

 

[Krathoon]

Since most players already know Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and other famous adventure games
how about any unknown gem with character selection similar to RPG (and similar to the far more recent "Unavowed")

Bureau 13

Ahhh!!! I forgot about that one!

 

[TheMay30thMan]

It doesn’t get any better than this.

 

[negator2vc]

How about 2 of the best examples of adventure/rpg hubrid

Quest for Glory 1


Quest for Glory 4

 

[old-parts]

Cybermage, this one is often forgotten about despite coming from Origin and Warren Spector, its a technological cousin to system shock 1.




Dreamweb another forgotten gem with great art, sound and cool story, full playthrough here worth watching.

 

[Con-Z-epT]

I like Chasm!

 

[Beechos]

Command lines to run games, games that wouldnt run due to not enough ram and installs from 1.44mb disks ahh those earlychildhood days. The horde was one of my favorite. Dont forgot about bbs games like l.o.r.d

 

[Nickolaidas]

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Command lines to run games, games that wouldnt run due to not enough ram and installs from 1.44mb disks ahh those earlychildhood days. Dont forgot about bbs games like l.o.r.d

I still vividly remember getting Sim City 2000 for my birthday and being crushed that it wouldn't run on my 4mb family PC because of available RAM. That night I read basically the entire manual front to back and lo and behold, on a troubleshooting insert there was a little section about making a boot disk if you didn't have enough RAM. Tried that out the moment I woke up the next day and flipped when the game actually loaded up.

I miss old PCs, just getting the games to work was sometimes a game in itself.

 

[stranno]

Worth checking thread: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nice-looking-dos-games.1502653/

My first DOS game ever.

 

[Krathoon]

Yeah. I got Stonekeep on disk. I will have to dig that one out.

 

[jimjonjimmy]

Worth checking thread: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nice-looking-dos-games.1502653/

My first DOS game ever.

I remember that game. We had it on a random computer. Was pretty fun.

 

[Knightime_X]

I downloaded a torrent of about 32gb zipped worth of games.
I'll check them out.
I missed out on many of them.

 

[Krathoon]

There is a thing called eXoDOS. Not that most legal of things, but a way to preserve these old games.

 

[VN1X]

Don't buy old games on floppies on eBay. Odds are that the disks are bad.

I ran into that with Lemmings 2.

You made me realize that Lemmings might be "the GOAT', as the kids like to say these days. That was such an amazing game.

 

[Edgelord79]

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

Great thread

Reminder: archive.org is a great place to find classic DOS games, even tons of long forgotten ones.

And they have Dune 2, which even GOG doesn't have: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dune_2_-_The_Building_of_a_Dynasty_1992

You can download and run any of them in DOSBox just fine (even though it doensn't always show a download button; just use the browser dev tools).

 

[stranno]

Great thread

Reminder: archive.org is a great place to find classic DOS games, even tons of long forgotten ones.

And they have Dune 2, which even GOG doesn't have: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dune_2_-_The_Building_of_a_Dynasty_1992

You can download and run any of them in DOSBox just fine (even though it doensn't always show a download button; just use the browser dev tools).

DOS online playing on Internet Archive is not really practical in some cases. For some weird reason they used the great eXo's collection (the biggest DOS collection on internet), which is a preservation project. So, when you play it online you are actually downloading tons of versions from the game that you are not playing. On Monkey Island 2, for example, you are actually downloading 1.5GB (it includes the CD-ROM versions) to play a 2-4MB disk game.

And even if you don't care about the waste of bandwidth and temporal space, Internet Archive is just slow, so you will be there for some time.

I'm still wondering why they didn't use a more suitable set, they don't even have a fraction of the eXo's collection available.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Installing Command and conquer.

 

[Rockondevil]

Definitely remember a bit of Jazz Jackrabbit, but mostly I played Wolfenstein 3D.
I'm sure neither of those need a video to see them.

 

[sinnergy]

Operation Wolf. Nuff said.

 

[dispensergoinup]

DOS games were my life, so many good times. I had recently a phase where I was just on ebay buying classic boxed games mostly RPGs like the gold box SSR D&D games. Still trying to complete my Ultima set (need 1 and 2)

 

[zaanan]

Space Quest 6

 

[speckz]

Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi (1991)

 

[Krathoon]

It seems like GOG replaced the music on the intro credits to Gabriel Knight.
Here is the original music. Making me think I was going nuts.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Love this thread!!!! Nostalgia Time!!!!

Here is the awesomeness X-wing. .. Great game, very hard game! Amazing and only its sequel really compares.

Might and Magic 4: clouds of xeen, mm5 combined with it to form world of xeen. Was amazing for its time. Spent months on these games. Started with mm3.

My first cd rom game, came with wing commander 2, was the first real 3d game and it still rocks.

Me and friends would smoke some doobs and make tracks and play them, and challenge each other, fun times.

Wing commander 2...enough said.

CD rom battle chess:

The start of the gold box AD&D games, the best until bg1 (even though i really love the turnbased system in this.)

And earlier:


Before getting a 386 with svga/cd rom and hard drive i had a hand me down 8088 with cga and 2 5.1/4 floppies , 256k ram. no hd. 8mhz going back to ancient times.

Some of the only games i had for it back in the 80s:
Cool 3rd person rpg:

Phantasie, what i played as pools wouldn't run on my system, was still a blast.

Manic mansion, played it on the apple iic before too. (which looked better there)

Enough said --

There are a ton others, but here is what came to my head from most played.

 

[lem0n]

My very first exposure to gaming was on a DOS computer, I have such fond memories of it. Commander Keen, Crystal Caves, Lotus Turbo Challenge and some old PGA game... I wish I still had a computer to play them on.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Worth checking thread: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nice-looking-dos-games.1502653/

My first DOS game ever.

Wasn't this gorrillas on Qbasic? Dont think it was native dos, as it was basic running on dos, but maybe there was a dos version. I remember going through the code in school.

 

[stranno]

Wasn't this gorrillas on Qbasic? Dont think it was native dos, as it was basic running on dos, but maybe there was a dos version. I remember going through the code in school.

Yes. I ran it on DOS but it was Qbasic, Gorillas.bas.

 

[Bartski]

so much awesome in this thread. Just wanna say Origin isn't getting enough credit for Bioforge for all the innovation it brought to the table in static cam angle action-adventure before Resident Evil.

 

[bronk]

Treasure Mountain is forever in my heart.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Space Quest 6

That part at 1:29:48 was my favorite scene in the game. When the guard transforms into a piano pro player, I lost my shit.

 

[Bartski]

Dreamweb another forgotten gem with great art, sound and cool story, full playthrough here worth watching.

Incredible game, incredible times.

I learned English as a kid playing all Lucasarts and Sierra point and clicks I could both later on DOS but first on Amiga. Life-altering, on so many levels.

My all-time no.1 gem:

 

[Evil Calvin]

My DOS favorites were:

Civilization 2
Pirates!
Wizardry
7th Guest
Stonekeep
Xcom
Descent
Magic Carpet
Thunderscape
Daggerfall
Myst
Under A Killing Moon and Pandora Directive (Tex Murphy)

 

[RayBoy]

 

[Edgelord79]

 

[existensmaximum]

These are the first ones I remember playing:

 

[Fuz]

I don't remember my first arcade, I don't remember my first C=64 game, I don't remember my first Amiga game.

But I do remember my first PC game, it came with a rented PC for a computer course. It was already installed, I think. I found it by chance by browsing the folder trees.

 

[Stamps1646]

I played this on the Amiga 1000, it one of my favorite games on that PC.