Bubatom Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 So, who likes MS-DOS games?! For my age (18) and generation, my interests are a little outdated. I'm into pinball and old PC games. DOS games are very nostalgic for me (even though for the most part they were around before my time). My first computer game was Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle and it is probably still my favourite game. I'm into a great deal of other stuff such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Prince of Persia, Warcraft, Extreme Pinball, Simfarm, The Secret of Monkey Island, The Dig, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, plus many more. A great deal of new games just don't appeal to me and I believe this is what brought me to pinball. So what is your experience with DOS games? What are your favourites? Also, for those interested, I have been doing a fair bit of Commander Keen modding. My current project is "The Ocflore Project" (working title) that can be viewed here: http://www.pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=3022 A demo can be downloaded from here: http://www.pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=3224 Check it out, I'm always open to feedback! Cheers, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason1 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 CD:/windows Windows/Run 20 minutes later windows would start lol as for old Pc games mine would be the ZORK series. thats windows95 days though lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckie1 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I miss my dma and irq conflicts - not ;) Started off with 3.3 and still have vm's with 6.22 & wfw 3.11 :) Still have boxed kq5 on 3.5" Sometimes i miss the simplicity of being able to fix things and not having m$ bsod's [emoji23] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingtipvortex Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Definately Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior and Carmageddon2. I remember playing Carmageddon2 for like 10 hours straight. I couldn't get enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namastepat Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I remember playing Carmageddon 2 at a LAN once. The aircraft carrier level, down to the last 2 cars. Charging at each other head on, going so slowly because both of us were missing wheels and other car components, it was ridiculous :) DOS games for me are the following. Prince of Persia, Jazz Jack Rabbit, Halloween Harry, One Must Fall 2097, Duke Nukem (original and 3d), Doom and Doom II, Zork, King's Quest, Hero's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Wolfenstein 3D, Blake's Seven, Alone in the Dark, Monkey Island (insult sword fighting, so good). Heaps of others, but those are the ones that stick out. However, I have one game from the DOS era that I replay even today, usually once a year or so I crack it out. I consider it to be one of the greatest games ever made for any system. Another World. Hand's down the best memories of gaming that I have as a young lad in primary school. So brutally hard, but so satisfying to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Brad Posted June 3, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 3, 2015 Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Dune 2, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Descent, MechWarrior 2...... Sooooo many games. I remember setting up a LAN at homw with 3 PC's outfitted with network cards and co-ax cable. Having to create a boot-disk to load the drivers and network at boot time before starting a game. What about using Load HI so you could use memory above 640K! I had to retrieve some files from a packed Windows 3 1/2" floppy disk a couple of months ago. I ended up having to grab images of Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1 and run them in Virtual Box. It was a sight to behold seeing DOS boot in about 2 seconds. Issue start win and see Win 3.1 fire up in about 3 seconds. Also you hadn't really played Monkey Island or Another World unless you did it on an Amiga. So much goodness/ Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namastepat Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Oh man, Blood, SO MUCH FUN! Also Rise of the Triad, LUDICROUS GIBS! I also remember lanning on 10mbit cards using coax. We would also be frantically hunting for a network terminator to finish the network :) Oh, and Worms. So much fun playing Worms. I still crack it out on the Dreamcast for my games nights. Many laughs to be had playing that game. There is always one asshole who just girders himself into a corner and waits everyone out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubatom Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Haven't got around to Carmageddon 1 or 2 yet, but both seem to be classics. I love Another World! It sure is a very brutal game, especially on the first playthrough! Bought the 15th Anniversary Edition a while back and it came with a soundtrack used on the Sega version or something? That soundtrack is very atmospheric and complements the game nicely. Atmosphere is something that I place highly in order to experience the most enjoyment out of a game and Another World does this convincingly well. Another highly atmospheric DOS game I would recommend is "The Dig", a point and click adventure by the guys who did Monkey Island (Lucasarts). I have close to no clue about DOS hardware as I played a lot of these games on Windows 98 and more recently Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Brad Posted June 3, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 3, 2015 Yep, I had a network kit in a storage box that was carted everywhere. Full of bits and pieces switch, cables, cards and loads of balens and terminators. Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixthadog Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Leisure Suit Larry :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Loved California games. Also the test drive series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckie1 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 TD2 with the extra cars - did u pass any low flying planes [emoji2] 2400bps modems [emoji106] Bulletin boards [emoji1] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namastepat Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Stunts! Holy shit, Stunts. How could I forget. Man, awesome tracks, awesome 3d graphics, awesome everything. It was the original Track Mania :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingtipvortex Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Stunts! Holy shit, Stunts. How could I forget. Man, awesome tracks, awesome 3d graphics, awesome everything. It was the original Track Mania :) Was that also called Stunt Car Racer? Amiga? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namastepat Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Not sure, I only played it on my old 486SX PC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KclrfaiEHVU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckie1 Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 4d sports driving and 4d sports boxing were cool too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizen Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I'm not finished uploading yet but enjoy tge DOS goodness. http://1drv.ms/1Mnqq5D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batfink Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 oh how i miss the days of just running batch file menu's on bootup and just putting the fav games of the day in there and a few utils. 1. Wing Commander 2. privateer 3. Xtree Gold 4. Windows 3.1 I loved the old Dos RPG's any of the D&D SSi titles, eye of the beholder, Bards Tales, Wizardy, All of the Ultima Series. Still have most of these on my HDD now somewhere and a few 5.25's floating around.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason1 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 It was a big deal when we went from DOS only to Windows 3.1. but certainly that leap to window95 was amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namastepat Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I had my PC boot to a DOS menu system that had all my fave games in a numbered list. To boot a game you just selected it with the keyboard and then hit enter and it would execute the run command to load the .exe. I remember when Win95 came out, you still had to boot into DOS to run heaps of games, as they didn't run properly in Win95. The huge leap for me was when Win98 came out, and DirectX. Then everything was being run in Win98 with either DirectX or OpenGL. When I got my first Voodoo2 card, it blew my teenage mind. MIRRORED SURFACES IN UNREAL?? WHAT IS THIS MAGIC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordsnipe Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Some DOS games which I have fond memories of: Doom, Duke3D (used to play these two on a friends PCs with dialup.. two doors apart). Street Rod series (although better on the Amiga). Lemmings. Tyrian. Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries. Sam & Max Hit The Road. Quake consumed a large part of my life too, although it was technically the Windows version (on dialup with a ping of 250+!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robm Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Not sure, I only played it on my old 486SX PC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KclrfaiEHVU Epic game! I had completely forgotten about that and that vid brought a flood of memories back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan555 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 I remember getting our first family computer in 1986, one of the first games that I enjoyed playing was 3-Demon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Demon No wonder I like playing Wolfenstein, Doom etc. later on. On newer computers I remember playing Budokan, I thought the graphics in the game were really good. Also Links the golf game, I remember every new computer we got the trees would be drawn a lot faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Arcade King Posted June 8, 2015 Administrators Share Posted June 8, 2015 Zyll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Machine Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Duke Nukem, Helloween harry, Jazz jackrabbit, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Logical, Lemmings and of course XTGOLD to manage everything lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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