nd2003grad Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 There seems to be a little lack of DOS stuff here. What are some of your favorite old-skool DOS games? I know I grew up with Lode Runner, Falcon, and Arctic Fox among others. These were all available on other platforms, but they were what were available to a Montana kid around 1989. I also liked text adventures, such as the stellar Enchanted Castle and (what I didn't even know at the time was) an excellent but incomplete shareware RPG called Dungeons of Kairn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I've been playing a lot of "Gotcha" right now. It's a Qix clone, but a very good one. http://www.mobygames.com/game/gotcha__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Gapper is another one that I find hugely addicting. Kinda like Amidar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 Haven't touched DOS in years, but when I did - loved me some Destruction Derby! Pretty much everything else I feel nostalgic about and would rather play (and still do in some cases), prefer the Amiga version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nateo Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I played the crap out of the Commander Keen games as a kid. I also spent a lot of time on the ChampProgramming arcade games, Kong 'Em in particular. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I used to play those classics by Champ Games like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Galaxian etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I played the crap out of the Commander Keen games as a kid. I also spent a lot of time on the ChampProgramming arcade games, Kong 'Em in particular. Commander Keen was awesome as was Blake Stone, Castle Wolfenstein and Lemmings. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Back in the 90s I downloaded a bunch of games from the Download Super Store on the Prodigy service. One of those games was called Nucleon which I found here although this version is for Windows the one I had was for DOS. Here's another game called Finagle which you can play in your web browser here. There was a third game but that title escapes me. I still have the floppies with these games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd2003grad Posted March 22, 2016 Author Share Posted March 22, 2016 Wow, I haven't heard of Prodigy in forever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fultonbot Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Might And Magic III was the first DOS game I loved. Also Wing Commander, Wolfenstein 3D, and of course Dune 2. There were many many many great DOS games in the early 1990s, it's hard to pick just a few. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fultonbot Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 ...for CGA games, I loved all those GameTek TV Game Show licensed games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Might And Magic III was the first DOS game I loved. Also Wing Commander, Wolfenstein 3D, and of course Dune 2. There were many many many great DOS games in the early 1990s, it's hard to pick just a few. Yeah I had Wolf 3D as well. My brother showed me how to enable God mode which was cool so I could complete the game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desiv Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Definitely Commander Keen initially, and eventually Jazz Jackrabbit... Full Throttle is still one of my favorite DOS games.. Heck, it's one of my favorite games on any system. desiv 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro-Z Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I played a lot of Doom, Warcraft, Descent, and Commander Keen as a kid. Several of those came at the tail-end of the DOS era, but still great games nonetheless. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fultonbot Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Definitely Commander Keen initially, and eventually Jazz Jackrabbit... Full Throttle is still one of my favorite DOS games.. Heck, it's one of my favorite games on any system. desiv I LOVED Full Throttle too. I also liked Outlaws very much. Interstate '76 was pretty awesome too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copper20 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Definitely Commander Keen initially, and eventually Jazz Jackrabbit... Full Throttle is still one of my favorite DOS games.. Heck, it's one of my favorite games on any system. desiv Full Throttle (Which I ironically just got about a week and a half ago) also introduced me to Gone Jackals. I've always had a spot for DOS games... there's just, well, something about 'em. I played more Windows 95 PC stuff but DOS stuff I might have sifted through quite a bit as a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Dangerous Dave was amazing. Boy did I love that game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsdee Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) I have fond memories of ZZT and the like. They were simple games but the imagination put in some levels was fun. Another early game I played a lot was Alley Cat, I found out much later there were better versions on other machines. Also played quite a bit of Moody, it's a Spanish platform/puzzle game which was quite unique. But it is rather hard. Edited March 23, 2016 by Newsdee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Empire! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+xucaen Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Day of the Tentacle and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father are my favorite DOS games. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Oh man, so many. In the mid-'90s I loved Dark Forces, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Doom/II, Descent, Duke 3D, Wolf 3D, Operation: Bodycount (a Wolf 3D clone with UN special forces and terrorists...and flamethrowers!), Raptor, the Hugo games, and pretty much any Apogee game I could get my hands on. I had a ton of those "1000 Games" type CDs, too. The Epic Megagames ones were the best.Going further back, I loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles even though it was RIDICULOUSLY difficult. Turns out it was also glitchy and broken and even if I had managed to get to level 3, it wouldn't have mattered anyway since you literally can't get past it without cheating (I didn't know there were cheats then).Side story: my best friend had this old disk of BASICA games (which as best as I can tell must have been some kind of custom Friendlyware thing, as it had a Friendlyware-looking menu and some of the games--like Battleship--but also some that weren't on Friendlyware) that we played a ton of when his mom brought home a couple of old computers from work when they were upgrading equipment in the mid-'90s. ASCII graphics and everything. In particular there was a Pac-Man game that we played the absolute shit out of. Since losing the disk in the late '90s, I've found exactly zero information on the game until, by some amazing cosmic coincidence, a lot of old PC stuff I bought off a friend last year contained a disk that had the game on it. I'd seen some games that were *like* it, but different, but this was it beyond a doubt. Reunited after 20 years. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thanatos Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I always enjoyed a quick game of Civilization. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Side story: my best friend had this old disk of BASICA games (which as best as I can tell must have been some kind of custom Friendlyware thing, as it had a Friendlyware-looking menu and some of the games--like Battleship--but also some that weren't on Friendlyware) that we played a ton of when his mom brought home a couple of old computers from work when they were upgrading equipment in the mid-'90s. ASCII graphics and everything. In particular there was a Pac-Man game that we played the absolute shit out of. Since losing the disk in the late '90s, I've found exactly zero information on the game until, by some amazing cosmic coincidence, a lot of old PC stuff I bought off a friend last year contained a disk that had the game on it. I'd seen some games that were *like* it, but different, but this was it beyond a doubt. Reunited after 20 years. So what was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 So what was it? Looking at the code--which is very well-laid out, btw, with big REM headers summarizing what the following chunk of code does--it's actually called PC-Man, no relation to the machine-code Orion Software game ("PC MAN" is also printed on the game screen, on the ghost house). No indication of who the author is, though. You can choose from 1-4 ghosts (it runs REALLY slow with 4) and it even has a high score board, stored in a separate file IIRC. A really interesting thing about the game that I didn't remember BITD is that ghosts don't return to "normal" after you eat them until the power pill wears off, they only return to the ghost house. So if you can get a power pill, take out one or two of the ghosts (actually card suits ), and make it back to the ghost house before the pill wears off, you can camp out by the opening and keep spamming them as they come out. That usually results in your own death since it's hard to tell when they're going to change back; I guess the key is to learn the timing of the power pill not get too greedy. Even as a suicide mission, you can quickly rack up scores that would otherwise be pretty insane, or would require clearing the screen six or seven times. It's probably not the kind of game you'd go to unless your only other interaction with computers was limited to WordStar or something, but it's a nice piece of nostalgia for me (which is something I'm not normally susceptible to), and for what it is--a Pac-Man game written in BASIC--it's not bad at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd2003grad Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 Wow, I was going to mention Friendlyware! Would you believe that most of my first experiences play, um, "classic arcade games" were in that program? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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