Enjoyable DOS games

Scarlet · Post by **Scarlet** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 0:49

Oman, there were two that I used to play... Grand Prix Circuit and The Cycles heh

I used to play so many more. But I forget them heh. Like Micemen for example.

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:19

Keening_Product wrote:I grew up playing the following, most with my sister:

-Keen 4 (der)
-Jazz Jackrabbit shareware
-SKYROADS
-GOD OF THUNDER
-Duke Nukem II
-Gate World
-Raptor
-Descent (trial version with too few weapons.)
-Xargon
-Hocus Pocus
-Helius
-Rescue Rover (briefly )
-Occasionally Heretic, but that wasn't that great.
-Probably loads of others I have forgotten.

I'd happily play all of those again, and in the case of Keen, GoT, Jazz and Skyroads I never really stopped!

You actually GREW UP playing Gate World?!

As for games I grew up with, I grew up with most of the games I listed.

Nickssoft · Post by **Nickssoft** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:13

I break it down in era's

93-94

Commander Keen 1
Hugo 2
Megarace

94-96

Almost All Apogee Shareware Games
Jazz Jackrabbit
Epic Pinball
Chopper Commando
Pickle Wars
Doom
Kens Lab
Traffic Department 2192
Night Raid
Skyroads
Jetpack
Hugo Series
Dark Forces

97-00

Hi Octane
Magic Carpet
Theme Park
Plague Of The Moon
Jill Of The Jungle
Lucasarts Adventures
Red Alert
C-Dogs
Capture The Flag
Last Knight At Camelot
Grand Prix Circuit
Paganitzu
Duke3D
Shadow Warrior
Rise of The Triad
Theme Hospital
Terminal Velocity
Need For Speed

Post by **tulip** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 13:14

Paramultart wrote: You actually GREW UP playing Gate World?!
As for games I grew up with, I grew up with most of the games I listed.

This shouts for a "weird games you grew up with" thread

Post by **Flaose** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 19:09

That's one weird looking game there, Tulip!

I'm a huge fan of many of the DOS games that have been mentioned already. I grew up on shareware (if I wanted a game, I had to buy it myself, so a $5 floppy was basically all I could ever afford) and have a special place for Apogee and Epic games. Some of my absolute favourites were Epic Pinball (oh, that intro music!), Raptor, Blake Stone, One Must Fall 2097, Hocus Pocus, Jazz Jackrabbit, and Wolfenstein 3D.

mortimer · Post by **mortimer** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 19:38

Post by **Keening_Product** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:32

I forgot to mention a dinosaur painting "game" called Bert's Dinosaurs. It was pretty much MS Paint with some pre-drawn Triassic (and later) Dinosauria. That thing was pretty damn awesome when I was like three or four years old!

GolfHacker · Post by **GolfHacker** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 0:07

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Interplay's Lord of the Rings, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, and Star Trek Judgment Rites. I absolutely LOVED those games!

And all the great Sierra adventures: King's Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Conquests of Camelot, Conquests of the Longbow, Colonel's Bequest, etc. Fun times!

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:01

I've dusted off my old Windows 95 laptop and begun moving some old DOS games, many of which I'd never played, onto it. I was disappointed to find that King's Quest V won't play on it. Neither will Monuments of Mars or a bunch of other games that are either too old or too new for this machine. Bio Menace will start but crashes whenever I use the gun. Marble Drop (not DOS but a fun game nonetheless) seems to be missing some sounds. The Incredible Machine won't work with my SoundBlaster apparently, and neither will Duke Nukem 2 (I'm using PC speakers for both.) We have the full versions of Math and Word Rescue somewhere but I just can't find where they are. We never owned the full Hocus Pocus or Duke Nukum unfortunately. Ultima IV is fun, but...damn. It's going to take a while to learn this thing and get into it. I love Blood and Duke Nukem 3D so far (I've started both long ago but never got too far.) Ditto for Dark Forces. I'm also starting to play Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure and Crystal Caves. And Prince of Persia is actually pretty addicting. Raptor: Call of the Shadows is decent, pretty nostalgic for me.

As always, I'd suggest Rogue for some old-tyme RPG fun, Doom, Heretic/Hexen...there's this game Bluppo that I always liked as a kid. And then Stunts is amusing, mostly for the crazy physics and the way you can make you and/or your opponent's car fly comically halfway into space.

Post by **Levellass** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:34

When I got Duke Nukum 3D in the late 2000s, that was the first post 1995 game I ever played.

This was my first, when I was but a wee lass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEB_TjIsyf8

And it was good.

EDIT: And it's freeware! http://www.redwoodgames.com/abc.php

Cobalt · Post by **Cobalt** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 16:26

Sonic3&Knuckles for PC was an awesome port with good new music.

Post by **Keening_Product** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:38

GolfHacker wrote:Interplay's Lord of the Rings

We got it in some CD pack years ago but could never get it to load! Had completely forgotten about that game; I'll give it another shot!

GolfHacker · Post by **GolfHacker** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 23:54

Keening_Product wrote:We got it in some CD pack years ago but could never get it to load! Had completely forgotten about that game; I'll give it another shot!

It's a great game, very well done for one of the earliest RPGs. I enjoyed it even more than Baldur's Gate! It's just too bad they never finished the third book in the series... but it was still a lot of fun to play!

_mr_m_ · Post by **_mr_m_** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 19:14

Levellass wrote:When I got Duke Nukum 3D in the late 2000s, that was the first post 1995 game I ever played.

This was my first, when I was but a wee lass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEB_TjIsyf8

And it was good.

EDIT: And it's freeware! http://www.redwoodgames.com/abc.php

Now that you mention Redwood Games and Karen Crowther...

She was also responsible for the Word/Math Rescue games and the game I'm going to throw out there:

PICKLE WARS!
Oh man that game was...ridiculous.

and oh yeah, Robert Prince did the music.

Post by **Levellass** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 12:59

Pickle Wars was perhaps the only not-baby game they ever made.