Memorable DOS games

[JechtShot]

After reading the "What was the internet like in the 90s" thread in ATOT, A feeling of nostalgia just overwhelmed me since before the internet arrived, I was learning command line and remember finding DOS games that I never knew was on my computer at the time. The ones I remember that were hard to find were:

- Perestroika
- Theme Park
- Arkanoid
- Indiana Jones (the one where he is at a school)

I know there is more but that's all I could think of at the time. Everything else I had was on a CD (I wish I still had them!). Heretic, Doom 1, Doom 2, Sento (Lol, i looked this up on youtube, hilarious sound fx, i couldn't get my sound to work at the time.)

 

[BlitzPuppet]

The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Xwing
Microprose B17 Flying Fortress
California Games (I think that was the name of it)

 

[bigi]

Doom 1 and 2. Heretic/Hexen. System Shock 1.

I still can run them in dosbox like 25 years ago... in DOS

 

[mizzou]

ugh don't remind me. I still have nightmares about trying to set up a freaking boot disc and initialize the soundblaster/mouse/joystick

 

[Evilviking]

Does any one know where I can get some old dos games?

 

[rpanic]

Dune 2
MOO2
MechWarrior
Doom
Decent
Starcontrol 2
Magic Carpet
Wing Commander

to many to list.

 

[Pheran]

Master of Magic

 

[clok1966]

as a vic 20 to C-64 to Amiga person, i took the DOS plunge when Ultima Underworld and Wing Commander came out. Those Origin (not EA origin) but Origin Systems, later Just Origin (to see how that name is utterly humiliated by being the front for a horrible companies digital "me too" system, shudder, breaks a old guys heart) games had some nasty boot discs, but where great games.

Legal- Hit up GOG.com easily the best way to get old games, ready to go on todays systems.

other- Use google ...Underdogs, Abandonia etc.. but be prepared to figure out dos box and such (not that hard) GOG is the way to go.

 

[Dankk]

Does any one know where I can get some old dos games?

http://dosgames.com/

I frequented that site for a long time, though I haven't visited it in a while but it looks like it hasn't changed much. It's all freeware/shareware/abandonedware.

 

[norseamd]

sim ant

sim life

 

[Albatross]

Doooom.

 

[BSim500]

Good Lord, where to start...

7th Guest
Battle Chess
Boulder Dash
Cyber Empires
Descent
Doom (1, 2 & Final (ie, Plutonia & TNT WADS)
Dune (original)
Elder Scrolls: Arena & Daggerfall
Elite + Frontier:Elite 2
Eye of the Beholder
Ghostbusters
Heretic (Doom engine)
Hexen (Doom engine)
Lemmings 1 & 2
Prince of Persia
Return to Zork
Rise of the Triad
SimCity 2000
Strife (Doom engine)
System Shock
Theme Park
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Worms

And pretty much all ScummVM games (Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword, DOTT, FOTAQ, Gabriel Knight, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade / Fate of Atlantis, Leisure Suite Larry, Loom, Monkey Island series, Sam & Max Hit The Road, Space Quest series, The Dig, etc)

 

[QuantumPion]

Wolfpack
X-COM
Ultima 7
MOO
MOM
Wing Commander
Descent
Doom
Wolf3D
Mechwarrior 2
C&C
Warcraft 2
X-Wing
Civilization
SimCity
Space Quest & Hero's Quest

 

[runzwithsizorz]

King's Quest series first games (Sierra)

 

[ewdotson]

Master of Magic

So very much this. Really, pretty much everything put out by Microprose in that era was worthwhile. I even have fond memories of some of the less instant-classic-ish stuff like Covert Action.

 

[WiseUp216]

I used to go to the public library all the time and play Amnesia. 1990-91, I think it was.

 

[code65536]

Prince of Persia (the original one that had a bloody 1-hour time limit) (my first-ever games, BTW)
Commander Keen series
Zone 66
Lemmings series
Wolfenstein 3D
TIE Fighter
Dune II
SimCity
The Incredible Machine
Number Munchers! (lol)

 

[thilanliyan]

I played soooo much Dune 2, and also Xenobots.

 

[otho11]

Scorched Earth

 

[mmntech]

ugh don't remind me. I still have nightmares about trying to set up a freaking boot disc and initialize the soundblaster/mouse/joystick

C: \Games\LucasArts\XWing\XWING.EXE

"No Such Directory"

DIR

C: \PCGames\LucasArts\XWing\XWING.EXE

"No Such Directory"

HELP

 

[Pheran]

Master of Magic

So very much this. Really, pretty much everything put out by Microprose in that era was worthwhile. I even have fond memories of some of the less instant-classic-ish stuff like Covert Action.

I haven't kept much from back in those days, but I still have these - I just now snapped this pic:

Original boxed MoM game plus strategy guide.

 

[norseamd]

C: \Games\LucasArts\XWing\XWING.EXE

are you able to download those games off abondonware yet? or can you get them working on a windows 7 pc

 

[norseamd]

I haven't kept much from back in those days, but I still have these

how was that game? anything like civilization with magic?

 

[Pheran]

how was that game? anything like civilization with magic?

It's a lot like Civilization with magic. If you really want to try it, $6 at GOG. Of course there are more modern takes on the genre now, like Fallen Enchantress.

 

[TheSlamma]

ugh don't remind me. I still have nightmares about trying to set up a freaking boot disc and initialize the soundblaster/mouse/joystick

That was my first real job back in the day, making hundreds of those things work building clone machines for small business's and personal computers. My boss was the cheapest guy on earth too so he would by SB knockoffs which were even harder to get working.

Anyway.. so many good lists already.

California games, I remember that on my C64.. load *.* , 8 ,1