What are your favourite DOS games?

Baked.noodle

When I was young I used to have a C64 and BBC Micro (which isn't DOS I know) and it had Donkey Kong. Later I got a 386SX, which was no 486 and couldn't run Doom. I used to play Quest for Glory, Wolfenstein, Prince of Persia, Sim City, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Duke Nukem and Commander Keen. Later I had a Pentium166 MHz which was much better and could run Alone in the Dark, Doom and Quake. Back then it could be tricky to get your hands on software so I got a subscription to PC Zone magazine with discs and received free copies of Dune 2 and Frontier Elite 2. Later I got my hands on Another World, X-Com: UFO Defence and the sequel Terror from the deep. They where absolutely mind blowing genre defining games that sucked me in for hours. Have you fond memories of old DOS games? What kind of PC did you use?

Monotype

The Lost Vikings!



Descent!



There was a port of Golden Axe for the PC as well, which was good too.

Ruu

Blood (had a demo but purchased it later) or C&C Red Alert.

Vicxas

Had to be transport tycoon deluxe for me

Retr0gamer

The correct answer is X-Com Ufo Defense.

Baked.noodle

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The correct answer is X-Com Ufo Defense.

Ya, the game is a masterpiece. You may be interested in this presentation by Julian Gollop on the development of X-Com: UFO Defence.

nesf

The game that started me off as a wargamer/strategy gamer:



On a fancy 486SX of course.

Gummy Panda

Warcraft or doom

I had a 486dx. I remember buying the doom from virgin megastores. I was weighing up whether to get that or heretic. Warcraft was a birthday present my brother sent me. Played that game for ages. I still remember being sent into the deadmines to kill Griselda Blackhand for the warchief.

ShadowHearth

nesf wrote: »

The game that started me off as a wargamer/strategy gamer:



On a fancy 486SX of course.

Wasnt this on Sega mega drive 2 too?


I never had Dos computer. My first PC was pentium I 200mhz and thats when we already had Pentium III... So I guess I was windows 95 generation. :pac:

My favourite of course was always fallout 2.

Gamayun

Sword of the Samurai, it's a strategy/action game. You start off as a lowly Samurai and ascend through the ranks by various, sometimes nefarious, means. It's great fun. You can die/retire (or commit seppuku to atone for your shame) and if you have an heir you can continue as him!

alanmc

X-Wing
Magic Carpet 2
Syndicate

Tails142

Yeah I had a 386sx too, it was hard to get decent games that would run on it. Was envious of my friends who had a 486's a few years later that had a much wider pool of games.

I used to play Day of the Tentacle, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, I had a demo of a flight game called Retaliator, Prince of Persia, I had a mah jongg game... I can't think of anything else. Day of the Tentacle was probably the best game I ever got running on it, rented it out from a game shop down in Dundrum village was brilliant.

Got a 200mhz pentium in 1998 and never looked back...

nesf

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Wasnt this on Sega mega drive 2 too?

No. It was ported to the Playstation two years after the PC release though, maybe that's what you're thinking of?

returnNull

syndicate,doom,quake,duke nukem and civilisation.

RedXIV

Kingdom o' magic. Was a great looking point and click adventure was incredible amounts of sarcasm and humour. Even the manual was hilarious. I remember reading the troubleshooting section that went like this:

Issue-my screen is black
Solution-turn on your computer

Issue-I ordered Kingdom o' magic but instead received a 12 set of steak knives, can I still play?
Solution-no, steak knives are lacking the graphical power to run Kingdom of magic

God I miss that game

spongerobinson

I used to have Hook (as in Peter pan) on the 386. Great game! Oh and Hard Drivin' was another. Lemmings too of course!

chrislad

The first two DOS games I got will also hold a special place for me - X-Wing and Rebel Assault Double Pack. I think I got them in Christmas 1998 on the White Label budget brand. Rebel Assault was fairly poor, but X-Wing was utterly fantastic.

branners69

Elite

Gummy Panda

Wait... It was Little Big Adventure!

That game was amazing

col.in.Cr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gffS40Djmxc

Kimbot

Commander Keen was ace.

Duggy747

Llamatron! :pac:

Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Rise Of The Triads, etc, all those FPS games got big play in my house on the ol' Gateway.

dazberry

My first machine was a 286-10 with EGA, that was in 1989, most notable game was Starflight...

Just finished a replay of Dune II on android this time

Otherwise was a big fan of the original Duke Nukem, Syndicate, Decent to name but a few

D.

nesf

dazberry wrote: »

My first machine was a 286-10 with EGA, that was in 1989, most notable game was Starflight...

All I had in 1989 was a pass-me-down:



Decathalon, the murderer of many a 1 and 2 key. :P

Hercule

For me it has to be Dune II - sank so many hours into that game!

after that notable mentions for:

Wolf3d, Duke Nukem 1/2, Hugos House of horrors, Space Quest, Kings quest, Biomenace, Commander Keen I-VI

GarH

Tie-Fighter for me.
Having to create a Lucasarts boot floppy disk to get the most out of my 4mb of ram. Ahhh...memories.

I wish someone would remake it.

Cravez

X-COM Apocalypse

weisses

The Secret of Monkey Island .... came on 15 or so floppy's ... and floppy 14 had a bad block .... sounds familiar



Good times ...good times

Polar101

Many of the ones already mentioned, of course. But I'd like to mention Wing Commander which was really something you could only experience on a PC - until WC many PC games weren't exactly graphically impressive.

branners69

weisses wrote: »

.... came on 15 or so floppy's ...

So would you have ever loaded games from tape cassette? Or typed the actual code from a magazine?? The good old days!!

weisses

branners69 wrote: »

So would you have ever loaded games from tape cassette? Or typed the actual code from a magazine?? The good old days!!

Yeah i remember radio shows that broadcasted games so you could record it on tape

I didn't know how to adjust the heads on a c64 cassette recorder so i put kitchen towel under the cassette ...... good oal pp turbo

Skerries

branners69 wrote: »

So would you have ever loaded games from tape cassette? Or typed the actual code from a magazine?? The good old days!!

Luxury! I used to have to write my own games on punch cards!

branners69

Skerries wrote: »

Luxury! I used to have to write my own games on punch cards!

Haha, I thought I was showing MY age!! What read the punch cards?

nesf

branners69 wrote: »

So would you have ever loaded games from tape cassette? Or typed the actual code from a magazine?? The good old days!!

I was being corrected on the spelling of color for years in school because of the latter. :P

beauf

I played DOS games for years, too many to list.

Probably the first two I played were LHX and F15 II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgvBJVQD74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdxbYLZ7Cc0

I played all of the microprose games like fleet defender and the DID Tornado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGWldIYHbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT5VaA81fjI

And of course Doom, Spear Of Destiny, Decent (descent is brilliant Multiplayer), Grand Prix 3, EAW, load of that stuff.

I also remember playing demo floppies of the PCW and such mags. I got Space Hulk off one of these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XMFB8fyfb0, and subwar, magic carpet etc.

First version of flight sim was dos. Remember playing it at night made it run smoother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2jzkELDfU

SirLemonhead

That shop in Dundrum where you could rent PC games was brilliant Was in the little alleyway beside the AIB I think

I played a ton of games back then, from the late 80s up to the windows era games. Loved the classics like Frogger, Tapper, Bruce Lee, Rick Dangerous, Loom..anything Lucasarts, Doom, Doom 2, Blood, Duke3D, Wolf3D, Leisure Suit Larry, Terminal Velocity, Commander Keen, the Hugo games...everything really that I can't think of offhand.

What version of the secret of Monkey island had 15 disks? or was that an exaggeration? It only had 8 disks at most and that was the 5.25 floppy version

Edit: Sim City classic was fantastic too

Wossack

Dune (I & II), original command and conquer, Lynx attack chopper, av8b harrier assault, leisure suit games, monkey island games, doom, populous.. oh, and of course, original carrier command :cool:

err, but not so sure which of them were pure dos, and which (if any?) were windows

dazberry

nesf wrote: »

I was being corrected on the spelling of color for years in school because of the latter. :P

I was corrected over program(me) even though I was using the correct spelling. Naturally I pointed out the correct form but apparently it wasn't that she didn't know - it was that "others" might not know and mark me down accordingly. Chancer.

beauf wrote: »

Decent (descent is brilliant Multiplayer)

We used to play that in work, on our old 486s on our BNC network. In fact I used to sneak mates into work after hours and we used to have LAN sessions Used to be goggle eyed after a few hours!!

There was also a 60mhz pentium in the office, and when everyone went home I used to load up Doom on it

Wossack wrote: »

oh, and of course, original carrier command :cool:

I loved that game, still have it boxed with 5 1/4" disks

D.

Skerries

branners69 wrote: »

Haha, I thought I was showing MY age!! What read the punch cards?

it was an attempt at a joke using a Monty Python sketch where they try and one man up themselves by telling stories of how bad they had it as children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Skerries

SirLemonhead wrote: »

What version of the secret of Monkey island had 15 disks? or was that an exaggeration? It only had 8 disks at most and that was the 5.25 floppy version

It was about that on the Amiga IIRC as I think the Amiga disks (3.5") only held about 700kb of data as opposed to 1.4mb on pc

Duke3d, ROTT & Descent II

Mr Freeze

I used to have an old 386 (or was it a 486), that was being thrown out from my mam's office where she worked.

I used to play Doom, Syndicate, Starlord & Master of Orion II. All with no sound, I didn't have sound in my games until we got a proper PC with an actual sound card & speakers in 1998 or 1999.

I had a stealth fighter game as well, can't remember the proper name of it, but it was class.

Edit: it was F-19 Stealth Fighter. What a game, and it looks so bad now, but I used to be glued to it.

Baked.noodle

Happy 20th Birthday DOOM.

ScumLord

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I never had Dos computer. My first PC was pentium I 200mhz and thats when we already had Pentium III... So I guess I was windows 95 generation. :pac:

Young ones and they're fancy pentiums.

The first game I remember playing was labyrinth on the BBC Micro, I remember that game blew me away because it said a word or laughed during the loading screen. Which was a new development to me.

Weren't most windows 3.1 games dos back then? I don't remember buying many games back then, you could get your hands on most of them for free.

nesf

ScumLord wrote: »

Weren't most windows 3.1 games dos back then? I don't remember buying many games back then, you could get your hands on most of them for free.

Most yes, but 3.1 was just a fancy GUI for DOS to be fair. :P

ShadowHearth

dazberry wrote: »

My first machine was a 286-10 with EGA, that was in 1989, most notable game was Starflight...

Just finished a replay of Dune II on android this time

Otherwise was a big fan of the original Duke Nukem, Syndicate, Decent to name but a few

D.

There is dune 2 on android!!!! I never knew it! I just downloaded and I think I will have a lot of fun in bed tonight! It wont include misses in any shape or form! :pac:

omerin

Has to be Doom or Championship Manager, ooh the hours I spent looking at a static screen watching those minutes tick up to 90

beauf

Back then games needed a manual especially the sims. They were much more complex.

returnNull

beauf wrote: »

They were much more complex.

Dont think so.It might seem that way but couldnt imagine any dos machine running the likes of a total war game or indeed civ 4 or 5...theres some amount of computing power used in those games even ignoring the graphical overheads.

nesf

returnNull wrote: »

Dont think so.It might seem that way but couldnt imagine any dos machine running the likes of a total war game or indeed civ 4 or 5...theres some amount of computing power used in those games even ignoring the graphical overheads.

I think he means a steeper learning curve/more you need to know in order to play.

SirLemonhead

Forgot Alone in the Dark - never finished it because the purple people eater in the library used to scare the crap out of me Needed a special set of knives to kill him I think. It's one game I keep meaning to go back to and hopefully finish