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Offline Galemp

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
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Re: Old DOS games you still love
I started gaming at the very, very end of the DOS era and was far away from mainstream, but here are some titles that hold my neverending love:

- Slipstream 5000
- Blood
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Carmageddon
- Rings of the Magi
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Re: Old DOS games you still love
I'd like to add +1 to X-COM, X-Wing, Star Control 2, Command & Conquers, Ascendency(!), and I'd like to also add X-COM Terror From the Deep, and X-COM Apocalypse (technically ran in DOS).

 

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
Let's see:

Earth 2140 which is a pain to get it working on Dosbox
Crusader No Regret and No Remorse
Doom 1 and 2
C&C
C&C Red alert

and thats what I remember for now.

 

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
no particular order and still play a good number of them

Dune
Dune 2
Command & Conquer
Wolfenstine 3D
Blakestone
Doom 1/U + 2 + Final (Ultimate Doom on 4 player IPX, Co-op, Nightmare difficulty = Total Awsome kick ass when I was 12)
Epic Pinball
Pinball Illusions
Transport Tycoon (1,1.5,DX were all good)
Tyrian/2000
X-Com series (even apoc)
X-Wing / TIE Fighter
Terminal Velocity
Raptor - Call of the shadows
One Must Fall 2097
Wipeout 2097
Warcraft II
Decent
Wing Commander 1,2,3,Privateer
Heroes of Might and Magic
Master Of Orion 2 (It was a dos based game with an additional win 95 compatible exe)
Prince of persia
Colonisation
Civilisation
Jazz Jackrabbit (this is an unsung legend)
Duke Nukem 3D
Worms
Maniac Mansion, never played day of the tentacle though.
Imperium Galactica I
Sam and Max hit the road
simon the Sorcerer

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Quake - (Thanks nuke)

there is a ton more but I cant remember it at the moment
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Offline FUBAR-BDHR

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
Castle Wolfenstein the original (pre MS-DOS).  Apple it was t to throw grenades but if you played on an Atari PC you had to use 2 joysticks and could aim and move different directions so it was basically a 2 player control one guy thing.
Of course Beyond and 3D as well.

I have no idea what it was called but you flew dragons in combat.  Came out in about 88. 

Wasteland (Apple ][ GS so not really DOS)
Bards tale series (Apple ][ GS so not really DOS)
Eye of the Beholder (think this was one of the very first AD&D PC games)

Strike Commander
Links386 (golf)
Hexen (Doom spinoff)
Rise of the Triad (Wolf3d spinoff)
Xargon

Some shareware ones:
Commander Keen(sp)
Lemmings
Scorched Earth

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im supprised nobody mentioned quake.
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Re: Old DOS games you still love
im supprised nobody mentioned quake.

Well I thought about adding it to my list, as well as WC4, but I think I already mentionned somewhere that I still enjoyed playing them.
(I try not to repeat myself as much as possible)

 

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
My are

- Doom 1,2 and the Final DOOM
- C&C red alert
- Terminal Verlocity
- Fury 3
- Blood
- Duke 3d
- Realms of the Haunting(How come none has mentioned this awesome epic game?)
- Warcraft 1,2
- dune 2
- wolf3d
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I would say I feel old now but some of the people in here talking about dos games are older than me...
How has Keen, Hitch, Space Goose, Xenon and other such *real* dos, not "too lazy to port to win95" DOS games not been mentioned :<?
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Offline starlord

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
Just about any space sim possible (I still can find some old registered versions of shareware titles, like gamma wing, recently preserved from 1994).

However, aside from the big guys (the wing commanders and xwing saga), those I also hugely like are:

EPIC (digital image design), a true wing commander contestant and doing a very good job at storytelling, AND mixing for the very first time space and atmospheric missions in one game (some say that WC3 will have used the idea from there).

INFERNO: the odyssey continues. sequel to epic: a true work of art I couldn't even describe! Try googling it or better still secure a copy.

And other oddities (I very much like psygnosis productions) like pyrotechnica, darker, or even a very fun tank game called assault rigs.

Of course terminal velocity along with their spiritual sequels (even though not dos based): fury3, it's add on f-zone (I could never figure out how the level editor included worked as my copy came without instructions), and hellbender.

and many others I couldn't even begin to list (including a lot of rarities very few persons have seen).

 

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Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom
awesome space invaders clone :yes:
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Re: Old DOS games you still love
im supprised nobody mentioned quake.
I don't remember Quake being DoS.
Otherwise, yeah that game is win too.

  

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
im supprised nobody mentioned quake.
I don't remember Quake being DoS.
Otherwise, yeah that game is win too.

dos with an additional win95 optimised exe if i remember right
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Re: Old DOS games you still love
Red Storm Rising, Silent Service II and Harpoon. Admittedly i played all these on my Amiga 500 back in the day but i believe these were available on DOS as well
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INFERNO: the odyssey continues. sequel to epic: a true work of art I couldn't even describe! Try googling it or better still secure a copy.

I got this from a bargain bin at some point but have never played it. It might be worth trying out. It does have some nice soundtracks on the CD.

 

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Supaplex
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
JBX-Phoenix

 

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Re: Old DOS games you still love
Dark Forces
Devolution (another Apple ][ one)
Eradicator
Armored Fist

Now for some DOS based Multiplayer (ran a BBS back in the dark ages before internet became popular)

Solar Realms Elite
Baron Realms
Trade Wars 2002
Exodus
LORD



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