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Siliconemelons
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there are two camps in the DOS world...the Sierra > LA camp and the LA > Sierra camp... its almost as bad as those darn FF8 people.
... back on topic... ledged of the longbow - yessir
Gankak
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Woefully Inept
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You had to run it through Qbasic. We played that a ton in my computer shop in high school. Bunch of fucking NERDS! lol
edit: That'll teach me for replying before reading the rest of the thread. Looks like it was covered already. hehe
Scorched Earth! Wow I forgot all about that one. My dad had it on his PC way back when Prodigy Online was still cool. Man thems were the days!
AladainAF
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god scorched earth. We used to spend hours playing that on the computers at school in 1994. lol. Good times.
Edit:
Games I played on that list when I was a kid with a short review:
Digger - fun little game, always loved it when I was a kid.
Alleycat - One of the first games I played on my old sperry 8088 when I was in elementary school lol.
Starflight -get and play this game if you havent - this is the 1986 equivalent of "No Mans Sky" being talked about today. Seriously. This game is FANTASTIC. Can't play through dosbox probably but codewheel is here (Starflight Resource Pages :: Starport Codes). You can also buy this on GOG for likr $3 for both SF1 and 2.
Bust-A-Move - lol, was fun to play ^^
Burgertime - Fun game, remember playing it a bit as a kid.
Falcon 3.0 - Only flight sim game I really ever liked.
Rogue - Nethack clone, but a very good one, very much enjoyed this game.
Simant - I got this when I got my first 486, a fun game
Hexxagon - Another game we played for hours in comp class in school.
One Must Fall 2097 - Hell yeah, fun fighting game
Styx - A very good QIX clone, if you remember that game from the atari days.
Klax - Played this a lot in the arcade, but not on PC. Fun though.
few others missing from the list or I just overlooked that was very fun...
Spacewar
Montezumas Revenge
The Hobbit (From 1982)
Night Mission Pinball
Robotron 2084
Zork I (Text game)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Text game)
Jumping Joe
Depth Charge
Edit: Some of the above are there (just noticed search) but most don't run that good either too fast or too slow or keys dont work.
Edit:
Games I played on that list when I was a kid with a short review:
Digger - fun little game, always loved it when I was a kid.
Alleycat - One of the first games I played on my old sperry 8088 when I was in elementary school lol.
Starflight -get and play this game if you havent - this is the 1986 equivalent of "No Mans Sky" being talked about today. Seriously. This game is FANTASTIC. Can't play through dosbox probably but codewheel is here (Starflight Resource Pages :: Starport Codes). You can also buy this on GOG for likr $3 for both SF1 and 2.
Bust-A-Move - lol, was fun to play ^^
Burgertime - Fun game, remember playing it a bit as a kid.
Falcon 3.0 - Only flight sim game I really ever liked.
Rogue - Nethack clone, but a very good one, very much enjoyed this game.
Simant - I got this when I got my first 486, a fun game
Hexxagon - Another game we played for hours in comp class in school.
One Must Fall 2097 - Hell yeah, fun fighting game
Styx - A very good QIX clone, if you remember that game from the atari days.
Klax - Played this a lot in the arcade, but not on PC. Fun though.
few others missing from the list or I just overlooked that was very fun...
Spacewar
Montezumas Revenge
The Hobbit (From 1982)
Night Mission Pinball
Robotron 2084
Zork I (Text game)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Text game)
Jumping Joe
Depth Charge
Edit: Some of the above are there (just noticed search) but most don't run that good either too fast or too slow or keys dont work.
Wasn't the original Wing Commander a DOS game too? That game was pretty damn fun, sunk a lot of hours into that.
Big Phoenix
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Jesus fucking christ man stunts. I played the shit out of that game back in the day. Used to spend hours designing crazy courses.
Siliconemelons
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I am a Sierra camp fanboi and am looking very much forward to the new Kings Quest... and Kings Quest really to me trumps practically any adventure game- its like Into the Woods and Shrek before they existed or where well known. Space Quest was the comedy I liked better than many of the Lucas games feel- that's just personal opinion and what kind of humor you get.
as for the "bananas" etc. game it was a game made to help teach you to learn basic-a and q-basic - it was for "kids" to learn programming...now kids would be like wtf? I remember looking at the code of that game to get everything all figured out- I made some choose your own adventure type games with visuals etc. like a dumbed down ledged of the red dragon type game. QBasic was so fun.
Aaron
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Most DOS games I played were SimCity and SimCity 2000, Dune 2, M.A.X. (and M.A.X. 2, but I think that was Win95, two highly underrated turn based strategy games), Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Civilization 1 and 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom 1 and 2, the Commander Keen games. Man, so many games, there are probably dozens more that I played less or might be old Win95 games. Good times, and over 20 years ago! I'm getting old!
Aaron
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Oh yeah, I played the Sierra games (and Lucas Arts). If the new KQ game doesn't kill you on the first screen if you don't position yourself correctly when pushing a rock then it will be a failure!
Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Terial
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Sierra games were the best back in the day, loved every one of them.. i tried to do a few of the updated ones when they made it mouse click to do everything. It was just not the same. I loved that you had to figure out what to type and how to do things.
>get ball
you don't see a ball
>look under bridge
you see a ball
>get ball under bridge
you can't reach that
>use stick
what do you want to use the stick on
>ball
you don't see a ball
aarrrggghhhh
hahah great games
"World Circuit" is Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix, apparently.
E: Holy crap the list just keeps going. Championship Manager, Utopia, Warlords, Elite, Microprose Soccer (proto-Sensisoccer), Nuclear War, Great Giana Sisters, James Pond 2: Robocod, D-Generation, a bunch of Team 17 stuff...
Shame they've not got the superior Amiga versions though.
E2: Welp, just found Eye of the Beholder and its sequel. See you in a few days.
E: Holy crap the list just keeps going. Championship Manager, Utopia, Warlords, Elite, Microprose Soccer (proto-Sensisoccer), Nuclear War, Great Giana Sisters, James Pond 2: Robocod, D-Generation, a bunch of Team 17 stuff...
Shame they've not got the superior Amiga versions though.
E2: Welp, just found Eye of the Beholder and its sequel. See you in a few days.