What were the best DOS games?

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[Intangir]

im not sure if anyone has mentioned it
but THE BEST game for dos was Master of Orion 2

[ahubu]

I have to mention Syndicate again, that was really cool. I was so disappointed with Syndicate Wars, because they switched from hi-res vga to low-res svga, and it looked fugly! I have been searching for ways to find configsettings to higher the res, man was I desperate

some more:

Sensible Soccer
Dune 2

and YES: sopwith && Ancient Art of War.. those bring back memories.
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I was a huge Doom fan, but I must admit that Tie Fighter topped even that, IMHO.

I still had some of the MIDI music from that running through my head 5 years after I had stopped playing that game.

[atrus123]

Great DOS games?

Privateer takes the cake here, though I also totally enjoyed the first and second WC games as well.

Ahh, the days of configuring and reconfiguring autoexec to squeeze out those last few bytes of ram needed for that new game.

J.
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[Aonoa]

Oh, the good old DOS games.. when funny and cool were before graphics and effects.

Day of the Tentacle, awfully nice adventure game. I liked Legend of Kyrandia series a lot too.
Doom and Duke Nukem were the best shoot'em ups, Rise of the Triad was nice as well.
Syndicate and Crusader: No Regret.
And all the old D&D-like roleplaying games, the Ultima 1-8 series. Ultima Underworld.

The list just goes on and on, can't even remember all of them..

[MrPrise]

Just to name some games that I played with anno:
Wizardry VII
Eye of the Beholder II
Dungeon Master II
Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Railroad Tycoon
Civilization
Lost Vikings 1 & 2 (the first was the better I think)
Another World, Flashback
UFO 1,2
DOOM 2 and Duke Nukem 3d of course on LAN
Constructor (very cool game, but only a few people heard of it, I think)
the Elite games (Privateer too)
Lands of Lore 1 (2 and 3 too, but those are run on win and were worse as RPG)
MadTV
Heroes of Might and Magic I-II
Norton Commander
Ah, don't forget Blackthorne and Tank Wars and than Scorched Earth
Panzer General
Ironman Offroad
Starcontrol
Stunts
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[der bastler]

Best DOS game? That's my first game I bought: Aces of the Pacific, 100 DM in '92, several months of pocket money, but worth every Pfennig!
Still one of the best sims, offering an unrivalled balance between realism and gameplay. I wish someone could fork Flightgear to create a modern Linux version of Aces of the Pacific (no time to do it by myself).

The Secret of Monkey Island. Its atmosphere is still unrivalled, at least for me. I play it sometimes on my Palm thanks to ScummVM.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (the man with the hat, selling leather jackets, real cinema on my 386)

Day of the Tentacle (kick the speaker to shake the fake vomit from the ceiling... 'nuf said)

Full Throttle (very short, but I loved the soundtrack and thus imported "Bone to Pick" and "Out and About With... The Gone Jackals")

Speaking of the soundtrack of Full Throttle, to me it's linked with Jagged Alliance, which I played while listening to The Gone Jackals.

Wing Command 1 & 2 -- Recently I discovered the soundtrack (http://www.wcnews.com/music/albums.shtml) and the memories came back. Indeed games with very good atmosphere. Same with Privateer. At least the last one is available for Linux, although it is not in Portage yet.

Origin in general. Underworld or Strike Commander were champions in technology and gameplay and story. Today best you can get are only two out of three (which ain't bad). Exception: Deus Ex, definitely the best game of the last decade, but I am leaving DOS terrain...

Grand Theft Auto. Yes, the DOS version with 3dfx acceleration! Those were the days, private Lan parties with coaxial cables, terminators and t-connectors and much fun. No moronic pseudo-l33t kiddies with light and water inside their computers, just some PC gamers having fun.

And many more... I still have all the games with boxes, but they are stored in our dunge...cellar, just next to the old PCs and the boiler...
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[Iron_DragonLord]

Lords of the Realm II

I sometimes still play that game... Best game ever.

[MrPrise]

Ah, yes GTA was cool It is a pitty we can't play as a cop
I don't understand why they left out that opportunity from the game.
There were bad guys (us) and good guys in the game (one player mode).
It is so obvious we want play as bad or good.
There is a similar case with NFS UG nowadays. But now I think the money is the reason.
They released a nice game once and they can release again with a new option to play as a cop. And most people will buy the game because of that. I feel the game's real spirit died. The money killed it...
In the DOS time almost every games was fun to play. But now... Too much titles and most of them are crap. I cannot find easily a game to say whoa, that's a cool game!
I always find something wrong. Yes, I'm playing games for a long time and I expect much more than the games provide now... Nice graphics, nice sound, music, but where is the original idea or the perfect realization? Some of the games try to make us (the players) fool and they just want to steal our money. That's how I feel about much of the games today.
I know, there are always exceptions like HalfLife 2 and maybe everybody know some games that worths the prices. But there are only a few of them
Good old DOS games were the real fun
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[Jargon]

Just looking throught his thread has brought back a lot of fond memories
Some of my most favourite games include:

Elite+
Syndicate
Ultima 8
Doom (first game I ever multiplayed on null modem connection wooo!)
Quake (I still think its better than 2 and 3 heh)

[__Jackal__]

Privateer 2 and X-Wing! I finished X-wing, or the 2nd one when you played on the darkside, in one day. Privateer was another favorite of mine. I didn't play privateer 2 though... i guess there is no chance of me doing emerge privateer2 when i get home?! hehe
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[MJOE]

Duke Nukem was my favorite. I haven't played that in a looong time though.
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[radr]

one of my all time favorite dos games was Tom Landry Strategy Football... i played that for a super mega long time until origional floppy media died.. this i would love to play again but it cannot be found anymore...

as far as other games i played too many to list off.. most of all which were calssified as decent...
a few of em:
doom
commander keen
duke nukem

insert edit here: quake : end edit

unfortunately for me sometime after my old 386 died i discovered girls and parties......

no im married an dont get to play much anymore. heh
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[der bastler]

Oh, oh, there are classic party games I forgot:

M.U.D.S. -- Mean Ugly Dirty Sports.
We had a lot of fun in the early 90s, playing it on one PC with two players. Some sort of non-lan-party where nobody brings a pc...

Wings of Fury -- Although indexed here in Germany, another all-time classic for a party of kids. Never understood why the PC version had no sky bitmap and no engine sound sample like the much better Amiga version.

Wolfstein 3D -- "Mein Leben!" Don't think there's much to say... a classic!


Apart from that the simulations of Microprose were excellent. As were their printed, detailed manuals describing not only installation and control but also technology, avionics and politics! Yes, a manual on real paper! A hardcopy! Foreign word today...
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[williamjonah]

Ultima 7, thatwas by far one of the best!
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[ccosse]

Asteroids! i was just admiring how light-weight it is, too. on my old old old laptop
it runs so smoothe. hardly anything runs on that old machine.

[Snaketails]

Are we talking about DOS or Windows/gfx based games?

I would say the best game in the adventure realm would have to be ZORK..

The first time I played this game was on a Webster's Spectrum 11/780 mini main-frame, but I would have loved to have played it on the MIT system when it started overtaking the system

[eNTi]

Eye of the Beholder 1+2
Die Sielder 1
Privateer 1
Transport Tycoon
Ultima 8
Ultima Underworld 1+2
UFO - X-Com
Wizadry 7
Warcraft 1+2
Civilisation
Monkey Island
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[feminista]

No one has mentioned The Dig, more proof that it's the most underrated lucasarts adventure. Man, that game had atmosphere. The writing was great, the feel was great, even the voice acting was good. Masterpiece of a game.

But all the other LA adventures were great too. Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle.... yum.

I also was a big fan of Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate, although I wouldn't say it's one of the best. Just very fun.

Hopefully great games like that will start coming back. Tim Schafer's still working, so there's still hope. And A Vampyre Story will come out once they find a publisher, it's made by ex-lucasarts developers, and looks like a classic adventure game with a little more pretty.

[MrPrise]

I agree. LA games was great. I played with Dig too and dott, Monkey Island, etc
I loved the old adventure games like Beneath a Steel Sky and there were other games but I don't remember their names. One of them was made by Revolution Games (maker of the Broken Sword trilogy. maybe this one is their first game on PC). It started in a cellar if I remember correctly. It was very nice game. There was another game wich played in the future in a sci-fi era. There was a machine in it which can change your sex, you can fly with starship, land on a planet, etc. I couldn't finish it, because it always freezed ( Does somebody know their names?
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