What were the best DOS games?

Xithix · Apprentice Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 228

Scorched Earth (though I preferred the similar Mac game Dome Wars)
Megarace
Lode Runner

doubleagent · Guru Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 444 Location: 127.0.0.1

Doom and Prince of Persia were great!

My personal favorite though: Alone in the Dark: it was a definate first!

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Hyper_Eye · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:10 am Post subject:

Lode Runner and Lode Runner 2 were awesome. They are also both available from the developer free here.
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chronophobic · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:25 am Post subject:

I was surprised, but in 3 pages people only barely touched the truth. Best games of all time for DOS just has to be...

Crusader: No Regret
Crusader: No Remorse

If you have not played either, you seriously missed out on this legendary game. It's a bitch to run nowadays tho, cuz it needs pure DOS and emulators don't work right (I got about 6fps on a high-end system when I last tried...).

Another game that I've spent countless hours with my buddies back in the day...

Mortal Kombat Trilogy, by far the best in the MK series (not counting V which I haven't played)
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andrew_wiggin · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 59 Location: Israel

Prince of persia. finished it (1+2) so many times :roll:

still fun to play it on dosbox

guppy · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:45 am Post subject:

pjo123 · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

7th Guest (think it was a Dos game, long time ago)
Lemmings
Day of the Tentacle
Sam n Max

TheUNabeefer · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Chicago, IL

- Oregon Trail
- Where In the World is Carmen SanDiego
- Spectre

...gosh, I was addicted to Spectre, and then my lousy dos system died and I had to reinstall everything and lost the game..... I have been pissed off for the past 15 years.

Anyone know where I can get a copy and get it running in Linux?!
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Bill Cosby · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject:

Black Throne
Cursader: No Regret
Fantasy General
All LucasArts Grapic Adventures

btw, if you want to play under Linux, this is the combination to go
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
http://www.the-underdogs.org/
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Hyper_Eye · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=1023
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pmperry · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 13

My two personal favorites were Duke Nuk'em 3D and Quake... Outside of that the only DOS game I played previous were Longbow and Wolfenstein (Uber Hitler had to be the first big boss in any first person shooter).

Oh and who can forget Pirates (that game was so good it's been remade twice including one within the past year!)

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chronophobic · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:22 am Post subject:

Strangely enough, I have played Full Throttle. True, pretty classic as quests go, but... Crusader just has that charm... (and I'd never really replay full throttle, regardless of how fun it seemed in '95). I haven't played the early Monkey Island series, but only "the curse of monkey island", which is by far not ranked as a DOS game (whatever, I like the Discworld series MUCH better anyway). And yah, there are so many games one could mention. Syndicate, another classic (was Syndicate Wars a DOS game... I don't remember).

I guess it's my bias to senseless but beautiful violence (so, shooters excluded). I can't be swayed, Crusader rocks (if only I could get it to run properly under dosbox...).
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Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

I've never played it and if it don't run in dosbox I fear I never will. I don't use the winders no more, so, pish posh. I could inherit a 486sx and that might let me live a few classic moments over again if I felt so inclined...
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chronophobic · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:54 am Post subject:

andrewd18 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:04 am Post subject:

I loved my DOS days. Some days, I wish I could go back, but a quick emerge brings me back. :)

1) SimCity, and SimCity2000. I WANT MY LLAMADOME BACK!
2) I'm sad that nobody's mentioned One Must Fall: 2097 yet.

charlieg · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 8:55 am Post subject:

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luisfelipe · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 377

Well, one of my favorites was Arcade Volleyball. There's a linux version of it here :

http://gav.sourceforge.net/

From the site :
"Why AV?

It is fun. Play it for awhile: it is simple, fast, it just catches on. It's silly -- yes -- but try and play it with friends. It takes 5 seconds to figure out how to play, and the 'funky' physics somehow just appeals. You could see it as a 'party' game; say you're throwing a party, you'd have that sort of game in the middle of several drinks, projected on a large screen, to have people have fun, engage in tournaments and laugh all through the game. Just as you'd have with, say, pong. You wouldn't play Warcraft or Flight Simulator in those situations, or would you. Even for a nerds' party we're talking about."

segin · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject:

DOOM.

If it's any consolation, we have GL DOOM engines, so you can get ultra high resolutions without any nasty lag.

Just one thing right about id's desision to make the DOOM engine GPL.

I never felt like using an emulator to run DOS, so i installed it on my 2.6GHz box on the spare drive (rest of the drive is NetBSD)

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure is a classic side scroller, and it worth some time (If only i can remember what the intro tune is... keep hearing it on the classic rock station, anyone know what this games intro/level 10 tune is, let me know!)

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MIT_Service · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 355

1) Quake (and all the mods like Teamfortress or Fantasy versus Future)
2) Champins of Kryn (I love the books so I really liked the game's story)
3) Hexen (and the addon - I kinda like Raven's games)

ChojinDSL · l33t Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 784

Good ol favourites of mine:

All the Quests from Sierra.
All the Lucasarts Adventures.

Command & Conquer. I played the demo while I was at Uni. I got so hooked, next day I skipped all my classes and went to town to buy a copy and stayed in my room and played it the whole time.

Screamer - Racing game. The first one that came out had incredible graphics for the time and was just damn fun to play. Had a decent soundtrack too.

Commanche

Dungeon Master (I think you could also install it under Windows)

Theme Hospital (Also a case of "dual boot") Now that game was just so much silly fun. It took me days to stop laughing at the silly diseases they had in that game.

Theme Park was also quite good, but I never got into it as much.

I'm sure there are plenty of other games that stand out as gems but I cant think of them right now.

Good ol' Dos. I pretty much needed to adjust my Autoexec.bat and config.sys for pretty much every game there was. Remember the CD versions of Sierra Adventures? Holy crap, it was almost impossible to actually have CD-drive,soundcard AND mouse working and get the game to not complain about too little memory.
Still, cant be mad at DOS. That was just part of its charm. :wink:

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I knew I forgot something along the way.

Wing Commander, I played and finished all of them.