What were the best DOS games?

dkmweeks · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: What were the best DOS games?

Ahh... It is difficult to name the best, but my choice is Masters of Magic (mom). It is the single most replayable game, that can be completed in a reasonable amount of time.

Next would be the Elder Scrolls, tied with Warlords II. (edit: I never played Warlords, and started with two, I think?)

All three of these are stragegy games. I remember downloading DOOM, when it was FIRST relased, through the Internet, while at The American University. So that's the first game I ever downloaded throught the Internet. HEY! A new post!

Edit: my first download was actually Wolfenstein, now that I think of it.

Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

Anything on the original scumm engine would have had me (in those days) playing for months. Because I was so little it took me forever to figure that shit out.

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dkmweeks · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:37 am Post subject:

What was the original scumm engine? And what do you know of 2600 games?

russianpirate · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:54 am Post subject:

DOOM, Heretic, Hexen 1 & 2

dkmweeks · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:04 am Post subject:

OOHH YEEEAAAHHH.

Now I remember. Heretic was built on doom's engine. Damn fun. I never have played in Hexen.

Each of these should become a staple offering of Gentoo.

username · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 22

duke nukem, the first one, not the 3d one

Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

I agree with Aynjell, the LucasFilm Games/LucasArt adventure games (Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Zackary McCracken...) were really nice...

Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

Doom, Doom II, Final Doom.

The entire Commander Keen series.
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bgradid · Apprentice Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 162

Settlers 2 and Privaeer are both honorable mentions
privateer has a smashing new remake you can get that is very true to the original

DoktorSeven · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:

I am pleased with the outpouring of love for DOOM

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Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

Doom to be sure, but sorry, Loom crushes it any day.
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Hyper_Eye · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:17 am Post subject:

Definitely Doom. As for the scumm engine I love Full Throttle. Some other games that ate a lot of my time were:

Dune 2
Civilization
Master of Orion and MOO2
Sim City
Quake
Some of the Microprose games like F-117 Stealth Fighter and Apache
Quarantine
Street Rod

There are so many more that will probably come to me but these are the ones that really ate some time (especially Dune 2 and Doom.)

Doikor · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:22 am Post subject:

ufo or x-com

ChristyMcJesus · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 184

Worms (not the sequels, only the original and best)
Elite 2 (despite the horrendous amount of bugs)

Syntaxis · Guru Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 511 Location: London, UK

Ultima 7 and Star Control 2. Thankfully, both can now be played natively in Linux, in the guise of Exult and The UrQuan Masters respectively. :-)

Personally I reckon both efforts have significantly improved upon the already superb original games. In SC2's case, with the addition of the voice acting (in the original DOS version of the game, all dialogue was text-only) by a long, long way.
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johntramp · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 457 Location: New Zealand

Captain Comic

dkmweeks · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:32 am Post subject:

Mega Race 2.

Koradji · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject:

I don't remember my favourite, but one i remember playing a lot, was trying to juggle autoexec.bat and config.sys so that i had enough memory.

Others i specifically remember enjoying were:
XT
hack (ala nethack)
elite
486
ufo
privateer
doom
simcity
civilisation
dark sun
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ChristyMcJesus · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 184

Prince of Persia.

Irom · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

Elite+
Strife
Shadow Warrior
Zangband

Nuff Said

brianhearn · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 72

Worms! And with regards to the sequels I quite liked Worms Reinforcements. On a related note, if anyone has a copy of Worms United check out the credits for the madcow level

(Anyone who used imagine might recognise the cow)
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johntramp · Guru Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 457 Location: New Zealand

Crystal Caves

paddler · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:

nethack

jtaylor72 · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:

Pool of Radiance (heck, all of those D&D games)
Sim City
Tetris
Ultimas