Old DOS games ruled....

Swapabam · Post by **Swapabam** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 10:43 am

They really did. Wasn't it amazing how much fun we had with them? In a time where graphics were not too important, and gameplay reigned supreme, I lost countless hours of my life to these games. I have listed a few. Has anyone played any of these?

Solar Winds (just plain rocked)
Enoid (arkanoid clone)
BattleStar (I uploaded it to my site. Grab it at http://www.ericman.com/stuff/batlstar.zip)
Jazz Jacrabbit (Original and Xmas edition)

Thinking of these games brings back memories

List some of your favorites.

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 10:51 am

I love old DOS games...

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:04 am

Don't forget Wing Commander 1 and 2 those was great games.

Did anybody ever get Solar Winds to work with sound effects without locking up? I played that game on like 5 different PC's and it always would lock up if you tried to use sound effects. The music would work just not sound effects.

Some other good ones are:

One Must Fall 2907 (mortal kombat style game with robots)
Kings Quest/Space Quest/Leisure Suit Larry Games
Gold Rush

CupNoodle · Post by **CupNoodle** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:13 am

Remember Commander Keen?

Swapabam · Post by **Swapabam** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:27 am

Veggita2099 wrote: Some other good ones are:

One Must Fall 2907 (mortal kombat style game with robots)

Did you know this game is being remade?? I cant wait for it to come out. Check out http://www.omf.com

Listen to the menu theme. Tell me if that doesnt bring back memories

edit: It appears they took the music off the site. Here is a mirror

http://bkkbazaar.com/omf/downloads/mp3s ... 92kbps.mp3

Post by **Roofus** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 12:24 pm

Here's some of my favorite DOS games:

Commander Keen
Jazz Jackrabbit
Wolfenstein 3D (Still haven't tried that for DC)
PIPE.EXE (don't remember the name of this one, Basically, you have to hook the house up to the water tower with pipes. You only have so many and there can be no leaks.

Chopper Commando
OMF 2097
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (My 8088 can talk!)
Space Quest 3
Space Quest 4
Space Quest 5
Space Quest 6
Police Quest 2
Police Quest 3
And a whole lot more I can't remember...

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 12:36 pm

Swapabam wrote:
Veggita2099 wrote: Some other good ones are:

One Must Fall 2907 (mortal kombat style game with robots)
Did you know this game is being remade?? I cant wait for it to come out. Check out http://www.omf.com

Listen to the menu theme. Tell me if that doesnt bring back memories

edit: It appears they took the music off the site. Here is a mirror

http://bkkbazaar.com/omf/downloads/mp3s ... 92kbps.mp3

Blah I don't get into 3D fighting games. Im more of a button masher on those games.

Post by **melancholy** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:12 pm

Scorched Earth! That killed so many class hours back in the day!

0newinged · Post by **0newinged** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 3:11 pm

Jazz kicks ass. I also loved Duke Nukem II

and this old skool racing game... can't remember the name though

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 4:14 pm

TheAxeMan wrote:Jazz kicks ass. I also loved Duke Nukem II and this old skool racing game... can't remember the name though

Was it wacky races? If they made a 3D Jazz Jackrabbit Id probably buy it. Duke Nukem 2 was pretty decent. Scorched earth was pretty fun.

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 4:40 pm

You haven't mentioned Rogue???????

That game is/was so good that I'm working on porting it to the Dreamcast!

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 6:23 pm

Has anyone else played Bioforge?

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 8:06 pm

anybody remember mega race? oh man was freaken awesome. plus we cannot forget sam and max.

Calavera · Post by **Calavera** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 8:18 pm

And pretty much all the other lucasarts adventure games. The only one I didn't like was Maniac Mansion. But Day of the Tentacle(Maniac Mansion 2) was cool.

CupNoodle · Post by **CupNoodle** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 8:48 pm

Calavera wrote:And pretty much all the other lucasarts adventure games. The only one I didn't like was Maniac Mansion. But Day of the Tentacle(Maniac Mansion 2) was cool.

D.O.T. Ruled!

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:02 pm

Calavera wrote:And pretty much all the other lucasarts adventure games. The only one I didn't like was Maniac Mansion. But Day of the Tentacle(Maniac Mansion 2) was cool.

I got a friend who swears Maniac Mansion is the best game ever made.

liltimmyw · Post by **liltimmyw** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:04 pm

Maniac Mansion is excellent, although DOTT dosent look to good.

and speaking of old DOS games, Scorched Earth...the best DOS game around.

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:08 pm

The NES version of Maniac mansion was cool cause it had decent sound. The PC version was made before sound cards was about so it was just computer beeps. Maniac mansion used to hide porn back in the day that I used my parents computer. I had them hidden under a subdirectory called system in the maniacm folder. You wouldn't beleive how much space that old dos game took up hehe.

liltimmyw · Post by **liltimmyw** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:11 pm

Veggita2099 wrote:The NES version of Maniac mansion was cool cause it had decent sound. The PC version was made before sound cards was about so it was just computer beeps. Maniac mansion used to hide porn back in the day that I used my parents computer. I had them hidden under a subdirectory called system in the maniacm folder. You wouldn't beleive how much space that old dos game took up hehe.

another great DOS game os the OLD oregon trail, although that was one of the games with the computer beeping sound for the music...i hate it

Post by **Roofus** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:47 pm

Veggita2099 wrote:The NES version of Maniac mansion was cool cause it had decent sound. The PC version was made before sound cards was about so it was just computer beeps. Maniac mansion used to hide porn back in the day that I used my parents computer. I had them hidden under a subdirectory called system in the maniacm folder. You wouldn't beleive how much space that old dos game took up hehe.

I used to hide my porn in C:\DOOM\WADS>