The greatest DOS games that defined the golden generation of DOS gaming : dosgaming

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Descent II should at least have an honourable mention

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No Sierra adventure games? Those were awesome in the mid-late 80s. Also no Lucas Arts adventure games. Mean the list isn't awful but none of those really were a staple game type for awhile. You could get your money's worth with some stupid puzzle or figuring out the exact text to type ah fond memories.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Arstechnica had a writeup a few weeks ago about classic Sierra games. I loved them at the time but they don't hold up. There's like 20 minutes of actual game spread with slow walking and impossible puzzles where you were encouraged to call pay per minute game tip phone numbers.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No love for Commander Keen? Aside from Doom, that was my most played.

Got a weird DOS shell "OS" at Walmart for $5, favorite shell of all time. Made icons with the built-in editor of all the Keen beasts!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The green guys with the eyestalk? Iconic.

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Fuckin... agreed, dude

[+] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Wacky Wheels! Thank you, I had long since forgotten the name, but not the game.

I just checked, I have a copy of it!!!! One day I'll set up a DOSbox. I thought Star Control 2 might be the game that persuaded me, but it might be this garbage kart racer.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to play tons on Doom over serial cable with one of my friends, and when we went around looking for other games we could set up Wacky Wheels was one of them. I don't remember how we found it, or even that it was very good, but it was a lot of fun.

DOSbox is pretty easy to run btw--you don't need any special hardware or a dedicated environment like a virtual machine or anything. Just mount the C: drive by pointing it to your games folder and you're good to go.

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

I'm just lazy. All my nonsense is virtual now. I found a DOSbox docker image last updated 4 years ago. Also all my dos games are .7z currently. Setting it up is as simple as a docker compose and extracting the games I wanna play, but I have to fire up my virtual laptop and... I'm just lazy

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 5 points 10 months ago

There's always !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com if you need to find the title of a game you vaguely remember.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Blake Stone was my jam.

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Micro Machines and Raptor: Call of the Shadows deserve a mention as well.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I liked Raptor, but I LOVED Tyrian

[–] Ragnor@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My preferred scrolling shooter was SWIV, which I had for my Amiga. I doubt that a lot of people know that one though, and it isn't DOS. Never heard of Tyrian.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tyrian is freeware and open source!

https://www.gog.com/en/game/tyrian_2000

https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian/blob/master/README

https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian/releases

also the DESTRUCT cheat code is a very fun mini game

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 9 points 10 months ago

Obviously missing The 7th Guest, strangely missing Monkey Island

[–] dariusj18@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Why both Wolf3d and Doom?

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

TIE Fighter and X-Wing. Pretty sure they were DOS... Gotta send some love to Roger Wilco, too.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

Crusader No Remorse and No Regret were top tier DOS games.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Apogee ftw

[–] knightcole@retrolemmy.com 4 points 9 months ago

I'm seeing a significant lack of System Shock here.

[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 4 points 10 months ago

Syndicate (better on PC than Amiga)

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

X-Com gang rise up

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure gang rise up

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