4ea01e No.16346163
The end of the DOS era has some real gems and most of them aren't discussed because they're not on GoG or Steam. What's some of your favourites and what would you recommend people exploring the era to try?
<No games after 95
28eb1e No.16346185
I love Apogee games. I think just about all of them meet a minimum level of quality.
But my secret favorite childhood game is this weird motherfucker.
4894e0 No.16346189
That image would be great abstract art.
2c704c No.16346190
I will murder for s way to get blue heat to work
f87fcb No.16347001
hexxagon
commander keen
warlords 2
scorched earth
beneath a steel sky
8ecfa6 No.16347035
>>16346163
>most of them aren't discussed because they're not on GoG or Steam.
But that's not entirely true, I'd say 90% of DOS era games that are worth preserving or emulating are available on GoG and/or Steam nowadays, including quite obscure titles. A couple of exceptions are Radix: Beyond the Void and Speed Haste.
Speed Haste is a pretty fun Daytona USA-inspired arcade racer that marked my youth, and I think was quite notorious for achieving 60fps even on a 100 MHz 486 in VGA mode. The problem with Speed Haste is that the only way to play it properly, is on real hardware (preferably something like a Pentium MMX 233 MHz where it can run at a stable 60 fps in SVGA 640x480 mode with max detail). On DOSBox it stutters like mad and crashes often, no matter what settings you use (not just me, it's a known documented problem for years). I've heard it has problems even running on a proper full fledged VM through VirtualBox or VMWare.
4c860d No.16347049
>>16347035
>On DOSBox it stutters like mad and crashes often, no matter what settings you use (not just me, it's a known documented problem for years). I've heard it has problems even running on a proper full fledged VM through VirtualBox or VMWare.
Have you tried PCem/86Box? It's an accurate PC emulator, that can emulate a Pentium MMX 233.
ed0bdd No.16347056
Any abandonware sites that have the game download in a pre-configured DosBox? I can do it myself, but there's a lot of titles I want to re-aquire and I'd rather just take the lazy path if possible.
Off the top of my head, which aren't found on GoG or other sites -
A10 Tank Killer
A10 Silent Thunder
Red Baron/Aces of the Pacific
Stellar 7/Nova 9
Solar Winds
One Must Fall 2097
The Incredible Machine (original)
Metal & Lace 1 & 2
The Laffer Utilities
Hoyle Vol 1 (Sierra)
EGA Bomb/Scorched Earth
Test Drive
Dracula in London
Original Sim City
Lemmings
Where in Time/World is Carmen Sandiego
And a bunch of others. You get the idea.
>>16346958
>It's fucking weird man.
Don't talk shit about Jill.
1e152d No.16347088
>>16346185
That's not even close to the weirdest thing related to the thing that made that game.
6d82a4 No.16347104
>>16346163
Do you like driving?
Then play some motherfucking Stunts.
Has pretty much everything you'd want in a racing game. AI rivals all have their own personalities and driving styles. Track editor lets you make whatever the fuck you want. It's good shit.
8ecfa6 No.16347262
>>16347049
No, I have heard of it but haven't tried it. Thanks for reminding me, I might give it a try.
>>16347104
Good call. I've heard this one never made to Steam or GoG and probably never will due to licensing issues. Played the shit out of it during the late 1990s, and even formed a small community of Stunts enthusiasts where we'd share custom tracks and do time attack lap time competitions. To this day I kick myself for not having backed up the dozens of tracks I built for it, some of them were pretty good.
28eb1e No.16347269
>>16347001
>Scorched Earth
People who think that early PC games had no good multiplayer are dead wrong.
4c860d No.16347278
>>16346190
Runs fine in DosBox with Windows 3.1 and 86Box with Windows 95.
86Box has better colors, but it's stuttering.
ed0bdd No.16347289
>>16347269
>People who think that early PC games had no good multiplayer are dead wrong.
bf638b No.16347292
>>16346958
How appropriate that Tim Sweeney is suddenly in the limelight again. Humble beginnings, folks.
bc5f30 No.16347295
>>16347035
All the credible abandonware sites typically take their DOS games down when it's for sale on GOG or Steam. I really hate that shit.
b6d2cb No.16347322
>>16346163
Simearth, simlife, simant, simcity 1 and 2000, ur'quan masters, some xplane thing i heard about, nethack (pre 3.6.0 since apparently devteam is messing it up after that, according to your criterium, nethack <3.1.2 is correct for playing) moria, angband, rogue, etc.
b6d2cb No.16347324
8ecfa6 No.16347328
>>16347295
>All the credible abandonware sites typically take their DOS games down when it's for sale on GOG or Steam
Heh, I still remember that Home of the Underdogs (back when they still offered downloads at all, and were one of the go-to mainstream abandonware dl sites) was the one site who started with this faggotry more than a decade ago, and then all other abandonware sites started imitating it Never really affected me since back then I was already a data hoarder who never believed the "lol you dumb it'll stay up forever dude!" meme
b6d2cb No.16347338
>>16347322
>>16347324
Welp, i meant <=3.1.3.
b2f1bd No.16347395
>no games after 95
Politely kill yourself.
28eb1e No.16347402
>>16347395
Nice technicality faggot, even Doom was used to sell Win95
bc5f30 No.16347412
>>16347395
Quake isn't obscure and it's got so many shareware ports that you can play it right now, as in right now. No these swfs are not browser animations, you gotta figure out the keys yourself.
a97df4 No.16347532
>>16346163
>Early 90's
>No games after 95
Only games between 1990 and 1995?! Damn, no Ant Run (1996), no Bubble Ghost (1988), no QIX (it was ported to computer in the late 80s, the game is much older than that), no Bombuzal (1989).
Okay, so at least I have two games from the Atari ST there got ported to DOS and are in range:
E-Motion, a kind-of puzzle/arcade game where you poke balls of the same color together to make them disappear; if two balls of different colors collided, they would spawn smaller balls that would have their average color, which could be eaten for health until they grew to their full size. The theme music is really cool too (but the PC Speaker rendition is… well…)
Baby Joe, a cutsie platformer inspired by old Warner Bros. cartoons.
>>16347281
Jennifer Diane Reitz was one of the two (I think) founders of Accursed Toys and was also lead game designer for Boppin'… have I mentioned there's an article about Jennifer on Encyclopedia Dramatica yet?
28eb1e No.16347558
>>16347532
>Jennifer Diane Reitz was one of the two (I think) founders of Accursed Toys and was also lead game designer for Boppin'… have I mentioned there's an article about Jennifer on Encyclopedia Dramatica yet?
I had no idea, actually.
That would explain the game's unusualness. Boppin' is genuinely a good game, though.
a97df4 No.16347577
>>16347558
I like the game too
68cb2e No.16348222
I miss Epic MegaGames.
>>16346185
A few bullshit levels and all the boss fights aside, it was breddy gud.
I wonder what the person behind it is doing these days. A tranny in its late 50s by now. Last I heard it was heavily involved in horse cartoon fanfiction and extreme feminism.
a4ed7c No.16348489
For me, it's all about the old school RPGs like pic, The Magic Candle, Dark Heart Of Uukrul, Legend of Faerghail, SSI Gold Box series, etc. before everything turned into realtime 3D shit. Also text adventures, with or without graphics.
17bf92 No.16348494
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
I'm a fan of shareware piles of shit that teenagers made in their parents' garages. There's so much entertainment value to shitty DOS games.
ffcec1 No.16348534
>no games after 95
god damn it
Operation: Carnage is a pretty standard top-down shooter, but the sound effects and music left an impression on me.
7c026e No.16348851
>>16348222
Oh how the mighty have fallen
f05ecd No.16349374
>>16347532
>baby jo goin home
tightest shit right there, nigger
12c5d0 No.16349656
>>16347532
>Check ED article
>Check wikipedia article just to compare
>boppin's page looks like this
Groovy.
2521e5 No.16349658
Sorry but I have to post about Cybergladiators. https://youtu.be/UwZP9kGxQzQ
This game was stuck in my memory for the longest time but I wasn't able to find it until I spent a whole fucking half hour scouring mobygames. I wouldn't have tried to find it if I didn't think I was having a Mandela Effect about its existence.
ea75e9 No.16349737
Even I'm not old enough to remember this. Besides we were poor in the early 90s
a97df4 No.16350821
>>16348534
A Smash TV clone for DOS? I'll give that one a go.
2b5adf No.16350859
Knights of the Crystallion
4ff3a2 No.16354153
I guess you could play DoTims - it's a 90's focused doom wad that projects it's stuff into the future.
4a4019 No.16354228
>>16348489
>dark heart of uukrul
A fellow patrician
062d31 No.16355227
>>16346163
>No games after 95
I like some games that were released precisely in 95.
0caf46 No.16355472
1990
Gunboat, has almost more info than pulling out reference material. Simple controls if you can find the manual. Top river ratting.
0caf46 No.16355476
Just recently realized there was a TurboGFX port, knew about the AMIGA one, more about better sound than anything.
78f444 No.16355683
This was the golden era of point and click adventure games.
6658f8 No.16355786
Any good multiplayer games? i think it would be fun to have some older games to play for gamenights instead of the constant sourcemods and FPS games.
00cfa9 No.16355792
>>16355472
>Play game in grade school and early middle school.
>Get the hang of controls, but still don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
>Go around killing everyone in sight.
>Complete all objectives.
>Think I did well.
>"You shot my men! You will be court-martialed!"
>Lose mission.
>Fuck it, had fun anyway.
d20560 No.16355918
>>16355683
The only era really. It's been a wasteland ever since.
a8f097 No.16356217
>>16348489
>SSI Gold Box series
they still haven't been topped
they're perma installed on my computer
0caf46 No.16356262
>>16355792
Similar experience but I got it from some mall kiosk selling pirated games. I've still not come across a boxed copy or a manual. Odd for being Accolade.
0caf46 No.16356342
>>16356262
If you want to run through it again on DOSBox, I got it wrangled in at about 4000 cycles, it's in the filename. I don't want to monkey paw it, but there sure are not enough singular sims like this anymore. Forget that Apocalypse Now game.
a4ed7c No.16356452
>>16355472
>>16355792
lemonamiga.com has a 56 page manual for this game. That should explain everything. Anyway they've got lots of manuals on that site, so it's useful if you want to play 80's and early 90's games that got ported to Amiga/Atari/DOS as was pretty common back then.
1b8ccb No.16356650
Technically 1989, but surely that counts too.
120caf No.16357531
>>16355683
>Starring Tia Carrere
Probably her best role.
a575ad No.16357579
>>16349658
I remember wanting to play this game back in the day but couldn't because my graphics card simply couldn't handle it (it couldn't do 16 bit colour)..
I'm a little disappointed tbh.