Favorite DOS Games?

[Flack]

I'm starting to compile a list of good DOS games for my upcoming podcast. What are some of your favorites?

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https://dosgames.com/game/pyro-2/

[RealNC]

That would be a very long list, which includes the whole Lucasfilm/Lucas Arts catalog. So instead just a few perhaps less known ones:

• Turrican 2
• Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (aka "Realms of Arkania 2")
  The floppy disk version. The CD version has voice acting that is game-ruiningly bad.
• Dreamweb
• Ultima 8
  Everyone's hating on this game but I love it.
• Simon The Sorcerer 1 & 2

[Casual Observer]

I loved Spy Hunter. Wow, didn't remember that you can play these things all online.
https://www.retrogames.cz/play_581-DOS.php?language=EN

Jesus, this reminded me how at 14 I exchanged boxes of my mom's old superhero comics for worthless copied DOS warez. Those comics are probably worth thousands now, what a fucking idiot.

[AArdvark]

Leisure Suit Larry!!!!!!

[Casual Observer]

I must have killed some brain cells, the Space Quests was my absolute favorite.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Let's start with Chopper Commando.

[Jizaboz]

I 2nd Aardvark on Leisure Suit Larry. Adults told me I was too young to be playing them at 13, but I still strongly disagree.

LSL (LSL3, LSL5, and the VGA remake of 1) were right up there with Space Quest for me.

Monkey Island 1 and 2 are 2 of my favorite games ever of all time. I love the dialoge, graphics, and jokes Felt like I belonged in the environment.. but the games are extensively covered I'm afraid. There is even a rare heart-felt moment for me; when Guybrush is talking to Elaine in Monkey Island 1 on the dock by the sea it reminded me of so many female interactions that went nowhere.

X-Men Vs Murderworld (I insisted on owning this before I even owned a PC. Kind of interesting)

Ultima - Martian Dreams

Return to Zork (floppy version)

Life & Death 1 and 2

(I'm sure something will nag me that I forgot later)

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DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D were okay.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I was OBSESSED with X-Men: Madness in Murder world.

There are two severe issues with the game. The first is that there is a "mutant power" bar. Cyclops solves problems by shooting lasers out of his eyes. He doesn't have a BAR.

The second is that when fighting bad guys, there is no movement after a successful strike. I never noticed other games doing it until this one didn't. On Double Dragon or Streets of Rage or any game that has fighting, if you punch someone, they will move back. If they punch you, you might move back. Or some games make you die if you are touched by an enemy. Not in this game. As a result, gameplay has you and the enemy just sitting there whaling on each other with no "reaction" to the punches.

That said, it's a beautiful EGA game. I have heard it's the first game with the X-Men ever made.

[Jizaboz]

DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D were okay.

It's funny.. while I spent lots of hours playing modding nearly every IdSoft game starting with Doom II.. I thought Doom 1 was overrated and kinda boring when it first came out; spending more time with Return to Zork. Of course now my opinion on that has changed a bit.

I was OBSESSED with X-Men: Madness in Murder world.

There are two severe issues with the game. The first is that there is a "mutant power" bar. Cyclops solves problems by shooting lasers out of his eyes. He doesn't have a BAR.

The second is that when fighting bad guys, there is no movement after a successful strike. I never noticed other games doing it until this one didn't. On Double Dragon or Streets of Rage or any game that has fighting, if you punch someone, they will move back. If they punch you, you might move back. Or some games make you die if you are touched by an enemy. Not in this game. As a result, gameplay has you and the enemy just sitting there whaling on each other with no "reaction" to the punches.

That said, it's a beautiful EGA game. I have heard it's the first game with the X-Men ever made.

Hell yeah. This and Ultima V were actually the first EGA games I had ever played, at an older friends house who lived down the road. This dude basically inspired me to believe I had to convince my family to get an "IBM compatible" computer after failing to convince them to get any other computer. The controls and that combat yes haha. There was no physical feedback at all, instead you heard your PC speaker roar every time you struck at an enemy. The game was very large for the time, and it was easy to get lost and hit deadends. I ordered the hintbook for it from the game maker which turned out to be a few sheets of paper explaining the puzzles and a map of every single room. This helped, but I still didn't beat it. Perhaps one day! Still have the comic book the game was based on, but not the re-print with a yellow cover that was included in the game box. It really was an amazing game graphics-wise and represented all of the characters pretty well. MUCH better than the garbage X-Men that would be released soon after for NES.

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https://www.myabandonware.com/game/ega-trek-1km