DOS Games, anyone?

DOS Games, I love them!

In no particular order, at the whim of my head:

The Colonel's Bequest [Adventure]
Ultima 6 [RPG]
Martian Dreams [RPG]
Ultima 7 (+ Expansion) [RPG]
The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes: Serrated Scalpel [Adventure]
The Secret of Monkey Island [Adventure]
Theme Hospital [Strategy, Kinda]
Dungeon Keeper [Strategy, Kinda]
Little Big Adventure 2 [Adventure]

Those are some of my most loved DOS Games (for now)

As for compatibility, just use DOSBox

[quote name='raulpica' post='2983761' date='Jul 15 2010, 08:39 AM']DOS Games, I love them!

Those are some of my most loved DOS Games (for now)

As for compatibility, just use DOSBox [/quote]


You made me think of a DOS game I played years ago!
I can't remember the name, but it was an rpg/adventure game, if you touched water you died, you died with all kinds of decisions XD

Raulpica's right; just use DOSBox, or try ScummVM, it runs all the games which ran on the SCUMM engine (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion), which all of my favourite games do:

The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max: Hit The Road
LOOM


Then there are others, I'm not sure these will run with ScummVM, but they should work on DOSBox, or just XP if you're lucky:

Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Legend of Kyrandia
Discworld
Escape from Delerium


And there are loads more, those are just my favourites, and they're all the point-and-click type adventures

XP dropped DOS, what appears to be DOS is just the commandline, and isn't nearly as fast since it only keeps certain parts of DOS around for backwards-compatibility with non-games (since companies using DOS stuff for business aren't running games).

So yeah, DOSBox is your bet.

Off the top of my head, in no particular order... Prehistorik, Titus the Fox, The Incredible Machine, Terranova, Fallout, Warcraft, Dune 2, Beneath a Steel Sky.

Strife
Hexen
Elder Scrolls Arena and Dagger Fall
I believe Sanitarium is a dos game
Warcraft 1 and 2
Doom 1 and 2
Duke Nukem 1-3D
Heretic
Command and Conquer
Dune
Fallout
Postal
And Blood
That's about all the ones I can think of that I still play

I recommend Scorched Earth, and F-22 Lightning II

Doom 1 and 2
Commander Keen series
Theme Hospital
Jones in the Fast Lane

Those are some of the good games I have played.

[quote name='A Gay Little Cat Boy' post='2983944' date='Jul 15 2010, 05:41 PM']I believe Sanitarium is a dos game [/quote]
Windows, I'm afraid But the recommendation stands, it's an awesome game

And I forgot to mention Normality, Crystal Caves, Aladdin...

Neverhood! Definitely try Neverhood, it's amazing.


EDIT: NetHack, Ancient Domains Of Mystery (ADOM), Ultima.

If you're interested in legally purchasing DOS based games with some semblance of support I would go with gog.com .They've got a pretty good catalog of games but they don't have everything. You can get stuff like Masters of Orion which is great.

Steam has a pretty good collection old school point and click adventure games. Space Quest, King's Quest, Indiana Jones, Loom, are all there. The original Xcom is definitely worth getting as well.

Some other games you can try finding are any of the "Gold Box" TSR RPG games. The original Fallout is worth it as well.

You can try scouring the bargain bins but for the PC side it's harder to find these kinds of things anymore. You might have more luck at garage sales to be honest.

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I'll throw in a controversial statement here. While there's a great nostalgia factor with these old games, they can be pretty frustrating as well. I don't think anyone would say that 'pixel hunting', non-contextual cursors in RTS games, 'monster closet' FPS, are somehow better than their modern counterparts (the Doom remake showing that doing so makes for a pretty stupid game in modern times). Games have evolved from their humble roots and gameplay has evolved as well.

Master Of Orion 2 is better than 1, and has a windows 95 version.

I forgot to mention my absolute favorite pinball game in the history of forever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Pinball
And it deserves the name.

Scorched Earth is definitely a good one, but WHY hasn't anyone mentioned the Hugo series of games yet? I grew up on that trilogy! Definitely good if you like adventure games.

Here is a good list of DOS games. Note that if you are using Dosbox instead of DSx86 many of the games listed as not working will work as dsx86 only emulates a 286 (and runs at 286 speed).


http://dsx86compatibility.pbworks.com/Compatibility-List

If you are playing them on a PC though DOSBox, I highly recommend for decent Adventure gaming, besides most of Sierra and Traditional Lucasarts, Star Trek TNG A Final Unity, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, and Star Trek Judgment Day. Also Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Oddworld Abe's Exoddus, I highly recommend for fun Platform and Adventure gaming .

[quote name='doyama' post='2983998' date='Jul 15 2010, 12:09 PM']I'll throw in a controversial statement here. While there's a great nostalgia factor with these old games, they can be pretty frustrating as well. I don't think anyone would say that 'pixel hunting', non-contextual cursors in RTS games, 'monster closet' FPS, are somehow better than their modern counterparts (the Doom remake showing that doing so makes for a pretty stupid game in modern times). Games have evolved from their humble roots and gameplay has evolved as well.[/quote]

True, but there is a fun side to pixel hunting because you could hide all sorts of strange things as Easter eggs. Anyways gamers have changed their exceptions of entertainment too. A lot of people want instant gratification these days. Also some of the older Adventure games had the neatest background art that I hardly can tell in new games these days.

I'd recommend Abuse, Flashback and Oddworld : Abe's Exoddus & Oddworld : Abe's Oddysee (last two ones are available @ Steam).