Childhood DOS Game

[Hakoda]

Since this had a story behind it I'd thought I'd post it in Blog instead of Computer Systems.

I finally found it after like 8 years I /finally/ found it.

Kay so lets back up a little bit. When I was kid a used to live in San Francisco, CA USA. When I lived there I didn't live in a house, I lived in like a condominium. There were a lot of other condominiums around as well (like a little town). I had two families of relates living around me in other condominiums. One of my uncles used to always let me play on his computer. I loved this ski game, but since I was so little I only remembered that it was about skiing not the actual name. I've wanted to play the game ever since I moved away to San Jose, CA USA but i never found it on Google. When I entered middle school they had the ski game on a network drive for students to play but I never got a chance to copy the file. I just couldn't get my hands on it. Until today. A quick Google IMAGE search (which is why I never found it; i always used a regular web search) of the terms "Ski game" revealed a screenshot of the Ski game I used to play. I got so excited and of course, the original site had download link as well as revealing the game's true name, SkiFree.

I used to always get mad because at around 2000 ft, the abominable snowman would always come in an eat me. D< Till this day I still have no idea how to avoid him.

On another note I also found another puzzle game that was available to play at my middle school. Chips Challenge (Only on 32-Bit Windows systems). I'm on Windows 7 x64 w/ XP Mode

So basically why I'm saying here is what childhood computer games did you play?

 

[DKAngel]

i rember having a copy of this game also way back in the day
allways frustrated me also

 

[Alato]

I remember playing the Hugo's House of Horrors series. I could hardly read, so I never was good at them.

Probably the most nostalgic DOS games for me are Skunny Kart, which is pretty much a blatant ripoff of mario kart, Jazz Jackrabbit 2..
Oh, and Powball for sure. I love that game so much- would always play multiplayer with siblings, and Powball is probably one of the best brick breaking games I've ever played.

 

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[DeMoN]

I remember the Hugo game too. It was pretty dumb in my opinion because you had to type everything exactly the way it was programmed, or nothing would happen. I spent like an hour just trying to open the damn door. I remember you had to break the pumpkin, but I had no clue how you were supposed to do so.

And is what the xkcd comic says true? (press f to go faster?)
All those hours of my youth wasted by that damn snowman!

 

[Joe88]

those are some oldies

same game for windows
also

 

[Sir-Fritz]

I still play skifree sometimes at school when im bored lol.

EDIT: When i was young i used to play some random dos learning games and the original jumpman game aswell as a game called xargon made by whats now known as epic games.

 

[kirlac]

Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, Lemmings, the original Duke Nukem and Crystal Caves are the main ones I remember from when I was a kid. They were really good games, I should look into playing them again.

 

[Rydian]

Yeah, F toggles your speed limit in ski free, just tried it.

I liked Epic Pinball.

 

[f3ar000]

skifree, and a few freebies that came with my family's computer

 

[Minox]

Lemme see, I played a couple of DOS games around the age of 4: Skiifree, Asteroids, Battle Zone, Chip's Challenge, Rodent's Revenge, Pipe Dream and a couple of pinball games which I can't remember the name of.

And just like everyone else I never realized that there was a button in Skiifree that made you go faster. Which in itself could explain why Pipe Dream, Rodent's Revenge and Chip's Challenge were my absolute favorites

 

[FAST6191]

As we are a DS based site:

Chips Challenge is known as codename hacker: http://www.portabledev.com/pages/ds/jeuxde...name-hacker.php

Skiifree: http://www.zawiarr.com/NDS/

In the same games pack as that on windows 3.1 many of the other games have also been ported.
Rodents revenge for one:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16441

I can not do Xargon but there is ZZT.
http://dev.c99.org/DreamZZT/wiki/DreamZZTDS and http://kvance.com/dsmzx/

Lemmings:
http://www.mrdictionary.net/lemmings/


Commander Keen:
http://www.pdroms.de/news/12896/

Duke Nukem:
The PSP also has a port. Most big FPS games of this era have seen DS and PSP versions. (Hexen, Heretic, Doom, Rise of the triad, Quake, Quake 2, Wolfenstein)

Basically if you have a favourite game of this era have a look on the DS, there is a good chance of a port or clone.

 

[Hakoda]

You are my hero.

QUOTE(FAST6191 @ Feb 23 2010, 03:02 AM) As we are a DS based site:

Chips Challenge is known as codename hacker: http://www.portabledev.com/pages/ds/jeuxde...name-hacker.php

Skiifree: http://www.zawiarr.com/NDS/

In the same games pack as that on windows 3.1 many of the other games have also been ported.
Rodents revenge for one:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16441

I can not do Xargon but there is ZZT.
http://dev.c99.org/DreamZZT/wiki/DreamZZTDS and http://kvance.com/dsmzx/

Lemmings:
http://www.mrdictionary.net/lemmings/


Commander Keen:
http://www.pdroms.de/news/12896/

Duke Nukem:
The PSP also has a port. Most big FPS games of this era have seen DS and PSP versions. (Hexen, Heretic, Doom, Rise of the triad, Quake, Quake 2, Wolfenstein)

Basically if you have a favourite game of this era have a look on the DS, there is a good chance of a port or clone.

Sweetnesss, thank you!

 

[ProtoKun7]

Read it, along with every comic there

QUOTE(Minox_IX @ Feb 23 2010, 10:41 AM) Lemme see, I played a couple of DOS games around the age of 4: Skiifree, Asteroids, Battle Zone, Chip's Challenge, Rodent's Revenge, Pipe Dream and a couple of pinball games which I can't remember the name of.

And just like everyone else I never realized that there was a button in Skiifree that made you go faster. Which in itself could explain why Pipe Dream, Rodent's Revenge and Chip's Challenge were my absolute favorites

I played those, and never knew about the speed button either. I loved Chip's Challenge, remember the Southpole level? I think it was level 13, and most of it was ice.

On the note of those ancient games, did anyone play "Hover!"?
I think there was another arcade style shooter, almost like Space Invaders...might've been called Brickanoid or something, it's been so long

 

[FAST6191]

Hover! as in the game that came on the windows 95 CD? I have played it but I liked an amiga game much more called Simulcra.

I appear to have missed Minox_IX's post

http://www.portabledev.com/pages/ds/jeuxde...rso/aemioda.php
Vector graphics games emulator.

pipe dream aka pipe mania did have a commercial DS game. But homebrew does exist:
http://www.pdroms.de/files/1631/ and another called pipe nightmare.

Asteroids, space invaders and games like it are second only to pong and tetris in the "hello world" stakes.

A somewhat more offbeat game from the era:
http://www.pdroms.de/files/1790/ retro rocket- Thrust and TurboRaketti II

MarbleDS:
http://nodadev.wordpress.com/nds-projects/marble-prototype/

I will stop here though as good homebrew has been covered many times elsewhere in more detail than I am willing to tap up here.