Gaming DOS Games to Die For

[Disco]

oh there was another game with a little wizard guy that was a side scroller and he had to collect crystals or orbs or something and jump on frogs. apogee made it i believe.

Hocus Pocus

Ups... just saw that hadrian allready answered...

well, i miss:
doom
doom2
cannon fodder
haloween harry
dangerous dave 2!(I think no one mentioned this one, it works perfectly on winxp sp2!)
dark forces
wolfenstein
blake stone(1st is great, but sequel is not so good)
commander keen
jazz jackrabit
x-com: terror from the deep (the best game ever IMHO)
x-com: ufo defense
warcraft
dune 2
warcraft 2
descent
wing commander
tie fighter
x-wing
alone in the dark series
biforge
raptor
tyrian
pinball illusions
pinball dreams 1 and 2
pinball fantasises
epic pinball
yo joe!
gods
chaos engine
slipstream 5000
stunts
mortal kombat series
one must fall
lands of lore
need for speed 1
reunion
flashback(2nd best game ever IMHO)
fade to black
another world
syndicate
theme park
lucas arts and sierra adventure games
dreamweb(this is my favourite adv. game)
oh so many games..... good old DOS days!

 

[Upperleft]

I played one DOS game
umm that game with that green rabbit
man .. good times

 

[Bob Evil]

I played one DOS game
umm that game with that green rabbit
man .. good times

Jazz Jackrabbit.


One of my favorite DOS games was Robinson's Requiem ... a great, but very difficult, survival sim ...also, Azrael's Tear was good, too ... oh, and Darklands.

 

[laminaatplaat]

STUNTS
Theme Park
alot of pinball games
warlords
transport tycoon (that was dos ... or not)
raptor

 

[Fakie!]

Duke Nukem 1, 2, 3 and 3D
Wacky Wheels
Tyrian
Jazz Jackrabbit
Realms of Chaos
Raptor
Lode Runner
Doom

I'm sure there are more, but I just can't remember

Good times. Really good times.

 

[Xann]

Commander Keen 1-6
Raptor
Worms

These 2 games are my all time favourite...

 

[Bob Evil]

Almost every Rogue-like ...

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

I feel like an outsider mentioning these

Civilization
Heroes of Might and Magic
Steel Panthers
Close Combat

Maybe because people still play current versions that are Windows evolutions it's forgotten they began as dos games.

I could mention a string of wargames you've never heard of, but, well, you've never heard of them

 

[Westside]

There was an old chess game with game pieces that were actually animated and destroyed each other that I played looong ago on some kind of a computer. Forgot what it's called though, it was really good. I'm assuming it's a dos game since it was back in 1996.

 

[Hadrian]

There was an old chess game with game pieces that were actually animated and destroyed each other that I played looong ago on some kind of a computer. Forgot what it's called though, it was really good. I'm assuming it's a dos game since it was back in 1996.

Battle Chess...awesome series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess

 

[Bob Evil]

Battle Isle ... and all sequels and expansions ...

Syndicate

Syndicate Plus

 

[podunk1269]

The Oregon Trail...yea

 

[Alerek]

Commander Keen, Secret Agent, Indiana Jones & Fate of Atlantis ftw!

 

[RockmanJoe]

Descent 2 - I spent so much time playing that game... amazing classic.
Whiplash - Crazy racing game, I remember having fun destroying the other cars
Jazz Jackrabbit, even though I never played the full game, only the shareware version lol
Bunch of LucasArts adventure games.

And a bunch of other games that came with my 3Dfx Voodoo card. Best bundle ever! (Descent 2 and MechWarrior 2 in the same package FTW)

 

[dawn.wan]

LOL op noted; Abuse. That was a killer game, to bad it was release in the hayday of the internet.. that game aws fully customizable..

not sure if any1 said this yet, but the most memorably games for the PC were the X-wing and Tie Fighter games. Back then the best flying game i played till that point was Red Baron.

and of course.. the secret IS monkey island

EDIT ADD
pirates
civ
warcraft 2
x-com
syndicate
C&C1
aswell

 

[DeMoN]

Alien Carnage
Jazz Jackrabbit
Zeliard
Raptor: Call of the Shadows

 

[porchemasi]

Hugo
Batman Returns
Lemmings
TMNT
Ally Cat
Billy the Kid
Captain KEEN!

 

[Neko]

Theme Hospital
Theme Park

And a really awesome one :

Cannon Fodder!

 

[Cheater388]

Duke Nukem 3D (look in the 3D Realms Board for a windows port)
Syndicate (bullfrog)
Hexen (look for win ports like Zdoom)

Although not a DOS game (it's a win16 game), I really liked Fury3 and it's Dos prelude Terminal Velocity.

 

[704jaffer]

Nethack and Dwarf Fortress. Enough said.