/vr/ - Retro Games

Blood
Might and Magic

Commander Keen, Halloween Harry, Monster Bash, Tyrian, Raptor, Dick Kickem 2

>>3473425
Sim Farm!

That reminds me of all the hours I spent playing Sim Ant.

Anyone remember Sim Tower? And Yoot Tower?

Math Blaster
Mario Teaches Typing
Mario is Missing!
Treasure Mountain
Spy Fox

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Tie Fighter
Doom
Random Shareware floppies

Heretic is better than Hexen

>>3473391
Stunt Driver (LOL physics was awesome, I crashed once and was flying for like five minutes)

3D Bomberman

Carmen Sandiego

>>3473434
I liked Sim Tower.

Bump.

>>3473391
>Jazz Jackrabbit
>Commander Keen
>>3473425
>Halloween Harry
>Monster Bash
>Duke Nukem 2
>>3473457
>Mario Is Missing

Mah niggas

Bumpel

>>3473391

Silpheed
Firehawk: Thexder the Second Encounter
Zeliard
Quest for Glory

>>3483813
which gold box game is this

>>3473391
as a child, the major ones I played were:
>Bananoid
>Commander Keen 1
>Commander Keen 4
>Captain Comic
>Scorched Earth (if that counts. I think it does)
>some breakout game on a floppy that had to do with dragons
there were a few games I can remember but don't remember the name of though. like one where i think the main character was a grey mouse dude. Pretty sure it was some kind of learning game but i remember something about rolling dice. Then there was a golf game I think. LAstly, some game about scuba diving and getting shit off the bottom of the ocean while dodging sharks or shooting them with harpoon guns.

>>3473391
Pic says it all.

Any one know how I can get t his to run on win7? Dosbox only works in a really small window and the fan port doesn't seem to work at all.

>>3487506
>Dosbox only works in a really small window
alt+enter doesn't work?

>>3473391
jazz was shitty sonic ripoff

>>3473391
I remember to play a game where I'd put a lot of random characters and they would interact with each other when I hit the "play" Button. There were dinosaurs, witches, etc. Do anyone know the name of this game?

>>3487506
Change your dosbox settings it's probably a window running the game in its native resolution you can make it larger in the settings.

>>3473391
Back in the day, I bought a lot of games published by Origin, Lucasarts/Lucasfilm Games, Sierra, and MegaTech. Then I got into the shareware scene, and registered titles from Apogee, Epic Megagames, and id. Demo discs included with PC Gamer magazine introduced me to all the fun I had with Bullfrog and Blizzard titles.

Stuff I have fond memories playing:

Origin = Ultima 7 (all of part 1&2), Wing Commander 2 & Privateer

Lucasarts = Sam & Max: Hit the Road, X-Wing/Tie-Fighter, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle

Sierra = King's Quest 6, Leisure Suit Larry 5, Conquests of Longbow, Space Quest 6

MegaTech = Cobra Mission, Knights of Xentar

Apogee = Halloween Harry (registered prior to renaming to Alien Carnage), Wolfenstein 3D

Epic Megagames = Epic Pinball, Solar Winds, Tyrian, Zone 66

id = Doom, Heretic

EA/Bullfrog = Syndicate, Theme Park

Blizzard = Warcraft 2

Shoutouts to: Star Control 2, UFO, Civilization, Masters of Magic, Legend of Kyrandia, and Scorched Earth

I had a great time with DOS, just as much as my SNES and cousin's Genesis in that time period.

>>3487796
ZZT!

>>3487516
That actually worked.

>>3487759
No idea how to do that.

Secret Agent from Apogee.

>>3487831
> Solar Winds
Holy shit I remember playing the shareware version of that. I recall getting the... hyperdrive? Some kind of FTL drive, and going to another system.. and it being a ruse? Then not having enough fuel/energy/whatever to get back?

I played much of shareware already mentioned but Warcraft 2 was the first DOS
game I actually purchased (at CompUSA, I think), followed by Quake both ran in
DOS with the 32-bit extender (DOS/4GW or CWSDPMI), I think a lot of those later
DOS games used the Watcom development tools. Actually, Quake might have used
DJGPP, which was a DOS port of GCC.

After that it was Diablo and that was the first (non-DOS) game I recall
requiring Windows and DirectX.

The Ultima Underworld demo stands out as being a good experience, and DOOM,
obviously.

The Apogee games where all fun, but for some reason I didn't play them until
much later. I played all the 3DRealms era stuff + Blood (Monolith). I played
the Rise of the Triad demo which I don't recall being a very impressed with.

There were some pretty cool Ultima clones at the time but I don't remember
their names.

I played a cool little demo called Gladiator by a small company called
Forgotten Sages (pic related), not sure if anyone remembers that one, which I
think is open source now.

I didn't play the Descent demo until much later either. Modem downloads where
time consuming and sometimes there would be connection issues forcing you to
restart the download from scratch (after waiting hours). When the download bar
approached the end it was customary to chant and pray to the internet spirits
for the download to complete successfully. It sucked, I hope this doesn't
sound like one of those grandpa stories, but you had to be fairly
discriminating about your DLs, especially large ones, which at the time where
megabytes.

>>3487897
Yeah, Solar Winds scratched my itch for more Star Control 2, which was one of my most favorite games on the platform at the time. The music in Solar Winds was pretty great too as I remember. Even though the "universe" opens up after registering, it somehow felt like just another chapter making a grand total of only 2 chapters to the game (unlike Wolf3D having 6 at the time, Doom with 3, etc.).

I vaguely remember a scammer NPC in Solar Winds chapter 1,but I don't think it was the hyperdrive. The game design does not provide the player much of an out if they deplete their fuel, at least according to my hazy memory. I did mostly stick with just the points where NPCs directed me, instead of much exploration on my own. I have been meaning to break out my old Underground-Gamer golden torrent DVD burns and set up my emulation machine with DOSBOX and SCUMMVM.

>>3488831
I remember finishing chapter One. I think you get back after rescuing someone from a distant galaxy then return to the home galaxy and you either have to follow him into a void or your ship explodes.
I then downloaded Solar Winds 2 and it felt too different to 1 and I never got back into it.

Time to post something that isn't basic bitch for DOS, not that these aren't great.

D Generation was a clever little isometric action/puzzle hybrid. Was occasionally frustrating as fuck, though, but what /vr/ isn't?

Also this. Only fun for a play now and then, but has a cute aesthetic and charming use of PC speaker blips. Has a proto-WarioWare feel to it with it being a jumble of minigames steadily progressing in difficulty and adding obstacles.

Crusader: No Remorse
Super Hero League of Hoboken
Ascendancy
Albion is fuckin awesome!

Had some dime-a-dozen shareware CD on my first computer that included a demo of Aquanoid. To this day I've never found the full version, hell, I don't even know if it *exists*. Anyway, even with actual Arkanoid being playable in all its console and arcade iterations via emulation, I have a particular fondness for this game's physics, speed, and pickups.

>>3473391
Jill of the Jungle
Crystal Caves
Duke Nukem I and II
Monster Bash
Wolfenstein 3D
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Bio Menace
Day of the Tentacle
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Prince of Persia
Commander Keen
Secret Agent
Dangerous Dave

these were some of my favorite games when I was between 4 and 9 years old

>>3488831
My nigga

There is way too many games from DOS that I played that I can't even list it here!

But I did play a lot of SkyRoads! That one had a kickass soundtrack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9R1tv_A32U

Do not miss out on Starflight.

>>3473391
LIERO

Fragile Allegiance
Transarctica
Dungeon Master 2 (Skullkeep)
Fury of the Furries
Genesia aka Ultimate Domain
The Horde
Tyrian
Ultima Underworld

>>3487492
What game is that?

>>3487831
sheeiiit

>>3493697
Well, you are right, not all of my memories are fond ones with DOS games.

I do remember playing some shit like Mortal Kombat, Sango Fighter, Executioners, and bootleg SF2 games with ripped images/sprites from the SNES version.

>>3493619
>Dungeon Master 2
Chaos Strikes Back is much better. Amiga games are haram on /vr/ though for some reason.

Not gonna say it was great but Terminator 2029 was fun enough, its like its like a proto-daggerfall FPS with shit controls. I still played the shit out of it though.

On my first shareware disc, 101 games.

>>3488076
>Modem downloads where
>time consuming and sometimes there would be connection issues forcing you to
>restart the download from scratch (after waiting hours). When the download bar
>approached the end it was customary to chant and pray to the internet spirits
>for the download to complete successfully. It sucked, I hope this doesn't
>sound like one of those grandpa stories, but you had to be fairly
>discriminating about your DLs, especially large ones, which at the time where
>megabytes.

And this is why people used download managers, that allowed you to resume downloads even after interuption. I remember downloading one particular CG artwork set in polygraphic quality (about 6000x3000, TIFF), for 4 months straight with dialup modem. Thanks to a bug in my ISP's outdated hardware, I managed to bypass traffic and time restrictions.

>>3495312
Ah, the days of Getright..
Mirc and DCC were better.. dedicated speeds and built in file resuming.
I remember downloading a South Park realvideo file from a BBS, it was 32MB and I thought it was amazing they could compress a whole episode that much.
It was about 90 seconds of video.

You can try Platformania too, platformania.com

>>3473391
I really liked master of magic back in the day. Just bought v 1.31 off gog.

Am now highly confused. I can either

1.Play the game
2. Install insecticide 1.40n patch with ai and bug fixes
3. Install 1.5 fan patch with no ai fixes but many bug fixes
4. Install v2.8 caster of magic with apparently loads of bug fixes, ai and balancing changes

What do?