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Just got DOSBox and looking for some of the best DOS games, what would you suggest?

>> No.350125

>>350120
Life and Death 2

do it now

>> No.350139

Looks good, anything else?

>> No.350146

that picture reminds me of police quest, so im going to add police quest

>> No.350154

daggerfall, if youre into that kinda thing

>> No.350171

Never actually played daggerfall, heard the controls were weird though, i'll give it a try. Any more?

>> No.350180

Sim City 2000

>> No.350262

Alleycat, The Punisher, X-Men 2

>> No.350351

Lands Of Lore is probablt my all time favorite DOS game, so I would definitely suggest that!

>> No.350371

girlfriend construction set

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Crafty list elaborated by someone in here coming up.

1/2

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Empty thread, I know, but someone will see this and hopefully use it.

2/2

>> No.351338

>>351309
>it may have the simple plot of retrieving stuff for your gizmo, but it is better than the games that involve rescuing a damsel in distress

made me rage a little, but great pic and list

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Cannon Fodder

>> No.351595

>>351309
>>351320
>no Star Trek 25th Anniversary
>no Judgement Rites

I respect whoever put these lists together but they're wrong to leave out two of the greatest Star Trek games

>> No.351697

>>351320
What happened to Realms of the Haunting? I remember it being on the list, but it was in the wrong category. It was labeled as a RPG, but it was a FPS with point and click elements.

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I remember really enjoying the Jonny Quest DOS game. It was also extremely difficult, as I recall. I want to play it now.

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>> No.351880

>>350120
Retarded question, you're probably a teen who thinks this is the same as asking "LOL WAT IZ BEST 360 GAEM".

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>> No.351893

>>351880
>acting like /v/

Quit that.

>> No.351894
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>>351884
FUCK YES Albion

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>> No.351902

Fade to black

>> No.351905
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question to retro PCbros: anyone played or ever heard of Curse of Enchantia?
It was my favorite point and click adventure game back in the day, but I never see anyone even remember about it.

The game had the particularity of being textless (except for the brief intro), every situation and puzzle in the game was determined by signs, or actions the NPCs made. Also, the game had a very quirky and absurd humor, which is one of the main reasons I loved it so much.
Graphics were really nice for the time, well, I guess the art direction was good, it was mostly prerendered background and sprites, nothing too amazing, but I think many of the locations were very original.
The only thing I remember I didn't like was that the whole game only had 1 song, the same music looped infinitely from beginning to end.

I think there was another Core point and click similar to Enchantia in gameplay, but instead of being set on a fantasy land, it was more like a space opera, again with absurd humor and textless, supposedly, haven't played it.

>> No.351906

>>351893
Oh, so you're supposed to pretend you're a mature 35 year old who only now discovered computer games because he was busy with reading philosophy books while he was a child on /vr/?

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>>351902
no.

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>> No.351929

>>351905
sounds awesome, I'll try that one

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>>351320
>>351697
Should be here.

>> No.352096

>>351943
>VGA game
>200 lines
that's not how it worked, dumbass

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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

Oregon Trail

Scorched Earth

Jones in the Fast Lane

Leisure Suit Larry

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>>352141
>Scorched Earth
Fuck yeah!

>> No.352284

>>352096
This is a good example of >>351880 - he has no idea how the games actually looked on a CRT so he just puts console filters on them.

>> No.354417

Why do the graphics still look so good? What the fuck?

>> No.354432

>>354417

Because, chum, the games were made in a time when people put effort into making games.

>> No.354478

OP here, thanks for the suggestions, i'm still reading through all of them.

Can't wait to try some of these out.

>> No.354537

>>351320
>That attitude

I like you.

>> No.356638

>>350120
Whoa look as those looker?

Have any Sauce?

>> No.356675

>>356638
You've never heard of Leisure Suit Larry!?

Out.

>> No.356737

>>350125
Never played the second one, but the first one was amazing. I remember playing the shit out of it in the computer lab at school.

>> No.356772

>>351309
>ZZT

FUCK

I tried getting ZZT games working on my PSP a while back but the controls and compatibility sucked.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK I think we should have a ZZT thread. So many amazing games.

>> No.356798

>>356772

Well then make one. I was playing the other day and thinking of constructing a game.

>> No.356803

XCOM

>> No.356792

>>351906

Wait, so you're supposed to act like a faggot instead? I don't get it. Anon just wants dos games.

>> No.356862

>>356792
Best to ignore the shitposters.

OP, give some of the classics a try, like Jazz Jackrabbit or Commander Keen. The first couple Leisure Suit Larry games are pretty fun as well.

>> No.356874

I tried to get Crusader: No Regret to work. It does but the control scheme is really fucked.

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>>352083

Creator here, maybe i will put some other game in the list.

>> No.356901

>>356862
>Best to ignore the shitposters.
>someone telling the truth as it is
>shitposter

>> No.357334

>>356880
I notice a distinct lack of Wizardry IV. I enjoyed that one just as much as the others.

>> No.357451

>>356862
I definitely will, already played through the first Leisure Suit Larry, plan on playing the second, and downloaded a shit ton thanks to the suggestions from this thread. Thanks guys

>> No.357483

>>351843
what game?

>> No.357487

>>356880
why are you running infocom games under dosbox instead of in a zcode interpreter? i mean, you could play zork in a C64 emulator, too, but that doesn't mean it's a good way to do it or make the game representative of the system or anything

>> No.357691

>>357483
Not the poster of the image, but Seasons of Sakura from what I'm finding.

>> No.357701

>>357483
Runaway City. See also Three Sisters Story and Season of the Sakura from the same developers.

>> No.359068

>>351909
what game is this?

>> No.359596

Gotta love those anti piracy approaches (codes inside original manual etc) from DOS games developers.

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>> No.359678

gotta love that EGA sunburn, holy fuck skin cancer rates were insane for 90s pc game characters

>> No.359701

>>359068
seriously? no offense but you should probably learn to read or something
look at the damn top right

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>>359649

>> No.359897

>>351309
>>351320

I will look at this with great interest

>> No.359939

anybody else here played Waxworks?

>> No.359970

>>351320
>Abuse

A better name for that game would be Save Point Abuse.

Seriously, the game stops being fun once you realize loading a save heals you to 100.

>> No.359983

>>359970
>the game becomes less fun when you don't have the will power to not abuse a shoddy game mechanic

>> No.359993
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Nobody said Syndicate yet?
Syndicate.

>> No.363682

Man I was reminded of alot of great dos games in this thread. Im set for months I think

>> No.363735

>>351309
That wolf3d one is wrong. It wasnt the first fps. For dos I think it was some fps involving a graveyard and you were a mage.. fun game but cant remember it's name... and I think there was fps before dos... on something else.. not sure tho.. either way it wasnt wolf 3d.

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>>363735

>> No.363910

>>356874
You get used to it and it works, but yeah, it's horrible at first. And it has a pretty fucking complex movement system.

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>>356880
I find your lack of the Lotus series... Disturbing. Though admittedly the Amiga version had better music I think.

>> No.364149

>>363890
That was it ... thanks. Off to play it again

>> No.365146

>>350120
Try Covert Action.

>> No.365265

>>363735
Doesn't really claim to be the first from my understanding, however Wolf3D was the one that helped make FPS games more known back then I believe.

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>>350120
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/badmojo/badmojo.htm

>> No.367968

Abuse, though there is a Windows version.

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>>367968

Forgot my pic.

>> No.370002

>>351309
>tfw I played ALL of them

fuck I'm old -_-

>> No.370019

Get Blood. It was a FPS made on Duke Nuke'em 3D's engine and was better than Quake 1. Quake 1 got by on graphics and Doom reputation.

>> No.370941

Commander Keen
Test Drive III
Ken's Labyrinth

>> No.370985

>>370002
You use emoticons online, I doubt you're very old.

>> No.371005
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Dune 1.

Great adventure game. Fantastic music.

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>>350146
> police quest
until this moment, i thought i remembered all the lost jewels from my childhood. fucking. police. quest. downloading it now.

>> No.371075

>>351595
agreed
judgment rights was outstanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ6frFkKZYs

>> No.371294

>>370985
emoticons were created by old people, kid

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>>350120
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/aitd/aitd.htm

>> No.373090
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>>350120
COME BACK ALI!
COME BACK ALI'S SISTER!

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>>350120
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/badmojo/badmojo.htm

>> No.375032

Rise of the Triad; Duke3D

>> No.375280

Don't know if you guys know this site already, but I'll leave it here anyways.

http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/

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>>350120
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/roth/roth.htm

>> No.377523
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Fury of the Furries.

It's like lemmings, but you have a grappling hook.

>> No.377572

>>377523
How the fuck is it in any way whatsoever like Lemmings?

>> No.377708

>>377572
You are not closing your eyes hard enough

>> No.377819
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I never did beat this game. It was a lot of fun though.

>> No.377818

>>356880
Just a small nitpick, but it really bugs me that Descent 1-2 is marked as a sidescroller.

>> No.377865

the later Commander Keen games, and Tyrian.

>> No.377950

>>367968
>>367974
The Windows port is free, it's fun as hell and it has mouse support. There's even an Ubuntu flavor you can get off the store (for free).

>> No.378984

>>373090
my god, i never made the connection.

>> No.379015

>>351871

Crap, I KNOW this one.. I've played it, it was great... but I can't remember the name.

Nothing like betting your pinkslip on a race down the waterway and fucking flipping the whole car on the embankment.

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Tyrain 2000

>> No.380307

Why the fuck has nobody said Wasteland yet

>> No.382626

>>380307
It's on one of those big list pictures.