/vr/ - Retro Games

>ambient robotic cricket noises

>>8122839
What is this? looks delightfully jank.

I will never not shill Radix: Beyond the Void.

>>8123216
Oh fuck. That's a balst from the past, my aunt had this, Mechwarrior, and the Great Word Adventure on her computer.
Blew my goddamn mind as a wee lad.

>>8123236
My man. The mechwarrior games were genuinely great, i had a heap of shareware discs that my stepdad gave me alongside of a win95 pc and i'll never find most of those games again, but MechWarrior 2 and battle beast, regardless of how shit they were, are special.

>>8122823

Mostly Zoombinis, Age of Empires (original), Heroes III, Yoda Stories, Warcraft 2, Dark Forces, Dungeon Master 2, Jagged Alliance Deadly Games

My dad played Pharaoh, Settlers, Caesar, Xcom, Crusader, Jagged Alliance 1 DG & 2

Loved this one.

>>8122823
Awful shareware was totally my jam

The lost Vikings, Duke nukem and 3D

>>8123261
I hate zoombinis, i used to get sent to bad kid jail due to violence and negative behaviour, and they had macs that only had zoombinis on them. Bad memories.

MAKE ME A PIZZA

Too many to count.

I had this cool cd from my dad with like 1001? dos games on it including indy fate of atlantis. most of the other games were obviously trashy shit but there were some great games among them like the incredible machine.

>>8122823
I played this so much on my Amiga.

Mostly point and click adventures and rpgs. My favourites were Lands of Lore 2 and Legend of Kyrandia

>>8122823
Rodger Ramrod, nothing else beats it

>>8123216
flashback quest for identity

>>8122823
SkyRoads
C-Dogs
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

>>8123337
>Legend of Kyrandia
This somehow ended up a full series, Ross covered it. European PC adventure games are fucking wild.

>>8123216
Used to love Battle beasts as a kid, I got to the last boss but never beat it.

Ur mom

>>8122823
Jazz Jackrabbit, Jill of the Jungle, Duke Nukem 1 and 2, Commander Keen, Bio Menace

>>8122823
Don't remember any names but there was one puzzle game I loved and have no idea how to describe it, just different levels with different kinds of puzzles, like turn the pipes to connect red with red and blue with blue and shit like that. Another one where you climb a tower and have a little picture of your character in the corner and as you take damage it shows on your little picture in the corner. Another first person Star Wars demo I had and it was super long, never beat the demo as far as I remember, atmosphere was really cool. Anyone who has any idea what games these were I would greatly appreciate the names. Also some browser games, there was one Sony game where you were all soldiers in a top-down level multiplayer and tried to blow up each other or some shit. Then text based games I have no idea what the names are, but one you were like aliens or something in a mental hospital and it was an online RPG where you got shit like toilet plungers and used them as weapons. Another where you had a castle or village or some shit and other people would attack you all the time. Another online card game with like a futuristic sci-fi theme and it was free but to get good cards you had to pay.

Best part was the weird sound effect choices that usually came with this sort of game, like the tank grunting loudly whenever you move toward a wall.

>>8122823
>as a kid
Sextris all the way

>>8122823
Still one of my favorite fighting games.

>>8122823
>Skyroads
Based game.

Honorable mentions to ZZT, scorched earth, twinsen, alien breed, shadow of the beast, street fighter, worms, doom, quake, unreal, C&C, and starcraft.

>>8122823
Earthsiege 2. My favorite game of the 90ies. No one knows it, but it is the best Mech game ever. One day I want to play it again with the steel battalion controller

>>8126237
Forgot pic

>>8126237
It's great. Not quite on MW2 level due to the mission design, but fun. Development being moved to Windows at one point did unfortunately contribute nothing to the game.

>>8123265
Doesn't get more miger2dos than this

>>8123216
zoomer post of the day

>>8126381
D/Generation is more Amiga-ish. I was pissed over the abysmal port they did a few years back.

>>8122823
I played this one, OP. It stood up in the sea of mediocrity that was PC shovelware at the time.

>>8126184
Such a great game, the music and sounds were fantastic.

>>8126420
No idea what Kenny Chow is up to these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvlVaQl7kEk

The sequel however made me forget about OMF for the next one and a half decades

>>8126408
I liked this game, and played it on DOS. What, exactly, was fucked up? Superficially it seems pretty similar top to bottom, samples being exchanged for FM aside, and I can't imagine how gameplay changed.

>>8126436
I meant the HD port, generally how the style was handled and the controls are fucked
https://store.steampowered.com/app/389740/DGeneration_HD/

Both Amiga and DOS versions are great.

>>8126408
Watching a vid of the Amiga one now and the DOS game seems as spot-on as one could possibly expect for '93.

>>8126439
Yeah, I'm a dummy I see what you mean now.

>>8122823
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7shpv1B05mY&t=216s

Some animal memory marching game that played The Entertainer as its soundtrack and some kino 3D wire frame tennis game. Can't remember the name of either.

Also, pic related

>>8126642
*memory matching

Operation Neptune, The Genie's Curse, Shattered Lands, Dragon Lore, US Navy Fighters, Quake.

Honestly I never heard of so called DOS "classics" Jazz Jackrabbit or Commander Keen before the internet.

>>8126219
>shadow of the beast
This was Amiga though, not DOS

>>8126682
They were popular shareware games, you're more likely to have heard of all those Epic and Apogee titles if you went on dial-up BBSes.

>>8122823
This piece of shit I got stuck with after lending a school friend I never saw again after graduating 8th grade my copy of EarthBound.

>>8127095
Yeah, I guess I was just late to the party. I wasn't interested in the internet until I got it at home in 97.
Also I didn't mean to be overly dismissive, but I had heard of all the old atari and arcade classics growing up, knew most of the NES classics even though I didn't have one, but literally never heard of Commander Keen before the 2000s.

>>8127119
The popularity of the shareware model predates the internet and declined after it got more mainstream. You could dial up to a local bbs or buy a cheap compilation cd with hundreds of games on it. They typically gave you 1/3rd of the game for free so it was an easy way for the average person to get a lot of free games. Before the internet only "computer hackers" would know how to get access to boards where pirated games were distributed.
That's why these games show up on a lot of dos classics lists, but if you weren't into it in the early 90s you could miss most of them. There weren't many breakout shareware titles besides Doom.

a ton of shovelware that I can barely remember
but this and JJ2 are among a few that made any impact.

>>8126106
The questions at the start were awesome. But shortly after someone brought this one into my life, I discovered porntris, and never looked back.

Greetings, warlord..

>>8122823
What is this and is there a knock off version of it? I have early memories of a game like this where long single color 3D solids come at you and you have to jump them. The memory is so fuzzy most the time I think my mind is lying to me. Like my god

>>8128127
>knock offs
Probably. Sky Roads itself was the remake of an older game of this kind.

>>8128147
Could be then. I dont remember a guy flipping around, in memory it's first person but I would've been like five.

The first game I ever played was DOS, the original Descent by Interplay. That shit was dope and did everything to give me a long love of arcade shooters and industrial/heavy synthesized music (what you call now """""synthwave"""")
My dad actually got it as a shareware copy from a crane game in the lobby of the local Perkins

>>8128164
That's an interesting way to get shareware.

My father bought shareware collections(disks and later CDs) from a local department store every few months. Not only games but all kinds of software. So around 1990 to 1996 I had a lot of stuff to play with.

>>8122823
Oh man, I remember playing Sky Roads when I was a kid but after playing it a few times I completely forgot it. It took forever to figure out what game it was since the only thing I remember was it taking place in space which wasn't much help. Other than that, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure comes to mind, Shadow Knights, that Trolls game that was also on Amiga, Dangerous Dave and a few others that I can't remember.

>>8122823
Bethesdas Terminator
Simcity 2000
Xcom
Doom
Might and magic 3

>>8122823
Cobra Mission was my jam.

A lot of great memories. I played Syndicate, Dune 2, Doom, Dark Sun, X Com, and a lot of Master of Orion.

>>8123216
It's not jank at all.

>>8130263
I had that game and it seemed like pure button mashing nonsense.

that german mario clone
also prehistorik 2 and volfied

kino