shill me some obscure but good dos games. the ones I haven't played yet.

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Anonymous Sat Feb 23 11:16:32 2019 No.5389971 [Reply] [Original]

shill me some obscure but good dos games. the ones I haven't played yet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 23 12:29:52 2019 No.5390074 File: 347 KB, 320x200, badstreet 1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5389971 Have you played Bad Street Brawler? It plays kinda shitty but you go around beating up old people. Good times and those grannies can be naaasty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 09:21:59 2019 No.5392059 File: 6 KB, 320x200, 683517-arctic_fox_2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Arctic Fox isn't obscure over all but few people here seem to have played it. Early 3D open area tank combat. Challenging but a lot of fun.

Anonymous Sun Feb 24 09:38:33 2019 No.5392097
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Rodge Rock in Retroactive is a pretty amazing one.
It features free 360° movement due to the main character having rocket shoes, a neat pseudo-3D environment and absolute insane carnage to the point where you could consider it as some sort of 2D version of Serious Sam.
On the highest difficulties it's not uncommon to have like 30+ enemies on screen and the gore is surprisingly detailed like guts splattering onto walls, slowly sliding down and then rotting away.

It there's one issue it's that the full version is essentially lost and the dev lost the source code long ago.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 10:03:30 2019 No.5392130 File: 55 KB, 640x480, moo-7.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If you like 4X games, Master of Orion is pretty awesome. Wasted countless hours on it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 24 11:54:18 2019 No.5392336 >>5390074 there was a virus back in MS-DOS days that made that old dude periodically wander across your screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7c6hfIvRG4 https://archive.org/details/malware_Q-WALKER.COM

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 25 13:21:45 2019 No.5395034 >>5390074 >>5392059 >>5392097 Cool, I'll check these out. Keep em coming

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 26 10:01:47 2019 No.5397085 >>5389971 What is this one?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 26 10:07:00 2019 No.5397095 >>5390074 Is that a fucking Hulk Hogan expy throwing an old man around? I'M SOLD

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 26 14:46:46 2019 No.5397587 >>5389971 Zeliard

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 26 15:04:17 2019 No.5397625 >>5397095 Basically, yeah!

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 26 18:38:35 2019 No.5397981 >>5397085 https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/inner-worlds play it. it's good. >>5397587 wouldn't really call this obscure, but I agree it's a decent game.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 27 09:55:52 2019 No.5399449 >>5392130 2 is better

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 27 22:58:11 2019 No.5400850 File: 32 KB, 640x400, solar-winds-the-escape_2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Solar Winds. It's a weird open world shooter rpg.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 06:30:30 2019 No.5401537 >>5400850 I've seen this in so many shareware Epic titles yet never actually played it. Or know anyone who did. From your description it sounds kinda like a SC2 clone?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 06:31:13 2019 No.5401539 >>5400850 Is that John Boyega?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:07:55 2019 No.5401904 File: 22 KB, 480x360, speedracerdos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Speed racer - interesting how the graphics are displayed

Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:25:09 2019 No.5401948
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>>5389971
Maybe more primitive than you're looking for, but 3-Demon is a game that freaked me out as a kid. Do you like PacMan? Imagine playing PacMan in first person... Sound challenging and scary? It really is!

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:26:41 2019 No.5401952 >>5389971 That's not obscure. That's Inner Worlds. A quite pleasant game.

Anonymous Thu Feb 28 11:40:09 2019 No.5401967

>>5389971
The Last Eichoff. It's freeware and it's one of the best western vertical scrolling shmups ever. It'll run fine in DOSBox. Google it because it's not on Steam or GOG or anything like that. You should be able to find a site that's hosting it pretty easily.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 28 18:30:36 2019 No.5402829 >>5401952 I never see anyone talk about this though. That makes it obscure in my book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 1 08:00:03 2019 No.5404004 File: 43 KB, 640x400, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bumping with another game I don't see mentioned much: The Horde.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 1 09:22:06 2019 No.5404127 >>5404004 quick rundown?

Anonymous Fri Mar 1 12:06:31 2019 No.5404359
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>>5404127
It's a weird hybrid strategy/action game, where you build defences around your town and then fight off the invading Horde in alternating phases. At the end of each year you can buy upgrades, and the amount of money you earn depends on the number of crops/villagers/cows you saved. The overall presentation is filled with wacky humor, also the music in the floppy version is really good (by the same team that did star control 2)

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 1 17:44:15 2019 No.5404948 >>5392097 I'm liking this so far, very impressive graphics. It's very difficult to control though, horizontal movement seems like it's way too fast. Is that normal?

Anonymous Sat Mar 2 03:31:06 2019 No.5406006
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Tony and Friends in Kellogg's Land
An advertisement game made by Factor 5 for, you guessed it, Kellogg's products that is considered to be one of the best of its kind, with multiple levels, bosses, playable characters and more.
Only problem is that the whole game is in German but unless you have never played a platformer before it shouldn't really matter.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 03:38:28 2019 No.5406018 File: 38 KB, 640x350, robot3_s3.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5406006 And speaking of German games: "The Game of Robot" series is a weird mix of adventure/puzzle/action game - kinda like a way more elaborate ZZT with actual graphics.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 03:41:09 2019 No.5406023 File: 342 KB, 1292x604, game_of_robot_3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5406018 And the worlds are large, almost TOO large for their own good. That screen there? It's the small part down there in the middle.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 06:55:55 2019 No.5406232 >>5406006 >Tony and Friends in Kellogg's Land Damn, I played this way too long back in the day. The original floppy must be still lying around somewhere. Time to fire up the ole 386...

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:00:30 2019 No.5406330 File: 20 KB, 480x360, tapankaikki.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] tapan kaikki (I kill everyone) series was the shit. it's an all action 0 story top down shooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUMb5_ByRo

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 10:42:25 2019 No.5406429 >>5406018 one of the best parts of zzt was the ascii graphics

Anonymous Sat Mar 2 12:30:47 2019 No.5406526

>>5401967
This is pretty cool. Were the bonus levels in Tyrian inspired by this, by any chance?
>>5406006
Do you have a download link? I can only find the amiga version.
Also this reminds me Yogho-Yogho, a dutch advertisement game for a brand of yogurt drink, which is also considered a very good platformer.
>>5406330
This looks cool but it won't run on my system, the menu works but once I start a game I get a divide by zero somewhere in the video bios routines.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 13:13:25 2019 No.5406568 >>5406526 https://www.sendspace.com/file/4kx2ui here you go

Anonymous Sat Mar 2 13:48:44 2019 No.5406608

>>5406526
>This looks cool but it won't run on my system, the menu works but once I start a game I get a divide by zero somewhere in the video bios routines.
well, can't expect compatibility with 20+ year old games.
I tested it myself just now and works near perfect on my machine using dosbox on win7 and specifically the third entry in the series, ultimate tapan kaikki.

Anyway, another game you might want to try is Assault Trooper (1997). It's an isometric shooter/stealth game with destroyable walls/obstacles and there's usually multiple ways to complete missions depending if you want to go in guns blazing or avoid enemies. Kinda like an indie Metal Gear game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r87lPeud9gY

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 13:58:53 2019 No.5406623 Solar Jetman is fun and I rarely hear people talk about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 14:43:04 2019 No.5406692 File: 12 KB, 640x400, MakeChoice.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sword of the Samurai, from entirely before the Warring States period became cool and then uncool

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 19:11:57 2019 No.5407268 File: 7 KB, 640x350, 1524133252126.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Conflict

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 09:27:35 2019 No.5408441 Highway Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gDyilInZb4

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 09:29:51 2019 No.5408447 Atlantis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ZurvW9tGM

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 09:30:54 2019 No.5408451 Cold Dreams (awesome soundtrack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2R4TV2loGs

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 09:31:57 2019 No.5408458 Operation Carnage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYe2SHKNpco

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 16:26:49 2019 No.5409237 Mass Destruction. Was a neat little game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpkE0IC6zgI

Anonymous Sun Mar 3 17:19:01 2019 No.5409391

>>5406568
Thanks! it runs but I can't get the sound to work. Also I don't think it's quite as good as Yogho.
>>5406608
Looks nice but man, top-down tank controls are hard to get into.
>>5408458
Nice, I really like this one.
>>5409237
Those are some impressive graphics. Also this reminds me a lot of Return Fire.

Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:01:45 2019 No.5410926
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>>5389971
>U.R.B.A.N The cyborg project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToAuR1CUYRM
>Dark War 2 (youtube video is shit compared to actually playing it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQsUtU7BfCw
>God of Thunder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzsw3TLQ_4w
>C-Dogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDWfEYNbd4A
>Hocus Pocus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yI5RAVWgBo
>Monster Bash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J-rRcTht9I

Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:08:07 2019 No.5410939
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Not DOS but this game is a really good Turrican clone i never see mention here. 100% free.

https://www.winterworks.de/project/hurrican/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3AvJLU6Mr4

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:11:34 2019 No.5410945 >>5401904 What's interesting about that? It's a run-of-the-mill road generator plus sprite scaling on top. Pretty common techniques and most programmers at the time like me wrote at least one implementation themselves.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:12:36 2019 No.5410947 >>5404004 >>5404359 3DO/Sat version is better

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:15:47 2019 No.5410949 >>5410926 >God of Thunder >Hocus Pocus >Monster Bash Not particularly obscure. I absolutely love GOT though. Will check out those other games you mentioned. >>5410947 no

Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:18:44 2019 No.5410957

>>5389971
I'm looking for an obscure DOS platformer. I think it was shareware and came from some shovelware CD. Around 1994 or 1995.

Pretty colorful, with lots of gradients and I think many rendered elements in a simple shiny style. I also think it had forced scrolling like Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair and it was pretty hard.

The player character was some round / fat looking guy. I think one of the weapon pickups let your throw a constant stream of knifes.

I can't remember the damn name.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:30:26 2019 No.5410974 >>5410949 Yes. Factum. Poor DOS plebeians need not apply.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:35:28 2019 No.5410980 >>5410974 Have you even heard the 3DO/PC-CD music? It's shit. The floppy version soundtrack fits the game much better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 09:46:15 2019 No.5410996 >>5410980 Nope, at least it's proper music. PC MOD music is weak and sucks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 10:00:33 2019 No.5411010 >>5410996 please go back >>>/v/

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 10:03:41 2019 No.5411020 >>5411010 No you, DOS plebeian.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 10:04:56 2019 No.5411024 >>5411010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrwKbL5L5Pw This is better than your weak ass MOD music. Factum.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 10:32:16 2019 No.5411094 >>5406330 I totally forgot about this game. Better than C-Dogs. Thanks anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 04:24:02 2019 No.5413139 >>5410926 >Dark War 2 This is a windows game apparently

Anonymous Tue Mar 5 14:47:45 2019 No.5414000
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There was Mine Bombers. It's a top down action game that kinda plays like Bomberman but has a shitload of different weapons and terrain types plus you have a pick that you use to tunnel through terrain by running at it. It's a bit tricky to get working proper though, iirc in dosbox you have to really reduce cpu cycles or everything runs at turbo speed. Really worth it though especially if you have a friend or two to play with as it supports up to 4 player matches, but it does have a single player campaign that is quite challenging as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KwUlDjl3tM

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 18:29:06 2019 No.5414409 File: 105 KB, 1024x683, torillatavataan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5406330 >>5406608 >>5414000

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 20:13:06 2019 No.5414607 File: 35 KB, 640x400, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5414409 might as well post this game while we're at it. why do all finnish games have this similar aesthetic?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:12:58 2019 No.5416797 >>5410926 >U.R.B.A.N The cyborg project I'm not getting any music on my machine. Seems really boring without it. There's no setup program for some reason?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:17:16 2019 No.5416812 >>5416797 You probably downloaded the version without sound. Try this. http://dlxcaiman.net/dlx/urban.zip

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:21:36 2019 No.5416821 >>5410996 I would much rather play around with a midi track than some red book audio trash.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:23:04 2019 No.5416823 >>5416812 The version I found is only 1MB so that's definitely missing some stuff. Thanks!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:24:41 2019 No.5416824 File: 9 KB, 220x229, OKPLEB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5416821 >being this delusional discussion over :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:28:08 2019 No.5416831 >>5416823 >1MB yep that is the version without the music. Enjoy the game.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:28:31 2019 No.5416834 >>5416824 Yea, like some else wrote earlier. Go back to /v/

>>	Princess Sevenleaf !IT2uZpX.Ic Wed Mar 6 17:31:58 2019 No.5416839 >>5414000 This looks like a game me and my nerd friends would have played the heck out of back in middle school. It's like a top-down Liero.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 6 17:33:31 2019 No.5416845 >>5416834 No you kid

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