I am 33. My favorite DOS games were Magic Carpet 1 and 2, Descent 1 and 2, Ragnarok (aka Valhalla), Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Ultima 7 and 8, and Wolfenstein 3D.
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yeah Magic Carpet! I was thinking that it was odd nobody mentioned a Bullfrog game. I think nobody (even me) have metioned Syndicate yet because we all know that game will always be in the TOP 10 of everybody :P
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I riddle you this.. I had left secondary when Lord British fell. My first 'real' pc was the Amstrad CPC 464 64k (colour monitor - oh yeah!), Dizzy and JSW ftw. The first game I remember playing was Granny's Garden on a BBC in the infants at primary school. ;)
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wow thats a tough one! I guess it doesn't have a hidden giveaway if I solve it, right? :P
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It was a pirate CD name SK8 (Skate or something like that) that had like fifty games inside, all the Bullfrog classics, all the Inforgames classics, lots of Sierra ones and a couple of other games like Raptor, Bioforge, Threat, Wacky Wheels and things like that.
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Older then you.
Privateer, Wasteland, Star Trek: The Final Unity, C&C Red Alert, Warcraft 2, Civ II, Wolf3D, Commander Keen, Prince of Persia, X-COM: UFO Defense, Syndicate ...
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Man I loved the aestethic of that game! Do you renember another cyberpunk adventure game made by Psygnosis named "Prisioner find Guilty" or something like that?
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Yeah! That's exactly the game! Nostalgia explosion! Oddly I renember that game looking closer to Beneath a Steel Sky, memory is a funny thing.
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You're wrong. They had multiplayer games before there were PC's, much less Id software.
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22; Most of my DOS games were shareware versions only. Cosmo, Xargon, Jason Storm, Kiloblaster, Hillsfar, Oilcap, Ant Run, Secret Agent, Descent, Major Stryker, Doom, Rise of the Triad, Commander Keens, Realms of Chaos, Wacky Wheels, Raptor and probably others. Some full versions included Duke Nukem 1,2 and 3D, Stunts and Wolfenstein 3D. Damn, I feel old now (not really, but still).
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good ole sharewares :D I had Xargon, Kiloblaster, and (forgive me if this is a different one) Raptor: Call of shadows as well. they were both pretty good, Xargon and Raptor especially... Damn I should have listed Raptor as one of my favorites come to think of it.
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Biomenace! haha! I loved that game but the main character always looked like a porn actor to me! with the mullet and the moustache. XD
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I'm 22. I tried a few DOS games in the last few years, like System Shock, XCOM, Alone in the Dark etc. and I gotta say, it's pretty hard for me to get into any of them now. I never had the chance to play any of them in their time because I got into gaming later, around 1998-99 and I only had Play Station. I got my first PC around 2004 I think.
Anyway, I played System Shock the most, so I'd say that's my favorite DOS game. :)
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27.. and SimAnt, Raptor, Time Commando.. many others.. :)
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I love Time Commando! Im trying to replay it again with the GOG version. The "medieval" setting was my favorite. I miss time traveling games like that, the only close thing that exploits the diferent eras in the same game that I can think know are "Darkest of our Days" and (not exactly the same thing but whatever) Clive Barker's Jericho.
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I'm 23. My favorite games from '90s were Quake 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood and Shadow Warrior, those were the most memorable. I also played a lot of PS1 games, my favorite was first Silent Hill and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped.
Oh, almost forgot... Commander Keen was pretty big back then. :) Doom too. I even played those games that could fit on 1 floppy disk like Dangerous Dave, Prehistoric and Bumpy. Most kids these days don't even know what is a floppy disk.
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Yeah! Its amazing that for most of the young generation a floppy disk icon means "Save file" or "save game" but now is mostly replaced with a disc. I wonder if with the current evolution of digital distribution will happpen the same with the CDs saving/load time icons.
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34, but I actually don't remember DOS games that much. My old school gaming experience was mostly on the Apple IIe that didn't even have a hard drive. I would place 5 1/4 inch floppy in disc drive 1 and turn on computer. Only remember a couple of games from that era and the one I remember the best was Oregon Trail. Yeah, sue me it was still the 80s then.
Now if you actually want 90s games, my favorite was King's Quest VI.
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Ahh so many to choose from....
I'm 25 and Im pretty torn between fragile allegiance and Xargon
I remember playing the hell out of both these games, even though Xargon was a dinky little shareware copy I got from some store bin along with Jill of the Jungle.
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wow, never played those two. Thanks for the links. as a fan of Imperium Galactica I must say that Fragile allegiance looks awesome!
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come on! Nobody played "Rome 92 AD"? That game was insane!
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I'm 17 (18 in August)
90's games? Time Commando & Quake
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I'm 36. In the pre-Windows area we played network games at friends' places with coax networking which you had to disconnect everyone for to hook latecomers up to. In those days games weren't drop-in, you had to get everyone together in a lobby and start it, so every person joining the game meant it had to be quit out and restarted.
Games like Redneck Rampage and Duke3d, and before those Doom, Command & Conquer, and the most long-lasting LAN game ever for us, Atomic Bomberman. Sadly it needs IPX networking so it died when Win7 came along, but one of the guys has figured out how to get it going so it'll be back at the next LAN game.
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There are still IPX wrappers available, and virtual LANs work great. Hamachi, for example.
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Dune II, almost the first RTS. Great game. They did make two modern Dune RTS. Emperor: Battle for Dune, and Dune 2000 which some consider a successor to Dune II.
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I loved Dune 2000! I never played the original Dune II but I recall playing like a Mega Drive/Genesis version.
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Same here, I'm sorry to say that I never really played much of Dune 2000 (I should really hunt it down), but I was really into RTSs in the 90s thanks to Dune II. Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Warcraft II, and StarCraft are some of the ones I remember particularly fondly. I still dust off the original Starcraft from time to time.
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I think the first RTS games I ever played were Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Command & Conquer.
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I always used to be rather fond of Lemmings for DOS. I'm 21.
My father also ruined me by allowing me to play Doom when I was 2 years old.
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Those game are all gold but "flashback" for me is one of my favorite scroll games of all time, fantastic aesthetic and setting, great gameplay and animation! I still renember that BUBBLE was the password to the last level. The style of the remake really ruined my day.
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22, My favorite DOS games were probably Doom II & Duke Nukem 3D. Other DOS games I remember enjoying were Crusader: No Remorse, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, SkyNET (sequel to Bethesda's Terminator Future Shock), Raptor, Duke Nukem 1 & 2, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Heretic, HeXen, & Shadow Warrior. Also this when I was much younger.
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Terminator Future Shock! Ha! That game made me feel sick when I played it, I think it was the graphics. I renember the game most made my stomach feel dizzy was a more modern one called "Forsaken" by Acclaim.
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Im 27 and after reading some posts about favorite games and intros and seeing that most of the responses were about games that aren't even seven years old Im curious about the age demographics of this site.
So, seeing that most of the people is below my age, I wanted to know how many people here actually enjoyed the 90's computer games, specially those we had to run in MS-DOS with the "setup.bat" and "dir/p" and all the joy that came in that era!
I would say that its impossible to choose one fav, so you can say many as you want. The ones that I most love and renember are:
-"Alone in the Dark" (The original trilogy) This game sold me Survival Horror as my favorite game genre.
-"Crusader: No Regret" (and No remorse) Ninth crusade! Do I need to say more?
-"Bioforge" As I said, I love Survival Horrors/adventure games.
And obviously the full legacy of LucasArts, ID software and Sierra! (But mentioning that is obvious to all of us!)
For the younger ones, Any classic game that you discovered via GOG.com or Steam that became one of your favs o really impressed you?
EDIT:
Another thing, How many of you had in that time the famous SK8 pirate CD with lots of games inside?
EDIT 2:
Well, it seems that the SK8 CD wasn't that famous :P but I like the general consensus by all the generations of gamers that Doom is one of the best and timeless games ever. Also its nice to know that there is a good diverstiy of ages in this website :)
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