I just watched my childhood in 20 minutes... I'm crying. Want to go back :D

@Foozefighter

3 жыл бұрын

im 34 im crying with you xD btw i still play these

@sandeepkumar35

3 жыл бұрын

Were you not in your childhood for 1 minute 20 seconds?

@thewr0ngchild

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! I just want to go and spend a day sitting in front of my win 95 machine lol. I learned how to use MS DOS at like age 9 lol. As in I fully understood how it worked etc.

@thomasshelbyy5260

3 жыл бұрын

me too and finally find one game i search sbout years Rick dangerous omg

@R4GNAR0G

3 жыл бұрын

You can go back. Just install the emulator and download all the game and have fun.

The mid to late 90s was the golden age of gaming. If you played games during this time consider yourself blessed.

@fixedcross

Жыл бұрын

once in fifteen billion years time window

@Stopinvadingmyhardware

Жыл бұрын

No, you mean video games. Then, it’s a no you’re out of your mind.

@kensukadventures628

Жыл бұрын

@@RazaXML Aye, nothing beats walking into an arcade, or even a sandwich shop and seeing an arcade machine you had not seen before. In an age where virtually no one had computers, then the only ones people had were terrible - arcade machines and even early pong consoles had a magic to them that is just not present on any game now. Also the games had gameplay, modern games now have very little addicitve game play its morel like directing a movie now.

@Populous3Tutorials

Жыл бұрын

the golden age of gaming is whatever time you gamed when you were young it changes for every person :)

@Metalwrath2

Жыл бұрын

lol no

I remembered them all. My favorite DOS game of all time was Sid Meier's Civilization. I played Civilization for 17 straight hours without a rest except quick toilet break.

The Sierra games were so much fun. Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gold Rush. We had the Apple II GS system. My older brother and I used to get up early on Saturday morning and play those ones for hours. Was always a treat when our dad took us to the computer store near our house to check out all the new Sierra games.

@janetharmon1242

Жыл бұрын

David Bedard, I was a computer science major who graduated in 1983. My best friend got a job with Sierra and programmed one of the Quest games. I lost touch with her but have at least 1 Quest game!

@Fighter4Street

3 ай бұрын

I remember playing those Quest games on my families computers back when I was around 10-12 years old. They were lots of fun and you had to figure everything out yourself, no looking up tips anywhere. I remember getting to a new screen or area in these games was a huge accomplishment.

@bdleo300

Ай бұрын

Quest for Glory - the best Sierra games

The days when installing a game in DOS, when you were 12 years old, felt like a game victory in itself

@atlante4368

4 жыл бұрын

@Why So Serious Way too expensive for those of us in the third world

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

GLQuake?

@LMTR14

4 жыл бұрын

no that is not a correct sentence, try again IDIOT

@TheJosep70

4 жыл бұрын

I hated autoexec.bat and config.sys

@biglungsprod5617

4 жыл бұрын

oh yes thats how it was

(I corrected my old post, I was referring to AT form factor) One of my most favorite computer gaming memories back then is taking a small vacation, staying home and playing Doom on a 486 DX66 - AT form factor during winter time. I remember one day it was snowing outside, and I was happy and warm inside playing doom. Those are great memories. :-)

@starmc26

3 жыл бұрын

What's a 486 AT?.. All i know of is SX and DX.

@wallyprichard7451

3 жыл бұрын

I remember when the 486 DX 33 Mhz was lightning fast. My first computer was the 286 12 Mhz.

@lordhung7013

3 жыл бұрын

I had a 486 dx4 100, I was king of the nerds for awhile at work!🤩 What a great processor it was.

@burntyper

2 жыл бұрын

@@starmc26 don't know either

@Mange070

2 жыл бұрын

@@starmc26 Maybe he meant that it was inside a AT-chassi,,,not ATX.....just a guess

Who didn't choose quickly "Port 220, DMA 1, IRQ 5" thinking he was an IT expert ? nostalgia over 9000

@oolmfoxz8170

3 жыл бұрын

soundblaster ! my first job consist to config strap of lot hardware...

@waytothewill

3 ай бұрын

IRQ 5 or IRQ 7, that is the question. (always been an IRQ 6 guy myself).

@Sam-wz6ns

3 ай бұрын

... I even did a library in assembler for quickbasic for the sound blaster pro lol hardware from that era was really fun!! Now i would need to read a 1000 pages opcodes list and it wouldnt work lol

This brought back sooo many happy memories. Thanks you. What really stands out is how much Doom then Quake were a leap forward. It was mainly incremental gains then Doom blew everything else away. Many games then built off the Doom engine, and Quake comes along and blows them away. It was a great time to grow up in.

@Coats2112

Жыл бұрын

Most people forget that Wolfenstein 3D, was the game changer. Doom and Quake were just more popular clones.

@Zellonous

Жыл бұрын

@@Coats2112 but since the same team made all three it's not a big deal. Nature of progression

@kensukadventures628

Жыл бұрын

Doom was always just an upgrade to 3dmonster maze for me.

@dgmt1

Жыл бұрын

@@Zellonous Ultima Underworld came out before both Wolfenstein and Doom and was a huge influence on the development of first person perspective games. The ID games are only remembered more nowadays because they found a wider mainstream audience.

@dgmt1

Жыл бұрын

Ultima Underworld came out 19 months before doom and even wolfenstein 3d while having a more advanced 3D engine. John Romero was a big fan of Origin and Ultima Underworld almost certainly influenced the development of Doom. While underworld itself built off earlier tile based exploration RPGs such as dungeon master, UU went on to establish the genre of open exploration FPS games which in turn nowadays are represented by huge titles like Skryim and Minecraft. Doom played an incredibly important role in making PC gaming mainstream but engine and gameplay-wise it was evolutionary and not revolutionary.

Wow. All of my entire life in 21 mins PS: never regret it

@ScorpiusZA.

4 жыл бұрын

Yup - I am amazed at how many of those games I played. There are a few I didn't, but quite a few I did. I was actually this list would include a game I have been trying to remember the name of for ages. I remember how it plays, but the name has eluded me - Sadly not on the list.

@malvinapushkova2386

4 жыл бұрын

I can only envy you. This is childhood that I dream to have (but all my childhood I had to work in the village garden and take care of the old grandmother). Someday, when I can afford myself to have a lot of free time, I will get old PC and will play all these games!

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a good aspiration to have 👍🏼

@terr4byte

4 жыл бұрын

word :D

@terr4byte

4 жыл бұрын

@@malvinapushkova2386 be careful if you buy the first big box dos-game from your childhood on ebay youre addicted... XD

0:00: 1. Space Invaders (1978) 0:11: 2. Olympic Decalthlon (1982) 0:25: 3. Paratrooper (1982) 0:38: 4. Digger (1983) 0:49: 5. Alley Cat (1984) 1:03: 6. King's Quest (1984) 1:17: 7. Sopwith (1984) 1:28: 8. Arctic Fox (1986) 1:40: 9. Arkanoid (1986) 1:54: 10. Chessmaster 2000 (1986) 2:06: 11. Leisure Suit Larry (1987) 2:18: 12. Battle Chess (1988) 2:34: 13. F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988) 2:45: 14. Jetfighter (1988) 2:59: 15. Silpheed (1988) 3:13: 16. Budokan: The Martial Spirit (1989) 3:24: 17. Golden Axe (1989) 3:36: 18. Risk: The World Conquest Game (1989) 3:49: 19. SimCity (1989) 4:00: 20. Super Off Road (1989) 4:13: 21. Xenon 2 (1989) 4:26: 22. Dyna Blaster (1990) 4:38: 23. Hugo's House of Horrors (1990) 4:52: 24. Mario Brothers VGA (1990) 5:04: 25. Red Baron (1990) 5:17: 26. Rick Dangerous 2 (1990) 5:30: 27. Ski or Die (1990) 5:40: 28. Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1990) 5:52: 29. Stunts (1990) 6:05: 30. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) 6:17: 31. The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) 6:29: 32. Crystal Caves (1991) 6:40: 33. Gods (1991) 6:53: 34. Gorillas (1991) 7:06: 35. Home Alone (1991) 7:19: 36. Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (1991) 7:29: 37. Lemmings (1991) 7:41: 38. Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck's Revenge (1991) 7:54: 39. Nibbles (1991) 8:07: 40. Populous II (1991) 8:19: 41. Scorched Earth (1991) 8:31: 42. Sid Meier's Civilization (1991) 8:43: 43. Castles (1992) 8:56: 44. Dune II (1992) 9:07: 45. Flashback (1992) 9:19: 46. Formula One Grand Prix (1992) 9:33: 47. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992) 9:43: 48. Jill of the Jungle (1992) 9:52: 49. Links 386 Pro (1992) 10:08: 50. Monopoly Deluxe (1992) 10:21: 51. Prince of Persia (1992) 10:34: 52. Wolfenstein 3D (1992) 10:46: 53. Zool (1992) 10:58: 54. Cannon Fodder (1993) 11:08: 55. Day of the Tentacle (1993) 11:21: 56. DOOM (1993) 11:35: 57. Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist (1993) 11:46: 58. IndyCar Racing (1993) 11:58: 59. Master of Orion (1993) 12:12: 60. Frontier Manager 2 (1993) 12:24: 61. SimCity 2000 (1993) 12:37: 62. Sticks n Slide (1993) 12:43: 63. Star Wars: X-Wing (1993) 13:02: 64. Syndicate (1993) 13:14: 65. The Incredible Machine (1993) 13:26: 66. Cool Spot (1994) 13:34: 67. DOOM II (1994) 13:51: 68. Heretic (1994) 14:01: 69. Magic Carpet (1994) 14:14: 70. Quarantine (1994) 14:28: 71. Sid Meier's Colonization (1994) 14:41: 72. Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994) 14:53: 73. The Settlers (1994) 15:06: 74. Theme Park (1994) 15:17: 75. UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994) 15:29: 76. Command & Conquer (1995) 15:42: 77. Descent (1995) 15:54: 78. Destruction Derby (1995) 16:07: 79. Flight Simulator 5.1 (1995) 16:17: 80. Hexen: Beyond Heretic (1995) 16:29: 81. MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (1995) 16:41: 82. Need for Speed (1995) 16:54: 83. Rise of the Triad (1995) 17:07: 84. Screamer (1995) 17:20: 85. Slipstream 5000 (1995) 17:33: 86. Star Trek: A Next Generation - A Final Unity (1995) 17:45: 87. Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995) 17:58: 88. Worms (1995) 18:08: 89. Hi-Octane (1995) 18:21: 90. Abuse (1996) 18:35: 91. Big Red Racing (1996) 18:47: 92. Death Rally (1996) 18:58: 93. Descent II (1996) 19:11: 94. Duke Nukem 3D (1996) 19:23: 95. F-22 Lightning II (1996) 19:36: 96. Master of Orion 2: Battle at Autares (1996) 19:49: 97. Quake (1996) 20:01: 98. Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996) 20:13: 99. The Settlers II (1996) 20:24: 100. Tomb Raider (1996) 20:37: 101. Carmageddon (1997) 20:48: 102. Imperium Galactica (1997)

@ischolten9021

Жыл бұрын

Can you help me find a game? It's very old, prob ms dos. Can you choose 1 knights, one is brown and has thicker armor, the other one is white but kills easier. The game has alot of stairs and bats flying around who can hurt you. There's a final boss that is some sort of skeleton throwing bones. The rest I can't really remember. Pls help

@ayudatengopiedrasenlosrino3786

Жыл бұрын

@@ischolten9021 I'm 14 years old, so I don't know much about DOS games, so I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

@asifahmed6568

8 ай бұрын

Thanks mate

@frequenco5545

6 ай бұрын

Only 10 upvotes? Your work is underappreciated, my good sir! Have an upvote!

@LightwaveAl

6 ай бұрын

Have another one from me too, although I did already put all the timestamps in the description when I uploaded the video. My subsequent DOS Games videos also have all the timestamps in the descriptions 👍🏼👍🏼

It’s amazing how many games I remembered playing. Awesome blast from the past

seeing that dos command line for the directory path and exe file totally hits the spot. bless you for uploading this man!

Man, alley cat brings back my childhood memories

@Radii_DC

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I was very proficient at it. Also the Digger. I miss so much those times.

@MichaelHarto

3 жыл бұрын

@@Radii_DC hahaha yeaaa! The digger! Man the theme song instantly plays in my head. There's also burger man, and that one game who slings beer glass.

@oolmfoxz8170

3 жыл бұрын

something I remember the music...

@Nimbus1951

3 жыл бұрын

That game was sooo magical to me... I must have been around 8 or 9.

WOW! I played at least half of these titles! Best time of life! Countless hours on these games. Each new release was the ultimate. Graphics advanced so fast! I enjoyed each one.

Man, I remember being 5 or 6 years old, my pops teaching me DOS commands, playing through tons of iconic and sometimes obscure shareware; the formative years. Games have come a long way...it's fascinating to see the evolution over a few decades. Glad they're still playable and being ported to newer platforms so younger generations can experience these gems.

@sinki19841984

Жыл бұрын

I was learning them on my own at 6 years old. Less than a year later I was formatting and reinstalling MS-DOS (Don't forget to create a bootdisk first!) and ripping the thing apart. It's a miracle I dont work in IT...

@red-winged_blackbird

Жыл бұрын

YES! emulators are a gift for those who don't own the platforms or know DOS coding.

@Slickz0r

9 ай бұрын

same story here man, amazing times... looking for this one game though, a horiztonal platformer which progressed from earth (i think) to space on the final levels. Any clue ? :D

I remember spending hours on many of these DOS games and more when I was a kid. Thank you for the nostalgia mate :)

Spent my teen years in the DOS era...that was a very special time, trips to Babbage's just browsing the big box games, even when I couldn't buy any was better than reading a book :) Heck, my younger co-workers bug me when they start talking about the latest Playstation/Xbox games, as I always bring up DOS and they give you that weird look...I feel bad for them..they missed out. Thanks for the vid!

@oolmfoxz8170

3 жыл бұрын

int 21....

@godaistudios

2 жыл бұрын

Funny that. Born in '76 myself, so I got used to both, though I really was more about console gaming. Still, I had always wanted a computer and spent plenty of time playing on a commodore 64 in a public school. When my parents finally bought a computer in the early 90's, I learned DOS inside and out as much as I could. It proved useful for me as I would later wind up in tech support. Had plenty of games to play with lots of shareware floppy disks. One of the first games that comes to mind was Zeliard. I remember lots of other games published by Sierra. That said, I still enjoy gaming, be it PC or console, so be it a throwback game or the "latest and greatest" entry, I have plenty to pick from.

Anyone remember when you tried to run a game in MSDOS, I'm thinking Sierra specifically, and you'd often get a message saying you didn't have enough expanded memory? If you were lucky, the install file of the game contained an option to create a boot disk, and you'd have to boot up with the boot disk every time you wanted to run the game and it worked. If you were unlucky, you'd have to edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys files yourself and play around with it until it did.

@runningkees9125

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAH THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID!

@barry3602

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but you could extend it with EMS.

@oolmfoxz8170

3 жыл бұрын

QEMM !!!

@MXB2001

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I have several boot up options for DOS to maximize either extended, expanded or conventional RAM. Aces of the Pacific is a monster that needs 611,xxx free bytes. Barely enough room for DOS itself, everything else had to be stripped such as mouse drivers (not needed there).

@rrwholloway

Жыл бұрын

And that is how as a ten year old I learned basic dos commands. Still comes in useful to this day.

Seeing Digger warms my heart

How fitting is the music to this video. Good choice! Long live MS DOS gaming. We salute you!

What a nice medley of video game nostalgia, certainly brings back memories! Some favorites I personally would add to his list, Commando (1985), Operation Wolf(1987), Test Drive(1987) and Street Rod (1989).

Alley Cat was my jam. I still hear the sound of that dog coming for me...

@eyesauron

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@oolmfoxz8170

3 жыл бұрын

love this game... I never finish it...

95,96,97 were definitely the golden era. I used to read all magazines I could get my hands on about games and the new technological advancements like sound blaster sound cards and voodoo graphic cards. These games were so much entertaining and addictive than modern games of today with their 100gb downloads that most people now just play for a couple days and discard as fast as baby diapers. Oh my sweet little 13 year old me.... Good times!

Golden age of gaming. Love and miss this time. Thanks for the great video.

My parents were interested in the Sierra adventure games of the day, so we grew up with a lot of King's Quest and Space Quest.

@markb8556

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the Sierra games I played were by Al Lowe

@Alex_Eicher

4 жыл бұрын

Kings Quest 7 the princeless bride and Space Quest 6 Roger Wilco

4 жыл бұрын

For me there was Heros Quest, later known as the Quest for Glory series

@walterjeffreys40

4 жыл бұрын

I grew up with KQ1-4, Leisure Suit, and Police Quest 1 & 2

@dystopia_lp

3 жыл бұрын

I actually learned English playing Police Quest II. Bains, I got you

So much nostalgia. Loved every minute of this. There were some epic Origin games I wish you got in here like Wing Commander, Wing Commander 2, and the Ultima series. And Star Control. :)

@s7ai

3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same 😌 Wing Commander: Privateer and especially Ultima Underworld / System Shock were exceptional games

I'm so glad I clicked this thumbnail. Thank you for sharing this!

Alley Cat, Stunts, Monkey Island, Prince of Persia, Theme Park, UFO, Worms... I love that days

Ah Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, that was an hell of an adventure game.

I didn't see Starflight...which by in large took many hours of my time for some of the most immersive game play and discovery. So many great games though that I did see, play and enjoy. What a great time in gaming history!

_And_ you provided a link to the music; that is superfly cool of you bro I played these: Space Invaders - coin-op Chessmaster 2000 - 520STFM F-19 Stealth Fighter - 520STFM SimCity - 520STFM Red Baron - 486DX66 Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe - 520STFM Lemmings - 520STFM Formula One Grand Prix - 520STFM Cannon Fodder - 520STFM Doom - PS1 Doom II - PS1 Heretic - DOSBox Sid Meier's Civilization II - Steem Tomb Raider - PS1

7:02 - Gorillas was written in QBasic (came with DOS). You could press [Ctrl] and [C] to break the code and amend things. This was intentional (both that you could break into it and that it was written in QBasic) - It was actually included in DOS 5 as a demonstration of that programming language.

@nissimtrifonov5314

Жыл бұрын

@Giuliano Matrix I was convinced that learning more qbasic commands would enable me to write cool programs... So I went though the help for hours, and read the documentation on each function and subroutine. As I was teaching myself at that point, I did not know that I was supposed to learn basics like loops, and writing functions.. But, later on, I did manage to write some cool programs after all

So cool that you included QBasic Gorillas & Nibbles! Those games are the very thing that got me into programming so many years ago! Spent hours modding the game, so that whenever my brother would enter his name, the screen would read "Asshole", etc.... great fun!

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

🤣

I don't feel pity for those who had to install these games for DOS, I feel pity for those who had to make these games! This newer generation of people relied on DirectX or OpenGL to do all of the graphics via API calls. In the DOS days, there was no such thing... all of those graphics had to be drawn to the screen directly via native VGA controller calls, reading in sprites from graphics images, knowing all of the different platforms or ISAs such as x86, MIPS, ... etc. The timing of when to draw everything and how to draw it, when to access data from ram or the hard drive, etc. was a technological marvel in those days, especially considering the limited amount of RAM, ROM, and the CPUs specs. Most people didn't even have computers and the average few who did, might not have even had a Video or a Sound Card. The programmers had to take all of the major Video and Sound Cards into consideration when writing their already compact and limited code in such a way to support various hardware. They had to know the internal workings of the drivers for each of those devices. It wasn't until Windows 95 and later when Direct Draw, Direct 2D, Direct 3D, Direct Sound came out to make things easier for the developers. In later versions, these APIs were simplified into one common API which became Direct X. These spoiled Millenials today who were practically born with a Smart Phone in hand... have no idea how complicated it was to make these Retro Games! When they don't see all of the shiny graphics and realism that is shown today they tend to think the games are horrible. Back in the early to mid-90s if you had DOOM you were one of the fortunate ones; that's if you even had a computer, to begin with. Then if you were able to run a game in 800x^600 because you happen to have an SVGA, not a VGA that was 15 or 17 inches you were really lucky! Yet today they carry around 7-9 inch screens in their pockets running in 1080p and some even in 4k... Yeah, the game developers of the 70s and 80s were true engineers, for they didn't have all of the hand-holding that these modern APIs give you, the GUI of Windows versus shell or terminal commands, and they had many more limitations to deal with! All of the games on this list, even the worst of them, should be in a category all by themselves as being a modern technological marvel for the genius of the engineering that went into making them! These are the games that drove the push for bigger, better and faster hardware that we see today! If it wasn't for these games, we'd still probably be using terminals and wouldn't have portable smartphones! These games are what pushed the limits of computing while advancing technology!

@skilz8098

4 жыл бұрын

@᪶ ᪶ It's a rhetorical statement that was meant to illustrate the point that this younger generation was born into a world with technology and devices that are commonplace today compared to when my generation grew up in the 70s and 80s. I was born in 1980 so by the time I was about 4-5 years old and understood how to use modern electronic devices of that era such as Telephones, Television's, VCRs, gaming consoles such as Atari (NES didn't come out until about then but I didn't get it until around 1990 when the SNES was being released). Phones had cords connected to an outlet and some were push buttons while others were rotary, long-distance calls were charged by the minute and some lines or carries had party lines, other people from other places might have been on the same line at the same time... Many TVs didn't even have remote controls yet as that was an added expensive accessory, and even in the early 80s Color TVs were starting to take over becoming commonplace, but many still had black and white TVs with Rabbit Ears and tuning dials, Cable was in its infancy, most had Antennas where very few had Satellite and those Satellites were huge (about 4-8 feet) in diameter and very expensive. There was no high definition, very few people had computers at home and the internet was around but most didn't have it as it was very expensive. This is what I was referring to, I wasn't trying to put anyone down! I used the word spoiled in referring to the fact that this younger generation takes for granted these modern devices such as Smart Phones that are more powerful than supercomputers of the 40s and 50s... The gaming consoles today are very impressive, but in my time we had 8 and then 16-bit consoles... Today they are 64-bits with dedicated video and sound cards built into them in full HD anywhere from 720p to 4K... Most of them don't understand the luxury that it is to have these modern devices at a very affordable cost. Consider buying a brand new IBM in 1980 the year I was born before the home personal desktop PC era boomed... It might have had a 16-bit architecture or an 8-bit depending on the model, it might have had a hard drive of about 20 - 40 MB with about 128 - 256k of ram if you spent an extra $500 for the increased bandwidth... This computer would have cost the average person in 1980 about $2-3K which would be about $8-9K in today's currency market. Yet, if you buy the most expensive smartphone out there probably an iPhone it might cost between $1-2k which would have been about $300 - 500 back then. And that smartphone can do about 10k times the amount of computations. So this is what I was referring to about being spoiled... I'm referring to the entire generation as a whole, not just an individual!

@iamkeystroke

4 жыл бұрын

@@skilz8098 Millennials were born from 1981 to 1996. The first millennials graduated in 2000 hence the name. Generation Z came after . This is according to Strauss and Howe who coined the term.

@skilz8098

4 жыл бұрын

@@iamkeystroke Okay a bit of misconception there, I shouldn't have been using the "Millenials". It should have been the "Snowflake" generation!

@blazeflamestrike

4 жыл бұрын

Just remember that every generation is going to take things for granted that are around when they were born. Think about those born before electricity in the home was a thing. It would be like an eternal power outage or blackout for today’s people. The younger generation that now can’t stand the thought of not having internet, smart phones and being able to talk to people 24/7 etc. don’t appreciate the older games and the effort that went into creating them because the older generation made it easier for them. Every generation is making things easier for the next, of which the next generation just accepts it as the norm and takes it for granted.

@gillesp782

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with that, having started basic programming on TI99/4A, TRS-80, ZX-81, Apple II, Goupil 1 & 2, ... and making sometimes my own "little" games (specially on TI-99/4A on which I was mastering the Extended Basic ; ) And thanks to Hebdogiciel, a weekly newspaper with tons of listings for every computer of the early 80's, from which I learn a lot !!!

This brought up some long forgotten memories. Half the video had me saying "oh yeah, I remember that one". Lol

There was a certain excitement we had when loading up these games. There are many on here that I became addicted too. I've not seen the whole video clip - as yet - but one game that should be mentioned is I.S.S JANE SEYMORE! The depth to that was astonishing, Then there was Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker [a classic], Speedball [1 and 2], Dungeon Master, I.K karate, Stunt Car Racer, Damocles, Buggy Boy, Gods, Populus, Kick Off and Kick Off 2, Spy v Spy, Gauntlet, Sensible Soccer, Formula One Grand Prix, Arakanoid: Revenge of Doh, and many others. All absolutely addictive. Just think, there were no microtransactions [ as we would get now.}. No paying for extra levels, and all of that. We received the whole package. More often than not the games came with beautiful instructions { more like 'books'}, and wonderful packaging too. We really did get our money's worth. Now, in this age of digital gaming? It's simply not the same anymore. We will never get those days back again when we played DOS games. It really was a golden era of home gaming.

I counted to 40 that I played. Probably a few more I have forgotten I played. And a number of favourites missing from this collection. But great video - was nice to relive old times.

Oooh the memories... so many good times, such an incredible world it was.

This was amazing. There were a few games missing IMO, especially Terminal Velocity. Even still, loved the video!!

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

(Read the description) 😉 But thanks a lot! 🙌🏼

scorched earth was amazing - 99% of these titles were amazing but a game with such poor graphics compared to what was on the market the gameplay was unreal !! best game to play against friends.

Great watching it. Played some of them as a child from the mid 80s on.

Magic Carpet blew my mind when I was a kid (9).

Thanks for compiling this.. remembered the times staying up late at night playing and figuring out how to solve those adventure games without any walkthrough.... and the feeling of accomplishment finishing a game...

80s kid here - from digger (I'm still waiting for the movie..) and alleycat (amazing soundtrack) to Larry trying to buy condoms at the local pharmacy (PERVERT!). One game I didn't see here was the incredible and expansive Star Control 2 - so many hours spent on that wonderful game.

Never got bored with those games..I still want to play some of them

Screamer and Slipstream 5000 right next to it were for me the best games in the genre back then. How awesome you've put them together!

What a wild generation we are. We were around for the genesis of the internet and gaming yet we still had the roots of the “stay outside till it’s dark” kids. Bridged a strange generational gap, we did.

Oh wow, I saw games here that I have forgotten I played! Thanks for bringing back memories!

Wow! There was maybe 30 games that are not just great, but LEGENDARY! \o/

то чувство, когда dos-игры круче современных. с большим смыслом и харизмой)

I'm glad I watched this. For years there was a racing game I could never find again, but it came up in this. Big red racing. Tons of memories in that game.

Amazing video. Very nostalgic. Thank you very much.

Nostalgia! So many awesome childhood memories :)

If I studied instead of playing these games i'd be a professor right now

@shamarif7679

3 жыл бұрын

Now ..you become what ?

@deimos2k6

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm glad I also didn't study, otherwise I wouldn't have played tons and tons of beautiful videogames in my lifetime lol

This presents an excellent and comprehensive selection. Well done!

Thank you man. At the time I sold these, and they were magical. I missed only 'castles'

“My, how far we’ve come in just a few decades! (Descent 1 seems to really have been ‘ground breaking’!)” (-James)

@LightwaveAl

3 жыл бұрын

It was. I played that with a Logitech Wingman Extreme joystick and dominated, being able to use the hat to fly around someone and continue aiming at them. Loved it, and it was very different to other FPS of the time ❤️

Stealth Fighter, Scorched Earth, Descent, Descent 2, Hexen.... all games that I loved

I find Big Red racing, game of my childhood thanks to you

Omg I remember Stunts, Crystal Caves, Gorillas, Lemmings *-*, Nibbles, the original Civilization, Dune II, Formula One GP, Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein 3D, Sim City 2000, Star Wars: X-Wing What a time to be a kid ^^

Loved it! All those games played as a kid

1983 - digger is my all time favourite, thank you for this compilation

@Osprey850

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea that it was that old. I was playing it into the 90s. I really dug that game.

@LightwaveAl

Жыл бұрын

I’ll be honest, it was one of my favourites too

This video brings back my childhood memory alot. Thanks!

That was an awesome recap of my entire childhood.

Great compilation out of so many titles to choose between. Really great to remember all these games I played throughout all the years. Thank you :-)

@oolmfoxz8170

3 жыл бұрын

someone miss : wing commander, atrain, populous, pirate(non dos)...

I played 90% of all those game, man what a feeling, Another World and Impossible mission are missing.

@waltersobchak7275

3 жыл бұрын

He’s got two more videos on these games

@LightwaveAl

3 жыл бұрын

And maybe there could be a fourth 🤔

@waltersobchak7275

3 жыл бұрын

@@LightwaveAl sounds like a plan to me. I got the three on loop and put them on to stare at. It works like a Valium. Thanks bro

A fun jog through memory lane. I got my first Packard Bell 486SX 20MHz PC 20MB HDD when I was in middle school in 1990. At the time all my parents friends and relatives said how stupid it was to buy a 12 year old a $2000 PC (nearly $3000 today). I didn't know how to use a computer so I read through the manual and decided to run the first command I found which was format c:. I learned a lot trying to get that computer working again pre youtube especially since the computer didn't come with the DOS or Windows 3.1 disks. I finally found a friends Dad that had them and I was back in business months later. I remember the happiness of getting 2MB of RAM, adding a sound card, and a CD drive. I got to put all those in myself as a teenager. I had many of these games from 1990 on with the favorites being Wolfenstein, Dracula unleashed, Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, and that dots game (surprised you showed that one). I remember the games you showed around 96 started to run really slow on that machine. By the time I started college in 97 all I could do on that PC dial in to check email because technology had progressed so fast. Today going from 2GB of RAM to 3GB of RAM, or from 2TB to 3TB isn't that big of a deal. Back then going from 20MHz to 100MHz was as the computer was now 5x faster. I wish I would have kept it. A few takeaways, for me, is how impressive it was the original programmers got so much out of so little of hardware they had to work with. Even the slowest of todays microcontrollers have more horsepower than that original computer I had in 1990. I think you could probably get every one of these games to run on an STM32 micro. Now I feel super old and feel I should go out and buy a sports car.

Started watching this to figure out what game I wanted to watch next, this was really good

Though I couldn't get the chance to try the majority of DOS games, I remember playing some of them as a child on my windows xp pc - Prince of Persia (1st part only) - Dangerous Dave (original and ammo) - Skyroads - Doom - Wolfenstein 3d - Rover Rescue (whatever the name was but you had to save the dog and get to the exit) - Mickey Mouse - Donald Duck - Others as long as I can remember but that's all. There are some games you forgot to mention even if it's difficult to remember more than 100 games.

The Millenials are never going to understand the thrill of loading 'Prince of Persia' from a Floppy drive and getting it running successfully on a DOS PC. In my part of the world desktops were introduced in the early 90's.

@tungster24

4 жыл бұрын

And?

@SoyLevelMaxLive

4 жыл бұрын

Ummm.... Centenialls* I born in 1985 (Millennial) and i understand all these MSDOS games and also I play most and a lot more... sorry not sorry mister Generation X

@michaelvincent3377

4 жыл бұрын

Played level 1 many times to get past the lettered potion section.

@daveb6904

4 жыл бұрын

Or loading "f15 strike eagle" the game came with like 12 hard disks but damn getting it working. flying threw the 90's virtual skies or taking out polygon buildings with sidewinder missles those were some of the best times I had as a kid gaming😊

@daveb6904

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoyLevelMaxLive lighten up man holy fuck were all happy your included in the games us centanllliailia....whatever were fucking called got to meet you millipedes half way in 90's gaming

Several games I have played... Thanks to share this.

Descent 2 was one of my favourites. Good soundtrack too... would liked to have seen Blood in there. Strangers in the night, exchanging glances.....

I remember when they added a color strip to the Space Invaders screen in arcades and we were blown away. I feel old.

Sopwith! Spent so many happy hours on my dual floppy IBM XT compatible with that 640 K of Ram and CGA monitor. Sopwith and Chopper Command, amazing creativity!

Thank you so much for making this video. I have been looking for that game for years. "Descent II".

@LightwaveAl

Жыл бұрын

It was great fun! Really good in multiplayer 😃

Settlers II - I love tuning transportation system to speed up construction. That's why I run this game under Dosbox even now.

@Foozefighter

3 жыл бұрын

i have not played 2 yet, still busy finishing 1 because i did not understand it as a kid lol

Wow, excellent games in here for dos. I use a modified XBOX with DosXBox on it, and these would play really well on it. Thanks for putting these clips together.

Thanks for the video. This brings back memories. I remembered this as if it was yesterday.

Awesome video. I remember several games from my childhood. One of my absolute favourites was Sim City

2019 and I still play some of these games 🕹️🎮

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

👏🏼

@lexisalive

4 жыл бұрын

Where could I found them?

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

dosgames.com 👍🏼

love all classic games in the video

Oh yeah, F19, Chessmaster 200 and Battle Chess. And omg, Golden Axe! Simcity, Super Off Road, Red Baron, TMNT (the non-arcade one), Wolfenstein, Cannon Fodder, Doom, C&C, Descent, Mech Warrior 2. Rise of the Triad?!? Duke and Quake

This made me travel to when I was 10 years old. I had forgotten about 3 of this games! Thank you 😊

I remember playing digger, paratrooper, alley cat and decathalon. Having to put the ms dos disc in first and having to type dir. Crazy how far gaming has come

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

It’s pretty amazing. Those oldest games were really good in a fun, simple, accessible way. Well, accessible except that you had to know how to operate DOS 😉

@ismawan1980

3 жыл бұрын

dir /w and enter cd foldername

@LightwaveAl

3 жыл бұрын

That assuming you got the game on your computer in the first place. That you understood drives, creating directories, directory path structures, copying, 8.3 file names etc. There’s a lot to do before you get to “cd game” and run the game.

@sedgwicks9109

3 жыл бұрын

I was referring to the old floppy disk

@ismawan1980

3 жыл бұрын

@@sedgwicks9109 ah i see. yup dir and type digger. i remembered i, my father and my uncle were competing for highest scores but my uncle won. great old days...

Ah, Scorched Earth, definitely one of the all-time greats! You can edit the remarks files for extra fun. Altough the stock remarks are pretty great.

Descent, scorched earth, wolfenstein 3d, masters of Orion 2, battlechess and simcity! The beginnings of gaming for me, great video!

Amazing how long it’s been since I’ve seen these. Wow!

This brings back so many memories... sniff...

Prince of Persia is a game of 1989. In 1992 the second part came out.

Ahhh, I've been searching for Sopwith but couldn't find it. I only knew it as Solo, loved the game. Same for Gods, forgot the name, so impossible to find anything about it. Very nostalgic, loved many of these games. Thanks, great upload.

Loved the captions. Good job

Scorched Earth! That game was so basic but so fun.

some things in these games was so frustrating,like controls or bugs or just cruel game mechanics that punished hard for mistake

love the music. thank you for this

6:40 Gods

Great video, I really enjoyed it. Please make more video's like this. Thanks.

@LightwaveAl

4 жыл бұрын

Working on it 👍🏼

I thought I might recognize a few. Only after watching this did I realise how many different games I played as a kid.

@fonkbadonk2957

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, really! I went in expecting like ~40% at least heared of, but came out 3/4 actually played - wtf? Either the market was really tiny back then, or we all ended up with roughly the same top 50 games although few had access to anything resembling the internet to "hype" certain titles like today. And I was even only born in '82. Goes to show how long 15 years can be when you're young, but also how long a game's life time was. I've played many of these games at roughly the same times, while their release was many more years apart than I'd have thought back then. Also: Dude! Quake! I'd have sworn this was a post millenium title! Man, time's a flyin'.

PC gaming peaked in 1995. Descent, MechWarrior 2 and the original Need For Speed were my personal favourites that still hold up to this very day. Throw in Dark Forces, Worms and Duke Nukem 3D and it's a fully fledged nostalgia meltdown. Giddy up!

Great video, great music, great memories

Alley cat, my sweets 12 y o, great memories!!