these mb games still worth 50x more valueable than today’s graphics focused games. The games in 80,90 were fun to play, had great story and gameplay elements, element of surprise, great soundtracks, dialogues

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

MechWarrior 2 and Hi-Octane games deliver me more adrenaline than today's games.

@zagor1974

3 ай бұрын

Its the same with the movie industry, great technology, miserable stories. I like to take out my old c64 and play a round of microdot. 😊

All DOS games are worthy of playing now and forever. The 80s and 90s was the peak of human civilization!

@alangarland8571

Жыл бұрын

They were just plain fun for fun. No such crap as paying an additional amount to get some trivial advantage.

@brucetungsten5714

Жыл бұрын

It was the golden era as DOS was, "unintentionally", an open system where one could, with exceptions, roam as they pleased. Later on the usage of Protected Mode realized the full potential.

@canman87

Жыл бұрын

I was talking about this at work a few months ago and If I had a time machine, I would absolutely go back to the early 90s NO QUESTIONS ASKED. As a general rule, I don't think things have ever been better before or since then.

@MrHFAlucard

Жыл бұрын

@@canman87 You have a point with that, but....playing as a kid on an NES in the 80 ist still a bit more comfy. But living my life growing up with all these stuff...give me my NES/S-NES AND! my C-64/Intel 368/Atari ST and i would die of joy.

@canman87

Жыл бұрын

@@MrHFAlucard I was born in '87, so I was a little too late to be able to relate to growing up in the 80s, lol. But I totally hear ya. I started on a Commodore 64 as well, so I'd take one of those, a NES, a SNES, and I'd be perfectly content!

I remember the animations of Battle Chess being funny, but I'd forgotten how funny. Plus, playing it as a kid, I hadn't yet seen Monty Python Holy Grail, so I didn't know that the knights fighting was referencing that.

Played almosta this games an agree with everyone of the suggestions. Who grew in the MS-DOS era certainly liked to play that games again.

@ctb7376

8 ай бұрын

are you drunk?

I love Ultima Underworld! After so many years I'm still waiting to forget all secrets, just to play it again for the first time a second time in my life 😍

@ambrogiocremona

9 ай бұрын

Was it ever patched enough not to waste a milion hours playing. I mean especially inventory problems

@magilviamax8346

9 ай бұрын

Which problems are you referring to? Never had any

I used to play Oregon Trail on the Apple 2 in Jr high, even before these. That game was great. Don't die from dysentery.

My recommendations: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space, Heroes of Might and Magic, Master of Orion, Sword of the Samurai, Red Baron, Wing Commander series, X-wing, Tie Fighter, Diablo, Knights of the Sky, Jagged Alliance, X-COM, Crusader No Remorse, Crusader No Regret, Castles 2 Siege and Conquest. I wasn't allowed to get a gaming console after the NES in the 90s due to my parents thinking it would distract from school. Little did they know the games available for the computer!

@richardadams4928

Жыл бұрын

That's an awesome list!

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

A bunch of those are still being offered for sale.

@samnite3

Жыл бұрын

@@SmallSpoonBrigade GOG is a great resource for sure

@dokhycodan1012

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't Diablo for windows?

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

And because of these games many kids learned how to configure computers so they became self taught tech support agents for the company that hired them. Learning how to customize autoexec. bat and config. sys was a core skill of a gamer.

Don't forget Prince of Persia 1 & 2

Hmm... What about Dangerous Dave 2, Flashback, Prince of Persia 1&2, X-com, Under the killing Moon, Mortal Kombat 1-3, Descent, F-19 Stealth Fighter, System Shock, The Dig, Lost Vikings, Lands of Lore, King's Bounty, Jagged Alliance, Master of Orion?

@seamushadron

Жыл бұрын

Slipstream 5000, Simon the Sorcerer, Terminal Velocity, Conflict:Freespace, Euro 92, Supaplex, Crammond's F1 Grand Prix :P

@erfanrazi205

9 ай бұрын

Prince of Persia and Lost Vikings were awsome!

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

Flashback is available for PS3.

Star Wars: Dark Forces also still great to play nowadays

DoomII was unbelievable when it came out - still love it to this day. The era when WatcomC was the main staple of developers was the coolest... so much crafty engineering. Later on it all became more and more streamlined and boring.

@spearPYN

Жыл бұрын

IMHO the original Quake is the most interesting technology ever. It was a game that changed our world forever.

@brucetungsten5714

Жыл бұрын

@@spearPYN Absolutely - the amount of technical expertise which is featured in the Quake source code is second to none. So many clever algorithms(+OS based init routines) and most importantly the Pentium specific code sections which actually delivered real world performance gains. Overall it was a gargantuan achievement by Carmack, Abrash and the id crew. I chose DoomII because I prefer it as an overall experience. Quake only wins for me in LAN based Deathmatch... especially "The Abandoned Base".

@LifeAmpHealth

Жыл бұрын

For nerds, check out John Carmack interview with Lex Friedman. It’s amazing!

@SianaGearz

9 ай бұрын

Streamlined and boring? I should say not so, i would say the problem has become increasingly that the amount of knowledge required to spin up a modern game codebase from ground up has become impossible to grasp for any single person or a small group of people. As something i find particularly impressive i point to GPU driven rendering and GPU driven geometry culling first made by Sebastian Aaltonen in Assassins Creed Unity. This is almost mind bending stuff. And there's more of that thing going on every day. Perhaps we did have an era of boring video cards dominating and streamlining the industry in the interim, before shaders came along. To make things worse, they were already not thoroughly supporting palletised textures.

That Sim City music.

Unbelievable how Warcraft 2 is looking so much ahead of its time.

@bartsullivan4866

8 ай бұрын

Its still fun to pickup and play the 1st Warcraft game not to much.

@ramchandrahegde2763

8 ай бұрын

I still play it.

@bartsullivan4866

8 ай бұрын

I would mine every piece of gold and cut down every tree and wait to wipe out the enemy to get the highest score. Some funny rankings they came up with.

@tomasburian6550

8 ай бұрын

Especially with the map editor.

Imagine if we had the computers of today, with the peak gameplay and creativity of the 80s and 90s

@frilansspion

Жыл бұрын

you mean just "imagine if we were as creative as in the 90s"

@doom5895

Жыл бұрын

@@frilansspion games now are missing something ever since 2015 shits been mostly stale

@frilansspion

Жыл бұрын

@@doom5895 Id say since Half Life 2 (not counting indie, which however also suffers from sameness due to engines...) But I bet there comes a time soon when people look back fondly to the days when at least people were involved in making games, and it wasnt all AI. "things were shittier but at least it was Ours" theyll say.

@Nik-6675

11 ай бұрын

​@@doom5895True

@Jay_Sullivan

9 ай бұрын

@@frilansspion, I’d rather be living in the ’90s with today’s technology.

simply add: another world, land of lore and little big adventure, and your list is perfect.

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

Another world is available for PS3 too.

@hybo9159

4 ай бұрын

@@aquarius5719 And don't forget "heroes of might and magic" or "shannara"

I play "Block Out" from 1989 since then. Because of the highscores including the date of the scores new records keep being highly motivating. Love it!

@svendaennart

Жыл бұрын

I´m a huge blockout fan as well. Is there a proper remake of this game?

@GKitz211

Жыл бұрын

@@svendaennart There are some Windows-clones, I guess. But I wouldn't change it because of the old scores to beat in the original. ;)

As it should... I just hear the Settlers 1 music became feeling myself in my childhood's best days.

The Settlers was not a Ubisoft game in 1992! Bluebyte has been acquired by Ubisoft in 2001…

@jong2359

Жыл бұрын

That is what happens when bot AI writes almost all of our KZread content.

DOS games rule. I've played a number of these over the years, mostly around the time they were new, and they sill stand up today. Hell, I've been playing Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold a bit over the past week or so; I still love that game so much!

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

When gameplay delivered joy. Today companies compete to deliver short term improved graphics, forget about gameplay.

This basicly sums up my childhood😂 Great nostalgia!

A few more recommendations… X-Wing and Tie Fighter Wing Commander 1-4 Descent 1 and 2 Lands of Lore Might and Magic 3, 4, and 5 Ultima VII: Part 1 and 2 Heretic Blood

Interesting choices! Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is severely underrated. Massively influential to the entire adventure genre yet often overlooked in favor of Fate of Atlantis (which is superior but Last Crusade is still a great game worth checking out). Also Eye of the Beholder! One of the greatest D&D games in my opinion. The Sega CD version is worth checking out too because of its weird techno soundtrack that shouldn't fit yet somehow does.

Played most for countless hours and believe me nostalgia is better left in the past to keep the good memories intact, as we'd be disappointed by most of them except for Day of the tentacle!

Would definitely add Little big adventures /Relentless 1 (name depending on region). Goblins, Sierra adventure games, Hi-octane also runs nicely on dosbox.

SSI's general series. Panzer General, Allied General, Civil War General, Fantasy General, Space General ... There was a Warhammer 40k game they put out that used that same format, too. Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat was good too.

Dune II looks and sounds like the same guys that did command and conquer. Edit: upon review, "oh shit! It was them!"

@samnite3

Жыл бұрын

Westwood studios was great until EA bought them and ruined the company

Half of this video is my childhood, I played most of these games either on an Amiga 500 or my uncles 3.86 PC :)

Settlers 2 was originally on ms-dos however is now available on windows, can be bought on Good old games and has a 10 year anniversary edition. -Cheers

Resolution of 320 x 200 Pixel, 256 colors (VGA) and 16 Bit-Sound (I believe at 22,05 kHz or later 44,1 kHz). But we had FUN with the great gameplay...

@flowrepins6663

Жыл бұрын

cause it ruled babe

@Jay_Sullivan

9 ай бұрын

Now, you need $1,000’s worth of hardware to run a game that you can beat by holding one key.

I still have the first game on floppy disks, though they sold it under the name Serf City.I remember Magic Carpet, Civilization,Colonization,Retail,Uprising 2 , Redneck rampage, 7 kingdoms etc.

I remember playing blockout as a kid and everytime our computer crashes, I had to remove the RAM which are tiny IC's and a bunch of them and reinsert each one back hoping that the computer will boot again.

my first pc was around 1998 i played some of those but prefered arcade ones ( Need for speed 1 , moto racer 1 &2 , Fifa 99 ,

@chucknorris2952

5 ай бұрын

The dodge Viper on Need for speed

Do you know any dos games with 16 bit color or above ? The only game I remember with that option was screamer racing game

Good list.

Great games. Thank you for reminding me.

Epic Pinball is my evergreen game of choice

Great collection of old classics. Used to love Duke Nukem!

@chucknorris2952

5 ай бұрын

My brother also like duke nukem. So much, that he took his name. Saw it in his passport xD

I remember how much alone in the dark spooked me as a kid

Transport Tycoon, Heroes2 of Might & Magic, Age of Empires 1 & Theme Hospital are the best ones from that era. I still play them.

I still play Transport Tycoon (Deluxe), Wing Commander 3-4, many Sierra, Virgin, Lucas Arts and Psygnosis quests. C&C, Dune 2000, X-Com, Ecstatica 1-2. Lots of 1992-1998 MS-DOS games are timeless pieces of Art.

I grew up with simcity 2000 and i still play it to this day

Hexen haven’t played that for along long time, spent so much time on that game

Nice job!

How did Tie Fighter not get on the list ?!?!

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

The mainstream games were FPS. Simulation and scifi games are often disregarded by KZreadrs. So it is more likely to find nostalgia videos about Mario and Doom than about Battlezone or Freespace 2 or Independence War Deluxe Edition.

What's amazing is I remember the graphics seemed so advanced at the time. Any of the Microprose strategy games or SSI RPGs, this is my era of video games. Also MOO2, RotT, UT, Wing Commander; so many great games.

That shadow warrior music playing in the clip was nice

Good list but Transport tycoon Deluxe and Theme Park should be on any ones list IMO.

@Winnetou17

Жыл бұрын

But they're not exactly DOS games, they're pretty windows-y

@mikaruyami

8 ай бұрын

TTD was made for windows, but the original Transport Tycoon was a DOS game which also has a mars reskin you could use.

Today’s old school dos games looks more amazing in VR. I should know!

The Kyrandia Trilogy is worth to check!

@VRReviews11

Жыл бұрын

Seasame seeds

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

No list is complete without Kyrandia

People have already commented with more games, I want only to add: Ultima Underworld II (a game I was very fond of), and Elite: Frontier (an entire universe on a 720 floppy disk).

Ultima Underworld ♥️

Dang.. the person playing Civ 1 made some poor decisions

@svendaennart

Жыл бұрын

have not played it for more than 20 years, please forgive me :D

@exilliss

Жыл бұрын

@@svendaennart just this once ❤

Settlers wasnt done by Ubisoft. They just purchased the studio and the license 10 years after release.

For me it is MechWarrior 2, Hi-Octane, Wing Commander 1 to 4, Carrier Command.

Some more i can think of: Rogue (Hack, Nethack) X-Com Indianapolis 500 Master of Magic Kings quest series Space quest series Quest for Glory series Grand Monster Slam

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

I do not know why KZreadrs always ignore space games.

Are Aladdin and Rayman playing at the correct speed? Looks way worse than the console versions

Surprised Epic Pinball didn't make the list. Its hard to find good pinball games, they usually get too complex, But Epic Pinball is still up there with Space Cadet and Pokemon Pinball imo

hooked on the first second

Gute Auswahl. Ich habe auch mit einer Playlist für Dosgames begonnen. Duke Nukem 3D war das Coop-Multiplayer Highlight damals ... 🙂

@flowrepins6663

Жыл бұрын

wasnt it singleplayer?

@TobiasSchindegger

Жыл бұрын

@@flowrepins6663 No, you can play it coop ...

@bielefeldundmehr2461

8 ай бұрын

Es fehlen die drei Spiele, die ich viel mit meinen Brüdern gespielt habe: - Der Patrizier - Bundesliga Manager Professional - Bandit kings of ancient China Und natürlich der erste Teil von Monkey Island.

Choice is a mixed bag. The second part of the series were usually better: Settler 2, Fate of Atlantis, Command and Conquer (or was the latter in the 90s). And no Sierra adventure games in the list!??

There even more good quality: Larry 7 I have no mouth and I must scream Prehistoric 2

The frog in Alone in the dark freaked me out, what the hell loll! 😅

Oh, I remember another game CyberDogs 1 and CyberDogs 2 its fun to play with Your friend on same keyboard.

Zilla sends his regards, Lo Wang.

What memories.

Very cool games. Though I initially couldn't play Dune2, not having the necessary 8mb free hard disk space on my first computer.

Castle of the Winds, Ports of Call

These games lacked today's sleek graphics but more than made up for it by the great game play.

Nothing beats Duke3d in Win98 dos mode. 👍

Block Out reminded me of Welltris.

Is anyone familiar with the PC game USA quiz (maybe was titled United States quiz) from the 1990s? I originally played it on an IBM compatible computer. It played the first few notes of The National Anthem upon starting up. The game provides multiple choice questions about state capitals and state birds and such. You also need to answer individual questions before the timer ran out. I really want to find an emulator online, but I've come up empty so far. Any info about this game would be much appreciated! I no longer own an IBM compatible but would love to be able to play this game again.

I've never thought of Lemmings as a DOS game, having played it on everything but a PC.

@bielefeldundmehr2461

8 ай бұрын

I enjoyed it on my AMIGA 500.

I agree on... five of these.

All great games but where's my Syndicate by bullfrog 😢

Day of the Tentacle!!!

Nice to see Civilization in here, but what about Dangerous Dave 2 and the Commander Keen series?

@erfanrazi205

9 ай бұрын

I was trying to remember their name. Thanks!

Betrayal at Krondor should be on this list!

THere is an old DOS game called 4d boxing. Man I think I put more hours into that game in the 90s than I have any game since including GTA4/5 and Skyrim.

Stil playing Master of Orion, released 1993. It was fun as kid and is stil today. After u finished playing, it literally gives you the option "Quit to do Dos" 😊

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

Star Control II released in 1992 went open source. For legal reasons it was renamed as UrQuan Masters.

@AndersonNeo12

7 ай бұрын

@aquarius5719 never heard of it before, after some research, it kinda looks similar to Master of Orion

@aquarius5719

7 ай бұрын

Can you make a video about scifi games 1990-2010?

Folks should play the Duke Nukem remake on Serious Sam.

16:44 now thats one i didnt know about! I had it for the genesis.. the dos versions music is just that much more better! Did they make lion king for dos too?

Just missing there first real FPS game Terminator Future Shock, both System Shocks and Prince of Persia I,II :-)

@victorvance2573

Жыл бұрын

A great game but far from being the first FPS! With Terminator Rampage there was even already a Terminator themed FPS game earlier which wasn´t the first one either.

@mikeneverland586

Жыл бұрын

Thee were FPS games before Terminator Future Shock (Wolfenstein, Doom, Dark Forces, System Shock, Ultima Underworld), but TFS was first game which had real 3D with full mouse look and aim .... Quake 1 and Unreal 1 with same technology came after. If I am wrong and there were another read 3D FPS before TFS please correct me :-). I think it was solid game with some flaws and bugs but the control and look and feel was revolutionary. If you climbed to some high structure you could get vertigo :-)

Don't forget it, Bandit Kings of Ancient China and RTK3

I still playing civ 1 since an eternity.

i prefer 3d games that don't try to look too realistic. If they just rebooted the old ones like duke nukem, hexen etc with more updated gfx, they would be awesome.

No XCom games?

Man, I loved Tomb Raider and would love to see a modern remake.

@themetalcatacombs3790

Жыл бұрын

well, it exists, with Lara killing lots of people with a bow, and nobody gets anything else

@PerfectHandProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@themetalcatacombs3790 Yeah haha, I don't count that.

@thewhyzer

Жыл бұрын

Tomb Raider Anniversary is the "modern remake" of the original Tomb Raider.

@PerfectHandProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@thewhyzer Yeah, I'd like a 2022 RTX modern remake haha

@marccaselle8108

Жыл бұрын

I have tomb raider gold and I play it with dosbox game launcher

Damn, it's 2024. I missed the boat.

i finally made so good soft. thanks ❤

Hey, it's 2023 and I'm wondering if these games are still great to play.

Pong is getting a remaster!

I know Settlers 2 has been mentioned, but what about One Must Fall 2097?

My favourite is Dangerous Dave.

I play dos games on ... real h-w - in 2006 began to collect cassic computers - now have about 40 machines from IBM 5150 to Penitum-III)

How about adding Heroes of Might and Magic on the list? The best strategy game ever made

Mine are..... carriers at war and battle of south pacific

The lion king was much better game than Aladdin in DOS. X wing series were very good as well.

That Monty Python reference in Battle Chess is great. Where's The Incredible Machine?

@aquarius5719

8 ай бұрын

Where is Hi-Octane?

Mmmm.. saved the best for last UW!

Alone in the dark !!!!!!!!!!