I recently played an amazing DOS game where you have your country and you can declare war or peace with other ones, and i really enjoyed it. Growing up one of my favorite DOS games was Gobliiins 3, such cool memories!
ZZT was an amazing game where you could make your own games and program “objects” using a simple scripting language. It was my first programming language.
It was Tim Sweeney’s first game. I’ve never played Fortnight.
Dangerous Dave. I think it was the first ever DOS game that I got to play. I like good platformers.
I cannot remember the name but you got to choose between a boy character and a girl character and each stage you had to get all the collectibles to open the door. It was a 2d platformer as well.
Edit: Turns out the game is called Word Rescue.I got into ZZT, a “topdown” 2d game with its own map editor and even a rudimentary scripting language. Stumbled on it because I wanted to make games. People made some seriously impressive shit on that thing and its successors.
Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, Zak McKraken and the alien mindbenders, One Must Fall 2097
cosmo’s cosmic adventure, hocus pocus, the lost vikings, prince of persia. oh shit i miss those days
Prince of Persia is the first game I remember playing, so I have very fond memories of it. Cosmo as well.
Cosmos was epic
Could not tell you how many hours my brother and I spent taking turns playing Wacky Wheels
Wow. That brings back some memories!
wacky.exe
Ultima 6. It was Baldur’s Gate before Baldur’s Gate, and it had very deep conversation and morality systems. Also amazing VGA graphics (for the time, 256 colors!) interesting PC Speaker AND Sound Blaster music, and an interesting open world and story that showed that preconceived notions and prejudices can be bad, and that sometimes you can solve cultural misunderstandings through communication and sharing instead of conflict.
Ultima 6 was a masterpiece and way ahead of its time. If any of the Ultima games needs a remake, it’s that one, imo. I also played Goblins 2, but never got around to 1 or 3. Did enjoy it, but got stuck on some puzzles and gave up. You couldn’t just go online and find a solution like you can nowadays. If I ever got back into the Goblins series, I probably would finish them using those online hints though. I’ve lost the patience (and more importantly, time) to do it the hard way nowadays.
Wolfenstein 3D, my first ever PC game
my dad gave me a floppy disk from one of his coworkers with instructions on how to navigate and run the game from DOS and I felt like a hacker lol
It even had a level editor! Seriously such a ground breaking game that paved the way for the genre.
Gabriel Knight 1, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max, Grim Fandango, Quest for Glory 4.
QFG 2 and 4 were absolute masterpieces, with 4 being the pinnacle of the series. The eastern Germanic lore mixed with Eldritch horror, gorgeously painted artwork throughout, and the voice acting was spot on. John Rhys-Davies as narrator was a perfect fit (even though he thought the whole thing was a shitshow), and the 3 villages riffing off each other was fucking hilarious.
When I was a kid it baffled me that the 3 townspeople’s voices never matched the text. It was only a few years ago I learned that when those 3 voice actors were in the studio, they would ad-lib the fuck out of their lines. The Coles kept cracking up and just kept the completely wrong lines in there without changing any of the text.
Just started a new playthrough a couple months ago on my steam deck, but with the new(ish) VGA remake of QFG2, since the text parser would be a bitch on the deck.
Haha I was gonna say QFG1 and QFG3 were absolutely legendary. I had sooo many hours in both as a kid. I still go back and play QFG1 every few years.
If you’re a fan, check out Heroine’s Quest. It’s free on Steam and is a great throw back to the originals.
I totally agree with your list. I loved the Quest for Glory series, at least until the fifth game, which has the crappy 3D graphics from the late 90s.
That fifth game was absolutely brutal. Infamy Quest is a decent analog to that series. Not as clever though.
Not to be the hispter, but my fav. is a very niche game called “Het Yogo Yogo Spel”, it’s a promotional game for a drink in the Netherlands. for some reason i have such strong nostalgic feelings for it, i really loved playing it as a kid and even more as an adult because it reminds me of that time so much. and no, it’s not an amazing platformer (not bad either) but man…
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, but I’ll give Wolfenstein 3D an honorable mention.
That just brought back memories of building massive turret walls in Dune 2 and just laughing as the computer tried sending a small group of units and getting absolutely demolished.
Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret
Sometimes I wish they made an FPS reboot, then I remember EA owns it.
Space Hulk would definitely be mine
For me it has to be Quake. I was a bit too late for DOOM, but before then I was playing as a child on the Sega Megadrive (Sega Genesis for my US pals) and going from the Megadrive graphics and gameplay to Quake…
I think that was the first time I was absolutely addicted to a game. Like, I was pretending to delete the game and hiding it using Explorer’s hide folder mode so I could secretly sneak some Quake in here and there.
Absolutely love that game.
It’s still brilliant! Some people hated it because it was unbalanced, but that’s just why it was so great! The way each enemy required a unique dance to defeat without taking damage is sheer perfection.
I’m just sad it never got an actual sequel :(
