Huzzah! What a great year for DOS gaming it was... The time when pixel art graphics were distilled into perfection, just before the sad change to low-quality low-poly 3d for some reason. One of the best years ever in terms of quality. DOS4/GW Protected mode runtime enabled such amazing games!!!
Wing Commander III is still my favorite PC game of all time. I've even met Ginger Lynn and Tom Wilson from that game, had the Collector's Edition with Making Of material, a calendar, a VERY cool T-shirt, and came in a film can. System Shock was INSANELY far beyond its market impact in terms of ongoing influence, and I still play it. Tie Fighter was a GREAT concept and terrific fun. We will bring PEACE and ORDER to the galaxy!
Amazing, indeed! What a year! Those were incredible! It was really hard to put this list together! :) Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts, experience, love and memories! Cheers!
Pinball Fantasies is simply the best Pinball game from that era. I can't remember all the hours thta I was playing that game in my 486DX2 and taking advantage of my recently bought SB16
It was awesome! No doubt! And I was playing it since 1992, when it was released for the Amiga! What a game! I still continue to play it nowadays within the Pinball Gold Pack available on GOG! :)
I were just crossing over from Amiga and consoles to PC around -94/-95 , so many DOS games was put on a wait-list and have been played on later occations. From this video , the DOS games that has stuck with me to this day is : DOOM II , Tie fighter , Little big adventure , System shock and Ultima XIII - Pagan. I would also mention Elder scrolls - Arena , from the same year. Great video !!!!
Yeah, Arena was so close to enter the honorable mentions ;) Curiously, got back to it recently (when recovering from my health issue) and I got somewhat addicted ;) Cheers, Roger! Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your thoughts!
Hey there! Just stumbled across your channel and I'm hooked! My gaming journey started way back in 1993 with Zombies on the Mega Drive. That console was my jam until the Sega Saturn entered the picture. But shoutout to my sister's Fujitsu ICL PC TV for giving me a taste of DOS games like Wing Commander Privateer and Putt-Putt (nostalgia overload!). Funny story: my TIC teacher once declared Star Wars: X-Wing the greatest game ever. Ten-year-old me thought he was crazy (lol). Now, as a seasoned gamer, I totally get it - SW: KOTOR is probably my all-time favorite. Actually, that reminds me - mentioning KOTOR to my nephew would likely get the same bewildered reaction I gave my TIC teacher back then. Fast forward to 2001 - I finally scored my own PC, a Compaq Presario 5000. Gaming magazines became my guides to exploring even more DOS titles. Thank goodness for platforms like GOG these days, which make things so much easier! Speaking of holding onto the past, I still love collecting physical media, especially retro games and movies. Those late 80s and early 90s must have been an amazing time to be a gamer. Anyway, keep up the fantastic work! I'm loving your content.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Guilherme! Truly inspiring! Believe me! And yeah, X-Wing was something else when it came out! It's on my Top 10 DOS games from 1993 ;) In the meantime, enjoy the content! By the way, are you Portuguese? If so, grande abraço! Tudo de bom e diverte-e por aqui ;)
@@itsaPIXELthing Sim, sou Português! É sempre bom encontrar outro compatriota na comunidade do TH-cam. Obrigado pela resposta e pelo conteúdo fantástico! Vou continuar a acompanhar o canal com grande interesse. Abraço forte e tudo de bom!
Cheers, great list! Even 30 years ago there were too many awesome games to buy/play between PC, consoles, and portables. I think 1994 may be the first year I logged more PC time than the other two combined, but that might include hopping around from AOL to Compuserve to Prodigy free online trials.
🎉 congrats! Its a pleasure to have a Tuga with a channel dedicated to the retrogaming thematic. TH-cam makes us feel that retro gaming is only a thing in the US or the Uk
Thank you so much for your support, Gustavo! :) Truly appreciate it! I've been creating content for TH-cam for a decade, now! And, back when I started, I wanted to share our Portuguese experience from back in the day to other people from other countries ;) Please, enjoy the content! Cheers! Grande abraço! :)
While Colonization and Transport Tycoon is two of my all time favorite games (I still play OpenTTD to this day - free on steam), and I played a ton of micro machines and aladdin, I really can't fault your top ten. 1994 was a good year.
What a year, indeed! :) And those you mentioned are incredible games, no doubt! I lost the count of how many hours I spent with Micro Machines! It only needed one disk and could be run directly from it, so me and my mates at school would always play it at the computer class ;)
What a list! (Yeah, I seem to say that everytime 😁). LBA was really hard as I recall but the soundtrack was beautiful. Fun fact: The main designer from Alone in the dark was responsible (with some of the same staff) for LBA which kind of explains why the janky, somewhat stiff animation looks really similar! ps Oh and I remember the music on the stones and bones table was amazing - even through the pc's internal speaker! Great video ☺️
For the first time in this videos related with the years I have more than one title that I changed from the Top 10 from the Honored mentions, For certain changed LBA, Heretic and Beneath a Steel Sky and added Transport Tycoon, Cannon Fodder 2 and Lemmings
1994 is for me the last year of the golden age of video games that I situate between 1984 and 1994. From this date it is the massive arrival of 3D or FMV games. Amateurism gives way to a real professional industry led by white collar workers. From there it is a period that I like less, the arrival of 3D consoles and Windows 95... Of course there are still good games but we are starting to feel that micros game publishers are chasing console games. 1994 is also the year of my military service, so I also dropped out. When I returned, the universe I loved was disfigured. Besides your list the game I liked was King’s Quest 7. One of the last good games in Sierra before it fell. Thanks for your video!
I remember getting Little Big Adventure at a flea market because of the cool looking graphics on the back. I liked the game, but the controls were so bad I could never get more than a couple of hours through.
Amazing games, indeed! So many good memories 😀 thanks for watching!
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@@itsaPIXELthing thank you for your videos... really... they help me forgetting lots of issues and dealing with stuff nowadays and the nostalgia i feel is not sad or anything. I hope you continue making them
I got my first PC in 94 so it was a special year for me. It was supposed to be for 'school work' but I just played games on it. First game I played was Doom, I remember Doom initially not working because my config.sys file didn't have enough extended memory allocated. With DOS being completely alien to me, I thought the shop had short changed me and phoned up to complain. They must have had a good laugh at my expense. I also upgraded to 8mb of ram when Rise of the Triad came out, I remember the EDO module cost £200 which would be about £500 in today's money. Which is considerably more than the rig I'm writing this comment on. Regarding Wing Command 3, I don't think there were many rigs at the time which could actually play that game, even P90s struggled. There was certainly nothing which could play it in SVGA mode.
Yeah, my IBM PS/1 was bought also to help me with homework ;) And, messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat was seen as obscure stuff, like if it was illegal or something ;) trying to trick the machine to do things it wasn't supposed to do! Eh eh eh! config.sys and autoexec.bat ;) Ahhhh! The memories! Thank you so much for watching and for your amazing comment! Appreciate it!
Oh yes. I messed with nascar racing. Crashing mostly 😂 Aladdin was there too. I also played beneath a steel sky, to the extent I could as I was a kid. That helicopter at the start stuck with me due to its design. Of course there is heretic, though I never got very far, which is the opposite of jazz Jackrabbit since I beat the shareware episode repeatedly.
Yep, that's why I have dedicated Win98 and XP machines 🎉 Mister is great but can only play very old DOS games that don't need an FPU (basically a 486 SX with a basic SVGA card)
Warcraft Orcs & Humans, the knights "Yes yes my lord, yes my lord, yes yes my lord..." 🤯 😅 A question, Heretic and Hexen are the same game or they different from each other? Never played none of the games on your list, but they look really good, like Blackthor ne, Pinball Fantasies, Jazz Jackrabbit. Cheers Pixel 👍
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Huzzah! What a great year for DOS gaming it was... The time when pixel art graphics were distilled into perfection, just before the sad change to low-quality low-poly 3d for some reason. One of the best years ever in terms of quality. DOS4/GW Protected mode runtime enabled such amazing games!!!
Indeed! What a year :) Thank you for watching and for leaving your much appreciated comment! Cheers!
Great upload buddy👊🏻
Thank you 😊 🙏
1994 - it would be easy to have 100 games list!
Yeah! No doubt! 😀
Wing Commander III is still my favorite PC game of all time. I've even met Ginger Lynn and Tom Wilson from that game, had the Collector's Edition with Making Of material, a calendar, a VERY cool T-shirt, and came in a film can.
System Shock was INSANELY far beyond its market impact in terms of ongoing influence, and I still play it.
Tie Fighter was a GREAT concept and terrific fun. We will bring PEACE and ORDER to the galaxy!
Amazing, indeed! What a year! Those were incredible! It was really hard to put this list together! :) Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts, experience, love and memories! Cheers!
@@itsaPIXELthing 👍😁
Love your videos. Brings back some great gaming memories.
Tie Fighter is my all time favourite game.
What a game! No doubt! 😉 thank you so much!
Once I saw the pinball parts, and the fact you had the originals, I had to send you enough to buy you a beer or a coffee👊🏻😁
Thank you so much for that! Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers, mate! Take care! 😀
Another cracking year for the pc. Lots of games I remember well
Indeed, an incredible year for DOS gamers ;) Cheers, Will! Have a great weekend!
Pinball Fantasies is simply the best Pinball game from that era. I can't remember all the hours thta I was playing that game in my 486DX2 and taking advantage of my recently bought SB16
It was awesome! No doubt! And I was playing it since 1992, when it was released for the Amiga! What a game! I still continue to play it nowadays within the Pinball Gold Pack available on GOG! :)
I were just crossing over from Amiga and consoles to PC around -94/-95 , so many DOS games was put on a wait-list and have been played on later occations. From this video , the DOS games that has stuck with me to this day is : DOOM II , Tie fighter , Little big adventure , System shock and Ultima XIII - Pagan. I would also mention Elder scrolls - Arena , from the same year. Great video !!!!
Yeah, Arena was so close to enter the honorable mentions ;) Curiously, got back to it recently (when recovering from my health issue) and I got somewhat addicted ;) Cheers, Roger! Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your thoughts!
Hey there! Just stumbled across your channel and I'm hooked!
My gaming journey started way back in 1993 with Zombies on the Mega Drive. That console was my jam until the Sega Saturn entered the picture. But shoutout to my sister's Fujitsu ICL PC TV for giving me a taste of DOS games like Wing Commander Privateer and Putt-Putt (nostalgia overload!). Funny story: my TIC teacher once declared Star Wars: X-Wing the greatest game ever. Ten-year-old me thought he was crazy (lol). Now, as a seasoned gamer, I totally get it - SW: KOTOR is probably my all-time favorite. Actually, that reminds me - mentioning KOTOR to my nephew would likely get the same bewildered reaction I gave my TIC teacher back then.
Fast forward to 2001 - I finally scored my own PC, a Compaq Presario 5000. Gaming magazines became my guides to exploring even more DOS titles. Thank goodness for platforms like GOG these days, which make things so much easier! Speaking of holding onto the past, I still love collecting physical media, especially retro games and movies.
Those late 80s and early 90s must have been an amazing time to be a gamer.
Anyway, keep up the fantastic work! I'm loving your content.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Guilherme! Truly inspiring! Believe me! And yeah, X-Wing was something else when it came out! It's on my Top 10 DOS games from 1993 ;)
In the meantime, enjoy the content! By the way, are you Portuguese? If so, grande abraço! Tudo de bom e diverte-e por aqui ;)
@@itsaPIXELthing Sim, sou Português! É sempre bom encontrar outro compatriota na comunidade do TH-cam.
Obrigado pela resposta e pelo conteúdo fantástico! Vou continuar a acompanhar o canal com grande interesse.
Abraço forte e tudo de bom!
DooM II & Heretic, of course:) Still playing'em, btw:) With doomsday engine & brutal mod.
Cheers, great list! Even 30 years ago there were too many awesome games to buy/play between PC, consoles, and portables. I think 1994 may be the first year I logged more PC time than the other two combined, but that might include hopping around from AOL to Compuserve to Prodigy free online trials.
Cool! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience! :) Cheers!
To me, the golden age of DOS games was 1994 to 1998
What an insane year for games
Indeed it was 😀 so awesome 👌
I know the competition is tough in 94 but leaving out UFO is a strange choice considering the impact the game has to this day.
Almost made it to the top 10 😉 It's still in the honorable mentions. Thanks for watching!
I think the list is his personal favorites from that year, not that year's best.
@@mikesol1162 Of course, of course, all top lists like this are subjective, it's hard to pick only 10 and I agree with most picks.
I preferred all the games in the honourable mentions to the ones on his top ten list. Great vid tho!
🎉 congrats! Its a pleasure to have a Tuga with a channel dedicated to the retrogaming thematic. TH-cam makes us feel that retro gaming is only a thing in the US or the Uk
Thank you so much for your support, Gustavo! :) Truly appreciate it! I've been creating content for TH-cam for a decade, now! And, back when I started, I wanted to share our Portuguese experience from back in the day to other people from other countries ;) Please, enjoy the content! Cheers! Grande abraço! :)
While Colonization and Transport Tycoon is two of my all time favorite games (I still play OpenTTD to this day - free on steam), and I played a ton of micro machines and aladdin, I really can't fault your top ten. 1994 was a good year.
What a year, indeed! :) And those you mentioned are incredible games, no doubt! I lost the count of how many hours I spent with Micro Machines! It only needed one disk and could be run directly from it, so me and my mates at school would always play it at the computer class ;)
What a list! (Yeah, I seem to say that everytime 😁). LBA was really hard as I recall but the soundtrack was beautiful. Fun fact: The main designer from Alone in the dark was responsible (with some of the same staff) for LBA which kind of explains why the janky, somewhat stiff animation looks really similar! ps Oh and I remember the music on the stones and bones table was amazing - even through the pc's internal speaker! Great video ☺️
Thanks for your comment and for sharing your thoughts and memories! 😉
Under a Killing Moon!! Still have the CDS and Box that I bought Lisbon downtown!! Great video! Abraço
Nice ;) Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Nuno! Grande abraço! Obrigado!
For the first time in this videos related with the years I have more than one title that I changed from the Top 10 from the Honored mentions, For certain changed LBA, Heretic and Beneath a Steel Sky and added Transport Tycoon, Cannon Fodder 2 and Lemmings
Nice choices! Amazing titles, indeed! :) Thanks for sharing, Vasco! Abraço!
at first i was sad that OMF didn't make the top 10 but using it as the background music is a good tribute :D
1994 is for me the last year of the golden age of video games that I situate between 1984 and 1994. From this date it is the massive arrival of 3D or FMV games. Amateurism gives way to a real professional industry led by white collar workers. From there it is a period that I like less, the arrival of 3D consoles and Windows 95... Of course there are still good games but we are starting to feel that micros game publishers are chasing console games.
1994 is also the year of my military service, so I also dropped out. When I returned, the universe I loved was disfigured.
Besides your list the game I liked was King’s Quest 7. One of the last good games in Sierra before it fell.
Thanks for your video!
Yeah, couldn't agree more. Thanks for watching and for sharing your experience, thoughts and memories! Appreciate it! Cheers!
I remember getting Little Big Adventure at a flea market because of the cool looking graphics on the back. I liked the game, but the controls were so bad I could never get more than a couple of hours through.
I got used to those controls pretty quickly ;) Played a ton and loved it! Can't say that about the sequel, though ;)
I would say I've played 70% of those games....most of them back in the day....
I still play most of these nowadays ;) modern gaming is such a sad thing...
@@itsaPIXELthing I have to agree 👍 🤝
aaa the OMF music at the begining.. my favorite !!! love your vids..... 1994 i was 14 such a great time to be alive in 90´s man :)
No doubt! So awesome indeed! :) Thank you so much for your kind words! Appreciate it!
so many good games in 94 :O had no idea... too bad i cant go back
Amazing games, indeed! So many good memories 😀 thanks for watching!
@@itsaPIXELthing thank you for your videos... really... they help me forgetting lots of issues and dealing with stuff nowadays and the nostalgia i feel is not sad or anything. I hope you continue making them
@ João! Stay strong! We're together! :) Cheers! Grande abraço!
i've played almost all!
With system shock as an honorable mention you can tell 1994 is awesome
little big adventure is a poem
That’s an impressive list of honorable mentions
So many incredible games!
I got my first PC in 94 so it was a special year for me. It was supposed to be for 'school work' but I just played games on it. First game I played was Doom, I remember Doom initially not working because my config.sys file didn't have enough extended memory allocated. With DOS being completely alien to me, I thought the shop had short changed me and phoned up to complain. They must have had a good laugh at my expense. I also upgraded to 8mb of ram when Rise of the Triad came out, I remember the EDO module cost £200 which would be about £500 in today's money. Which is considerably more than the rig I'm writing this comment on. Regarding Wing Command 3, I don't think there were many rigs at the time which could actually play that game, even P90s struggled. There was certainly nothing which could play it in SVGA mode.
Yeah, my IBM PS/1 was bought also to help me with homework ;) And, messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat was seen as obscure stuff, like if it was illegal or something ;) trying to trick the machine to do things it wasn't supposed to do! Eh eh eh! config.sys and autoexec.bat ;) Ahhhh! The memories! Thank you so much for watching and for your amazing comment! Appreciate it!
many awesome games that year
Indeed 😉 so good!
awesome games. i miss that time.
Thanks for sharing the love! Cheers!
I remember playing Raptor and finish it within two hours. Too easy
Great list! Some real classics here.
Thanks for watching and for leaving your much appreciated comment! Have a great weekend! Cheers!
Oh yes. I messed with nascar racing. Crashing mostly 😂 Aladdin was there too.
I also played beneath a steel sky, to the extent I could as I was a kid. That helicopter at the start stuck with me due to its design.
Of course there is heretic, though I never got very far, which is the opposite of jazz Jackrabbit since I beat the shareware episode repeatedly.
Thanks for sharing your experience and memories! :) Appreciate it! Cheers! Have a great weekend!
Tie Fighter was my jam. Still is.
The sad part is that trying to play old games just ends up being incompatible so folks need to have a PC with Windows 2000/XP or earlier to enjoy.
Yeah. I know that feeling.. Cheers!
not at all, all these games play in DOSbox, that runs on pretty much anything from PC to mobile phone to MISTER
Yeah, DOS box and GOG releases. As for playing these games on phones, not a fan.
Yep, that's why I have dedicated Win98 and XP machines 🎉
Mister is great but can only play very old DOS games that don't need an FPU (basically a 486 SX with a basic SVGA card)
ExoDOS is the solution
I finally played DoomII on hard level (not nightmare) and finished it without cheats just in 2020.
It was an amazing and quite intense experience.
Awesome! Thanks for watching and for sharing 😊
great video love great work
Appreciate it! Thank you!
LBA was so good for its time.
Indeed it was 😀
Warcraft Orcs & Humans, the knights "Yes yes my lord, yes my lord, yes yes my lord..." 🤯 😅
A question, Heretic and Hexen are the same game or they different from each other?
Never played none of the games on your list, but they look really good, like Blackthor ne, Pinball Fantasies, Jazz Jackrabbit. Cheers Pixel 👍
Hexen is the sequel to Heretic ;) It's called "Hexen: Beyond Heretic". And please, try those games out! They're amazing! :) Cheers, Jonn!
Era tão miúdo que poucos destes jogos me dizem alguma coisa mas Doom II é aquela base
Um enorme marco 😀 jogaço!
Raptor was ok. But i liked Tyrian from 95 much more
Yeah :) Wait for it ;)
@@itsaPIXELthing 😁👍🏼
DOOM FOREVER
... and ever! :) Cheers! Thanks for watching!
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