The 150 Essential MS-DOS Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2022
- Here are the 150 video games that represents the very best - 'la crème de la crème' - in DOS gaming. It's a trip down memory lane for those familiar with that particular era in gaming history, but for those that never messed around with an MS-DOS based personal computer and are curious to know which games are still worth playing nowadays, I've just made your day!
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0:00:00 Intro
0:00:41 Arkanoid II
0:01:41 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
0:02:41 Indianapolis 500
0:03:41 Rick Dangerous
0:04:41 Golden Axe
0:05:41 Prince of Persia
0:06:41 Secret of Monkey Island
0:07:41 Stunts
0:08:41 Super Off Road
0:09:41 Wing Commander
0:10:41 Another World
0:11:41 Blues Brothers
0:12:41 Gods
0:13:41 Joe & Mac
0:14:41 Monkey Island 2
0:15:41 Civilization
0:16:41 Simpsons Arcade
0:17:35 Space Quest IV
0:18:35 Speedball 2
0:19:35 Supaplex
0:20:35 Wing Commander II
0:21:35 Comanche
0:22:35 Crazy Cars III
0:23:35 Curse of Enchantia
0:24:35 Dune
0:25:35 Dune II
0:26:35 Dyna Blaster
0:27:35 Gobliins 2
0:28:35 The Humans
0:29:35 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
0:30:35 King's Quest VI
0:31:35 Lure of the Temptress
0:32:35 Powermonger
0:33:35 Quest for Glory III
0:34:35 Risky Woods
0:35:35 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
0:36:35 Ugh!
0:37:35 Ultima VII
0:38:35 Body Blows
0:39:35 Cannon Fodder
0:40:35 Day of the Tentacle
0:41:35 Doom
0:42:35 Epic Pinball
0:43:35 Flashback
0:44:35 Fury of the Furries
0:45:35 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
0:46:35 Incredible Machine, The
0:47:35 Jurassic Park
0:48:35 Legend of Kyrandia
0:49:35 Lemmings 2
0:50:35 Lost Vikings
0:51:35 Lotus III
0:52:35 Pinball Dreams
0:53:35 Police Quest 4
0:54:35 Prehistorik 2
0:55:35 Prince of Persia 2
0:56:33 Sam & Max Hit the Road
0:57:33 Star Wars: X-Wing
0:58:33 Leisure Suit Larry 6
0:59:33 Simon the Sorcerer
1:00:33 Syndicate
1:01:33 All New World of Lemmings
1:02:33 Beneath a Steel Sky
1:03:33 Blackthorne
1:04:33 Chaos Engine
1:05:33 Descent
1:06:33 Desert Strike
1:07:33 Disney's Aladdin
1:08:33 Doom II: Hell on Earth
1:09:33 Heretic
1:10:33 Jazz Jackrabbit
1:11:33 Little Big Adventure
1:12:33 Mortal Kombat II
1:13:33 One Must Fall: 2097
1:14:33 Pinball Dreams II
1:15:33 Pinball Fantasies
1:16:33 Quarantine
1:17:35 Raptor
1:18:35 SimCity 2000
1:19:35 Star Wars: TIE Fighter
1:20:35 System Shock
1:21:35 Theme Park
1:22:35 Transport Tycoon
1:23:35 Warcraft
1:24:35 UFO: Enemy Unknown
1:25:35 BC Racers
1:26:35 Beast Within, The
1:27:35 Big Red Racing
1:28:35 Crusader: No Remorse
1:29:35 Destruction Derby
1:30:35 Dig, The
1:31:35 Discworld
1:32:35 Earthworm Jim
1:33:35 Extreme Pinball
1:34:35 Flight of the Amazon Queen
1:35:35 Full Throttle
1:36:35 Hexen
1:37:35 Hi-Octane
1:38:35 Jungle Strike
1:39:35 Micro Machines 2
1:40:35 Phantasmagoria
1:41:35 Pinball Illusions
1:42:35 Pinball Mania
1:43:35 Psycho Pinball
1:44:35 Rise of the Triad
1:45:35 Screamer
1:46:35 Sensible World of Soccer
1:47:35 Slipstream 5000
1:48:35 Speed Haste
1:49:35 Star Wars: Dark Forces
1:50:35 Terminal Velocity
1:51:35 Terminator: Future Shock
1:52:35 Turrican II
1:53:35 Tyrian
1:54:35 Warcraft II
1:55:35 Wipeout
1:56:35 Worms
1:57:35 Abuse
1:58:35 Battle Arena Toshinden
1:59:35 Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
2:00:33 Crusader: No Regret
2:01:33 Death Rally
2:02:34 Descent II
2:03:33 Destruction Derby 2
2:04:35 Duke Nukem 3D
2:05:35 Exhumed
2:06:35 Grand Prix 2
2:07:35 IndyCar Racing II
2:08:35 NASCAR Racing 2
2:09:35 Need for Speed, The - SE
2:10:35 Network Q RAC Rally Championship
2:11:35 Quake
2:12:35 Rayman
2:13:35 Screamer 2
2:14:35 The Settlers II
2:15:35 Syndicate Wars
2:16:35 Z
2:17:35 Blood
2:18:35 Carmageddon
2:19:35 Fallout
2:20:35 GTA
2:21:35 KKND
2:22:35 MDK
2:23:35 Redneck Rampage
2:24:35 Screamer Rally
2:25:35 Shadow Warrior
2:26:35 SODA Off-Road Racing
2:27:35 Theme Hospital
2:28:35 X-Men: Children of the Atom
2:29:35 Tomb Raider Unfinished Business
2:30:35 Conclusion
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Risky Woods is a beautiful arcade game!
@@JM-uf1vw Indeed it is :)
A history which will never repeat itself, the hallmark of which was simplicity, creativity, and passion.
Indeed :)
yeah. its almost a shame games are so easy to make nowdays, because the creativity that came out of limited resources made some fantastic games. now its all mindless fps, mtx predators or mobas
now you must play unreal engine, unity and other poop.
Even the menu structure of the current games are so complicated. I like a simple and clean game menu interface. In NBA 2k23, you need a class in just understanding the game menus prior to even playing, and then a second class for the in-game menus/playcalling/timeouts/substitutions/etc. I think today's complicated games and interfaces reflect the current state of the developer's minds. They don't have the capability of making something simple but with depth. Even Apple is losing their ability to keep things simple.
It's all going to collapse, we're headed back to primitive times. Today's humans can't get their stuff together. In 1000 years, they'll have to start over from scratch with computers. They might have some dug up historical examples to work from, but only fragments. They'll go through all of the phases of early computing we went through, including the video games. Finally, they'll have internet and then right there at that point, a new collapse begins.
The first one and it hit me right on the feels. Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH was the 3rd DOS game I've ever played (Zool and the glorious Prehistorik 2), and I borrowed all these games from Alberto, who taught me not only to use DOS but also to understand and love computers back when I was a kid about 30 years ago. I was devastated when he suddenly passed away in his 40's, but every single time I play a DOS game I can't help but remember him and his teachings. The opening tune from Arkanoid has sent me hot rods to Nostalgiaville, and I bet if Alberto could know how long has gone what I learned from him he'd be proud of the kiddo who couldn't get his head around the use of ARJ and the darn parameters needed to cut up a chunk of a file to fit it into floppy disks
Beautiful video 🤩 This must have taken you a long time to put together...
Thanks for stopping by, Phil!
I remember playing Hard Drivin’ In the arcade for the first time. The fact that you could drive off the road and even hit a cow was revolutionary. It seemed like so much freedom at the time.
Amen!
Excellent video as always, I remember playing most of them 😀
Great video! I played so many of those games! One of my oldest (and best) memories was Stunts. Creating dozens of custom tracks, driving them normally or just crazy messing around, sometimes finding funny glitches and spending hours in the replay-tool watching stuff from every angle.
Yeah! I also made a dozen tracks myself and messed around with a few created by colleagues from school :) So much fun!
Wow, what a time travel, great video, remember playing a lot of this games in the past! Cheers!
Sincere thank you for having a list with timestamps, you the man.
Oh man, this is pure nostalgia. I've played and enjoyed all of these games with only a few exceptions.
Thank you so much for your feedback! Cheers!
You won me over the first few seconds in with the Space Debris mod. Also Arkanoid II. Hit me right in the feels. Thanks for the good memories
My pleasure :) Abraço!
I've played most of these games when i was young, and the other I read on videogame magazine at the times. So many fond memories, many of these games were so much fun, simple and direct, we could define them almost minimalistic today, but that was the hardware available. Nonetheless developers managed to squeeze real masterpieces, and to make some incredible progresses. It was, simultaneously, the era of classics, the golden era for FPS, RTS, Driving and Adventure games, the era of many games with the best arcade feeling, and the paradise of flipper games. I would like to talk about so many of them but I haven't so much time, so I'll write a short list:
- Civilization: the game you couldn't uninstall.
- Syndicate: play with headphones or risking your neighbour would call police hearing the shootings.
- Theme Park, Syndicate, Theme Hospital: when Bullfrog was at the top.
- UFO Enemy Unknown: when you develop a link with your soldiers and you can't let them die.
- Carmageddon: another extremely fun and controversial game. And Fear Factory. I don't remember such controversies for Quarantine, anyway, but maybe there were less.
- Tomb Raider: so much atmosphere despite the blocky graphics.
- Dune: a wonderful mix of adventure and strategy, with memorable characters.
- Ultima VII: or how Origin did open world RPG games in 1992.
- Screamer: awesome graphics and speed, it surprised everyone when it released. Developed by Graffiti, an italian software house.
- F1GP2: It's funny, I had a blast with this, replaying entire championships, but I've never found the same pleasure with modern F1 games.
- Network Q RAC Rally Championship: I lost days playing this, totally immersed, it's one of those games I would like to replay in a "lightly" updated version.
- Pinball Fantasies: Stones'n'Bones is the best pinball table of all time.
Thank you so much for leaving your comment, Ivano! Truly appreciate it!
Hi! Congrats for another awesome video. So many memories of this games. I played most of them back at the day!
Excellent video, thank you for putting all this together - quite a few gems in here i'd forgotten about, can't wait to get the old DOSbox fired up :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Great video! The Legend of Kyrandia series was my favorite of the MS-DOS era. 👍🏻
Mais um grande video literalmente. Mas muito bom para a nostalgia de melhores tempos, em que qualquer pc corria tudo. Continua o bom trabalho e que os MSDoS esteja contigo.
This is another classic video, love it, thanks!
Appreciate it :)
I still play Master of Orion 1 via DOS Box. I remember so many great times with DOS games!!
You know what is best? Most if not all of these games can be today played on a 140 USD handheld like Anbernic RG353v... I'm in my 40's and getting this handheld opened to me a fantastic trip to the past, when as a boy I was playing on C64, Amiga and then on PC. I can only recommend!
Indeed! I have an RG353M and I absolutely love it :)
Absolutely fantastic video again man keep it up 👌
Appreciate it, Wayne :)
Great stuff. Just what I needed to begin my day. 👍
Very well made video. Just enough footage to actually get idea of the game. It was nice to see few long time ago forgotten titles from magazines I was very curious about, but never got to play. Like Slipstream, I think it got. quite good reviews, but never saw game in action and didn't even remember it. Also didn't have clue that ie. PC Jungle Strike had FMV video
Great selection!!
This will take a while for fully watching but i am already enjoying it....
Thanks, mate ;)
Wow, 150 games! Great job at all! After first screening I just did miss the awesome "Rampart"😉.
This is quality documentation! Got me exited about DOS games again :)
Awesome! :)
I was hooked on Screamer Rally! Glad you included it on the list 👍
So good :) Check my Screamer retrospective: th-cam.com/video/xkDL2-GB148/w-d-xo.html
Stunts is game I forgot for 30 years but I use to love it and play so much, building tracks
Thank you so much for making this !! Perfection
My pleasure! Thank you!
memoriessss..great video man
Thanks, David! Cheers!
Great Video! Each game was dedicated enough time to let me revel in remembrance/nostalgia
Thanks for watching ;)
I never understood how the cinematics of Out of This World were made. Are those sprites, polygons, vectors?
They are 2D vector polygons. Not just the cinematic, but the entire game (except just 2 bitmap backgrounds, I believe)
@@dosnostalgic Interesting. Even the SNES version is done that way?
@@ghost085 I guess my reply got filtered out because of an included link. But yes, every version is like that, including the SNES one.
You can read a technical breakdown of every port with comments from developers by looking up "Fabien Sanglard Another World".
10 minutes in, already a great video. I wish some of these games got remastered/remade. I would love to see a remake of Ironman Offroad for instance.
Yeah! That would be amazing! Have you checked my video about Ironman Off Road? Here you go: th-cam.com/video/QMw87sXzKL0/w-d-xo.html
Hoh yeah that'd be awesome
Great list of some real classics from my day...Which I may add, many I still play. :)
Thank you for making this!!!! Blast from my childhood!
My pleasure! Thank You!
that was awesome! More of this stuff ≤3
Sweet, thx for the content
This was truly a connaisseurs list of 90s DOS Games, no arguing here... just the urge to play some of the games I missed out on ... and replay others !!!
Seeing that point and click with voices is amazing, back in time I didn't have the version with voices.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis with voices is incredible! Indy's voice is so close to Harrison Ford's :)
Very cool work 👍
Thanks! Appreciate it! :)
Mais um video fantástico! eu devo ter jogado 90% desses jogos. Alguns já não me lembrava e já os arranjei novamente num abandonware. obrigado por estas 2h30m de nostalgia que passaram num instante e enchem o coração de quem viveu essa época
Fico feliz por teres gostado, Luis! Abraço
😳😲 wow!! Nice list and very very good job man. I will search the games!!
Thanks, Wanin! Appreciate it! Have fun!
This is a great list. very interesting to see the dos versions that were slightly different from the amiga and console versions at the time. Would not be long until the PC had overhauled them all and was gone!
I would also suggest you try out The Bermuda Syndrome, a Pitfall style game where a WW2 pilot gets stuck in prehistoric times, and the Gene Machine, a point-and-click set in Victorian times.
Love the content!
> This is a great list. very interesting to see the dos versions that were slightly different from the amiga and console versions at the time. Would not be long until the PC had overhauled
> them all and was gone!
1993, December.
This Video Game Revolution started in 1990.
As a big fan of point n click adventures, why did i never even see a Gariel Knight game in my life? They look amazing!
They are, indeed ;)
Your videos are excellent and take me back to a simpler time in life. Your voice is super cool too. 👍
Thank you so much! Appreciate it!
Nice compilation.
Thanks for watching and for leaving your comment 🙂
lots of favorite ms dos games here
I'm going to date myself a bit here, but I got my first PC in 1985 and it came with DOS 2.2 and I remember playing all of these games. At a quick glance, this is a great list and the only game that strikes me as missing is Command & Conquer. I know you're in Portugal and not Brasil, but seeing all the Portuguese responses reminded me of when I lived in Brasil for a time in the late 90s and early 2000s. When I moved there, I brought over my PC and all my games. GTA was confiscated by customs because it was banned there, though my guess is that one of the agents ended up taking it home to play himself. 🤣
Ah! What a great story! :) Thanks for stopping by and for sharing it! Cheers!
Great list. Needs more Star Control II though!
Assustador pensar que me lembro de jogar todos estes títulos mas de facto são as melhores memórias que tenho da minha infância! Obrigado por mais um grande video, abraço!!
Bons tempos! Grande abraço, Nuno!
While I was mostly a console child, starting in the 80s with Atari, then NES, Game Boy, Mega Drive (Genesis), Super NES, Saturn, etc. there was still a whole lot of playing these simpler, but also fun games on my PC while growing up in the early 90s while starting and going through high school. Good times....
Good times indeed :) thanks for stopping by and for leaving your comment! Cheers!
@@itsaPIXELthing No problem. Thank YOU for taking the time to make this great, LONG video. Must have taken you AGES to edit everything...
We can't forget about Pro Pinball The Web and Timeshock!
This is why I have a retro Windows 98 computer, and a Tandy 1000 SX. Though the Tandy plays even older games from 1984-1988 (anything after 1988 is too new for it to handle lol).
I can't believe you didn't include Overwatch 2.
I so need to get the Screamer trilogy up and running on my Steam Deck. Only ever got to play the 2nd one back in the days and it alwasy fascinated me.
Stunts was an amazing game. I spent so much time building tracks.
Yikes. I watched this thinking I'd discover a lot of new games I never played, but in the end after speeding through this video I realized I player pretty much 98% of them. How did I have so much time??
I was wondering the exact same thing 😳
Zeliard, Wing Commander 1, Metal Mutant, Monkey Island 1, Civ 1, Elder Scrolls Arena, Quest for Glory: Trial by Fire, Budokan, F16 Strike Eagle, Dungeons & Dragons- some of the best ever old PC games
So good! :)
That IronMan race looks CLEAN, almost better than the arcade.
very nice 🔥
So many years of my life here. Started with Sopwith Camel and Ally Cat and I'm still here...gaming 🎮🕹
OMG. THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A MAP OF MY CHILDHOOD!
Wow, a few titles I have not seen in some time, like One Must Fall 2097.
I will say, you're PC was a lot more powerful than mine back then.
The Humans! What a great game!
Where is Commandor Keen?! I've forgot the name so I went through your video and I still had to look it up a different way😂
It amost made it to this list ;)
@@itsaPIXELthing Awh, It was a great pick for no. 151 haha 😜.
Still loved scrolling through the video seeing other great nostalgic games, so cheers!
@@REFLEXLWD Appreciate it! :)
Chasm The Rift i would add!
I gotta give my parents more credit, I played almost half these games as a teen! Gobliins 2, KQ6, Wing Commander, Day of tentacle, Doom, Epic Pinball, Fate of Atlantis - classics!!
You do that :) Thanks for stopping by! Cheers!
O melhor video que vi ate agora no TH-cam parabéns!!
Muito obrigado, Filipe! Abraço!
They used high bright colors very very creative with spectacular visuals for the time was insane i dont believe i ever got to play many dos games games like oregon trail were awsome creative man early computed games like commadodrrrr
Oh my god! my eyes started to sweat when I hear the Wing Commander song! It's been a logn time away from these games! I need to play them also!
Impossível reunir melhores clássicos da era de MS-Dos que este vídeo, tanta nostalgia que em fez voltar ao meu retro PC onde tenho o MS-Dos instalado para usufruir da experiência da melhor forma possível sem emulação. O wavetable da Sound Blaster AWE para os jogos que o suportam proporciona uma música excelente e melhor que os emuladores.
Que maravilha! Obrigado pelo comentário, Vasco! :)
how did you get beneath a steel sky to play with MT32 music and sampled voices at the same time?
ScummVM maybe?
It's the CD version played through ScummVm. The floppy disk release doesn't have speech, if I recall correctly.
@@itsaPIXELthing thanks :)
Great review! What is surely missing is author’s point on these games (which I personally played as well) 😊
Talked about many of them in more detail on other videos of mine :) Feel free to browse! Cheers! Have a great weekend!
The best part about Syndicate Wars was that the entire area of operation could be razed :D I remember there was some cheat for all weapons and one of weapons was nuclear grenade. Whole skyscrapers could be destroyed with that stuff.
Wow. I'm surprised that I recognise about over 100 of these (and also surprised by quite a few Bullfrog games I've never heard of). Of course had to have Doom in there.... twice 😁 .
Never knew Carmagedon had Fear Factory as the sound track
🤔
Carmageddon wouldn't be Carmageddon without Fear Factory ;)
Man, none of the best PC DOS games were platformers or arcade ports. And so many of the groundbreaking games came out in the 80’s.
another world was mind blowing game when i was a kid, i remember when everyone was talking about it in commercial
Played it so much on my IBM 486DX2 with the sound coming from the PC speaker :) sound cards were too expensive back in those days
This is the best line up I have seen, so many great memories, might have to fire up the old DOSBOX!
Do it! :) Thanks for stopping by! :)
PC DOS y Amiga son dos grandes pasiones. ¡Larga vida para ambos! 🥂
Developers: "How many pinball games do you want?"
Dos gamers: "Yes."
Eh eh eh eh eh!
Thanks!
Thank you so much! :)
How is Master of Magic not in this list?
And here I am, looking through my abandonware and GOG, looking to see what all I can emulate on my Pocket Flip. Ggs
I really like the look of the 2D polygon graphics in Out of This World. I wish they made more games that looked like that. Especially the cinematics.
"Fade to Black" was also rather good
I have at least 2/3rds of these in my PC collection, going from 1989 to 2005, before it went digital... On the other hand, only 1/2th are "essential" as far as I am concerned! :)
I remember going to RC Willy on Saturday for the free hot dogs and Pepsi haha, first time I played Joe and Mac and Sim City 2000 was on one of their PCs
Nice! :) Thanks for sharing your memories! :)
Lotus was great. love the snow and fog. Pinball. The Chaos engine? Descent? Flight of the Amazon Queen? Screamer 2? Alice in wonderland games? Carmageddon? Fall Out? Early Grand Theft Auto? like 1997?
Thankyou for putting this together. I found a great emulator for android and have listed a few good games thanks to you. Cheers.
My pleasure! Thank you ;)
Love monkey island, always brings me nostalgia.
What a masterpiece!
Battle Isle (Blue Byte) should have a place in that list too.
I wish you had made a short commentary on why they were essential.
i still dont find 2 games DOS I played with my cousins in the 90s, i will try to explain how they were:
- the first is a case solving mistery, i think we are a cop living in his apartment, and I remember the hud being purple;
- the second is 2D, and I remember playing as a boy in a alien forest and when you had to eat the fruit to restore your health you gain weight and slow your movement if you eat too much;
Sorry for not being more specific, this is what my memory holds, but i wanted to find these games.
És português? Descreve em tuga! Talvez consigamos lá chegar :) Abraço!
@@itsaPIXELthing sou, eu consegui encontrar um deles, era o Blackstar - Agent of Justice. Agora só falta o outro pelo que a memoria não me fatta, era um rapaz que chegou a um planeta e na floresta tinha que ir apanhando fruta para sobreviver mas que engordava quando comesse mta ficando lento e á mercê dos inimigos, algo assim era um jogo 2D, e as cores/imagem eram algo parecido ao Bubba n Stix e Flashback ;)
I played so much prehistorik 2 back in the day
Such an awesome game :)
These games are amazing
nice i never known Golden Axe was on dos to
Adoro games antigos, a simplicidade é o que os tornam tão divertidos.
Mesmo 😉 obrigado pela visita!
Terminal velocity was a great looking game back then.
Ah yes! Nothing more satisfying than pixelated graphics and pc generated sound and music
This may have just triggered my mid life crisis!! So many good games back then.
Thanks for watching! :)
1:26:43 name of this video "style"? Technology ?