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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2018
- My first video for the PC platform!
If you grew up in the 80s, you probably gamed on MS-DOS at some point or another. While not much of a contender in the early/mid 80s, the PC really started gathering popularity in the late 80s, before becoming the dominant (non-console) platform in the mid-90s.
4 color CGA graphics? Yep. 16 color EGA graphics? Luxury. 256 color VGA graphics? A dream. Sound? Uhm, the less said about that, the better.
It's interesting to note that the first half the 80s tended to have more arcade ports and action games, mixed with the occasional RPG, before the late 80s started bringing in more Sierra/Lucasarts style adventures and more "sophisticated" games. Hopefully, this video shows that evolution well. Indeed, this video really charts the evolution of the Video Game quite well
Notes: I've used the North American names of games where applicable - so "Sentinel" becomes "The Sentry" and Nebulous is "Tower Toppler". Also, I've tried to include some European games that many North American gamers may not have heard of. - เกม
![50 Dos Games in 10 minutes [1988-1997]](/img/n.gif)
There was always something magical about the 80s.
Agreed
Younger people can't quite appreciate that this stuff was all new...TO THE WHOLE WORLD. We witnessed the birth of modern gaming before our very eyes, and magical is exactly what it was.
There always will be
That's because you grew up in the 1980s.
You’re confused with the Win95 BSoD
(1st year is PC release, 2nd is original release.)
00:04 Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Sir-Tech, 1984/1981)
00:10 Burger Time (Data East, 1983/1982)
00:15 Snipes (SuperSet, 1982)
00:20 Dig Dug (Namco/Atarisoft, 1983/1982)
00:25 Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 1983/1981)
00:30 Joust (Williams/Atarisoft, 1983/1982)
00:36 Lode Runner (Broderbund, 1983)
00:43 Ms. Pac-Man (Williams/Atarisoft, 1984/1982)
00:48 Pac-Man (Namco/Atarisoft, 1983/1980)
00:54 Rogue (AI Design/Epyx, 1983/1980)
01:00 Tapper (Bally Midway/Sega, 1984/1983)
01:06 Ultima 2 (Sierra, 1983/1982)
01:12 Zork 1 (Infocom, 1982/1980)
01:18 Alley Cat (Synapse/IBM, 1984/1983)
01:24 Archon (Free Fall/Electronic Arts, 1984/1983)
01:30 Bouncing Babies (Dave Baskin, 1984)
01:36 Castle Wolfenstein (Muse, 1984/1981)
01:42 Congo Bongo (Sega, 1984/1983)
01:48 Hard Hat Mack (Electronic Arts, 1984/1983)
01:54 Jumpman (Epyx/IBM, 1984/1983)
02:00 Pitfall (-, 1984)
02:06 Q*Bert (Parker, 1984/1982)
02:12 Soko-Ban (ASCII Corp/Spectrum Holobyte, 1987/1982)
02:18 The Ancient Art of War (Evryware/Broderbund, 1984)
02:24 Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (Muse, 1985/1984)
02:30 Lords of Conquest (Eon/Electronic Arts, 1988/1986)
02:36 Softporn II (-, 1985)
02:42 Temple of Apshai Trilogy (Epyx, 1986/1985) - orig. 1979-1982)
02:48 Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Origin, 1987/1985)
02:54 Gunship (MicroProse, 1987/1986)
03:00 Karateka (Broderbund, 1986/1984)
03:06 Pole Position (Namco/Thunder Mountain, 1988/1982)
03:12 Shogun (Gang of Five/Mastertronic, 1988/1986)
03:18 Space Quest 1 (Sierra, 1986)
03:24 Starglider (Argonaut/Firebird, 1987/1986)
03:30 Tetris (AcademySoft, 1986)
03:36 Uninvited (ICOM/Mindscape, 1988/1986)
03:42 Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? (Broderbund, 1986)
03:48 Winter Games (Epyx, 1986/1985)
03:54 World Games (Epyx, 1986)
04:00 10th Frame (Access, 1987/1986)
04:06 Airball (MicroDeal, 1987)
04:12 Bruce Lee (Datasoft, 1985/1984)
04:18 Crazy Cars (Titus, 1987)
04:24 Defender of the Crown (Cinemaware/Mindscape, 1987/1986)
04:30 Elite (Acornsoft/Firebird, 1987/1984)
04:36 Into the Eagle's Nest (Pandora/Mindscape, 1987/1986)
04:42 King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (Sierra, 1985)
04:48 Leisure Suit Larry 1 (Sierra, 1987)
04:54 Mach 3 (Loriciels, 1987)
05:00 Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm, 1988/1987)
05:06 Mixed-Up Mother Goose (Sierra, 1987)
05:12 Saboteur II (Durell/Keypunch, 1987)
05:18 Test Drive (Distinctive/Accolade, 1987)
05:24 Bard's Tale 1 (Interplay/Electronic Arts, 1987/1985)
05:30 Thexder (Game Arts/Sierra, 1987/1985)
05:36 Wheel of Fortune (ShareData, 1987)
05:42 Airborne Ranger (MicroProse, 1988/1987)
05:48 Arkanoid (Taito, 1988/1986)
05:54 Battle Chess (Interplay/Electronic Arts, 1989/1988)
06:00 Double Dragon (Technos/Taito, 1988/1987)
06:06 Fire and Forget (Titus, 1988)
06:12 Gauntlet (Atari/Mindscape, 1988/1985)
06:18 Jordan vs Bird: One on One (Electronic Arts, 1988)
06:24 Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (Sierra, 1988)9
06:30 Manhunter: New York (Evryware/Sierra, 1988)
06:36 Microsoft Flight Simulator V4.0 (Bruce Artwick/Microsoft, 1989)
06:42 Neuromancer (Interplay/Electronic Arts, 1989/1988)
06:48 Playhouse Strippoker (Playhouse/Eurosoft, 1988)
06:54 Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (Sierra, 1987)
07:00 Psycho (Starsoft/Box Office, 1988)
07:06 Silpheed (Game Arts/Sierra, 1989/1986)
07:12 Space Racer (Loriciels/Broderbund, 1988)
07:18 Star Wars (Atari/Broderbund, 1989/1983)
07:24 Strip Poker II Plus (Anco, 1988)
07:30 Tower Toppler (Hewson/US Gold, 1989/1987)
07:36 Trantor (Probe/Keypunch, 1989/1987)
07:42 Ultima 5 (Origin, 1988)
07:48 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (Lucasfilm, 1988)
07:54 A-10 Tank Killer (Dynamix, 1989)
08:00 Alien Syndrome (Sega, 1989/1986)
08:06 Apache Strike (Activision, 1989/1987)
08:12 Curse of the Azure Bonds (SSI, 1989)
08:18 Deathtrack (Dynamix/Activision, 1989)
08:24 Die Hard (Dynamix/Activision, 1989)
08:30 Emmanuelle (Coktel Vision/Tomahawk, 1989)
08:36 Ghostbusters 2 (Dynamix/Activision, 1989)
08:42 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (Lucasfilm, 1989)
08:48 Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals (Sierra, 1989)
08:54 MechWarrior (Dynamix/Activision, 1989)
09:00 Nuclear War (New World Computing, 1989)
09:06 Operation Wolf (Taito, 1989/1987)
09:12 Pipe Dream (Assembly Line/Empire, 1989)
09:18 Prince of Persia (Broderbund, 1990/1989)
09:24 Sim City (Maxis/Broderbund, 1989)
09:30 Stargoose Warrior (Spinnaker, 1989/1988)
09:36 Space Rogue (Origin, 1989)
09:42 Sentinel (Firebird, 1989/1986)
09:48 Tongue of the Fatman (Activision, 1989)
09:54 Wayne Gretzky Hockey (Bethesda, 1990/1988)
Thanks for this video. One tends to forget that DOS games really spanned several generations of consoles. Games from the 1st generation were written in languages that could be ran on MS-DOS later, such as Basic or Infocom. The 2nd generation coexisted with Atari 2600 with primitive CGA graphics and soundspeaker. The 3rd generation overlapped Nintendo, Commodore 64 and early Amigas with EGA graphics and Tandy. During the fourth generation SNES, Genesis and AGA Amigas the DOS started to compete with Soundblaster and VGA. And at the fifth generation Playstation the PC often ran on SVGA and even 3d accelerators.
My first computer gaming experience was Leisure Suit Larry. I think I was 12. I still remember the verification that was built in before the game would load fully to "prove you're old enough to play". A series of questions that were aimed at adults, that only adults should know. Either way, I was always able to get the game to load while my parents were away
4:00 wow very smooth sprite animation
So many memories playing a lot of these with my brothers and cousins! I still do play many of them too. Commander Keen was my favourite. Anyone else remember Hugo's house of horrors? That game frustrated the heck out of me lol
I do remember Hugo's House of Horrors. I never got far, but I remember the pumpkin in the garden. :-) Good times.
Thank you for reminding me of my memories!
Great stuff, thank you!
Ethereal, thanks for this upload. Love watching that is still up 2023.
Starflight is my favourite space flight simulator in 80s and way ahead of its time !!
this edit is beautiful
Thank you for making me feel so darn old :)
I felt pretty old making this video. Welcome to the club! :D
Hey old guys, I'm also the old guy at parties now. Let's kick people off our lawn!
Oh yes, i remember Battle Chess. The kill animations were the absolute best. Never bothered with Chess ever again...
In the early days of CD-ROMs, there were a couple of other companies that tried to imitate this - what with Star Wars chess and Terminator chess. I never thought they had the charm of Battle Chess, though.
My mom hated it
I liked battle chess, especially the enhanced CD ROM version
Cool video! The best DOS games in the 80s were definitely RPGs and early Lucas and Sierra stuff. One was much better off with a C64 for gaming. It's clearly noticeable how quality quickly increased in late 80s with games like Sim City, Ultima V, Maniac Mansion and Prince of Persia. Very interesting to see Nuclear War, hadn't noticed it was also released for DOS. PC speaker is the worst audio device ever created though. Disconnecting it was the first thing on my to do list, when I got my first PC :D
In my 286, that was soldered on board. So I have great audio experience from the early 90's
Puts some things in perspective about computer graphics over time. As someone who is trying to understand how you can move/redraw so many pixels on a prompt within a moment really fast, that actually astounds me.
ummm, 21 at 2:04 is Polaris, definitely not Pitfall which was about running around a jungle
Airborne ranger - loved that game!
Wow....Wolfenstein has really come a long way.
And, Jumpman looks as riveting as ever.
wow thank you for posting this i was looking for a puzzle type dos game from when i was a kid hard hat mack very cool that you did this thank you so much 🙏 .
2018 and i find oldies game like this very interesting
It's probably C64...
@@Shadeborn No, it's MSDOS
@@TheInkPitOx I don't believe that for 1 second. There really wasn't much games for PC before Windows 95.
@@Shadeborn All of the games in this video are MSDOS. The video clearly states.
@@TheInkPitOx Well I don't believe that claim :-)
Welcome to CGA kingdom.
I remember playing those text only mud games too. I had bouncing babies on a Nintendo game and watch back then. Enjoyed the nostalgia, thanks bud👍
Childhood memories: Tapper, Alley Cat, Airborne Ranger, Sokoban, Mother Goose, Operation Wolf and of course Prince of Persia (brr)
nice, I loved the idea of the original 100 games in 10 minutes.
Oh wow. Thanks for this video. Brought back so many memories. :-) Thexder I would beat and flip the game back to beginning and beat 3 times!! Lol. Old school when you just played for high scores, lol. And early Sierra games in the 80’s!!!! Amazing childhood memories. I played most of these on the Tandy 1000 computer. (from Radio Shack) I was in Middle School. This was the computer my Dad had gotten me to use to practice programming with BASIC for education purposes but spent most of time playing most of these games on this video. Lol. Then in early 90’s thats when I was graduating high school and Sega Genesis and Nintendo were getting more popular and thats when I faded off into playing those systems because computer technology was moving so fast so all the PC games were requiring faster processers and large hard drives when my computer was only working on floppy disks. Lol. I was NOT one of the fortunate ones that could afford a better computer to keep up with the newer games later in the 90’s. :-) Again thanks for these memories.
The PC upgrade race was brutal! It started getting really bad in the mid-90s - when literally, you had to upgrade your PC ever 12-18 months. Thousands of dollars. I hated that. But the games were fun... (PS. I also had a tandy. Did you also experience the "fun" of trying to load Tandy drivers just so you could get proper 16 color EGA?)
What game was that little intro jingle taken from at the very start? Ive heard it so many times but cant remember.
Gary answered that a bit lower down in the comments:
It's an excerpt from Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf"
@@TheVicar oh right. Thank you!!
I remember vaguely a CGA game in the same time as Bouncing Babies. It had a sequence where you had to keep an injured guy alive by watching his serum levels..?🤔 I’ve searched years for this game!
Alley Cat!!!
6:59 That's not Police Quest II, it's Police Quest I: In pursuit of Death Angel. But apart from that, great video.
Urf. Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't that familiar with the Police Quest series, so I'll take your word for it. When I captured this video, I had a floppy disk with a very badly handwritten "Police Quest" on it, so that could have been a mistake. Thanks!
A lot of those games were what we called Shareware. You would go down to your local computer store and you could buy these games by just paying for the cost of the floppy disk they were on. Good times.
Shareware. That a term I haven't heard in a while. A term, I'm sure some wish to eliminate.
The ancient art of war. Man i finished that game! rts in diapers. Also archon, hard hat mack, maniac mansion, battle chess, Zack mackraken and the alien mindbenders, that games music still rocks today :D ,Indiana Jones and the last crusade, . And i also finished sokoban, Prince of perssia of course.
I loved 'Ancient Art of War' & the companion game 'Ancient Art of War at Sea'... such great memories from gaming in the 1980's!
I miss a list depicting all games frm the video so we can easily jump to our interested titles. Anycase thanks for the time and effort in producing the video
I cant belive i got so excitied when playing those games..
If I could go back, I'd immediately buy a Sound Blaster card.
The Sound Blaster16 with the parrot software that used to record via the microphone and then randomly play back clips later. Very funny in a room of drunken people hearing 10 second clips of a conversations from 20 mins ago.
I played most of these. Some good ones here.
Those were the kind of games I was afraid of stumbling across when trying out 90s DOS demo CDs
So many fond memories!!
tech😊
It's nice to see how PC graphics evolved throughout the '80s in this video. At that time I never owned a PC, just a TI-99/4A and Atari 800XL. Those early CGA games often looked horrible where Apple II, Atari 8-bit, C64 and even TI-99/4A owners can rest easy but I started seeing vast improvements by 1986 (better looking CGA, and the beginnings of EGA) and when 1989 rolls around, while EGA was still common, VGA was starting to creep in.
Actually in the late 80s monochrome Hercules and CGA where quite common around here in Germany, because anything else was extremely expensive and had bad availability.
thank you for uploading an 80s version. i always wanted to see the evolution of dos games in the 80s.
Glad you enjoyed! Stay tuned for the 90s version!
Damn I miss point and click adventure games. Loved the Lucas Arts and Sierra games..
omg .. Alleycat! I used to play the hell out of that!
I had that "Wheel of Fortune" game on my old comp!
Ah yes, strip poker games, the true pinnacle of 80's MS-DOS gaming
Hey, back in the old days real porn cost money, and real interaction with professional women of the night cost a LOT of money. Most boys didn't see any boobies til their 20s.
OMG Tapper! Alleycat! Archon! Hardhat Mac! STARGLIDER! I downloaded these off BBs'es in the 80's! Wow.
Did anyone hear that door at 3:36? Fookin amazing.
The memories!
Excelente!
1981: Prehistoric Comments and Users Island
King's Quest II Romancing The Stone came out in 1985, not 1987. Aside from that, great video. I enjoyed it.
Bouncing Babies is the hit. Undoubtedly.
love this. just missing bird golf and sopwith but i’m not complaining
Pole position was the first game I played on late 80s receiving a spectrum zx for Xmas. Wow that seems an eternity ago
A lot that weren’t mentioned, which is a shame because Ive forgotten their names and was hoping to see them. Didn’t see Kings Quest or Wolfenstein on your list either. But thanks for the memories. BTW I played battle chess badly just to watch the battles.🤣
Marble Madness! It may have been Atari, but it kinda belongs here.
Tapper was seriousfully stressful. Loderunner, Arkanoid & Jumpman were amazing.
Amazing video, please the 90s Edition
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@@GaryRetroGamer thanks bro
Stargose Runner 😃
Hatte ich ja komplett vergessen.
2:37 wait, what?!
Cops are Pigs remember
At first I wanted to nag that the game at 2:00 ain't Pitfall, but then I googled a bit and realized that it actually IS a game called Pitfall that has nothing to do with Activision's VCS hit :) I'm a sucker for these text-based DOS games, how could I have missed this one? Thanks for the upload :)
EDIT: 06:54 is Police Quest 1, not 2.
I had 4 PCs , Coleco Adam, PCjr, 8088 with CGA and 80286 with EGA.
I played about half of these games.
My 80286 had a sound card (I think an adlib). Games that supported were much more enjoyable and the EGA card was much better. VGA card were to expensive at the time.
9:00 welp that's definitely some foreshadowing
love ms dos classic games
Cool
Great game I love old ms-dos games
What's the name of the song in the start of the video?
the one that starts with the notes G4, C5, C5, G5, A5, G5 in that order.
It's an excerpt from Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf"
@@GaryRetroGamer Thanks :)❤
Out of all of this, I played only Battle Chess (1988), Silpheed (1988) and Prince of Persia (1989), and never even saw the rest.
Was my happiest time after school with my 10mhz cga non hdd pc 😂
Tower Toppler!!!
When I saw "OK" in clip picture cover. I imagined about Saitama from One Punch Man.
We can called "Leisure Suit Caped Baldy" 😆
Can someone help me remember a game?
Platform: We had a Windows 95 or 98 computer, I think the game was DOS.
Genre: For children
Estimated year of release: 1980-1995?
Notable characters: none
The game was on a black background. You had to reproduce a colored shape by selecting a shape among several on one side of the screen, and a color among several on the other side. Once selected, the colored shape dropped from the top in the middle of the screen and assembled with other colored shapes to make a drawing. Once complete, the drawing animated and left the screen, and you started another drawing.
Some animations I remember: a boat pulling a water skier, a car with something (an animal?) inside, a bathtub whose tap turned on and filled it, some makeup that transformed into a minigame.
I thought the name of the game was "Shapes", but I didn’t find anything under that name. I looked through some abandonware catalogs without luck. It’s definitely not Ernie’s Magic Shapes, Mickey’s Colors and Shapes, Shape Shop or Shapes and Patterns.
I know it’s a long shot, but I really hope someone remembers that game, I've been trying to remember for years.
I got a rush of nostalgia seeing "Into The Eagle's Next". 4:36
Lots of perv games, I couldnt find those as a kid in the 80's =(
Those CGA graphics. I miss the DOS days. 😄
1:20 OMG yes i love you my dearest Alley Cat, i was so good at that!
1:50 yes yes Hard Hat Mack
You clearly had an IBM XT compatible complete with beeper sound. Vintage gaming! :)
i ran them on a 286, monochrome monitor yellow+black. daddy brought the cool ibm games from work. good times
@@GaryRetroGamer I recall there was a 1990'es platformer game (made by Sierra, I think) about a man who fights aliens and collects toiler paper that falls from the sky, I don't remember well. Do you know what game is that?
Those cyan and magenta games scream vaporwave
All this video was my "Dream Stracture" Lol i dreamed this everynight.
Can't remember this medieval PC game name from mid-late '80's: it was about seizing castles via catapults loaded with a choice of pest, fire or rocks.
Help a fellow gamer remember it.
Are you thinking of Defender of the Crown?
@@GaryRetroGamer Wow. Yes! That's the one. You just brought back memories from around '89. Thanks a lot, man!
It's cracy i remember stuff like Testdrive - i must have been like 5 years old (now i am 40) - and i perhaps just played it once when visiting my cousin..
9:25 This is a medieval simcity. That's not what I played though.
I loved Rogue !
A good old fashion dungeon crawl!!
Mimimeow same!!! I wanna play now lol
Das war noch was, wie ich mit meinen Freunden gerätselt habe, wie wir die Kopierschutzfragen von Larry beantworten. Und dann ganz wichtig: USE CONDOM :-)
The clip for Police Quest II is actually showing the first game, not the second.
When I was a kid Dad and I had a DOS game that was a drum simulator.
Can anyone help me ? Im trying to find an old game when u were playing a kid, it was a platform game, and i remember a picture of the game where you can see the kid with something which looks like a goose i think, i'm trying to find this game since hours and i can't find it, it drives me crazy
Yeah that's pretty much how every Mech Warrior match goes
Great memories and nice vid'. I remember a game I played on PC (CGA, no harddrive only floppy disk drive).
It was a boat race I liked much to play but I do not remember its name. Can someone help me please ?
I used to play "quebec police chief" ...it was like police quest but mostly dealt with hassling vagrants ..great game though ...
was looking for an 80'S dos game called geography or something, wanted to see if it still existed
muito bom !
If I could live in an infinite loop. It would be from 1980 to 2000
You should redo this video with a composite filter for the CGA
PrinceOfPersia
Controls 10/10
I'm trying to find this ninja game from the probably mid 80s. The graphics and gameplay were similar to lode runner, you just go from level to level killing as many enemies as possible.
I really miss that pc speaker
Its a hard hope, but may be some1 can help. I was looking for a CGA MS-DOS game, can't remember the name. It was pseudo-3D (isometric view), where you walk around space base and kill robots. Between the missons you flyes on the space ship in some kind of mase trying beat timer and get a bonus. This game can't be found in this video, but may some1 old enough to remember it. :)
I absolutely loved the cRPGs back then, AD&D turn based games like Curse of the Azure Bonds were my thing. In games after Baldur's Gate II I couldn't get into the newer rules based D&D games since I didn't know them, now everything is console games you play on the computer.
Didn't know that they ported Saboteur II for MS-DOS!!
had no idea either! I played it on the ol speccy originally back in the day...
(and the speccy version looked better than the CGA MS-DOS version)
is it played on i186?
Remember when these games were innovative for their time ahhh the good ole times
1981: 10 users are invited to go on Primary
Anyone recall Wrath of Nicademus? Later 80's. I played it on an Amiga.