This is the best compilation of DOS games I've come across. The commentary and background were excellent. It brought back so many fond memories of games I'd played (some of which I'd forgotten) and of games I keep meaning to play. Thank you.
What was absolutely lovely about those early SimXXX games is that they came with a manual that explained the models they used, how they compare to models used in real-life modelling, what limitations and unrealistic features they had... It's a shame it didn't catch on as a standard for all similar simulation games :)
Humble beginnings, but from 1990, VGA and sound cards and on the PC really came into it's own. So many great games. Hope you continue the series throughout the nineties.
I also have a soft spot for well done ega graphics like in quest for glory, loom, monkey island. And the adlib/opl2 could sound neat if used well, such as in tyrian, fury of the furries, wacky wheels, zeliard and megarace.
@@Alianger Tyrian probably remains the top game of the era for me in technical perfection; the graphics are incredibly mature and brilliant, the sound and music was at the peak of the capabilities of the PC, and the game itself was really fun too. It's one of the many games I keep returning to once in a while.
Great video!! I still have some of these games. There is one though that I cannot recall. It was a PC game made in the 1980s where its 2d and you're looking down at your character with a very basic character and youre going through mazes trying to solve a series of screens where you slay dragons and avoid monsters and it has to do with the Ring of Nibelung, Rhinemaidens, etc. No idea if his makes any sense...lol. Between stages, the music would play Flight of the Valkyries.
My grandfathers computer had a few games I loved. Late 80’s early 90’s. It was a depth charge/ battle ship type game. You drop a depth charge down into the water. If it was the right move, a red sub would start blinking.
Digger is my all time favourite early DOS game (next to Alley Cat). Overall such an excellent game! Superb arcade gameplay, crisp graphics and outstanding sound (for a PC honker that is) using pulse width modulation. Did you know you can actually shoot in this game? Makes it quite a bit easier ;-) Great top 10 video, excellent presentation; Subscribed right away 👍
thanks for such a lovely piece of feedback! have you seen the other videos in the series? I was totally unaware that you could shoot! what key do you press for that?!
@@AlsGeekLab Yeah I've seen all of the eighties videos. They're excellent 👍 A lot of attention to detail. Must've cost a lot of effort. Of course ratings are subjective but I think they're pretty close to what the general public thinks/thought. F1 lets you shoot fireballs in Digger. Here's a link to the original manual, lovely eighties artwork :-) www.digger.org/instruct.html Those guys from Windmill made some excellent games. Really like their coding style: very efficient!
A lot of these games are excellent choices. I feel like Pyro II should really be on this list though, and personally, at the time, I thought Corncob 3d was really good.
What do you think about the Might & Magic titles? I heard the first one was released all the way back in 86. Neither it or 2 even got honorable mentions in any of your videos. Do you think the series needed 3 to come into its own?
I won an XT (super loaded with 10 MB!) from my company for sales success. My kids literally played the old dos game Adventure all night, pasting paper instructions all over the walls. We never dreamed of COLOR or graphics at all!!! Is that game not part of it all or just a mite too early?
'Microsoft Adventure' was actually originally released for the Apple II in 1979, and it was of course a port of Will Crowther's 1976 'Colossal Cave Adventure' for the PDP-10, so in a sense it's older than the PC - but it was ported to PC during its development and the original IBM PC came with a copy of Microsoft Adventure, so in another sense it's the _first_ PC game. Al's Geek Lab talks about the game in the intro of the first video in this series; "IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 1 (1981)".
Snipes,I played with a friend,me the driver and my friend was the shooter. Digger I was so crazy about that.. also operation wolf I was also so crazy about that..
11:45 Yeah. Because of the turn based and imagination based nature of RPGs, they are absolute naturals on the limited hardware of early PCs. The actual best games of those early years are all RPGs. OTOH, almost all of those early RPGs were written for the Apple II, and are best there. You picked great games for showing off the early PC for what it is.
The reason PCs took off over Commodore and other computers was because adults had them at work and when they bought one for home this is what they got. I remember Steve Jobs wanting an Apple in every school so that kids grew up with them and would have those in every home but he forgot two things. 1) It is the Adults that buy things and 2) The kids will not be adults until the 2000s which with computers shrinking would go out of style because of a miniature computer in our pockets called the Cell Phone and the one hooked to the TV called the Game Console which was just as powerful as the computers of the 1990s. It got to the point where a "Gaming Computer" was not the most powerful thing you would do on it so people opted for the cheaper options.
WOW - so much nostalgia! You and I have similar tastes in games! I'm still only a PC gamer all these years later. Great video, so many fond memories. Come say Hi at Sierra Gaming World FB group where i'm the admin.
This is the best compilation of DOS games I've come across. The commentary and background were excellent. It brought back so many fond memories of games I'd played (some of which I'd forgotten) and of games I keep meaning to play. Thank you.
Many thanks for your lovely comment! It takes a lot of effort to put these videos together, so getting comments like these makes it all worth while!
What was absolutely lovely about those early SimXXX games is that they came with a manual that explained the models they used, how they compare to models used in real-life modelling, what limitations and unrealistic features they had... It's a shame it didn't catch on as a standard for all similar simulation games :)
Humble beginnings, but from 1990, VGA and sound cards and on the PC really came into it's own. So many great games. Hope you continue the series throughout the nineties.
Thanks!
So true. This was the journey that PCs took to the top spot for gamers that it has held ever since. There is still nothing better.
I also have a soft spot for well done ega graphics like in quest for glory, loom, monkey island. And the adlib/opl2 could sound neat if used well, such as in tyrian, fury of the furries, wacky wheels, zeliard and megarace.
@@Alianger Tyrian probably remains the top game of the era for me in technical perfection; the graphics are incredibly mature and brilliant, the sound and music was at the peak of the capabilities of the PC, and the game itself was really fun too. It's one of the many games I keep returning to once in a while.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I played a lot of the games your featured in this video.
Thanks! Yep so many great games, so easy to forget them now that some are are almost 40 years old!
Great video!! I still have some of these games. There is one though that I cannot recall. It was a PC game made in the 1980s where its 2d and you're looking down at your character with a very basic character and youre going through mazes trying to solve a series of screens where you slay dragons and avoid monsters and it has to do with the Ring of Nibelung, Rhinemaidens, etc. No idea if his makes any sense...lol. Between stages, the music would play Flight of the Valkyries.
Space quest game of the 1986?
I see you are a man of culture.
My grandfathers computer had a few games I loved. Late 80’s early 90’s. It was a depth charge/ battle ship type game. You drop a depth charge down into the water. If it was the right move, a red sub would start blinking.
Digger is my all time favourite early DOS game (next to Alley Cat). Overall such an excellent game! Superb arcade gameplay, crisp graphics and outstanding sound (for a PC honker that is) using pulse width modulation. Did you know you can actually shoot in this game? Makes it quite a bit easier ;-)
Great top 10 video, excellent presentation; Subscribed right away 👍
thanks for such a lovely piece of feedback! have you seen the other videos in the series?
I was totally unaware that you could shoot! what key do you press for that?!
@@AlsGeekLab Yeah I've seen all of the eighties videos. They're excellent 👍 A lot of attention to detail. Must've cost a lot of effort. Of course ratings are subjective but I think they're pretty close to what the general public thinks/thought.
F1 lets you shoot fireballs in Digger. Here's a link to the original manual, lovely eighties artwork :-) www.digger.org/instruct.html
Those guys from Windmill made some excellent games. Really like their coding style: very efficient!
@@pipschannel1222 thanks so much for that! Yes the videos are a labour of love !
My fave too, both of em!
Epicness overload!
Thank you!!
Once upon a time, I tried to create a group dedicated to monthly releases of tracks for Stunts, it was one of my favorite games at the time.
A lot of these games are excellent choices. I feel like Pyro II should really be on this list though, and personally, at the time, I thought Corncob 3d was really good.
What do you think about the Might & Magic titles? I heard the first one was released all the way back in 86. Neither it or 2 even got honorable mentions in any of your videos. Do you think the series needed 3 to come into its own?
Good guy Steve does video games!
I won an XT (super loaded with 10 MB!) from my company for sales success. My kids literally played the old dos game Adventure all night, pasting
paper instructions all over the walls. We never dreamed of COLOR or graphics at all!!! Is that game not part of it all or just a mite too early?
'Microsoft Adventure' was actually originally released for the Apple II in 1979, and it was of course a port of Will Crowther's 1976 'Colossal Cave Adventure' for the PDP-10, so in a sense it's older than the PC - but it was ported to PC during its development and the original IBM PC came with a copy of Microsoft Adventure, so in another sense it's the _first_ PC game. Al's Geek Lab talks about the game in the intro of the first video in this series; "IBM PC - The first games '81-'91: Part 1 (1981)".
Snipes,I played with a friend,me the driver and my friend was the shooter. Digger I was so crazy about that.. also operation wolf I was also so crazy about that..
The beat at 15:57 slaps
11:45 Yeah. Because of the turn based and imagination based nature of RPGs, they are absolute naturals on the limited hardware of early PCs. The actual best games of those early years are all RPGs.
OTOH, almost all of those early RPGs were written for the Apple II, and are best there. You picked great games for showing off the early PC for what it is.
The reason PCs took off over Commodore and other computers was because adults had them at work and when they bought one for home this is what they got. I remember Steve Jobs wanting an Apple in every school so that kids grew up with them and would have those in every home but he forgot two things. 1) It is the Adults that buy things and 2) The kids will not be adults until the 2000s which with computers shrinking would go out of style because of a miniature computer in our pockets called the Cell Phone and the one hooked to the TV called the Game Console which was just as powerful as the computers of the 1990s. It got to the point where a "Gaming Computer" was not the most powerful thing you would do on it so people opted for the cheaper options.
WOW - so much nostalgia! You and I have similar tastes in games! I'm still only a PC gamer all these years later. Great video, so many fond memories.
Come say Hi at Sierra Gaming World FB group where i'm the admin.
Thanks! I am already a member, I posted this up there today.
@@AlsGeekLab oh oops! lol
I really like Paratrooper, maybe it's better without the sound XD
haha yeah probably, but it really was a great game to pick up for a while. I still do from time to time
I'm looking for a dose game.
Can you help me?
Aquanoid > Arkanoid and Llamatron > Robotron, fight me
1991 - Falcon 3.0
i played paratrooper :))
Video starts at 2:30