and after all of that installing effort you then get consistently destroyed by games like Alone in the Dark 2. what a time to be alive as a 11 yrs old.
I was an expert at that. My friends would all offer me things in exchange for getting their games or programs to run. Then a few years later I got into programming & became a game programmer, which I did for 21 years before getting out of it. I _still_ know how to program the VGA card in DOS to this day & migrated one of my old games to OpenWatcom & DOS4GW about 6 months ago.
Just a few months out for inclusion of the greatest Dos game of all time, Ufo, Enemy Unknown (known as X-COM: UFO Defense in the States). I spent a huge amount of time playing that game.
Great video. Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, Another World, SimCity, Lemmings, Lost Vikings, I played them all back then. Sure brings back memories.
My favorite game of all time, I still have my hand drawn map’s in a drawer. There is a version that was made for 3do with better graphics and audio speech that you can download and play. It’s called The Ur-Quan Masters and is free
Totally enjoyed watching this trip back to that era. This thought struck me: It’s a bit mind-blowing to see just how many DOS games we got in that era - and realizing how many of these we knew, bought, owned, played, and loved - and realizing that all of this went down in just the 5 year span covered by this video. There’s certainly no lack of games and titles now, but back in that practically “stone-age” era where development times were so long and the technology (both to develop and to actually PLAY the games) - really makes me appreciate this era that much more.
For games like Prince of Persia, Out of this World and Flashback, it actually was real, as it is based on frame-by-frame digitizing of videos of people performing the movements.
The quality in games between this year range and your other video (93-97) is incredible. Doom clearly takes the cake for this period, though I have extremely fond memories of Lemmings as well.
the ones I used to play as a child: Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Dune II, Lemmings, Stunt, Flashback, Price of Persia, The Incredible Machine.. such good memories
I bought my first 486 DX 4 100mhz in 95 and played many of these games and still play them today, others I only saw in magazines and never saw the "gameplay" before this video. As someone who has been looking for and playing good games from that era that I didn't have access to in the 90's, this video is gold. A fantastic list of great games to browse and play.
@@stesilaus1688 Yeah and I'm 40. I play the classics on my 386 or 486 (depending on the game) with my kid. I'll teach him how to use DOS soon enough, he already knows how to put diskettes into drives ;)
Sound blaster pro or compatible, IRQ 7 , DMA 5, etc... Running the command so you can get working mouse... Make a autorun diskette with low memory usage for play games... I .... feel. old xD
The humour in Sam & Max was brilliant. Played it again a couple of years ago for the nostalgia. I would also like to add my other favourite of that era 'Darksun: Shattered Lands'. Turnbased adventure - the story was great.
aWW man! Incredible. So many good games. What kids these days probably don't know is some of these used EGA graphics limited to 16 colors. The rest were cutting edge 256 color VGA graphics! If you were a boss you had a video card capable of SVGA soon after! 800x600, or 1024x768, SUPER VGA! The first game I remember with SVGA wad Warcraft II. Awesome game!
So many great games in this period. Ultima, Doom, Might and Magic, Wolfenstein 3D, Bard's Tale, Sim-Everything and then you have Sid Meier batting 1000 in those days.
i played very very longtime with my ibm keypro at 4,75mhz in CGA color in 1983. My father have pay 3 months salary for it. i started to play in green monochrome color before to have this CGA screen. i started to play in VGA with the first 33mhz SX in 1992. i played so much games in ms dos. My favorit game is eye of beholder, curse of azure bond, targhan playable in CGA. After eye of beholder 2, UFO, all wing commander, Xwing alliance and tie fighters and serie of ultima games, best RPG for ever... But pc game were know too for the game like king quest, police quest space quest... i keep a good memory for kult. Great treasure memory all of this, make me enjoy and dreams.
Kaypro were CPM machines, not IBM; at least not until 1984 when their first PC-Compatible was released (the Kaypro 16). Either you're misremembering the machine, the OS, or the year.
The install. Can’t remember which FPS it was, maybe Doom, that came on x5 double density discs. All the transfer and loading took ages, you could walk away, come back, swap disc. Well worth the wait.
Damn, I want to play at least 10 games of the list again and I know how much hassle it would be to find them and get them working... So many memories of my childhood.
Wow reading these comments is like sharing years of my life with people i never met. I discovered i could load games onto a floppy and the computers in 6th grade would always autoboot anything you put in the floppy drive because they had no hard drives. they booted from the school network using pxe. Probably the only time i was ever super popular at school was when i was carryng around my stack of floppies with games on them you could just pop into any pc at school and play because i wrote the autoexec.bat and config.sys myself.
i had and played quite a few of these.. Spear of Destiny.. Lemmings.. Cmdr Keen (the galaxy one).. King's Quest IV, Sim City.. gawd i miss Lemmings and Sim City.. and i spent sh*t tons of hours on Spear... (all 3 versions of SoD)... wish i had some other games on this list.. but i was a kid.. and didn't have access to get more..
Crystal Caves - 1991 Loved W3D, Doom and Duke N. Then reasonably enjoyed Captain Keen. Blake Stone looks like it uses the same iD engine as Wolfenstein 3D. Never played it.
The entirety of the TSR goldbox games were my jam, too bad the loading time between combat and the rest of the game was super long. I played the first 3 on 64c as a teen and the rest of them on a Pentium 90 machine that was my first PC build.
Oh, man, the memories! I was hugely into Wolfenstein, even though I'd get motion sickness - I'd drawn up maps of each level so I knew where to find food & ammo, & where the dogs & guards lurked. Also big fan of SimCity. I had Lemmings for my then 10-yr old daughter......
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Getting a DOS game to run properly felt like a game itself. I have love/hate memories guessing the proper settings on my sound blaster 16, lol.
Those were the days where having 600K of game memory was like an Odyssey and today, they consume like 4 GB.
yea editing the autoexecbat and configsys files to get things to run
DOS=HIGH,UMB
and after all of that installing effort you then get consistently destroyed by games like Alone in the Dark 2. what a time to be alive as a 11 yrs old.
I was an expert at that. My friends would all offer me things in exchange for getting their games or programs to run. Then a few years later I got into programming & became a game programmer, which I did for 21 years before getting out of it. I _still_ know how to program the VGA card in DOS to this day & migrated one of my old games to OpenWatcom & DOS4GW about 6 months ago.
Just a few months out for inclusion of the greatest Dos game of all time, Ufo, Enemy Unknown (known as X-COM: UFO Defense in the States). I spent a huge amount of time playing that game.
Great video. Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, Another World, SimCity, Lemmings, Lost Vikings, I played them all back then. Sure brings back memories.
Great list. I do appreciate your efforts with this. Dos games are abandoned and no one thinks to list their top games. Thanks
Alone in the Dark genuinely scared the hell out of me as a child. I would play it at night and the jump scares got me every time.
Star Control II was the first large world game I'd ever played. I was addicted to it.
My favorite game of all time, I still have my hand drawn map’s in a drawer.
There is a version that was made for 3do with better graphics and audio speech that you can download and play. It’s called The Ur-Quan Masters and is free
Totally enjoyed watching this trip back to that era. This thought struck me:
It’s a bit mind-blowing to see just how many DOS games we got in that era - and realizing how many of these we knew, bought, owned, played, and loved - and realizing that all of this went down in just the 5 year span covered by this video.
There’s certainly no lack of games and titles now, but back in that practically “stone-age” era where development times were so long and the technology (both to develop and to actually PLAY the games) - really makes me appreciate this era that much more.
Great list - I loved the point and clickies - particularly the Police Quest games
Oh man the memories, I played 90% of these games :) Installing 20+ disks on some of these lol.
i love the walk mechanic in most of MS-Dos platformer games, it feels real
For games like Prince of Persia, Out of this World and Flashback, it actually was real, as it is based on frame-by-frame digitizing of videos of people performing the movements.
Thank you for taking time to share all these games.
Thanks for the memories. I really miss this time of video games. IMO, it's the golden age of PC Gaming.
The quality in games between this year range and your other video (93-97) is incredible. Doom clearly takes the cake for this period, though I have extremely fond memories of Lemmings as well.
Civilization, Simcity, Gods, Lemmings, EOB, Kyrandias are forever love!
PS: The golden times when 320x200 was enough for everything...
Word. TIE Fighter, Xcom, Star Control 2 still don't have anything comparable to this day in terms of gameplay
the ones I used to play as a child: Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Dune II, Lemmings, Stunt, Flashback, Price of Persia, The Incredible Machine.. such good memories
I have played the heck out of waaaayy too many of these.
Thanks for the flashback!
Sierra software was king in the early 90s
What a journey through time!!! I played most of these games on my 486 DX with Soundblaster card 😁
Really appreciate you doing this, so nostalgic.
I remember playing some of these on my MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 PC back in the early '90s. Memory unlocked.
Love you, man! These are the ages I belong to...such GOLDEN ages! Thanks.
I remember playing these games back in the day. Great times! Lots of Mountain Dew sustained all-nighters playing these games!
My super fast 486 DX with 8meg of Ram ran these no problem. 😀. Thanks for the memories!
I worked at one of those game companies in the early 90's, making boot disks was our main focus. Ahh the good ole days..
Watching Red Baron onscreen after so many years since I last played it makes me happy 😁
Another top 100 for the collection
Big thanks man
I bought my first 486 DX 4 100mhz in 95 and played many of these games and still play them today, others I only saw in magazines and never saw the "gameplay" before this video.
As someone who has been looking for and playing good games from that era that I didn't have access to in the 90's, this video is gold.
A fantastic list of great games to browse and play.
Wow. This brings back memories. Thank you.
Great memories here, thank you
It's sad that I'm old enough to be able to remember playing almost all of these!
Me, too. And I was an adult then. lol
We were blessed to live in an interesting time of PC gaming.
Why? I still play them. On period machines ;)
@@the_kombinator But I'm in my 50s ....
@@stesilaus1688 Yeah and I'm 40. I play the classics on my 386 or 486 (depending on the game) with my kid. I'll teach him how to use DOS soon enough, he already knows how to put diskettes into drives ;)
Running Lemmings 2 successfully on Ms Dos was hell.
I run lemmings 2 very easily on dosbox. It's very fun
This was my life. Thanks for uploading ;)
Civ, syndicate. Doom, monkey Island, loom, kings quest, wing commander
Wow, brought back great memories.
Thank you
FLASHBACK was phenomenal…
Sim City, X Wing, Doom, Lemmings, Duke Nukem... Man these bring back memories
Finally getting that sound card was a great day. Had to go awhile without one.
Sound blaster pro or compatible, IRQ 7 , DMA 5, etc...
Running the command so you can get working mouse...
Make a autorun diskette with low memory usage for play games...
I .... feel. old xD
looks like a steam indy game summer sale, It's crazy how many of these games I actually owned. If I could go back in time I would play them more
@4:46 I really wanted to believe that Dr. Jones was going to fall into a medieval time period on the next game.
The humour in Sam & Max was brilliant. Played it again a couple of years ago for the nostalgia.
I would also like to add my other favourite of that era 'Darksun: Shattered Lands'. Turnbased adventure - the story was great.
Seus vídeos são legais demais. Adoro passar um tempo assistindo. Parabéns pelo trabalho!
Holy cow this brought back some memories, played a lot of these but it triggered a bunch I had completely forgotten about..
aWW man! Incredible. So many good games. What kids these days probably don't know is some of these used EGA graphics limited to 16 colors. The rest were cutting edge 256 color VGA graphics! If you were a boss you had a video card capable of SVGA soon after! 800x600, or 1024x768, SUPER VGA! The first game I remember with SVGA wad Warcraft II. Awesome game!
The Golden Era of computer gaming!
And basically my childhood ...
Awesome! So much nostalgia!
I remember being so amazed by the graphics of flashback :D
Another great video! Please, consider doing a video for the sega game gear since it was one of the best selling handheld systems.
So many great games in this period. Ultima, Doom, Might and Magic, Wolfenstein 3D, Bard's Tale, Sim-Everything and then you have Sid Meier batting 1000 in those days.
I still play Privateer on Dosbox. Great game, one of the first sandbox games I can remember.
Great compilation, came here searching for Frederik Pohls Gateway.
I forgot about Master of Orion. Thank you.
I won on almost every race. Moo 2, I played more with friends against each other.
Commander keen! Such nostalgia
i played very very longtime with my ibm keypro at 4,75mhz in CGA color in 1983. My father have pay 3 months salary for it. i started to play in green monochrome color before to have this CGA screen. i started to play in VGA with the first 33mhz SX in 1992. i played so much games in ms dos. My favorit game is eye of beholder, curse of azure bond, targhan playable in CGA. After eye of beholder 2, UFO, all wing commander, Xwing alliance and tie fighters and serie of ultima games, best RPG for ever... But pc game were know too for the game like king quest, police quest space quest... i keep a good memory for kult. Great treasure memory all of this, make me enjoy and dreams.
Kaypro were CPM machines, not IBM; at least not until 1984 when their first PC-Compatible was released (the Kaypro 16). Either you're misremembering the machine, the OS, or the year.
Another "good old days" reminder... *,*
Good to know there's a heap of adventure games I haven't played yet.
The install. Can’t remember which FPS it was, maybe Doom, that came on x5 double density discs. All the transfer and loading took ages, you could walk away, come back, swap disc. Well worth the wait.
Awesome list
Betrayal at krondor was such an amazing game!
I bought it and never finished it :( I read the book series though!
Thank You soooo much - Memorys
Ahhh yes, Monster Bash. Loved that game!
Man, I spent so many hours playing some of these. I kinda want to play Dune II again.
I played 60% of these game ! I know Wolfeinstein Doom Quake but Blake Stone was really fun too 👏
Oh man. I have no idea how many hours I spent on my parents computer playing Red Baron, but it was a lot.
Damn, I want to play at least 10 games of the list again and I know how much hassle it would be to find them and get them working... So many memories of my childhood.
Haha I do sell complete working vintage PCs with a lot of era-correct games already on them.... ;)
i dont think its a hassle anymore i actually went thru and played some from the list and they were all easy and free instant working
Dosbox is great if you just want to play dos games.
Oh the nostalgia. I played like 30% of these games.
I played 28 of them
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Wow reading these comments is like sharing years of my life with people i never met. I discovered i could load games onto a floppy and the computers in 6th grade would always autoboot anything you put in the floppy drive because they had no hard drives. they booted from the school network using pxe. Probably the only time i was ever super popular at school was when i was carryng around my stack of floppies with games on them you could just pop into any pc at school and play because i wrote the autoexec.bat and config.sys myself.
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I played a surprising number of these.
The memories! Day of the tentacle ❤️ But also Monkey Island and Leisure suit Larry what great games!
omg so many memories....
wow alien carnage! and the rabbit and dog one, i forgot about that...SAM & MAX
I need this! Thanks from Brazil!
@2:14 nice transitioning
Anybody remember a game called Crystal Caves? I was a wee lad, but that and Commander Keen were the first computer games I ever played.
i had and played quite a few of these.. Spear of Destiny.. Lemmings.. Cmdr Keen (the galaxy one).. King's Quest IV, Sim City.. gawd i miss Lemmings and Sim City.. and i spent sh*t tons of hours on Spear... (all 3 versions of SoD)... wish i had some other games on this list.. but i was a kid.. and didn't have access to get more..
Bringing back all the good memories :D
It makes me feel old that the games I played were older than this.
I would so play some of these right now.
i do own lot games you showing . have you play catacombs 3d its great game to
Excellent games!!!
Crystal Caves - 1991
Loved W3D, Doom and Duke N. Then reasonably enjoyed Captain Keen.
Blake Stone looks like it uses the same iD engine as Wolfenstein 3D. Never played it.
Leisure Suit Larry - I loved the Bee Gees Dance scene
Cannon Fodder was seriously good fun.
My number 1 is King Quest 6, and all Roberta Williams games.
I like how experimental games were back then.
The entirety of the TSR goldbox games were my jam, too bad the loading time between combat and the rest of the game was super long. I played the first 3 on 64c as a teen and the rest of them on a Pentium 90 machine that was my first PC build.
Haha oh so many of them games was the joy of my childhood.
Ah yes the midi sound effects at it’s finest!
It's pretty wild how far ahead of the curve Doom was.
I played 67 of these. I am happy with that tally.
Oh, man, the memories! I was hugely into Wolfenstein, even though I'd get motion sickness - I'd drawn up maps of each level so I knew where to find food & ammo, & where the dogs & guards lurked. Also big fan of SimCity. I had Lemmings for my then 10-yr old daughter......
Kings quest 5 and 6 still hold up today.
Aw man... the nostalgia
Good!!
hahaha, this is recalling my childhood memory bro.
Stunts was SO DOPE
It was amazing! If I recall correctly, you could build your own tracks.
Отличная подбрка. Спасибо. Только с названием игры Duke Nukem не всё в порядке, одна из частей иначе называлась из-за судебных исков.
Day of the Tentacle ❤️