MSDos gaming of the 90s

[fastbilly1]

There have been other 'artillery' type games since, but I still haven't found one as much fun as SE.

Its because they are not, you should know that Hobie

[Hobie-wan]

Its because they are not, you should know that Hobie

Indeed. All hail Mr. Hicken for creating the penultimate artillery game. It also just occurred to me how awesome this would be to play big on the TV.

Interview with Wendell.

[Ivo]

Great thread!

I played Hocus Pocus, nice game.

That old spidey game is tough, I was never able to finish it either (I used to play it on Amiga though). I want to try finishing it one day.

I played either Scorched Earth or a similar clone, and other games of the type. Good times but requires at least another human player to be enjoyable.

EDIT: I hopped over to that site linked... those mini-reviews therereally brought back some nice memories. Thanks for the link.

Ivo.

[brunoafh]

Nice responses. I remember a lot of these. I fondly remember the plugs in many of these dos games to buy the next episodes too haha.

I have another one in my head, but I can't remember what it's called. The game is pretty hard to describe. The view is all first person and you're flying through some crazy tunnel thing, I remember it being very colorful. I believe the only object of the game was to avoid obstacles as speed increased (like Wipeout or something). Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? I'm pretty bad at recollecting it...

[CRTGAMER]

Nice responses. I remember a lot of these. I fondly remember the plugs in many of these dos games to buy the next episodes too haha.

I have another one in my head, but I can't remember what it's called. The game is pretty hard to describe. The view is all first person and you're flying through some crazy tunnel thing, I remember it being very colorful. I believe the only object of the game was to avoid obstacles as speed increased (like Wipeout or something). Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? I'm pretty bad at recollecting it...

Would it be Pyrotechnica?
A great "Blacklight" neon lit sim.

[Erik_Twice]

Wow Jack Jackrabbit! I completely forgot about that game, it was truly great!

I think I may add it to my collection in the future.

[Anapan]

A couple more I forgot about by Brainchild Design:
Jump n Bump 98

one of the best multiplayer-on-1 computer games I ever tried.

Quadnet is a precursor to Geometry Wars (actually probably inspired it)


http://brainchilddesign.com/Bottom.php? ... e=Download

Dark Legions 94

Kinda like battle chess except you do realtime overhead battle when your troops meet up.

Pizza Worm 96

The first real twist on the worm game/nybbles and still the best I think.

[gtmtnbiker]

One of my favorite games was in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack: Chip's Challenge. It is a puzzle game.





Apparently the game originally came out for the Atari Lynx and was ported to other platforms.

For more details, check this website: http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppe ... s/chip.htm

[brunoafh]

Oh man do I remember Chip's Challenge. Can't believe I forgot that one! Wasn't Skifree one of those Microsoft Entertainment Pack games too?



The infamous snowman...



How about Dr. Riptide? Anyone remember that one?

It was this cool under water side scroller. Pretty good one.

Hearts

Platformer where you collect all the hearts and finish the level.

MSDos is home to so many classics.

[Hobie-wan]

Hearts

Platformer where you collect all the hearts and finish the level.

That looks like a Boulder Dash clone.