Little boy! Look at that time the games were good like those of now. or you do not know what the evolusion of bits etc etc ... I was happy with my ZX Spectrum
when I was in school, my father said, guys who developed games should be sentenced to death. Maybe straight to heaven after that, I don"t know? "go to sentence without waiting~
Totally agree with you. Having only less resources to learn, God only knows how on the earth, they did it. Today with these abundant of resources, we are struggling to learn a skill.
So many memories, the nostalgia is strong in this one. I've played around 90% of these games, damn I feel old :p Many of them on LAN with 8-9 other dudes. I don't think this generation understands how incredibly cumbersome it was to setup any multiplayer back then, especially in DOS. With the internet nowadays it's like night and day difference, everything is all set and ready to go with a press of a button. Back then 100 things could go wrong before even entering the game. Too even cram 9 people into a tiny room with super unreliable network was a pain in the ass.
Honestly blown away by the 3D rendering capabilities and the ingenuity of developers back then. Man some of that stuff looked beautiful. I honestly forgot dos even rendered 3D even though I played so many of these games.
Arman Amazing how most of the 3D games look way better than the PS1 games we got way before the console was even released. Example look at Destruction Derby 7:06 better graphics and draw distance than Gran Turismo. Back then there WAS a DOS master race as well. 😂
Arman I can imagine back then the kids arguing amongst themselves who had better graphics and games. Genesis, SNES console peasants or DOS master race elitist.
Dos games look great because only those who knew how to program made games. there was no such thing as development kits or engines to license or sample code to follow. Games were written in low level languages like assembly or c so code not only ran blazingly fast but they had complete access to system resources too. Dos gets you closer to metal than windows does and until 32bit windows came out (win 95)windows games sucked because it was 16bit the same as dos but windows chewed up resources and was a extra layer to the metal. The only thing good about windows was multitasking other programs, common drivers and api to speed up programming but dos was where the speed, small file sizes and best looking graphics was at. Its hard to imagine there was a time windows struggled hard to get games and they had to do a window port of doom 2 by themselves because id software was not going to do it.
Probably not, an average game at the time was usually around more than around 10-100 megabytes (right?), so 100 of those at the least would be about a gigabyte to ten gigabytes, this video file looks to be around 300-500 megabytes. I guess there is a probability, but most people (when saying "probably") suggest a probability around 75-90 percent.
JTor Music, no. An average game was from about 300k to 10M. Doom was like 6-8M, Wolfenstein 3d - 1M, Civilization - 400k, Dune - like 600k, Prince of Persia - 300k, Dangerous Dave - about the same, Mechwarrior - like 500k...
200K+ views and the most popular video on this channel! Happy to see there's still much love for the classics. Thanks everyone for watching and commenting!
+einokeino303 Definitely, I've been playing classics since I was five, very cool games such as Descent, Fury, Wasteland, Commander Blood, Alley Cat and many more!
Thanks :) I have been playing many of these games in the last decade so had some saves to load for demoing beyond the beginning. Didn't really play much of each while grabbing videos though.
The first golden age of gaming, wonderful memories! And then we had the second age (1999-2005) once Unreal Tournament arrived and modding came along with so much. Ending with the likes of Half-Life 2, Vampire Bloodlines and Battlefield 2.
You forgot the most important: DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM FRAME=E000 Afterwards load everything "HIGH" :) Else good luck with running Falcon 3.0 ...or any ORIGIN games like Strike Commander. EMS was also needed in Wing Commander II for Speech and In-Cockpit Joystick movement :)
my uncle used that voodoo on our 386 so i could play blake stone: aliens of gold 'EMS was also needed in Wing Commander II for Speech' I had no soundcard, i could only play music from wc II by plugging headphones in to the audio jack of the cd-rom.
Thank you. A real history piece. When I viewed the video, i realized that back at that time they hadn't super magic graphics to save their ass from a bad story and/or bad ideas. Game were really good in fact and creative.
I'm 28 but i remember most of those games, because I was playing them with my father. We even created first lan's setup with uncles and I was just 3-5 yo and remebered all of this. For some games I was looking for over 15-20 years, and thanks to this video i rediscovered them. I can say that i remembered them a little more detailed than in this video :D It's weird. Maybe kids see world diffrently.
I just booted my old windows 98 machine with 17 years without starting up, a little issues at the beggining with the Bios but it did, it booted. i was amazed my old kid drawings, letters to santa and my old histories, all in a simple Hdd, also it had the floppy disk where i saved my homework and files, an issue witn the screen you can barely see but worth
I think because it was just a Hobby, i didn't have internet at the time, so what's a computer without any internet. now it us just a bunch of plastic with good memories to remember.
Thank You very much for sharing these amazing DOS Games with us. Great work mate. These games reminds me, my childhood days. I used to love those days DOS games very much (when i was small). Still I love this games.
Yea descent rocked. I loved every minute of it. But was very unpopular because all my friends got dizzy after playing for a few minutes. Never happened to me though.
At the time I was intern programmer in a PC education foundation. The sys admin would call us to go test the ipx protocol in the commercial courses classroom (where the best pcs were) Which meant we were going to play Descent. :)
@@albertoj.mollinedo4116 I could play it for hours and be fine, but watch somebody else for 10 min and get dizzy... what was harder on me was the sense of disorientation...
The early 90s ms dos games had sthg magical that will never happen again. I had a nes and snes but preferred the adventures pc games... so many happy memories seeing some of those games again...thks
never played on a dos system too young for that but looking at this fills me with strange nostalgia hours spent on my pc playing old school titles. games just ain't the same anymore the creativity the level design and game play was always at the core of the experience.
on the 90s and the early 2000s the companies took a lot of risks, creating new ips. A lot failed, but the good ones.. Sacrifice, Mdk, Giants citizen kabuto, Omicron beyond good and evil. baldur's gate. Damn i miss these days.
Jaume Retrogamer - Yeah a lot of developers studios went out of business taking risks, now the studios stay relatively safe and fire whole teams when they've finished making a game.
When I got past 25 i went back and found all the old shareware games i wished i’d had as a kid. Most are still loads of fun, check out abandonia.com or torrent sites. Loads of good content out there.
Wow every little clip brings back an ocean of memories, this is such a joy to watch... and Another World was such a genius game for the time.. as far as I know it's the no#1 pioneer game in the field of what a lot of current-gen console games are doing, making the gameplay and story meld together so perfectly
As others mentioned, you see the graphics is better than you expect on consoles, and the games themselves look interesting, intriguing and challenging you to think. If someone talks bad on gaming in 2018 they should be linked to this video to understand those hooked on it from back then.
Great video I grew up playing DOS games so this video brings back alot of memories. I'm glad you added the titles to all the games too because I forgot the titles to some of these games that I played.
The nostalgia! So many good memories in this video. Need to start doing some digging to get some of these games. GOG has done some great work with some games, but I guess some are lost in the time. Great video!
im 25 now and i used to play dangerous dave when i was 4-5 and eversince i couldnt find the game ever again, i forgot the name, i just had in my mind the sounds of the game and the red hat. Thanks for this video man!
Oh my god! I was looking for the name of an old game I played so much when I was little, I didn't remember many details so could not find it but thanks to your video I recognised the game: "Commander Keen 4" !! So many hours spent on that game, memories are coming back now ^-^
One hell of a nostalgia trip! The music and images invoked many childhood memories... DOS was boss! Time to watch the other video with another 100 great games :+).
I miss this era of gaming. Some radical and obscure ideas only found in DOS gaming. DOS box emulation doesn't feel the same. Nothing like opening command prompt, having the monitor flicker as WIN is about to enter DOS and the feeling of the entire resolution changing.
Hipster Black Metal Yes! Don't forget to mention the black screen being interrupted by the brief reappearance of Windows 95 in reduced color palette with all the logos being way too huge due to the low resolution!
Toarcade Yes exactly!!! When I used to run Dos on win 95! Yeah the atmosphere of running DOS games on windows 95-98 was just an obscure feeling. Dos Box isn't the same to me. The colors, sound, resolution, even the way the pixels looks just don't present the same atmosphere.
Triggerboy78 so you're a 78er? 80 here. We are kind of old from a gaming perspective. But you know what, my friend? We've been there. From the very beginning. From DOS games in 4 color CGA graphics to where we are today. And I wouldn't want to change that aka born in 2000 or so. Never. I've seen the baby steps of gaming. Of mobile phones. Of the internet. It's such a great experience seen all this stuff which changed the world. Don't feel old. you're blessed.
I think im lucky that im only 18, yet I got to experience a lot of these games. Heck most of the ones shown in this video seem better than many titles im seeing today.
ckerazor I'm 17, and although it's a cool thought that I'll get to see another maybe 6 or 7 decades of gaming and technology processing, I do certainly feel like I've missed out on so much from the past. Hopefully DOSBox and Gog.com can help fill me in haha.
One of the things I like about these old games is that they left so much to our imagination. For example Prince of persia 2 level 2 waking up on the beach, I was always imagining what else would there be, just out of view.
Damn, I played nearly every single one of these games. I thought I had a life as a kid, but I must be remembering wrong. Thanks for the upload, it was very nostalgic. :)
amazing list... brought back so many memories. almost got tears in my eyes. especially when i compare those amazing pieces to today`s linear games with "all graphics no gameplay" style :( anyways, thx for the most beautiful 10 minutes I had in a long time
Out of these games I've played at least 80, and some of those represents some of my best gaming experiences of my life. I've tried playing some of them more recently using emulators, and while some of them is still good, many (if not most) are best preserved as a good memory...
So many great games, so many good memories. I've played almost all of them and still have the original boxes of a few. I can see the box art of The Terminator: Skynet, Albion, Doom (Ultimate Doom Collector's Box), Quake, X-Com: Enemy Unkown and more to my left :).
Great choice of footage. I felt you picked great sequences for all the games I'd played, and I was intrigued by what I saw of many of the games I hadn't played.
This was my childhood. I remember almost each of those games. Either I played them or I read about them in the local computer games magazine. Brings back memories.
Noticed that all the DOS games was before the 3dFX Vodoo / ATI / Matrox graphics card era. Was a really frustrating 5year timeperiod before Direct3D where some games only worked with certain brands of 3D cards..
It instantly made me anxious, I played that months if not years as a kid. The overall game atmosphere and music always scared/intrigued me, but after an hour or two i was nervously so broken down i had to stop for a day, to basically regain my bravery lol.
True gamers will understand why we could watch hours of this sort of videos while we often lack the patience to check out a 2 minute trailer for some random new game.
I cut my teeth on DOS games as well, but not having patience for newer games doesn't make you "true gamers", you just have your nostalgia goggles glued on and remain stuck in the past. Videos like this also omit all the crap that was out there conflating the feeling that all games were better "back then", when there have always been classic, good, and garbage games as long as I can remember, in roughly equal proportions through the eras of gaming.
I don't think he was making any comments about the culture or state of gaming. Just that it's an effort and often disappointing following games these days. Probably because developers are much more in it for the money. Back in DOS days, I don't think that was their main goal. Look at the kinds of nerdy games they offered. They were selling to a tiny market (assuming all of this)
Yellowblanka, *_"Videos like this also omit all the crap that was out there conflating the feeling that all games were better "back then""_* Do I need to explain why indie games have gained so much traction on the face of all the AAA games in the latest years? The thing is games in the late 80s and 90s were highly focused on gameplay, and on being fun and engaging (especially arcades, which had to be because of their business model) and devs really had to be ingenious to overcome all the extreme limitations of the time, and that's important because limitations are what brings out the most creativity in people. Since the mid/late 2000s devs have become become mostly focused on eye candy and instant gratification, and innovation has been lacking and much has become generic, since the costs of production have skyrocketed to the point most AAA companies are unable to take risks lest they go the way of The Looking Glass, which is the reason why franchises are so numerous and get milked all the way to hell. Of course, there were franchises in the 80s and 90s too, and Sierra was probably the best example of that, but their selling points were still being fun and engaging first (their games were heavily story driven) rather than being all shinny and glimmering. Every major title was highly innovative, or highly entertaining, and a whole lot of them had a high level of replayability. Nearly every game was a deadly risk being taken, so they really had to excel. What are the masterpieces of today, equivalent in impressiveness and as memorable as Doom, Quake, dungeon keeper, carmageddon, Half-Life, Thief, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Rollcage, Pizza Tycoon, Tomb Rider, Jagged Alliance 2, X-Com, Command & Conquer, Worms, Lemmings, Master Of Orion, Lords of the Realm, Another World, Broken Sword, etc etc? It's not that there weren't bad games then, and it's not that there aren't great games these days, it's that the vast majority of them lack much, if not all, of what made the old classics classics. You can easily enumerate an order of magnitude more memorable games from back then, than you can from since the mid/late 2000s. The fundamental difference is that back then they were actually making art in most aspects. The constant risk factor and limitations dictated that they had to. Comparing the soundtracks of then to the ones of now, is perhaps the easiest way to notice that difference.
I almost forgot, back then there was also a whole lot more (intelligent) humor in games than there's ever been since. That's also probably a significant factor.
What's crazy about this is that I forgot about so many of these games. I thought I could only remember a couple games I played a lot from my childhood, now I realize that I really did play a shitload of games in my life.
I'm almost 40 years old and my childhood games are Wings Of Fury, Cannon Fodder, Shadow of the Beast123, Defenders Of The Crown, Pang!, Goblins123, Gyrus, Prince of Persia .. Alien Breed, Golden Axe, Dizzy, MK1 2. Street Fighter ... and many, many more whose titles I don't remember anymore because it's been 25-30 years since I had the Amiga
this reminds me how good games were back than and without internet, dlc or any bullshit! you bought the game, got the full game and it was 100% playable..
...or it crashed randomly after you spent several weeks playing it (just to get through the first 1-2 levels, because nobody gave a fuck about accessibility) and you had to search for patches in pc game magazines.
Good list, I probably would have added some of the Sierra "Quest" games especially King's Quest, Quest for Glory, and Space Quest, but there are a million dos games so it was probably hard to pick, looks like you did a good variety of genres!
I think what I miss the most about the DOS era is the graphical creativity. Now I was born mid 90's, so until about '01 or '02 all I had was DOS. I miss how people got creative with how the games looked and animated, none of this 4K super high res BS we have now.
o great video! i remembered some old DOS games too... Gender Wars Anvil of Dawn duke Nukem 1 & 2 (2D platforms) Hocus pocus Little big adventure Canon fodder Knights of xentar Transport tycoon Simon the sorcerer damm... great times!
Oh man! Lemmings, Mortal Kombat, Doom, Quake, Scorched Earth, Descent, Hexen, Another World, Worms, Micro Machines, Sim City, Gabriel Knight, Destruction Derby, Duke Nukem 3D, System Shock, Command & Conquer, Alley Cat, Carmageddon... I played all of these back in the day. From my memory, I would add Cyberia, The Journeyman Project 1, Paratrooper, Crime Wave, Microsoft Flight Simulator, FIFA 94... Oh, and, of course, list Prince of Persia 1 instead of 2! Those were the days!
my god iv played every single game in this video!! what have i done to my childhood?... and worst part is i still find that the video is missing a lot of other games i also played back in the DOS days... realy was the golden age i remember each one of them very fun and so different the new games from now are all the same and very monotone i cant even remember half of the new games i played and say i enjoyed...!!
I'm so happy I was able to live through this time. I was born in 1988 and my parents got us a computer (486DX 33mhz never forget) in....1993-1994? I was able to play a lot of different games. they were mostly shareware, but somebody often got a game and I was able to trade with the dude. in the end I remember full versions of doom1/2, raptor
I was born in 1980 but I get that child's enthusiasm only when i stumble across something from my childhood that I never got to try. Like for instance I missed Police Quest the first time around as I was 7 when it came out and 13 when the last one did and despite liking the idea of being a cop I had no idea what to do. When I got the games for DOSBox a few years ago I was in my element and it felt like it was 1993 again.
Nice DOS games retrospective ! If you play only at DOS, Amiga or C64 game, it's better to use Linux like me. There are a lot emulators in Linux : DOSBox, FS-UAE (Amiga) etc. :)
This HeroShot guy said "You'll never find that game." But I persisted. I watched your video and there it was: Terminal Velocity. Thank you for your dedication to old games.
the original one, is still a lot better then the new ones. And the same can be said for the fallout series, or thief. Maybe one of the few sequels that retain the same level of polish were bioshock (system shock spiritual sequel), and the sands of time trilogy.
I`m 50 and I still playing video games, why not ?.... but in the past I used to play : Monkey Island 1/2, Doom, Heretic, Lemmings, Mortal Kombat, Price of Persia 1/2, Quake, Raptor : Call Of The Shadows, Shadow Warrior, Tyrian 2000, Wolfenstein 3D, Blackthorne, Duke Nukem 3D, Terminal Velocity, Descent, Hexen : Beyond Heretic, Sim City 2000, Destruction Derby, Star Wars : Dark Forces, Nascar Racing, Tomb Raider, The Need For Speed, Bioforge, Mechwarrior 2, Blood .. and more.
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Guys who developed games in early 90s go to heaven without waiting.
Little boy! Look at that time the games were good like those of now. or you do not know what the evolusion of bits etc etc ... I was happy with my ZX Spectrum
when I was in school, my father said, guys who developed games should be sentenced to death.
Maybe straight to heaven after that, I don"t know? "go to sentence without waiting~
Apart from Doom developers
Purgatory don't exist.
A protestant hug to you, my brother.
Totally agree with you. Having only less resources to learn, God only knows how on the earth, they did it. Today with these abundant of resources, we are struggling to learn a skill.
List of games in the video
0:00 - Monkey Island 2 : Lechuck's Revenge (1991)
0:08 - 4D Sport Boxing (1991)
0:13 - Abuse (1996)
0:20 - Alone in the dark (1992)
0:25 - Sid Meier's Civilization (1991)
0:31 - Commander Keen 4 (1991)
0:37 - Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion (1991)
0:43 - Death Rally (1996)
0:49 - Dungeon Master II : The Legend of Skullkepp (1996)
0:55 - Doom (1993)
1:01 - Dune II : Battle For Arrakis (1992)
1:07 - Heretic (1994)
1:13 - HI-Octane (1996)
1:19 - Space Hulk (1996)
1:25 - Jones In The Fast Lane (1990)
1:31 - Lemmings (1991)
1:37 - Master of Magic (1994)
1:43 - Mortal Kombat (1996)
1:49 - One Must Fall 2097 (1994)
1:55 - Price of Persia 2 : The Shadow And The Flame (1996)
2:01 - Quake (1996)
2:07 - Raptor : Call Of The Shadows (1994)
2:13 - Shadow Warrior (1997)
2:19 - Superhero League of Hoboken (1994)
2:25 - Syndicate (1993)
2:31 - Theme Park (1994)
2:38 - Tyrian 2000 (1999)
2:43 - UFO : Enemy Unknown aka X-COM : UFO Defense (1994)
2:49 - Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
2:55 - Ascendancy (1995)
3:01 - Blackthorne (1994)
3:07 - Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
3:13 - Stargunner (1996)
3:19 - Warcraft II : Tides of Darkness (1995)
3:25 - Micro Machines 2 : Turbo Tournament (1995)
3:31 - Flashback : The Quest for Identity (1993)
3:37 - Scorched Earth (1991)
3:43 - Harvester (1996)
3:49 - Terminal Velocity (1995)
3:55 - Settlers 2 Gold Edition (1997)
4:00 - Crusader : No Remorse (1995)
4:07 - Albion (1995)
4:13 - Descent (1994)
4:19 - Stunts aka 4D Sports Driving (1990)
4:26 - Syndicate Wars (1996)
4:31 - Fragile Allegiance (1997)
4:37 - Lands of Lore 2 : Guardians of Destiny (1997)
4:43 - Master of Orion 2 : Battle of Antares (1996)
4:49 - Magic Carpet (1994)
4:55 - Epic Pinball (1993)
5:00 - Lands of Lore : The Throne of Chaos (1993)
5:06 - Screamer (1995)
5:13 - Pray for Death (1996)
5:19 - Xenophage : Alien Bloodsport (1996)
5:25 - Operation Carnage (1996)
5:30 - Fx Fighter (1996)
5:37 - Alien Virus (1995)
5:43 - Pizza Tycoon (1994)
5:49 - Wasteland (1988)
5:56 - Jagged Alliance (1994)
6:01 - Hexen : Beyond Heretic (1995)
6:07 - Another World aka Out of This World (1991)
6:13 - Gunship 2000 (1991)
6:19 - Ishar 2 : Messengers of Doom (1992)
6:25 - Worms (1995)
6:31 - Sam & Max Hit The Road (1993)
6:37 - Star Control II (1992)
6:43 - Heroes of Might and Magic (1995)
6:49 - The Incredible Machine 2 (1994)
6:55 - Sim City 2000 (1993)
7:01 - Gabriel Knight : Sins of The Fathers (1993)
7:07 - Destruction Derby (1995)
7:13 - Beneath A Stell Sky (1994)
7:19 - Al-Qadim : The Genie's Curse (1994)
7:25 - Sid Meier's Colonization (1994)
7:31 - Dune (1992)
7:37 - Star Wars : Dark Forces (1995)
7:43 - Nascar Racing (1994)
7:49 - System Shock (1994)
7:55 - Command & Conquer (1995)
8:01 - Betrayal At Krondor (1993)
8:07 - Tomb Raider (1996)
8:14 - The Need For Speed (1995)
8:19 - Star Wars : The Fighter (1994)
8:25 - Stonekeep (1995)
8:31 - Bioforge (1995)
8:37 - Alley Cat (1984)
8:43 - Slicks in Slide (1993)
8:49 - Carmageddon (1997)
8:55 - The Dame was Loaded (1996)
9:01 - Wizardry VII : Crusaders of The Dark Savant (1992)
9:07 - Dungeon Keeper (1997)
9:13 - Mechwarrior 2 : 31st Century Combat (1995)
9:19 - Grand Theft Auto (1997)
9:26 - Blood (1997)
9:31 - The Dig (1995)
9:37 - Maniac Mansion 2 : Day of The Tentacle (1993)
9:43 - Eye of The Beholder 2 : The Legend of Darkmoon (1991)
9:49 - Turrican 2 : The Final Fight (1995)
9:55 - Terminator : Skynet (1996)
Thanks!!
haxpor wow great stuff, thanks
Thanks a lot for listing all of these. You helped me find the name of a childhood game I could never remember until now.
Thank you! It would be fair to say, that the author of the video could have provided the list though.
Thanks im for looking for this one
I'm gonna start crying!!! This was my childhood!! 🥺🥺🥺
Expensive childhood only a select few had! unless you played them when cheap and free.
@@deana6072 A selected few? Everyone in my area played many of these games, super popular back in the days.
So many memories, the nostalgia is strong in this one. I've played around 90% of these games, damn I feel old :p Many of them on LAN with 8-9 other dudes. I don't think this generation understands how incredibly cumbersome it was to setup any multiplayer back then, especially in DOS. With the internet nowadays it's like night and day difference, everything is all set and ready to go with a press of a button. Back then 100 things could go wrong before even entering the game. Too even cram 9 people into a tiny room with super unreliable network was a pain in the ass.
Yeah I was gonna say a spoiled child. Cry for those never given a shot at system shock
Good times, feels like an eternity ago… which it is. How fast we grow old, but these nostalgia trips are fun. :-)
By re-playing these games today, it truly feels like youre actually back in the best time of your life.
Yop, back in childhood xD
This makes me realize how much id Software was far ahead its time with their games back then! Totally game changer!
Honestly blown away by the 3D rendering capabilities and the ingenuity of developers back then. Man some of that stuff looked beautiful. I honestly forgot dos even rendered 3D even though I played so many of these games.
Arman Amazing how most of the 3D games look way better than the PS1 games we got way before the console was even released. Example look at Destruction Derby 7:06 better graphics and draw distance than Gran Turismo.
Back then there WAS a DOS master race as well. 😂
Arman I can imagine back then the kids arguing amongst themselves who had better graphics and games. Genesis, SNES console peasants or DOS master race elitist.
Lmao, DOS master race... yeah I can imagine.
It wasn't that long ago boy.
Dos games look great because only those who knew how to program made games. there was no such thing as development kits or engines to license or sample code to follow. Games were written in low level languages like assembly or c so code not only ran blazingly fast but they had complete access to system resources too. Dos gets you closer to metal than windows does and until 32bit windows came out (win 95)windows games sucked because it was 16bit the same as dos but windows chewed up resources and was a extra layer to the metal. The only thing good about windows was multitasking other programs, common drivers and api to speed up programming but dos was where the speed, small file sizes and best looking graphics was at. Its hard to imagine there was a time windows struggled hard to get games and they had to do a window port of doom 2 by themselves because id software was not going to do it.
It's odd to think that this video is probably a bigger file than the total size of all 100 of these games.
Nope. LOL 2 alone is 2 GB.
dota 2 sucks eggs, cant even be compared to these great games
Probably not, an average game at the time was usually around more than around 10-100 megabytes (right?), so 100 of those at the least would be about a gigabyte to ten gigabytes, this video file looks to be around 300-500 megabytes. I guess there is a probability, but most people (when saying "probably") suggest a probability around 75-90 percent.
JTor Music, no. An average game was from about 300k to 10M. Doom was like 6-8M, Wolfenstein 3d - 1M, Civilization - 400k, Dune - like 600k, Prince of Persia - 300k, Dangerous Dave - about the same, Mechwarrior - like 500k...
Pavel Olkhovoy there are many CD games in this list, hundreds of megs each.
200K+ views and the most popular video on this channel! Happy to see there's still much love for the classics. Thanks everyone for watching and commenting!
+einokeino303 Definitely, I've been playing classics since I was five, very cool games such as Descent, Fury, Wasteland, Commander Blood, Alley Cat and many more!
C&C, Descent, NFS, etc etc.. wow! amazing games! real joy!
This is amazing. What a trip, my heart jumped when my favourites appeared. Even recognized some I'd long forgotten.
Very nice production. The way you went through them, let us know that you didn't just run through to grab videos. You played and died like a real man!
Thanks :) I have been playing many of these games in the last decade so had some saves to load for demoing beyond the beginning. Didn't really play much of each while grabbing videos though.
Man I miss the 90s. RIP Bullfrog & Lucasarts :(
I miss the 70s, playing Defender for $0.25 per game after working all day as a COBOL programmer.
RIP Westwood
RIP Sierra, RIP Microprose
RIP Adeline.
The first golden age of gaming, wonderful memories!
And then we had the second age (1999-2005) once Unreal Tournament arrived and modding came along with so much. Ending with the likes of Half-Life 2, Vampire Bloodlines and Battlefield 2.
DEVICE=C:\windows\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
LASTDRIVE=z
So long ago!
SET BLASTER=xyz
SET SNDSCAPE=C:\DOS\SOUND
and the fun started with glide drivers :d
DIR *.EXE
You forgot the most important:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM FRAME=E000
Afterwards load everything "HIGH" :)
Else good luck with running Falcon 3.0 ...or any ORIGIN games like Strike Commander. EMS was also needed in Wing Commander II for Speech and In-Cockpit Joystick movement :)
Bad command or file name
????.exe corrupt or missing , heh no gaming for you
my uncle used that voodoo on our 386 so i could play blake stone: aliens of gold
'EMS was also needed in Wing Commander II for Speech'
I had no soundcard, i could only play music from wc II by plugging headphones in to the audio jack of the cd-rom.
An era when adding 2000 to the end of the title sounded so cool and futuristic. :D
Now we do the same with the "3000" for next 918 years.
@@Knochenbrigade No.
That X-Com soundtrack. Almost panicked like a rookie when I realized what it was.
Thank you. A real history piece. When I viewed the video, i realized that back at that time they hadn't super magic graphics to save their ass from a bad story and/or bad ideas. Game were really good in fact and creative.
I totally agree with you.
They were "super magic graphics" at there time
Smaller design teams and less corporate oversight really let them cut loose and make some great stuff.
how old I am that I know at least 85% of these computer games ... how quickly time passes 😭
So, how old are you, my dude?
Me too buddy
at least 40, probably 50
me too man... about to turn 38...
I'm 28 but i remember most of those games, because I was playing them with my father.
We even created first lan's setup with uncles and I was just 3-5 yo and remebered all of this.
For some games I was looking for over 15-20 years, and thanks to this video i rediscovered them.
I can say that i remembered them a little more detailed than in this video :D It's weird.
Maybe kids see world diffrently.
such a good times...
such a good spelling errors...
@@MrDube Such a nerd!
@@MrDube such no spelling errors, instead Ohiroia has such bad grammar.
I wish PC Gaming would be this diverse again.
Amen, enjoy BR, MOBAS and Survival games for the next 20 years, also... clickers, 2018... lol
Yes, no more '6 hours update after a 10 minute install from DVD' LOL.
I just booted my old windows 98 machine with 17 years without starting up, a little issues at the beggining with the Bios but it did, it booted. i was amazed my old kid drawings, letters to santa and my old histories, all in a simple Hdd, also it had the floppy disk where i saved my homework and files, an issue witn the screen you can barely see but worth
it
unfortunately doesn't have such this old chap :(
And you used it for only a year? Why?
I think because it was just a Hobby, i didn't have internet at the time, so what's a computer without any internet. now it us just a bunch of plastic with good memories to remember.
I wish I still had my old Pentium II from when I was a kid in the mid 90's. :') I have had a few computers since then.
Oh the great games of my childhood! Lucas Arts's X-Wing and Indiana Jones, Rise of the triad and Golden Axe are also honorable mentions
Thank You very much for sharing these amazing DOS Games with us. Great work mate. These games reminds me, my childhood days. I used to love those days DOS games very much (when i was small). Still I love this games.
Descent is so advanced for its time, LOVE it!
me and my friends played for hours
Yea descent rocked. I loved every minute of it. But was very unpopular because all my friends got dizzy after playing for a few minutes. Never happened to me though.
At the time I was intern programmer in a PC education foundation.
The sys admin would call us to go test the ipx protocol in the commercial courses classroom (where the best pcs were)
Which meant we were going to play Descent. :)
@@albertoj.mollinedo4116 I could play it for hours and be fine, but watch somebody else for 10 min and get dizzy...
what was harder on me was the sense of disorientation...
It was amazing ❤️ missed the sounds of the lasers in this clip
I can't believe I've been playing video games for the past 30 years.
for me 20 years
28 here.
21 or so for me. Had a Super Nintendo. Beat Mario Bros. with my dad on it. Fun times.
Around 13 here
im 32 but only play 16 years on playstation
A time when there was no DLC and creativity ruled. I wonder if in 10 years I will look on the 2000-2010 decade with such fond memories.
i already do
Goddammit, we are in 2021 now
Are you kidding! That was the golden age of gaming
@Nicebala blast from the past😅
Back when buying an expansions gave you almost an entire new game for half the price of a full version..
The early 90s ms dos games had sthg magical that will never happen again. I had a nes and snes but preferred the adventures pc games... so many happy memories seeing some of those games again...thks
Эх, прям ностальгия... Время, когда игры делались с душой и что не игра, то что-то новое. Время прорывов жанров игровой индустрии.
И по сей день играем) вот только гемор с эмуляторами.
Thanks for making this. Brings back memories. I'm so glad for GoG, that I can play these games again along with the ones I missed.
never played on a dos system too young for that but looking at this fills me with strange nostalgia hours spent on my pc playing old school titles. games just ain't the same anymore the creativity the level design and game play was always at the core of the experience.
Maybe it's rose colored glasses but sometime I really miss these games. Modern games are good but they often lack charm.
+Jeffrey Osborn True. Every two or three months, I replay old games, I failed to finish, when I was young. :-)
on the 90s and the early 2000s the companies took a lot of risks, creating new ips. A lot failed, but the good ones.. Sacrifice, Mdk, Giants citizen kabuto, Omicron beyond good and evil. baldur's gate. Damn i miss these days.
Jaume Retrogamer - Yeah a lot of developers studios went out of business taking risks, now the studios stay relatively safe and fire whole teams when they've finished making a game.
When I got past 25 i went back and found all the old shareware games i wished i’d had as a kid. Most are still loads of fun, check out abandonia.com or torrent sites. Loads of good content out there.
They stopped being PC games and became console games to play on the PC.
Wow every little clip brings back an ocean of memories, this is such a joy to watch... and Another World was such a genius game for the time.. as far as I know it's the no#1 pioneer game in the field of what a lot of current-gen console games are doing, making the gameplay and story meld together so perfectly
As others mentioned, you see the graphics is better than you expect on consoles, and the games themselves look interesting, intriguing and challenging you to think. If someone talks bad on gaming in 2018 they should be linked to this video to understand those hooked on it from back then.
You should get a medal for making this. Thank you for the memories
Police Quest, Space Quest, Larry, Grand Prix, Test Drive.
Great video I grew up playing DOS games so this video brings back alot of memories. I'm glad you added the titles to all the games too because I forgot the titles to some of these games that I played.
The nostalgia! So many good memories in this video. Need to start doing some digging to get some of these games. GOG has done some great work with some games, but I guess some are lost in the time. Great video!
im 25 now and i used to play dangerous dave when i was 4-5 and eversince i couldnt find the game ever again, i forgot the name, i just had in my mind the sounds of the game and the red hat. Thanks for this video man!
10 minutes of the Golden Age of gaming.
True Mate
90s to early 2000s. Golden era of PC Gaming and Console gaming
@@ytanonymity3585I played games in the 1980s on a TRS-80. Dungeons of Daggarath, Zaxxon, etc... Was a great time!
@@mopar3502001 do you know about Maze War ? Which is the first FPS game that came out in 1974 ?? If you know, where can I find those game ??
@@ytanonymity3585 I don't know. I remember the name "Maze War" being in commercials, but I know nothing about it other than that.
So much variety and innovative gaming back then, now it's all first person or third person shooters.
Too bad they didn't all copy eachother like nowadays or use pay to play.
Exactly fuck today's gaming!
@@Diluc_Ft_Ghost_2450 fuck "games as a service".
You find games like these online
New DOS compilation is up with another 100 games! ruclips.net/video/WhHtm_oeBso/видео.html
Oh my god! I was looking for the name of an old game I played so much when I was little, I didn't remember many details so could not find it but thanks to your video I recognised the game: "Commander Keen 4" !! So many hours spent on that game, memories are coming back now ^-^
One hell of a nostalgia trip! The music and images invoked many childhood memories...
DOS was boss! Time to watch the other video with another 100 great games :+).
I miss this era of gaming. Some radical and obscure ideas only found in DOS gaming. DOS box emulation doesn't feel the same. Nothing like opening command prompt, having the monitor flicker as WIN is about to enter DOS and the feeling of the entire resolution changing.
Hipster Black Metal Yes! Don't forget to mention the black screen being interrupted by the brief reappearance of Windows 95 in reduced color palette with all the logos being way too huge due to the low resolution!
Toarcade Yes exactly!!! When I used to run Dos on win 95! Yeah the atmosphere of running DOS games on windows 95-98 was just an obscure feeling. Dos Box isn't the same to me. The colors, sound, resolution, even the way the pixels looks just don't present the same atmosphere.
omg... and i played at least the half of them... i feel sooo old
Me too, don't worry you are not alone!
Triggerboy78 so you're a 78er? 80 here. We are kind of old from a gaming perspective. But you know what, my friend? We've been there. From the very beginning. From DOS games in 4 color CGA graphics to where we are today. And I wouldn't want to change that aka born in 2000 or so. Never. I've seen the baby steps of gaming. Of mobile phones. Of the internet. It's such a great experience seen all this stuff which changed the world.
Don't feel old. you're blessed.
I think im lucky that im only 18, yet I got to experience a lot of these games. Heck most of the ones shown in this video seem better than many titles im seeing today.
ckerazor I'm 17, and although it's a cool thought that I'll get to see another maybe 6 or 7 decades of gaming and technology processing, I do certainly feel like I've missed out on so much from the past. Hopefully DOSBox and Gog.com can help fill me in haha.
I am 1991 and I played a lot of that games too, am I old? :-D
I'm really happy that I was able to experience this stuff in my youth
Yeah Alley Cat was something i grew up with!
Great Nostalgia
Ain't gonna lie, I'm literally in love with that piece of music starting 7:34
One of the things I like about these old games is that they left so much to our imagination. For example Prince of persia 2 level 2 waking up on the beach, I was always imagining what else would there be, just out of view.
Epic X-COM geoscape music. And people scream at me when I tell them today's music sucks. They simply can't understand.
+Zamolxes77 todays music does suck you are not the only one......
That music is actually epic, thanks for pointing out it's name
Brought a tear to my eye...
I forgot the names of all the dos games I fell in love with as a child. Thanks for uploading this
My childhood was awesome!
Damn, I played nearly every single one of these games. I thought I had a life as a kid, but I must be remembering wrong. Thanks for the upload, it was very nostalgic. :)
amazing list... brought back so many memories. almost got tears in my eyes. especially when i compare those amazing pieces to today`s linear games with "all graphics no gameplay" style :( anyways, thx for the most beautiful 10 minutes I had in a long time
Love the UFO: Enemy Unknown music in the background.
10 minutes and 2 seconds actually.
I'm 32 now but these were my childhood.
Good memories, thanks
damn what nostalia… I do remember alot of those games. Good times in gaming hystory.
I bet most here are between 30-35 years old
f**k !! you are true
@@GameByExperience 41 here
@@zlippery1 good luck 👍
It's missing Jazz Jackrabbit & Simon The Sorcerer for sure (:
Out of these games I've played at least 80, and some of those represents some of my best gaming experiences of my life. I've tried playing some of them more recently using emulators, and while some of them is still good, many (if not most) are best preserved as a good memory...
So many great games, so many good memories. I've played almost all of them and still have the original boxes of a few. I can see the box art of The Terminator: Skynet, Albion, Doom (Ultimate Doom Collector's Box), Quake, X-Com: Enemy Unkown and more to my left :).
Great choice of footage. I felt you picked great sequences for all the games I'd played, and I was intrigued by what I saw of many of the games I hadn't played.
I played most of these games. My childhood was awesome.
Missing simon the sorcerer thou
No Full Throttle?
Take a closer look.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Throttle_(1995_video_game)
Evilkittyof doom *You're
@@Wykesidefruitmachine You're comment is unnecessary
@@Danbu1988 *Your
@@Wykesidefruitmachine you're sense of humor isn't given, huh?
3:31 that's 60fps on a game from 1993
pc masterrace confirmed
I'm surprised how many I played. About 75%
Warez
This was my childhood. I remember almost each of those games. Either I played them or I read about them in the local computer games magazine. Brings back memories.
Noticed that all the DOS games was before the 3dFX Vodoo / ATI / Matrox graphics card era.
Was a really frustrating 5year timeperiod before Direct3D where some games only worked with certain brands of 3D cards..
loving the fact you use the geoscape sound from xcom as the background music :D
Cheers mate! Found your mixes years ago, keep up the good stuff! :)
It instantly made me anxious, I played that months if not years as a kid. The overall game atmosphere and music always scared/intrigued me, but after an hour or two i was nervously so broken down i had to stop for a day, to basically regain my bravery lol.
Alley cat !!!! first game I ever played , used to sacre me a lot !!! thx for the memories !!!
I loved it, too. Although I sucked. xD
True gamers will understand why we could watch hours of this sort of videos while we often lack the patience to check out a 2 minute trailer for some random new game.
woahh totally agree, I thought I was crazy to think that
I cut my teeth on DOS games as well, but not having patience for newer games doesn't make you "true gamers", you just have your nostalgia goggles glued on and remain stuck in the past. Videos like this also omit all the crap that was out there conflating the feeling that all games were better "back then", when there have always been classic, good, and garbage games as long as I can remember, in roughly equal proportions through the eras of gaming.
I don't think he was making any comments about the culture or state of gaming. Just that it's an effort and often disappointing following games these days. Probably because developers are much more in it for the money. Back in DOS days, I don't think that was their main goal. Look at the kinds of nerdy games they offered. They were selling to a tiny market (assuming all of this)
Yellowblanka, *_"Videos like this also omit all the crap that was out there conflating the feeling that all games were better "back then""_*
Do I need to explain why indie games have gained so much traction on the face of all the AAA games in the latest years?
The thing is games in the late 80s and 90s were highly focused on gameplay, and on being fun and engaging (especially arcades, which had to be because of their business model) and devs really had to be ingenious to overcome all the extreme limitations of the time, and that's important because limitations are what brings out the most creativity in people. Since the mid/late 2000s devs have become become mostly focused on eye candy and instant gratification, and innovation has been lacking and much has become generic, since the costs of production have skyrocketed to the point most AAA companies are unable to take risks lest they go the way of The Looking Glass, which is the reason why franchises are so numerous and get milked all the way to hell.
Of course, there were franchises in the 80s and 90s too, and Sierra was probably the best example of that, but their selling points were still being fun and engaging first (their games were heavily story driven) rather than being all shinny and glimmering. Every major title was highly innovative, or highly entertaining, and a whole lot of them had a high level of replayability. Nearly every game was a deadly risk being taken, so they really had to excel.
What are the masterpieces of today, equivalent in impressiveness and as memorable as Doom, Quake, dungeon keeper, carmageddon, Half-Life, Thief, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Rollcage, Pizza Tycoon, Tomb Rider, Jagged Alliance 2, X-Com, Command & Conquer, Worms, Lemmings, Master Of Orion, Lords of the Realm, Another World, Broken Sword, etc etc?
It's not that there weren't bad games then, and it's not that there aren't great games these days, it's that the vast majority of them lack much, if not all, of what made the old classics classics. You can easily enumerate an order of magnitude more memorable games from back then, than you can from since the mid/late 2000s.
The fundamental difference is that back then they were actually making art in most aspects. The constant risk factor and limitations dictated that they had to. Comparing the soundtracks of then to the ones of now, is perhaps the easiest way to notice that difference.
I almost forgot, back then there was also a whole lot more (intelligent) humor in games than there's ever been since. That's also probably a significant factor.
What's crazy about this is that I forgot about so many of these games. I thought I could only remember a couple games I played a lot from my childhood, now I realize that I really did play a shitload of games in my life.
I'm almost 40 years old and my childhood games are Wings Of Fury, Cannon Fodder, Shadow of the Beast123, Defenders Of The Crown, Pang!, Goblins123, Gyrus, Prince of Persia .. Alien Breed, Golden Axe, Dizzy, MK1 2. Street Fighter ... and many, many more whose titles I don't remember anymore because it's been 25-30 years since I had the Amiga
Alone in the dark used to scare the shit out of us when we were kids.
X-Com. one of the greatest soundtracks ever made for a game!
Doom,duke nukem,raptor are my favorite DOS games
Love it.. and I'm thankful that I had the chance to play most of these back then.
I still play DOS and Sega Genesis games. Today's games are great but I grew up playing DOS games and they're still very much enjoyable.
this reminds me how good games were back than and without internet, dlc or any bullshit! you bought the game, got the full game and it was 100% playable..
...or it crashed randomly after you spent several weeks playing it (just to get through the first 1-2 levels, because nobody gave a fuck about accessibility) and you had to search for patches in pc game magazines.
@@MrKeotan Search for patches was part of the game!!!
@@XtroTheArctic like search for new update windows !
*THANKS FOR THE OLD SCHOOL MEMORIES ...*
I started PC gaming in the 90s
and I never stopped.
Terminal Velocity brings back a lot of memories.
Good list, I probably would have added some of the Sierra "Quest" games especially King's Quest, Quest for Glory, and Space Quest, but there are a million dos games so it was probably hard to pick, looks like you did a good variety of genres!
I think what I miss the most about the DOS era is the graphical creativity. Now I was born mid 90's, so until about '01 or '02 all I had was DOS. I miss how people got creative with how the games looked and animated, none of this 4K super high res BS we have now.
o great video! i remembered some old DOS games too...
Gender Wars
Anvil of Dawn
duke Nukem 1 & 2 (2D platforms)
Hocus pocus
Little big adventure
Canon fodder
Knights of xentar
Transport tycoon
Simon the sorcerer
damm... great times!
Can i get a copy of that music? please..
There are several sites in the internet that allow you to grab MP3 audio from YT videos.
@@einokeino303 lame why not share the track
The music is from original X-COM/UFO Game
@@AlexanderSemenovForever It sounds like "spacer" by Sheila b devotion, lol.
@@phillycheesetake haha yeah!... well its jut 7 notes you know :D
A time without DLC and micro transactions. The Golden age of computer gaming.
>tfw Expansion Packs existed in the DOS years lmao
You got DLC back then mate lol. Some of them you also had to pay for.
And before pc had to cut down content for console, pc only games need to come back to mainstream
For me, the Golden Age was at the late 1990's to 2010.
Oh man! Lemmings, Mortal Kombat, Doom, Quake, Scorched Earth, Descent, Hexen, Another World, Worms, Micro Machines, Sim City, Gabriel Knight, Destruction Derby, Duke Nukem 3D, System Shock, Command & Conquer, Alley Cat, Carmageddon... I played all of these back in the day. From my memory, I would add Cyberia, The Journeyman Project 1, Paratrooper, Crime Wave, Microsoft Flight Simulator, FIFA 94... Oh, and, of course, list Prince of Persia 1 instead of 2! Those were the days!
I think I immeaditely recognized roughly 95 games out of the 100. Time well spent.
I'm convinced sometimes that DOS had the best games :D
my god iv played every single game in this video!! what have i done to my childhood?... and worst part is i still find that the video is missing a lot of other games i also played back in the DOS days... realy was the golden age i remember each one of them very fun and so different the new games from now are all the same and very monotone i cant even remember half of the new games i played and say i enjoyed...!!
So much nostalgia.
What a nice nostalgia trip. I played most of these as a kid.
This video deserves a million likes at least. What a trip man, thank you!
Amazing music at the end.
Very good, but you forgot Space Quest, Kings Quest and Leisure Suit Larry :) those are classics
I'm so happy I was able to live through this time. I was born in 1988 and my parents got us a computer (486DX 33mhz never forget) in....1993-1994? I was able to play a lot of different games. they were mostly shareware, but somebody often got a game and I was able to trade with the dude. in the end I remember full versions of doom1/2, raptor
I was born in 1980 but I get that child's enthusiasm only when i stumble across something from my childhood that I never got to try. Like for instance I missed Police Quest the first time around as I was 7 when it came out and 13 when the last one did and despite liking the idea of being a cop I had no idea what to do. When I got the games for DOSBox a few years ago I was in my element and it felt like it was 1993 again.
Nice DOS games retrospective ! If you play only at DOS, Amiga or C64 game, it's better to use Linux like me. There are a lot emulators in Linux : DOSBox, FS-UAE (Amiga) etc. :)
This HeroShot guy said "You'll never find that game." But I persisted. I watched your video and there it was: Terminal Velocity. Thank you for your dedication to old games.
Cyberia should be on this amazing list. Thanks for this.
definitel and Suit Larry :)
the Moment when you have played many of these games and thougt you are still young...
Heh the second I heard the music at the beginning I thought "wait.. XCOM?"
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the original one, is still a lot better then the new ones. And the same can be said for the fallout series, or thief. Maybe one of the few sequels that retain the same level of polish were bioshock (system shock spiritual sequel), and the sands of time trilogy.
Lots of favorites in this video. A reminder of the golden age of gaming. Thank you for the upload.
I`m 50 and I still playing video games, why not ?.... but in the past I used to play : Monkey Island 1/2, Doom, Heretic, Lemmings, Mortal Kombat, Price of Persia 1/2, Quake, Raptor : Call Of The Shadows, Shadow Warrior, Tyrian 2000, Wolfenstein 3D, Blackthorne, Duke Nukem 3D, Terminal Velocity, Descent, Hexen : Beyond Heretic, Sim City 2000, Destruction Derby, Star Wars : Dark Forces, Nascar Racing, Tomb Raider, The Need For Speed, Bioforge, Mechwarrior 2, Blood .. and more.