Me too! I just want to go and spend a day sitting in front of my win 95 machine lol. I learned how to use MS DOS at like age 9 lol. As in I fully understood how it worked etc.
I lived that, and I loved gaming on DOS, Famicom, and Windows. I'll say this, games back then might have been awesome, with the peak of public arcades in East Asia hitting in the early 90s, the Internet being effectively born in the mid 90s, and sound and graphics going from line art and system buzzes to full stereo sound and 3D textures in about 5 years. But It wasn't the greatest gaming era. The best gaming era was the 00's. Games and PC platforms were largely complete on release and just worked on install (mostly). Critical failures were rare (unless you had Windows ME). On-line giants like Counter-Strike and Call of Duty were growing like crazy. Competition in game development and publication was much more diverse than today's overly consolidated AAA providers. Steam was born, GameStop was competing with independent brick and mortar game shops, and everything just worked. It was the peak experience before smart phone and Facebook games pulled the industry's focus onto whaling monetization in the ’10s.
Can you help me find a game? It's very old, prob ms dos. Can you choose 1 knights, one is brown and has thicker armor, the other one is white but kills easier. The game has alot of stairs and bats flying around who can hurt you. There's a final boss that is some sort of skeleton throwing bones. The rest I can't really remember. Pls help
Have another one from me too, although I did already put all the timestamps in the description when I uploaded the video. My subsequent DOS Games videos also have all the timestamps in the descriptions 👍🏼👍🏼
The Sierra games were so much fun. Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gold Rush. We had the Apple II GS system. My older brother and I used to get up early on Saturday morning and play those ones for hours. Was always a treat when our dad took us to the computer store near our house to check out all the new Sierra games.
David Bedard, I was a computer science major who graduated in 1983. My best friend got a job with Sierra and programmed one of the Quest games. I lost touch with her but have at least 1 Quest game!
I remember playing those Quest games on my families computers back when I was around 10-12 years old. They were lots of fun and you had to figure everything out yourself, no looking up tips anywhere. I remember getting to a new screen or area in these games was a huge accomplishment.
(I corrected my old post, I was referring to AT form factor) One of my most favorite computer gaming memories back then is taking a small vacation, staying home and playing Doom on a 486 DX66 - AT form factor during winter time. I remember one day it was snowing outside, and I was happy and warm inside playing doom. Those are great memories. :-)
44 this year here - Can confirm. Played all of these PURE CLASSICS! All of them! From CGA til today. I'm just a gamer at heart. Loved this throwback video. Thanks for the nostalgia!
This brought back sooo many happy memories. Thanks you. What really stands out is how much Doom then Quake were a leap forward. It was mainly incremental gains then Doom blew everything else away. Many games then built off the Doom engine, and Quake comes along and blows them away. It was a great time to grow up in.
@@MrBearyMcBearface Ultima Underworld came out before both Wolfenstein and Doom and was a huge influence on the development of first person perspective games. The ID games are only remembered more nowadays because they found a wider mainstream audience.
Ultima Underworld came out 19 months before doom and even wolfenstein 3d while having a more advanced 3D engine. John Romero was a big fan of Origin and Ultima Underworld almost certainly influenced the development of Doom. While underworld itself built off earlier tile based exploration RPGs such as dungeon master, UU went on to establish the genre of open exploration FPS games which in turn nowadays are represented by huge titles like Skryim and Minecraft. Doom played an incredibly important role in making PC gaming mainstream but engine and gameplay-wise it was evolutionary and not revolutionary.
Anyone remember when you tried to run a game in MSDOS, I'm thinking Sierra specifically, and you'd often get a message saying you didn't have enough expanded memory? If you were lucky, the install file of the game contained an option to create a boot disk, and you'd have to boot up with the boot disk every time you wanted to run the game and it worked. If you were unlucky, you'd have to edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys files yourself and play around with it until it did.
Oh I have several boot up options for DOS to maximize either extended, expanded or conventional RAM. Aces of the Pacific is a monster that needs 611,xxx free bytes. Barely enough room for DOS itself, everything else had to be stripped such as mouse drivers (not needed there).
... I even did a library in assembler for quickbasic for the sound blaster pro lol hardware from that era was really fun!! Now i would need to read a 1000 pages opcodes list and it wouldnt work lol
WOW! I played at least half of these titles! Best time of life! Countless hours on these games. Each new release was the ultimate. Graphics advanced so fast! I enjoyed each one.
Man, I remember being 5 or 6 years old, my pops teaching me DOS commands, playing through tons of iconic and sometimes obscure shareware; the formative years. Games have come a long way...it's fascinating to see the evolution over a few decades. Glad they're still playable and being ported to newer platforms so younger generations can experience these gems.
I was learning them on my own at 6 years old. Less than a year later I was formatting and reinstalling MS-DOS (Don't forget to create a bootdisk first!) and ripping the thing apart. It's a miracle I dont work in IT...
same story here man, amazing times... looking for this one game though, a horiztonal platformer which progressed from earth (i think) to space on the final levels. Any clue ? :D
I remembered them all. My favorite DOS game of all time was Sid Meier's Civilization. I played Civilization for 17 straight hours without a rest except quick toilet break.
I didn't see Starflight...which by in large took many hours of my time for some of the most immersive game play and discovery. So many great games though that I did see, play and enjoy. What a great time in gaming history!
What a nice medley of video game nostalgia, certainly brings back memories! Some favorites I personally would add to his list, Commando (1985), Operation Wolf(1987), Test Drive(1987) and Street Rod (1989).
95,96,97 were definitely the golden era. I used to read all magazines I could get my hands on about games and the new technological advancements like sound blaster sound cards and voodoo graphic cards. These games were so much entertaining and addictive than modern games of today with their 100gb downloads that most people now just play for a couple days and discard as fast as baby diapers. Oh my sweet little 13 year old me.... Good times!
There was a certain excitement we had when loading up these games. There are many on here that I became addicted too. I've not seen the whole video clip - as yet - but one game that should be mentioned is I.S.S JANE SEYMORE! The depth to that was astonishing, Then there was Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker [a classic], Speedball [1 and 2], Dungeon Master, I.K karate, Stunt Car Racer, Damocles, Buggy Boy, Gods, Populus, Kick Off and Kick Off 2, Spy v Spy, Gauntlet, Sensible Soccer, Formula One Grand Prix, Arakanoid: Revenge of Doh, and many others. All absolutely addictive. Just think, there were no microtransactions [ as we would get now.}. No paying for extra levels, and all of that. We received the whole package. More often than not the games came with beautiful instructions { more like 'books'}, and wonderful packaging too. We really did get our money's worth. Now, in this age of digital gaming? It's simply not the same anymore. We will never get those days back again when we played DOS games. It really was a golden era of home gaming.
Yup - I am amazed at how many of those games I played. There are a few I didn't, but quite a few I did. I was actually this list would include a game I have been trying to remember the name of for ages. I remember how it plays, but the name has eluded me - Sadly not on the list.
I can only envy you. This is childhood that I dream to have (but all my childhood I had to work in the village garden and take care of the old grandmother). Someday, when I can afford myself to have a lot of free time, I will get old PC and will play all these games!
This brings so many good memories back of playing these 1990's games ! I remember playing the Monopoly game going around the board !! It's such a great and awesome game ! I remember a lot of the 1992 games to 1997😊😊👍👍👍! The incredible machine was another good game from 1993!! I love that game in trying to figure out the gears and how to pop the balloon and get the ball to its destination and that! Thank you for having this on RUclips to watch!👍👍👍😍😍
7:02 - Gorillas was written in QBasic (came with DOS). You could press [Ctrl] and [C] to break the code and amend things. This was intentional (both that you could break into it and that it was written in QBasic) - It was actually included in DOS 5 as a demonstration of that programming language.
@Giuliano Matrix I was convinced that learning more qbasic commands would enable me to write cool programs... So I went though the help for hours, and read the documentation on each function and subroutine. As I was teaching myself at that point, I did not know that I was supposed to learn basics like loops, and writing functions.. But, later on, I did manage to write some cool programs after all
Spent my teen years in the DOS era...that was a very special time, trips to Babbage's just browsing the big box games, even when I couldn't buy any was better than reading a book :) Heck, my younger co-workers bug me when they start talking about the latest Playstation/Xbox games, as I always bring up DOS and they give you that weird look...I feel bad for them..they missed out. Thanks for the vid!
Funny that. Born in '76 myself, so I got used to both, though I really was more about console gaming. Still, I had always wanted a computer and spent plenty of time playing on a commodore 64 in a public school. When my parents finally bought a computer in the early 90's, I learned DOS inside and out as much as I could. It proved useful for me as I would later wind up in tech support. Had plenty of games to play with lots of shareware floppy disks. One of the first games that comes to mind was Zeliard. I remember lots of other games published by Sierra. That said, I still enjoy gaming, be it PC or console, so be it a throwback game or the "latest and greatest" entry, I have plenty to pick from.
So much nostalgia. Loved every minute of this. There were some epic Origin games I wish you got in here like Wing Commander, Wing Commander 2, and the Ultima series. And Star Control. :)
So cool that you included QBasic Gorillas & Nibbles! Those games are the very thing that got me into programming so many years ago! Spent hours modding the game, so that whenever my brother would enter his name, the screen would read "Asshole", etc.... great fun!
I don't feel pity for those who had to install these games for DOS, I feel pity for those who had to make these games! This newer generation of people relied on DirectX or OpenGL to do all of the graphics via API calls. In the DOS days, there was no such thing... all of those graphics had to be drawn to the screen directly via native VGA controller calls, reading in sprites from graphics images, knowing all of the different platforms or ISAs such as x86, MIPS, ... etc. The timing of when to draw everything and how to draw it, when to access data from ram or the hard drive, etc. was a technological marvel in those days, especially considering the limited amount of RAM, ROM, and the CPUs specs. Most people didn't even have computers and the average few who did, might not have even had a Video or a Sound Card. The programmers had to take all of the major Video and Sound Cards into consideration when writing their already compact and limited code in such a way to support various hardware. They had to know the internal workings of the drivers for each of those devices. It wasn't until Windows 95 and later when Direct Draw, Direct 2D, Direct 3D, Direct Sound came out to make things easier for the developers. In later versions, these APIs were simplified into one common API which became Direct X. These spoiled Millenials today who were practically born with a Smart Phone in hand... have no idea how complicated it was to make these Retro Games! When they don't see all of the shiny graphics and realism that is shown today they tend to think the games are horrible. Back in the early to mid-90s if you had DOOM you were one of the fortunate ones; that's if you even had a computer, to begin with. Then if you were able to run a game in 800x^600 because you happen to have an SVGA, not a VGA that was 15 or 17 inches you were really lucky! Yet today they carry around 7-9 inch screens in their pockets running in 1080p and some even in 4k... Yeah, the game developers of the 70s and 80s were true engineers, for they didn't have all of the hand-holding that these modern APIs give you, the GUI of Windows versus shell or terminal commands, and they had many more limitations to deal with! All of the games on this list, even the worst of them, should be in a category all by themselves as being a modern technological marvel for the genius of the engineering that went into making them! These are the games that drove the push for bigger, better and faster hardware that we see today! If it wasn't for these games, we'd still probably be using terminals and wouldn't have portable smartphones! These games are what pushed the limits of computing while advancing technology!
@᪶ ᪶ It's a rhetorical statement that was meant to illustrate the point that this younger generation was born into a world with technology and devices that are commonplace today compared to when my generation grew up in the 70s and 80s. I was born in 1980 so by the time I was about 4-5 years old and understood how to use modern electronic devices of that era such as Telephones, Television's, VCRs, gaming consoles such as Atari (NES didn't come out until about then but I didn't get it until around 1990 when the SNES was being released). Phones had cords connected to an outlet and some were push buttons while others were rotary, long-distance calls were charged by the minute and some lines or carries had party lines, other people from other places might have been on the same line at the same time... Many TVs didn't even have remote controls yet as that was an added expensive accessory, and even in the early 80s Color TVs were starting to take over becoming commonplace, but many still had black and white TVs with Rabbit Ears and tuning dials, Cable was in its infancy, most had Antennas where very few had Satellite and those Satellites were huge (about 4-8 feet) in diameter and very expensive. There was no high definition, very few people had computers at home and the internet was around but most didn't have it as it was very expensive. This is what I was referring to, I wasn't trying to put anyone down! I used the word spoiled in referring to the fact that this younger generation takes for granted these modern devices such as Smart Phones that are more powerful than supercomputers of the 40s and 50s... The gaming consoles today are very impressive, but in my time we had 8 and then 16-bit consoles... Today they are 64-bits with dedicated video and sound cards built into them in full HD anywhere from 720p to 4K... Most of them don't understand the luxury that it is to have these modern devices at a very affordable cost. Consider buying a brand new IBM in 1980 the year I was born before the home personal desktop PC era boomed... It might have had a 16-bit architecture or an 8-bit depending on the model, it might have had a hard drive of about 20 - 40 MB with about 128 - 256k of ram if you spent an extra $500 for the increased bandwidth... This computer would have cost the average person in 1980 about $2-3K which would be about $8-9K in today's currency market. Yet, if you buy the most expensive smartphone out there probably an iPhone it might cost between $1-2k which would have been about $300 - 500 back then. And that smartphone can do about 10k times the amount of computations. So this is what I was referring to about being spoiled... I'm referring to the entire generation as a whole, not just an individual!
@@skilz8098 Millennials were born from 1981 to 1996. The first millennials graduated in 2000 hence the name. Generation Z came after . This is according to Strauss and Howe who coined the term.
Just remember that every generation is going to take things for granted that are around when they were born. Think about those born before electricity in the home was a thing. It would be like an eternal power outage or blackout for today’s people. The younger generation that now can’t stand the thought of not having internet, smart phones and being able to talk to people 24/7 etc. don’t appreciate the older games and the effort that went into creating them because the older generation made it easier for them. Every generation is making things easier for the next, of which the next generation just accepts it as the norm and takes it for granted.
I agree with that, having started basic programming on TI99/4A, TRS-80, ZX-81, Apple II, Goupil 1 & 2, ... and making sometimes my own "little" games (specially on TI-99/4A on which I was mastering the Extended Basic ; ) And thanks to Hebdogiciel, a weekly newspaper with tons of listings for every computer of the early 80's, from which I learn a lot !!!
I'm glad I watched this. For years there was a racing game I could never find again, but it came up in this. Big red racing. Tons of memories in that game.
I counted to 40 that I played. Probably a few more I have forgotten I played. And a number of favourites missing from this collection. But great video - was nice to relive old times.
scorched earth was amazing - 99% of these titles were amazing but a game with such poor graphics compared to what was on the market the gameplay was unreal !! best game to play against friends.
_And_ you provided a link to the music; that is superfly cool of you bro I played these: Space Invaders - coin-op Chessmaster 2000 - 520STFM F-19 Stealth Fighter - 520STFM SimCity - 520STFM Red Baron - 486DX66 Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe - 520STFM Lemmings - 520STFM Formula One Grand Prix - 520STFM Cannon Fodder - 520STFM Doom - PS1 Doom II - PS1 Heretic - DOSBox Sid Meier's Civilization II - Steem Tomb Raider - PS1
It was. I played that with a Logitech Wingman Extreme joystick and dominated, being able to use the hat to fly around someone and continue aiming at them. Loved it, and it was very different to other FPS of the time ❤️
The Millenials are never going to understand the thrill of loading 'Prince of Persia' from a Floppy drive and getting it running successfully on a DOS PC. In my part of the world desktops were introduced in the early 90's.
Ummm.... Centenialls* I born in 1985 (Millennial) and i understand all these MSDOS games and also I play most and a lot more... sorry not sorry mister Generation X
Or loading "f15 strike eagle" the game came with like 12 hard disks but damn getting it working. flying threw the 90's virtual skies or taking out polygon buildings with sidewinder missles those were some of the best times I had as a kid gaming😊
@@SoyLevelMaxLive lighten up man holy fuck were all happy your included in the games us centanllliailia....whatever were fucking called got to meet you millipedes half way in 90's gaming
I mean, really! I went in expecting like ~40% at least heared of, but came out 3/4 actually played - wtf? Either the market was really tiny back then, or we all ended up with roughly the same top 50 games although few had access to anything resembling the internet to "hype" certain titles like today. And I was even only born in '82. Goes to show how long 15 years can be when you're young, but also how long a game's life time was. I've played many of these games at roughly the same times, while their release was many more years apart than I'd have thought back then. Also: Dude! Quake! I'd have sworn this was a post millenium title! Man, time's a flyin'.
What a wild generation we are. We were around for the genesis of the internet and gaming yet we still had the roots of the “stay outside till it’s dark” kids. Bridged a strange generational gap, we did.
I remember playing digger, paratrooper, alley cat and decathalon. Having to put the ms dos disc in first and having to type dir. Crazy how far gaming has come
It’s pretty amazing. Those oldest games were really good in a fun, simple, accessible way. Well, accessible except that you had to know how to operate DOS 😉
That assuming you got the game on your computer in the first place. That you understood drives, creating directories, directory path structures, copying, 8.3 file names etc. There’s a lot to do before you get to “cd game” and run the game.
@@sedgwicks9109 ah i see. yup dir and type digger. i remembered i, my father and my uncle were competing for highest scores but my uncle won. great old days...
A fun jog through memory lane. I got my first Packard Bell 486SX 20MHz PC 20MB HDD when I was in middle school in 1990. At the time all my parents friends and relatives said how stupid it was to buy a 12 year old a $2000 PC (nearly $3000 today). I didn't know how to use a computer so I read through the manual and decided to run the first command I found which was format c:. I learned a lot trying to get that computer working again pre youtube especially since the computer didn't come with the DOS or Windows 3.1 disks. I finally found a friends Dad that had them and I was back in business months later. I remember the happiness of getting 2MB of RAM, adding a sound card, and a CD drive. I got to put all those in myself as a teenager. I had many of these games from 1990 on with the favorites being Wolfenstein, Dracula unleashed, Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, and that dots game (surprised you showed that one). I remember the games you showed around 96 started to run really slow on that machine. By the time I started college in 97 all I could do on that PC dial in to check email because technology had progressed so fast. Today going from 2GB of RAM to 3GB of RAM, or from 2TB to 3TB isn't that big of a deal. Back then going from 20MHz to 100MHz was as the computer was now 5x faster. I wish I would have kept it. A few takeaways, for me, is how impressive it was the original programmers got so much out of so little of hardware they had to work with. Even the slowest of todays microcontrollers have more horsepower than that original computer I had in 1990. I think you could probably get every one of these games to run on an STM32 micro. Now I feel super old and feel I should go out and buy a sports car.
Though I couldn't get the chance to try the majority of DOS games, I remember playing some of them as a child on my windows xp pc - Prince of Persia (1st part only) - Dangerous Dave (original and ammo) - Skyroads - Doom - Wolfenstein 3d - Rover Rescue (whatever the name was but you had to save the dog and get to the exit) - Mickey Mouse - Donald Duck - Others as long as I can remember but that's all. There are some games you forgot to mention even if it's difficult to remember more than 100 games.
Thanks for compiling this.. remembered the times staying up late at night playing and figuring out how to solve those adventure games without any walkthrough.... and the feeling of accomplishment finishing a game...
Fun to see these games with fluent fps. My computer used to have like 1-5 frames per second,; which took some of the fun from the experience. Try to play STUNTS CAR RACER (Broederbund) or Red Baron with that amount of fps, and you know what I’m talking about.. Thanks for the vid!
Yea, stunt car racer and F15-strike eagle were very choppy on my 8086 with a ega card. I remember it was hard to level out the plane because of the bad framerate, constantly overshooting the angle.
Super Off Road was sooo much fun!! You had to control your car with a big ball and the would keep spinning and turn the car too much. Xenon 2 was truly awesome!
PC gaming peaked in 1995. Descent, MechWarrior 2 and the original Need For Speed were my personal favourites that still hold up to this very day. Throw in Dark Forces, Worms and Duke Nukem 3D and it's a fully fledged nostalgia meltdown. Giddy up!
Oh my god. So many memories. In the early 90s, I was a student and my first PC was an 80286 with 40MB of hard drive and 1 MB of ram. I was so proud when I installed 4 MB... The second was an 80486, with a Creative Sound Blaster sound card. Today's machines are powerful and connected, but it's amazing to realize that all the concepts were invented at that time. Is exist any emulator that we cas use today ?
Yeah, I deliberately chose music with the retro gaming vibe that looped. Maybe you’re right and video 2 is better with original game sound, even if sometimes the early game barely had any noise or music
One unusual sophisticated DOS simulation that I enjoyed was Microsoft Space Simulator. It was a shame that Microsoft didn't keep on improving it like their similar Microsoft Flight Simulator series as it was quite enjoyable and educational as well.
Ahhh, I've been searching for Sopwith but couldn't find it. I only knew it as Solo, loved the game. Same for Gods, forgot the name, so impossible to find anything about it. Very nostalgic, loved many of these games. Thanks, great upload.
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I just watched my childhood in 20 minutes... I'm crying. Want to go back :D
im 34 im crying with you xD btw i still play these
Were you not in your childhood for 1 minute 20 seconds?
Me too! I just want to go and spend a day sitting in front of my win 95 machine lol. I learned how to use MS DOS at like age 9 lol. As in I fully understood how it worked etc.
me too and finally find one game i search sbout years Rick dangerous omg
You can go back.
Just install the emulator and download all the game and have fun.
The mid to late 90s was the golden age of gaming. If you played games during this time consider yourself blessed.
once in fifteen billion years time window
No, you mean video games. Then, it’s a no you’re out of your mind.
the golden age of gaming is whatever time you gamed when you were young
it changes for every person :)
lol no
I lived that, and I loved gaming on DOS, Famicom, and Windows. I'll say this, games back then might have been awesome, with the peak of public arcades in East Asia hitting in the early 90s, the Internet being effectively born in the mid 90s, and sound and graphics going from line art and system buzzes to full stereo sound and 3D textures in about 5 years.
But
It wasn't the greatest gaming era. The best gaming era was the 00's. Games and PC platforms were largely complete on release and just worked on install (mostly). Critical failures were rare (unless you had Windows ME). On-line giants like Counter-Strike and Call of Duty were growing like crazy. Competition in game development and publication was much more diverse than today's overly consolidated AAA providers. Steam was born, GameStop was competing with independent brick and mortar game shops, and everything just worked. It was the peak experience before smart phone and Facebook games pulled the industry's focus onto whaling monetization in the ’10s.
The days when installing a game in DOS, when you were 12 years old, felt like a game victory in itself
@Why So Serious Way too expensive for those of us in the third world
GLQuake?
no that is not a correct sentence, try again IDIOT
I hated autoexec.bat and config.sys
oh yes thats how it was
0:00: 1. Space Invaders (1978)
0:11: 2. Olympic Decalthlon (1982)
0:25: 3. Paratrooper (1982)
0:38: 4. Digger (1983)
0:49: 5. Alley Cat (1984)
1:03: 6. King's Quest (1984)
1:17: 7. Sopwith (1984)
1:28: 8. Arctic Fox (1986)
1:40: 9. Arkanoid (1986)
1:54: 10. Chessmaster 2000 (1986)
2:06: 11. Leisure Suit Larry (1987)
2:18: 12. Battle Chess (1988)
2:34: 13. F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988)
2:45: 14. Jetfighter (1988)
2:59: 15. Silpheed (1988)
3:13: 16. Budokan: The Martial Spirit (1989)
3:24: 17. Golden Axe (1989)
3:36: 18. Risk: The World Conquest Game (1989)
3:49: 19. SimCity (1989)
4:00: 20. Super Off Road (1989)
4:13: 21. Xenon 2 (1989)
4:26: 22. Dyna Blaster (1990)
4:38: 23. Hugo's House of Horrors (1990)
4:52: 24. Mario Brothers VGA (1990)
5:04: 25. Red Baron (1990)
5:17: 26. Rick Dangerous 2 (1990)
5:30: 27. Ski or Die (1990)
5:40: 28. Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1990)
5:52: 29. Stunts (1990)
6:05: 30. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
6:17: 31. The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
6:29: 32. Crystal Caves (1991)
6:40: 33. Gods (1991)
6:53: 34. Gorillas (1991)
7:06: 35. Home Alone (1991)
7:19: 36. Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker (1991)
7:29: 37. Lemmings (1991)
7:41: 38. Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck's Revenge (1991)
7:54: 39. Nibbles (1991)
8:07: 40. Populous II (1991)
8:19: 41. Scorched Earth (1991)
8:31: 42. Sid Meier's Civilization (1991)
8:43: 43. Castles (1992)
8:56: 44. Dune II (1992)
9:07: 45. Flashback (1992)
9:19: 46. Formula One Grand Prix (1992)
9:33: 47. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992)
9:43: 48. Jill of the Jungle (1992)
9:52: 49. Links 386 Pro (1992)
10:08: 50. Monopoly Deluxe (1992)
10:21: 51. Prince of Persia (1992)
10:34: 52. Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
10:46: 53. Zool (1992)
10:58: 54. Cannon Fodder (1993)
11:08: 55. Day of the Tentacle (1993)
11:21: 56. DOOM (1993)
11:35: 57. Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist (1993)
11:46: 58. IndyCar Racing (1993)
11:58: 59. Master of Orion (1993)
12:12: 60. Frontier Manager 2 (1993)
12:24: 61. SimCity 2000 (1993)
12:37: 62. Sticks n Slide (1993)
12:43: 63. Star Wars: X-Wing (1993)
13:02: 64. Syndicate (1993)
13:14: 65. The Incredible Machine (1993)
13:26: 66. Cool Spot (1994)
13:34: 67. DOOM II (1994)
13:51: 68. Heretic (1994)
14:01: 69. Magic Carpet (1994)
14:14: 70. Quarantine (1994)
14:28: 71. Sid Meier's Colonization (1994)
14:41: 72. Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994)
14:53: 73. The Settlers (1994)
15:06: 74. Theme Park (1994)
15:17: 75. UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994)
15:29: 76. Command & Conquer (1995)
15:42: 77. Descent (1995)
15:54: 78. Destruction Derby (1995)
16:07: 79. Flight Simulator 5.1 (1995)
16:17: 80. Hexen: Beyond Heretic (1995)
16:29: 81. MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (1995)
16:41: 82. Need for Speed (1995)
16:54: 83. Rise of the Triad (1995)
17:07: 84. Screamer (1995)
17:20: 85. Slipstream 5000 (1995)
17:33: 86. Star Trek: A Next Generation - A Final Unity (1995)
17:45: 87. Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995)
17:58: 88. Worms (1995)
18:08: 89. Hi-Octane (1995)
18:21: 90. Abuse (1996)
18:35: 91. Big Red Racing (1996)
18:47: 92. Death Rally (1996)
18:58: 93. Descent II (1996)
19:11: 94. Duke Nukem 3D (1996)
19:23: 95. F-22 Lightning II (1996)
19:36: 96. Master of Orion 2: Battle at Autares (1996)
19:49: 97. Quake (1996)
20:01: 98. Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996)
20:13: 99. The Settlers II (1996)
20:24: 100. Tomb Raider (1996)
20:37: 101. Carmageddon (1997)
20:48: 102. Imperium Galactica (1997)
Can you help me find a game? It's very old, prob ms dos. Can you choose 1 knights, one is brown and has thicker armor, the other one is white but kills easier. The game has alot of stairs and bats flying around who can hurt you. There's a final boss that is some sort of skeleton throwing bones. The rest I can't really remember. Pls help
@@ischolten9021 I'm 14 years old, so I don't know much about DOS games, so I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Thanks mate
Only 10 upvotes? Your work is underappreciated, my good sir! Have an upvote!
Have another one from me too, although I did already put all the timestamps in the description when I uploaded the video. My subsequent DOS Games videos also have all the timestamps in the descriptions 👍🏼👍🏼
The Sierra games were so much fun. Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gold Rush. We had the Apple II GS system. My older brother and I used to get up early on Saturday morning and play those ones for hours. Was always a treat when our dad took us to the computer store near our house to check out all the new Sierra games.
David Bedard, I was a computer science major who graduated in 1983. My best friend got a job with Sierra and programmed one of the Quest games. I lost touch with her but have at least 1 Quest game!
I remember playing those Quest games on my families computers back when I was around 10-12 years old. They were lots of fun and you had to figure everything out yourself, no looking up tips anywhere.
I remember getting to a new screen or area in these games was a huge accomplishment.
Quest for Glory - the best Sierra games
Incredible machine
(I corrected my old post, I was referring to AT form factor) One of my most favorite computer gaming memories back then is taking a small vacation, staying home and playing Doom on a 486 DX66 - AT form factor during winter time. I remember one day it was snowing outside, and I was happy and warm inside playing doom. Those are great memories. :-)
What's a 486 AT?.. All i know of is SX and DX.
I remember when the 486 DX 33 Mhz was lightning fast. My first computer was the 286 12 Mhz.
I had a 486 dx4 100, I was king of the nerds for awhile at work!🤩 What a great processor it was.
@@starmc26 don't know either
@@starmc26 Maybe he meant that it was inside a AT-chassi,,,not ATX.....just a guess
44 this year here - Can confirm. Played all of these PURE CLASSICS! All of them! From CGA til today. I'm just a gamer at heart. Loved this throwback video. Thanks for the nostalgia!
You’re welcome!
This brought back sooo many happy memories. Thanks you.
What really stands out is how much Doom then Quake were a leap forward. It was mainly incremental gains then Doom blew everything else away. Many games then built off the Doom engine, and Quake comes along and blows them away.
It was a great time to grow up in.
Most people forget that Wolfenstein 3D, was the game changer. Doom and Quake were just more popular clones.
@@Coats2112 but since the same team made all three it's not a big deal. Nature of progression
@@MrBearyMcBearface Ultima Underworld came out before both Wolfenstein and Doom and was a huge influence on the development of first person perspective games. The ID games are only remembered more nowadays because they found a wider mainstream audience.
Ultima Underworld came out 19 months before doom and even wolfenstein 3d while having a more advanced 3D engine. John Romero was a big fan of Origin and Ultima Underworld almost certainly influenced the development of Doom. While underworld itself built off earlier tile based exploration RPGs such as dungeon master, UU went on to establish the genre of open exploration FPS games which in turn nowadays are represented by huge titles like Skryim and Minecraft. Doom played an incredibly important role in making PC gaming mainstream but engine and gameplay-wise it was evolutionary and not revolutionary.
@dmeat77 Had things been different, we might have been talking about Ultima underworld and System shock the way we talk about the doom games.
It’s amazing how many games I remembered playing. Awesome blast from the past
seeing that dos command line for the directory path and exe file totally hits the spot. bless you for uploading this man!
Anyone remember when you tried to run a game in MSDOS, I'm thinking Sierra specifically, and you'd often get a message saying you didn't have enough expanded memory? If you were lucky, the install file of the game contained an option to create a boot disk, and you'd have to boot up with the boot disk every time you wanted to run the game and it worked. If you were unlucky, you'd have to edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys files yourself and play around with it until it did.
HAHAH THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID!
Yes but you could extend it with EMS.
QEMM !!!
Oh I have several boot up options for DOS to maximize either extended, expanded or conventional RAM. Aces of the Pacific is a monster that needs 611,xxx free bytes. Barely enough room for DOS itself, everything else had to be stripped such as mouse drivers (not needed there).
And that is how as a ten year old I learned basic dos commands. Still comes in useful to this day.
Who didn't choose quickly "Port 220, DMA 1, IRQ 5" thinking he was an IT expert ? nostalgia over 9000
soundblaster ! my first job consist to config strap of lot hardware...
IRQ 5 or IRQ 7, that is the question.
(always been an IRQ 6 guy myself).
... I even did a library in assembler for quickbasic for the sound blaster pro lol hardware from that era was really fun!! Now i would need to read a 1000 pages opcodes list and it wouldnt work lol
WOW! I played at least half of these titles! Best time of life! Countless hours on these games. Each new release was the ultimate. Graphics advanced so fast! I enjoyed each one.
Man, I remember being 5 or 6 years old, my pops teaching me DOS commands, playing through tons of iconic and sometimes obscure shareware; the formative years. Games have come a long way...it's fascinating to see the evolution over a few decades.
Glad they're still playable and being ported to newer platforms so younger generations can experience these gems.
I was learning them on my own at 6 years old. Less than a year later I was formatting and reinstalling MS-DOS (Don't forget to create a bootdisk first!) and ripping the thing apart.
It's a miracle I dont work in IT...
YES! emulators are a gift for those who don't own the platforms or know DOS coding.
same story here man, amazing times... looking for this one game though, a horiztonal platformer which progressed from earth (i think) to space on the final levels. Any clue ? :D
I remembered them all. My favorite DOS game of all time was Sid Meier's Civilization. I played Civilization for 17 straight hours without a rest except quick toilet break.
Man, alley cat brings back my childhood memories
Absolutely. I was very proficient at it. Also the Digger. I miss so much those times.
@@Radii_DC hahaha yeaaa! The digger! Man the theme song instantly plays in my head.
There's also burger man, and that one game who slings beer glass.
something I remember the music...
That game was sooo magical to me... I must have been around 8 or 9.
I remember spending hours on many of these DOS games and more when I was a kid.
Thank you for the nostalgia mate :)
My parents were interested in the Sierra adventure games of the day, so we grew up with a lot of King's Quest and Space Quest.
Most of the Sierra games I played were by Al Lowe
Kings Quest 7 the princeless bride and Space Quest 6 Roger Wilco
For me there was Heros Quest, later known as the Quest for Glory series
I grew up with KQ1-4, Leisure Suit, and Police Quest 1 & 2
I actually learned English playing Police Quest II. Bains, I got you
I didn't see Starflight...which by in large took many hours of my time for some of the most immersive game play and discovery. So many great games though that I did see, play and enjoy. What a great time in gaming history!
Golden age of gaming. Love and miss this time.
Thanks for the great video.
What a nice medley of video game nostalgia, certainly brings back memories! Some favorites I personally would add to his list, Commando (1985), Operation Wolf(1987), Test Drive(1987) and Street Rod (1989).
95,96,97 were definitely the golden era. I used to read all magazines I could get my hands on about games and the new technological advancements like sound blaster sound cards and voodoo graphic cards. These games were so much entertaining and addictive than modern games of today with their 100gb downloads that most people now just play for a couple days and discard as fast as baby diapers. Oh my sweet little 13 year old me.... Good times!
Ah Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, that was an hell of an adventure game.
Alley Cat, Stunts, Monkey Island, Prince of Persia, Theme Park, UFO, Worms... I love that days
There was a certain excitement we had when loading up these games. There are many on here that I became addicted too. I've not seen the whole video clip - as yet - but one game that should be mentioned is I.S.S JANE SEYMORE! The depth to that was astonishing, Then there was Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker [a classic], Speedball [1 and 2], Dungeon Master, I.K karate, Stunt Car Racer, Damocles, Buggy Boy, Gods, Populus, Kick Off and Kick Off 2, Spy v Spy, Gauntlet, Sensible Soccer, Formula One Grand Prix, Arakanoid: Revenge of Doh, and many others. All absolutely addictive. Just think, there were no microtransactions [ as we would get now.}.
No paying for extra levels, and all of that. We received the whole package. More often than not the games came with beautiful instructions { more like 'books'}, and wonderful packaging too. We really did get our money's worth. Now, in this age of digital gaming? It's simply not the same anymore. We will never get those days back again when we played DOS games. It really was a golden era of home gaming.
Never got bored with those games..I still want to play some of them
Wow. All of my entire life in 21 mins
PS: never regret it
Yup - I am amazed at how many of those games I played. There are a few I didn't, but quite a few I did.
I was actually this list would include a game I have been trying to remember the name of for ages. I remember how it plays, but the name has eluded me - Sadly not on the list.
I can only envy you. This is childhood that I dream to have (but all my childhood I had to work in the village garden and take care of the old grandmother). Someday, when I can afford myself to have a lot of free time, I will get old PC and will play all these games!
That’s a good aspiration to have 👍🏼
word :D
@@malvinapushkova2386 be careful if you buy the first big box dos-game from your childhood on ebay youre addicted... XD
Oooh the memories... so many good times, such an incredible world it was.
This brings so many good memories back of playing these 1990's games ! I remember playing the Monopoly game going around the board !! It's such a great and awesome game ! I remember a lot of the 1992 games to 1997😊😊👍👍👍! The incredible machine was another good game from 1993!! I love that game in trying to figure out the gears and how to pop the balloon and get the ball to its destination and that! Thank you for having this on RUclips to watch!👍👍👍😍😍
7:02 - Gorillas was written in QBasic (came with DOS). You could press [Ctrl] and [C] to break the code and amend things. This was intentional (both that you could break into it and that it was written in QBasic) - It was actually included in DOS 5 as a demonstration of that programming language.
@Giuliano Matrix I was convinced that learning more qbasic commands would enable me to write cool programs... So I went though the help for hours, and read the documentation on each function and subroutine. As I was teaching myself at that point, I did not know that I was supposed to learn basics like loops, and writing functions.. But, later on, I did manage to write some cool programs after all
Spent my teen years in the DOS era...that was a very special time, trips to Babbage's just browsing the big box games, even when I couldn't buy any was better than reading a book :) Heck, my younger co-workers bug me when they start talking about the latest Playstation/Xbox games, as I always bring up DOS and they give you that weird look...I feel bad for them..they missed out. Thanks for the vid!
int 21....
Funny that. Born in '76 myself, so I got used to both, though I really was more about console gaming. Still, I had always wanted a computer and spent plenty of time playing on a commodore 64 in a public school. When my parents finally bought a computer in the early 90's, I learned DOS inside and out as much as I could. It proved useful for me as I would later wind up in tech support. Had plenty of games to play with lots of shareware floppy disks. One of the first games that comes to mind was Zeliard. I remember lots of other games published by Sierra.
That said, I still enjoy gaming, be it PC or console, so be it a throwback game or the "latest and greatest" entry, I have plenty to pick from.
So much nostalgia. Loved every minute of this. There were some epic Origin games I wish you got in here like Wing Commander, Wing Commander 2, and the Ultima series. And Star Control. :)
I was just thinking the same 😌 Wing Commander: Privateer and especially Ultima Underworld / System Shock were exceptional games
Magic Carpet blew my mind when I was a kid (9).
So cool that you included QBasic Gorillas & Nibbles! Those games are the very thing that got me into programming so many years ago! Spent hours modding the game, so that whenever my brother would enter his name, the screen would read "Asshole", etc.... great fun!
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How fitting is the music to this video. Good choice! Long live MS DOS gaming. We salute you!
Alley Cat was my jam. I still hear the sound of that dog coming for me...
Lol
love this game... I never finish it...
I don't feel pity for those who had to install these games for DOS, I feel pity for those who had to make these games! This newer generation of people relied on DirectX or OpenGL to do all of the graphics via API calls. In the DOS days, there was no such thing... all of those graphics had to be drawn to the screen directly via native VGA controller calls, reading in sprites from graphics images, knowing all of the different platforms or ISAs such as x86, MIPS, ... etc. The timing of when to draw everything and how to draw it, when to access data from ram or the hard drive, etc. was a technological marvel in those days, especially considering the limited amount of RAM, ROM, and the CPUs specs.
Most people didn't even have computers and the average few who did, might not have even had a Video or a Sound Card. The programmers had to take all of the major Video and Sound Cards into consideration when writing their already compact and limited code in such a way to support various hardware. They had to know the internal workings of the drivers for each of those devices. It wasn't until Windows 95 and later when Direct Draw, Direct 2D, Direct 3D, Direct Sound came out to make things easier for the developers. In later versions, these APIs were simplified into one common API which became Direct X.
These spoiled Millenials today who were practically born with a Smart Phone in hand... have no idea how complicated it was to make these Retro Games! When they don't see all of the shiny graphics and realism that is shown today they tend to think the games are horrible. Back in the early to mid-90s if you had DOOM you were one of the fortunate ones; that's if you even had a computer, to begin with. Then if you were able to run a game in 800x^600 because you happen to have an SVGA, not a VGA that was 15 or 17 inches you were really lucky! Yet today they carry around 7-9 inch screens in their pockets running in 1080p and some even in 4k...
Yeah, the game developers of the 70s and 80s were true engineers, for they didn't have all of the hand-holding that these modern APIs give you, the GUI of Windows versus shell or terminal commands, and they had many more limitations to deal with! All of the games on this list, even the worst of them, should be in a category all by themselves as being a modern technological marvel for the genius of the engineering that went into making them! These are the games that drove the push for bigger, better and faster hardware that we see today! If it wasn't for these games, we'd still probably be using terminals and wouldn't have portable smartphones! These games are what pushed the limits of computing while advancing technology!
@᪶ ᪶ It's a rhetorical statement that was meant to illustrate the point that this younger generation was born into a world with technology and devices that are commonplace today compared to when my generation grew up in the 70s and 80s.
I was born in 1980 so by the time I was about 4-5 years old and understood how to use modern electronic devices of that era such as Telephones, Television's, VCRs, gaming consoles such as Atari (NES didn't come out until about then but I didn't get it until around 1990 when the SNES was being released). Phones had cords connected to an outlet and some were push buttons while others were rotary, long-distance calls were charged by the minute and some lines or carries had party lines, other people from other places might have been on the same line at the same time... Many TVs didn't even have remote controls yet as that was an added expensive accessory, and even in the early 80s Color TVs were starting to take over becoming commonplace, but many still had black and white TVs with Rabbit Ears and tuning dials, Cable was in its infancy, most had Antennas where very few had Satellite and those Satellites were huge (about 4-8 feet) in diameter and very expensive. There was no high definition, very few people had computers at home and the internet was around but most didn't have it as it was very expensive.
This is what I was referring to, I wasn't trying to put anyone down! I used the word spoiled in referring to the fact that this younger generation takes for granted these modern devices such as Smart Phones that are more powerful than supercomputers of the 40s and 50s... The gaming consoles today are very impressive, but in my time we had 8 and then 16-bit consoles... Today they are 64-bits with dedicated video and sound cards built into them in full HD anywhere from 720p to 4K... Most of them don't understand the luxury that it is to have these modern devices at a very affordable cost.
Consider buying a brand new IBM in 1980 the year I was born before the home personal desktop PC era boomed... It might have had a 16-bit architecture or an 8-bit depending on the model, it might have had a hard drive of about 20 - 40 MB with about 128 - 256k of ram if you spent an extra $500 for the increased bandwidth... This computer would have cost the average person in 1980 about $2-3K which would be about $8-9K in today's currency market. Yet, if you buy the most expensive smartphone out there probably an iPhone it might cost between $1-2k which would have been about $300 - 500 back then. And that smartphone can do about 10k times the amount of computations. So this is what I was referring to about being spoiled... I'm referring to the entire generation as a whole, not just an individual!
@@skilz8098 Millennials were born from 1981 to 1996. The first millennials graduated in 2000 hence the name. Generation Z came after
. This is according to Strauss and Howe who coined the term.
@@iamkeystroke Okay a bit of misconception there, I shouldn't have been using the "Millenials". It should have been the "Snowflake" generation!
Just remember that every generation is going to take things for granted that are around when they were born. Think about those born before electricity in the home was a thing. It would be like an eternal power outage or blackout for today’s people. The younger generation that now can’t stand the thought of not having internet, smart phones and being able to talk to people 24/7 etc. don’t appreciate the older games and the effort that went into creating them because the older generation made it easier for them. Every generation is making things easier for the next, of which the next generation just accepts it as the norm and takes it for granted.
I agree with that, having started basic programming on TI99/4A, TRS-80, ZX-81, Apple II, Goupil 1 & 2, ... and making sometimes my own "little" games (specially on TI-99/4A on which I was mastering the Extended Basic ; ) And thanks to Hebdogiciel, a weekly newspaper with tons of listings for every computer of the early 80's, from which I learn a lot !!!
Prince of Persia is a game of 1989. In 1992 the second part came out.
I'm glad I watched this. For years there was a racing game I could never find again, but it came up in this. Big red racing. Tons of memories in that game.
Seeing Digger warms my heart
I counted to 40 that I played. Probably a few more I have forgotten I played. And a number of favourites missing from this collection. But great video - was nice to relive old times.
Descent 2 was one of my favourites. Good soundtrack too... would liked to have seen Blood in there. Strangers in the night, exchanging glances.....
1983 - digger is my all time favourite, thank you for this compilation
I had no idea that it was that old. I was playing it into the 90s. I really dug that game.
I’ll be honest, it was one of my favourites too
scorched earth was amazing - 99% of these titles were amazing but a game with such poor graphics compared to what was on the market the gameplay was unreal !! best game to play against friends.
_And_ you provided a link to the music; that is superfly cool of you bro
I played these:
Space Invaders - coin-op
Chessmaster 2000 - 520STFM
F-19 Stealth Fighter - 520STFM
SimCity - 520STFM
Red Baron - 486DX66
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe - 520STFM
Lemmings - 520STFM
Formula One Grand Prix - 520STFM
Cannon Fodder - 520STFM
Doom - PS1
Doom II - PS1
Heretic - DOSBox
Sid Meier's Civilization II - Steem
Tomb Raider - PS1
This was amazing. There were a few games missing IMO, especially Terminal Velocity. Even still, loved the video!!
(Read the description) 😉
But thanks a lot! 🙌🏼
Screamer and Slipstream 5000 right next to it were for me the best games in the genre back then. How awesome you've put them together!
“My, how far we’ve come in just a few decades! (Descent 1 seems to really have been ‘ground breaking’!)” (-James)
It was. I played that with a Logitech Wingman Extreme joystick and dominated, being able to use the hat to fly around someone and continue aiming at them. Loved it, and it was very different to other FPS of the time ❤️
Oh wow, I saw games here that I have forgotten I played! Thanks for bringing back memories!
Thank you so much for making this video. I have been looking for that game for years. "Descent II".
It was great fun! Really good in multiplayer 😃
some things in these games was so frustrating,like controls or bugs or just cruel game mechanics that punished hard for mistake
The Millenials are never going to understand the thrill of loading 'Prince of Persia' from a Floppy drive and getting it running successfully on a DOS PC. In my part of the world desktops were introduced in the early 90's.
And?
Ummm.... Centenialls* I born in 1985 (Millennial) and i understand all these MSDOS games and also I play most and a lot more... sorry not sorry mister Generation X
Played level 1 many times to get past the lettered potion section.
Or loading "f15 strike eagle" the game came with like 12 hard disks but damn getting it working. flying threw the 90's virtual skies or taking out polygon buildings with sidewinder missles those were some of the best times I had as a kid gaming😊
@@SoyLevelMaxLive lighten up man holy fuck were all happy your included in the games us centanllliailia....whatever were fucking called got to meet you millipedes half way in 90's gaming
I thought I might recognize a few. Only after watching this did I realise how many different games I played as a kid.
I mean, really! I went in expecting like ~40% at least heared of, but came out 3/4 actually played - wtf? Either the market was really tiny back then, or we all ended up with roughly the same top 50 games although few had access to anything resembling the internet to "hype" certain titles like today.
And I was even only born in '82. Goes to show how long 15 years can be when you're young, but also how long a game's life time was. I've played many of these games at roughly the same times, while their release was many more years apart than I'd have thought back then.
Also: Dude! Quake! I'd have sworn this was a post millenium title! Man, time's a flyin'.
Thank you man. At the time I sold these, and they were magical. I missed only 'castles'
What a wild generation we are. We were around for the genesis of the internet and gaming yet we still had the roots of the “stay outside till it’s dark” kids. Bridged a strange generational gap, we did.
If I studied instead of playing these games i'd be a professor right now
Now ..you become what ?
Yes, I'm glad I also didn't study, otherwise I wouldn't have played tons and tons of beautiful videogames in my lifetime lol
I remember playing digger, paratrooper, alley cat and decathalon. Having to put the ms dos disc in first and having to type dir. Crazy how far gaming has come
It’s pretty amazing. Those oldest games were really good in a fun, simple, accessible way.
Well, accessible except that you had to know how to operate DOS 😉
dir /w and enter cd foldername
That assuming you got the game on your computer in the first place. That you understood drives, creating directories, directory path structures, copying, 8.3 file names etc. There’s a lot to do before you get to “cd game” and run the game.
I was referring to the old floppy disk
@@sedgwicks9109 ah i see. yup dir and type digger. i remembered i, my father and my uncle were competing for highest scores but my uncle won. great old days...
Great watching it. Played some of them as a child from the mid 80s on.
I'm so glad I clicked this thumbnail. Thank you for sharing this!
A fun jog through memory lane. I got my first Packard Bell 486SX 20MHz PC 20MB HDD when I was in middle school in 1990. At the time all my parents friends and relatives said how stupid it was to buy a 12 year old a $2000 PC (nearly $3000 today). I didn't know how to use a computer so I read through the manual and decided to run the first command I found which was format c:. I learned a lot trying to get that computer working again pre youtube especially since the computer didn't come with the DOS or Windows 3.1 disks. I finally found a friends Dad that had them and I was back in business months later. I remember the happiness of getting 2MB of RAM, adding a sound card, and a CD drive. I got to put all those in myself as a teenager.
I had many of these games from 1990 on with the favorites being Wolfenstein, Dracula unleashed, Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, and that dots game (surprised you showed that one). I remember the games you showed around 96 started to run really slow on that machine. By the time I started college in 97 all I could do on that PC dial in to check email because technology had progressed so fast. Today going from 2GB of RAM to 3GB of RAM, or from 2TB to 3TB isn't that big of a deal. Back then going from 20MHz to 100MHz was as the computer was now 5x faster. I wish I would have kept it.
A few takeaways, for me, is how impressive it was the original programmers got so much out of so little of hardware they had to work with. Even the slowest of todays microcontrollers have more horsepower than that original computer I had in 1990. I think you could probably get every one of these games to run on an STM32 micro.
Now I feel super old and feel I should go out and buy a sports car.
Though I couldn't get the chance to try the majority of DOS games, I remember playing some of them as a child on my windows xp pc
- Prince of Persia (1st part only)
- Dangerous Dave (original and ammo)
- Skyroads
- Doom
- Wolfenstein 3d
- Rover Rescue (whatever the name was but you had to save the dog and get to the exit)
- Mickey Mouse
- Donald Duck
- Others as long as I can remember but that's all. There are some games you forgot to mention even if it's difficult to remember more than 100 games.
Yeah.These were the DOS games we played during young times and having good times.
Nostalgia! So many awesome childhood memories :)
Thanks for compiling this.. remembered the times staying up late at night playing and figuring out how to solve those adventure games without any walkthrough.... and the feeling of accomplishment finishing a game...
That was an awesome recap of my entire childhood.
I played 90% of all those game, man what a feeling, Another World and Impossible mission are missing.
He’s got two more videos on these games
And maybe there could be a fourth 🤔
@@LightwaveAl sounds like a plan to me. I got the three on loop and put them on to stare at. It works like a Valium. Thanks bro
то чувство, когда dos-игры круче современных. с большим смыслом и харизмой)
Ah, how I miss those good ol' days..
Descent, scorched earth, wolfenstein 3d, masters of Orion 2, battlechess and simcity! The beginnings of gaming for me, great video!
This brought up some long forgotten memories. Half the video had me saying "oh yeah, I remember that one". Lol
Ah, Scorched Earth, definitely one of the all-time greats! You can edit the remarks files for extra fun. Altough the stock remarks are pretty great.
Wow! There was maybe 30 games that are not just great, but LEGENDARY! \o/
This brings back so many memories... sniff...
Amazing video. Very nostalgic. Thank you very much.
2019 and I still play some of these games 🕹️🎮
👏🏼
Where could I found them?
dosgames.com 👍🏼
OMG. Paratroopers was one of the first few games I played on my 286 with a joystick no less!
You had a joystick for a 286? I didn’t get a joystick until my 486 🥺
Lightwave Al it was a very bad one. I need to play this game again. I still play Xenon and God’s from time to time. And also Crime Wave.
Bitmap Brothers were the best. I played A LOT of Speedball 2. Loved their music too!
Fun to see these games with fluent fps. My computer used to have like 1-5 frames per second,; which took some of the fun from the experience. Try to play STUNTS CAR RACER (Broederbund) or Red Baron with that amount of fps, and you know what I’m talking about.. Thanks for the vid!
Yea, stunt car racer and F15-strike eagle were very choppy on my 8086 with a ega card. I remember it was hard to level out the plane because of the bad framerate, constantly overshooting the angle.
Me too. I actually played prince of persia on CGA. But it was awesome nevertheless.
Super Off Road was sooo much fun!! You had to control your car with a big ball and the would keep spinning and turn the car too much. Xenon 2 was truly awesome!
MS-DOS was only invented in 1981, Space Invaders (1978) was only available as an arcade game in dedicated cabinets.
Scorched Earth! That game was so basic but so fun.
love all classic games in the video
Hugo's House of Horrors was my first memory of playing video games.
#classic
PC gaming peaked in 1995. Descent, MechWarrior 2 and the original Need For Speed were my personal favourites that still hold up to this very day. Throw in Dark Forces, Worms and Duke Nukem 3D and it's a fully fledged nostalgia meltdown. Giddy up!
This made me travel to when I was 10 years old. I had forgotten about 3 of this games! Thank you 😊
I’d forgotten some of the games I use to play. This brought back some memories 😃
Oh my god. So many memories.
In the early 90s, I was a student and my first PC was an 80286 with 40MB of hard drive and 1 MB of ram. I was so proud when I installed 4 MB...
The second was an 80486, with a Creative Sound Blaster sound card.
Today's machines are powerful and connected, but it's amazing to realize that all the concepts were invented at that time.
Is exist any emulator that we cas use today ?
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F-19 Stealth Fighter! 3 years of my youth looking at a huge area of green pixels called ground.
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I remember my dad after installing it telling me games won’t look more realistic than F19 stealth fighter...
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Started watching this to figure out what game I wanted to watch next, this was really good
I’m so glad you included scorched earth.. I thought nobody even knew about that game hahaha
Yeah, that was fun. I played it inside OS/2
Damn, that is my childhood, right there!
Holy Crap, I remember Quarantine. I still have that around here somewhere. It was a hell of a lot of fun and pretty unique at the time.
It was on demo cover CDs on magazines (remember those?) - is yours CD-ROM?
I had the shareware copy. After playing that, I "acquired" the full game.
I’m trying to think which games I remember having boxes for. Castles. F-19. That’s about it I think 😏
Ahh the blessed mute button... We would all be doomed without you.
Sorry.
I am actually in the mood to listen to it :)
Yeah, I deliberately chose music with the retro gaming vibe that looped. Maybe you’re right and video 2 is better with original game sound, even if sometimes the early game barely had any noise or music
The music is fine and goes great with the vid. 👍🏻
Cringe. Let me guess youre underage.
Thanks for the video. This brings back memories. I remembered this as if it was yesterday.
Space Invaders (1978) 0:08
Olypmic Decathlon (1982) 0:12
Paratrooper (1982) 0:26
Digger (1983) 0:38
Alley Cat (1984) 0:50
King's Quest (1984) 1:02
Sopwith (1984) 1:17
Artic Fox (1984) 1:29
Arkanoid (1986) 1:41
Chessmaster 2000 (1986) 1:53
Leisure Suit Larry (1987) 2:09
Battle Chess (1988) 2:19
F 19 Stealth Fighter (1988) 2:36
Jetfighter (1988) 2:48
Slipheed (1988) 3:00
Budokan (1989) 3:12
Golden Axe (1989) 3:24
Risk (1989) 3:38
Simcity (1989) 3:48
Super Off Road (1989) 4:00
Xenon 2 (1989) 4:15
Dyna Blaster (1990) 4:27
Hugo House Of Horror (1990) 4:39
Mario Brothers VGA (1990) 4:53
Red Baron (1990) 5:05
Rick Dangerous 2 (1990) 5:17
Ski Or Die (1990) 5:29
Speedball 2 (1990) 5:41
Stunts (1990) 5:53
TMNT (1990) 6:06
The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) 6:20
Crystal Caves (1990) 6:34
Gods (1991) 6:42
Gorrilas (1991) 6:52
Homw Alone (1991) 7:13
Jummi White (1991) 7:28
Lemmings (1991) 7:36
Monkey Island 2 (1991) 7:49
Nibbles (1991) 8:01
Populous 2 (1991) 8:11
Scorched Earth (1991) 8:21
Civilization (1991) 8:34
Castles (1992) 8:49
Dune 2 (1992) 8:59
Flashback (1992) 9:12
Formula One (1992) 9:24
Indiana Jones (1992) 9:40
Hill of the Jungle (1992) 9:50
Links 386 (1992) 10:01
Monopoly (1992) 10:16
Prince of Persia (1992) 10:27
Wolfenstein 3d (1992) 10:40
Zool (1992) 10:51
Cannom Fodder (1993) 11:04
Day of the Tentacle (1993) 11:18
Doom (1993) 11:29
Freddy Pharkas (1993) 11:44
IndysCar Racing (1993) 11:52
Master of Orion (1993) 12:09
Premier Manager 2 (1993) 12:22
Simcity 2000 (1993) 12:33
Slicks n slide (1993) 12:42
Star Wars X wing (1993) 12:53
Syndicate (1993) 13:08
The Increable Machine (1993) 13:21
Cook Spot (1994) 13:31
Doom 2 (1994) 13:40
Heretic (1994) 13:55
Magic Carpet (1994) 14:10
Quarantine (1994) 14:21
Colonization (1994) 14:32
Star Wars TIE (1994) 14:47
The Settlers (1994) 14:58
Theme Park (1994) 15:09
UFO Enemy Unkown (1994) 15:22
Command n Comquer (1995) 15:29
Descent (1995) 15:48
Destruction Derby (1995) 16:01
Flight Simulator (1995) 16:16
Hexen (1995) 16:24
Mechwarrior 2 (1995)16:36
Need for Speed (1995) 16:49
Rise of the triad (1995) 16:59
Screamer (1995) 17:12
Slipstream 5000 (1995) 17:26
StarTrek Next Generation (1995) 17:39
Star Wars Dark Forces (1995) 17:54
Worms (1995) 18:02
Hi Octane (1995) 18:14
Abuse (1996) 18:25
Big Red Racing (1996) 18:38
Death Rally (1996) 18:52
Descent 2 (1996) 19:04
Duke Nuckem 3D (1996) 19:14
F 22 (1996) 19:28
Master Onion 2 (1996) 19:41
Quake (1996) 19:52
Civilization 2 (1996) 20:05
The Settlers 2 (1996) 20:17
Tom Raider (1996) 20:29
Carmageddon (1997) 20:41
Imperium Galactica (1997) 20:51
One unusual sophisticated DOS simulation that I enjoyed was Microsoft Space Simulator.
It was a shame that Microsoft didn't keep on improving it like their similar Microsoft Flight Simulator series as it was quite enjoyable and educational as well.
Man I can not believe that we went from Space Invaders, to Doom, to now.
When I was a kid Battle chess blew my mind. And what about Moonbase and lunar command.
Ahhh, I've been searching for Sopwith but couldn't find it. I only knew it as Solo, loved the game. Same for Gods, forgot the name, so impossible to find anything about it. Very nostalgic, loved many of these games. Thanks, great upload.
Brilliant.. nailed my childhood except for Monkey Island 2 which was arguable my favourite game ever
Wolfenstein and Doom were my two favorites