you have no idea my collection of games...for all my systems.
Never mind all my consoles (dozens) and games (1000+ physical games.) i have a mass collection of digital games.
But my dos collection is huge. Original games and some redone games to work on modern systems....GOG!...great site.
Yes....i have an old Win 98 dos working system that i have loads of games for.
Just one of my numerous systems i play with.
My c64 is still connected via land line as well..(my old modem died..took forever to find another -_-)..i still hit the old msg boards for a group i am with....no big brother on those old lines.
(11-20-2016, 11:14 AM)Lauralanthalasa Wrote: DOS games? hehe......
you have no idea my collection of games...for all my systems.
Never mind all my consoles (dozens) and games (1000+ physical games.) i have a mass collection of digital games.
But my dos collection is huge. Original games and some redone games to work on modern systems....GOG!...great site.
Yes....i have an old Win 98 dos working system that i have loads of games for.
Just one of my numerous systems i play with.
My c64 is still connected via land line as well..(my old modem died..took forever to find another -_-)..i still hit the old msg boards for a group i am with....no big brother on those old lines.
Wow, you're super cool, but for everyone else, here is this website you can use to play old dos games.
Wasn't that a great era for gaming? There was no game design, so everyone did program and stylize everything the way they wanted. Some games like Reunion were so incredibly hard to master it was actually a thing you were proud of when you managed to make progress. The ideas and thought people put into the more serious games was so much more challenging and more up to have features you will never find in current games. It's a shame, really. The only hope are the indi game designers and kickstarters that try to bring those things as revamped things back to Steam. Like, I saw a Populous-clone recently on Steam. I just don't remember the name anymore. Or Dungeon Keeper, there is now plenty of games based on that old concept that was ignore for a decade. There was a push of games based on this in the recent two years. However, they lack the charme of the original, sadly.
Also, the feeling when the game asks you copy-protection questions where you had to look up stuff in the manual to give the right answer: priceless. Master of Orion did that all the time. You had to look up the name of certain ship pictures.
Yea, also when they didn't have the graphic wow to fall back on they had to make the gameplay good. Now days, you can make a flashy game with good graphics and that's all that seems to be needed. Story telling was at its height during this time.
Hell, I still go back to mess around on Zork I every so often.
A few days ago I bought the Tomb Raider 2-5 on Steam for 1,74€ per game. Not Dos anymore, but those game had all it took to keep me busy for months during my childhood.
I still to this day haven't found flight games that match the storytelling that went into the Wing Commander series and still the most fun submarine simulator I have played is Red Storm Rising. The story telling more than made up for anything lacking in the graphics.
Source ports might be cool and DOSBox might be convenient and free, but the real thing is fun. Currently replaying all my favorites with Roland SC-88 and MT-32 (they were extremely expensive back in the day).
Btw it's quite hard to find the correctly played musics from doom on YT. Here's the example of the proper one:
And here's of a wrong one:
When it comes to playing vanilla, your best shot with engines would be of course Chocolate Doom. 320x200 feel is love.
And here comes a guy reviewing some old pearls from various platforms, really enjoy some of his episodes.
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