Jazz Jackrabbit looks pretty fun lol..cant honestly say i have ever really played DOS based games..

Welcome by the way, why not introduce yourself so we can welcome you properly..

Cheers

Nice thread. The old Duke Nukem games are ace. I re-played them fairly recently. Jazz Jackrabbit is one of my all-time favourites. Has some great music too.

I get pretty tired of hearing people talk crap about PC gaming because it didn't look or sound as good as the Amiga or whatever, as if that should matter to a real gamer.

The Monuments of Mars, Sopwith, Rogue, Alleycat, Commander Keen, Crystal Caves, Netherworld, Galactix, Major Stryker, Digger (not Digdug), Eye of Horus, Supaplex,

Good times...

I get pretty tired of hearing people talk crap about PC gaming because it didn't look or sound as good as the Amiga or whatever, as if that should matter to a real gamer.

Good times...

By the time, oh, let's say '92 rolled around, DOS could do anything the Amiga could, and more. Besides that, we ended up getting Doom, which the Amiga wouldn't be able to handle for years.

And remember the simple put in the disc and play of Dos?
Or the constant fiddling with commands like this in config sys to get something running.

device=c:doshimem.sys
device=c:dosemm386.exe ram noems
dos=high
device=c:dossetver.exe

No sound in your Dos game, simply rewrite the autoexec.bat  .

There were some great DOS games though, and when the 3dFX chips came out things got even better graphically.

I think people are confusing 'dos' as a pc system, its just the os, because from the dos ive used it was far from the best thing ever!
Yeah from 92 pcs were catching up with the Amiga....but only if you spent over £1k on one! And still had to wait until win95 for a half decent os...let alone plug and play being years away.

Don't get me wrong there are some great games written for dos, but a lot are available ether on Amiga and st upto 94-95 and 3d games were ported to Playstation and others after that.
I have no love for pc gaming (if u can't tell!) I say if you constantly replacing the CPU and GPU you are just removing the soul of the system....

Jazz Jackrabbit looks pretty fun lol..cant honestly say i have ever really played DOS based games..

Welcome by the way, why not introduce yourself so we can welcome you properly..

Cheers

The best way to play DOS games these days is with DOSBox and D-Fend Reloaded. If you'd like help getting that set up, feel free to PM me and ask.

Also... true, I admit that autoexec.bat and such were kind of a pain to deal with, although I was lucky enough to play the games that actually needed them. Maybe I just got lucky that way. Either that, or the most complicated game I had at the time was an FMV game called Megarace. Could go either way.

MegaRace brings back great memories, I had that bundled with a 486 I bought

Very interesting stuff here,but I have to say That "one must fall 2097" made me laugh so hard, this made rise of the robots look like the dogs ballocks..lol, it's so bad it's good..highly entertaining, I'll have to track that down for the comedy 

Jazz Jackrabbit co created by the gears of war producer Cliff  Bleszinski , amazing how far he has come, and still at epic some 20 years later, a little bit repetitive , but this I think was the nor back then.

I will add some gems here myself when I get bit of free play soon.

I have a friend who still loves to play Steel Panthers. DOSBox has been a blessing since I have to set it up for him.

Jazz Jackrabbit co created by the gears of war producer Cliff  Bleszinski , amazing how far he has come

Don't you mean how far he's fallen? 

So I figured that people were wanting to see more games I'd personally recommend. I might as well go do that, I suppose!

Tyrian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THpa6POfjLo
If you're into SHMUPS, this is what you're going to want. It plays a lot differently than most SHMUPS, since you have a health bar and a regenerating shield bar. You're going to need them, though, since you're put up against an onslaught of bullets to endure. The good news is that you can buy new weapons and power-ups from the store you find between stages. Also, it's free!

The Incredible Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeLqp42uRLI
OK, this one's cheating a little, I have to admit. This was also on the Mac, and it had a bunch of superior sequels for Windows. Still, it started off on DOS, so I don't care. Basically, this is a puzzle game where you place various objects somewhere on the board. If you do everything right, it'll accomplish some kind of goal in Rube Goldberg-esque fashion. Easy to learn, with no time or retry limits to worry about, ever. This video is of The Incredible Machine 2.

Operation Carnage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2Ekk7TQKI
A fast, intense Smash TV style arena shooter where you move through the various rooms, blow the crap out of everything, try not to get overwhelmed, and repeat until you end up at a boss. Not much thought involved, sure, but that doesn't mean it's not a ton of fun. And if you like the way this looks, you might also want to look into Hyper Princess Pitch, which is basically a remake with a Christmas theme, new bosses, and slightly more balanced gameplay.

Tyrian is ace. Only played it recently. The few shoot em ups I played back in the day were:

Galactix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQQSoUpj_8

Major Stryker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgF-AhaKHv4

Tubular Worlds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrDzGNz3tsc

I loved this game back in 1996, this was a sign that PC gaming was becoming red hot and this wasn't even a CD rom title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uewssWWhyM [/align:3tpm76nm]

Game play footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzv_Yks_ ... ure=relmfu[/align:3tpm76nm]

Ah, I've played that, although the version I had actually DID come on CD-ROM. As far as I remember, it was pretty all right, nothing outstanding, but I enjoyed playing it. The whole gimmick where you could move into and out of the screen was neat, too.