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What is your favorite underrated or unknown DOS game?

We all love our “Doom”," Command & Conquer", “Commander Keen” etc.

But what is a game that you love that no one seems to know and/or like? What is that one gem that makes you type your “C:>cd games” just that little tiny bit faster?

I’ll go first. My pick is Normality from 1996 by Gremlin Interactive. A 3D first person point and click adventure with FMV Cutscenes. It’s goofy and weird but perfectly playable. I highly recommended anyone who loves point and click adventures to try this one out. It’s basically Doom Point 'n Click

embit ,

Mean Ugly Dirty Sports

It was a like a monster football game and I remember using a hex editor to boost my players stats.

Twig ,
@Twig@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m not sure what’s obscure to some, but ones not mentioned yet: Slicks N Slides, Scorched Earth, Hugo House Of Horrors, Super Hero League Of Hoboken, Framed, Network Q Rally.

d3Xt3r , (edited )
  • Dangerous Dave, John Romero’s first “popular” game, predating Keen/Wolf/Doom. Three decades later, and I still haven’t managed to beat this game (without using cheats or save states that is).

https://nesninja.com/public/images/dos/found/dangerous-dave-dave.gif

  • Bio Menace, An action platformer by Apogee, made using the same engine as Keen. You are Snake Logan, a CIA operative who needs to save Metro City, which has been invaded by mutants. A very fun game with good controls and smooth movements.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OjEjGyR-_p4/YCBSfijN8_I/AAAAAAAARN8/Dti87rOSIJsrsqdG-NcD-n8xWJCK4VIwACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/bmenace1_004.gif

  • The Skunny series, A bunch of platformers featuring Skunny the squirrel, made by Copysoft. Save our Pizzas in particular was pretty memorable, where Skunny travels back in time to ancient Rome because an evil chef wants to destroy the invention of pizza so that he can make his own imitation. Very whacky and cartoony, kid me loved this game.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRzzu13z_Li4uA795fAz0kS_M9OAvNF0V-BMQ&usqp=CAU

  • SkyRoads, A fun space runner. Think Temple Run, except you’re in a spaceship that’s… not flying and is on a road, in space, and it can also hop! In hindsight, it sounds weird, but trust me, it’s fun.

https://i.redd.it/o5tmylt5p5c91.gif

DosDude OP ,
@DosDude@retrolemmy.com avatar

These are all gold! I forgot about skyroads!

Twig ,
@Twig@sopuli.xyz avatar

And Xmas SkyRoads!

Akuma ,

Zork is my entry.

Quill0 ,
@Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net avatar

It’s great but wouldn’t that be CP/M?

stabby_birdu ,

Novastorm, King’s Quest 7, Zork, Jazz Jackrabbit 1 and 2

catlover ,

titus the fox

DosDude OP ,
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Blast from the past! I forgot about Titus!

Num10ck ,

Sword of the Samurai : and it had top down live wars and hand combat in the fields and diplomacy and swordfights and playthrough lasted for generations. looks like its on steam now. store.steampowered.com/…/Sword_of_the_Samurai/?l=…

DosDude OP ,
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Cool! I’ll check it out!

suprjami ,
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The first Dune by Cryo Entertainment.

www.mobygames.com/game/dune

A unique mix of real-time grand strategy over the planet, with a point-and-click adventure component which unlocks more of the game as you progress through it. It works well and is enjoyable to me.

The art style is wonderful, that gorgeous French Cryo feel with some visuals taken from David Lynch’s Dune film.

One of the ScummVM developers is currently reverse engineering all the animations on Mastodon and it’s fascinating to see.

mastodon.social/

I got into casually speedrunning the game when the Upper Memory Block podcast covered it all those years ago. I managed under 100 game days, another podcast listener got under 50 days, and someone on YouTube has something like a 24 day completion.

The music is also great. Remi Herbulot’s HERAD music system used parts of Yamaha’s OPL synth which literally nobody else did, it is easily the most advanced FM synthesis engine for DOS, and composer Stephane Picq took advantage of it to make a beautiful soundtrack.

Stephane released a CD quality album version called Dune: Spice Opera which is my favourite album of all time, of many musician ever, and is one of my most prized possessions.

DosDude OP ,
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Always nice to see love for the original Dune game.

There’s nothing casual about speedrunning though. That’s commitment! Even if you weren’t on top of the ladders.

mfdoom ,

Warlords

subverted_per ,

Warlords was on a demo cd I had as a kid. You were limited to 40 turns and playing as the elves. But by god I learned how to win in 40 turns. I did eventually get the second one, it’s one I still find ways to play.

sloppy_diffuser ,

Realmz, a turn based RPG.

DosDude OP ,
@DosDude@retrolemmy.com avatar

Cool! Not a DOS game though ;)

sloppy_diffuser ,

Yeah… grew up on Mac OS, lol. Switched to Linux around 98ish. Didn’t notice the sub name until after I posted.

DosDude OP ,
@DosDude@retrolemmy.com avatar

No problem. Still cool to see more retro games.

platysalty ,

Eagle Eye Mysteries.

Looking back, they were some of the best detective games I've ever played.

PriorProject ,

One I don’t see brought up real often is Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon. It’s a futuristic 3d tank sim with pretty snazzy graphics for the time, battlefield upgrade pickups, and gimmicky enemies like a plow that charges and has an invulnerable shield on its front face.

mobygames.com/…/nova-9-the-return-of-gir-draxon/

I dunno if it’s exactly a classic, but it reviewed well and I enjoyed spending some time with it.

PLS_HELP ,

Whenever I go to fire up some old games the first two, and the two I spend most of my time on are-

Ultimate Domain: a little slow but has an great city building and worker placement system and one of the coolest tech trees I’ve ever seen.

Space Bucks: also a little slow but is essentially a space sci-fi alien commodities shipping simulator. Start on a planet, win bids to ship to and from other planets, buy low and sell high, and improve the planets ability to produce while also improving your space fleet, optimizing for speed, cargo, offensive and defensive abilities.

I love them both so much

nabax ,

Me and my friends all played Volfied. As I grew up I realized it wasn’t a very popular game outside of our circle.

JBloodthorn ,
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Amulets & Armor

Hands down, no comparison. I love that game. I played the shareware version as a kid, and the abandonware full version as an adult before it was open sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amulets_%26_Armor

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