100 Obscure PC/MS-DOS Games of the 1990s (PART 2: 1991) TURN ON SUBTITLES

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A look at 100 very obscure PC/MS-DOS games from the 90s; specifically, the games in this video were all released in 1991. If you played any of these, then hats off to you for being a PC superfan! Chunky VGA/CGA graphics, and Adlib sound OR PC speaker bloops and blips everywhere!
This video focuses mostly on "professional" games; mostly avoiding shareware/freeware/homebrew titles, in favor of titles that were sold boxed in stores.
There are a few licensed games on this list; while people are probably widely familiar with franchises such as Back to The Future III and Home Alone, it's interesting to note that the PC versions of these games were actually quite different than their console versions - and if you have played any of those console versions, it is interesting to see the difference!
Enjoy!
Complete Gamelist:
A.G.E (Coktel Vision)
Advantage Tennis (Infogrames Europe SA)
Arachnophobia (BlueSky Software)
Armada 2525 (Interstel Corporation)
Baby Jo in Going Home (Loricel SA)
Back to the Future III (Probe Software)
Battle Master (Personal Softare Services)
Bionic Police
Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley)
Booly (The Algorithim Guild)
Boston Bomb Club (Silmarils)
Bush Buck_Global Treasure Hunter (PC Globe)
Champion of the Raj (Level 9 Computing)
Choose an Enemy (Russian Soft)
Conan_The Cimmerian (Synergistic Software Inc)
Corporation (DImension Creative Designs - 1991)
Cover Girl Strip Poker (Emotional Pictures)
Crown (Starbyte Software)
Cubulus (Software 2000)
Cybercon III (The Assembly Line)
Dark Ages (Scenario Software)
David Leadbetter's Greens (The Thought Train)
Desert Raider (A.G.D)
Desperados 2 (Gamart)
Dick Tracy_The Crime-Solving Adventure (Distinctive Software Inc)
Dropper (Locis)
Dusk of the Gods (Event Horizon Software)
Eagle's Rider (Microids)
Elvira_The Arcade Game (Flair Software)
Final Conflict, The (Impressions_Merit Software)
Floor 13 (PSI Software)
Free DC (Cineplay Interactive)
Genghis Kahn Positive (Microdaft)
Godfather, The: The Action Game (Creative Materials)
Grand Prix 500 II (Microids)
Gremlins 2_The New Batch (Riedel Software Productions)
Guardians (Loriciel SA)
Hammer Boy (Dinamic Software)
Hill Street Blues (Krisalis Software)
Home Alone (Manley & Associates)
Hovertank One (iD Software)
International Ninja Rabbits (Flair Software)
Jahangir Kahn World Championship Squash (Krisalis Software)
Jai Alai (Opera Soft S.A.)
Kengi (Software 2000)
Kong's Revenge (Zigurat Software)
Korean Dungeon Boy (Computer War System Soft)
Legends of Murder (Softdisk Publishing)
Les Adventures De Moktar Vol 1_La Zoubida (Titus France SA)
Lexi-Cross (Platinumware)
Leyenda del Vikingo, La
Locman I (LocIS)
Log!cal (Rainbow Arts)
Lone Wolf_The Mirror of Death (Mr. Micro)
Mad TV (Rainbow Arts)
Masterblazer (Rainbow Arts)
MegaDestroyer Frantis (Diaksor)
Metal Marines (Silmarilis)
Midwinter II_Flames of Freedom (Maelstrom Games)
Mission Impossible (Distinctive Software Inc)
Moonshine Racers (Peakstar Software)
Neverending Story II, The (Linel)
New York Warriors (Synergistic Software)
Obitus (Scenario Developments)
Paragon (Id Software)
Piso Zero (Zigurat Software)
Poogaboo_La Pulga 2 (Opera Soft S.A.)
Power, The (Demonware)
Pref Club (IBS)
Prophecy_The Viking Child (Imagitec Design)
Return of Medusa, The (X-Ample Architectures)
Riders of Rohan (Beam Software)
Rockteer, The (Novalogic)
Roger Rabbit in Hare Raising Havoc (BlueSky Software)
Rolling Ronny (General Admission Software)
Sabor (Gamos Ltd)
SeXXcapades (Sexxy Software)
Shiftrix (Software 2000)
Silent Shadow (Topo Soft)
Sky Cat (Alex Software_Gamos)
Sliders (Microids)
Solidarnosc (P.Z. Karen Co.)
Spirit of Adventure (Attic Entertainment)
Spoils of War (German Design Group)
Strike 2 (Millenium Interactive)
Supaplex (Digital Integration)
Taking of Beverly Hills, The (Off the Wall Productions)
Team Suzuki (Gremlin Graphics Software)
Titanic (Topo Soft)
Top Gun_Danger Zone (Distinctive Software Inc)
Turn'n'Burn (Villa Crespo)
TV Sports Boxing (ACME Interactive)
Twilight 2000 (Paragon Software)
Vengeance of Excalibur (Synergistic Software)
Wild West World (Kron Simulation Software)
Window Wizard (reLINE Software)
Wrath of the Demon (Abstrax)
X-Men II_The Fall of the Mutants (Paragon Software)
Xenopods (Gamer's Edge)
Zona O (Topo Soft)

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@reptilemark7346 Год назад

the fact that people put so much passion into making these games is whats great. some probably thought theyre games would get big, others just did it out of pure passion or side hobbies.

@heartstringsguitar8498 Год назад

OMG this is one of my childhood favorites! Completely forgot about it until now! Thank you! @7:25 Rolling Ronny

@blacksunshine7485 Год назад

07:38 Cant wait for part 3 already!

@alex.starostin Год назад

lmao

@avalonjustin Год назад

I hope she was paid well for that gig

@Risingson2 Год назад

1990-1993 is a WILD era in gaming. You can see a mix of graphic styles, technologies, use of music and sounds... because things were moving incredibly fast. In 1993 the last ZX Spectrum games were co living with Myst and other CD Rom games. This is why you find such a weird mix in here.

@CoqueTornado 10 месяцев назад

true!!

@KRAFTWERK2K6 10 месяцев назад

And nowdays things aren't moving at all. The only reason people are forced to buy new hardware is game devs cannot optimize their stinking games anymore. That's a general issue with current gen coders.... who all think performance issues can ONLY be fixed by throwing more hardware at it.

@Risingson2 10 месяцев назад

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 only truths there

@Termite701 3 дня назад

3:50 Hill Street Blues ... I was looking for the title of this game for a long time, Thanks !

@GaryRetroGamer Год назад

*To see the game titles, turn on RU-vid subtitles!*

@andreasklindt7144 Год назад

Yeah, Supaplex!! A challanging and, for its time, well made puzzle game. Supaplex is now freeware. There's even an opensource port called OpenSupaplex, that makes it playable on Linux, Windows, macOS, PS2, PS3, Wii, ... In my opinion it's worth checking out.

@sonicmania9993 Год назад

Cool patreon Steamkey this time -- it's DARKWOOD, a 2017 top-down survival horror roguelike with interesting atmospheric cutscenes. 94% positive on Steam. Cheers, Gary! Really enjoyed this PC/MS-DOS video, though I must admit most of these games look more "interesting" than things I'd really want to play these days... especially compared to what 1991 was bringing on consoles. I love this kind of documentary tour through the past.

@anon3631 Месяц назад

I miss this level of creativity from today's gaming, now everything feels the same.

@FarmerSlideJoeBob Год назад

Ninja Rabbit, the most bizarre Game I've played on my mums Win 3.11 PC🤔

@Miler97487 10 месяцев назад

I was surprised to see several games here using CGA graphics, in 1991. I already knew that Monuments of Mars and Arctic Adventures used CGA, plus Dark Designs I and II, but I noticed three or four games posted here I never heard of from 1991 using CGA. I was certain CGA died out around 1989. There were more games that I thought still using EGA that year (even as late as 1993 with Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue was still using EGA), but then I never owned a PC in 1991, I still had an outdated Atari 800XL and even more outdated TI-99/4A, so I didn't know about PC graphics. The big names like Sierra and LucasArts had gone VGA by then.

@GaryRetroGamer 10 месяцев назад

VGA didn't really become highly prevalent amongst gamers until a bit later. You have to remember that at the time, VGA was still an option - and in the early 1990s, was still really expensive. 16-color EGA was pretty common place until 92-93 (which you'll see if you watch the other videos in this series). CGA was *mostly* done by this time; but you have to realize that for many smaller software companies (especially those without large development budgets) - CGA was the most affordable option. And also many people who bought PCs in the mid-to-late-80s were still using CGA. Yup, PC gaming has always been a clusterfudge of expensive upgrades!

@alexanderkoppelhuber412 10 месяцев назад

Logical was a great game. I forgot the name. Great I saw it here.

@vanderslagmulders 10 месяцев назад

woa wrath of the demon. I never thought of that game again until now. i kinda remember that i really liked it tho. saw a bunch of other games also that strongly reminded me of other games. Like that Elvira game that looks like Gods a little, one game looked like the blues brothers and one like Barbarian. Thanks for the upload mate. Really love this retro nostalgia.

@pessie83 Год назад

6:10 The Neverending Story 2 game with the music of the Neverending Story 1.

@scimbrelo 2 месяца назад

i played bushbuck a lot on my aunts Gateway 386

@Religious_man 10 месяцев назад

"Mr. Hefner, I'll take 'Touchy Feely' for 500 please." 7:38

@KrotowX Год назад

Went through some of these too. Did stuck to Metal Mutant (graphic was amazing for the era, NB author misspelled second word in title - it is without trailing S), Grand Prix and Supaplex for a while. Remembered Baby Jo, Back to the Future, Home Alone as well. The good thing was that those games at begin of nineties was playable on almost any PC with VGA-compatible video card. Sound card was optional. Complete difference from today when many games are not playable without dedicated GPU that cost like used car.

@GaryRetroGamer Год назад

Title ("Metal Mutant") has been fixed. Thanks for pointing that out!

@yopachi Год назад

This list is spectacular! These games are off the beaten path for sure!! 5:43 Metal Marines is actually Metal Mutant 1:54 Cybercon III was a childhood game

@GaryRetroGamer Год назад

Oh, thanks for pointing out the correct title for "Metal Mutants" - I've updated it.

@Gazofrenico615 Год назад

0:47 this one has a really sick art style.

@JDubb69r Год назад

I played a lot of these , thanks shareware

@marcusorlandi8054 Год назад

Amazing video but I still can't find the game I'm looking for! All I remember was it was a 2D game where you played as a blue mask and had to navigate through a maze. Maybe it began with a X or a V or a Z. Any ideas?

@terryliliana Год назад

Over half of these could legit pass as modern indie games.

@rcadenow7543 Год назад

yep...most indie of todays are pretty much copies those dos early win games.

@133col Год назад

Also looking for a game... some kind of weird 4 player "arena" game, players needed to reach their goals. Some interesting mix of 3d and sprites. Very flashy and colorful...

@RenePfitzner 20 дней назад

Moonshine racers was great 6:01

@ChrisCamaro Год назад

I wonder... there's a game I played which I can't remember the name of. Does anybody know it? You start out by picking if you want to be a knight or a wizard and whether you want to wield a sword or a wand, then you're taken to a black screen representing an overhead view of a maze and you had to use the track ball to move in random directions until you uncovered a piece of maze that was accessible. So in this way you'd poke around in the dark to expand portions of the maze and explore them. Occasionally a new space would trigger a static image of a dragon or a troll or some sort of hazard... and I think he'd ask you a math question, and if you got it right, your character would kill the foe and you'd get gold? Then you'd go back to the map screen and keep exploring. It was a great game but for the life of me I cannot find it nowadays. I'm not even sure if it was a DOS game or an Apple game... all I know is it was on a computer. It was probably CGA graphics. The palette was pretty limited. But if anybody knows what I'm talking about, it should be added in a future video! It was one of the better games we had in school.

@juliencapron3326 Год назад

FYI, "Les Aventures de Moktar - La Zoubida" is based on a very famous song by a French comedian (then TV presenter): Vincent Lagaf ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R9nV50YcfYY.html 😅 Also I used to play this on CPC if I can remember correctly.

@133col Год назад

I knew this games as Titus the Fox

@blvee Год назад

I'm searching a 2d pc game about a guy (or a kid I barely remember the main character) who has to reach a goal every level avoiding obstacles. You had to click a Play button or maybe was a green flag to make him walk straight, you have to help him using a variety of items moving them to the scenario, like springs and platforms. It was fun, I hate that I can't remember the name of the game :(

@inaliann Год назад

I hope you'll make part 3

@GaryRetroGamer Год назад

Yes! This channel is currently working through some PlayStation content, but we'll be switching back to more MS-DOS/PC content after that! Stay turned.

@stonetic2515 Год назад

I need more than 6 seconds on each of these. Where's the extended cut?

@reign80 Год назад

Can a modern laptop play these games? I always wanted to try some of them.

@GaryRetroGamer Год назад

Yes, the sure are! Many of them are actually playable right in a browser window! Google "internet archive msdos " and the name of the game you want to try.

@reign80 Год назад

@@GaryRetroGamer sounds good, I will try that today.

@mrukostap Год назад

For game name activate subtitles

@CoqueTornado 10 месяцев назад

this is gold and silver!!!

@AILIT1 3 месяца назад

For the algorithm.

@tb3411 Год назад

I have not played any of these but I do know about Supaplex. (As well as SNES versions of Gremlins 2 and The Rocketeer, the latter of which is probably the worst SNES game ever)