I just wanted to give a shout-out to the good folks at Dosgamert for the supplementary game footage for Lion King, Hocus Pocus & Jazz Jackrabbit - please check them out (channel link in the description) 👍👍
1:40 Doom 2 2:09 SkyRoads 2:40 Disney's The Lion King 3:17 Theme Hospital 3:54 The Incredible Machine 2 4:20 Big Red Racing 5:04 Horde 5:33 Prince of Persia 6:00 Duke Nukem 3D 7:08 Jazz Jackrabbit 7:45 Wolfenstein 3D 8:18 Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness 8:53 Battle Chess 9:27 Quake
@@willmuny9201 theres gotta be a way to speed it up in DosBOX. I had an issue with running Elder Scrolls Arena on my modern PC and once I adjusted the acceleration configuration I was able to play it at a more stable framerate.
This video made me emotional. Brings back so so so many memories. Things were so simple back then. Lots of improvement in UI has happened since then. I remember playing wolf at my cousin's house. That was the first game I ever played. Those golden days will never come back and we won't be the same people again! 😭
yeah, that was around 30 years ago. I was a teenager at that time, so those are probably the best carefree years we will have. With wolf, I remember my nephew got a new computer with a sound card and hearing the sound card for the first time, even though I had the game with no sound card.
Big Red Racing cost a friendship in my childhood. I had a friend visiting and the split screen racing was so intense, that his joystic broke suddenly in half. We never met again after that day.
For me the best games were 1: Eye of the Beholder 2 2: Lands of lore 1 3: Realms of the Haunting 4: Supaplex 5: Starquake 6: Commander Keen 7: Gods 8: Outrun 9: Sonic the Hedgehog 10: Digger 11: Zaxxon 12: Shamus 13: Saboteur 2 14: Xonix 15: Ultima Underworld 1
May I add: Abuse, Airborne Ranger, Afterlife, Alien Carnage, Aladdin, Alone in the Dark (1,2,3), Beneath a Steel Sky, Black Thorne, Blues Brothers, Blood, Boulder Dash, Broken Sword, Cannon Fodder, Carmageddon, Civilization/Colonization, Command & Conquer (and Red Alert), Conquest of Camelot, Cosmo, Crazy Cars 3, Crusader no Remorse (and no Regret), Daggerfall, Dangerous Dave (1,2,3), Dark Forces, Day of the Tentacle, Death Rally, Descent, Desert Strike (and Discworld (1,2), Duke Nukem (1,2), Dune 2, Dungeon Keeper, Dynablaster, Elite Frontier, Eye of the Beholder (1,2,3), F1 Grand Prix (1,2) F22 Retalliator, Fatal Racing, Flashback, Full Throttle, Gabriel Knight, Grand Prix Circuit (and Cycles) Grand Theft Auto (yes the first ran under DOS), Heretic, Heroes of Might and Magic (1,2), Hexen, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, King's Quest (1 - 6) Leisure Suit Larry (1 - 6), Lemmings, Little Big Adventure, Loom, Lost Vikings, Lotus 3 Ultimate Challenge, Lure of the Temptress, Mach 3, Magic Carpet (1,2), Maniac Mansion, Master of Orion (1,2), Mech Warrior (1, 2), Monkey Island (1,2), Mortal Kombat (1,2,3), Normality, Out Of This World, Paperboy, Paratrooper, Populous, Prehistorik, Prince of Persia 2, Quest for Glory, Railroad Tycoon, Rampart, Raptor, Rayman, Realms of Chaos, Rick Dangerous (1,2), Rise of the Triad, Rockford, Sam & Max Hit the Road Screamer, Sensible World of Soccer, Settlers, Shadow Warrior, Sim City (2000), Simon the Sorceror (1,2), Star Control (1,2,3), Street Rod (1,2), Stunts, Syndicate, System Shock, Terminal Velocity, Terminator Future Shock The Need for Speed, Theme Park, Tie Fighter, Tomb Raider, Transport Tycoon (Deluxe), Tyrian, Ufo Enemy Uknown, Warcraft, Whacky Wheels, Wing Commander (1 - 4) Worms, X-Wing, Xenon 2, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, ... and a ton of game that I forgot 😏
Hey Dawn - awesome, yes those were great games ... esspecially Unreal and Aladdin (which I played on the Sega Mega Drive), yep I've tried Duke 1 & 2 (the side scrollers) wasn't a big fan ae - but yep ... when Duke 3d dropped we all got into that one heavily!! 💥👍🧡 John
@@phentas You may be right there. honestly it all blurs together for me. So many great games came out in the 90s and I was a late adoptor of Windows 95. I held on to DOS 6 & Windows 3 for as long as possibe.
@@DawnChatman After all it was like 30years ago, and it was such a rapid escalation from Wolf 3D to Quake 3 (7 short years). No wonder it blurs together
Oh man these bring back memories. Completely forgot about Big Red. I remember my high school ran Novel networking, which had to have a writeable folder accessible on the server. The admin hid it down about 10 folders down in different places, but we always found it and uploaded Duke3d. So much nostalgia.
We seem to have played the same games! Even though I live in Egypt... The first 3 games below I played with my cousins whenever I visited!!! Wacky Wheels, Monopoly deluxe, Mortal Kombat 3, Terminal Velocity, Amok, Who Shot Johnny Rock, 3D lemmings, cannon fodder 2, Need for speed, Airball, Bubble Bobble, BUST-A-MOVE 2, Starwars (1983) also dark forces
Haha - that's cool man, look - even the ones you've listed here I can tell we've got a similar taste in games // ~ 3d Lemmings was 🔥 / also MK 3!! 👍👍💎🎮 John
Warcraft 2 Battlenet Edition takes the cake for me man. Also, I'm surprised I didn't see command and conquer in here. Or Lands or Lore the Throne of Chaos!
I'm not 100% on this but Elite and Elite II: Frontier, were Dos games. I certainly need a Dos simulator in order to play Frontier now. But yeah, Frontier, just magnificent. Inherit a space ship off your dead uncle, plus a handful of credits, and go be whatever you want! Trader, smuggler, assassin, you could work for the police, or the Sirius Corporation, or the Imperials, or you could just be a pirate if you wanted, or a miner! Hahaha. And a more or less infinite galaxy to explore if you so wished. "Ahhh! A gas giant! Unload the mining equipment and prepare the scoop for fuel gathering!" I spent SO long playing that.
Hey Ryan - thanks for checking this one out, I haven't check out Frontier ... but making some notes on some of the titles & feedback - man, these lists are so subjective and will look different for many of us (there were so many amazing DOS games) John 👍🎮
@@CyberComGaming Oh absolutely, everyone has their preferences. Some like it fast and furious, blazing ground battles or sports titles (Sensible Soccer! haha) strategy games like Lemmings or Civilization. But for me, Frontier: Elite II... Large-scale space adventure roleplay with the right balance of chilling out time and battles, loads of ships you can upgrade to, weapons, gadgets, a game well worth checking out AND IF YOU DO, watch the intro because it's perfect (if, yes, a little dated of course!) Whatever you play, enjoy! Cheers, John.
I ran many Novell networking systems back in the late 80's to late 90's. You really haven't lived until you "gen" fifty 5.25" floppy disks before you can even install 2.xx on a server! Those were truly the good ol' days.
SimCity, SimFarm, King's Quest, Red Baron. Ah, but I also played Doom, Wolfenstein, Xcom, and some others I don't even remember. And I wasn't a kid back then. lol
The Secret of Monkey Island. To this day my favorite game. I played a few on your list. However I guess these lists are most your own sentimental value of what you used to play. Thanks for sharing. It was a good list. I would add C&C, Gabriel Knight, Fallout, Death Gate, Jagged Alliance..
Thank you so much for watching - those were great games ... I actually did a follow up video where I touched on a few extra games such as The Secret of Monkey Island, C&C, Lemming's, MDK and so forth - this was such a cool time in gaming! ✌
I love Big Red, the best part was running over the line of hidden sheep hearing the noise it made, Duke 3D was a game I used to play after work at work against my work bud, also hexen and heretic.
Quake was immense. The fact that Nine Inch Nails did the music too was great as they were one of my favourite bands at the time. Such atmospheric music from NIN and the perfect FPS in the day
Funny Duke Nukem story: inside the game install directory, there's a text file you can edit to change the strength of the weapons. I increased the RPG to some insane number and loaded up the game. I obtained the RPG and just fired it once. As i walked through the level, every enemy was already killed by the massive blast radius of that single shot 😅
Aw man... To narrow it down to just 15 feels like a travesty of justice. Just soooo many amazing games from dos era across so many genres. Who played Stellar 7? And what about Descent, California Games, the Sierra catelogue of 'Quest games'.... Hunter Hunted... list just goes on and on and on of sweet, sweet memories.
Thanks for watching man - yep, totally ... too many great games to just list down 15 but to me, these were some of the DOS games that stood out. John 👍🎮
@@CyberComGaming There were so many games back then vs now, a person could make a list 100 dos games that 'stood out' and one would still be scratching the surface of what all was out there back then. What an era of gaming. Been showing my kids my childhood as it were wrt this. And even my 19yrold's mind has been utterly blown to the point he's gotten a passion and wants to bring that sort of gaming back, make them himself. Remember Black Thorn? They were awestruck haha. I play co-op Doom 2 with my 5yrold. Absolute loves it, and he's over lvl 50 in Borderlands 2, he's choosing the older game instead which is certainly more difficult.
Fantasic list, brings back childhood nostalgic memories. One I played a lot was Starcontrol 2. Amazing space exploration RPG/Action game. Apogee, iD and Epic made such great games back then. Commander Keen, Monster Bash, Cosmos Cosmic Adventure. DOS was such a great platform for gaming. As long as you got your sound card configured right haha
Thanks for watching this one - glad you enjoyed it / agreed they had so many amazing games back then ... I ended up doing a part 2, but yep (love this era of gaming so much) John 👍
With no particular order, my favorite 20 Dos games would be: Prince of Persia 1 & 2 Prehistorik 2 Indiana Jones Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Fun trucks Fifa 95 Doom 2 Duke Nukem 3d Wolfenstein 3D Grand Theft Auto Little Big Adventure Worms The Secret of Monkey Island Quake Tomb Raider The Lion king Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Aladin Alone in The Dark
One of the most frustrating tasks I ever had was trying to get Wing Commander II to work on an old comp. This was circa 2000 or so after I moved out on my own. Worked hard to get all the IRQ's and DMA's set right on the Soundblaster card and everything else set up. Finally got it one day and played for hours... So worth it.
I haven't played much of that one sadly - made a follow up video were I talked about a few more DOS games ... but, yep thanks for watching this one man! ✌️
What a lovely list, apart from big names its lovely to see Hocus Pocus and Big Red. There should be Tyrian and Transport Tycoon Deluxe in there somewhere, but then again the list would be 1000 entries long.
Commanche helicopter game was pretty good too. One issue was that the faster the computer, the faster the gameplay. At some point it wasn't playable due to the speed increase. I remember that the sweet spot was between DX2/66 and DX4/100. The first Sid Meier's Civilization game was awesome too.
Thanks for watching Peter, man I've not played that one (Commanche helicopter) but yes Civilization was good but played Colonization more ... good times with that one!! 👍👍👍 John
@@CyberComGaming I remember playing Commanche on 386DX40 ... it was barely playable. Do you know Rise of Triad, Heretic, Hexen, Cannon Fodder, Dynablaster? I played Dynablaster on Amiga 2000 and then I found out they made it for PC as well.
It's ok there are solutions for that. On original hardware you could use moslo and on DOSBox you can adjust the speed on the fly and in the configuration files.
@@jonq8714 you PERSONALLY think one of your favorite games should be someone else's, even though you have no idea if he ever played it. You can offer your own favorites or even your own list, without telling someone you think theirs should be different. And the other guy was right, there is always someone like you that doesn't get it.
@@raiusdaltar1483 and there's always someone like you who doesn't know how the English language works and how 'personally' acts as a qualifier to state that it's MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION. Sheesh buddy, you should have paid attention in middle school.
@@jonq8714 Take a look at what you said. "I personally think X should have made *this* list." Sure, that statement is your personal belief. But you are referring to THIS list... As in another person's list. That's like saying, "I personally believe your favorite fruit should be plums," and when you're met with an objection, you scream, "NO I SAID PERSONALLY!" Seems you're the one that should have paid more attention. Have a good one!
Great games indeed - I'm keen to work on another similar video (and perhaps have a bit of a look at those late 90's early 00's PC games), I really liked Sim City 2000 and 3000 and yep ... Alone in the Dark was another great one! 👍 John
So many great games! We need MS dos game collection for consoles! As good as the Incredible machines was, The Incredible Toon Machines was my favorite! It had such awesome animations! Also Dune 2 was friggin' awesome! Streed Rod 1 and 2. Oh just too many games to mention here.
The games are highly repayable ... yes, totally agree a dos collection would be great / hidden gems like these and many more - Dune 2 was awesome 👍, totally forgot to mention that classic but to your point there are just too many to mention!! John 😵💎💎💎
Prince of Persia was great. We played it at work when the boss wasn't looking who was me ! Got to have time out when everyone works so hard. My motto was "Do as I say and do as I do" lol. I said to my staff one Monday morning "Does anyone want this coming Friday off work, but you still have to be here? I got Unreal Tournament". Can you guess the answer ? Once a month we played UT on a Friday afternoon. Those were the days, I am retired now so play online with people from all over the world. I love it and this video too. Reminiscing, thank you !
One thing that just popped into my head.... Playing Wolfenstein The New Order if you take a nap on a particular bed in the game you can play the original game as you dream away. Brilliant. I also loved Lemmings back in the day, was that a DOS or Windows 3.1 game ? I can't remember.
One game thats missing on that list is Heroes of Might and Magic. A turn based strategy game with role playing game elements that is one of the most sold games on GoG.
You did point so many good games like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2 and more. MS-DOS owned in the day and if you mess up on configuring the commands it was your fault. There was also the CD games on DOS made it great like Lands of Lore, the Ravenloft games, the DarkSun Games, Warcraft 1 and more. Thank you for this Excellent look back at it.
Cheers for the comment Fenton, so true man ... I ran a couple over on DOSBox, was so cool to revisit some of them / Lands of Lore 👍, you know your stuff 😎 - these are the type of games that got me into gaming ¬ have a good one man! ✌🎮💻 John
Very cool video!! Another great game that have a chances on toplist is Unreal Tournament! But I have big crying to see these games that consolidate my insane childness 😅! Rock on 🤙
I think my first games on PC were Pinball Dreams Deluxe.. Cyberia.. Duke Nukem 3d and Hexen .. I do remember my first windows game.. Age of Empires 1.. Wololo!
Great vid! One of the best experiences of DOS games I miss is their big box packaging. Used to spend all my time in the mall at Babbages peering over the boxes, and most games had amazing manuals and lots of goody extras. Being a kid back then there were quite a lot that I wish I had but couldn't get at the time, now thanks to sites like GOG, I've picked up quite the collection!
Tx for watching and for the feedback - couldn't agree more ... I'm getting back to collecting those big boxed PC games (I'm so regretful giving a number of them away when we moved over to NZ ... but slowly getting the collection back up! 👍
I used to play some of these too! I also really enjoyed Garfield Caught in the Act, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure and one of the Commander Keen games, but I don't remember which. Later in life I found and fell in love with the Monkey Island franchise, as well.
Thanks man - appreciate you checking this one out ... some good games there, man same here I just didn't play much of Monkey Island growing up, I loved 'Escape from Monkey Island' and played that game on my Win 98 PC back in the day! John 👍🎮
@@doctorweile Ah yes, Eye of the Beholder. I never played it. I need to check it out, I think. Also, the original Ultima Underworld was so immersive! I loved it.
I got into MS-DOS back in 2017 when I bought NHL 96 and Quake. Fast forward to 2023, I bought more MS-DOS games like The Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, HeXen: Beyond Heretic, Duke Nukem 3D, Madden NFL 96, Madden NFL 97, and a few others. MS-DOS kicks ass!
I heard Front Page Sports NFL Pro 95 was good. My friend said there are many plays and you could create more plays from scratch. I think he said there were player updates, you could manually add players or create new players with stats you create. In addition, I remember he said you could play lifetime where if a player was injured at the end of a season, then he might be injured at the start of the next season. I hope you enjoy checking it out.
Hey Alex - thank you so much for the support - glad you related to this one ... had a lot of fun playing these games / it's funny how it takes you back to those simpler times! John 👍
I played Battle chess when i was 5 or 6yo on a win 3.1!!! It was my first game and i thought it was pretty gore. Damn time goes away in a blink. Ty for the memories mate.
Loved the video! Grew up with a 486 with 4mb of ram. Jazz Jackrabbit Hocus Pocus and Skyroads are three of my all time fav DOS games and not many ppl even know they exist to this day. Great selection of FPS did u ever play Rise of the Triad, Heretic, Hexen or Shadow Warrior?
Thanks Brandon - much appreciated man, glad we on the same page there // ... and no man not much of them ae ~ but yep I've actively played and loved Hexen 2 tho!! 👍🎮 John
Another amazing video I hope that your channel blows up as you deserve it! (I am surprised that it hasn't already) I didnt even know about some of these games (not surprisingly I am only 16 so I wasnt even alive when these games first came out) such as SkyRoads and Hocus Pocus but thank you for making a video on them and I hope that I can play some of them eventually as you made them look fun to play hope to see another video from you soon!
Thank you for checking this one out as well - really glad you enjoyed it, you should definitely give them a go sometime .. have a great Xmas and cheers again for supporting! John 🎮👍🎅
@@carguy.carguysame, i play doom 2 (sometimes even without mods is enough for me), i installed quake some days ago, and installed wolfenstein 3d yesterday.
Die lys bring memories terug, sal n paar add soos Vikings, Lemmings, LBA1 en 2, Commander Keen, Alone in the dark, al die Sierra games vanaf Leisure suit larry en die Quest games soos Police en Kings, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, GTA, en nog n lang lys van games. Good times.
Thanks man - daar was so veel cool DOS games ... ook baie goeie memories, ek't so paar dae terug part 2 release (praat van nog 15 games), maar in elk geval baie dankie vir die support en dat jy hierdie een ge-check het! John
Hahaha yep ... Carmageddon and Larry was spot-on, I totally slept on those with this list / will see if we'll need to revisit this one and perhaps do a top 20 greatest list! 👍😅 John
Rise Of The Triad, Descent, and the first Diablo, and Warcraft we're my base games. On PC also spent a lot of time later with rainbow 6, Carmegeddon and Black Thorne
Nice list, I played almost everyone of these games :) I would add Ultima 7 and 8, Test Drive 3, Offroad Ironman Racing, Desert/Jungle Strike, Simon The Sorcerer, Transport Tycoon, XCOM, NFS1 and Ecstatica.
Wait, Big Red Reacing wasn't a mandela effecto on me? Seripusly, I remember liking the game a lot as a little kid but never remembered the name, looked for it on the internet and here you just told me which was the name of that game... THANKS!
I can't say I played much of your games, only Prince of Persia from your list. Played many more sims like F19, F15, Gunship, Silent Service, SWOTL, X-Wing, Descent, but also Zak McCracken, SpaceQuest, Maniac Mansion....
Theme Hospital was/is the greatest business simulation game of all time. Spent countless of hours playing that game. Still didn't finish it through because the later levels were just too damn hard with them earthquakes and epidemics..
I totally forgot about SkyRoads! The name doesn't ring a bell at all, but as soon as I saw the game footage, I remembered loving that game back in the day.
Great list, wonderful memories. Doom was the sort of game I wasn't allowed to play, because not long after my dad saw me and my brothers play Wolf 3D we were no longer allowed to play it anymore haha. So platformers were my jam. Dangerous Dave, Biomenace, Duke Nukem. All shareware but they were just great fun to play.
Thank you for watching - haha yep I can imagine for the time those games were way out there ... I still have a number of those shareware CD's ... good times!! John
My list: 1. Star Control 2. 2. Eye of the Beholder 1, 2, & 3 3. Warcraft 1 and 2 4. Master of Orion 2 5. Civilization 6. Mechwarrior 7. Daggerfall (Elder Scrolls 2) 8. Populous 9. Wolfenstein 3D 10. Sim City Tough to remember all the games I enjoyed back then. Even nowadays I'll be shocked that games I think were amazing I only put ~20ish hours into (while my most-played games sometimes get 2000+). A lot of games didn't make the list due to limiting it to 10, like Doom, Tyrian, Starflight 2, Armada 2525, and Solar Winds.
I loved Supaplex, Tyrian, Hexagon, SEEK AND DESTROY, One must fall, Transport Tycoon Deluxe , just to name some of my favourites which aren't on this list :D
@@CyberComGaming MW2: Mercenaries, Quest For Glory 4, Space Quest V, X-Com: UFO Defense, F117A Nighthawk, A-10 Tank Killer, Red Baron, Daggerfall, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, Sim City 2000, Betrayal at Krondor all come to mind
Hi Dos Gamer Man - yes, from SA born and bred ... soooo great gaming moments / Warcraft 2 and Dune 2 was epic and definitely games I revisit to this day ... used to love reading NAG and PC Format magazines, heading to Rage with friends and LAN events/parties, miss those times man ... cheers for watching!! 😎✌ John
@@CyberComGaming Never got the chance to go to proper lan parties, but I did cart my 486 to friends quite a lot and play via a null modem cable. Best lan party I did have was one I set up all the networking for in the early 2000's . Only about 16 computers, but it was fantastic fun.
