I was 9 years old in 1989 and “The Duel: Test Drive II” and “Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade” were the first two DOS games we had. Thanks for the memories!
I was a late comer to PCs when I got into PCs Sierra had already released remakes of Leisure Suit Larry I, King's Quest 1, Police Quest 1, Space Quest 1, and Quest for Glory 1
I was more of a Lucasfilm/LucasArts type of guy ;) but I was addicted to the King's Quest series from Sierra :) Have you watched my Sierra On-Line documentary? Here's the direct link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l_1TZoNiW6U.html
Oh my, what great memories this video brings back. With the exception of Bubble Bobble and Space Quest III, which I never played, the rest are among my all time favorite DOS Games, which would also include Wolfenstein, Doom and Celtics VS. Lakers and the NBA playoffs. Thank you for this great trip back to my childhood.. Nostalgia overdose!
An 80286, EGA graphics and a sound card like AdLib or external Roland MT-32 device got PC gaming into the ballpark of Amiga and Atari ST. It would take MCGA/VGA graphics and the SoundBlaster to finally surpass them. Some other EGA era games from around 1989 that made a mark on me were Silpheed, Falcon AT, Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception, and the original MechWarrior. Those early, low poly graphics in MechWarrior were cool for the time and it was exciting to launch a volley of lasers and missiles at an opponent! The street racer Vette was also around then but I think the idea was better than what could be pulled off.
Indy 500 - I had a copy of this for the Amiga, but didn't play it much. Since it tried to be realistic, I found it hard to control. I had more fun trying to see how big of a pile-up I could cause. :)
I remember when my brother and I were in our teens and we so desperately wanted a Soundblaster 16 card for our Intel Pentium 486 PC. When we were able to finally afford one, the first game we played with sound was the original Doom. Looking at that Soundblaster board and its distinctive branding brings back so much joy and memories...
I was prolly one of a few dozen ppl to buy SimCity 1.0 for the C64. I still play it. Later in life I attempted to email Will Wright directly asking if F4 was an intentional cheat code. He did not respond.
Great list but being a diehard Microprose fan, I must say that I would have included F15 Strike Eagle 2, M1 Tank Platoon and the amazing Midwinter to the list. For me, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain from Lucasfilm Games would on top of my list of best games from 1989. I log countless hours piloting Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf 109! What a great and fun arcade flight sim!!! It was the direct predecessor of the X-Wing & Tie Fighter series.
Their Finest Hour almost made it to this list! What a great game, indeed! And M1 Tank Platoon as well, for that matter :) Thanks for sharing your opinion! Appreciate it!
Also another significant flight sim: A-10 Tank Killer by Dynamix, a Sierra "second party" developer. It started a series of immensely fun and playable flight sims: Red Baron in 1990, and then Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe in 92-93.
I played them all. My father purchased a 286 with 40mb hdd and installing Indiana Jones filled nearly the hdd. The store said to us that 40 mb was so much that would never fill it up. If it was 1990 games I would say Monkey Island is my favorite point and click adventure games.
I remember playing Prince of Persia and OutRun a lot DOS version, OutRun's DOS version always made sounds even if it were muted. 😆 There was a spaceship/rocket game in Windows 95 or 98 and I really enjoyed it, I wish I could play it again.
I never played Arkanoid 1 back then. It was Arkanoid 2 directly. Back then my brother was hooked on another Taito classic, Bubble Bobble, and I was on Revenge of Doh.
Funny thing... switching over to PC from the C64, it never even occured to me to look for arcade conversions. I don't think I even knew Bubble Bobble existed in DOS form till today!😮 And it's one of my personal top 10 games on both C64 and NES! Then again, just like the author, I was also 14 when I got my first PC and had a reputation to maintain, of being "grown up" and playing only flight sims and point and click adventures. 😅
@@itsaPIXELthing sure!! Best time of my life I was a kid in the late 80s and seeing (and living) the world of computing changing so fast was amazing!! Every year was a quantum leap in terms of graphics, performance and game complexity... from hercules and CGA to EGA then the VGA and the Adlib and the Soundblaster, from the XT to the 286, 386, then the CD-ROM came and Doom oh my!! Late 80s and early 90s was a really crazy world for the PC!! Innovation ruled and the changes were HUGE!! Amazing times that will never repeat I'm afraid.
We got our first PC in 1989! I was stuck with mostly text based games for a while. I looked at the AbandonedWare games list for 1989 and realized we had quite a few of those. A-10 Tank Killer, Avoid the Noid, 688 Attack Sub (my dad liked war games), Pipe Dream, Sim City,
Test Drive, Cycles, Space Quests (and also other Quests like Police and King's), Budokan, Sim City, Indy 500- yep, we played them all! The best of the best! Although the games nowadays, or even those written in the past 10 or 15 years, do not bring so much fun as back in the 90s. Maybe also because it wasn't always just run (click) and play, but had to spend some time editing some "system" files for the game to run at all.
I missed out on DOS gaming. Didn't know anyone who was into it either. I'm impressed how good the graphics were back then. I think the Amiga still has the edge over it with sound capabilities though. Great video Pedro. Cheers.
yeah the A500 trounced the PC but only until '91 or '92 when vga and sound blaster became popular... by '94 the PC pown3d the Amiga thanks to a game called Doom
@@turrican4d599 the Amiga sounded incredible no doubt about it!! But the VGA was more capable than the A500 and the Soundblaster sounded amazing with games that took advantage of it. IMHO when the 80386 started to became popular and games started to use it, the superiority was huge. In fact, in late '93 when Doom was released even the A1200 became obsolete not only the A500. The PC was way better in every aspect. And I'm and was an Amiga fan myself, the original Amiga was the best computer ever created but in the 90s Commodore didn't know how to keep up with technology.... the PC trounced it by mid 90s.
Very solid list! I got my first PC - an 8mhz 8086 but one with VGA in 1989. The first three ‘serious’ games of that year I got I won on a competition - outrun, Indiana Jones and the last crusade graphic adventure and … battlehawks 1942. The last one was an excellent game - I spent a lot of time playing that and it was a really satisfying early flight combat game. You could play as either the US or Japan in the pacific war. Also I absolutely loved Indianapolis 500. I ‘acquired’ a copy of that one by somehow having a blank floppy in my pocket that ended up with it on after a trip to a local Pc shop that had the game installed on a demonstration PC. I have no idea how the game got on the floppy 😁 but I spent hours and hours trying to get a faster and faster lap record by tweaking the car. Thanks for the nostalgia!
Wow, 1989 was such a good year for DOS games, so many hours I spend on these Rick Dangerous - soooo many hours Pipe Dream - !!! Operation Wolf - also based on an arcade I think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - such an iconic game, and speed players favorite MinerVGA - was written in BASIC, the first game I ever "hacked" Wings of Fury - so difficult, could never advance beyond the first level Road Runner - impossible to play beyond a few minutes
This list brought me back to my 386st and in addition to these games I added xenon 2, prince of persia, rick dangreous and kings of the beach. All the games on your list and these were quite popular in my neighborhood in Lisbon that year. Congrats hope to see the next list for 1990.
I remember the first game I played on PC, that was on 2.8 MHz 640 kb ram 16 bit soviet computer.. It was at my cousin's flat and the game was 'defender of the crown' turn based strategy. So many memories.. And the 5.25' floppy discs .. I got that computer a bit later and played a lot, but had just around 10 games and no way to find new... Also learned to program on 'apple basic' on it .. Love that language. Another games that remember their names are.. - Moon bugs - Pango - sopwith
Heard about Budokan, but never seen it. Looks awesome for its time. Others I've played. Nice list and Fury of the Furries music in the beginning raised memories 🙂
we had a 286 back then, and when Doom came out I wanted that 486 so bad but my parents wouldn't buy me one. Never would've dreamed I'd be using a computer that i'm typing on right now. I wonder what another 20 years will bring
Wow. So there is a version of Bubble Bobble with Adlib sound? My copy only seems to play PC speaker sound. Now I need to find a new version. So many hours listening to that shrill theme tune playing the 2-play mode with my siblings. I stopped playing it once I get my 286 though - mainly because the 286 had a much louder PC speaker than my XT. So the sound went from slightly grating to almost painful.
You can't beat the pc, it's amazing I would have never said that 30 years ago I was a console boy but these days with games going across multi platform thanks to Xbox live and steam it makes gaming way more fun especially running at higher resolution faster FPS not to mention mods etc
Nice list! Fun to see I played almost all the games in your list! The only one I did not play was Space Quest III. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
I know I played Arkanoid not sure about the sequel. I played Bubble Bobble on the NES and definitely played Sim City and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I also played many future Sim games like City 2000 and 3000, Earth, Ant, Farm, and Copter. And I've beaten every Space Quest.
Congratulations on your 20K subs 🙂 You mentioned some belters in here, had no idea Arkanoid 2 was so different compared to the arcade version- the DOS version looks REALLY fun. When it comes to the pong style games, I liked the POING series on the Amiga, there was something special that I can't put my finger on it. Was quite surprised you added OutRun to that list. Love the series, but with the Amiga version being so poor- I couldn't imagine a decent version on the PC. Personally would've added Stunt Car Racer, Street Rod, Nuclear War, Wings of Fury and PK ZIP to your list. PKZIP best game "storage utility" ever 🙂
Yeah, PKZIP! :) Ahhhhh! The memories! Great titles you mentioned there! I loved Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga. Not that much on PC, but it's still a great game on the system and almost made it to this list :) Thanks for the support, mate! Cheers!
Thank you for doing some for the "Oldtimers" Also you helped me finally find the right name of the Game I played so much back then but couldn't find it. Apperantly it was "The Cycles" and somehow it was labeled "GP 2000" on the Floppy I got. Bubble Bobble and Prince of Persia I did play a lot too back in the day. Lava Cap and Sky Roads I enjoyed as well. But I think Shareware Stage is as far as these did go. The first game I got on CD-Rom, was Mig-29.
You missed 'Quest For Glory 1 - So You Want To Be A Hero (1989)(Sierra Online)'. That is still a great game and I go back to play it on dosbox every couple of years. And you say you like racing games, and you missed 'Street Rod', a game were can tune up your car, buy new parts, race for money or pink slips and get better and faster cars, and challenge the Hot Rod King for his car. You must have missed this gem back then. I would have started in 88 with Pool of Radiance, one of the first D&D games. Some of my personal recommendations 1990: Ultima VI The False Prophet 1991: Jones in the Fast Lane Sid Meier's Civilization 1993: Wing Commander Privateer 1994: X Com Ufo Defense Warcraft: Orcs & Humans Sid Meier's Colonization If these games aren't already on your lists, take the time to track them down and give them a play.
Привет, очень интересный у тебя акцент, даже для Португалии. Поиграй в David Wolf: Secret Agent (1989) - офигенная игра, она, на момент выхода, обогнала своё время и своих "соперников", а потом резко стала устаревшей, гениальная и технологичная игра для 1989.
Olá PEdro, mais um excelente video, onde me revejo em alguns dos jogos que também foram da minha infância, joguei praticamente todos que menionaste, excepto o Sapce Quest porque as aventuras gráficas que joguei na altura eram apenas as da LucasArts. Test Drive é fabuloso mas apenas joguei na altura a versão sem as pistas extras e os carros (só há pouco é que descobri que existiram).
You have older videos in where I'm using a 17 inch Samsung screen and others a 15' Philips screen ;) It's easier to capture footage with a camera pointing at LCD/LED screens than to CRTs. Cheers!
@@itsaPIXELthing yeah. I still use CRT monitor for zero motion blur issue. Any CRT monitor works perfectly on my GeForce RTX 4090 with StarTech DP to VGA adapter using for (retro-)gaming and multimedia. 😍😁🥰🤗
The DOS version of Prince of Persia was released in 1990 😉 check my 1990 Top 10 list: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z1kDVHLTD70.htmlsi=AO-VasEbJXpStPEb
As I said, my experience was at school and under a government project regarding IT literacy to incentivate kids to go to computer related courses. And yes, we had monocromatic screens but also color ones.
Muito bom.tens de fazer um sobre jogos Mas dos com uso de sintetizadores como o roland.gostava de ver um em pt já estou farto de ver em inglês e os jogos são sempre os mesmos há N deles que usam recurso a sintetizadores mas só falam nos mesmos monkey ,doom, maniac mansion 2 ...