Huzzah! What a great year for DOS gaming it was... The time when pixel art graphics were distilled into perfection, just before the sad change to low-quality low-poly 3d for some reason. One of the best years ever in terms of quality. DOS4/GW Protected mode runtime enabled such amazing games!!!
Pinball Fantasies is simply the best Pinball game from that era. I can't remember all the hours thta I was playing that game in my 486DX2 and taking advantage of my recently bought SB16
It was awesome! No doubt! And I was playing it since 1992, when it was released for the Amiga! What a game! I still continue to play it nowadays within the Pinball Gold Pack available on GOG! :)
Wing Commander III is still my favorite PC game of all time. I've even met Ginger Lynn and Tom Wilson from that game, had the Collector's Edition with Making Of material, a calendar, a VERY cool T-shirt, and came in a film can. System Shock was INSANELY far beyond its market impact in terms of ongoing influence, and I still play it. Tie Fighter was a GREAT concept and terrific fun. We will bring PEACE and ORDER to the galaxy!
Amazing, indeed! What a year! Those were incredible! It was really hard to put this list together! :) Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts, experience, love and memories! Cheers!
While Colonization and Transport Tycoon is two of my all time favorite games (I still play OpenTTD to this day - free on steam), and I played a ton of micro machines and aladdin, I really can't fault your top ten. 1994 was a good year.
What a year, indeed! :) And those you mentioned are incredible games, no doubt! I lost the count of how many hours I spent with Micro Machines! It only needed one disk and could be run directly from it, so me and my mates at school would always play it at the computer class ;)
Hey there! Just stumbled across your channel and I'm hooked! My gaming journey started way back in 1993 with Zombies on the Mega Drive. That console was my jam until the Sega Saturn entered the picture. But shoutout to my sister's Fujitsu ICL PC TV for giving me a taste of DOS games like Wing Commander Privateer and Putt-Putt (nostalgia overload!). Funny story: my TIC teacher once declared Star Wars: X-Wing the greatest game ever. Ten-year-old me thought he was crazy (lol). Now, as a seasoned gamer, I totally get it - SW: KOTOR is probably my all-time favorite. Actually, that reminds me - mentioning KOTOR to my nephew would likely get the same bewildered reaction I gave my TIC teacher back then. Fast forward to 2001 - I finally scored my own PC, a Compaq Presario 5000. Gaming magazines became my guides to exploring even more DOS titles. Thank goodness for platforms like GOG these days, which make things so much easier! Speaking of holding onto the past, I still love collecting physical media, especially retro games and movies. Those late 80s and early 90s must have been an amazing time to be a gamer. Anyway, keep up the fantastic work! I'm loving your content.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Guilherme! Truly inspiring! Believe me! And yeah, X-Wing was something else when it came out! It's on my Top 10 DOS games from 1993 ;) In the meantime, enjoy the content! By the way, are you Portuguese? If so, grande abraço! Tudo de bom e diverte-e por aqui ;)
@@itsaPIXELthing Sim, sou Português! É sempre bom encontrar outro compatriota na comunidade do RU-vid. Obrigado pela resposta e pelo conteúdo fantástico! Vou continuar a acompanhar o canal com grande interesse. Abraço forte e tudo de bom!
For the first time in this videos related with the years I have more than one title that I changed from the Top 10 from the Honored mentions, For certain changed LBA, Heretic and Beneath a Steel Sky and added Transport Tycoon, Cannon Fodder 2 and Lemmings
1994 is for me the last year of the golden age of video games that I situate between 1984 and 1994. From this date it is the massive arrival of 3D or FMV games. Amateurism gives way to a real professional industry led by white collar workers. From there it is a period that I like less, the arrival of 3D consoles and Windows 95... Of course there are still good games but we are starting to feel that micros game publishers are chasing console games. 1994 is also the year of my military service, so I also dropped out. When I returned, the universe I loved was disfigured. Besides your list the game I liked was King’s Quest 7. One of the last good games in Sierra before it fell. Thanks for your video!
I were just crossing over from Amiga and consoles to PC around -94/-95 , so many DOS games was put on a wait-list and have been played on later occations. From this video , the DOS games that has stuck with me to this day is : DOOM II , Tie fighter , Little big adventure , System shock and Ultima XIII - Pagan. I would also mention Elder scrolls - Arena , from the same year. Great video !!!!
Yeah, Arena was so close to enter the honorable mentions ;) Curiously, got back to it recently (when recovering from my health issue) and I got somewhat addicted ;) Cheers, Roger! Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your thoughts!
I got my first PC in 94 so it was a special year for me. It was supposed to be for 'school work' but I just played games on it. First game I played was Doom, I remember Doom initially not working because my config.sys file didn't have enough extended memory allocated. With DOS being completely alien to me, I thought the shop had short changed me and phoned up to complain. They must have had a good laugh at my expense. I also upgraded to 8mb of ram when Rise of the Triad came out, I remember the EDO module cost £200 which would be about £500 in today's money. Which is considerably more than the rig I'm writing this comment on. Regarding Wing Command 3, I don't think there were many rigs at the time which could actually play that game, even P90s struggled. There was certainly nothing which could play it in SVGA mode.
Yeah, my IBM PS/1 was bought also to help me with homework ;) And, messing around with config.sys and autoexec.bat was seen as obscure stuff, like if it was illegal or something ;) trying to trick the machine to do things it wasn't supposed to do! Eh eh eh! config.sys and autoexec.bat ;) Ahhhh! The memories! Thank you so much for watching and for your amazing comment! Appreciate it!
What a list! (Yeah, I seem to say that everytime 😁). LBA was really hard as I recall but the soundtrack was beautiful. Fun fact: The main designer from Alone in the dark was responsible (with some of the same staff) for LBA which kind of explains why the janky, somewhat stiff animation looks really similar! ps Oh and I remember the music on the stones and bones table was amazing - even through the pc's internal speaker! Great video ☺️
Oh yes. I messed with nascar racing. Crashing mostly 😂 Aladdin was there too. I also played beneath a steel sky, to the extent I could as I was a kid. That helicopter at the start stuck with me due to its design. Of course there is heretic, though I never got very far, which is the opposite of jazz Jackrabbit since I beat the shareware episode repeatedly.
Cheers, great list! Even 30 years ago there were too many awesome games to buy/play between PC, consoles, and portables. I think 1994 may be the first year I logged more PC time than the other two combined, but that might include hopping around from AOL to Compuserve to Prodigy free online trials.
I remember getting Little Big Adventure at a flea market because of the cool looking graphics on the back. I liked the game, but the controls were so bad I could never get more than a couple of hours through.
🎉 congrats! Its a pleasure to have a Tuga with a channel dedicated to the retrogaming thematic. RU-vid makes us feel that retro gaming is only a thing in the US or the Uk
Thank you so much for your support, Gustavo! :) Truly appreciate it! I've been creating content for RU-vid for a decade, now! And, back when I started, I wanted to share our Portuguese experience from back in the day to other people from other countries ;) Please, enjoy the content! Cheers! Grande abraço! :)
Amazing games, indeed! So many good memories 😀 thanks for watching!
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@@itsaPIXELthing thank you for your videos... really... they help me forgetting lots of issues and dealing with stuff nowadays and the nostalgia i feel is not sad or anything. I hope you continue making them
Yep, that's why I have dedicated Win98 and XP machines 🎉 Mister is great but can only play very old DOS games that don't need an FPU (basically a 486 SX with a basic SVGA card)
Warcraft Orcs & Humans, the knights "Yes yes my lord, yes my lord, yes yes my lord..." 🤯 😅 A question, Heretic and Hexen are the same game or they different from each other? Never played none of the games on your list, but they look really good, like Blackthor ne, Pinball Fantasies, Jazz Jackrabbit. Cheers Pixel 👍
