What were your favourite DOS games!?

[Indecipherable]

I see that I was beaten to that one.

 

[Hekateras]

There's no reason to stop it at that.

If I knew I'd put other people off of ranting about why it rocks, I would've kept my mouth shut and stuck to lurking.

 

[Danceofmasks]

My memory might be hazy, but wasn't Betrayal at Krondor released as freeware when Return to Krondor was launched?

In any case, awesome game, if the mechanics are clunky.

 

[Hekateras]

It was released as freeware, but it's the version with the MIDI music only, and at any rate it's a ***** to install. I'd recommend gog.com for anyone looking to purchase it nowadays. Five dollars isn't too much to ask.

 

[DazZ.]

Prince of Persia, Wolfenstien and Duke Nukem 2 were my main 3 as a kid.

Then we got:
Catacombs 3d
Doom
Jazz Jackrabbit
Aladdin
Prince 2
Secret Agent
Skyroads
Cyberdogs
All the Commander Keens

Forgetting loads but I was about 8 so.

 

[Rabish Bini]

One Must Fall was an excellent fighting game, Doom2 obviously but also Dune 2.
Duke Nukem 3D wins out however

 

[killamanhunter]

Lemmings, damn that game was hard and addicting I still haven't beaten it.

also, I don't have arabic on my keyboard escapist!

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: Tie Fighter.

Some of the best DOS games ever made.

 

[Trikeen]

Commander Keen series, all the way!

 

[Invariel]

Epic was responsible for such epic games, back in the day.
One Must Fall: 2097 and Tyrian (2000) are still played on a regular basis.

The four Wing Commander games, and Armada were fantastic.

Dune 2 ate up hours.

I played the Apogee suite of games and spent hours watching my mother play them too. (Jazz, Jill, Monster Bash, Keen, Duke...)

Tetripz was pretty cool, but I only learned about it after the post-Windows 3.1.1 era.

Star Control 2 (now The Ur-Quan Masters) remains one of the best space-combat games I've ever played, and the actual game is ridiculously impressive too.

Thanks for the nostalgia thread... Now I have to go play some old games instead of these new ones I bought.

 

[hyperdrachen]

Whiplash is an old favorite from interplay I'd like to see released on steam or some such.

 

[Neverhoodian]

X-Wing
Tie Fighter
Red Baron
A-10: Tank Killer (version 1.5)

Yeah, I'm a big combat flight/space sim fan.

I've recently been able to play some DOS games I missed the first time around as well thanks to Good Old Games. I started playing Wing Commander: Privateer for the first time a few days ago and I'm really enjoying it.

 

[hyperdrachen]

X-Wing
Tie Fighter
Red Baron
A-10: Tank Killer (version 1.5)

Yeah, I'm a big combat flight/space sim fan.

I've recently been able to play some DOS games I missed the first time around as well thanks to Good Old Games. I started playing Wing Commander: Privateer for the first time a few days ago and I'm really enjoying it.

DUde and the genre has ffin died. Gone are the wing commanders and X-wing series of yesteryear.

 

[octafish]

Pirates! Although the Commodore 64 version is superior thanks to the SID chip.
UFO: Enemy Unknown AKA X-Com: Ufo Defense and Terror From the Deep.

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4

To bring in something new:

Crusader: No Remorse
Crusader: No Regret

Terra Nova: Strike Froce Centauri
Mechwarrior 2

I remember MW2 being a windows game, am I wrong?

 

[Darwins_Folly]

Probably have to say the Quest For Glory series.

 

[teqrevisited]

I could only play PC games on my uncle's computer back when DOS was current, but I got the chance to play Doom, Doom2, Warcraft 2, X-Com and C&C Tiberian Dawn, some of my favourite games ever. It'd be a few years down the line when I got my own PC that I finally got to play them to their ends (Though I did finish WC2 and Beyond the Dark Portal back then, accidentally overwriting my uncle's file in the process)

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Ascendancy
and Warlords 2.

 

[mcattack92]

Doom 2. Just fast paced levels full of enemies and weapons that didn't stop to reload after 3 seconds of shooting.

 

[docSpitfire]

*gasp* am I the only one who loved Gizmos and Gadgets?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

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I missed out on BaK (at least until it was released as freeware) but my first real RPG was Betrayal in Antara, the spiritual successor that Sierra made when they lost the rights to the Rift Wars universe. It was Windows native and I never got past the first disc, but man was it a lot of fun. I lost the first disc as a kid, but I recently found a copy in a used bookstore. I wonder if I can get further now?

OT:

DOS games were some of the formative experiences in my life as a gamer. in no particular order, here's a list of some of my favorites.

Games I played during the DOS era

Doom
Hocus Pocus
Jazz Jackrabbit
Dark Forces
Rebel Assault
Rebel Assault II
X-Wing
Tie Fighter
Psycho Pinball (look it up, it's the best, but also most obscure pinball game I've ever played. Windows Pinball doesn't even come close.)

Games I played later, thanks to DOSBox

Civilization
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (honorable mention to Arena, but I didn't enjoy it enough for it to make the list)
Various D&D games, including the Eye of the Beholder trilogy, Dungeon Hack and Hillsfar, which I got on a two disc collection of Forgotten Realms games
Betrayal at Krondor


I know I'm forgetting tons of games -- DOS games ruled.