What were your favourite DOS games!?

[Owyn_Merrilin]

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?

There were several different versions of MW2. The original was a DOS game, but there were several Windows versions as well. The one I have is the Titanium Edition, which was a Windows Native, Direct 3D enhanced version. There was also a PSX version, which I also have a copy of.

 

[octafish]

There were several different versions of MW2. The original was a DOS game, but there were several Windows versions as well. The one I have is the Titanium Edition, which was a Windows Native, Direct 3D enhanced version. There was also a PSX version, which I also have a copy of.

That explains it, I had MW2 for windows and then later the Titanium Edition, god I loved MW2: Mercenaries.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Well, they kinda were my introduction to games when I was five or so. I have a few favorites.

The Gold Box CRPGs (both Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance), mainly. Also, <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.194259-Off-Topic-Reviews-Ragnarok>Ragnarok is a damn fine roguelike.

Scorched Earth

when I was a kid I'd play that all day er'ry day. AND LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.

I still play that every so often. Always with max starting money, varying environments (favoring starry sky and storm) and textures (wraparound and rubber preferred), and talking computers.

"MOMMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT!"

*fires Death Head missile straight overhead*

 

[Klarinette]

On my computer, we had Monopoly, Paper Boy and... something else. On the school computers, I played the shit out of Cross Country Canada.

 

[NeutralDrow]

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

Interplay's Forgotten Realms discs? Love that collection. I'd been playing most of the normal RPGs for years, but I'd never even heard of Blood & Magic or Dungeon Hack before that.

You ever use Hillsfar to buff and transfer characters into Curse of the Azure Bonds?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

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

Interplay's Forgotten Realms discs? Love that collection. I'd been playing most of the normal RPGs for years, but I'd never even heard of Blood & Magic or Dungeon Hack before that.

You ever use Hillsfar to buff and transfer characters into Curse of the Azure Bonds?

I never knew you could do that. It almost sounds like cheating, since Hillsfar was such a simple game. And yes, you're thinking of the right set of discs. They were $10 in Walmart back when $10 jewel cases were still common.

Fun fact: just prior to the point where the average computer was fast enough to run Dosbox, I had an old Windows 95 computer which I used to run DOS games. I was playing Dungeon Hack on it, going through the dungeons, and at the exact moment that I killed an orc on an early level, the computer randomly died. Not crashed, died, as in, I needed a new DOS box. Fun times...

 

[NeutralDrow]

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

Interplay's Forgotten Realms discs? Love that collection. I'd been playing most of the normal RPGs for years, but I'd never even heard of Blood & Magic or Dungeon Hack before that.

You ever use Hillsfar to buff and transfer characters into Curse of the Azure Bonds?

I never knew you could do that. It almost sounds like cheating, since Hillsfar was such a simple game. And yes, you're thinking of the right set of discs. They were $10 in Walmart back when $10 jewel cases were still common.

It wasn't quite that bad. Hillsfar only gives a one-time buff to health points when you finish a quest line, and you only had the four base classes available, no Paladins or Rangers. Also, I often wound up creating characters in Hillsfar in the first place if I wanted to do transfers; for some reason, I was never able to get Pool of Radiance's transfer system to work. Hillsfar didn't have the feature where you could set your own attributes rather than rely on the dice roll, so it was almost an anti-cheating method. >_>

I think that's about the price my dad and I found the collection, too. Considering my start in gaming was watching him play Pool of Radiance, sentimental value made it even more of a steal.

Come to think of it, I still haven't finished Pools of Darkness...

Fun fact: just prior to the point where the average computer was fast enough to run Dosbox, I had an old Windows 95 computer which I used to run DOS games. I was playing Dungeon Hack on it, going through the dungeons, and at the exact moment that I killed an orc on an early level, the computer randomly died. Not crashed, died, as in, I needed a new DOS box. Fun times...

...ouch.

I mean, maybe if you killed a troglodyte or a vampire, but an orc?

 

[acm1991]

Commander Keen, that ate up a lot of my childhood
Also The incredible machine, anyone?

 

[Invariel]

Oh, TIM... On the school computer, we had that and the first Monkey Island game.

Also, I carried Scorched Earth and Worms (both shareware) on an AOL disk that I reformatted. Good times. (And, as an added bonus, I figured out how to use the triple-turreted tank in the shareware version. It was an interesting glitch.)

 

[Jeffrey Rodriguez]

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
System Shock
Simon the Sorcerer
Harvester