Favorite DOS game

[Az]

The original C&C

[Jamski]

Why would you want one?

Because its better than the DOS version Also if anyone has seen a copy of CivNet lying around that they don't want anymore.

Basically, its becoming too much trouble to get my Amiga out of the cupboard

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Just play Civ2; it's the same (actually a little more) with better balance.

[Jamski]

Modern isometric rubbish I need my Civ1 fix

-Jam

[General Ludd]

X-Com, MOO2, MoM, ect...

DOS was a golden age.

[Skanky Burns]

I do miss the top-down view of Civ1. Nothing makes you feel as though you are high up controlling an empire than looking down on your cities and units. Isometric, while arguably looking better, just doesn't give you that same feeling.

[child of Thor]

(@ a few comments about 2d visuals).

I can hear the gasps of puzzlement from the FPS crowds ah well they'll never know what they missed, too spoilt with lush 3d to even think a game can be in 2d

On the DOS front, I found a copy of '5th Fleet' recently - i've heard its a great boardgame-to-pc conversion, so i'm hoping i can get it running...

I'm not looking forward to the day when i'm going to be running XP(or any future non-dos OS)..........there are some real gems i missed first time around

[ZargonX]

Anyone ever play Stunt Island? It was this great Disney game where you could set up scenes in wonderous polygonal 3d and edit your own movies out of them. Hours upon hours of fun!

[Mercator]

Civilization is the obvious first answer... But I'm also a big Commander Keen fan. CK4 is the first game I bought.

Some other great DOS games worth mentioning: Centurion, Bubble Bobble, Dognapped and Supaplex.

[bipolarbear]

Anyone ever play Stunt Island? It was this great Disney game where you could set up scenes in wonderous polygonal 3d and edit your own movies out of them. Hours upon hours of fun!

I think I may have played something like it. It was a 2-d environmnet, and Elmo from Sesame Street guides you through it. It was basically a cdrawing program, without the drawing, just placing, and coloring the pre-drawn figures. Kinda like the Sega Pico. The only really fun thing about these, was trying to draw the most knives or bullet holes inside of Elmo's pathetic furry blus body

[child of Thor]

Imperialism is an interesting game too......not sure if the second one classes as a DOS game - as it seems to run fine under w98?

Imperium Galactica(replay value was a bit thin, but the intial journey was fun and kept me hooked for weeks).

The first time i played the text adventures by Level 9(or Infocom etc) i thought they were great! Still after about a gap of 10 years, i'm nearly wondering what i saw in them - maybe having an xbox has tainted me?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Imperialism is an interesting game too......not sure if the second one classes as a DOS game - as it seems to run fine under w98?

Im quite sure Imperialism 2 is a windows game. Ive played the demo for the first Imp, and it was windows, but perhaps it first came out as DOS? I dont think so, though.

[Caligastia]

Railroad Tycoon was great until I kept reaching the $30,000 limit.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Im quite sure Imperialism 2 is a windows game. Ive played the demo for the first Imp, and it was windows, but perhaps it first came out as DOS? I dont think so, though.

your correct both Imperialism games were Win9x games - the first one just 'felt' like a Dos game

[bipolarbear]

WHat was the goal of imperialism? Taking over the world?