Best of the OLD dos games

[Father Beast]

I mean the ones that don't even have VGA graphics.

I vote for:
Zork. no graphics. no sound. undisputed king of the text adventures. I still have it. Remember looking at the writing on the door, only to discover it said "this space intentionally left blank"?

Fairy Godmom. this shareware piece of arcade is just fascinating and full of laughs. the idea is that your wand transforms things, one button to scan, one button to transform. one of the funny thing you can do is turn a line of brick into coins and pick them all up. almost win until a coin turns back into a brick and kils you. also killed myself turning a ladder into a monster

I still play both of these.

[Juggler]

I vote for the very first part of Heroes of might and magic (not no. 1) but the EGA version. It is still fun to play though I don't know the name of the game and it isn't Heroes of M&M.

[Father Beast]

I think you're talking about... wait a minute... not King's Quest... but it's close...

KING'S BOUNTY!

I often refer to this as "hero of might and magic". it certainly has some frustrating elements, like the limits on how many critters you can control. I have played this recntly myself. actually won without leaving the first continent because I found the ultimate artifact.

[Juggler]

I just can't finish the damn game.
By the time I arrive in the desert the enemy is much too strong for me and if I'm correct there is some kind of a time limit (I haven't played it recently but I'll start looking for it on the net again).
The time limit was probably the most annoying part of the game.

Anyway King's Bounty is interesting if you like Heroes of M&M (interesting units - those peasants are useless as always).

I forgot to mention one other game - Pirates! It can be played in both EGA and VGA and it's still one of my favourites.

[Father Beast]

I got Pirates! Gold from underdogs a while back, but never played it. I was wondering if I should try it out....

[John-SJ]

I vote for Civilization, of course!

John-SJ

[DarkCloud]

For the Really old games:

Galaga
Space Invaders
Cats (You try to climb to the top of a fence and find your true love; one of the first games to have 'mini-games'

Empire was sort of fun (Risk-type game)
Duke Nukem (The OLD platform type games)
Spies of Red Rock (or something like that. You were a spy on an island; platform; you tried to defeat multiple castles and advance to kill the evil spy)

Commander Keen! (Everyone should know of this and other old Apogee games)

[Urban Ranger]

Let me see:

Defender of Crown
Omega (uses character graphics)
SimCity
Spot
Railroad Tycoon
Civilization
NATO, Crusade in Europe, Decision in Desert, and Conflict in Vietnam (all very old MicroProse wargames)

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
For the Really old games:

Commander Keen! (Everyone should know of this and other old Apogee games)

Oh Yeah! I totally forgot about commander Keen, I spent many happy hours with good old CK4, and even played the demo for 6: Aliens ate my babysitter.

Apogee. for a while, ALL their games looked like Commander Keen. Secret Agent Man, Jill Of The Jungle, Even Duke Nukem side scroller.

[Fiera]

Add a vote Defender of the Crown. It was in 1985, wasn't it?

And for more recent games (but not so much, it's already ten years ago! ), Civilization and The Secret of Monkey Island.

Oh, and Wolfenstein 3D too!

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
Cats (You try to climb to the top of a fence and find your true love; one of the first games to have 'mini-games'

Wasn't that called "Alley Cat"? I used to have it on my Commodore 64.

My vote goes to the original EGA version of The Secret of Monkey Island. Of course.

[Colonâ„¢]

I didn't play a lot of PC games in that prehistoric era, the first PC game I played a lot was Sim City 2000, but I did play Snakes sometimes. I'd also mention Hidden Agenda, which is a fairly recent discovery.

Games such as Sim City, Civilisation, Railroad Tycoon, Prince of Persia are certainly also worth mentioning but these already have VGA graphics, isn't it?

[Urban Ranger]

I think Railroad Tycoon has EGA graphics.

Another one:

Star Control

[Juggler]

Prince of Persia has EGA as far as I know (I'm not sure though).

One more: Prehistorik (1 and 2)

[Fiera]

Oh, yes, how could I've forgotten Prince of Persia... the game lost a lot of its appeal once I learned about the cheats, though...