Memorable PC games from the DOS era

[Kevin]

Great PC games from the days of DOS

“Please insert floppy disc number 4 to continue,” is not some lame pick up line kids, it is how old-school gamers got their fix

 

[Dohc-WP]

3D Pinball Space Cadet -that was a windows 95 title afaik (came with plus! 95)

 

[Tsar]

What about blizzards platformer(basically a prince of persia styled game)called black thorn?

 

[Tom]

O my sack... I have played, Every... game... on... that... list... to... death...

I wouldn't call them from the Dos era though... Definitely more windows 95...

As i read the title I was wondering if you would have Jazz Jackrabbit... What a great game... MDK was also brilliant!

 

[DieGrootHammer]

Okay yes not really a "DOS only" games list, but these still brought back so many memories. When I first started gaming, I was rocking TFX, Micro Machines, T.I.M. and Space Quest 1 on the very first family PC we owned. When we upgraded and got a Pentium PC with Windows 95, I then played C&C Red Alert, Tomb Raider and Flight Sim 95. Ah those were the days

 

[_Caboose_]

No redneck rampage?

 

[Mister 44]

Flashback. I was like all "wow" and "cool" when I got it and I never finished it but it was a great game.

 

[diplos]

One of my fondest gaming memories is playing 2-player Wacky Wheels stoned.

 

[Totempole]

3D Pinball Space Cadet -that was a windows 95 title afaik (came with plus! 95)

+1 Windows only.

Space Cadet is actually just one table of "Full Tilt! Pinball" by Maxis. Epic Pinball is a good example of a DOS pinball game.

If you only have the Space Cadet table, you pretty much have the Demo of Full Tilt!.

Space Cadet was later included in Windows XP as well, but it was made easier than the original Full Tilt! version.

 

[Tsar]

Flashback. I was like all "wow" and "cool" when I got it and I never finished it but it was a great game.

I finished it on sega genesis.

 

[PsychoFish]

No Wing Commander? No Star Wars Rebel Assault?

 

[chan0o]

No Wing Commander? No Star Wars Rebel Assault?

+1

Also Raptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor:_Call_of_the_Shadows)

 

[PsychoFish]

Raptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor:_Call_of_the_Shadows)

Geez, did I sink hours into this title

 

[Totempole]

+1

Also Raptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor:_Call_of_the_Shadows)

Awesome game. The MIDI sounds pretty good on my AWE64. Remember Highway Hunter?

 

[Peon]

I must say I miss the past and prefer those games to some of the current. Somehow I think im in the latter and prolly nostalgic.

 

[PsychoFish]

I must say I miss the past and prefer those games to some of the current. Somehow I think im in the latter and prolly nostalgic.

There is a cure for nostalgia, it's called playing your old games. Some age well, others not so much. Sometimes its best they stay fond memories

 

[Glordit]

I believe many of you are misconceived, yes the games ran on Windows 95 but Windows 95 was a GUI for DOS, so technically those are DOS games.

 

[MetalSoup]

I believe many of you are misconceived, yes the games ran on Windows 95 but Windows 95 was a GUI for DOS, so technically those are DOS games.

It doesn't even matter. The title of the article was PC Games during the DOS era, not DOS games during the PC era.