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Hey guys.
It's me. Your average, everyday, more-than-average-skilled-at-stealing-cookies thief.

How many of you guys remember the era of the great stone-age of gaming?.. You know?.. The good ol' Ms-Dos days?
I recently started going back and playing the ones that have a lot of nostalgic value to me(thank goodness for Dosbox).
Monster Bash is one of my favourites. And I can't believe not many people haven heard of that game.. it's pretty cool.
Here, lemme show you: -Monster Bash.. my review I guess.

If you do know of any good ol' Dos games.. please do recommend them in this thread.
I look forward to your replies.

And your cookies.. you son of bi.. er.. biscuit.

Prince of Persia, Supaplex... the best two games ever.

Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, Blood, Strife, Call of Cthulhu, Duke Nukem 3D...
Those are the ones off the top of my head.

Loderunner! Popcorn! Parachute! And there was one where you had to move boxes to clear a level and you went up a level in a building with an elevator after you cleared it.
Oh and Digger And CD Man? I think that's what it was called, some kind of take on PAC-MAN with pretty levels.

Wow.. loderunner... I forgot about that...
Hellz yeh.. now that's a trip down memory lane..

Oh man, my first PC game was Alley Cat for teh DOS. Sure, it was already ancient back then. Other games I recall playing were:

Jetpack

God of Thunder

Heartlight

Electro Man <- Really digged this one.

There are more but I played these the most. All are DOS. I also played Monster Bash on a demo disk, Robj.

Monster Bash is one of my all time favourites- I even bought the entire 3 I SAY THREE floppy disks with all the levels which I then proceeded to take months to obtain 100% on the candy on all levels which meant I found all the secrets. I also mentioned this game to some people and noone knows what I was talking about so YAY for those that played it - I think this is where my love of those old games stems from and lead me to dinky !

ps rob you start jumping at that "dead end" you found lol and it takes u up to the top again or did u already know that lol...

Others I kicked cookies at
load runner
beetris
Pacman
Fire and Ice (there was two games called that - one with triangles and one with a couple of characters - liked both)
Last half of darkness
Stargoose
Slapfighter <-- Rulz!
castle of the winds,
Some pizza thing - that was so hard!
I actually have 18 cds full of all the old dos games somewhere - took months to download on dialup lololol
Ahh the memories...

I guess alot of the early games I played on a windows computer were technically DOS games, but I'm not completely sure which. I know Daggerfall is, that's certainly a classic. Other than that, I mainly remember alot of text-mode games, like Kroz, Hack (later Nethack) and some text adventure games that I don't remember too well, because I tended to be terrible at them.

I like fire

I remember playing a fighting game as a kid (Not sure if it's DOS or not). The game was that you play as an anthropomorphized animal that is half-machine. You fight other such creatures to stop a mad scientist from taking over the world with weird frogs. The game was very cartoony and was one of the best games of my childhood. Anyone know what it was called?

Chasm the Rift.

Hmmm... oldest games I played are games like Skunny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lJLxSnO3Q). I think I played all stages and all levels to the full 100% Goal is to get 100 keys to open a door in the level.

Other games like Terminal Velocity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLyrXTL683g), where you fly your own spaceship and be the only one left to safe earth were fun too. Ranging from easy to a hard mode where enemies kept respawning and were programmed to commit suicide on your spaceship until you destroyed the targets. I never discovered every secret in this game, because the game kept crashing. I believe there were 3 acts and a secret 4th act if you managed to play them all 3 in order.

And last a game named "Grand Prix Racing '98": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFQr0dFlRi8 ; It was actually harder then it looks like. Doing 5 or 10 rounds without making a mistake was a very, very hard task. Winning a race was usually possible with some minor mistakes and an invincable car. There was a playback option in it, which sucked, because it wasn't accurate enough. If you would watch the race back, it would usually end up with some car trying to crash through a railing and steering as it would be further on the track.

Oh yes, Alley Cat! That was awesome. I still remember that tune... So hard too xD

Kings Quest.

Quest for Glory!

those old Sierra ones were so awesome - humor and a great game
Think they were Dink precursors lol

I don't remember the name of the oldest game I played... It was on an old Amstrad PC, on a cassette tape I think! All I remember about it was you were a man exploring a house for some reason, something about ghosts maybe? There was one room where you shot knives and forks towards the ceiling to stop falling objects from landing. Weird.

The DOS games I used to like and play most often most were Lemmings, Commander Keen and Crystal Caves.

First of all, thank you Robj, for keeping the forum alive with fun threads.

I haven't really ever used a PC until it was possible to use it without Microsoft stuff (that is, until I learned about Linux). So no DOS games for me. However, While some others were playing those (I remember playing Prince of Persia and Commander Keen at a friend's place), I was enjoying myself with my HC (home computer): first the Commodore 64, later the MSX2. On those, there was actually "real" sound (PCs only had buzzers back then) and color screens. One of the best games ever is Metal Gear (which became a series that was continued on the play station). I also very much enjoyed the Nemesis series. That's all MSX(2).

On the C64 (so earlier, must have been around 1985 or so), I played hunchback, miner 2049er, and of course Boulderdash. At the same time, I played some nice games on the ZX-spectrum at a friend's place, of which I don't remember the name. One was Stop the Express. I know that, because I described it in a diary I recently reread.

And looking at youtube brings back memories: Donkey Kong, Kickstart, Decathlon, Stix. Oh, those were the days.

Haha, I remember raging my face off at boulder dash cause I couldn't get past one of the levels.

..... ZX spectrum?...... hmm.....