12 Essential DOS Platform Games

Join me as I check out 12 of the must-play platformers for DOS...
Check out the rest of my Essential DOS Games series here:
• 8 Essential DOS Puzzle...
Video sources:
Rick Dangerous - VICIOGAME Retro Games
/ @viciogame
Flashback - World of Longplays (played by Mad-Matt)
/ @worldoflongplays
Commander Keen 4 & 6 - Dosgamert
/ @dosgamert
Prince of Persia - World of Longplays (played by SCHLAUCHI)
/ @worldoflongplays
Blackthorne - World of Longplays (played by Eino)
/ @worldoflongplays
Zool - zirkoni88
/ @zirkoni42
Zool - World of Longplays (played by RickyC)
/ @worldoflongplays
Duke Nukem II - ponnupazoozu
/ @ponnupazoozu
Jazz Jackrabbit - Nightmare4K
/ channel
Jill of the Jungle - World of Longplays (played by V_G_P_ -Conso)
/ @worldoflongplays
Prehistorik 2 - princejanuszeal
/ @janussciencegaming
Monster Bash - CuteFloor
/ @cutefloor
Bio Menace - DWTerminator
/ @dwterminator
Alien Carnage - QualityIsNice
/ channel
Cyril Cyberpunk - CuteFloor
/ @cutefloor

[@willmistretta]

DOS platformers were all about the hostile aliens, man. So many aliens.

[@onaretrotip]

Haha, tell me about it 😂

[@cms1138]

Bloody aliens, coming over here and trying to steal our jobs and women!

[@MagusMarquillin]

_Damn. Those alien bastards are going to pay for shooting up my ride!_

[@garyredfield1498]

Alien cabal

[@fernandopenalva2680]

😂🤣😆

[@Andre-vr1ul]

I remember playing a bunch of these as a kid. I'd grab them on 3.5" disks from a dollar store, if I remember correctly. They were just "shareware" or demo versions. Monster Bash, Halloween Harry, Jazz Jackrabbit were all awesome and some of my earliest memories on my Dad's 386. Another one I liked when I was young was Hocus Pocus. Great video!

[@MrTheog1989]

Hocus Pocus is one of my all time faves!

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, good times :)

[@offrails]

I remember many of these - Commander Keen, Bio Menace, Duke Nukem, Halloween Harry, and Monster Bash among others. Essentially anything from Apogee was guaranteed to be a good platformer. Others I enjoyed include Hocus Pocus (with that game's soundtrack, the OPL chip was rockin'), Captain Comic, Crystal Caves, and Magic Pockets

[@onaretrotip]

Those were the days.

[@MattyStoked]

GENIUS mate. This is the real content here. I'm absolutely gassed that Blackthorne made it onto this list, one of my favourites.

[@onaretrotip]

Haha thanks mate. Yeah, Blackthorne is a real gem.

[@ftuT]

Nice list. I loved Blackthorne back in the day, I didn't remember it was rotoscoped, now I love it more.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks!

[@stevenschiro1838]

So many good ones here. Really brings me back to when I was a kid. Some honorable mentions - Secret Agent Man, Scorched Earth, Tyrian, Skyroads, Raptor, and The Incredible Machine

[@onaretrotip]

This is just platform games, but good picks!

[@gavinlewis3189]

TIM.EXE

[@swanson2830]

Loved some of these old DOS games! Haven't played since I was a kid, but it was good seeing someone documenting them. Nice video!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you!

[@ALiberalVeteran]

Omg Jazz Jack Rabbit was my childhood, I totally forgot about this game. Good on ya.

[@onaretrotip]

Great game!

[@TheProphecy053]

Wow, al those memories. Played a lot commander keen, crystal caves, duke nukem 1 and boulder dash. Thanks for the video!!!

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks! Good times :)

[@pirataga]

Really great video! My Christmas present arrived in the mail today, a Sound Blaster Awe 64 for my Windows 98/Ms-Dos PC, I can't wait to play some Dos games with sound :)

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you. Oh, awesome!!!

[@karmad.twelve6613]

I have to thank you... I have been searching and wondering since I was a kid what Dos platformers I had played. I had vague images and many memories, but no names or even aspects of the game that I could recall properly. No longer! You showed me some of these games taht were lost to my childhood memories!!thank you so much! I played Monster Bash a lot!

[@onaretrotip]

Love comments like this. Glad I could remind you! :)

[@mercerthechimp9218]

Oh wow not thought of some of these for years! Cosmic Cosmo was a classic as well, worthy of the list I'd say. And Secret Agent, I loved that game! Great video mate!

[@onaretrotip]

I haven't played those; I'll have to give them a try. Thanks!

[@v3listube]

Wow, I've thought about most of these games over the years but Jill Of The Jungle had completely left my mind for over 2 decades.

[@onaretrotip]

Amazing the things we remember and forget.

[@RetroGamePlayers]

Great job on this man! Yeah these are all classics for sure! I love old PC gaming.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Marcus! Me too mate :)

[@YatrikShahisAwesome]

Seriously I've been trying to remember the name of BlackThorne for maybe 10+ years after having played a demo of it when I was a kid... thank you so much!!!!

[@onaretrotip]

Ah, that's awesome! Glad I could remind you :)

[@lactobacillusprime]

Excellent video Pete! Been quite into DOS gaming myself recently.

[@onaretrotip]

I've seen! Got to love DOS gaming, Mark.

[@SEGAZombie]

Another great video Pete, that monster Bash looks good never seen that one before also prehistoric looks stunning with those snes looking sprites

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks, Scott! Yeah, nice chunky sprites on that one.

[@AtariLegend]

Great video and great retro trip for me. Almost played them all. Really loved Jazz Jackrabit and Black Stone. And I loved Zool on my Atari ST ;) Thanks for this great vid!

[@onaretrotip]

Those were good times indeed; I miss those days. Thanks for watching; lad you enjoyed it!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

So much love for dos gaming :) Lovely video! Really enjoyed it!

[@onaretrotip]

Me too, so many fond memories. Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@PixelSlayers]

So many great games on this list! Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, and Duke Nukem 2 give me so many childhood memories. I'll have to try some of these that I'd never heard of! Ones that I'd also suggest: Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Crystal Caves, and Pharaoh's Tomb.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks for the recommendations!

[@Ezyasnos]

@@onaretrotip Added to that, Challenge of the Ancient Empires (which is more like a puzzle-platformer) and Dangerous Dave. And I have to confess, I loved Dark Castle back in the day as well because castle.☺ -edit- oh and Realms of Chaos!

[@davehedric1543]

Alien Carnage and cyril cyberpunk were incredible! Such Nostalgia!

[@onaretrotip]

Those were the days.

[@Dosgamert]

Thank you for respectfully using my Commander Keen footage. Great video.

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you for letting me use it! Glad you liked it.

[@conm87]

Some solid entires here! I’d also include Flashback! Great port and probably the best way to play the game.

[@onaretrotip]

Great game!

[@GimblyGFR]

Man, the memories ... Great list of amazing games. Prince of Persia was my favorite PC game for a long, long time. Your "Essential DOS Games" playlist keeps getting better and better. Are you looking into racing games and flying sims? There's also some hard to classify games, like Metal Mutant (loved that game, even tough it was hard as nails), and some rather interesting (although mostly not good) arcade game conversions to DOS. Great work, Pete.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks mate! Yes, there are many more in the pipeline. Not sure which I will do next, but it may well be driving games.

[@TheVanillatech]

Prince was BULLSHIT! Fucking impossible game to beat! Even when I sat down, in my gaming prime, and thought "Right then! It's time! Not stopping till I beat this fucker!" I STILL didn't manage it! Simply not enough time in one hour to do so, and I refused to use a guide to help me. That's cheating. Great game, legendary important moment of gaming, but far too dificult.

[@GimblyGFR]

@@TheVanillatech I actually managed to beat the NES version of Prince without cheats, but I can't remember if I did beat the DOS version without the "megahit" cheat. I love the game anyway. At the time, I had never seen anything as cinematic as Prince on a computer (or console). I still play some versions of Prince from time to time.

[@RetroRecollections]

Some great titles there. I was never a huge DOS gamer but I've started to look for some goodies in the recent past. This is very handy 😀

[@onaretrotip]

Great! Hope you find some you enjoy, Dan.

[@kevingubernatis3324]

I grew up on like half of this list. Great vid.

[@onaretrotip]

Sounds like a great childhood! Thank you.

[@playtech7165]

Thanks I'll pick a couple of that good ones. Good vid!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you!

[@laurisaarinen1126]

I have played at least half of these, many of my favorites are included here. Commander Keen is arguably the king, but i just love Jazz Jackrabbit... The second one was even better, but not a DOS game anymore as it came out in 1998. Another quite fun game for me was Crystal Caves. Very basic, but full of detail. Great to hear about some games i never heard of, thanks mate.

[@onaretrotip]

Loved the Jazz Jackrabbit games back in the day. Thanks!

[@danbauer3669]

I loved some of these games as a kid! In particular, Commander Keen, Bio Menace, Duke Nukem, Jill of the Jungle, Halloween Harry. Platformers were my favorites back then and I had NES, Game Gear and a bunch of DOS games.

[@you_tube6733]

major nova. or nova strike?

[@danbauer3669]

@@you_tube6733 some of the DOS games I have to see to remember. The title you suggest doesn't ring a bell for me. Some of these games are 30+ years old and I played them 30+ years ago.

[@you_tube6733]

@@danbauer3669 ya me too thats why i dont fully remember lol. but ill post a link

[@you_tube6733]

@@danbauer3669 i was a little way off. major striker lol. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHazanWfedJ_d5o

[@danbauer3669]

@@you_tube6733 not familiar with that one but it looks like one I would have liked. Apogee had so many great ones. Secret Agent was another good one.

[@RMoocher]

Thank you so much for this video!!!!Been looking for Alien Carnage for many years, but couldn't remember the name. I remember playing it in around 1994.

[@onaretrotip]

Glad I could remind you! 😃

[@knivesron]

amazing how id software and apogee just wiped the floor with all their smash hits. almost all their games are solid and pure classics

[@onaretrotip]

Absolutely.

[@mtshark7]

Awesome video Pete!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you, Mark!

[@GeekMasterGames]

I poured so many hours of my youth into Commander Keen (especially 4) that it's one of the few I actually beat

[@onaretrotip]

Nice!

[@TmsTanim]

Great to see more appreciation for how good Halloween Harry's music was - and still is - especially the title & intro music! And Jill of the Jungle's music, too. It's a valid criticism of the graphics that Jill's sprites were low in pixels, but I remember it visually standing out as one of the few full 256-colour VGA platformers of the time, at least on my PC, as Apogee really liked to stick with that 16-colour EGA palette. Those jungle environments, enhanced by the audio, were the real stars of the show. Looks like you covered all my favourites! The only other platformer I'd've mentioned is Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. Even though it seemed to be aimed at a younger demographic than usual and was pretty shallow in terms of lore & storyline, it is still "peak Apogee shareware platformer".

[@onaretrotip]

Don't think I've played Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure; I'll have to try that.

[@cluckeryduckery261]

Ah can't believe I missed an MS-DOS video. They're my favorite on your channel. Haha I've played most of these but OMG i had completely forgotten about monster bash. That was my game back in the day lol. Ahhh the nostalgia. Halloween Harry! Another that i loved but had forgotten about.

[@onaretrotip]

Some great platformers on DOS. There are plenty more in this series to come, don't worry! Driving games next.

[@saveallbits9787]

Great list!

[@onaretrotip]

Thank you!

[@TheVanillatech]

Rick Dangerous series is legend. First played it on my Amstrad CPC 464 back in the day. One of those games where you simply HAD to die a million times, and force your young brain to remember every single trick and trap to get through. Loved the second game too, played the DOS version on my 486 years afterwards. Also Abuse, Blackthorne and Flashback were legendary on PC. Fade To Black was 3D, but I kind count that as a platformer too. It's a great genre. And I'm glad it's stood the test of time, thanks to platformers relatively low hardware requirements making them still viable on consoles. Games like Inside, Ori & The Blind Forest, Broforce ... keeping the scene alive! FUN FACT : When I built a Pentium machine back in 1995, I gave the 486 to my mother so she could type letters etc for her work. I also installed Duke Nukem 2 and Bio Menace (a Duke Nukem ripoff). After discovering it, I caught her playing right through the games, like a master, shooting aliens and collecting keys etc! Hilarious!

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, Rick Dangerous really is one of those games where you have to die a lot to learn the layout. As you say, a lot of modern platform games adopt this same design.

[@adamkane7513]

Great list, I definitely have to replay some of these. Remember *Captain Klaw?*

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks! No, don't remember that one, I'll check it out.

[@johnnykeener3727]

Wing Commander: Privateer was my first favorite PC game! So good!

[@onaretrotip]

Nice.

[@claudepaulindupere4957]

great list, brings back some good memories. altough I see you missed the gem that is hocus pocus!

[@onaretrotip]

I haven't played that (yet), but many here have recommended it!

[@TheFutureOfMen]

I spent so many hours on jazz jackrabbit as a kid...I forgot all about it until now. Such a fun game

[@onaretrotip]

Me too! Great game.

[@fouadabouhatab8514]

I wonder what the future for gaming holds, I sometimes think that we've reached our peak, then I remember, people then thought that was their peak. Lord knows in twenty years how things would be.

[@onaretrotip]

I dread to think!

[@miekwavesoundlab]

Interactive / haptic gaming, ai games, VR games, adult games etc

[@WishMasterLP]

Vinyl Goddess from Mars, Dangerous Dave and Mystic Towers. Also Supaplex and Cosmo"s Cosmic Adventure were my games back then:) Sad to see none of them on this list.

[@onaretrotip]

I think Supaplex was in my episode on DOS puzzle games. So many great platformers on DOS though!

[@Nay089]

Monster Bash was a favorite of mine growing up. Way bloodier than you might expect 😂

[@onaretrotip]

LOL

[@shockz16]

Woah! Some of these titles look great and most of them I've never heard of. Cyril Cyberpunk, Jazz Jackrabbit & Prehistorik 2 being among those that look right up my street. The original Prince of Persia was balls hard! I remember my friend hiring it out for his Master System and we got nowhere on it lol.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, some belters here, Adam. Prince of Persia was damn hard, yes, but didn't stop us trying! Took my mate ages to finally complete it.

[@BangerSoundtracks]

Love the animation of Halloween Harry's run 🤣

[@onaretrotip]

👍

[@sird2333]

Castle Adventure. So simple, yet so addictive!

[@onaretrotip]

Not played that one!

[@mmkvat]

IT’S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW! Had forgotten about Alien Carnage, but now I remember actually kind of not liking it because it was so smooth😂 and, I would be willing to even pay for Netflix if they made a Commander Keen series, imagine!

[@onaretrotip]

😂😂😂

[@sonoftherighthand]

Commander Keen and Monster Bash were my favorites. Going to have to buy Monster Bash.

[@onaretrotip]

😃

[@kemy6775]

I remember buying the Waxky Wheels shareware ay Radio Shack and seeing all of these Apogee titles advertised on the BBS info file. I never knew as a kid what a BBS was. I missed out on some great games.

[@onaretrotip]

Great memories!

[@DadLadsGaming]

Very interesting mate. 👍

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks mate!

[@RobTheSquire]

I loved playing Jazz Jackrabbit growing up and I even managed to persuade my year 3 teacher to let me install in on our class computer.

[@onaretrotip]

Ha, nice!

[@retroandgaming]

The one I remember the best is actually Blackthorn but also Vikings was a true gem back in the day

[@onaretrotip]

It certainly was.

[@sencadas32]

Nice!!! Dude!!

[@onaretrotip]

😎👍

[@mver191]

Good list, I played Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure a lot as well. It is kinda like Commander Keen.

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks!

[@Bijuklich]

good list...i was missing only cyril cyberpunk...so thanks :)

[@onaretrotip]

Thanks!

[@Sinisteve]

I’ve really got to give Prince of Persia a chance, I’ve always found it clunky but everyone raves about it! Some decent looking games there Pete, will definitely give some of them a try

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, it's worth a bash. It obviously isn't as impressive now, but I know you love a challenge and love to beat a game, so PoP is perfect. You only have an hour to complete it, so it's fun to give it a go every now and then when you have time.

[@necrow4155]

This list has Jill of the Jungle but nowhere is Zeliard mentioned... zeliard the first arpg and platform. Truly iconic

[@onaretrotip]

Never played it.

[@rollerxcore]

I remember getting commander keen and duke nukem episodes on random disks back in the day. not sure if they came from markets, or cover disks. but the windowed look felt very strange coming from playing my amiga. Jazz Jackrabit is one ive always wanted to play, looks nice and fast! I wish i knew of blackthorne when i was younger. looks so much better than flashback! alien Carnage looks my kind of game! too many Rick Dangerous mentions, i must play it now! 👍

[@Dosgamert]

You'll love my channel

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, I wish I knew of Blackthorne back in the day too, but (as I said) I only discovered it way later. Ha, Rick Dangerous is great. I finally managed to pick up a boxed copy for the Amiga via Sinisteve; it'll be in my next pickups. Thanks, Eddie!

[@starbuck]

So pleased you mentioned bio menace

[@onaretrotip]

:)

[@manray0703]

When you were talking about Monster Bash, you mentioned the kids weapon as "catapult," i pictured him rolling along something akin to a trebuchet. I laughed at that mental image. I didnt realize slingshots were referred to as catapults. Crazy.

[@onaretrotip]

Hahaha yes, we call them catapults over here. The term 'slingshot' isn't really a thing.

[@RaptorianSchrock]

I like how Sega 32x was basically a DOS game console. We got Doom, Blackthorne, that one cave man racing game, pitfall etc. I'm convinced the system could have handled Sam and Max hit the road with flying colors and even The Dig if they implemented mouse support. Possibly even a Windows game like Sanitarium, that system was not weak. Such a waste of potential.

[@onaretrotip]

Good point!

[@tonyt3955555]

jazz jackrabbit was my favorite, followed by tyrian, crystal caves, and cosmos adventure

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah jazz was awesome!

[@antilogis6204]

Nice selection, Out of this World has escaped you though.

[@onaretrotip]

Good game! It's called Another World over here.

[@ahaetulla]

What are the games shown in the intro? I have vague memories of one of them and want to chase it down

[@onaretrotip]

Rick Dangerous and Flashback.

[@lendrigangames]

I definitely remember loving the visuals for Halloween Harry. Duke Nukem is definitely a good platformer, but when I played it, it did feel a lot like all of their previous platformers. Prince Of Persia, I played on the NES. I didn't play a lot of it, though, because I was only okay at it and wasn't willing to invest effort into gitting gud.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, Prince of Persia certainly took some investment to progress.

[@armstrong1990]

Can't forget XARGON if you're going to mention Jill of the Jungle! That's the one I grew up on. :) The religious private school was disgusted to find "one of the students" installed it on their Windows 3.1 elementary school computer! 🤣

[@onaretrotip]

LOL

[@carlklitzke9455]

I was just thinking of Blackthorn today. I didn't realize it was a PC game, the SNES version plays quite well.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, cool game! I think it came to SNES a couple of months before DOS.

[@wintermute740]

The ones of these that I spent the most time with were Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Jill of the Jungle, and Prince of Persia. A couple of the titles in this video are new to me, so I'll have to check them out.

[@onaretrotip]

Many hours spent with some of those. Ah, good! Hope you find some you enjoy.

[@kinglysandus]

I would have put Dark Ages on there, but that may just be my nostalgia.

[@onaretrotip]

I've not played that.

[@bolterboy]

What's the game shown at the 30 second mark? I used to play it as a kid and can't remember what it was called

[@onaretrotip]

Flashback.

[@bolterboy]

@@onaretrotip THANK YOU ♡

[@onaretrotip]

@@bolterboy 😎👍

[@kidgrebo1]

I got Commander Keen back in 1992 because it came with the Gravis Controller I got.

[@onaretrotip]

Awesome!

[@Waterboyofsuperman]

Loved Commander Keen and Duke Nukem platformers.

[@onaretrotip]

👌

[@Superflytenorguy]

makes me think of my grandfather. if you dont learn dos, you dont play jill of the jungle. 8 year old me learned how to use dos

[@onaretrotip]

Brilliant.

[@Spaghettisauce897]

Thank you I’m looking for game from last 5 years

[@onaretrotip]

Great! Which game?

[@Spaghettisauce897]

Bio menace

[@onaretrotip]

@@Spaghettisauce897 Great! Glad you found it.

[@Spaghettisauce897]

onaretrotip indeed thanks for your contribution towards DOS games

[@Balrog132]

I played many of these game. But the one I liked the most back in the day was Halloween Harry. I played so much of the first episode, which I got through a shareware CD. Good old days.

[@onaretrotip]

Shareware was great. Good times indeed :)

[@Balrog132]

@@onaretrotip back then when i was a kid, i always got handmedown computer parts from my brother. One Christmas i got a CD ROM drive. 1x, full tray eject, ridiculous by todays standards. But i also got this CD with demos and shareware games. A treasure trove for me back then.

[@onaretrotip]

@@Balrog132 I bet!

[@nicolashrv]

I always saw Blackthorne as the spiritual sequel to Flashback (a game which had a vomitive remake some years ago), since Fade to Black did the mistake of changing the player interface from 2D platform to 3D polygons. Never finished Flashback, but thankfully now we have walkthroughs online to learn the game was a mix of Total Recall, Running Man and They Live.......(talking about games no one could finish.......I'm watching you SILMARILS games!)

[@onaretrotip]

Save states are pretty handy too!

[@nicolashrv]

@@onaretrotip I couldn't finish it due a matter of time (Doom came a bit after, and it was bye bye to all other games I was playing).

[@davidsenra2495]

I know it's more of a puzzle than a platformer, but I would highly recommend Lost Vikings while at it.

[@onaretrotip]

Yeah, as a puzzle platformer, it could've been in either, but it was in my DOS puzzle games video. Played that to death on my Amiga as a kid. Superb game.

[@phonik83]

Besides "Jill of the Jungle" i spent a lot of time playing James Pond 2 and Electro Body (aka Electro Man) on my ancient 286 back in the day.

[@onaretrotip]

I spent days playing James Pond 2 on Amiga.

[@TheRichFather]

One of my absolute favorite DOS games back in the day was Bomb32.exe (Tank Wars). It was always great to grab a bunch of buddies to sit around one computer and see who could get the big nuke first and who was the idiot that obliterated himself with the wind being a factor.

[@onaretrotip]

I played a similar one on Amiga called Tanx. So fun.

[@samljer]

played 10 of these, loved every one. its a pity modern computers cant run them right, even in a dos box.

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, a shame. That's why I have a Pentium III set up at home!

[@HaraldSeebus]

Secret Agent and Crystal Caves by Apogee were excellent as well, at least in my opinion 🤩

[@onaretrotip]

Not played Secret Agent!

[@GP-qb9hi]

Prehistoric 2 had many secrets and a full secret level too. It was only possible to complete the game on Advanced difficulty :-)

[@onaretrotip]

😃👍

[@fernandopenalva2680]

I would also add some like Nicky Boom, Pickle Wars, Secret Agent, Crystal Mines, Jetpack, Hocus Pocus, Gods, James Pond in Codename: Robocod.

[@onaretrotip]

Played Robocod top death on my Amiga and Mega Drive.

[@user-ih9sh4jy4c]

It was surely a golden age.

[@onaretrotip]

Absolutely.

[@nemtudom5074]

I'd put Hocus Pocus and Xargon in this aswell because Xargon is just a better version of Jill, and Hocus is one of the most beautiful 2D platformers until like, Jazz Jackrabbit, and its music is fking amazing aswell!

[@onaretrotip]

Only discovered Hocus Pocus after making this. Great game!

[@joukenienhuis6888]

Wonderful games I almost played them all, except prehistorik and the last game. I do miss the Disney platform games, like Alladin or the Lion King and Skunny was also one of my favorites

[@onaretrotip]

So many great platformers from that era.

[@ignaciolau5445]

Does anybody know of a platform game similar to Commander Keen about a miner or something like that? I remember the graphics were not very good and that you needed to collect diamonds. Any ideas?

[@onaretrotip]

Hmm, that does sound familiar actually, but can't put my finger on it.

[@stevendavis2593]

Crystal Caves?

[@22neohenry]

Played Keen, Jazz, Monster Bash, Duke Nukem, and at least a demo for Jill of the Jungle back in the day. The only game I would add would be Crystal Caves. MegaMan was also pretty good although DOS wasn't its true home.

[@onaretrotip]

Never played Mega Man on DOS!

[@themusesquad8554]

Finally someone show th3 Harry/alien carnage game.

[@onaretrotip]

😎👌

[@uscopic4614]

Hello ! Nice video. I'm seeking for a game that I used to play on a DOS computer during the 90's / early 20's. It was a 2D plateformer in which you play a brown character who can extend his neck to look upper, and the game begins in front of a castle. If I remember correctly there's snow falling in front of this castle (just a sprite falling in the frontground), and the castle has different doors which correspond to the differents level in the game. I'd be so glad to find this game :)

[@onaretrotip]

Hmm, sounds like James Pond 2: Codename Robocod. Played that to death on my Amiga.

[@rcadenow7543]

dave and keen were my gem

[@onaretrotip]

Good old id Software.

[@davidretrogamesplayedbadly3533]

Apart from prince of Persia I don't remember any of these. Jazz jack rabbit looked great. I vaguely remember blackthorn, was it released on the SNES also or did I imagine it? Great video mate 👍

[@onaretrotip]

Yes, Blackthorne was also on SNES (and I believe the DOS and SNES versions were released simultaneously). Thanks, David!

[@aleksdeveloper698]

There was an old DOS platform game which was in an anthic, magical setting. The player could throw a boomerang and some sort of magical thunder and was able to evolve the weapon. The graphics were similar to jill of the jungle, but it was a different game. Not sure what was the name of the game and I was never able to find it 25 years later.

[@onaretrotip]

Hmm... Doesn't ring any bells.

[@tjhyatt]

Duke nukem was pretty badass from memory

[@onaretrotip]

Defo!

[@MotownBatman]

Keen1.EXE is by far the best, I never understood why everyone liked the more cartoony 4-6

[@onaretrotip]

👍

[@red-winged_blackbird]

Is anyone familiar with the PC game USA quiz (maybe was titled United States quiz) from the 1990s? I originally played it on an IBM compatible computer. It played the first few notes of The National Anthem upon starting up. The game provides multiple choice questions about state capitals and state birds and such. You also need to answer individual questions before the timer ran out. I really want to find an emulator online, but I've come up empty so far. Any info about this game would be much appreciated! I no longer own an IBM compatible but would love to be able to play this game again.

[@onaretrotip]

Not heard of it, but probably not surprising as it's unlikely it ever left the US.

[@red-winged_blackbird]

@@onaretrotip yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if it was only available in the USA. Makes sense. Thank you for the reply.

[@yakovkhalip9714]

nice video ! But again the game Elf not mentioned)

[@onaretrotip]

Not played that one.

[@rsavage-r2v]

If you're weird like me and you go to the trouble of setting up Windows 3.1, the Halloween Harry sequel is quite solid.

[@onaretrotip]

I am that weird.

[@jompe84]

I would go for Skyroads, Ski or Die (excellent port), Lemmings, Rise of The Triad, Epic Pinball, Doom, Hocus Pocus, Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy, Warcraft II Tides of Darkness, Star Wars: Dark Forces, Star Wars: Tie Fighter and Monkey Island 2: Le Chucks Revenge

[@onaretrotip]

Great picks, but this video was for platform games.

[@jompe84]

Yeah, I noticed that must been a mix-up with an another video, no Hocus Pocus though but can't have them all! Halloween Harry is a classic! +1