【1994 ~ 1997】 Top 100 MS-DOS PC Games - Alphabetical Order

[@_Joseph_J.Y.A.]

Likes: 97% | Dislikes: 3% 👍 20,524 | 👎 714 PC Games Playlist - kzbin.info/aero/PLlQ5d8rWFMS9R0ywizbvRiUJXX0NLgVcv Likes and dislikes: last update - 1/12/2025.

[@TommyVercettisGamingNews]

Dude you are amazing. Thank you. These were my childhood 😭

[@rockoorbe2002]

Thanks to you and all the other video game compilation channels that post videos like this one. I'm planning to buy me a laptop and I'm simply looking at these kinds of videos to see what games can I possibly look for to play. Make it 4,012 likes

[@lastmanstanding5423]

Based

[@jimmyguy428]

Great video! You got my like, and sub!

[@LumocolorARTnr1319]

Gpod video! Good games!

[@SimonKhoury007]

I'm almost crying. This is my childhood. I lived in a small town in North Lebanon where summers were lazy and lonely. I was lucky that my father had a PC for his accounting work. I think I played 80 if not more of these games. The soundtracks of some of these games is epic and I can remember till this day. Settlers 2, Transport Tycoon, Crusader no Remorse stand out in particular. Kudos to you on this monumental effort.

[@BravoCharlie]

Yeah I’m up at the 80 mark.. my dx2-66 and I.. wow.. I still walk around hearing ‘electron mace’ from syndicate wars and saying Murder Death Kill occasionally.. One Must Fall.. Seeing Z again was a trip

[@korzbro35]

TT truly had a great soundtrack! It blended soooo well with the gameplay.

[@OmriGrin]

Greetings from a fellow 90s PC gamer neighbor from Israel :)

[@Trulte60]

Do you still play games today?

[@hornox4life]

And every game has its associated memories/context. Is like opening a closet of information.

[@TheSektor13]

Huge nostalgia trip. I played over 60 games from this list. Duke 3d and Red Alert are my favorites.

[@wrona6667]

Jagged Aliance and Dungeon Leeper. And Quake.

[@aleksandardjukic1381]

Yes i remember Red Alert i play that in internet cafe whit my friends.

[@rewolfer]

I played so much Red Alert... Especially skirmish vs the "AI" Eventually, I remember tweaking the rules.ini file to increase the atomic bomb impact. And unnecessary tweaks like changing infantry to turn into dogs when they attack. Fun times. Games like these are why I ended up learning programming, math and physics and becoming a software engineer... although I don't program games now haha.

[@mhead81]

mine Crusader no remorse , Syndicate , Dune , Doom

[@anzabonanza3855]

I' also have at least tried over half of these. How's it even possible!? Were there a lot of demos or was it all shareware in those days...can't remember.

[@pietu87]

That was basically my childhood gaming history at its best. Great memories. Thanks for this upload.

[@Dharien]

Thank you for keeping the original game sound in. A lot of these collection videos put some generic music in the background which is a total mood killer. The sound is part of the charm when it comes to older Ms Dos games.

[@korzbro35]

Yes!!

[@Dr.Geek-ZA]

Huge nostalgia trip indeed. Funny how your mind remembers how graphics were way smoother back then!

[@Mads_on_YT]

I've heard that the graphics might actually have been slightly smoother back then due to CRT monitors rendering graphics differently.

[@tomastruchly9484]

Remember how impressed I was first time seeing C&C on Pentium 100. The graphics were fantastic :D

[@enilenis]

Same here. Had a P-100. Bought my first CD-ROM drive and a soundcard and C&C was gifted to me on a birthday. Going from floppies and PC speaker to this was intense. Just the installer animation was already jawdropping. In a modern remaster they did a callback to that interface, only since there are no longer any settings to enter, with things being plug-n-play, they put self-referencing jokes. These days, it's common practice to skip cutscenes, but in days of Westwood, they were the reward for completing a level. They were just as important as the gameplay.

[@u007james]

the sound system was perfect

[@dc4084]

I think about that Duke Nukes level often for some reason. Thanks for the nostalgia trip

[@yetanotherrandomname8311]

Same!

[@VanBurenPhilips]

Ecstatica! 😍 You've got some forgotten gems in here with the all-time classics. Good memories.

[@dokosza2981]

Heretic and Hexen were both phenomenal and complemented each other so well

[@matthewmarino2687]

Hexen 2 was really good also

[@Scoupe400]

Wow what a trip. Many hours across a big list there. Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, Settlers, C&C, FT, NFS, Theme Park, SSF. GTA.

[@fuzz7boy]

I remember nearly every game on this list. Played the majority of them. I remember the big move from floppy disc to CD-ROM, and the jump in quality that came with it (well, most of the time).

[@shadowcatofthenorth1984]

Oh and the voice acting with the cdroms was pretty new and incredible

[@steviebeavie1]

Magic Carpet was one of the most innovative games I had ever played, it was fantastic. And just forgotten about.

[@ignaciofernandez-cuesta6299]

I remember in the controller you were able to chose a VR headser. I went crazy trying to get one

[@spidlenexor]

magic carpet 2 slapped too, sadly bullfrog was bought by EA and all its titles went into oblivion

[@Erynnin]

Honestly I never understood the game

[@XpRnz]

This unlocked alot of ancient memories for me, great compilation!

[@kurfsolb]

Those were great years for gaming. Thanks for this video.

[@bobsponge6609]

Thank you for the trip in this memory lane. Really love that era.

[@djbrak1434]

MOO2 fans hit like so I know I’m not the only one still playing this masterpiece.

[@xavier4728]

Oh my gosh! MDK! I'm crying! Thanks for the memories

[@tonycrabtree3416]

It’s amazing how good so many of these games were!

[@chmod1777]

...and then there's Bioforge.

[@songsan807]

Huge trip down memory lane. Only played a few of the games like HoMM and Warcraft 1 and 2. Great times.

[@ConcertCrazeTV]

Ach du heiliger..... Tausend dank für diesen flashback zurück in meine Kindheit. Viele der Spiele sind bei mir schon völlig in Vergessenheit geraten

[@spearPYN]

The 90s was a peak of human civilization...

[@glitchedpixelscriticaldamage]

indeed.

[@whispermason8052]

Ypu might br right

[@glitchedpixelscriticaldamage]

@ChristopherWallbank-di9hj i think the signs were there... the rot was setting in...but i think when it all started to unveil it was around 2010-2019 with all the DEI and illegal immigrations and covid and restrictive laws that gave govs total control... so the cancer was there , but it started to manifest in the later interval... IMO at least.

[@chaos120]

Been in decline since Facebook

[@spearPYN]

@@chaos120Sounds about right...

[@djnebuchanezzer]

Always loved MDK. Such a unique, original game.

[@zorkmid1083]

MDK looked surprisingly good, even with software rendering. The monsters were pretty creative, and if you shot them up (but couldn't be killed because of the story), the scars would still be there in later levels.

[@d3m1g0d4]

I'm always looking forward to your list

[@stesilaus1688]

What's remarkable is that so many of these games are still playable by today's standards!

[@TheVitorization]

Specially the spaceship themed ones. The graphics and mechanics are kind off immortal hahaha

[@TommyVercettisGamingNews]

This was my era!

[@gabnrami]

Rayman is ageless

[@enilenis]

And thing of all the cloud-based games, or always online titles that will all be wrapped, when they stop making money, and unlike with pre-internet retro, there will be no way to revive many of the games, by the time today's kids get to their mid-age crisis. They'll have nothing to re-experience, unlike my DOS generation, that can either emulate, or even use original hardware.

[@korzbro35]

@@enilenis I'm totally into keeping the working hardware, nothing beats the experience of starting DOS and all those messages during it :) right now having 386 and 486 - still alive and kicking. Only when they all die and can't be repaired, I'll switch to emulators.

[@korzbro35]

So many great titles recalling old memories. Thank you for this trip. Duke Nukem 3D is absolute highlight. I think not many know, but it's very customizable and there is excellent map builder, in which I've spent way too many hours. Own maps, own voices... that was (is) a great game. Duke's voice (Jon St. John) is an icon. I still keep running 386 and 486 both with genuine DOS 6.22 to occasionally go back in time :) what a great times those were.

[@UltraVibeProductions]

I spent way more time using the Build editor than playing the actual game. The engine was surprisingly robust, there was huge creative potential once you learned how to use it.

[@korzbro35]

@@UltraVibeProductions Agreed!

[@ffh1234ffh]

People have forgotten how astonishing Duke Nukem 3D was. It came the same year as Quake, and while this one was absolutely mind-blowing, I remember DN3D as an equally impressive game, being more entertaining because its reallistic environments (for those days' standards). And the mod scene was huge too.

[@zorkmid1083]

I loved the Easter eggs, references to other works, and the crude humor. Duke Nukem Forever, when it finally came out, cut out most of it.

[@Ahrpigi]

Thanks for helping me fill out a GoG wishlist! Probably just going to spend another hundred hours with Master of Orion 2 though 😂

[@jeremymorrison3494]

Dayum, the nostalgia feels on these games, i remember playing most of them back in the day

[@mikef3382]

Wow thank you so much for the upload. So many good memories…so many games i totally forgot about. The golden age of gaming. All there is today was invented back then

[@joyl7842]

Great compilation. So many iconic games. I must have played over a third of these games loads of times.

[@yourfaceisyourlife2323]

Thanks to this channel, I discovered many amazing games, Thank you!👍🏻

[@pauldelmonico4933]

It's that soundblaster 16 midi that really brings you back

[@cesar.arrano]

OMG this was a Nostalgia trip, loved it! ❤

[@InconnuGlitterBoy]

Uff. I worked a a video games salesman in 1995+. This vide made my day. Thank you.

[@gamernick1533]

Master of Magic & UFO: Enemy Unknown are definitely still top of the list for me! I play through them both once a year, usually more and I love them both every time. I have fond memories of my grandfather being hooked on them when I was a kid. I would have sleepovers, just so I could sit next to him in his electronics room and watch him play late into the night :) It's a visceral memory for me and I can feel it when I play them both :)

[@michaelturner6659]

Hereos of might and magic II was my absolute favorite.

[@Microbex]

The absolutely golden age of gaming.

[@NoyaD9]

Lot of these game are still a pleasure to play today. At the end the graphic doesn't matter at all when it comes to fun to play (or maybe it's just me... I grew up with these).

[@korzbro35]

No, it's not just you :) good games age well. I will still do all-nighters with Civilization, Aces of the Deep, Duke Nukem 3D... when something is good, it will be still good 30 years later.

[@skytreker]

The amount of hours I've spent with these... basically my whole childhood. 😁

[@Bookhermit]

Master of Magic!! I never really stopped playing - there are just so many options and strategies that are viable

[@harry_bonkers]

The Dig was not just a game.... it was a MASTERPIECE!

[@hycron1234]

It really was!! 🙂

[@GR33Nday2]

Thank you for uploading this.

[@fordprefect4728]

90s pc gaming, not sure if there was a better time.

[@Afuera86]

Dosen't Elders Scrolls (11:20) looks great for you?

[@fahrvergnuegen]

And still, to this day, Descent was the most mind-blowing game I have seen. Complete 9 axis of freedom in a 3d environment that made your head spin. Nobody has made a better version of this type of game since.

[@scatton61]

I still play it (Descent 2) Brilliant game. You could even play it in VR even back then

[@benjaminmuller9473]

The game i made my brother watch while i played that made him go green with motion sickness haha

[@stephenschenider4007]

I was 7 and went to my rich friends house in 93 and seen Doom. I had a similar experience. Just not Decent or 94.

[@squirrelsinjacket1804]

@@stephenschenider4007 Doom was amazing as a kid in the early 90s. You could do LAN multiplayer with a crossover cable (wish PCs were more portable back then to make it easier to lug over a friends house lol).

[@xxgg]

Good ol’ memories! I absolutely loved stunt driving. I think that was the name, love building custom tracks. Dune 2 was epic. One of my top game also was... 4D boxing.

[@pedromarques8259]

You mean 4d stunts right? kzbin.info/www/bejne/baWmkKKjmZmBjLs that game was awsome, too bad the slightest bump would wreck your car XD! i made the most extrutiantingly difficult tracks i could, like some masochistic-sraights-followed-by-snow-then-osbtacles XD

[@Mike.660]

Myst and Quarantine can also be included in the list👍

[@xxgg]

@@Mike.660 I bought and played MYST on my sister Apple Macintosh computer oh god only knows how long that game was released. This is back when I didn't even though of searching the internet for guides or anything. I clearly remember writting all the notes down on the notebook it came it? I think it did, right? I fully solved and finished the game all by myself, so proud ! I think i wrote the most notes for that piano puzzle part.

[@MasoudSargon]

Insanely good!

[@ggplata]

I was born in 1991 and only had a couple CDs with freeware DOS games on them, Jazz the Jackrabbit, Diablo1, Rise of the Triad, Earthworm Jim, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and Captain Quazar were my favorites. Descent seems oddly familiar though I can't say for sure I played it. What an interesting era for gaming, that's for sure.

[@ricardo_1989]

I was born in 89, my grandpa always gave me freeware cds with games the cds where called twilight zone this was my early years of gaming

[@bananaempijama]

Raptor, what a cool game. Rise of the Triad was glorious, using the many types of rocket launchers

[@erdfkrt541]

​@@bananaempijama Raptor best game of 90s, do you know u can press backspace for full hp and free weapon?

[@honsou1978dk]

BLOOD was fricking amazing! The theme, the sound effects, the vibe, the movie sets. EPIC!!

[@davids8345]

Wow, some solid memories there. I reckon I played about 30% of these games, obviously the AAA titles like Wing Commander, C&C, etc; but even some less known knows like Z.... also quite amazing at some of the graphics differences, like MDK was really ahead of its time...

[@edjack1993]

Lots of absolute classics here. I loved this era of gaming!

[@realnabarl]

It's hard to find a good DOS game list, great job!

[@NihilistWarGod]

Z and settlers OMG. I have to play them again👌🏼

[@TheHiredGun187]

I love X-Com UFO Defense. I probably spent 200+ hours and many restarts to reach end game. I am a fan of the X-Com series of games

[@evi1dav3]

I played a lot of those. So many memories. Thank you!

[@marcoschaub8978]

Crusader 1 & 2 were AMAZING! I was hoping for years that someone would do a remake.

[@man-great]

Thanks for video,there are 43 games of my childhood!!!

[@robadagamer]

When Broken Sword came out in the nineties, it looked so beautiful and innovative. I will never forget those days. I played about 90% of the games shown in this video.

[@enilenis]

Same here. I remember Broken Sword: The Broken Mirror demo on Microsoft Windows Game sampler. The section was short, but I replayed it over and over, because it was like a living book. A later bought the game. Loved it, and kept buying every Broken Sword game there was, even for Wii and Vita. I replay them occasionally for the atmosphere. Don't even mind the 3D one that they've made. It had bad reviews, but to me it was absolutely fine, and true to the formula. There hasn't been a Broken Sword game I didn't like. And I also played about 90% from the list. Back then everyone shared the same games, everyone read about the same games. Only question was, whether they could meet the system requirements. And compatibility with various sound and videocard drivers was never guaranteed. Fun times.

[@lesbo37]

What a list. Settlers 2, Transport Tycoon, Warcraft x2, C&C, Raptor, One Must Fall, X-Com, Dungeon Keeper, Master of Magic & Orion, Mech Warrior II, MKII, Street Fighter 2 and Worms, among so many others, were all goated and all brought a lot of my childhood joy!

[@GodliBits]

So many awesome games! 😎 Bring back so many great memories! Nostalgia at it's best! 🥸👍

[@michahirsch6860]

Das war meine Jugend. Ich hab Tränen in den Augen. Es war eine tolle Zeit...

[@Ry_Will]

8:42 Twinsen's Odyssey I played this game when I was a kid, for years I could not remember the name, thank you so much. I remember it came in a pink CD with some other games inside, this CD was stolen from me with a bunch of others CDs (Well.. I live in Brazil).

[@matthijsvdnet]

My all time favorite game! It was also called 'Little Big Adventure'' in some parts of the world

[@kilroy987]

I'm glad to say I pretty much played the games from this list that I wanted to. I was happiest with TIE Fighter. That game was so polished. I can't remember the first Windows 95 game that ran really, really well.

[@jensmueller5351]

What a golden age of gaming this was!

[@CNC-Time-Lapse]

Trip down memory lane... I miss those days...

[@nogginbonker76]

Full Throttle. What a fantastic game. I played so many of these.

[@atgtrading]

My friends used to come over just to play this on my PC. Legendary soundtrack too.

[@nneddenn6207]

I saw it here and now want to play it again)

[@Widestone001]

Thank you. Lots of good memories. 🙂

[@badwolf66]

3:18 Ecstatica! The best 3D game for 1994 and well ahead of it's time!

[@DJNickyB]

King's Quest V, Transport Tycoon, Theme Hospital and Theme Park literally dominated my childhood. Also, MegaRace. 😁 I was also ecstatic to see Sid Meier's Colonisation on here, as I've been trying to remember the name of this game for nearly 30 years! Epic video.

[@visancosmin8991]

LBA 1 and 2. You made my day.

[@wojtekflis548]

Thank you for short movie and for not saying any comments.

So many great games! My personal favorites being The Pandora Directive, Tie Fighter and C&C.

[@sagrud]

Astonishing how many of these games i played. But i am really happy that you included OMF (One must Fall) - a game i played for quite some while thanks to its improvable Stats and the individual gaming behaviours of each of its robots

[@Rebel635csi]

Man on man, that brought back some memories. Totally forgot I played some of those games…..awesome I grew up during the video game rise.

[@sfg206]

I'm turning 40 this year, these games bring back so many fond memories from my childhood, these games were like escaping into a totally other universe, it was heavenly, I miss it 🥲

[@brianbergmusic5288]

So much love for this era of Dos gaming! One Must Fall, Descent, the C&C series, and even the shareware edition of Jazz Jackrabbit were my main jams. An honorable mention would be the "Ascendancy" by Logic Factory. Yes, the AI in the game is broken, but one cannot deny that the game has an unforgettable atmosphere. It inspired one very deep primal emotion: curiosity. Great concept... poor execution.

[@kornboy22]

Jazz Jackrabbit music was great

[@Xth3Z]

I can agree that Ascendancy was an absolute mind blowing game back then. I played it before ever knowing about the Master of Orion series.

[@blockmasterscott]

I play Ascendancy to this day on Abandonware. Totally awesome game.

[@SalusVindex]

Great game! Cool upload! Big Thumbs up!`👍👍

[@samsoulee]

Daaaaamn those are some masterpieces 👍❤️👌 dungeon keeper, and xcom were unbelievable 🔥 I almost played all of them except some point and click

[@DrCaniko]

That was a nice nostalgia. Thank you

[@marshallodom1388]

I can't believe I bought and played a majority of these games. It was an 8-bit world and we loved it!

[@dermichicom]

16-bit *

[@marshallodom1388]

TY

[@dominikszczesniak]

32-bit mostly guys, those games are playable at 486 and up, hence 32-bit architecture. There are rare examples of 386 games, which is hybrid 16/32 bit architecture

[@squirrelsinjacket1804]

Concur on 32-bit.. 8-bit would have been more early-mid 1980s with the the NES or C64 for example.

[@andrewdupuis1151]

Good old dos days i am happy see people play dos i was playing some dos games earlier today

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

Twinsen’s Adventure was such a MARVELOUS game…

[@samkorzun2670]

У меня на дисках 1 и 2 лежат на полке 1части 30лет уже в этом году исполниься

[@Neveemind]

All the best dos games in one video. Thank you

[@hereticsoul666]

Wow, nostalgia. Played lots of these. I remember better thanks to you!

[@bertilandersson6606]

So many great games! Thanks for the nostalgia tripp

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

Beneath a Steel Sky oh yeaaah! The atmosphere was so unique!!

[@kaputamas2824]

OMG Crusader: No Remorse. I installed the game from 16 floppy disks and it was miraculously working!!! Fallout 1... Transport Tycoon, Simcity, Colonization, Doom. Thinking about it I played with most of these games back then. Ah good old days!

[@jothain]

Crusader has maybe the best ever soundtrack. I was astound how well it worked. That Quake 2 soundtrack and Interstate 76. Those three still today imo are the best game soundtracks ever made.

[@ExtremeMusicSpace]

old is gold, ik heb ervan genoten bedankt

[@sirrob6017]

Duke Nukem blew my mind when I first played it. Such a shame they never sorted out a proper sequel.

[@shaunharris8143]

Crazy to see some of these games and to think how we have progressed... Yet these will forever remain playable to those who grew up with it.

[@Kliptrech26Rg001]

You did a fantastic job, gathered a lot of good games, congratulations, I even subscribed to your channel.

[@romeoporkka3612]

This is literally a litany of my childhood. Every single game I played. MDK Oh my god, that was so good back then.

[@mesicek7]

1:12 I remember with Carmageddon the game would not start if you tried to launch it in Windows 95. You had to restart the pc and boot into ms dos and launch the game from there.

[@AqoCyrale]

I played 28 from this list: Aladdin Blackthrone Blood Carmageddon Command & Conquer Command & Conquer: Red Alert Doom II Duke Nukem 3D Grand Theft Auto Heretic Hexen: Beyond Heretic Heroes of Might and Magic Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars KKND: Krush Kill N Destroy MDK Mortal Kombat II Quake Raptor: Call of the Shadows Rise of the Triad: Dark War Screamer Rally Shadow Warrior SimCity 2000 Super Street Fighter II Turbo The Incredible Machine 2 Tomb Raider Warcraft: Orcs & Humans Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Worms

[@MagSulJA]

I'm genuinely surprised at myself for how many of these I remember playing or owning at some point. Grand Prix II and Descent were unexpected memory-jostlers. xD Gonna have to find the MDK soundtrack now.

[@casspirmk6338]

Good old times…. thanks for bringing sweet memories back

[@MajesticDemonLord]

Pretty much my Childhood - some absolute bangers in this list, including ones I've replayed recently.

[@adamos_svk]

the incredible machines.. that was big

[@calletheduck5915]

The dos games got such charm, many fun games! Discworld serie is awesome! Homm and Warcraft series are legendary ofcourse!;

[@MalXcontent]

Some of these games were really addictive and really well done. Still have some of these!!

[@archieohare]

Great set! Almost all of them are masterpieces of their genres!