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

The top 100 best MS-DOS PC games by Joseph J.Y.A. . Carefully handpicked DOS games to make the best list of all time. All gameplay footage was recorded by Joseph J.Y.A. .
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Likes: 97% | Dislikes: 3% 👍 15,177 | 👎 540 PC Games Playlist - kzbin.info/aero/PLlQ5d8rWFMS9R0ywizbvRiUJXX0NLgVcv Likes and dislikes: last update - 4/18/2024.

[@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.

[@pietu87]

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

[@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.

[@AndrewFlower]

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.

[@Dr.Geek-ZA]

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

[@YeahWellShutUp]

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

[@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!!

[@VanBurenPhilips]

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

[@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

[@XpRnz]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@songsan807]

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

[@joyl7842]

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

[@bobsponge6609]

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

[@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.

[@d3m1g0d4]

I'm always looking forward to your list

[@Gjallar]

Great list and it sure brings some nostalgia. I reckon I've played at least over 65 of these games

[@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.

[@yourfaceisyourlife2323]

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

[@MajesticDemonLord]

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

[@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.

[@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).

[@michaelturner6659]

Hereos of might and magic II was my absolute favorite.

[@tonycrabtree3416]

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

[@chmod1777]

...and then there's Bioforge.

[@Kliptrech26Rg001]

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

[@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

[@jeremymorrison3494]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@realnabarl]

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

[@cesar.arrano]

OMG this was a Nostalgia trip, loved it! ❤

[@incognitovagabond4763]

Thank you So much for this awesome list!!!!

[@GodliBits]

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

[@djbrak1434]

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

[@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 :)

[@bertilandersson6606]

So many great games! Thanks for the nostalgia tripp

[@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.

[@Ahrpigi]

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

[@dc4084]

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

[@man-great]

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

[@wilianwwr]

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

[@DrCaniko]

That was a nice nostalgia. Thank you

[@lucianogiacon8506]

played 44 of those games! So much free time back then..

[@Drizzt_Do_Entreri]

Those were the good ol days for sure.

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

Twinsen’s Adventure was such a MARVELOUS game…

[@skytreker]

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

[@casspirmk6338]

Good old times…. thanks for bringing sweet memories back

[@hereticsoul666]

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

[@PeterKocic]

oh god,thanks for this nostalgia, played so many of these

[@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

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

[@nogginbonker76]

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

[@xavier4728]

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

[@SummitMania]

Ah, the nostalgia... Thank you for reminding this... 😊🎉

[@Widestone001]

Thank you. Lots of good memories. 🙂

[@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.

[@MalXcontent]

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

[@spbalance]

Learned so so much about computers and the english language just trying to access and run these games through a command line. I was like 5+ and could still boot up duke 3d at midnight when I was not supposed to, make/edit levels, run cheats and play throughout the night. Same with command and conquer, warcraft and even impulse tracker etc. It was just something magical and wondrous about that time

[@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...

[@archieohare]

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

[@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.

[@eugenesuragin8534]

Thanks a lot. I played for a bout 1/2 of these games, during school age. Very nostralgical viodeo!

[@visancosmin8991]

LBA 1 and 2. You made my day.

[@alfiebarboza]

dude, the nostalgia, great vid

[@harry_bonkers]

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

[@hycron1234]

It really was!! 🙂

[@limamataobmx]

Lots of nostagic were! Tks for share! ❤

[@electroacademy]

Oooooh my god. Descent was a faint memory from my childhood and I have been trying to find the name of the game for years! Thank you!

[@ExtremeMusicSpace]

old is gold, ik heb ervan genoten bedankt

[@Jewcy_van_Dudeson]

nice Video Dude, thanks!

[@samsoulee]

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

[@Bookhermit]

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

[@CYON4D]

Great list. Some of my favorite games were from this era.

[@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.

[@badwolf66]

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

[@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

[@dokosza2981]

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

[@bad_boy8269]

Great list! Great memories =]

[@costasvasilogiannakis7816]

amazing video great work really love it 5 stars

[@mcw8900]

Played at least half of these. great memories!

[@johnhmstr]

oh man! magic carpet... i had completely forgotten about that one! quite an innovative and amazing game. MDK really pushed the boundaries of how to design an implement a game. The scale of the level and the render distances involved were wild not to mention its goofy & fun design themes... Actually thinking back to playing this game I would not be shocked if some of the Halo design choices for grunts were inspired at least in part from here. Bunch of amazing entries which shaped the gaming world even to this day.

[@bahaakrayem4104]

what a great video I played many of these great games

[@preston7960]

Very awesome, I'd forgotten about star wars dark forces, used to play it on a friend of a friends PC because I was young and my family couldn't afford one back then

[@gerryk101]

My mind got blown with all the memories. Maximum back to the future Trippin Ballz ! Cool beanz!

[@spankyboi4080]

Everytime I see such videos Nostalgia runs all through my body. 😮

[@Microbex]

The absolutely golden age of gaming.

[@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.

[@FluffyFractalshard]

wow! this was such an awesome trip down memory lane! in 1996 I was only 8 years old but I watched my mum and uncle play some of these games and some I played myself. Actually I am quite surprised how many of these games I know from back then.

[@brentdoyle7581]

Awesome video thank you

[@donkee011]

Thank you for the memories...

[@nuramosde306]

Wow. Some of them were gems. Played them a lot. Thanks for reminding...

[@Mattwbar]

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.

[@nightwishn]

nostalgia in its finest form good memories played almost everything there

[@beaminscotty]

I played nearly all these games! Such great memories!

[@edmainetti]

Que perfeição esse vídeo. Parabéns.

[@ConcertCrazeTV]

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

[@corrupt1user]

Oh man, C&C. Apparently they decided to make a game to sell awesome Metal music. Hell March (opening theme of Red Alert) still gives me chills.

[@adammah1908]

Beautiful and calm times. I want my offline old computer with dos right now.

[@marcoschaub8978]

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

[@antagonisstic]

Played many of these. Tomb Raider, Descent and also Carmageddon are may favorites.

[@SamuelBlackMetalRider]

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

[@JJRNANDI]

Great list, contain many games i played in especially Ultima VIII is the best, rox, thanks !