20 MS-DOS games released in 1985 - in under 5 minutes

[@zosxavius]

KQ2 was so ahead of everything out there at the time. It looks so primitive now, but Sierra was really pushing the cutting edge in their day. What a big year with so many classics released. Carmen Sandiego, F-15, Silent Service, KQ2, and even Ultima IV! I played the hell out of Silent Service 2 and it was a long time before anything really better came about. And Ultima IV on the NES was honestly one of the best RPGs on the system with an open world right from the very start.

[@CATinBOOTS81]

THO, Ultima IV on the Sega Master System was much better :)

[@Pinman1973]

The C64 was the king back then. But i also liked the sierra adventure games on the pc back then.

[@pablo_p_art]

Those were funny times! So many games per year, so many experiments with new things! And mastery of programming to squeeze more from PC by tricks.

[@j.d.6915]

EGA graphics to the rescue!

[@dennyhaynes3]

You can see the PC coming on leaps and bounds as the graphics and gameplay are really improving.

[@retrononame]

Agreed. Improvements in gfx and programming (playability) are evident. It's gonna be only "up" from now I suppose.

[@CATinBOOTS81]

Yes, but still 4 awful colors (cyan/magenta/black/white) and terrible bleeping sounds. It's kind of weird, compared to other computers of the time.

[@JasperTedVidalTale]

I really don't understand on why companies didn't make third party GPUs and sound cards & upgrades only Tandy did it others simply just waited for ibm to release stuff

[@JasperTedVidalTale]

​​@@jkeelsnc But the ibm pc was made with something akin to open source so that means theoretically anyone can make upgrades to it but like i said almost no one made their own hardware for ibm pc which is a shame considering the endless capabilities it could have had

[@JasperTedVidalTale]

@@jkeelsnc I wish someone could go back in time to announce saying "Hey you can make your own upgrades to the ibm pc you don't have to be stuck with cga & ibm pc speaker"

[@JasperTedVidalTale]

@@jkeelsnc Same

[@paulpatti8184]

Creative contraptions its really impressive for a '85 ms dos game

[@tedk.4957]

ultima iv had not been released for ms-dos until 1987

[@retrononame]

You are correct. I double checked, and although practically every web site lists U4 as 1985 release, the MS-DOS was indeed released 2 years later. Thanks for the correction. Will put the note into the video description.

[@neilthomas8070]

It seems that the graphics have improved Along with most computers at the time; I didn't play the games, I was a console boy. I'm looking for a PC that plays games, that don't take too much processing power, and it would be nice to play them.

[@obregr]

donald duck je bil na c 64 mi je bla ušeč,kere pa ti najraje igraš?

[@retrononame]

Če misliš na DOS, potem kakšen Wizardry 7 in podobne RPG-je. Tudi avantur (v stilu Kings Questa v tem filmčku) se lotim. V bližnji prihodnosti imam plan odigrati Space Quest 3.