25 Dos Games still great to play In 2021

[@spearPYN]

All DOS games are worthy of playing now and forever. The 80s and 90s was the peak of human civilization!

[@alangarland8571]

They were just plain fun for fun. No such crap as paying an additional amount to get some trivial advantage.

[@brucetungsten5714]

It was the golden era as DOS was, "unintentionally", an open system where one could, with exceptions, roam as they pleased. Later on the usage of Protected Mode realized the full potential.

[@canman87]

I was talking about this at work a few months ago and If I had a time machine, I would absolutely go back to the early 90s NO QUESTIONS ASKED. As a general rule, I don't think things have ever been better before or since then.

[@MrHFAlucard]

@@canman87 You have a point with that, but....playing as a kid on an NES in the 80 ist still a bit more comfy. But living my life growing up with all these stuff...give me my NES/S-NES AND! my C-64/Intel 368/Atari ST and i would die of joy.

[@canman87]

@@MrHFAlucard I was born in '87, so I was a little too late to be able to relate to growing up in the 80s, lol. But I totally hear ya. I started on a Commodore 64 as well, so I'd take one of those, a NES, a SNES, and I'd be perfectly content!

[@anamoly01]

these mb games still worth 50x more valueable than today’s graphics focused games. The games in 80,90 were fun to play, had great story and gameplay elements, element of surprise, great soundtracks, dialogues

[@aquarius5719]

MechWarrior 2 and Hi-Octane games deliver me more adrenaline than today's games.

[@zagor1974]

Its the same with the movie industry, great technology, miserable stories. I like to take out my old c64 and play a round of microdot. 😊

[@magilviamax8346]

I love Ultima Underworld! After so many years I'm still waiting to forget all secrets, just to play it again for the first time a second time in my life 😍

[@ambrogiocremona]

Was it ever patched enough not to waste a milion hours playing. I mean especially inventory problems

[@magilviamax8346]

Which problems are you referring to? Never had any

[@VascoLopes79]

Played almosta this games an agree with everyone of the suggestions. Who grew in the MS-DOS era certainly liked to play that games again.

[@ctb7376]

are you drunk?

[@jessodum3103]

I remember the animations of Battle Chess being funny, but I'd forgotten how funny. Plus, playing it as a kid, I hadn't yet seen Monty Python Holy Grail, so I didn't know that the knights fighting was referencing that.

[@MattC78]

I used to play Oregon Trail on the Apple 2 in Jr high, even before these. That game was great. Don't die from dysentery.

[@sergeikuranov7033]

Unbelievable how Warcraft 2 is looking so much ahead of its time.

[@bartsullivan4866]

Its still fun to pickup and play the 1st Warcraft game not to much.

[@ramchandrahegde2763]

I still play it.

[@bartsullivan4866]

I would mine every piece of gold and cut down every tree and wait to wipe out the enemy to get the highest score. Some funny rankings they came up with.

[@tomasburian6550]

Especially with the map editor.

[@sekaisekai3568]

Hmm... What about Dangerous Dave 2, Flashback, Prince of Persia 1&2, X-com, Under the killing Moon, Mortal Kombat 1-3, Descent, F-19 Stealth Fighter, System Shock, The Dig, Lost Vikings, Lands of Lore, King's Bounty, Jagged Alliance, Master of Orion?

[@seamushadron]

Slipstream 5000, Simon the Sorcerer, Terminal Velocity, Conflict:Freespace, Euro 92, Supaplex, Crammond's F1 Grand Prix :P

[@erfanrazi205]

Prince of Persia and Lost Vikings were awsome!

[@aquarius5719]

Flashback is available for PS3.

[@samnite3]

My recommendations: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space, Heroes of Might and Magic, Master of Orion, Sword of the Samurai, Red Baron, Wing Commander series, X-wing, Tie Fighter, Diablo, Knights of the Sky, Jagged Alliance, X-COM, Crusader No Remorse, Crusader No Regret, Castles 2 Siege and Conquest. I wasn't allowed to get a gaming console after the NES in the 90s due to my parents thinking it would distract from school. Little did they know the games available for the computer!

[@richardadams4928]

That's an awesome list!

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

A bunch of those are still being offered for sale.

[@samnite3]

@@SmallSpoonBrigade GOG is a great resource for sure

[@dokhycodan1012]

Wasn't Diablo for windows?

[@aquarius5719]

And because of these games many kids learned how to configure computers so they became self taught tech support agents for the company that hired them. Learning how to customize autoexec. bat and config. sys was a core skill of a gamer.

[@brucetungsten5714]

DoomII was unbelievable when it came out - still love it to this day. The era when WatcomC was the main staple of developers was the coolest... so much crafty engineering. Later on it all became more and more streamlined and boring.

[@spearPYN]

IMHO the original Quake is the most interesting technology ever. It was a game that changed our world forever.

[@brucetungsten5714]

@@spearPYN Absolutely - the amount of technical expertise which is featured in the Quake source code is second to none. So many clever algorithms(+OS based init routines) and most importantly the Pentium specific code sections which actually delivered real world performance gains. Overall it was a gargantuan achievement by Carmack, Abrash and the id crew. I chose DoomII because I prefer it as an overall experience. Quake only wins for me in LAN based Deathmatch... especially "The Abandoned Base".

[@LifeAmpHealth]

For nerds, check out John Carmack interview with Lex Friedman. It’s amazing!

[@SianaGearz]

Streamlined and boring? I should say not so, i would say the problem has become increasingly that the amount of knowledge required to spin up a modern game codebase from ground up has become impossible to grasp for any single person or a small group of people. As something i find particularly impressive i point to GPU driven rendering and GPU driven geometry culling first made by Sebastian Aaltonen in Assassins Creed Unity. This is almost mind bending stuff. And there's more of that thing going on every day. Perhaps we did have an era of boring video cards dominating and streamlining the industry in the interim, before shaders came along. To make things worse, they were already not thoroughly supporting palletised textures.

[@GKitz211]

I play "Block Out" from 1989 since then. Because of the highscores including the date of the scores new records keep being highly motivating. Love it!

[@svendaennart]

I´m a huge blockout fan as well. Is there a proper remake of this game?

[@GKitz211]

@@svendaennart There are some Windows-clones, I guess. But I wouldn't change it because of the old scores to beat in the original. ;)

[@samljer]

Imagine if we had the computers of today, with the peak gameplay and creativity of the 80s and 90s

[@frilansspion]

you mean just "imagine if we were as creative as in the 90s"

[@doom5895]

@@frilansspion games now are missing something ever since 2015 shits been mostly stale

[@frilansspion]

@@doom5895 Id say since Half Life 2 (not counting indie, which however also suffers from sameness due to engines...) But I bet there comes a time soon when people look back fondly to the days when at least people were involved in making games, and it wasnt all AI. "things were shittier but at least it was Ours" theyll say.

[@Nik-6675]

​@@doom5895True

[@Jay_Sullivan]

@@frilansspion, I’d rather be living in the ’90s with today’s technology.

[@fabien2430]

simply add: another world, land of lore and little big adventure, and your list is perfect.

[@aquarius5719]

Another world is available for PS3 too.

[@hybo9159]

@@aquarius5719 And don't forget "heroes of might and magic" or "shannara"

[@Rustythemouse]

As it should... I just hear the Settlers 1 music became feeling myself in my childhood's best days.

[@JocelinCaron]

All great games but where's my Syndicate by bullfrog 😢

[@SomeCanine]

I can't tell you how many hours I sunk into these games as a kid, mostly because I can't remember. It was a lot though.

[@cyrildanko8422]

Don't forget Prince of Persia 1 & 2

[@barberousse1149]

Played most for countless hours and believe me nostalgia is better left in the past to keep the good memories intact, as we'd be disappointed by most of them except for Day of the tentacle!

[@canman87]

DOS games rule. I've played a number of these over the years, mostly around the time they were new, and they sill stand up today. Hell, I've been playing Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold a bit over the past week or so; I still love that game so much!

[@aquarius5719]

When gameplay delivered joy. Today companies compete to deliver short term improved graphics, forget about gameplay.

[@matternicuss]

A few more recommendations… X-Wing and Tie Fighter Wing Commander 1-4 Descent 1 and 2 Lands of Lore Might and Magic 3, 4, and 5 Ultima VII: Part 1 and 2 Heretic Blood

[@thehellyousay]

SSI's general series. Panzer General, Allied General, Civil War General, Fantasy General, Space General ... There was a Warhammer 40k game they put out that used that same format, too. Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat was good too.

[@geraldperez2768]

Dune II looks and sounds like the same guys that did command and conquer. Edit: upon review, "oh shit! It was them!"

[@samnite3]

Westwood studios was great until EA bought them and ruined the company

[@TomCarbon]

The Settlers was not a Ubisoft game in 1992! Bluebyte has been acquired by Ubisoft in 2001…

[@jong2359]

That is what happens when bot AI writes almost all of our KZbin content.

[@PaganMin-1966]

Star Wars: Dark Forces also still great to play nowadays

[@MeMe-od3ow]

Settlers 2 was originally on ms-dos however is now available on windows, can be bought on Good old games and has a 10 year anniversary edition. -Cheers

[@23not32]

People have already commented with more games, I want only to add: Ultima Underworld II (a game I was very fond of), and Elite: Frontier (an entire universe on a 720 floppy disk).

[@Slammy555]

What's amazing is I remember the graphics seemed so advanced at the time. Any of the Microprose strategy games or SSI RPGs, this is my era of video games. Also MOO2, RotT, UT, Wing Commander; so many great games.

[@savagex9000]

I remember playing blockout as a kid and everytime our computer crashes, I had to remove the RAM which are tiny IC's and a bunch of them and reinsert each one back hoping that the computer will boot again.

[@agestone]

I still play Transport Tycoon (Deluxe), Wing Commander 3-4, many Sierra, Virgin, Lucas Arts and Psygnosis quests. C&C, Dune 2000, X-Com, Ecstatica 1-2. Lots of 1992-1998 MS-DOS games are timeless pieces of Art.

[@ramchandrahegde2763]

Transport Tycoon, Heroes2 of Might & Magic, Age of Empires 1 & Theme Hospital are the best ones from that era. I still play them.

[@samiajre6852]

my first pc was around 1998 i played some of those but prefered arcade ones ( Need for speed 1 , moto racer 1 &2 , Fifa 99 ,

[@chucknorris2952]

The dodge Viper on Need for speed

[@MrBogfrog]

That Sim City music.

[@JeevaDotNet]

Would definitely add Little big adventures /Relentless 1 (name depending on region). Goblins, Sierra adventure games, Hi-octane also runs nicely on dosbox.

[@Justforvisit]

Half of this video is my childhood, I played most of these games either on an Amiga 500 or my uncles 3.86 PC :)

[@jonassamuelschoeller]

Settlers wasnt done by Ubisoft. They just purchased the studio and the license 10 years after release.

[@vicegamer6944]

Today’s old school dos games looks more amazing in VR. I should know!

[@shaurz]

Epic Pinball is my evergreen game of choice

[@hrungnir00008psp]

Choice is a mixed bag. The second part of the series were usually better: Settler 2, Fate of Atlantis, Command and Conquer (or was the latter in the 90s). And no Sierra adventure games in the list!??

[@oldsteamguy]

How did Tie Fighter not get on the list ?!?!

[@aquarius5719]

The mainstream games were FPS. Simulation and scifi games are often disregarded by KZbinrs. So it is more likely to find nostalgia videos about Mario and Doom than about Battlezone or Freespace 2 or Independence War Deluxe Edition.

[@archieohare]

The Kyrandia Trilogy is worth to check!

[@VRReviews11]

Seasame seeds

[@aquarius5719]

No list is complete without Kyrandia

[@moregamemusic]

Good list but Transport tycoon Deluxe and Theme Park should be on any ones list IMO.

[@Winnetou17]

But they're not exactly DOS games, they're pretty windows-y

[@mikaruyami]

TTD was made for windows, but the original Transport Tycoon was a DOS game which also has a mars reskin you could use.

[@ltnordgulen]

This basicly sums up my childhood😂 Great nostalgia!

[@jamesabbott2927]

Star Control 2 is missing from this list.

[@orhanaliyev9774]

I still have the first game on floppy disks, though they sold it under the name Serf City.I remember Magic Carpet, Civilization,Colonization,Retail,Uprising 2 , Redneck rampage, 7 kingdoms etc.

[@cactusdragon3553]

Some more i can think of: Rogue (Hack, Nethack) X-Com Indianapolis 500 Master of Magic Kings quest series Space quest series Quest for Glory series Grand Monster Slam

[@aquarius5719]

I do not know why KZbinrs always ignore space games.

[@Sept_to_may]

Day of the Tentacle!!!

[@PeBoVision]

I've never thought of Lemmings as a DOS game, having played it on everything but a PC.

[@bielefeldundmehr2461]

I enjoyed it on my AMIGA 500.

[@ramchandrahegde2763]

These games lacked today's sleek graphics but more than made up for it by the great game play.

[@aquarius5719]

For me it is MechWarrior 2, Hi-Octane, Wing Commander 1 to 4, Carrier Command.

[@tofu1313]

Interesting choices! Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is severely underrated. Massively influential to the entire adventure genre yet often overlooked in favor of Fate of Atlantis (which is superior but Last Crusade is still a great game worth checking out). Also Eye of the Beholder! One of the greatest D&D games in my opinion. The Sega CD version is worth checking out too because of its weird techno soundtrack that shouldn't fit yet somehow does.

[@TrevJericho]

I remember how much alone in the dark spooked me as a kid

[@scimbrelo]

That shadow warrior music playing in the clip was nice

[@alexfrozen]

There even more good quality: Larry 7 I have no mouth and I must scream Prehistoric 2

[@AndersonNeo12]

Stil playing Master of Orion, released 1993. It was fun as kid and is stil today. After u finished playing, it literally gives you the option "Quit to do Dos" 😊

[@aquarius5719]

Star Control II released in 1992 went open source. For legal reasons it was renamed as UrQuan Masters.

[@AndersonNeo12]

@aquarius5719 never heard of it before, after some research, it kinda looks similar to Master of Orion

[@aquarius5719]

Can you make a video about scifi games 1990-2010?

[@IamR3D88]

Surprised Epic Pinball didn't make the list. Its hard to find good pinball games, they usually get too complex, But Epic Pinball is still up there with Space Cadet and Pokemon Pinball imo

[@StoneXue]

THere is an old DOS game called 4d boxing. Man I think I put more hours into that game in the 90s than I have any game since including GTA4/5 and Skyrim.

[@PerfectHandProductions]

Man, I loved Tomb Raider and would love to see a modern remake.

[@themetalcatacombs3790]

well, it exists, with Lara killing lots of people with a bow, and nobody gets anything else

[@PerfectHandProductions]

@@themetalcatacombs3790 Yeah haha, I don't count that.

[@thewhyzer]

Tomb Raider Anniversary is the "modern remake" of the original Tomb Raider.

[@PerfectHandProductions]

@@thewhyzer Yeah, I'd like a 2022 RTX modern remake haha

[@marccaselle8108]

I have tomb raider gold and I play it with dosbox game launcher

[@martinlatvian5538]

Oh, I remember another game CyberDogs 1 and CyberDogs 2 its fun to play with Your friend on same keyboard.

[@MikeOgima]

No Commander Keen? Or Tank Wars? Or Star Control?

[@jamesabbott2927]

Star Control forever

[@RussMichaels]

i prefer 3d games that don't try to look too realistic. If they just rebooted the old ones like duke nukem, hexen etc with more updated gfx, they would be awesome.

[@idintwanttodothis]

I grew up with simcity 2000 and i still play it to this day

[@catgaming9791]

Great collection of old classics. Used to love Duke Nukem!

[@chucknorris2952]

My brother also like duke nukem. So much, that he took his name. Saw it in his passport xD

[@bondjovi4595]

Nothing beats Duke3d in Win98 dos mode. 👍

[@mikeneverland586]

Just missing there first real FPS game Terminator Future Shock, both System Shocks and Prince of Persia I,II :-)

[@victorvance2573]

A great game but far from being the first FPS! With Terminator Rampage there was even already a Terminator themed FPS game earlier which wasn´t the first one either.

[@mikeneverland586]

Thee were FPS games before Terminator Future Shock (Wolfenstein, Doom, Dark Forces, System Shock, Ultima Underworld), but TFS was first game which had real 3D with full mouse look and aim .... Quake 1 and Unreal 1 with same technology came after. If I am wrong and there were another read 3D FPS before TFS please correct me :-). I think it was solid game with some flaws and bugs but the control and look and feel was revolutionary. If you climbed to some high structure you could get vertigo :-)

[@tomhoni9642]

first thing i thought of as i clicked the vid was the settlers and bam ^^

[@exilliss]

Dang.. the person playing Civ 1 made some poor decisions

[@svendaennart]

have not played it for more than 20 years, please forgive me :D

[@exilliss]

@@svendaennart just this once ❤

[@darthvincor]

Very cool games. Though I initially couldn't play Dune2, not having the necessary 8mb free hard disk space on my first computer.

[@JamesMartin-bc8xq]

Hexen haven’t played that for along long time, spent so much time on that game

[@edsiefker1301]

Hey, it's 2023 and I'm wondering if these games are still great to play.

[@TobiasSchindegger]

Gute Auswahl. Ich habe auch mit einer Playlist für Dosgames begonnen. Duke Nukem 3D war das Coop-Multiplayer Highlight damals ... 🙂

[@flowrepins6663]

wasnt it singleplayer?

[@TobiasSchindegger]

@@flowrepins6663 No, you can play it coop ...

[@bielefeldundmehr2461]

Es fehlen die drei Spiele, die ich viel mit meinen Brüdern gespielt habe: - Der Patrizier - Bundesliga Manager Professional - Bandit kings of ancient China Und natürlich der erste Teil von Monkey Island.

[@ultimategamer2669]

Nice to see Civilization in here, but what about Dangerous Dave 2 and the Commander Keen series?

[@erfanrazi205]

I was trying to remember their name. Thanks!

[@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.

[@littlerune4047]

Ultima Underworld ♥️

[@Trusteft]

Good list.

[@Michael-vm4bb]

The frog in Alone in the dark freaked me out, what the hell loll! 😅

[@mursarigaming]

Battlezone, UFOs, Steel Panthers II

[@bobbleton6517]

That Monty Python reference in Battle Chess is great. Where's The Incredible Machine?

[@aquarius5719]

Where is Hi-Octane?

[@Narxes081206]

Betrayal at Krondor should be on this list!

[@chucknorris2952]

Jagged alliance.

[@iamblablabla]

Don't forget it, Bandit Kings of Ancient China and RTK3

[@nosuchthing8]

Good list. Sim city always looked like a level designer tweaked to look like a game.

[@manusoftar]

thsi list deserved the following titles and didn't feature 'em: - Crusader: no regret - Time Comando - Jazz JackRabbit (1 and 2) - RollerCoaster Tycoon (the first one I believe could be run over DOS, I mean, it was meant for Windows 98, but up to that point it was nothing more than a GUI for DOS) - Zokoban

[@yakovkhalip9714]

I play dos games on ... real h-w - in 2006 began to collect cassic computers - now have about 40 machines from IBM 5150 to Penitum-III)

[@gorochaan]

You left out master of magic which started getting new updates. Yes, after 26 years they made patches and a new launcher that includes original game with official patch and alternative version with community patch. I mean what other developer would do that?!

[@cactusdragon3553]

That game was amazing! Iwill have to check out the updates.

[@M.W.H.]

Zilla sends his regards, Lo Wang.

[@johnalbert6900]

Don’t forget: Syndicate / Syndicate Wars One Must Fall 2097 Ascendancy Rise of the Triad Dark Forces / Jedi Knight X-COM / TFTD Strike Squad Siege Dungeon Keeper

[@nichtangeklagter]

hooked on the first second

[@blazingnomad]

everyone keeps forgetting Skyroads and Descent

[@KurisuBlaze]

I know Settlers 2 has been mentioned, but what about One Must Fall 2097?

[@Osprey850]

I just found this video, but it's 2024. I'm 3 years too late. 😢

[@jimmyf2618]

Do you know any dos games with 16 bit color or above ? The only game I remember with that option was screamer racing game

[@redeclipseprojects9746]

dude the tomb raider one always beat my aS$ WHEN I WAS A KID

[@OjiiOsoi]

Damn, it's 2024. I missed the boat.

[@erich6860]

Folks should play the Duke Nukem remake on Serious Sam.

[@flensburgerpilzproductions3141]

Castle of the Winds, Ports of Call

[@neoteraflare]

No XCom games?

[@tomasburian6550]

I was gonna say stright out of the beginning that Settlers hit hard, but who am I kidding? They all still hit hard

[@czhusky]

The lion king was much better game than Aladdin in DOS. X wing series were very good as well.

[@Mirrodin82]

How about adding Heroes of Might and Magic on the list? The best strategy game ever made

[@Starbug1S1]

Block Out reminded me of Welltris.