Introduction to DOS Gaming: Past & Present

[@MetalJesusRocks]

That was a fun overview of DOS gaming in the 80s and 90s! Really enjoyed it.

[@GameplayandTalk]

This was a fun talk covering a lot of aspects of DOS Gaming. Congrats on having the opportunity to give it at an expo, and thanks for posting it here on KZbin.

[@nolastionut2243]

I really miss those games and those times

[@ryanchristensen5266]

You sounded pretty put together and confident to me. I would have been a wreck, on the other hand. I get nervous recording on a mic with no-one in the room! I suppose if it's something you care a lot about it helps. Good info, hope to see more stuff soon, man.

[@sgt.pepper253]

Great stuff, I loved the angle of showing people more than likely totally unaware of these games in such an honest and urnest way. That Ultima Ad still kills me.

[@oplenti]

this was very interesting, I really enjoyed it. you bring my youth back...:D thank you.

[@alexander_mejia]

#TeamVGA

[@danielricardo5029]

My first games were IBM's Alley Cat and Prince of Persia.

[@MadsterV]

My favorite version of Alley Cat is Atari 8-bit !! colorful and with good sound. I have yet to try the original PoP on Apple II, but I playerd it first on PC.

[@davidmt4067]

Thank you for sharing this. Very entertaining!

[@backwardsarmadillo]

Great work. Thank you.

[@cmelft2463]

This was quite interesting. As someone whose earliest gaming would be wolfenstein 3d and doom 1/2 (probably 4-5 yrs old at the time) Thankyou

[@joshn2564]

Their are still Big Box games, they call them collector editions, however the actual game may not be included.

[@dosnostalgic]

The difference between CEs and Big Boxes is that the stuff inside was mostly required to play, or to enhance the experience, not just some barely related toy or, God forbid, funko pop.

[@Meme-go9ts]

Great talk! Thank you for sharing!

[@LastofAvari]

Спасибо за запись!

[@waltermcinnis]

Well done. Thank you!

[@arminachtduizend975]

Testdriver 3 still is one of y favorite racing games, it was so cool to find alternative routes and suddenly jump of a cliff to win another few seconds.

[@MadsterV]

I could never get it to run at the right speed. It's always either too fast or too slow!

[@arminachtduizend975]

@@MadsterV And Need for speed came later, little use for too fast. :p

[@carlosteixeira2614]

#TeamDOS

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

Test Drive III was awesome! Screw the haters

[@DrIngo1980]

Danke, Anatoly. That was a nice talk and I enjoyed your presentation here on KZbin. My first computer was a IBM PC/XT compatible 80268 and I remember vividly that my dad - with next to no knowledge of the English language and the manuals being in English - set up a working MS-DOS 5.something OS Disk to boot from. Which I, back then maybe about a 10 years old German brat, immediately destroyed by trying out all commands the manual had examples for, including “del *.*” (or something to that effect). ... Yeah, my ass got a got beating that day, but the very next day my dad said something among the lines “if you can fuck it up, you may as well just unfuck it!” And so I tried with the help of the little 30 pages German pamphlet that explained the System compared to the 3 books with 300-500 pages each in English that had proper explanations for everything in them. ... Anyway I got the computer up and running again and that was my hook up into IT and software development in general. Good times. Especially with all those DOS games you mentioned. Such great memories. Thank you!

[@ljp1942]

Thank you sir IT in my country is jeans and joggers money.

[@armorgeddon]

Haha, lovely content. Worst thing I did to my father's DOS machine once could be fixed with the sys C:\ command I think it was. I had deleted some system files from root since I thought it looked unclean having files scattered around in root. I'm also German and I think all that English text in so many games was really motivating and also helping to learn the language. That time also established mix-words like "abgesaved" and later of course "gedownloadet". :-D

[@OldAussieAds]

You weren’t the angry German kid were you?

[@kariktv9260]

С удовольствием посмотрел и послушал. Сам начинал с DOS игр в конце 80х, но принимая во внимание цены на биг боксы тех времен, в коллекции их у меня сейчас всего три: D, Ripley's Beleive it or Not: Master Lu и Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen's Odyssey. Остальное в джевелах, в основном пиратка начала 90х (на память из детства). В настоящее же время коллекционирую для Mega Drive, Super Famicom и PS3. Еще раз благодарю! Appreciate! Иван.

[@Atlas-bp2fr]

Да там только 3 человека в зале сидят и слушают его. Много воды имхо

[@silkwesir1444]

33:40 i thought the red thing in the background was also part of the box, and thought "yeah that's a weird shape" and then when you said the first game had a box like that too, i thought "really??? they did THAT twice?"

[@dosnostalgic]

Not the original release, but the re-release of the first game was indeed the same weird shape.

[@silkwesir1444]

yes, but to me it was even more unbelievable because i thought the red thing on the wall somehow was part of the box...

[@GuilleArgies]

great expo!!! and thx to share...i would asked him about the difficulty of that retro games vs the new ones...because i can see that now the games are a full of graphics and music but really poor in some stuff like the difficult and the trama...is more like now the games are created more to not think. FOr example right now we are witnesses how strategy games are literally dying for more arcade, sports and shooters games. That make me wonder if we are created a dumb generation. Take a look the old DOS games...for example X-Com enemy unknow, amazing game but really hard, and like that you can find a lot of titles when the games was really hard to pass. Also seems today we cant find good titles, only the same titles with more aftermath...Civilization and Heroes of might and magic are a good examples, modifying they playability and make it easier the companies use the title only for the idea to sale (you will pay EA what you have done with Command and Conquer). And this is getting worse...with VR just foget use the brain, is only games with movement and the show of play with your senses. Why the retro gamers cant find good games? is because in that time i was just a kid or something more? I just loose the excitement for the video games like the old times...is only me? anyone else is suffering a similar thing. How in the world that old graphics and poor sounds of old games bring me so many good times of anxiety, dedication, joy and frustration and now nothing at all? fogives my english, i never was a really good student in the english classroom. Greetings from Argentina.

[@dosnostalgic]

I am actually not about fetishizing the past. I think there are plenty of great games today, and games that are sufficiently challenging. I also don't think that all the challenge back in the day was fair or good. Times change, as so do the principles of game design. It's cool.

[@GuilleArgies]

thanks to ask!

[@TheRetroRaven]

#TeamEGA

[@Jaystarzgaming]

DOS nowadays is known as Denial Of Service

[@intrinia]

Popfilter and audio compressor next time please. Otherwhise great video!

[@dosnostalgic]

Noted on compressor. Kind of unusual to use a pop filter while walking around on stage though.

[@intrinia]

DOS Nostalgia Popfilter is just some foam over the mic. You can apply a filter in post too via software, but it's some unnecessary work.

[@Tudrum2]

Screen at 12:13 is wrong, real game presented here is Eye of the Beholder 1, not 2

[@dosnostalgic]

No, that is, in fact, Eye of the Beholder 2. Just checked. Still have the saved game right there.

[@contimusic8357]

Cool, did you ever give my music a listen? Keep up the good work!

[@StusGameReviews]

Why is there no video at the end? :(

[@theboshua]

do you live in new york? i had just figured you lived in russia or something

[@dosnostalgic]

I am very much in New York.