101 MORE MS DOS GAMES (1981-1998)

[@peterjantzer4767]

My children were born in 78, 82 and 84. As a famly we spent many hours enjoying some of these games. Thanks for the sweet memories.

[@matthewlane518]

I was born in 78😆 my parents didn't play too much Atari/Nintendo with me but they bought me the consoles and games and I had a brother close to my age so, good times

[@joophaan6911]

@@matthewlane518 pa

[@Shorty_Lickens]

I was born in 1979 and believe me I loved the slow but steady transition of gaming in the 90's.

[@nachosoberado310]

Thank you!!! I've been searching for the name of the game call of the shadows for several years and I've finally found it here. Thank you!!!!

[@W4rr4X]

Damn, Jazz Jackrabbit, Masters of Magic, Epic Pinball, One Must Fall... I have a huge library of abandonware, I think I'll reinstall everything... thanks for the memories !

[@LightwaveAl]

Do it!

[@schlumbl84]

So many memories! Makes me think of the days when my dad was sitting at his Computer and we gathered around him, watching, helping solving puzzles in the games... Alone In The Dark scared me as a child but I loved watching it. Later my sister and I had our own computer and we played games like Commander Keen, Shadow Of The Comet, Monkey Island and so many more. Sweet sweet memories! I miss those days when PC games were something special that brought the family together. 😫

[@GarionG34]

Incredible, I had played 75-80% of these games !

[@NordDron0]

me too :)

[@smashrulezzz6446]

Beautiful memories of times when playing computer games was not mainstream and most of those games brought everytime something new and amazing.... I am still in love with my C=64 and first very expensive PC 386 SX then :-) I will never forget this era! And i will never forget the times when i brought tapes from my friends and load error messages on C=64 and later several floppies from the school times where last of them had bad sectors on my PC :-D

[@ClayLoomis1958]

I play Red Dead Redemption 2, and looking back, I'm amazed that I was SO entertained by those early games. I had an IBM XT with a 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, 512k RAM, and two 5.25 inch floppy drives. No hard drive, 4 color CGA graphics at 320x200 resolution (one step up from monochrome). And yet, I thought those early games were just the most fantastic thing technology had ever given mankind. I still look back on those days fondly, although I certainly appreciate the upgraded graphics the decades have given us.

[@LightwaveAl]

Just think what games will be like when you’re 80, if you’re still playing then!

[@squidprince2456]

I had the IBM 3.2 MHz CGA graphics. Incredible level of entertainment with only 4 colors!

[@ClayLoomis1958]

@@LightwaveAl That's 16 years. No bet.

[@lilwyvern4]

@@ClayLoomis1958 Small world, uncle.

[@DrWho2008t101]

Thanks for the video. This brings back memories. I remembered this as if it was yesterday.

[@-Vitalis-]

I played Raptor: Call of the Shadows for so many damn hours... DAY AFTER DAY... It still has an awesome replay value. One of the best games from the 90's.

[@LastCallAgain]

FWIW I like the in-game audio better than the techno soundtrack from the previous video. Hoping to find "that one game I used to play" in one of these lists. Thanks for sharing!

[@zombiesbyte331]

I played the disk version of Loom which was the EGA version, very simple graphic and no fancy sound effects like talking but still beautiful. I was quite amazed at the simplistic user interactions compared to other games of this genre.

[@apartmajasna7546]

Nice video - i love the fact you put years in dos box - and leave original sounds

[@LightwaveAl]

🙌🏼

[@blazeflamestrike]

There’s something about these old games and the way they were made that made them far more enjoyable to play than today’s games. Something that could contribute to that is the fact that once you bought a game you could play the full game with no limitations, not competing with other players except by the high score you got with everyone being on even ground, not having any “additional costs” and DLC. Developers these days create games so easy thanks to the technology the older generation created and then have the hide to keep asking for more money even after someone has done them the favour of buying their game. Such greed today.

[@xBaphometHx]

There are games that can be played over and over again currently. And also, saying that competitive games are something bad... Dude, I was born in 84 and even if I can say that old games have their own value that makes them special. I can enjoy current games a lot more because of how online gaming allowed everyone to play with other players from other places.

[@mein-biedenkopf]

Komplett und ohne Einschränkungen. Musst aber auch mit einbeziehen, dass selbst die kleinste Nebenaufgabe in einem modernen Computerspiel um ein vielfaches komplexer ist als der Pixelbrei damals und nein, die Spiele waren nicht angenehmer... es gab nix anderes damals! Wenn ich die heute in der Emulation starte, dann frage ich mich bei jedem Spiel: Weia... wie konntest den Quark so viele Stunden spielen :-D Nostalgie - die ist da und die will ich aber Freude wie damals beim Spiel... nein, dafür sind die Spiele einfach zu schlecht. Sagt ja auch keiner: Boah... der Waschbottich damals war viel angenehmer als die IT-gesteuerte Waschmaschine mit Display heute. Man freut sich, wenn man nochmal so nen Bottich sieht, dann sieht man wieder seine Oma oder so davorstehen und freut sich an der Nostalgie und "guten alten" Kindheit aber sicher will keiner mehr mit sowas die Wäsche waschen. Mal probieren und wieder fühlen wie es war aber nicht mehr wirklich anwenden...

[@Moonflush]

It almost feels like you only played very small, highly hyped selection of modern games. Have you heard about Indie games? Most of them don't have "additional costs", microtransactions and other bullsh*t. And occasional DLC may really be huge in those games. All you have to do is to ignore big overhyped ones made by big companies like EA. Or free multiplayer games - oc course those will be loaded with microtransactions. Immediate suggestions (visually somewhat similar to old games + with great gameplay): Hollow Knight, Rain World, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Terraria, Project Zomboid, Epic Battle Fantasy 5, Celeste, Stardew Valley

[@Moonflush]

Old games have nostalgia charm. And, it seems to me, the core difference to the modern games are sounds. So nice and crispy)

[@GalitUnggoy]

There was a DOS game called Radman I remember playing but I can't find anything online. It was a side scroller running through an alien world. You got a power suit later which allowed you to fly. Similar to Metroid but worse

[@TheKhopesh]

12:15 SKYROADS! I'm only watching this video because I've been trying to track down the name of this game for almost 20 years!

[@LightwaveAl]

🙌🏼

[@syy958]

me too!!!!

[@AP-ex6qz]

Omg yes!!! I remember me and my friends playing this game as kids during my birthday

[@AliciaGuitar]

I got a disk that had a bunch of these bundled together. Fun times! I actually miss my old 1992 pc

[@Shorty_Lickens]

I am a fairly typical angry Gen-X kid. I dont have nostalgia for much but I really did enjoy PC gaming from the 80's thru the 90's. Around the time KOTOR 2 came out I started getting worn and tired. (KOTOR 2 was pushed out early and had missing content and lots of bugs. It soured me on games after that.) The joy from transitioning to Win95 and Win98 with 3D acceleration was pure bliss. But if I'm honest the era of massive progress didnt really last too long.

[@Tenkuuken]

Computer graphics sure has come a long way. From the crude CGA graphics to EGA then to VGA and now 4K

[@MartelloClaudio]

Some epic games are missing: Prince of Persia 1 (1990), The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two - Hand of Fate (1993), Doom (1993), Alone in the Dark 2 (1994), Expendable (1999)

[@GKitz211]

Due to the fact the the highscores of every setting-possibility in "Block Out" are saved with the date, I still play it and beat my old records. :)

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

I guess its just nostalgia but I think I like the old graphics better

[@christiaanjellesma1851]

its the feel and memories combined

[@Mopehome]

I don't know brother. Evey time she took a bit I would fap-cap to her sound., Back in the day. Lol

[@DarkGhostHacker]

games had more heart & soul, and charm. And the common bullshit nowadays like pay to win, in game currencies, glitches, toxic online players etc ruin modern games.

[@WesMordine]

Definitely nostalgia. 🤣 And I was born in 1982, so.

[@zubereeable]

Nostalgic feeling is the best.. Unfortunately our next generation will not feel it or post windows generation of gamers will not Feel it that much.. You have Game in order to feel.. Nothing beats one's time investment..

[@majesticgent]

Blood the FPS was crazy! One of the most underrated games for sure! It was so interactive and the stage design was way ahead of its time though it was gruesome and creepy at the time. So many classics. Loom was another underrated great game! All of those X-COM games really got the adrenaline flowing.

[@SAMagic]

Honestly, I couldn't replay some of these games today for long... yet I feel such happy nostalgia to see them. I wonder if it's more the memories associated with them that I enjoy.

[@Njuregen]

A game like Tyrian-2000 on dosbox is something to always enjoy and many still can.

[@therexbellator]

It depends on the game and what you liked. I'd say a lot of games from this MS-DOS era have aged really well and play great to this day. Platformers might feel the most aged because of how much the genre has matured since the early 90s (with a possible exception to Prince of Persia and its sequel cause those games were amazing), but strategy games, flight sims, FPS, graphic adventures, and RPGs I would argue hold up really well. IMHO the games that have aged the worst are that first-generation of games using real-time 3D graphic accelerators. The change from 2D to 3D was a rough one and developers were still trying to figure things out.

[@Njuregen]

I remember as a teen playing eye of the beholder and civilization on the school PC a 386 I think back in 91. I got only got my own PC in 96 a pentium-133, wow the 90's were amazing for PC games. Master of Magic was awesome and Transport Tycoon!

[@captainspire9094]

I played like 90% of these. I miss the good old days. No DLC and the game was mine.

[@AmbientWalking]

I love this video. Thanks for all the childhood memories!

[@madskrabbefotografi]

It's funny how the graphics gap between games were in the 90's - I mean some were simple 2D while some "advanced" 3D :) I know it was the gameplay the counted, but again, there were a vast difference back then. Guess budget played a role also

[@pkoleva4155]

Thank you! I finally got the name of the game that bugging me for so many years. Actually I remember only one monster from it and that it was like Doom (now I see it's like Wolfenstein 3D)!!! Of course I remember it much more pixelized than that and with less colors???! Blake Stone Aliens of Gold

[@DefiFreakyBoo]

Did I miss Atomic bomberman? All those games are my childhood 🥺❤️.

[@thecritic5291]

I have had so many hours in Transport Tycoon then all the hours of all the games i got on Steam right now ..... Wonderful schoolless days.

[@jimday666]

my favs: 9:28 1992 Pushover 9:58 1992 Ugh! 10:12 1993 Bio Menace 14:39 1994 Desert Strike 21:53 1998 Liero

[@gabrielbonannoo]

wow i remember playing SO many of these games as shareware versions from AOL or from collection disks like those "101 games"

[@Oosystem]

I have never seen megaman for ms dos. My first computer was an 8086 8MHz now I tested some of these games on PCem (a very accurate emulator that can simulate 8086) and a lot of the games worked on the 8086... I wish I had knew about these games back them...

[@philliptoone]

3:14 Blockout! That was my favorite game. I think I've still got in on a floppy somewhere.

[@enginerd80]

There's an official remake of it, playable on more modern PC's. It's called BlockOut II, and it's open source, and hence available for free. At least the linux version that I have is very faithful to the original. There's also WIndows version, but I'm not sure how well it's maintained and compatible with Windows 10 -- also, in sample pictures the graphics seem a little different.

[@philliptoone]

@@enginerd80 Thanks for letting me know about this. I have been running Linux since 2001.

[@sophiacristina]

20:21 - I love Fallout, funny to see it being played on the slow mode, hahaha... Kids, that was pure action at my time... ;)

[@chriswinkler284]

I love Loom. That game was years ahead of its time. It even came with an audio cassette to describe the events that lead to the games' intro. Bobbin Threadbare was the main protagonist and you had to use Elder Atropose's distaff in order to solve unique puzzles by means of musical notes placed along it. Thanks for the upload. I'm a sucker for this sorta thing :)

[@Darky.]

Chris Winkler the part where you had to play the straw to gold tune backwards... so the dragons gold turned to straw :D

[@henrikhyrup3995]

8:58 that was just a re-make of the 1982 game Paratrooper by Orion Software Inc.

[@LightwaveAl]

Absolutely. As featured in the first video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3_GeWWGqs57rZo

[@CastleFamilyThe]

The only version of Another World that came out in 1991 was the Amiga, the DOS and ST ports followed in early 1992

[@LightwaveAl]

Thank you 👍🏼

[@lmcgregoruk]

Looks like that version of Another World/Out of this World is the 20th Anniversary Edition too.(2011) You can see them change from the "New" graphics to the "Original/Old" graphics at 5:42

[@justinhall5544]

Loved that you had Elite.. first played it on th BBC Model B.. and its probaly the reason i ended up in IT.. still play Elite Dangerous today

[@tpuukko4424]

Great selection, cool to see some games from the old Finnish scene as well. The cave flying genre pieces like Auts or Wings would do well in a future video, perhaps.

[@themtube9455]

I've been watching these kind of vids for days now only to find the one featured on yours. CRIME WAVE. Finally...

[@k1ngofpayne991]

This is basicly my youth captured in one video.

[@ronlivingstone1634]

I remember Playing kid pack on windows 95 back in my childhood, That karate guy, the fish eating other fish, the space planet emulator and the busting bad guys game, Too bad we don't see those anymore :(

[@asdasdasd54]

THANK YOU. I've been looking for this game I played so much when I was a child, been 6 whole years of trying to find it and now thanks to you I know its called lands of lore guardians of destiny. THANK YOUUUUUU

[@johnbrennan3262]

Great work! I still play XCom Apocalypse now

[@aFenrizwolfa]

Very nice to see games of my Childhood and where gaming was just for fun not for Achievements that destroy the Friendships

[@aquarius5719]

You should add Battlecruiser 3000AD. The whole controversy was caused by publisher who released a game half made and the developer had to absorb all the flames while he struggled to develop patches. It was too complicated, buggu and gameplay was light but it remains unmatched as it was the first serious attempt to simulate a capital ship.

[@FernandoMattana]

Sweet memories...

[@AnthonyP73]

Great list! More here that I played than on your other list. Moon Patrol was SO good on the arcade version as well.

[@LightwaveAl]

Moon Patrol is in the second video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qV6kZH-Dpa2Boq8

[@Drat789]

Thats almost unbelievable that I was able to complete hard games such as lemings, gobliiins, pushover, civ, dune2 and many more in my 7+ or even without knowing any english word in dos like comparing to my young neighbours who sometimes come to play ps4 easy games, thats hell, they like playing but they dont think and get bored when stuck so then I just leave them to play cars which is not much better :-)

[@liukang85]

They couldn't have been serious about Double Dragon in '98 with those `89 graphics 🤣

[@LightwaveAl]

😉

[@alexandera.1411]

Playing Crime Wave in 1992 seemed so advanced, inspiring, and unreal.

[@daze507]

Ahah Retaliator! Spent so much time on it and that music of Alone In the Dark! Next vid you can add Comanche Maximum Overkill, Might and Magic Isles of Terra, Minigolf...

[@BobWilly44]

Awesome! Can't believe how you can get all this footage. Thanks!

[@dougbadgley6031]

I wish I could still play some of these!

[@nickpavloff8977]

The first out-run is a tear jerker

[@TheBypasser]

Yay, Extreme Assault! By the way, I always preferred running it without Glide - the effects won't differ much as it supports dithering and blending via MMX anyway (the only drawback are the unfiltered models), but the terrain looks sharp and neat this way, and the postprocessing becomes much nicer (like, neat static in the cutscenes).

[@DrWho2008t101]

Great Video!

[@albdamned577]

So many of those older games I was able to experience because someone had left those disks laying around at school. I can't really figure out why they were there but they were.

[@xquisid]

Yep, Supaplex. Found it! Thank you!

[@detleffegers3780]

So many memories...seems like I wasted my youth! Actually, no I didn't!

[@WenZhen001]

I was bron in 1976, that is great memories, thanks

[@dkman123]

Some that I used to play: Airborne Ranger, Death Track, Stunts, Kings Bounty, Offroad, Mechwarrior 1989

[@LightwaveAl]

I’ve got Airborne Ranger, Deathtrack, King’s Bounty and MechWarrior in a third video 👍🏼 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYCshXmAaNB5js0

[@cornwelj]

Sadly, in 20 years time we wont be able to actively look back on the last 20 years of gaming as everything will be locked down with DRM and all the activation servers have long since been turned into landfill.

[@LightwaveAl]

The videos will still be on KZbin, and our brains will be connected to the internet 😉

[@Debbiebabe69]

@@LightwaveAl Thats assuming KZbin is still around in 20 years...

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

Yeah I use to be huge into PC gaming, but when I saw everything moving towards DRM, I jumped ship and only play on consoles now. Luckily now a days, most stuff that starts out on PC that is well received ends up on systems anyways.

[@RagingGoblin]

I may be biased, but I think the golden age of gaming starts around 96, 97. Look at those games: GTA, Dungeon Keeper, C&C1...! These games, with just a little resolution magic, are still a whole lot of fun today!

[@jarredkrum9894]

Love c&c 😎still one my fav games of all time same with warcraft2

[@帝都仰望苍穹株式会社]

Magic Pockets! Finally got it!

[@Nikioko]

1:51: If you forget to pick up the glass shard right at the beginning of the game, you are at a dead end at this point.

[@klatre]

No, the glass shard is from the wrecked pod on Kerona, so you can go back there even of you don't have it at this point. It's not from the starting spaceship.

[@mikepalmer1971]

Strike commander and pirates. I played those games so much.

[@KoN312]

lovely memories...... nothing more to say!!

[@TheSektorz]

I'm so nostalgic about CGA-era games... I haven't even played most of those

[@LightwaveAl]

Maybe I could do a video of just CGA DOS games 🤔

[@TheSektorz]

@@LightwaveAl Dude, that would be awesome

[@lipesco]

Some more games i had really played like Outrun, Tetris, Test Drive, Blockout, F29 Retaliator, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Micro Machines, Supaplex, CD Man, Formula One Grand Prix, PushOver, Aladdin, Epic Pinball, Prince of Persia 2, SkyRoads, Desert Strike, Mortal Kombat II, Nascar Racing, Raptor, Sensible Soccer, Warcraft, Full Throttle, GTA 1. :D

[@christiaanjellesma1851]

7:52 alone in the dark, the most creepy game at that time

[@darrencullen8015]

im playing res evil 7 at the moment and I still find alone in the darks occult creepyness to be more unnerving. such a great game!

[@squidprince2456]

20:50 Land of Lore was an incredible open world-like game. I remember in the instructions there was written how to change the settings in the .bat file in case of a graphics issue. Something very artisanal, impossible to see it today

[@zigisamblak]

Ahhh those nostalgic PC speaker tunes, yep, don't miss them at all :D

[@1337Ox]

Oh my god! Bio Menace, I finally found how is the game that I used to play called! Thanks

[@zodchiy13]

Great video and legendary games! Thanks!

[@AlexRamosDrTaz]

Shadow Warrior beats the pants off Duke Nukem IMO, especially in the quips dept.

[@belladikto]

graaacias!!! por tu video pude encontrar el juego favorito de mi madre!!!!

[@davidpardy]

The nostalgia is strong!

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

Yeah, but it is not like it used to be ...

[@Wok_Agenda]

You know what might look better on your nose? What? THE BAR

[@MarleHunter85]

I always love adventure/puzzle-type games due to mystery.

[@chrisfrost8662]

Errmm, pretty sure Elite was a BBC / Acorn game! Wasn't released for pc until 1987 (not 1984) The original and best, I read a book about how the guys coded the game in raw machine code, allocating individually every memory address to make every use of each bit of the 32k RAM! Genius And it came with its own mini novel Spawned so many future games but the essence of Elite is always there

[@LightwaveAl]

Thanks for the info!

[@thevoyager2382]

It's a pity you didn't mention Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 (1992 /1993), and Radix: Beyond The Void (1995). All excellent games. As for Transport Tycoon, I'm still playing it now using Windows 7 64 bit. It's called Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe now, and it play's perfectly, with dozens more options that the original game.

[@Imran-fc2qh]

Mech Warrior is worth mentioning.

[@LightwaveAl]

True. I played Mech Warrior 2 which is in the first 101 DOS Games video.

[@marugg78]

OMG theme hospital. I've completely forgotten about that game.

[@erickcalmet]

when i think there are more game to come in my head, oldies like hard hat mack caveman olympics, barbarian, wolfestein was the father of doom, the hardball series, the yeager game of planes, wwf westlemania, was a great moment there's no internet to find games or forums to ask for troubleshootings to run some games

[@LightwaveAl]

Thanks Erick, I’ll get those in a third video 👍🏼

[@FoxPing2901]

Holy! The sounds. =) The good old time, when your ears flew away. xD

[@outrage_swampert979]

There was this game I found on the school computers when I was in the second grade, I didn't knew how it's called, just that you're a ball eating chips and scissors were killing you. After all this years I finally got to learn it's name, supaplex. Thank you😂

[@jarredkrum9894]

C&C and warcraft 2 were my games back then. And heroes of might and magic 1&2

[@RichardCJohnson]

DOS games in the early 90s... Graphics: VGA - 256 on screen colours from a palette of over 262,000. Sound: PC Beeper 😁

[@LightwaveAl]

A friend at the time had an external sound device with Windows 3.0. It was magical!

[@RichardCJohnson]

Lightwave Al I remember those! Mind you, our PC came with Windows 2.1 😂

[@ooSicknesSoo]

@@RichardCJohnson Actually, I think it was quite an accomplishment what they managed to do with just a PC speaker. Like the theme of Monkey Island. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3qyfWenatl3erM Listen to it, it's really awesome!

[@veryexcited7648]

Dangerous Dave !!!!! Finalmente encontrei

[@vonpire]

Great video! Oh the nostalgia!

[@balqisizham9601]

I remember a game called Stonekeep & Radix beyond the void... They were so addictive

[@GarionG34]

MY first computer was ZX81 :D

[@warrenkaye927]

Props on including Ultima 1... but where's my Wizardry and Bard's Tale at?

[@LightwaveAl]

Wizardry will be in a third video, and The Bard’s Tale was a 2004 Windows game. I get confused with games like Thief (and obviously Civilization II in the first video) thinking they were DOS when they weren’t.

[@lmcgregoruk]

Pretty sure he meant the original The Bard's Tale from 1985, although that was really a subtitle "Tales of the Unknown: Volume 1 The Bard's Tale" You can see it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZCYh56Kj9iiqM0

[@Alexander-dt2eq]

1990 Wing Commander - welcome to cinematic gaming!

[@ferenchajdu]

Oh, more good memories...

[@TheTuxmania]

Omg the memories, only missing Ladder but that was on CP/M.

[@7thangelad586]

So many memories! What about some text-based games like Mission to Mars? I’m still hunting for it.

[@Thegamingground]

Wow, I didn't even know that there was MS-DOS games back in 1981 (I was born in the mid 80s). Cool!

[@eddiehimself]

If there's an OS, there are games for it lol.

[@misterevil906]

Old MS-Dos Games are livin in Raspberry Pi now with Dos-Box Emulation. :P For sometimes very nice.