MS-DOS Games in 1994

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0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:56 - Disney's Aladdin (Virgin Interactive Entertainment)
0:02:52 - Corridor 7: Alien Invasion (Capstone Software)
0:04:50 - Cannon Fodder (Sensible Software/Virgin Interactive Entertainment)
0:06:58 - Jazz Jackrabbit (Epic MegaGames)
0:08:54 - Micro Machines (Codemasters)
0:10:55 - Mortal Kombat II (Midway Games/Acclaim Entertainment)
0:12:25 - Commander Blood (Cryo Interactive Entertainment/Mindscape)
0:15:11 - Quarantine (Imagexcel/GameTek)
0:17:25 - Beneath a Steel Sky (Revolution Software/Virgin Interactive Entertainment)
0:20:34 - Heretic (Raven Software/id Software)
0:22:13 - One Must Fall 2097 (Diversions Entertainment/Epic MegaGames)
0:23:53 - Ečstatica (Andrew Spencer Studios/Psygnosis)
0:26:42 - Traffic Department 2192 (P Squared/Safari Software)
0:28:55 - Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb (Dreamers Guild/New World Computing)
0:31:03 - Hocus Pocus (Moonlite Software/Apogee Software)
0:33:03 - DreamWeb (Creative Reality/Empire Interactive Entertainment)
0:35:21 - Aces of the Deep (Dynamix/Sierra On-Line)
0:37:54 - Pagan: Ultima VIII (ORIGIN Systems)
0:40:23 - Dragonsphere (MPS Labs/MicroProse Software)
0:42:54 - Cyberia (Xatrix Entertainment/Interplay)
0:45:28 - The Elder Scrolls: Arena (Bethesda Softworks)
0:47:34 - Alien Legacy (Ybarra Productions/Sierra On-Line)
0:49:43 - Boppin' (Apogee Software)
0:51:37 - The Legend of Kyrandia: Book 3 - Malcolm's Revenge (Westwood Studios/Virgin Interactive Entertainment)
0:53:49 - WarCraft: Orcs & Humans (Blizzard Entertainment)
0:56:01 - Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (Electronic Arts/Gremlin Interactive)
0:58:28 - Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse (Cyberlore Studios/Strategic Simulations)
1:00:24 - The Horde (Toys for Bob/Crystal Dynamics)
1:02:30 - Highway Hunter (Omega Integral Systems)
1:04:24 - Magic Carpet (Bullfrog Productions/Electronic Arts)
1:06:24 - Jagged Alliance (Madlab Software/Sir-tech Software)
1:08:47 - Cool Spot (Virgin Games)
1:10:18 - Master of Magic (SimTex/MicroProse Software)
1:11:58 - Wacky Wheels (Beavis-Soft/Apogee Software)
1:13:51 - Theme Park (Bullfrog Productions/Electronic Arts)
1:15:59 - Lollypop (Brain Bug/Softgold Computerspiele)
1:17:53 - X-COM: UFO Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown (Mythos Games/MicroProse Software)
1:20:17 - NASCAR Racing (Papyrus Design Group/Virgin Interactive Entertainment)
1:22:07 - The Lion King (Westwood Studios/Virgin Interactive Entertainment)
1:23:15 - Star Wars: TIE Fighter (LucasArts)
1:25:00 - Sid Meier's Colonization (MicroProse Software)
1:27:02 - Mystic Towers (Animation F/X/Apogee Software)
1:29:03 - Raptor: Call of the Shadows (Cygnus Multimedia Productions/Apogee Software)
1:30:31 - Dragon Lore: The Legend Begins (Cryo Interactive Entertainment/Mindscape)
1:32:23 - Robinson's Requiem (Silmarils)
1:34:17 - Superhero League of Hoboken (Legend Entertainment)
1:36:18 - Rise of the Triad: Dark War (Developers of Incredible Power/Apogee Software)
1:38:36 - Blackthorne (Blizzard Entertainment/Interplay Productions)
1:40:34 - Night Trap (Digital Pictures)
1:42:40 - Fantastic Dizzy/The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (Codemasters)
1:44:39 - Battle Isle 2200 (Blue Byte Software/Accolade)
1:46:48 - Noctropolis (Flashpoint Productions/Electronic Arts)
1:48:58 - Doofus (X-ample Architectures/Prestige Softwareentwicklung)
1:50:49 - Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession (DreamForge Intertainment/Strategic Simulations)
1:52:57 - Roberta Williams' King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (Sierra On-Line)
1:54:58 - System Shock (Looking Glass Technologies/Electronic Arts, ORIGIN Systems)
1:57:03 - Under a Killing Moon (Access Software)
1:59:55 - Transport Tycoon (MicroProse Software)
2:01:39 - Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (ORIGIN Systems/Electronic Arts)
2:04:30 - Death Gate (Legend Entertainment)
2:06:34 - Little Big Adventure/Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure (Adeline Software/Electronic Arts)
2:08:28 - Doom II (id Software/GT Interactive)

[@UltimateEnd0]

The very early 90's dos games are like a giant mushroom trip. Mystic Towers, been looking for this game for 23 years.

[@DeafOnAllFronts]

Omg same here I just found it, i was reading your comment cause it was the first one and when i saw mystic towers its going to be the one im looking for, do you remember there was an enemy that was a woman and she would kiss or somthing dealing damage to you.

[@Deedubeleuwe]

Arent all these games availabe as adandoned? Mystic Towers was great fun with the views. Thing is the abandonware is likely episode 1 only.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

whay can I fully see up the old man's arse

[@kiddhkane]

Me too! This game was so cool. I watched my uncle play it because we didn't have a computer yet.

[@tionik06]

There's something about dos game graphics.

[@CR0NO-NL]

They where better then most consoles that era 90s and up.

[@Kosuma]

More colours 🎨

[@ibrachaka8727]

What is it?

[@stanimirborov3765]

@@ibrachaka8727 very good feelings.. n stuff so many colours

[@hackn001]

They were 2d, full of bright colours and fun as hell! I really would recover a win 95 PC to run some of these games, miss them so much 😢

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

MS-DOS games were the first video games/PC games I played before. But the very first video games/PC games I ever played were educational PC games, and I use to play them on an old PC desktop, running on Windows 95. This was more than 20 years ago. What a nostalgia that was.

[@pkstaytrue]

I am born '90, so I'm quite young for this compilation. But there are so many pearls in there that I used to play as a child. Thank you for this!

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

1995 to 2000 was the glory era of scifi games.

[@SelvesteSand]

I'm from '91, so a year younger than you, but Jazz Jackrabbit and Wacky Wheels are easily some of my most played childhood games. We had JJ on our home PC and my best friend had WW on console, I think. I also remember Aladdin and Lion King; I think we had those on my school's PC. Most of the games I played as a child came out at least a few years before I got to play them, but I guess you always had the newest ones? :D

[@zolhof]

So many great memories! And I can't believe I've actually played most of these games, I had a lot of free time back then lol

[@SouthwesternEagle]

This was the year I turned 4, and the year I became a full-time PC gamer under DOS. I didn't start school for another year and a half. I had literally all the time in the day to play my games without interruptions. I miss 1994.

[@-Joyfull]

I was only 10 years old and my mom only allowed me to play the computer for 1 hour per day. Nonetheless, I enjoyed every minute that I got to play these games. And nowadays I can enjoy them in total freedom.

[@PCBSLC]

This series is incredible! Thanks for taking the time to put it together! These games were so ambitious for their time. Huge limitations on processors, memory and disc volume back then. Yet the developers created an interesting, challenging experience with incredible stories and great game mechanics.

[@VegasVolt3ya9a]

Dat shiver, while listening to the Jazz Jackrabbit OST ... dat times ... dat memories ... dat game quality!

Who came first?sonic it jazz jackrabbit? 😂

[@MajinZarak]

Took me like three days to watch this video, yet it was really fun to do so, thanks for sharing!

[@flyflyflycrawl]

xcom and master of magic... i still have copies of these 2 great games. wow the memories

[@XOmrfloyd]

What a year!!!!! Played many, heard for many, but till now didnt knew they are all published in same year.

[@detmer87]

1994 was the year we got our first PC. I played most of these game (all Apogee shareware titels and more).

[@AlanUK78]

Wow! Thank you! Such memories! Transport Tycoon, Warcraft, Zool, I remember them all well. But what really brought a tear to my eye was seeing Commander Blood, which I remember playing for hours in the summer of 95!

[@Paretozen]

Respect to the developers back then! wow

[@salllam4]

am with you

[@Dominix123456]

never played dos. 24 and just love these remnants of nostalgia. thank you for sharing. subscribed and will advocate

[@doubleas2380]

Can't believe I'm only just *now* finding this channel. Thank you for all the hard work creating these videos! Subbed

[@TealeTorch]

Great video! Throughly enjoyed it. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

[@JamesH19851101]

Many Many Memories from this video. Thank you for bringing to light again some old school classics!

[@yosmarone]

jazz jackrabbit bestttt

[@FOIL_FRESH]

i never played beneath a steel sky until this year on dosbox... in turn it inspired me to build 3 retro boxes, and these videos are so good to help me find some new (lol) games to get back to what i missed out on. thanks!

[@rantanamo]

ahhh, Hocus Pocus. I remember the video game loving younger kids in my neighborhood always wanting to come over and play, "hokey pokey"

[@Chechox9]

Hocus Pocus, Jazz Jackrabbit, Doom, Mortal Kombat, Heretic... all of those games... Amazing video man...

[@Glasgowprince]

Cannon Fodder, Syndicate, Mechwarrior, X-Wing V Tie Fighter, Colonization, The Ultima Series, Desert Strike, Theme Park, X-Com and Terror From the Deep, Elite, Eye of the Beholder, Might and Magic & Wing Commander... lost days playing those back in the 90's. Still remember growing when the word Internet or Web hadnt even been used. 70's kid here :) Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)

[@leonardoantonio8756]

That's a truly dos nostalgia vid man! can't believe 22 years have passed

[@johnraymondt.domingo4105]

good job . thank you for sharing this . i cant believe my selft letting this past my childhood. brings back memories hope you make more videos like this.

[@NigerianArchitect]

that XCOM intro is AMAZING!

[@JgHaverty]

That magic carpet game looks extremely ahead of its time.

[@fireboy1996]

+JgHaverty Funny that is the exact same thought that first popped up in my mind when the game came up in this video. Very impressive for its age.

[@kosmosyche]

+JgHaverty It was! I'd say Magic Carpet, System Shock and also probably Robinson's Requiem (open-world survival RPG) were some of the most innovative games of that era.

[@soylentgreenb]

You should see commanche and ultima underworld.

[@joeltarnabene5026]

@@soylentgreenb both Commanshe and Magic carpet used voxel graphics. That's why they look so good. It was great for making terrain.

[@XScarredHeart]

Mystic Towers AND Jazz Jackrabbit? This was CLEARLY the best year of DOS games.

[@elektronischemusik1903]

Good old times. No bills to pay, no worries, only hanging out with friends and playing games.

[@emrahcey]

Year 2023, I still enjoy the show

[@BrassicGamer]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been setting up my childhood system and have forgotten a lot of games I played. you have just reminded me of Blackthorne! Can't wait to play it again.

[@liberispuritatem]

What a way to finish the year. You are awesome, thanks!

[@rez9386]

Nostalgia hitting hard... anything from the 90s will hit me HARD.

[@negrusz]

Yep. I born in `84. For me the 90s was the golden age of the PC gaming until 2006 max.

[@squirrelsinjacket1804]

@@negrusz DOS games had a charm modern games don't really have. Holy crap Doom was basically a killer app back then. That was an actual term real humans used back then.

[@sk4rr]

this was epic year Warcraft, Magic carpet, theme park, TIE Fighter, X-COM, the list goes on

[@He-Man_Master_of_the_Universe]

I have a lot of this old games as original and stil play them.

[@lehazyo]

Thanks for the video and the channel! It's nice to see many familiar old games and to know about some cool games of which I didn't know.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

"Battletech fan" youtube channel has a video on how to install Mechwarrior 2 demo using DGBL. DBGL makes things easier to configure DOSbox for games. The link to download the demo is in the description. This is the demo that made me love Battletech universe. The world was never the same for me after that demo.

[@nzcalso]

What a great year! I remember playing quite a few of those games.

[@jez9999]

Wow, memories. Traffic Department, Magic Carpet, Colonization, Transport Tycoon, Little Big Adventure... they released SO many great DOS games in 1994, and I've spent many hours of my life playing them. :-)

[@SovietWarlock]

Because of this compilation I've been able to find a game from my childhood I just couldn't remember the name of. Little information about the game remained in my mind except some fogy and vague images... and when I saw it here, I just knew that was it - Ecstatica! Much appreciated.

[@Domarius64]

My brothers and I grew up with Magic Carpet 2 for so long, it never occurred to me there was a Magic Carpet 1, nor to look it up or what it might be like. Glad I saw it here.

[@Treborbobuk]

My entire childhood right here, big up to everyone born in '81 :)

[@kreepthedestroyer]

I was 85 and played most of these games. Pretty sad how games are now. I totally forgot about Aladin and cannon fodder the memories

[@-Joyfull]

Born in 84 and proud of it. Year of Terminator and Ninja Turtles.

[@jeamxbeam]

81er here. 1994 was a special year for our generation. It was like the core of 90's.

[@Darkest_Soul_187]

Jazz Jackrabbit, Raptor, MK, Heretic, Doom, Micro Machines and Warcraft. Those are some great memories

[@Dosgamert]

Great video! I wish you the best for 2015 and don't forget to keep on retrogaming!

[@nexgen.graphics]

Dangerous Dave, Jazz Jackrabbit, Hocus Pocus, Mystic Tower...😭 Pure Nostalgia. Still I play these games, but I miss those days.

[@MrSmokincodz]

Love your channel. This was basically my childhood lol

[@NiIex]

1:23:15 Tie Fighter 2nd best intro of all time (after MechWarrior 2 of course) and best game I ever played to date. Even God lost count how many times I played it. Those enemy Tie Advanced sure knew how to wear out my mouse pads. And let's not forget constant cleaning the rubber ball mechanism inside old gen mouses. Collector's CD-ROM edition features SVGA resolution and adds 6 new Battles (much more difficult and complex than base game) continuing the pursuit for rouge admiral Zaarin. One in a lifetime game (maybe even once-per-civilization feat) that remains super playable today (nothing aged, on the contrary) and in the future. What a timeless masterpiece.

[@DaniBlazin]

Ya man. I had a decent flight stick that worked awesome with Tie-Fighter! Very great game!

[@Sakari_369]

Thank you for this video. Good selection and quality.

[@jayhollowayii2]

list of games brings back so many childhood memories

[@SuperHns]

I finished Lion King MS-DOS , with Mouse and Keyboard, the Sounds and OST sounded so nice on my sound blaster pro 16, one of the first MS-DOS PC games I played on our first PC back in 1994.

[@SuperHns]

I love this channel I recently found it can't believe I saw it earlier!!!

[@deckofcards87]

The best RPGS I've ever played were on dos in the early 90s. There's a quality to them that was never matched.

[@undead600]

jazz jackrabbit, transport tycoon, warcraft, desert strike, heretic, doom 2 q_q childhood !

[@impurespirit100]

Lovely! Brings back so many memories. 😔

[@EseMundilloRETRO]

DOS Rules! Great Video

[@jarosawwojtowicz9273]

Hello Man! Great Channel! Thanks and cheers from Poland! :-)

[@mluminoth6379]

All my favorite music and games were released in 1994 and 95. Born in this year too. Best year ever.

[@lucianocortes8636]

Traffic department and DreamWeb stories were great, both are pretty underrated games IMO

[@kariktv9260]

Little Big Adventure was my first "big" game back then. Sweet memories. Still have that pirate copy in my collection.

[@pferreira1983]

Forget anything from the 21st Century. Now this was a year for games!

[@-Joyfull]

Amen! From 1992 to 1998 was a total renaissance era of innovative videogames. I feel sorry for everyone who missed out on it.

[@pferreira1983]

@@-Joyfull Yep!

[@Tigrou7777]

@@-Joyfull what happen past 1998 ? AFAIK we got UT, CS, AOE2 and many other great games

[@-Joyfull]

@@Tigrou7777 After 1998 FPS games were not the same. They didn't have the same mechanics and interface. And thus the gameplay was totally different. Weapons which need to be manually reloaded after every few shots? Field of view camera which shifts as your altitude shifts? These features just ruined the pleasure for some gamers. And in terms of storyline, Half-Life felt like a remake of DOOM fused with Blake Stone. No more originality.

[@Cenot4ph]

@@Tigrou7777 it's more about innovation and creativity. The 90s really invented pretty much all game types we still see to this day. Amazing decade that we won't see happen anytime soon

[@seaningram4434]

I loved Jazz Jackrabbit, Hocus Pocus, Heretic and Doom II and Commander Keen :) Good Memories of those games :)

[@horrorboy81]

Awesome! Aladdin, Prince of Persia, Stunts, Doom, Tyrian...long nights long playing

[@ThaRealElTigra]

Now THAT'S what I could call... [puts on shades] ...DOSTalgia!

[@Tru_Gamer]

happy new year bro

[@Zifahrimas]

some of these looks great :O really well done for their time

[@pavelgl5926]

Golden year of PC gaming! Every second game is a legend, every third - genre founder. And I played almost all of them (in fact I had a CD with 200 best games of 1994, there was no way to find legal copies in ex-USSR). Thanks for the video.

[@_Killkor]

I came here to see my beloved games of my childhood: Jazz Jackrabbit and Transport Tycoon :D

[@JeffGavinMusic]

I miss this era of gaming, truly. Would love to be able to re-live it again 😞

[@zondebok7992]

Not seen One Must Fall in about 20 years! I'd forgotten what it was even called. Reeling from the nostalgia hit here

[@popixel]

I remember the first PC that I bought with my own money as a teenager, came with Jazz the Jackrabbit. I absolutely loved that game.

[@paulanderson7796]

So do I. It was kind of the PC's answer to Sonic The Hedgehog.

[@lukasperalta]

great vídeo & wow! theres a great quality in the games.

[@captwess7532]

Super Artikel über MS-Dos Games... weiter so!

[@Sword420]

Wow. I remember playing a lot of these. It must of been Heretic II that was in that action pack as it was 3rd person. I think the 4th game may have been Interstate '76. Subscribed! Thank you for the memories! Inherit the Earth looks beautiful!

[@LtVadim]

Cyberia was a hell of a game! Loved it so much!

[@jakubpytko5551]

What a incredible year that was. So many fantastic games. :}

[@Dholmes1022]

I am a gamer who enjoys modern games as well as the past. I still go back to the games of my youth or try out games I was interested in but never had a chance to try. Thank god for DosBox and GOG.com This list brought back some nostalgia, the games in this list I played extensively were; Theme Park, Tie Fighter, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, The shareware episode of Jazz Jackrabbit, and King's Quest VII (got that game free with a soundcard we got i think). Awesome video.

[@Cenot4ph]

So many good games in 94, I can't even list them. Amazing times back then.

[@CircleFly]

Wow, so many games I remember playing were from that year. 1994 was an awesome year.

[@420Ard]

Wow, so many great games and amazing memories! Playing Warcraft on the new school computers and network during EVERY break for weeks! We used to copy a lot of these games and sell them at school. Stacks and stacks of floppies!😅 I especially liked Colonization, UFO and Cannon Fodder, but I spent uncountable hours with many of these games. And also did well at school because you had plenty of time to do your homework when games were loading. 🧑‍🎓

[@pinksharkgamer4673]

Brilliant video

[@StrifeHighwind]

These are better than the games today.

[@paulpatti5854]

Totally agree With you

[@-Joyfull]

If only more people agreed with us. I feel sorry for the kids of today.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

When I see mobile games and I see this... Mobile games are so bad. PC with DOS was the greatest console ever.

[@-Joyfull]

@@josepablolunasanchez1283 Yeah, I don't understand how some people see comfort and convenience in playing games on tiny touchscreens. It is extremely uncomfortable in comparison to a stationary device sitting on top of a table. Furthermore, I don't see anything new and innovative about the actual gameplay of the modern games.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

@@-Joyfull The innovative is about having uncomfortable inconvenient controls to increase your level of motor skills. You need to exert micrometric control and hit one correct pixel. No more stormtrooper bad aiming at pixels. It never happened in human history. Also, the micrometric space forces to simplify controls so the new generations do not need a keyboard layout to play like in the DOS era with Jane's Longbow Gold or Mechwarrior 2. It never happened in human history, so this is innovation. Who cares if it goes in the right direction... LOL!

[@frantisekstancl6494]

damn I forgot so many games, just installing dosbox and looking forward to play the horde again :)

[@decultahorrorafins7042]

I always thought I was the only one who raced in Nascar in the wrong way to cause accidents! I am glad to see that I was not the only one. Hello from Brazil!

[@dosnostalgic]

I'm pretty sure 75% of players played it in exactly that way. Because otherwise it's kind of boring.

[@Bou89]

Jazz the Jackrabbit was one of my faves

[@sammachin4395]

I played ecstatica years after it came out after remembering reading about it in a magazine when I was younger and it creeped the hell out of me! so relentless and unforgiving! and so good for its age, much like many of these titles :)

[@XiwantD]

XCOM, Doom 2, System Shock, Beneath a Steel Sky, Jagged Alliance, Colonization, Master of Magic,Transport Tycoon, Theme Park and Little Big Adventure are simply the best in 94 on PC.

[@JulianFernandez]

thanks my man. good old times.

[@TheJoeyKnoxville]

Jazz Jackrabbit needs to make a return! Has so many great memories with that and its sequel!

[@TheHeartlessAlchemist]

That Aladdin game looks great. DOS had some pretty good looking games.

[@zeroorbit4027]

The jazz jackrabbit thumbnail, my childhood

[@AcademiaFashionDesignF_M]

Спасибо большое за прекрасные подборки!! Я сильно заболела и было очень грустно, не знала, как поднять настроение, но спустя пару часов на вашем канале я уже без улыбки не могу ходить))) ностальжиии))

[@dosnostalgic]

Пожалуйста. Выздоравливайте!

[@NomadicDmitry]

Aladdin! What an awesome game from DOS era, I remember it :)

[@flassk7]

OMF 2097 was my life from 1995 to 2002. I can't believe how much I played this shit

[@thebasementonlinegaming5394]

Hope they make a remake

[@razvan.iulian.1990]

Nice one !! Really nice

[@brandoncomer6492]

nearly the only one I remember was Wing Command III, it might be because I was utterly obsessed with it for that entire year.

[@gatomaru]

i'll share an easter egg that i'm sure 99% of people don't know about. if you played the omf2097 demo and maxed out your character and robot stats(you can only play the first tournament) and then transfered your save to the full game, then your name will be changed to psycho :) i'm not sure if i should be proud of discovring that though haha

[@dosnostalgic]

+gatomaru This is now my favorite comment

[@gatomaru]

man i love omf2097 so fucking much, i have played EASILY over 1000 hours. i wish i could meet the team and convince them to remake it. sigh.

[@justiziabelle]

There was sort of a sequel, One Must Fall: Battlegrounds.

[@joey199412]

Magic Carpet was way ahead of its time.

[@rpgsammler]

Good work buddy :)

[@jezd2223]

it's good to see how everything has advanced.

[@nklin6]

best 2 hours of my life

[@440s]

never tought i would see twinsen here...a man of culture i see

[@Hotshotter3000]

So many memories...