I recently played an amazing DOS game where you have your country and you can declare war or peace with other ones, and i really enjoyed it. Growing up one of my favorite DOS games was Gobliiins 3, such cool memories!
UFO: Enemy Unknown was a pretty great game for its time.
Quake 2 was insane. I remember crazy lan parties with my pals. You just had to type a simple command to launch the server (no special configuration needed) and then just launch the client on the PCs and that was it.
UFO was such an amazing game. I really like the newer XCOM games, they feel like they capture the spirit of the original game.
This is really interesting actually, because I was introduced to UFO/the underwater one by my dad, and he told me the opposite, that the newer games don’t have the feel of the original. Should I give them a shot?
I think so. Oddly enough, I remember hating the underwater one after playing the original! They had a few games in between that I felt didn’t really capture the same feeling as the original game, but I think the newer ones do it quite well. You can usually get them for cheap as they go on sale pretty frequently.
Wow I see! He exclusively plays the underwater one, and I’ll totally check out the newer ones, thanks for the advice :D
Most people named a lot of the games I would have, so I’m gonna give a shout out to probably the first proper video game I ever played: Mixed Up Mother Goose. Can still remember slowly walking around, trying to figure out what the shit was going on lol.
Oh my God I LOVED this game! Probably was what hooked me on a lifelong videogame addiction.
Lol this screenshot brought back so many memories of playing this game as a little kid!
Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, Zak McKraken and the alien mindbenders, One Must Fall 2097
Probably X-Com: UFO Defense. Got really into it and holy hell got angry at that game. But damn it made me want to play more!
Dangerous Dave. I think it was the first ever DOS game that I got to play. I like good platformers.
@s804 One Must Fall: 2097. This is the way.
I still have the power plant theme stuck in my head to this day.
God man that into still slaps so fucking hard to this day
Gotta be TIE Fighter. X-Wing was great too, but TIE Fighter scored extra novelty points for letting us play as Imperials.
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, but I’ll give Wolfenstein 3D an honorable mention.
That just brought back memories of building massive turret walls in Dune 2 and just laughing as the computer tried sending a small group of units and getting absolutely demolished.
Space Hulk would definitely be mine
Star Control II for sure. Fantastic game, still one of the best story-based games I’ve played. Heavily inspired a lot of more modern franchises, too, including Mass Effect.
Wow yeah. Also I just answered this one for my favorite space game on that post :)
Heroes of Might and Magic II, I still will fire it up to play occasionally! I have so many fond memories of me and my dad playing into the long hours of the night.
Could not tell you how many hours my brother and I spent taking turns playing Wacky Wheels
Wow. That brings back some memories!
Ultima Underworld. Bought my first sound card for this game.
I remember playing a lot of Stunts, trying to beat the track times and designing tracks with many loops and jumps and some more jumps and loops… I think I spent more time in the editor than driving.
They have it at the Internet Archive!
TIE Fighter! It’s the reason I really got into gaming, PC gaming specifically. Mario on NES and such were fun, but TIE Fighter was the first game I’d spend all day at school thinking about and then spend all afternoon and all weekend playing. It’s on Steam and GOG and has aged really well.
Kudos to Sid Meier’s Gettysburg, too.
Your comment totally gave me a flashback. I was always fascinated by the huge ships in the X-Wing/TIE Fighter games, and I spent soooo much time daydreaming about those games in elementary school. No internet required, just imagination!
