Old DOS games poster

So many good memories and some epic titles listed there with Duke3D, Warcraft 2 and Quake being my favourites. I feel that those of us that lived in the DOS gaming era experienced the golden era of PC gaming. A period that I will always hold near my heart and never let go or forget.
 
Budokan didn't look like that under DOS especially in 1989 when EGA was just coming into play. That's the Tandy or Amiga version.
I remember Battle of Britain in 1989 and it looked great in EGA, but that was at my uncles house we still had cga at the time. Though we jumped to vga that year.
The funny thing is they say EGA came out in 1983 but games only started taking advantage of it in 1986 or later.
 
How can one go back to playing Test Drive or Lotus on a green Tandy screen, after playing today's racing games.

Also some others I liked was Ugh! and Prehistorik.
 
Lupus said:
Budokan didn't look like that under DOS especially in 1989 when EGA was just coming into play. That's the Tandy or Amiga version.
I remember Battle of Britain in 1989 and it looked great in EGA, but that was at my uncles house we still had cga at the time. Though we jumped to vga that year.
The funny thing is they say EGA came out in 1983 but games only started taking advantage of it in 1986 or later.
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Here's a page which has a CGA and VGA picture (they say, VGA 16 color, but I think it is in the 256 color mode).

https://esotericgaming.com/2016/08/22/iddqd-or-how-i-learned-to-love-video-games/

One of the things that I found interesting about the early semiconductor industry, is that chips would take forever to reach the consumers. I ended up getting a VGA in 1988, which I had in my XT 8088, which didn't actually even have the bandwidth to update a 256 color screen at a decent frame rate, even if the CPU wasn't doing anything else at all.

Something that is really crazy, is that the 80386 existed in 1985, one year before I even got my 4.77mhz XT 8088. Due to demand and supply, the prices were too crazy for most consumers for many years to come.
 
StoneCold said:
So many good memories and some epic titles listed there with Duke3D, Warcraft 2 and Quake being my favourites. I feel that those of us that lived in the DOS gaming era experienced the golden era of PC gaming. A period that I will always hold near my heart and never let go or forget.
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Me too - there was a new rapid evolution in gaming, from a mechanics perspective, graphics perspective, story perspective, etc. all the time, back then. Right now, I find that it is a lot more "settled", so one hardly ever gets the "Wow, I've never even seen anything like this before" effect.

I still remember when I saw a Commodore when my Atari was all I knew, when I saw PC Sierra adventure games, when I first saw CGA, then EGA, then VGA. When I first saw Castle Adventure, Rogue, Mach3, then Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Decent, Baldurs Gate, Might and Magic, Warcraft, Diablo, etc. Each one was mind blowing - it's a little hard to get that same system shock (see what I did) going from a 2018 game to a 2019 game.
 
Many good titles not there. RR, Cal games, Streetrod, Prince of Persia, King Kong, Monty, Crystal Caves, Gran prix,.
 
cguy said:
Me too - there was a new rapid evolution in gaming, from a mechanics perspective, graphics perspective, story perspective, etc. all the time, back then. Right now, I find that it is a lot more "settled", so one hardly ever gets the "Wow, I've never even seen anything like this before" effect.

I still remember when I saw a Commodore when my Atari was all I knew, when I saw PC Sierra adventure games, when I first saw CGA, then EGA, then VGA. When I first saw Castle Adventure, Rogue, Mach3, then Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Decent, Baldurs Gate, Might and Magic, Warcraft, Diablo, etc. Each one was mind blowing - it's a little hard to get that same system shock (see what I did) going from a 2018 game to a 2019 game.
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Agreed, I still remember. Looks like you hit a tree, Jim. And it was like woo. Or when you fired up a game you played in CGA but it's the remastered VGA version :). Or going to the rich kids house and hearing a Roland M32. Even to this day I want one
 
So many awesome games on that poster, even two of my personal favourites: Realms of the Haunting and Terra Nova:Strike Force Centauri which didn't get the sales they deserved..
 
StoneCold said:
So many good memories and some epic titles listed there with Duke3D, Warcraft 2 and Quake being my favourites. I feel that those of us that lived in the DOS gaming era experienced the golden era of PC gaming. A period that I will always hold near my heart and never let go or forget.
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Miss the LAN sessions with those titles, it's just not the same anymore over the internet. Duke especially, hiding in a dark corner behind a hologram and a trip mine.
 
Urist said:
Miss the LAN sessions with those titles, it's just not the same anymore over the internet. Duke especially, hiding in a dark corner behind a hologram and a trip mine.
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While I enjoyed Duke, some of the most fun I had dos lanning was with Shadow Warrior, absolute comedy gold.

"Ho, you got sticky bomb on your ass" :D
 
Kosmik said:
While I enjoyed Duke, some of the most fun I had dos lanning was with Shadow Warrior, absolute comedy gold.

"Ho, you got sticky bomb on your ass" :D
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Redneck rampage and Outlaws is also underrated, not to mention Aliens vs Predator.
There's nothing quite like collecting marine head trophies in predator hunt mode, and seeing your opponent's faces as they become increasingly hopeless, not exactly DOS era but that was the height of LAN.
 
Miss the days of 6 year old me playing Space Quest 4 - Dad had to tell me what to do after ****ing around for 5 days.

Dad got stuck into Decsent 1 and 2 for days on end. That and Doom searching for all the secret rooms.

Death rally was something new.

One of the best stories I played back then was Heart of China.
 
Good memories.

When you attach an AD-Lib sound card and first fire up Wolfenstein 3D...wow!
I also remember soldering up my RS232 NULL Modem cable to play multiplayer games.
I just visited my mom, and had a good chuckle because the networking coax cable I ran through the roof is still poking out the ceiling of my old bedroom.

My favorite on that list was probably the Wing Commander series.
 
Urist said:
Redneck rampage and Outlaws is also underrated, not to mention Aliens vs Predator.
There's nothing quite like collecting marine head trophies in predator hunt mode, and seeing your opponent's faces as they become increasingly hopeless, not exactly DOS era but that was the height of LAN.
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RR was cool. I can't recall if SHOGO was dos based? or the game GUN that was based off the halflife engine.
 
Beyond.Celsus said:
www.littlebigadventure3.com
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LBA 3 is dead, the game was last discussed in 2007. Frederick Raynal have shown interest in creating a sequel, but he doesn’t own the rights and would need to acquire the rights.

The rights were passed on when Sega collapsed, where many sub developer houses were dissolved, Adeline being one.

Frederick also disappeared since then back in 2007, the last time he worked in gaming was being employed by Ubi as creative director.

RIP
 
Hellhound105 said:
Miss the days of 6 year old me playing Space Quest 4 - Dad had to tell me what to do after ****ing around for 5 days.

Dad got stuck into Decsent 1 and 2 for days on end. That and Doom searching for all the secret rooms.

Death rally was something new.

One of the best stories I played back then was Heart of China.
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Death Rally was schit, this was better,

 
When I was a kid, I used to know the Gemaskerede Sopbeen personally. I always had games to play :cool:
 
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