MS-DOS Memories

[ZellSF]

Warcraft II might be fun in multiplayer, but I recently replayed the human campaign of it. It does not hold up well if you've played a few other RTS games. I won basically all the missions by spamming footmen and knights.

Warcraft III's campaign is much more entertaining.

[lilmanjs]

For those of you who had a ton of fun like me playing One Must Fall 2097, Here's a little treat most of you don't know exists from the man who made the music. Made in 2011 with renoise. I quite like this version better than the original. http://db.tt/i6pX7LNJ

Now as for Fatal Racing/Whiplash, did anyone besides me like the cd-audio music? I found it to be at times quite awesome, but after a while I just re-installed the game and would use an old cd mix I made of music to play during the races. Hehe, 2 cd-drives rules!

[louisg]

For those of you who had a ton of fun like me playing One Must Fall 2097, Here's a little treat most of you don't know exists from the man who made the music. Made in 2011 with renoise. I quite like this version better than the original. http://db.tt/i6pX7LNJ

You should link to his SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/neoj1n

C.C. Catch was one of my primary inspirations when I was tracking as a teenager. Zone 66's intro music blew my mind. The tunes he did for his demogroup, Renaissance, are also well worth checking out.

EDIT:
Zone 66: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t13uJYwsC8A (Adlib FM + SoundBlaster) .. CC Catch and Renaissance did all the music with their own tools that they wrote.

[Edmond Dantes]

Warcraft II might be fun in multiplayer, but I recently replayed the human campaign of it. It does not hold up well if you've played a few other RTS games. I won basically all the missions by spamming footmen and knights.

Warcraft III's campaign is much more entertaining.

Blasphemy!

All right, yes, Warcraft II is a little simplistic, although IMO that's part of the charm (a lot of RTS games I feel give me too much to keep up with).

To me though the biggest asset WarII has is just the sense of fun going with it. Bright colorful settings and the corny things the units say ("Zug zug!" "Skooboo!") just help put smiles on my face. By contrast, a lot of RTSes feel too serious in comparison.

[ShmupSamurai]

My biggest MS-DOS memories:

Playing Number Muncher and Alphabet Muncher in elementry school

Buying and playing my first ever CD game, the infamous port of Megaman X( also the first 16 Megaman game I ever touched) Oh how I remember opening that box with wide eyes, digging out the "Super PC Fighter Controller" that came it, marveling at it's akiness to the Sega Genesis and Snes pads, and then finally came the jewel case, which I opened without hesitation- the disc shining like it had freakin' rainbow lasers coming out of it, featuring a crisp label with with the logo and a pic of X...Though I was a little perplexed by the new game product format in my hands, being used to the idea that games were something you jammed into a slot on the system, like cartridges and those strange hard *ahem* things my parents called "floppy disks"...so I popped that sucker into the drive, watched my first comp- the glorious Windows 95 go to work, and the rest is history.

though the biggest timewaster on my first comp would turn out to be the sharware version of Tyrian that came with it.

[Edmond Dantes]

Just gonna mention, the two most underrated PC games of all time:

Outpost 1 and 2.

I don't understand the hate. Well okay, Outpost 1 was a case of being rushed out the door and thus missing some promised features so I can kinda-get the backlash (the features were later patched in), but they're both solid games.

[Emuser]

When we first got a windows 95, it came with Magic Carpet and PGA Tour 96. I played a fuckton of Magic Carpet and eventually beat it, but I didn't play PGA Tour 96 as much, it was more of a thing my brother and dad used to play a bit, but I would still pop it in from time to time because the menu music was awesome and I wish I could hear it again.

After that, my dad got us a bundle of PC games for cheap and it came with World Hockey 95, Braindead 13, FX Fighter, Inferno: The Odyssey Continues(sequel to EPIC), and Pinball Dreams.

World Hockey 95 was my least played one since I figured out a perfect movement to always get the hockey puck, move a specific way then shoot and the guard wouldn't block the puck. FX Fighter was goofy as shit and I used to play it a lot, but I wouldn't play it nowadays. Braindead 13 was fun but short, and Pinball Dreams was a rather limited game but the music was fucking awesome.

Inferno was undoubtedly my favorite game in the bundle, there wasn't much variety in the missions but it was challenging and an extremely bold game and epic as shit at the time. I never figured out if the game has an actual ending, but digging into the game's audio files lets you find a "victory tune" followed by a congratulations on winning, so I'm inclined to believe that there is a way somehow. I didn't get any good at this until 2 weeks before we got rid of windows 95, but I loved this game and wish that I could play it again because I want to see if it has an end. Someday when I get a better computer I'm gonna try DOSBox again and see if I can reliably run this game without it lagging or frame skipping.

[Ed Oscuro]

Just gonna mention, the two most underrated PC games of all time:

Outpost 1 and 2.

I don't understand the hate. Well okay, Outpost 1 was a case of being rushed out the door and thus missing some promised features so I can kinda-get the backlash (the features were later patched in), but they're both solid games.

haha I couldn't understand what to do with Outpost 1 back in the day so I shelved it. Still have to find some time to play it one of these days...it looked great though.

[Edmond Dantes]

The outpost games are basically, Sim City in outer space. The premise is that Earth has been destroyed and you're in command of building a new colony on another planet (in the first game, you get to select the planet). To give you competition though, it's explained that some of the survivors didn't agree with you and so founded their own colony somewhere else, and when people don't like you they move to the rival colony (how they get there is anyone's guess).

The first is turn-based, and has a lot of micromanagement (which I hear people like to complain about, but personally I kinda like it). The second is a real-time strategy game, that can be played either as a pure city-sim or you can opt for a combat element, and there's even a campaign mode this time. But they toned down the micromanagement, so now... basically if you could play SimCity 2000, you can play Outpost 2.

One issue I have with Outpost 2... the campaign mode is FUCKING HARD. Even on the easiest difficulty, I've never gotten past the second mission.