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Albion is easily one of best DOS games of the mids. This sprawling role player was deep, had an amazing story line, one of the best opening sequences of any DOS game I had come across during that time, and thoroughly absorbing gameplay. The game starts off with the aforementioned sequence, a dream as it turns out, as the hero prepares to take a shuttle down to a planet to explore for valuable minerals prior to the entire planet being stripped of all its resources by some big mega-company.

Pushing through Albion is worth it though, even just for the closing sequence. Enjoying the flight simulation genre with the likes of Falcon on the ST was a fantastic experience, but these modern fighters lack the intense dogfights of World War I games. This was where Red Baron stepped up to the mark. This was a startlingly impressive game, for the time. There were loads of flight options, missions, and just about everything you could list in a flight sim menu at the start of the game.

Amazingly, it was one of the few games that actually made you feel every bullet that tore through the canvas and balsa wood frame of your aircraft. A bit like fighting alongside Vader in Tie Fighter. To many of you reading this, and me included, Star Control 2 was one of the most played DOS games we had in our library.

It was an immense arcade adventure, where you travelled throughout the galaxy in a quest to help free Earth from the evil Ur-Quan.

To do this though you needed to gain the trust of the other alien species scattered among the stars and add them to your growing fleet, and gain enough resources to keep your ancient alien technology starship up and running. Combat was handled through a blisteringly fast melee system, where you pitted your fleet of ships against the enemy, with each having its own unique mode of flight, defensive and weapon systems.

Who here remembers waiting around the Circini system for the portal to Quasi-Space and access to the Arilou to open? Or spending a worrying amount of time hanging around Betelgeuse in an attempt to win over the Syreen? It was an extraordinarily well crafted game with an intense, nail-biting board on which to play. Locating a UFO, bringing it down and micro-managing the intercept crew and their weapon loadouts were just the beginning. The turn-based element worked exceedingly well. Rather than going in guns blazing, you had to pick your way through the area, hunting down the aliens and UFO itself while looking for cover and trying to stick together.

Then when you suddenly catch movement at the edge of the screen, you scream. Get it! All the while though you had to keep a watchful eye on the world politics, looking for governments that may have made secret pacts with the aliens, and juggling your own resources and cash flow.

It holds together today too, and is awaiting you on Steam if you have a few coins spare…. For a lot of gamers, Alone In The Dark was the beginning of the survival horror genre. Others would argue that survival horror goes back as far as 3D Monster Maze , however, Alone In The Dark was the first of the magnificently graphical modern representations.

Based on the feverish mind of H. In a tale of grisly murders, curses, lunacy, devil worshipping, evil power, and a host of other supernatural shenanigans, you had a wealth of puzzles that need sorting out before you could escape. Death lurked around every corner, and one false step would mean you having to repeat your steps.

A fabulous, atmospheric and often scary game, with hints of old E. Splendid stuff, this. DOS was no stranger to 3D space combat simulators, and while there were some incredible titles to be had, not many gamers seem to recall the original Wing Commander too much these days. Like some cheesy 80s sci-fi film, the intro credits roll to heroic music, space dogfights, and passing asteroids. With girly pin-ups in the barracks, blue hair, scenes of the crew running to their ships, and such names as Blue Devil Squadron and the Killer Bees, Wing Commander was a hit from the word go.

It was a breakthrough game, utilising the current PC hardware to the max. Still, it was quite an achievement in 3D graphics and technology for the time. A few questions: did anyone ever obey the speed limits? Did anyone ever make that first right-hand bend to the stunt track without going off-road? And can you remember what happened when you hit a cow? This is a strange little shareware game I recall picking up at a trade fair once in the early 90s.

In terms of graphics, animation, music and… well… just about everything else, it was pretty dire-looking. However, there was something about it that kept me playing. The fact that I refused to be beaten by it was one element, and that I paid nearly a fiver for it was the other. It must have taken me days to realise that picking up the pumpkin and smashing it revealed the key, and working out which button for the green skinned, purple underpants, colour-blind Igor to press was a test of patience at its best.

Bullfrog Productions brought us Populous and Syndicate , both of which were immensely popular. However, Magic Carpet seems to have been largely forgotten these days, which is a shame as it was one of the best 3D landscape games around.

The game was spread over 50 levels, each individually named with the player whizzing around the world on a magic carpet, as the title suggests. You collected Manna, which allowed you to cast spells in defence or attack against enemy wizards. All you needed to do was store enough Manna in your castle to restore an equilibrium to the world.

Easier said than done though. One of the oddest games I collected over the years has to be Redneck Rampage. You play as Leonard and Cletus, two deep south brothers whose prize pig has been stolen pignapped?

Feel free to use your own prime minister joke here by invading aliens. Using a modified Duke Nukem 3D engine, you have to shoot everything that moves to get the swine back. NovaLogic, of Delta Force fame which was an amazing game first toyed around with its Voxel Space engine technology in Comanche , or Comanche: Maximum Overkill as it was also known.

You could zip through valleys, over seas and mountains and drop down on the enemy to deliver death and destruction from an ultra-modern attack chopper. The shareware version only had the first of three episodes available, and as far as I was aware it was pretty difficult to get hold of from the game shops in the UK I purchased it via a 3D Realms BBS.

On the face of it Realms was a pretty bland looking 2D scroller, but it was hugely entertaining and it allowed you to swap between the Conan-like character to a Wonder Woman-like character with the Space Bar for different combat abilities. Tetris is far from boring. This is the only game that made the world go crazy about the puzzle genre in the gaming world. This game tests your patience and creativity in amazing block based puzzles.

You will receive different shaped blocks and your job is to arrange them in such a way that they keep disappearing. You have to be quick and agile to complete even a single level in this game. Theme Park. Every little child dreams of going to a theme park but what does a man-child ream of every night and day? This game would even put Rollercoaster Tycoon to shame with its simplicity and attention to detail.

The game has old-school graphics but the gameplay is really amazing and best of all, you get to build your own theme park with your customized rides. The recent reboots of Tomb Raider maybe all amazing with the latest generation graphics, great voice overs, and a plethora of different weapons to choose from but the classic Tomb Raider had some of the best puzzles, amazing enemies, and huge levels that the players had to explore on their own.

Go along with Lara Croft on an incredible journey and see how it feels to live the life of Indiana Jones or Lara croft, whichever Tomb Raider you prefer.

Wolfenstein 3D The grandfather of all the popular first-person shooter games out there. This game is the actual first-person shooter game that redefined the genre and paved way for the games mentioned above. In this game you are imprisoned in a Nazi prison.

You break out and start shooting everyone that comes in between you and your freedom. The graphics are decent for an old game, and the music is pretty exciting. This is what made World of Warcraft what it is today. Warcraft II was one of the best and amazing Warcraft games ever to be released.

This game combines strategy and point to click adventure in an amazing game. This game paved way for all the amazing RTS games out there. This game tells the story of the magical world of Warcraft in a glorious way where you never get bored even for a second. All this was kicked off by the original Need For Speed, which was released all the way back in The graphics were truly outstanding for that time period.

You can drive a variety of cars, divided into 3 classes. All cars share certain characteristics like handling, speed, etc. This game was released barely 5 years after the actual Soviet Union was dissolved in December You could shift- queue commands, control several units simultaneously and create unit groups that can be selected by a single key.

Red Alert allows you to choose between two factions and has a relatively simple learning curve. The 4th installment in a series of side-scrolling platformers developed by id Software. What, you thought these guys only made first-person shooters?

In the Commander Keen series, you play as 8-year old genius Billy Blaze who defends Earth from alien threats with his homemade gadgets. He has his very own hyper-advanced spaceship, pogo stick, and a ray gun. Billy sets out to seek consultation from the Oracle but discovers that the 8 council members required to activate the Oracle have been kidnapped.

They are imprisoned in the Shadowlands, and Billy Blaze now has to save them. There are multiple levels in the game, each filled with enemy creatures such as poison slugs, giant mosquitoes, and even jumping mushrooms. There are several traps laid along the path, like spears, pits, and cannons. You can shoot enemies with your raygun, and jump over obstacles with your pogo stick.

Have you played any of the Max Payne games? Remedy Entertainment, the developer behind the Max Payne series created their very first game back in , from the basement of a team member.

It is a vehicular combat racing game, in which you drive heavily armored cars and trucks outfitted with miniguns and chain guns. You start with a small amount of money and a weak vehicle, then gradually claw your way up by earning money from winning races. This money can be used to buy new equipment for your car, like armor, tires, engine upgrades, etc. A first-person shooter game, with a comedic theme and tons of violence. Shadow Warrior puts you in the shoes of Lo Wang, a highly skilled ninja assassin with over 20 years of experience in brutally murdering people.

He works for Orochi Zilla, a powerful Japanese industrial magnate. Corrupted by power and greed, Orochi Zilla plans to take over the world with creatures summoned from an evil dimension. When Lo Wang discovers this plan, he quits his job as a bodyguard.

So he decides to test out the evil monsters by setting them after Lo Wang. You can use a wide variety of weapons like katanas, shurikens, etc. You can even drive tanks and control gun turrets, features that were completely new for its time, and not seen until much later in future FPS games. Bethesda made this game available on their official website as a free download on July 9, , to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their Elder Scrolls franchise.

You must also find out a missing letter from the Emperor to the former Queen of Daggerfall. The gameplay is deep, and the UI is highly advanced for the time. This game has a spell crafting feature, where you can craft several new spells using the Mages Guild.

Each spell will have its own unique effect. You can enchant equipment, buy houses and ships, explore a wide range of clothing, forge dynamic political relationships with kingdoms, and transform into one of several creatures- a vampire, werewolf, or werebear. Did you like our list? Let us know in the comments below. There are plenty of places where you can download old DOS games, like dosgames. A lot of these old DOS games are now available as shareware, freeware, or abandonware. But some of them have been ported to modern operating systems and are available for purchase on GOG or Steam.

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