DOS Games with high system requirements

[PC-ENGINE HELL]

Chasm: The Rift also is pretty demanding. It will run on pre-pentium/K6 hardware, but not that great at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6um_a-Nhts8

[motley6]

Wow, the original Fallout needs a Pentium 90mhz and 32MB of RAM! I remember the box for Heroes of Might and Magic II claiming it only needed 8MB but it needed 16MB to be playable.

[Zing]

I paid $300 for an 8MB DIMM (bringing me to 16MB) strictly so I could get the full animation set in Primal Rage. Ridiculous!

[Jorpho]

Yes, especially for Primal Rage.

[c0ldb33r]

My vote goes to Quake 2 or Unreal.

[NayusDante]

My vote goes to Quake 2 or Unreal.

Neither of which ran on DOS in their retail builds.

[c0ldb33r]

Neither of which ran on DOS in their retail builds.

strange. I strongly remember running these from dos, but you're right! The human memory is a weird thing.

Then my vote would be for quake. Either that or the 11th hour. I don't remember if that game had high system requirements or was just plain weird, but I could never get that thing running properly on my 4x cd-rom.