Recommend me some DOS/Win95/98 games!

[Queen Of The Felines]

I recently got my hands on an older laptop with Win 98 and can now finally play a few of my XP-incompatible games properly (Magic the Gathering, World of Xeen, and Wizardry Archives to be specific).

Anyhoo, now that the world of DOS is open to me please recommend some games that would be worth my time searching ebay/garage sales for. I've pretty much downloaded everything at the various "abandonware" sites, but if there's any commercial games I'm missing out on I'd appreciate knowing what they are.

(All genres are welcome, btw.)

Kristine

[Kuros]

Lets see now...

Might and Magic's 3-8 (will keep you busy forever)
Commander Keen series
Doom series (duh)
Arena/Daggerfall
Hocus Pocus
Jazz the Jackrabbit
Rise of the Triad
Terminal Velocity
Raptor

[Rejinx]

I suggest:
Maxis games, all of them.
Transport tycoon deluxe

A good place to find old games to download is
www.the-underdogs.org/
but, WARNING they have alot of spyware you will have to remove after going to the site. Spybot should clear it all up.

[2Dskillz]

The Incredible Machine series is not to be missed. It was by Sierra, each level you have an objective to complete using an assortment of machine bits (springs, gears, hamster wheels, baloons). Very unique puzzle game.


On this same note does anyone know where I can get a copy of Flesh Feast by Sega (pc only top down zombie game). I have played the demo more times than I can count.

[Satac]

but, WARNING they have alot of spyware you will have to remove after going to the site. Spybot should clear it all up.

You should try to secure your browser or switch to Opera or Firefox. This should never happen on your PC.

My favs:

Realms of Arkania
Albion
Duke Nukem 1,2 & 3D
Bio Menace
Mechwarrior 2
Transport Tycoon
Screamer
Lotus III
Tyrian 2000
Wacky Wheels
System Shock
Ultima 7
Historyline 1914-1918
Battle Isle I + II

[unbroken]

Crusader: No Remorse or No Regret.
X-Com
Duke Nukem

[Pantechnicon]

Dune (The Cryo version, not Dune II)

Darkseed

Defcon 1 (a freeware DOS clone of Missile Command which is pretty cool)

Star Trek 25th Anniversary

[Kuros]

Can't believe I forgot...

Fallout 1 and 2

[Fuyukaze]

Lots of good games listed and honestly, I'm hard pressed to think of that many more. I do not know if they are 98 and older only, but.....

Hero's of Might and Magic (all of em)
All 3 Fallout games (yes, tactics included)
7th guest/11th hour
Eye of the Beholder? (archive release much like wizardry)

Funny how you make finding a laptop with 98 sound like you found an oddy2 or a 2600. I say it's funny because that's the same OS I currently use! Maybe one day I'll splurge and get me a laptop with 98 as well. Hell, maybe I'll realy go wild and buy one with ME! Maybe not though....

[njiska]

One Must Fall 2097

Just make sure you crank the speed way down since the game doesn't have a frame limiter.

[tylerwillis]

Almost any of the old Sierra On-Line graphical adventures... I'll recommend in particular the Quest for Glory series.

[sniperCCJVQ]

Duke Nukem 3D

[InsaneDavid]

One Must Fall 2097

Just make sure you crank the speed way down since the game doesn't have a frame limiter.

Damn straight!
Stunts is also good, like the original version of Trackmania Sunrise, oh and...

The Last Express. It had problems in XP if I remember correctly.

[cyberfluxor]

I'll list a few that others haven't posted.

Descent 1, 2, 3
Cyberia 1, 2
X-Wing
Mechwarrior games
Heretic 1, 2
Rune
Wolf 3D (Be sure to grab it with the map editor)
Total Annihiliation

And if you want, pick up the MS entertainment pack that came for Win3.1x. It's fun to play on older compys.

[Xantan the Foul]

Almost any of the old Sierra On-Line graphical adventures... I'll recommend in particular the Quest for Glory series.

I second that, easily my favorite PC series.

[Darth Sensei]

I played the hell out of One Must Fall.

There were so many great games.

Wing Commander (and the sequels)
X-wing, Tie Fighter etc
Some of the old Test Drive Games
M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank (or something like that)
THQ Attack Chopper
Civilization 1
Some of the old adventure games from Sierra Online.
Duke 3d and some of it's related games like Shadow Warrior
Carmageddon

[googlefest1]

just want to add FX fighter, privateer, overloard, conan the cimirian, haloween harry, strike commander, starcontrol 2, blade runner, startrek judgement rites to the already long list

[Mezmoron]

If you want to go really old school, there was a game I played a LONG time ago. It was called "The Shadows of Yserbius". It was a dungeon crawling game that was also part of a gaming network...It might have been the Imagination Network. Any help anyone? Goodness though, when I was little, that game owned.

Ken

[Ze_ro]

Some of these may have already been mentioned, but here's my list:

One Must Fall 2097 (Great 1-on-1 fighter with mechs)
Traffic Department 2192 (Overhead view 360 shooter with great storyline)
God of Thunder (Puzzle game that resembles Zelda a bit)
Ultima IV, V, VI, VII part 1 and 2 (Best RPG series ever)
Wasteland (Classic RPG, Fallout is it's successor)
The Dark Heart of Uukrul (Ingenious RPG that no one has ever heard of)
Dungeon Master (Another classic RPG)
Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 (Both good dungeon crawls with very impressive (for their time) 3D environments)
System Shock 1 & 2 (Great cyberpunk style games)

--Zero

[Pantechnicon]

And if you want, pick up the MS entertainment pack that came for Win3.1x. It's fun to play on older compys.

Almost recommended this myself. I played the hell out of Fuji Golf and Jezzball (a sort of cross between Breakout and Surround - very addictive), and my wife still regularly plays Chip's Challenge.