If you did get frustrated, you could always take down a line of Hare Krishna and get yourself a GOURANGA bonus!ĭays… endless days… No, weeks. The freedom to pretty much do as you want was like a breath of fresh air and the challenges just hard enough to provide a satisfying challenge without causing frustration. I utterly love games with a top down perspective, and this just took it to a whole new level. The first time I witnessed that camera angle flying in and out of Liberty City as it raced to keep up with your car over road, pavement or parking lot, I was mesmerised. Since it’s release we’ve been through all the sequels, but none of those for me can match up to the excitement and playability of the first game… not even GTA 5. Thankfully, the platform was quickly changed to the PC, followed by the name. The original concept was actually intended for the Commodore Amiga, to be called Race ‘n’ Chase.
BEST MS DOS GAMES WINDOWS
Released in 1997, GTA was quite a late comer to the world of DOS, and was quickly released on Windows ’95 as well. But you can’t beat a good old dog fight.Īlso to note is this was the first game to feature the iMuse dynamic music system, allowing the MIDI tunes to really hot up when the action got wild. There are numerous missions including seek & destroy, convoys, and escorts. As one of the first games to use 3D polygons for spaceships, I found it absolutely marvelous cruising around this 3 dimensional landscape blowing the hell out of Tie fighters and capital ships in a style reminiscent of the early Star Raiders game. The first LucasARTS DOS game set in the Star Wars universe was X-Wing, and what a bloomin’ game it was. This is strategy in such a pure form that it’s utterly enjoyable.
Through building manufacturing units to create ever bigger tanks and infantry, you slowly build up enough forces to wipe out your opposition, take base camps and ultimately storm the enemies fortress. You do this by taking on the rival team of robots who start out with a base at the other end of the map. It’s very much a command and conquer style game where you have to guide your respective team of robots to dominance of a particular landscape. Take robots, tanks, strategy and networkable multi-player and you have ZED (not Zee). LA Noire stand aside, you ain’t beating this one. In any case, I loved this game, I loved the strange conversations with the tabloid seller and the voice over cues from Tex.
BEST MS DOS GAMES PLUS
Plus I’ve always had a keen interest in investigation. I think, in reality, it was a combination of all of these factors. Maybe it was James Earl Junior’s voice introduction, maybe it was the tongue in cheek scenes by Chris Jones, maybe it was the blocky first person investigation scenes. But there was something about this game which immediately took me. Usually I find the point and click genre far too slow paced and frustrating to get into. Just be sure to keep your eyes peeled for several other Top 7 DOS games in the near future. Obviously I didn’t catalogue this through my youth, so it’s a gut feel, but it feels about right. However, I’ve come up with a winning formula essentially it’s based on how much time I poured into each game. So it follows that there’s a whole lotta DOS games which I loved and indeed, still love to this day, so this list definitely wasn’t the easiest to make. It came pre-installed on my 486DX2-50 back in the Christmas of 1995, and given that I’ve been using x86 architecture PCs from that day since, it’s evident that the platform appealed to me. DOS 6.22, coupled with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups was the first operating system combination I truly acquainted myself with.
BEST MS DOS GAMES SERIES
Continuing my series of Top 7 Games, I felt it was time to take a dive into the world of IBM Compatible PCs, and more importantly MS-DOS based games.ĭOS is a particular favourite operating system of mine.