Captain Ibis
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Travel back in time with me to 30 years ago and enjoy this compilation of 82 DOS games from 1991.
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MS-DOS Games in 1991
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Wahesh
Beast by Name, Beast by Nature
That was pretty good. A LOT of games that I don't know are in that list. I played 2 of the Commander Keen games, but none of the 3 in the video. I also didn't know that Paper Boy was on PC, I thought it was only Sega and Arcade. Interesting.
Wahesh
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Also... how freaky does Marge look in The Simpsons?
Captain Ibis
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that's where they got Crash Bandicoots face from
Captain Ibis
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I never actually played Commander Keen... pretty underrated game I reckon, for its time.. I actually only found out about it a few years ago when I was watching a documentary on ID >
Wahesh
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Oh mate I used to spend many hours after school playing Commander Keen on the old 486 we had back in the 90s. That game was awesome. The 2 I played were Goodbye, Galaxy and Invasion of the Vorticons.
One of my mates had these 4 floppy disks (licensed ones) that these 8 games from Apogee/3D Realms on it. They were fully installable too so once we installed the games we'd bring the disks back to school and give them to the next kid in our group to, install lol. I can't remember the other 6 games on there but I recall there being Halloween Harry (Alien Carnage), Secret Agent, Wolfenstein 3D, and Bio Menace. We're talking 8 decent games on 4 floppy disks - pretty good effort.
A full list of there games is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3D_Realms_games
And you can play Commander Keen online here:
https://www.playdosgames.com/online/commander-keen-4/
Captain Ibis
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Damn man, I feel like I missed out! I reckon I could have wasted a lot of hours playing Commander Keen.. actually on the subject of Apogee, I found this stab at them to be pretty damn hilarious Wolfenstein was always fun.. I think most people had a copy of that at one point back in the day!
Wahesh
Beast by Name, Beast by Nature
Apogee were very good, the games were easy to install, ran on any PC, and were pretty small in size - not to mention decent graphics as well. Remember Raptor: Call of the Shadows? I remember it had the easiest cheat code. Simply press backspace while playing. It would give you one of the strongest guns in the game (you can then sell at the shop for extra money) and also restore your shield level to 100%. I would continuously abort missions then restart stages re-selling the gun in the shop time and time again and go all out buying additional shields, nuclear bombs, all the best weapons lol... that was awesome.
Captain Ibis
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I was a big fan of Crystal Caves.. not the best game ever made, but was pretty fun back then.. haha nah I don't recall that game, looks pretty cool though
Wahesh
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CRYSTAL CAVES! That's right, that was one of the 8 games on it as well. That one ran on the same engine as Secret Agent did... I remember that now.
Crystal Caves:
Secret Agent:
Wahesh
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Captain Ibis
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yep.. I never played Secret Agent I don't think, but did learn about it.. those games were pretty awesome for the time.. gotta love the OG graphics lol
Some of those games you can still get on Steam. I've got Crystal Caves and quite a few as part of an Apogee / 3D Realms Anthology pack that was released a while ago.
Word Rescue, Paganitzu, Crystal Caves, Rise of The Triads, etc etc ... about 30 games all up.
Commander Keen and Boulderdash, Bubble Bobble and the like took large chunks of my childhood up.
Then adventure games like Under a Killing Moon and the Tex Murphy FMV adventures.
Word Rescue, Paganitzu, Crystal Caves, Rise of The Triads, etc etc ... about 30 games all up.
Commander Keen and Boulderdash, Bubble Bobble and the like took large chunks of my childhood up.
Then adventure games like Under a Killing Moon and the Tex Murphy FMV adventures.
Wahesh
Beast by Name, Beast by Nature
So you're saying that these games have now been optimised for Windows 10? Wow... I gotta get me a copy of that CD!
It was on Steam. Crystal cavs has 100% been remastered, not sure on the others. I only run Win7 still.
Wahesh
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I was using Windows 10 in my old job, then, they changed my laptop and I thought I was still using Windows 7 just with a different theme. Turns out it was Windows 10. My goodness did Microsoft lose their marbles with Windows 8... no wonder why they needed to roll out 8.1 immediately. Thinking something like Windows 8 would work in the business world was just... insane.
I acutally don't mind W10 on the machines I have it running on here. It's far better than on release that's for sure. Just wish they'd stop breaking shit when releasing updates.
Both my W10 machines personally haven't had issues, but I know computers that have. I only run W10 on the home theatre PCs, so its W10, and Google Chrome and that's about it.
Both my W10 machines personally haven't had issues, but I know computers that have. I only run W10 on the home theatre PCs, so its W10, and Google Chrome and that's about it.
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Wahesh
Beast by Name, Beast by Nature
Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me this game is for free on steam
I remember playing the original for many hours as a kid - both this and secret agent from Apogee.
Captain Ibis
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Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me this game is for free on steam
I remember playing the original for many hours as a kid - both this and secret agent from Apogee.
nope - $11.50au..
yeah it was sick man for the time
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1330890/Crystal_Caves_HD/