Thread: DOS Games?

I remember playing Adventure in the early 1980's when I was doing work experience at Mt Newman House while still in high school. Holy crap, that's a blast from the past!

Originally Posted by Markf

And who could forget "You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike."

A game written in the days when the PDP-10 was king and when I was a pretty new System Admin.
A potted history of Adventure can be seen here A history of 'Adventure'

It's still a game that'll keep a teenager occupied for a while...

I remember working with a graduate engineer who played Adventure on the PDP during his lunch. He stuck paper up on the walls and mapped the game out. The project engineers used to come down regularly to keep themselves appraised of his progress. He mapped out the entire game.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Where was Wolfensien?
Where was Joust?
Where was Leisure Suit Larry?
Where was Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe?
Where was Doom?

Secret weapons of the luftwaffe!

Oh man... so so good!

That and commander keen were my fave dos games. Prince of persia was also awesome but too hard for me as a 10yr old.

Prince of Persia was awesome. Had a bootleg copy that I got off a mate.

Spent way too many hours playing Commander Keen (My Avatar!), as well as Captain Comic, Monster Bash, Wolfenstein 3D, and later on, the DOOM series.

I had minimal gaming on a DOS box, mainly played Lemmings off an old 286 IIRC, used to wake up on a weekend and quietly type in C:/lemmings.exe into the command prompt so as not to wake up the parents.

And all these memories just goes to show how we are all a group of geriatric old farts...


Next we will be discussing pounds and pennies!!! and how the older generation kept giving 5 bob instead of 50 cents... I always got a couple of shillings...

Wasn't it wonderful when 64K gave you a sense of dominating power!

Not quite sure what language is being spoken here re these games . But I don't think I have ever sat down and experienced a computer game other than solitaire!

The first game was 'Pong'.