Descent II should at least have an honourable mention
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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No Sierra adventure games? Those were awesome in the mid-late 80s. Also no Lucas Arts adventure games. Mean the list isn't awful but none of those really were a staple game type for awhile. You could get your money's worth with some stupid puzzle or figuring out the exact text to type ah fond memories.
Arstechnica had a writeup a few weeks ago about classic Sierra games. I loved them at the time but they don't hold up. There's like 20 minutes of actual game spread with slow walking and impossible puzzles where you were encouraged to call pay per minute game tip phone numbers.
No love for Commander Keen? Aside from Doom, that was my most played.
Got a weird DOS shell "OS" at Walmart for $5, favorite shell of all time. Made icons with the built-in editor of all the Keen beasts!
The green guys with the eyestalk? Iconic.
Fuckin... agreed, dude
Learned how to cd into C:\Program Files\Games when I was 5 just to run doom.exe on the family computer. Duke Nukem 2D, Commander Keen, Wacky Wheels, Blakestone, and many others too.
Blake Stone was my jam.
Micro Machines and Raptor: Call of the Shadows deserve a mention as well.
I liked Raptor, but I LOVED Tyrian
My preferred scrolling shooter was SWIV, which I had for my Amiga. I doubt that a lot of people know that one though, and it isn't DOS. Never heard of Tyrian.
Tyrian is freeware and open source!
https://www.gog.com/en/game/tyrian_2000
https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian/blob/master/README
https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian/releases
also the DESTRUCT cheat code is a very fun mini game
Obviously missing The 7th Guest, strangely missing Monkey Island
Why both Wolf3d and Doom?
TIE Fighter and X-Wing. Pretty sure they were DOS... Gotta send some love to Roger Wilco, too.
Crusader No Remorse and No Regret were top tier DOS games.
Syndicate (better on PC than Amiga)
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure gang rise up
X-Com gang rise up