I was searching through old Games and realized that the 90's populair Game Commander Keen was released for the Android. Of course, it is a re-release of the old title wich is Keen Dreams.There were many Great Dos Games back in the days like Commander Keen. Why do you guys Games like these aren't getting made anymore?Quote from Wikipedia:In January 2013, Tom Hall started Worlds of Wander, a tool for creating platform games. With an intuitive level editor and the ability to reprogram the game, it intends to have many options for sharing games and levels. Worlds of Wander would be released along with a new game created with the tool, called Secret Spaceship Club, which Hall describes as a "spiritual sequel" to Commander Keen. Worlds of Wander tried to get funds through a Kickstarter campaign in February 2013, but the project was not able to reach its $400,000 goal. According to Hall, development will continue in their spare time.I mean Commander Keen is a character similiar like Mega Man but, it would be Great to see such Games back. What do You guys think? Imagine Commander Keen in a Game like Super Smash or as a new Game.What do you think? Wich titles do you remember from back in the days?
Commander Keen sucks. Consider that Super Mario World was released only a month before the first three Keens and compared to it, the original trilogy is completely lacking in graphics, sound and level design. 4 and 5 aren't much better.
Well, there is a nostalgia factor involved. The first three games looked bad even back in the day, and the controls were tricky (Ctrl+Alt to shoot sometimes made you die because of an accidental pogo/jump), but even with all that I liked the games a lot.For the later games, Goodbye Galaxy is my favorite.From that era I also love Prehistorik 2, the PC version because the SNES port was awful. My only gripe with that game is the scrolling; sometimes it played against you.
Lessee, DOS. Well I was super young when DOS was big, so most of the games I played were either edutainment or simple. There was a Mario rip-off whose name I don't remember that had a girl as the main character (I think she was named "Maggie") and the soundtrack was so catchy, as well as some vertical shooter that played "WELL THAT'S IT MAN, GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER" whenever you got a gameover. The one I remember clearly was the DOS port of Lemmings, which I played a lot of. And since I was in a Christian school, the kid that owned Doom was the cool kid everyone wanted to be friends with.Now that I'm older, I've tried out some other DOS titles like Waxworks, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, and Harvester. It's kinda interesting seeing everything I missed the first time around.
Dune 2, X-Com: Enemy Unknown, Syndicate, the Ultima series, the first 3 Alone in the Dark games...Lots of fun stuff.
San2 said, October 13, 2014, 05:25:59 pmFlamebaitYou're right SMW was of a much higher caliber but that position neglects the context of PC gaming at the time which had always been one of the followingRelegated mostly to ascii gamesSeen as the domain of the AMIGANot seen as a profitable business modelSo the grand majority of titles developed on the PC were budget titles and three dudes in a garage.http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory/The team behind Keen was important for two reasons:Made console/arcade titles seem viable on PC hardwarePioneered the Shareware model of game distributionThere was a huge battle with relevance that had to be fought before you could even begin looking at the quality of the games, after all, the hardware wasn't designed for games!Anything you made had to work on everyone's PCs, so before IBM compatible was a thing, you were kinda SOL without massive resources at your disposal. Remember all those setup screens where you chose your sound card and your video card? Someone had to write a driver for the game for each of those. EACH OF THEM.The struggle is real.
Duke Nukem 1 was the shit to me back in the day. I even had all 3 episodes on floppy disks V:Also, if we're going to include early Windows games (post-DOS), there was a very repetitive but neat little gem on the Windows disc called "Hover!". It was actually neat for what it was. There's also the very unknown but fun Tetris clone, Gemstorm, which worked on my Vista computer but doesn't work on my current Win7 computer.
Doom 1 and 2Duke Nukem 1Barbarian (I think that's what it was called)Last NinjaStreet Fighter 1SyndicateSimcity 2000Civilization 2PrivateerTerminal VelocityWacky WheelsDescent 1 and 2Master of Orion 1 and 2 (was 2 on DOS or only Windows?)Rise of the TriadCommander Keen 1-5RaptorStar ControlSimEarthCalifornia GamesSummer GamesWinter GameszAngband tkStick Fighter 2
San2 said, October 13, 2014, 05:25:59 pmCommander Keen sucks. Consider that Super Mario World was released only a month before the first three Keens and compared to it, the original trilogy is completely lacking in graphics, sound and level design. 4 and 5 aren't much better.Yes but, Super Mario World was released for the Super Nintendo and that console was powerfull for it's time and it's system strongly build for Games only. As for Keen, it did run on MS-Dos, Dos wich was a computer based system with it's limit.Davod Sirloin said, October 14, 2014, 02:15:54 amhttp://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory/The team behind Keen was important for two reasons:Made console/arcade titles seem viable on PC hardwarePioneered the Shareware model of game distributionThanks for the link. I did read it and hope to see them doing a new Game as they were actually planning on it.Person Man said, October 14, 2014, 03:27:32 amJazz Jackrabbit was my jam when I was a young'un.Same here. It was Excellent back in the days and some later titles were good aswell.Orochi Gill said, October 14, 2014, 03:39:52 amDuke Nukem 1 was the shit to me back in the day. I even had all 3 episodes on floppy disks V:Also, if we're going to include early Windows games (post-DOS), there was a very repetitive but neat little gem on the Windows disc called "Hover!". It was actually neat for what it was. There's also the very unknown but fun Tetris clone, Gemstorm, which worked on my Vista computer but doesn't work on my current Win7 computer. Besides Tetris, I played some Bomberman and Pac-Man clones back then. If you wan't to play some of those games again, You have to install DosBox.Rabite said, October 14, 2014, 06:45:48 amDoom 1 and 2Duke Nukem 1Barbarian (I think that's what it was called)Last NinjaStreet Fighter 1SyndicateSimcity 2000Civilization 2PrivateerTerminal VelocityWacky WheelsDescent 1 and 2Master of Orion 1 and 2 (was 2 on DOS or only Windows?)Rise of the TriadCommander Keen 1-5RaptorStar ControlSimEarthCalifornia GamesSummer GamesWinter GameszAngband tkStick Fighter 2I played all Commander Keen, Duke Nukem and Doom Games. Also Wolfenstein 3D was a very Great Game. Some other titles I enjoyed as a kid were CD-Man, Prehistoric Man, Dangerous Dave, Monster Bash, Eracha.
Xenon 2 Megablast was one of my favorites. Vertical SHMUP with upgrades and HARD AS HELL diifculty, even when it is not a bullet hell shooter.Yes, you could have all that crap around your tiny ship and STILL you die like a rat.
I cannot stress enough the fact that the environment that allowed great DOS games to be developed back then is more or less the same kind of environment that today's indie game movement fosters. Small teams of developers with an idea.Let's not forget that this fantastic game was made almost entirely by two people.Spoiler, click to toggle visibiltyAnd that's my obligatory OMF2097 plug
Games back than didn't need much people to work with but, those are Great for it's days.Also, C-Dogs was a Game I really liked alot there.
Risky Woods was one of my favs too.Funny fact: I remember I was never able to beat the first boss on my 286; eveytime I ran out of time. Using a more "modern" system like a 486 was different... I was able to kill the boss with enough time.The game ran kinda slow on my 286 to the point I had to disable background... so, it seems like tha game time counter ran normally, but the game ran slowly.
I'm surprised there is no mention of Mario & Luigi for DOS as well. The game was short, but it gave good memories.
