It got me to thinking... it's a lot of fun playing these games. I should set up an old computer just to play dos games. I'm thinking about it. And then I remember that that would be way too much effort. But it was a fun nostalgia trip anyway.
As a bonus, my kids really liked the ones I have played.
I also thought about posting some ascii artwork, but I'll save that for another time.
There are 3 games I want to show you today. They are all available to download, you are welcome to do so and give them a try.
The first is (in my opinion) the best. It's called snipes. The goal is to take your eyes and mustache and kill the snipe nests that are all over the place. I've always liked maze crawlers and this one is fun enough to just pick up on a whim, yet challenging enough that you can play it for a good long time and not get bored with it. I don't remember where I got my hands on this, but I had a lot of fun playing it.
The next game I'd like to show you is Jumpman. This game is a lot of fun and has pretty good sound effects to boot. They are all PC speaker-ish sounds, but my kids liked this one the best. You can grab it (at least an easily playable version) here. I spent a lot of time with the CGA version of this on my dad's XT (or wahtever the pre-286 machines were, I forget) on Dos 6.22. I had a good friend who lived a few houses away and he was lucky enough to have an EGA monitor with his computer. I was always jealous of that.
This is Willy the worm. I had a ton of fun with this also back on that old machine. You're a snake and you have to collect presents while bouncing around on springs and avoiding tacks. Kind of fun if you're into that sort of thing. There was a level editor with that and I happily made all sorts of levels for this game. Yeah, I was a geek even then. My scout leader when I was 12 was a programmer I think (or at least worked on computers all day) and he had all sorts fo shareware and free games he would lend me to copy on my computer. I think it kept me going to scouts. heh.
I may post old games on here now and then as I "rediscover" them. I'm a big nostalgia gamer, so that kind of thing is fun for me. I'm also a self-proclaimed game designer/theoryist wannabe, so it's fun for me in that respect as well.
Oh, for what it's worth, I set up these with dos box, a dos emulator, and d-fend, which makes running these games as easy as a double-click once set up. (The setup has a wizard with it that makes it simple also. defaults work for many old games)
Maybe for nobody's sake I'll do a review of some of the old C64 games I played another time.
Until later.
3 comments:
How I miss Pogo Joe, and of course, Night Mission Pinball for the C64. I had several hundred floppy disks of games for my C64. If I still had those discs I would have bought a computer to play them all on. I saw one for about $5 at a swap meet a couple months back, and it even came with the 1541 drive (those really sucked, but it was really all there was).
I had a monochrome monitor on my XT. My friend had a 286 with EGA. Monochrome really sucked after years of the Commodore machine.
Acii graphics. Those were the days, or maybe they weren't. But the gameplay sure was fun.
Yeah, my dad actually bought a monochrome CRT, but the store was out of them so they gave him a CGA monitor. It's a good thing too or I'd have probably "accidentally" broken the other one. heh.
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