I remember this game so fondly.. It had a silly little repetitive tune, got stuck in your head. I still love the simplicity of it, drop the bombs to blow up the walls, then drop the bombs to destroy the balloons, level up, race the clock, and don't get caught or blow your self up either 😉 So simple, so many hours of fun on this one. 😄
got my windows 3.11 for workgroup installed with all the drivers on a pentium 166 mmx. starting to install from my library of games the ones compatible windows 3.x.
I played this when I was around eight or so with a friend, on my dad's 286, and I recall trying to answer these questions as much as the actual game itself. I think my dad did answer the questions when he was there, but we also struggled on our own.
As a 40 year old now, I sure as hell cannot answer some of these without checking online--and perhaps many adults in 1987 couldn't answer the political or baseball questions!
(Took these screens from DOSBox, put in more of the questions than it actually asks when the game is loaded.)
It seems like a straight forward process and it seems to be able to read the disc fine because it can play the demo version of it included on the CD but for some reason it says an error in reading the disc when trying to run installation. I tried to also run the actual game straight from the disc instead of installing using the main exe file but it says it's missing that file and to do install.exe to do a proper configuration. The full game is on there, I see like 450mb of data. Any thoughts on this? Ugh I wanted this to work! 😔
Only screenshot I could find online (sorry about wrong aspect ratio, not a huge fan of game either).
But seriously, don't you miss those tense minutes?
It’s got everything but the t-shirt which was missing when I got it unfortunately.
I’ve been researching one of the strangest indie PC games ever made — a 2005 RPG Maker title that recreated a real‑world tragedy and caused massive controversy online.
It’s fascinating how this game spread through forums and was later banned in several places. I put together a short documentary exploring how it happened and what it meant for indie gaming culture.
Anyone play it?
Just bagged my these 2 bad boys off of eBay, I played hours of this game at Uni - never finished. Now its retirement material ha ha :) , can't wait for the delivery!
My retrospective look at Bonanza Brothers including arcade, all ports and spin-offs. What’s your thoughts of this 90s game?
Playing a lot of retro 90's/early 2000's third person shooter games like Tomb Raider and Max Payne lately made me question myself: "What was the first game to use an over the shoulder camera?" It's a camera style that would later became the standard for third person shooters. People credit Resident Evil 4 (2004) for popularizing it, but it wasn't the first game to use it. The ones that were released before RE4 that I know of are Splinter Cell (2002) and Manhunt (2003).
I dug deeper and found games like Fade to Black (1995), WinBack (1999), Army Men: World War - Final Front (2001), and HeadHunter (2001). Fade to Black isn't exactly what we think of when it comes to an over the shoulder camera, it's more like over the head. WinBack is close, but not really. Army Men and HeadHunter on the other hand, especially the latter, use what we'd consider a modern over the shoulder aiming camera.
Still, knowing the insane amount of games released during the 80's and 90's and how experimental they were, even the most obscure game could've done it first. It's hard to track down the actual first game to use a specific genre or camera style. Devs from back in those days just did whatever they wanted with how games played and controlled because there were no standards to follow. It was like the Wild West.
However, I managed to find what might be the EARLIEST game to use this camera, and that is Robocop 3D for DOS, released in 1991 (1992 in North America), developed by Digital Image Design. This game actually came out two years before the movie it's based on.
What's interesting is that it uses multiple camera angles that you can switch between, like first person, a camera behind his legs for some reason, and one that's clearly over the shoulder. You change them by pressing F1, F2, and F3.
You move using directional keys instead of WASD like most DOS games back in the day, and shoot by pressing the space key. It takes a while to move around, and you have to stop and aim at enemies before shooting. It's very interesting and honestly ahead of its time, especially with the way it lets you switch camera perspectives.
Again, it's hard to say which game truly did it first, but this one rarely gets brought up whenever I search about the topic, so I wanted to share it here to preserve this piece of gaming history.
The box is absolutely iconic.
So, in the early 90s I was a PCTECH at McMurdo station, Antarctica and worked alongside a guy named Al Oxton. There was a game we (the InfoSys group) played for fun on DOS (we were all DOS + NetWare at the time) called LAN-LOK that Al had brought from Palmer station (the smallest US Antarctic base). He didn't write it, but he was the antagonist of the game.
I kept a copy on floppy for many years and later moved it to my archival hard drive and eventually noticed it on my NAS last year. I decided to try to reconstruct and document the known history of it, since it appears to be the holy grail of lost media -- lost POLAR media.
https://alphapixeldev.com/lan-lok-the-antarctic-dos-sabotage-game-lost-for-34-years-part-1/
I include the actual EXE and instructions for how to play it under DOSBox, so you can play today!
I contacted all the guilty parties (the original authors) and they no longer have the source or executable and gave me permission to do whatever I wished with it.
In the future, I'd like to decompile it, revise it so it can be played natively on modern platforms like Linux, Windows, Mac and maybe web, and open-source the results. Maybe put it on Steam as a free game for fun. Anyone wishing to participate in that, let me know.
I hope you enjoy it. The game is actually fun in the sense that it's very on-point for 90s LAN interaction (manually typing hostnames, costly typos, chaos).
Hi long shot but I have memory of two games that I had as a kid and have been trying to find the names and am not sure they were on ms dos.
One was a horror game - minimal memory, but you would walk through a haunted house I think 1st person view and random ghosts/monsters would appear. The only one I remember was the oven/fireplace being possessed.
Second was an adventure game - pixelated, very tiny character but you would swim rivers, jump on logs, grass, etc .
EDIT: games looked super old - maybe on the big floppy disks.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Here's my good old collection from 30+ years ago of shareware mail order disks. This was mostly how my family bought software in the early 90s before the Web got more widespread in the mid 90s making the mail order disk business mostly obsolete. Here's some pics of my shareware game heavy hitters. Let's just say my childhood had a lot of Apogee, ID and Epic games.
There's a bunch of non game stuff in here too. Utilities, screensavers, random quirky things like PC speaker music programs where each key of the qwerty keyboard plays a different tone. I've been through these before, looking to see if there is anything rare and not already on the Internet archive, but it seems the vast majority of it already is, even when it's something I've never heard of before.
I did still rip a lot of these (about 95 percent of them still read fine) and I think it may still be interesting one day to share those files as a single downloadable collection, so you could see what random collection of games, screensavers and programs someone might have on their 386 in the mail order disk days.
I'm looking for a game that my friend played on 486 system, which is very similar to "PARATROOPER",
art style : very similar to "PARATROOPER", simple design, black background.
game mechanics :
player is a turret in the mid bottom on the screen, the paratroopers walk towards the turret once they land,
aerial enemies are mostly helicopters but there is friendly heli that drops ammo crate, you can shoot the ammo crate to clear out the enemies on screen.
aerial enemies when shot will explode into pieces which may hit and kill lower enemies.
There are setallites that could appear on highest spot of the screen in the game .
Gemini named a game called 《Satellite Attack》which I can't find any screenshot of it .
what order were the commander keen games released in? where does episode 3.5 and aliens ate my babysitter fit in release date wise? there's alot of conflicting info i've been hearing.
This is VMWare with MS-DOS 6.22. I suppose that it emulates an SVGA card.
