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Has it been 14 years already? Time does fly when you’re having fun (with DOS games.) Having a chill Sunday evening of DOS gaming to celebrate.
I drank some hot tea and played a few holiday DOS games to celebrate 2022’s final week.
I was a guest on an episode of Long Island Retro Gaming podcast with Mike Staub. We’ve discussed multiple topics such as my own involvement with the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, differences between PC gaming and console gaming experiences, and what we can look forward to. Check it out!
I’m playing a 1998 French edutainment title “Mission Sunlight” (Mission Soleil) about Vincent van Gogh, which displays the works of the famous impressionist in the best possible way – in 3D software rendered polygons.
I played a console port of DOOM that many consider the worst only to discover that it’s not just incredibly technically impressive, but also kind of good, actually. As a bonus I also try out Wolfenstein 3D on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
Played a bunch of random DOS games from 1998 that I and the chat picked before my ISP dropped the ball on my upload speed again.
A long animated video logo of Bethesda Softworks. Taken from a 1998 DOS game “Burnout: Championship Drag Racing”
1998 was pretty much the final year when one could still find more than a handful of DOS games on store shelves (thanks, Windows!,) so let’s take a look at a few interesting games from the end of the big MS-DOS gaming era.
I play through the shareware version of id Software’s first person shooter granddaddy – Wolfenstein 3D on a real PC using keyboard only as per audience’s vote.
I was invited as a guest to participate in a Russian Тёплый Ламповый podcast. Got to speak my native language; something I don’t do very often.
Если кому интересно послушать как я болтаю на теперь уже редко мной используемом русском языке, меня недавно пригласили поучаствовать в “Тёплом Ламповом” подкасте.
I play through the first level of both classic and updated *demo* versions of System Shock!
DOS video trailer for Parallax Software’s Descent II from October of 1995.
Check out this interview with me where I talk about my personal history with PC gaming, vintage software preservation scene, indie games, and more.
(The interview was actually recorded a few years ago, and I’m happy to report that many things regarding software preservation have improved, but I feel that my general sentiments still apply.)
Watch me play Duke Nukem 64, a console port of the classic MS-DOS first person shooter, and react to them for the first time!
Rednukem source port: https://lerppu.net/wannabethesis/
Final DOS Nostalgia stream of 2020.
Games played:
00:14:37 – Cyber Police/Cyber Law
00:46:45 – Battle Bugs
01:53:30 – Max Payne
Just playing some spooky DOS games on Halloween night while dressed as The Dude from The Big Lebowski.
Games played:
00:26:37 – A Nightmare on Elm Street
00:43:00 – Nitemare 3D
01:03:15 – Dave’s Risky Rescue
01:26:30 – Castlevania
01:39:07 – Realms of the Haunting
02:28:00 – Zombies TC for DOOM II
What’s the best way to experience Super Mario 64 for the first time? On DOS and while drinking of course! Join me.
Source code for DOS port of SMB64 here: https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/sm64-port
Installation program for “C.E.O.” aka “AIV Network$”, a part of the Japanese “A-Train” series of management games by the Artdink Corporation, officially adapted for the Western market by French company Infogrames (and published in the US by their American label I•Motion) in 1995. The CD version features Infogrames’ standard mouse driven installer seen in all their games at the time, but it also features digitized speech possibly by someone they had working in their office.
Another Sunday of playing DOS first person shooters of questionable quality.
Games played:
00:06:41 – The Legend of the Seven Paladins (1994)
00:39:42 – Lethal Tender (1993)
01:14:19 – Liquidator (1998)
01:34:00 – Quiver (1997)
01:47:07 – Last Rites (1997)
02:10:57 – The Varginha Incident (1998)
Just playing some obscure first person shooter games of questionable quality.
List of games:
00:06:59 – In Extremis (1993)
01:10:40 – The Hidden Below (1994)
01:25:12 – The Terminator: Rampage (1993)
01:42:42 – Depth Dwellers (1994)
01:57:42 – Dungeons of the Kremlin (1995)