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Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny installation program

Another cool Westwood installer for Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny (Westwood/Virgin, 1997), the second entry in the series featuring sound effects, voice and full screen animation. MobyGames page: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/lands-of-lore-guardians-of-destiny  

Command & Conquer installation program

A cool installation program for the original Command & Conquer (Westwood Studios/Virgin Interactive Entertainment, 1995) featuring voice, effects & some craziness at the end. MobyGames page:  http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/command-conquer

VBDOSJAM 2014 Announcement

Can you program in Basic? Do you want a challenge? Then check out #vbdosjam 2014. Try to program a game in Visual Basic for DOS this week. More details at www.vbdosjam.com Follow Chris on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ArtfulGamer Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dosnostalgic

The Art of Manhunter

Manhunter games were always special. Not only because of their unique approach to adventure gaming, but also because of their detailed, grotesque and often gruesome art. Because early Sierra games didn’t actually store graphics as complete images, it’s quite possible to see how these incredible low resolution pieces were created. Enjoy and try not to […]

5th Anniversary Contest!

It’s DOS Nostalgia’s 5th anniversary! Thank you, wonderful people of the Internet, for sticking around! I love your comments and tweets. And now is your chance to win a bunch of underrated games by guessing ten DOS games by their screenshots. Good luck!   We have a winner, the contest is now over. Thank you […]

DOS games in 1993 part 2

Here’s the second part of the 1993 video, featuring an hour of great games from over 20 years ago. Enjoy!

Anatoly remembers #2: DOS games in 1993

With 2013 almost gone, here’s the first part of my video showcasing some DOS games from 20 years ago. Relax and enjoy. And Happy New Year!  

Space Quest Historian – Foreign Quests

On the brand new episode of The Space Quest Historian show Troels, myself and Christian Giegerich discuss Space Quest releases in foreign territories. Well, just Russia and Germany, actually.

Broken Sword installation program

A rather interesting installation program for Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templairs (Revolution Software/Virgin Interactive, 1996) featuring voice, music, cool effects and a Breakout clone while you wait. MobyGames page: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/circle-of-blood

Quake Redone Quick

This is the original 1999 release of Quake Redone Quick, a complete Quake 1 speedrun on Nightmare difficulty in 14:32 by just one person – Ingmar “Nagasaki” Poerner. Although this speedrun was later improved on and released in a variety of versions, this original release is still my personal favorite. The video includes the whole […]

Random DOS Stuff vlog #01 – Free stuff

Sorry for the sound pops – new microphone. Anatoly’s Twitter http://www.twitter.com/dosnostalgic/ Here are all the links: Ancient DOS Games http://www.pixelships.com/adg Pixelmusement channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Pixelmusement Executioners http://www.bloodlustsoftware.com/executioners.html Shadow Warrior Classic http://store.steampowered.com/app/238070/ BloodCM http://www.moddb.com/games/bloodcm Blood on GOG http://www.gog.com/game/one_unit_whole_blood Witchaven & Capstone games source code http://www.lesbird.com/capstone

GAG: The Impotent Mystery playthrough (ГЭГ: Отвязное Приключение)

A complete playthrough of a 1997 Russian Windows game GAG: The Impotent Mystery (ГЭГ: Отвязное Приключение) with a commentary by yours truly & a special guest Igor Artyomov. This quirky Russian FMV adventure game from Auric Vision & ZES’t Studio has tons of immature jokes, really high production value, poisonous penguins and an English version, […]

GAG. Coming soon

Coming soon to a PC near you, a complete playthrough of a 1997 Russian Windows game GAG: The Impotent Mystery (ГЭГ: Отвязное Приключение) with commentary by yours truly & a special guest Igor Artyomov.

“Happy Birthday!” (Nikita, 1995) a Russian edutainment game playthough

“Happy Birthday!” is a cool little edutainment game developed & published by Nikita Ltd. in 1995. It’s actually a rather well known title. It was marketed as a game which supposed to teach your child English, but I personally think it falls short in that aspect. But it’s still a fun little game with colorful […]

“Black Zone” introduction

The introduction sequence and a tiny bit of gameplay from a Russian MS-DOS game “Black Zone” (DOKA Company, 1995, CD-ROM release). Made by Aleksey Silaev, it appears to a be a spiritual successor to his little known gem “Mick”. This game is very rare and almost completely unknown even in Russia.

“Blood” help screen

Was just reminiscing about this on the podcast, so I just HAD TO make a video of it, so it could be preserved: The magnificent HELP section from the classic DOS first person shooter Blood. We need more stuff like that in games today.   Buy Blood: One Whole Unit here: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/one_unit_whole_blood

Feed me!

Hello, everyone! DOS Nostalgia Podcast now has its own RSS feed here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DosNostalgiaPodcast And it’s also available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dos-nostalgia-podcast/id668247266 So now you can subscribe using your favorite podcasting app. A new podcast is coming shortly and more videos and other stuff is on the way!  

A Tribute to Rise of the Triad

My tribute to the classic first person shooter Rise of the Triad: Dark War by Apogee in a form of a music video. Goin’ Down the Fast Way remix by The Hamster Alliance Website: www.hamsteralliance.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/hamsteralliance by Lee Jackson MobyGames page: www.mobygames.com/game/rise-of-the-triad-dark-war Buy the game on GOG: www.gog.com/gamecard/rise_of_the_triad__dark_war

Anatoly remembers #1: DOS games in 1992

With 2012 almost gone, I reminisce about 1992 and its MS-DOS releases. Sit back, relax and enjoy the showcase of 20-year-old pc gaming goodness.  

“Ivan Lozhkin: Price of Freedom” Russian Space Quest ripoff playthrough

Иван Ложкин: Цена Свободы is a 1998 Russian adventure game that is relatively obscure even in the Motherland. I’ve seen a bunch of ads for it in various magazines throughout ’98, but only seen it in a store once. It was never hiding the fact that it was… erm… “inspired” by the Space Quest series […]