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I also remember cosmo's cosmic adventure, jetpack, dungeons of drakklor, galactix, vga miner, Hugo's house of horrors 1-3, ancients, kilo blaster, skyroads, dracula, xargon, captain comic, commander keen, chopper commando, ken's labyrinth, brix, solar winds.
Never heard of the ones in the article.
Does anyone remember Redhooks Revenge? It was a maritime-themed trivia board game with risk battle mechanics for DOS. You can see the original here: https://archive.org/details/RedhooksRevenge I actually received permission from ImagiSOFT to build the sequel, titled Redhook's Revenge: Call of Booty which adds in 1000s of general trivia questions, which is freely available on itch.io: https://specularrealms.itch.io/re…
Secret Agent ftw! Wacky Wheels! Commander Keen!
Commander Keen was the first game I ever played. Took me a long while to figure out he had a raygun. Shooting was some weird combination of inputs, like ctrl+space, not the first thing you try. ... also * Raptor: Call of the Shadows. * Magus. * Jill of the jungle. * Mystic Towers. * Terminal Velocity. The Psygnosis logo was legit the coolest thing I ever saw when I was single digit years old.
Epic MegaGames had some great shareware games: https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/epic-megagames I remember playing OverKill a lot and I think we actually ended up purchasing the full game to unlock the remaining planets.
I wish these were all available on Android so that I could play them on my phone. However, UI issues, my own technical incompetence and laziness (if they don't come up after a Play Store search then I don't check much further) stand in the way. Unless someone has any suggestions? I would think DosBox would not work well on a small screen?
DoxBox does IMO work well on Android but it's clunky to set up - you likely need some variant of a "hacker keyboard" installed to make initial setups easier for games, and then AFAIK you'll probably need to also install another keyboard of choice that supports the buttons your game needs. All in all it likely is worth it for some games if you're nostalgic enough for them but don't feel like playing them when you're a…
Does anyone remember Redhooks Revenge? It was a maritime-themed trivia board game with risk battle mechanics for DOS. You can see the original here: https://archive.org/details/RedhooksRevenge I actually received permission from ImagiSOFT to build the sequel, titled Redhook's Revenge: Call of Booty which adds in 1000s of general trivia questions, which is freely available on itch.io: https://specularrealms.itch.io/re…
I'll give your sequel a try! Thanks for the nostalgic reminder!
It tells the stories behind some of these games, and many others.
I was going to bring up Carr Software's Capture the Flag as soon as I saw the headline, and was pleasantly surprised to see it made the cut for the article. A few years ago I finally got around to ordering the full version for my dad, and it was nice getting to tell Mr. Carr how much we had enjoyed his game over the years.
The sprites used in the shareware game I played remained etched in my memory, along with the red and blue colors for the teams, the top-down view with vibrant colors, the Windows 95 GUI, and keywords like "trapper" and "scout" (the other game apparently had "digger") but I had forgotten the name over the years and took me a lot of searching to find it again.
There are some communities like Reddit's tipofmyjoystick that are geared towards locating games by description, and the process inspired me to contribute to curation/catalog sites for games. Abandonware sites fulfill much of that latter niche now, but these are not abandonware!
After I found the game's name, I found that there were very few Google search results for "shareware pirate battles carrsoft" or "shareware treasure island carrsoft". There's room for more shareware catalogs and searchable, browseable thematic directories.
He still sells a bundle of his games at carrsoft.com and I bought them recently. Highly recommend!
Anyone have the Shareware Breakthrough disc? Was a CD a with a red brick texture. Wonder how much time I sunk into that when I was a kid. I don’t remember a lot of the games off the top of my head except Merlin and Gladiator https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZaK-yH50eA