nd2003grad Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 Hey, I think I had PC-Man too! ASCII!!!! YES! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Wow, I was going to mention Friendlyware! Would you believe that most of my first experiences play, um, "classic arcade games" were in that program? Sure, why not? That mystery games disk I mentioned a couple posts back contained a Battleship game that could only be the Friendlyware version. We played a lot of Battleship in addition to Pac-Man PC Man. Battleship was tits! Hey, I think I had PC-Man too! ASCII!!!! YES! I know there was a Pac-Man game on Friendlyware, but it's not the same game. Both have ASCII graphics. PC-Man looks like Pac-Gal but with a smaller, vertically-oriented maze. If it's indeed the same game, you're the first person I've ever heard of, besides my friend, that knows that game. There's seriously ZERO information on the internet that I can find about it. Best I can find is Friendlyware Pac-Man, Orion Software PC-Man (completely different game), and Pac-Gal/Girl. Edited March 23, 2016 by BassGuitari 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I always enjoyed a quick game of Civilization. Lol, yeah, one quick game of Civ... 12 hours later the sun is coming up. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1475 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) I really enjoyed the Red Baron, Dune II, and MegaRace. MegaRace was the "pack-in" game when I got a Packard Bell Multimedia PC in 1995. Some of my other favorites: Aces of the Deep, Aces of the Pacific, Aces over Europe, A-10 Tank Killer v1.5, King's Quest IV. Edited March 23, 2016 by ed1475 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd2003grad Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 BassGuitari--I was thinking about this. I did have the Friendlyware one, but I DID have one called PC-Man as well that sounds like what you are describing! It came with a group of other similar games, including a text one called Empires that it took me FOR-EV-ER to find (not the well-known ones!). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I really enjoyed the Red Baron, Dune II, and MegaRace. MegaRace was the "pack-in" game when I got a Packard Bell Multimedia PC in 1995. Ha, MegaRace! Who could forget Lance Boyle. I was in the same boat; my parents bought a new Packard Bell, also in 1995. 3D Body (or whatever it was called) and that dinosaur program were pretty neat at the time, if you were 9 or 10 like I was. Or the 1994 Sports Illustrated Sports Almanac. MegaRace was the shit. The game itself was pretty decent (and the graphics were impressive at the time), but my brother and I thought it was cool because it was "a 3DO game." And where I grew up, the 3DO was an exotic console that was still very highly regarded at the time for its CD-quality sound and better-than-anything-we've-ever-seen-before graphics. But anyway, yeah, I spent most of the summer of 1995 playing MegaRace on our Packard Bell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 BassGuitari--I was thinking about this. I did have the Friendlyware one, but I DID have one called PC-Man as well that sounds like what you are describing! It came with a group of other similar games, including a text one called Empires that it took me FOR-EV-ER to find (not the well-known ones!). That's exciting to hear. Just curious, was it on a disk by itself or were those other games on the disk with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd2003grad Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 It came loaded on the 286 computer hard drive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd2003grad Posted March 23, 2016 Author Share Posted March 23, 2016 Did anyone else like Terminal Velocity? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fultonbot Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Since this is an Atari Forum, did anyone else get the AT-Speed add-on for their Atari ST that let them play PC DOS games in CGA and EGA? -Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Did anyone else like Terminal Velocity? Yes! I only had a shareware/demo version though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Front page sports football pro was my favorite dos game of the 90s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I had Front Page Sports Baseball which was really good but I think that was for Windows 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I had Front Page Sports Baseball which was really good but I think that was for Windows I bought that but I never really played it. I might still have it somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Wolfenstein 3d Hexen, Space Quest 3-4 Leisure suit Larry 3 Monkey Island F-19 Stealth Fighter Rick Dangerous Captain Comic Ba’al Aldo’s adventures Commander Keen 1-4 Cosmo’s Adventure Duke Nuke’m Prince of Persia Thexder Silpheed Stargoose Robocop ZZT Islands of Danger Bubble Ghost Worms 2 Lemmings Scorched Earth VGA Sharks joust Syndicate Death track Archon Boulder Dash Space Station Tetris Neuromancer Eye of the Beholder Indiana Jones Last Crusade Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis Simcity Last Half of Darkness Veil of Darkness 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I don't know if it's what the OP intended, but I was interpreting this thread as "old skool DOS games" meaning the DOS games before VGA & SoundBlaster became standard. They're totally different eras of games, and pretty much different hardware. The VGA/SoundBlaster era of DOS games is one of the greatest platforms or eras in gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schuwalker Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Tarzilla Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Empire! First game to give me and my friends the Tetris Effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect I was seeing those friggen tanks and planes in my sleep... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd2003grad Posted March 24, 2016 Author Share Posted March 24, 2016 I don't know if it's what the OP intended, but I was interpreting this thread as "old skool DOS games" meaning the DOS games before VGA & SoundBlaster became standard. They're totally different eras of games, and pretty much different hardware. The VGA/SoundBlaster era of DOS games is one of the greatest platforms or eras in gaming.. You are correct oh wise one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fultonbot Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 One of my favorite games from that era "CGA/EGA" era was Microsoft Decathlon. My buddy got it for free as gift when he visited Computerland with his dad during Xmas 1982, We played it all-the-time, except when his dad was home because we were always in danger of breaking the keyboard on his $2000 PC XT while trying to run in that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 I always enjoyed a quick game of Civilization. ROTFLMAO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) Does DOSSHELL count? Where do I begin? Civilization Stunts Scorched Earth Gorilla (qbasic) Snake (qbasic) Wolfenstein 3D Doom Prince of Persia Privateer (part of the Wing Commander games) X-Wing/Tie Fighter Dune II Tetris Mean Streets. Edited March 25, 2016 by BillyHW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Hugo's House Of Horrors 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Hugo's House Of Horrors That's some sweet PC speaker right there. PC speaker is all you really need. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Scorched Earth Scorched Earth is interesting, because Angry Birds ripped it off and made billions off of it. However, I can't feel too sorry for SE's creators, because they in turn ripped it off of Artillery Dual for the Atari 2600. What goes around, comes around I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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