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The 10 Greatest Ms-dos Games Of All Time

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 12 October 2011 - 05:01 PM

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Posted 12 October 2011 - 05:46 PM

What? No Wolfenstein?

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Posted 12 October 2011 - 06:48 PM

Another DOOM like game was Blake Stone.

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Posted 12 October 2011 - 07:43 PM

What about TIE Fighter, or even X-Wing?

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Posted 12 October 2011 - 08:55 PM

There are random hacks of games (IE: Blood), yet the real winners aren't mentioned? Wolfenstien, Wing Commander, any of the Star wars series, War craft even! All the best games that kept my attention for hours... missing.

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Posted 13 October 2011 - 04:54 AM

What about the very first warcraft?

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Posted 13 October 2011 - 04:57 AM

The article missed some of the good ones, but short of calling it "The Best 100 MS-DOS Games" they had to stop somewhere. Never played Wing Commander but Privateer was pretty awesome, as was Ultima II... only game I've every stayed up all night playing.

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Posted 13 October 2011 - 05:30 AM

MarkQuiggp8vy, on 13 October 2011 - 04:57 AM, said:

Privateer was certainly one of the best installments to the Wing Commander series. Completely open game play that could entertain for months... They don't make em like that any more.

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Posted 13 October 2011 - 01:03 PM

I enjoyed Masters of Orion, a turned based game with several different alien races that each had their own strengths and weaknesses and you were able to create various different space ships depending on your level of technology development

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Posted 13 October 2011 - 05:15 PM

How could you forget Empire? On top of the current 200+ games in my library I still manage to waste extraordinary amount of time on Empire... Who needs eye candy? Well, I do, but I also like strategy games...

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And still a favorite of mine is Quake plus all of its descendents. That game requires more true-skills than anything else.
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Just look at what Quake spawned in terms of games... From Wikipedia:
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All in source code of course! What better way to mix fun and intellect?

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Posted 13 October 2011 - 06:45 PM

Tricky to call between originals and sequels, since of course technology moves forward between them, but while Ultima Underworld was groundbreaking technically, I rckon UU II delivered the whole package. The "Labyrinth of Worlds" part of it was spectacular in scope. I can think of few games that outclass it within the context of their ages.

Hmmm... may pop over to gog.com while ATI and Id try and sort out the Rage "cluster%#+€"...

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 07:09 AM

Where is Leisure Suit Larry?

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 10:59 AM

NO Wolfenstien or Descent???? and you call this a 10 best list?

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 12:17 PM

Where's Wasteland?

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 03:50 PM

No King's Quest?!?!
Wolfenstein?!
Duke Nukem 3D?!
Wing Commander??
Jazz Jackrabbit?
Wacky Wheels?
Star Control 2?

Too many Ultima games on this list.

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 10:36 PM

What about warcraft? Wolfenstein?

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 11:20 PM

crosswordbob, on 13 October 2011 - 06:45 PM, said:

...and having done just that (I and II bundled for $5.99), it still plays bloody well, despite its 19 years.

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Posted 15 October 2011 - 12:47 AM

WTH? No Wing Commander? That was the game that got people make boot disks just to get expanded memory activated for the digitized voices.lol

Without Wing Commander sound blaster may have never become the industry standard during the 90s.

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Posted 15 October 2011 - 04:08 AM

jsnowbordr47, on 15 October 2011 - 12:47 AM, said:

Ha ha, red alert. I played that before and I sucked at it. lol

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Posted 15 October 2011 - 04:11 AM

Many have said "Not this game and that game is in the list!!".
Please stop these. These are from Benj Edwards' PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS (Look at the text in the first slide).
From my consideration, I would include Grand Theft Auto, Wolf 3D and Lord(s) of the Realm in this list. I am not saying this only because I played them but because these games influenced development and test of many games afterwards.