Pre-windows gaming memories

[dandahammer]

I was reading the Agony of Defeat article when a wave of nostalgia hit; that of playing games on my dads pc. I had a piece of paper with the DOS command lines needed to play them.

The ones I remember:
Wing Commander I and II
Commander Keen
Elevator Action
An activition Star trek point and click game. (Kirk: I'm so happy I could hug the world!)
A golf Sim
Silent hunter (I think)
Red Baron
Pour Le Merit
Math Blaster (Educational Game)
Wolfenstein 3d
Kings Field

Any one else remember those days/games?

*edit*

Oh yeah, and Mechwarrior. So awesome

 

[Hong Meiling]

Time Bandit on the Atari 520ST (And later on a compaq 486), fun times.
Albeit I hated that black hole stage. And I never got past the castle and space ship. Shame.

But oh man, the manual was awesome. Detailing every bit about the game. Why can't we have stuff like that now eh?

Also, Pushover is another fond gaming memory of mine. Never thought dominoes could break my mind so much.

 

[dandahammer]

Oh Atari, the reason I didn't mind going to my grandparents house because my uncle had one.

Battle tanks and Pitfall and asteroids!

 

[NeutralDrow]

King's Quest V and VI. Dig Dug. All of the Gold Box RPGs (except Pools of Darkness)...

Especially those last ones.

 

[Distorted Stu]

I had a commador64 or whatever it was called. Great times! I first got my hands on a PC in 2000, so i spent many a year on the sega before hand.

 

[Eleuthera]

On a PC: Dune 2, Lands of Lore, Warcraft, Day of the Tentacle, Civ 1 and 2 and SimCity 1 and 2000.

On the Commodore64/128: Summer games, Bomb Jack, Mission Impossible

 

[Doktor Merkwurdigliebe]

Battle City, Contra, Ice Climber and couple of more NES titles.

Prince of Persia, Test Drive, California Games for PC.

 

[Jonci]

Red Baron

This game. I nearly had to fight my cousin for some gametime on his copy.

 

[Starnerf]

Elfland, Number Munchers, and Megaman.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Oregon Trail
Cross Country Canada
Spellbound
Castle Adventure
Math Castle (I think that's what it was called; basically you defend you castle, which is protected by a force field, from evil invading aliens that are represented by math expressions, and you solve the expressions to destroy them.)
Operation Neptune
Sim City
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego
Commander Keen
...to name a few.

 

[mayney93]

erm i was born into the pc era but my grandad once wrote code for his commadore 64 he got it wrong the game failed

 

[damselgaming]

L!
The mathemagical adventure!

 

[DazZ.]

Commander Keens
Wolf3d
Kings Bounty
Duke Nukem 1 and 2.
Prince of Persia
Fantastic Dizzy
I.M Mean
Links (A golf game that OP might mean)
Cyber Dogs (I LOVED this game)
Night Raid (I played this for hours, and it's worse than Tetris)

Something about a bunny, it was very pink. (not Jazz Jackrabbit)

Jazz Jackrabbit.
Aladdin (Still have this in a huge box with a floppy disk priced at £35)

Secret Agent

Billy the kid? I think that was it, it was brutally hard.

Edit: I forgot some FPSs, Kens Labyrinth (I remember being impressed with the graphics)
Catacombs Abyss[hr]Now I can see why I never moved to consoles like my friends with this as my childhood, I'm going to be remembering more all day now I'll edit them in.

 

[Halceon]

Let's see...
Commander Keen 1-5; X-com 1, 2, 4 & 3; Civilization; Colonization; Pirates & Pirates Gold!; Sid Meier's Covert Ops; Dune 1 & 2; Shortline Railroad; SimCity; Transport Tycoon; Simon The Sorcerer 1 & 2; (non-Molyneux) Fable; various King's Quests; Bubble Bobble, Rick Dangerous 1 & 2; Doom; Wolfenstein 3D; Afterlife; Another World; Gobliins 1-3; Battle Chess; Mystery at the Museum; Command and Conquer; Commandos; Fantasy Empires; Flashback; Heretic; Hexen; Loom; Master of Magic; Master of Orion; Mine bombers; Patrician; Scorched Planet; Scorched Earth; Warcraft 1 & 2; Warlords 1 & 2; Space Crusade; Hero Quest; Tube; Syndicate & Syndicate Wars; Secret Agent; Warhammer Dark Omen; Xenophage; Z; Blood; Troika; Pirnce of Persia 1 & 2; Duke Nukem + expansions; Future Classics Collection; Tetcolor; Color Lines; Golden Axe... and many, many more, that i can't remember right now.

 

[Valiance]

It would be quite an endless list.

Everything from X-Com to Commander Keen to Wing Commander (armada, privateer, 3, 4), to Star Control, to Duke 1, 2, and 3D, but...

Suffice to say I played every major shooter since Catacomb Abyss, and Hexen was probably my favorite next to duke, every major RTS since Dune 2, and I prefered C+C to War2, every major TBS since Civ, and I liked MOM more than MOO, etc etc...

 

[Hong Meiling]

Oh man I remember this old FPS, blake stone or something.

Scared me silly back in the day.

 

[Chrono180]

I remember commander keen. Was really upset when it was said the last installement would never be released

 

[DesertHawk]

A lot of great titles here. I'll rattle off a few fond memories of my own:

-Warlords II (Favorite old TBS)
-The Perfect General
-B-17 Flying Fortress
-Blue Max
-Red Baron
-Aces over Europe
-Aces over the Pacific (these two 'Aces' games were some of the most enjoyable flight sims I've played)
-When Two Worlds War
-Dark Sun
-Ultima Underworld
-heck, Ultima series in general
-Dune II
-Lands of Lore
-Fantasy Empires
-Catacomb Abyss
-Lethal Tender
-Empire Deluxe
-Space Hulk
-and much more!

 

[dandahammer]

A lot of great titles here. I'll rattle off a few fond memories of my own:


-B-17 Flying Fortress
-Blue Max
-quote]

I remember playing B-17 at a friends house, and Blue Max was the English Translation of Pour le Merit, I had forgotten.

Let's see...
Sid Meier's Covert Ops

Was that the one with the spy that could infiltrate buildings by rewiring a circut board? I barely remember that...

*edit* OOps, messed up the quote function.