Top Six DOS Games

[Mr Kiwi]

Here are my top Six DOS games.

Lemmings

Transport Tycoon

Number Munchers

Oregon Trail

Acid Tetris

Jetpack


Whats yours?

[Mr Kiwi]

yupper, playing it on dosbox right now.

[The Doctor]

Interesting.  Off to tend to my lemmings!  I've made it to Upsidedown World in Taxing so far, and I only needing Lemmings Encyclopedia once.  However, I have checked to solutions on there, but they turned out to be correct, so technically it's not getting it from there.

Stay on topic.

My top 10 DOS games in descending order:

• Halloween Harry
• Math Blaster Plus
• The Incredible Machine 2
• Super ZZT
• ZZT
• Megazeux
• Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego version 1
• Oh No! More Lemmings
• Lemmings
• Lemmings 2: The Tribes

[Clam]

In no particular order...

Lemmings (including ONML and Xmas of course)
Lemmings 2
Lemmings 3
3D Lemmings
Incredible Machine
Incredible Machine 2


Honourable mentions to a couple of kids learning games: Word Rescue and Mixed-Up Mother Goose. 

[Simon]

Can't believe that nobody has written the following two games yet :-)

• One Step Beyond
• Pushover

Otherwise,

• L2
• ONML
• L3
• L1

-- Simon

[Mr. K]

Lemmings
MegaRace
ACiD Tetris
Jazz Jackrabbit
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
SimCity 2000 Special Edition

[GigaLem]

number
SIX
Lemmings orignal
Next to the amiga lemmings was best for dos also
number
FIVE
Sid and al's incredible toon's
When you play the toons or making your own sid al are the best
next to the incredible toon machine
number
FOUR
Lemmings 2 :the tribes
SO MANY SKILLS
so little time
Lemming 2 is where the tailisment is broke in the peaces
try to find in each tribe
number
THREE
The incredible toon machine
another game to sid and al with more toons
number
TWO
Petz (classic)
Adopt a pet make a family
its about taking care of them or making a family tree
AND LAST BUT NOT LEST
Drun Roll Please bum tatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatat...................
NUMBER
ONE
OH NO! more lemmings
Besides the of the new terain
(brick,rock,snow, and bubble)
100 more level of fun
but instead of four rating theres
five
tame
crazy
wild
wicked
and havoc
i tell ya takes skill but i still love it

[DragonsLover]

My top six? Yikes... hard to say... there are so many Dos games I like.

By the way, "The Incredible Toons Machine" is a Windows game, not Dos.

Here are all those nice Dos games I enjoyed playing (most of them having a Windows port and some others better on the Amiga/ST) in alphabetical order :

- Acid Tetris (now renamed to "Super Acid Block Attack")
- Alone in the Dark
- Captive (ST version)
- Death Rally
- Descent
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Dungeon Keeper with Deeper Dungeons (Windows version)
- Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back (ST version)
- Heroes of Might and Magic
- Lemmings, Oh no! More Lemmings, Holiday Lemmings 1991 through 1994, The Lemmings Companion, Save the Lemmings, Lemmings II : The Tribes, Lemmings 3D, Lemmings 3D : Winterland
- Loom
- Mystic Towers
- Populous I and II
- Prince of Persia
- Push Over and One Step Beyond
- Rise of the Triad
- Supaplex
- Syndicate
- The Even More Incredible Machine, The Incredible Machine 2 (but I do have the Windows version named "The Incredible Machine 3"), Sid & Al's Incredible Toon (but I do have the Windows version named "The Incredible Toons Machine").
- Theme Hospital
- Turrican II
- UFO : Enemy Unknown
- Worms United

[Tim]

DragonsLover's list brought back some memories of the DOS games I used to play. The games I remember are:

- Duke Nukem
- Lemmings series (of course )
- Prince of Persia (I remember getting stuck at a certain point in the game and gave up, havent played it since)
- Worms

From a larger list: (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MS-DOS_games )

- Battle Chess
- California Games
- Doom
- Double Dragon
- GTA 1 or 2 (forgot which one I tried but I remember the birds eye view)
- Jill of the Jungle
- Serf City/Settlers
- SimCity 2000 (first played it on DOS, later for Windows)
- Simon the Sorcerer
- Ski or Die
- Tomb Raider
- Virtual Pool
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Word Rescue

Soon I will make a list of my top games!

[EricLang]

A very nice game is Stoneage. It can be found on Abandonia I think. Nice puzzles!

[Dullstar]

Not ordered in any way whatsoever...

Lemmings/ONML
Lemmings 2
Acid Tetris
Lemtris (or whatever tetris game where you had to either save or kill the lemmings was called)
Worms

[Minim]

3D Lemmings

Are you sure 3D Lemmings was on DOS? I had it on CD.

[Pooty]

I love 3D Lemmings. Once I was able to handle the controls, there was a good game to be found in there. I wish they'd do it again. With dual analog sticks, it should be a lot easier to implement now.

Other top 5 DOS games in my opinion (and yes, 3D Lemmings is definitely a DOS game) are Ultima V, Flashback, Beneath a Steel Sky and Wolfenstein 3D.

[Mr. K]

3D Lemmings

Are you sure 3D Lemmings was on DOS? I had it on CD.

You can have CD games on DOS.  In fact a large number of my DOS games are.
And I believe 3D Lemmings did have a CD version.  And it came out on disc for PS1 and Sega Saturn, for obvious reasons.

[Minim]

And I believe 3D Lemmings did have a CD version.  And it came out on disc for PS1 and Sega Saturn, for obvious reasons.

Yes, I know that 3D Lemmings came out on CD, especially the PC version because it was the one I played.

Anyway, I'm trying my best to stay on topic, but most of the DOS games I remember were "Learning" games. These are the Top 6 DOS games I've played:

Lemmings
Grand Prix Racing
Prince of Persia
Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball
Math Rescue
Word Rescue

[Dullstar]

Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball

That is a DOS game?  LOL

[Minim]

Yeah! TtTE pinball is a DOS game. That might have been made in Britain, so you may not have even heard of it at all.

[Dullstar]

I honestly think that the existence of such a game is hilarious.

[Mr. K]

That is amazing.

[danparker]

I'll list a few.

1. Lemmings
2. Oh No! More Lemmings
3. Lemmings 2: The Tribes
4. Lemmings Chronicles
5. The Early Knowledge Adventures Education Games
6. Kids On Site

[Lemika]

I always have trouble picking top lists, but let's see.

1: Lemmings.
2: Commander Keen.
3: Duke Nukem.
4: Hocus Pocus.
5: Mystic Towers.
6: Crystal Caves.

If there were more than six, just assume that those all extend to cover the whole series they came from. 

[Minim]

I missed this! Sounds like an interesting topic for anyone who still remembers DOS or has a DOSbox. I definitely remember playing DOS games when I was a young kid.

Anyway, here are my Top 6 (in fact, these are the only ones I know so far but still enjoyed them)

1. Lemmings
2. Grand Prix Circuit
3. Oh No More Lemmings
4. Math Rescue
5. Word Rescue
6. Prince of Persia

[NaOH]

I need a break from my work so why don't I ponder this...

1. Lemmings
2. Command & Conquer: Red Alert
3. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries
4. Master of Orion 2
5. The Incredible Machine
6. Warcraft: Orcs and Humans

Huh... I sure liked violent games when I was younger. Even The Incredible Machine featured guns.

I missed this! Sounds like an interesting topic for anyone who still remembers DOS or has a DOSbox. I definitely remember playing DOS games when I was a young kid.

I think you might be slightly confused--

And I believe 3D Lemmings did have a CD version.  And it came out on disc for PS1 and Sega Saturn, for obvious reasons.

Anyway, I'm trying my best to stay on topic, but most of the DOS games I remember were "Learning" games. These are the Top 6 DOS games I've played:

Lemmings
Grand Prix Racing
Prince of Persia
Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball
Math Rescue
Word Rescue

--although it is interesting to see how your list has changed! 

[namida]

The only DOS games I can really say I remember are the Lemmings games and the Commander Keen games, so I can't make much of a list here... they're also two very different games, though Lemmings is definitely my preference. Within each series (favorite to least favorite):

Lemmings
OhNo > Orig > 3D > H94 > L2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> L3

Keen
5 > 6 > 4 > 2 > 3 > 1 > Dreams

[Minim]

I missed this! Sounds like an interesting topic for anyone who still remembers DOS or has a DOSbox. I definitely remember playing DOS games when I was a young kid.

I think you might be slightly confused--

And I believe 3D Lemmings did have a CD version.  And it came out on disc for PS1 and Sega Saturn, for obvious reasons.

Anyway, I'm trying my best to stay on topic, but most of the DOS games I remember were "Learning" games. These are the Top 6 DOS games I've played:

Lemmings
Grand Prix Racing
Prince of Persia
Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball
Math Rescue
Word Rescue

--although it is interesting to see how your list has changed! 

Well, did I not see that green arrow on the left side of the thread list? Thanks for pointing that out. Thomas the Tank Engine Pinball never entered my head at first. I do remember more DOS games I've played than the ones I've listed, but I couldn't remember their names.

[Prob Lem]

This is an interesting one to me, since x86 hardware, and Microsoft's operating systems, were largely irrelevant in the UK home computing market until around the mid-1990s. I still haven't played very much MS-DOS stuff (my top pick was actually the first MS-DOS game I ever played, and several of the others were discovered in more recent times), so it was actually a bit of a struggle to come up with six games!

Anyhow, the list;

1: Lemmings 3D
2: All New World of Lemmings/The Lemmings Chronicles
3: Jazz Jackrabbit
4: Jetpack
5: Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy!
6: Skyroads

I'm unsure about the confusion about Lemmings 3D being on CD earlier on in this thread, though - as far as I've ever found, the floppy disk version mentioned in the demos was never actually released, or at least no evidence exists that it ever was.

[grams88]

Here's my list of games, well it's a top five.

1 (Lemmings related games, lemmings tribes my favorite)
2 (Duke 3d)
3 (1nsane)
4 (Llamatron)
5 (Worms United)

[Akseli]

I absolutely love Lemika's list, I've played all of those! Prob Lem's list is excellent, too, but I haven't played Lemmings 3D there still... 

I don't want to specify certain games, my favourite game series' have many episodes.

1. Lemmings
2. Commander Keen
3. Doom
4. Jazz Jackrabbit
5. Monster Bash
6. Diggers (after a long pondering between it and, for example, Bio Menace, Blake Stone, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Descent, Duke Nukem, God of Thunder, Heretic, Highway Hunter, Hocus Pocus, Jetpack, Overkill, Raptor, Rayman, Skyroads, Stone Age, Wolfenstein 3D...)

First five were easier to figure. Rayman (1) and Stone Age were the only ones I didn't play as a kid. Lemmings and Commander Keen are still the only games whose user made content I've also played.

[607]

Well, I haven't played too many DOS games, I play more Atari ST. But for the games I do know (often also available for ST) (not necessarily in the right order) (I'm not 100% certain they are all DOS, but I think most of them are) :
Lemmings, and things like oh no, holiday, just the games using that engine.
Lemmings 2.
Lost Vikings. It's a great game, I think, although I've never gotten very far in it.
LucasArts games, I played Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max: Hit the Road. I only saw other people play DotT, the only one I completed is Sam & Max.
Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk. Why? Well, mostly nostalgia, I guess, it was one of the games I really loved when I was young, even though it's not of great quality.
Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge. For its soundtrack. It's amazing. I've spent more time listening to the soundtrack than actually playing this game, I think.
Fable. It's a pretty nice point & click adventure game.

Those are some DOS games I really liked.

Games I'd really like to play in the future: Monkey Island and the Gobli(i(i))ns trilogy.

Does anyone have any recommendations for me? I don't like overly violent or occult games (in fact, if Lemmings wouldn't be one of my favourite games of all time, I would've stopped playing when I saw the horror theme for the first time).

[grams88]

I think I made a mistake, I don't think 1nsane is a dos game. oops. 

Hi 607

One game I think you may like as it sounds like you are into your adventure games is (Jack olando). It has a good atmosphere.