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Old 14th October 2022, 19:57     #1
Cyberbob
 
Old school PC gamers, what were you favourite less well known DOS/Win3x games?

For me:

DOS:
Crystal Caves
Descent
Dune
Jill of the Jungle
Loom
One Must Fall 2097
Terminal Velocity
Zone 66

Win3x:

The Incredible Machine
Comix Zone
Fury 3D
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Old 20th October 2022, 08:51     #2
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I have a major blank when it comes to this period it feels like I jumped from Amiga to Win95/Consoles. But I remember playing Descent, Blood (Multiplayer) that was a blast.

Ecstatica was a great horror game where the characters were made out of ovals. Ultima Underworld.
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Old 21st October 2022, 20:27     #3
crocos
 
Hexen (and even more Hexen II) was a blast multiplayer

Descent taught me the blessings of a mouse over HOTAS for certain games
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Old 31st October 2022, 10:40     #4
Ab
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Like FE, I was an Amiga guy for most of the DOS era, especially for games. Most of my DOS gaming was the big-name stuff. DOOM and DOOM2, X-Wing and TIE Fighter, Descent, Duke 3D. The “niche-est” game I remember fondly from that era is probably Lemmings?
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Old 1st November 2022, 14:07     #5
crocos
 
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Old 6th November 2022, 16:02     #6
Lightspeed
 
I think I had Descent, Civilization and Dune 2 on the Win3.1 machine my uncle left us when he went travelling. There was Dune as well, but I think it was some copy protection but I didn't know where the manual was. So not exactly less well known.

I never really figured out how to use the OS. Somehow I figured out how to exit to DOS and find the game folders to run the exe. I must have installed new games at some point because I remember fiddling with IRQs. It felt like by the time I actually understood them the OS handled it all.
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Old 6th November 2022, 21:13     #7
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Like FE, I was an Amiga guy for most of the DOS era, especially for games. Most of my DOS gaming was the big-name stuff. DOOM and DOOM2, X-Wing and TIE Fighter, Descent, Duke 3D. The “niche-est” game I remember fondly from that era is probably Lemmings?
Same here, I only got my first PC in 95-96 but prior to that it was all Amiga's and Commodores. The very first PC game I got was Mech Warrior 2.
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