This site is dedicated to some old DOS games - those that I played in the 90's and left me a lasting memory.

Updated December, 2023

My favourite MS-DOS games


Ultima6
1990
KingsQuest5
1990
EyeOfBeholder1
1990
EyeOfBeholder2
1991
LandsOfLore
1992
AloneInTheDark
1992
Ultima7-BG
1992
UltimaUnderworld
1992
Ultima7-SI
1993
ShadowCaster
1993
UltimaUnderworld2
1993
Arena
1994
System Shock
1994
Quake1
1995
Witchaven
1995
Hexen
1995
DukeNukem3D
1996
Witchaven2
1996
Daggerfall
1996

Do you remember what video games looked like, before the standards of Windows and DirectX ?
I won't go back to the early 80's (although I remember spending lots of time with my first console - Philips Videopac, a clone of Atari 2600). I'll start in the early 90's, when games displayed scenes in 320x200 pixels and hardly 256 colours, with optimized algorithms for 12MHz machines with 1MB RAM and no hard disk :

Since Windows95, the games have been relying on DirectX for managing graphics, sound, and peripherics. Nowadays 3D is the standard, nothing to say about that, it produced lots of beautiful games.
But the memory of these old games remains... so I decided to talk about them.

And especially the "Ultima" saga : I discovered this series in 1990, with Ultima 6. It was my first video game, and since I had no experience in RPG, I found it very hard to achieve ! It took me several months with the help from other players. Without today's internet, I had to order the official "Clue Book" from Origin because I was stuck in the very end of the game (missing the word triggering Ephemerides' answer for the blue lens). I really loved this game.

Naturally, in the following years I played "Ultima 7" ("Black Gate" and "Serpent Isle"), "Utima 8" (disappointing), and "Utima 9" (nice, but some dungeons had illogical and very artificial challenges).
Of course, I also played "Ultima Underworld 1" (good 3D-engine for that time, and the feeling of immersion was better than anything before), and then its sequel "UW2".

A few years ago, I felt like playing these games again. So I bought Origin's "Ultima Collection" (U1 to U8) and tried to install and run them under Win98. It didn't give good results : no sound, crashes sometimes...

I finally used the excellent DosDox program, which I recommend to everyone wishing to run MS-Dos games under Windows. It manages to run these games with all features working fine (especially the sound).

In this site you'll mainly find resources extracted from some MS-DOS games.



It's difficult not to mention also a few early-windows games, so here's a small section about ...

My favourite windows old-games


JewelsOfTheOracle
1995
Heretic2
1997
Heretic2
1998
KinqsQuest8
1998
SystemShock2
1999


I don't have much time to spend on playing anymore since several years, but I'll just mention the last titles under windows that I appreciated somehow :

Windows games I found worth playing
(among so many others which I didn't even have a look at)


Ultima 9
1999
 
ArxFatalis
2002
(aka "Ultima Underworld 3")
HalfLife 2
2004 - 2007
Half-Life 2 + Episodes 1 & 2
Gothic 2
2005
 
Gothic 3
2006
 
Bioshock
2007
 
Fallout 3
2008
 





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