Category Archives: MS-DOS

Games for PC MS-DOS.

Blue Sky Productions, Electronic Arts, gog.com, Looking Glass Technologies, MS-DOS, Origin Systems, PC

Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds, PC

January 22, 2018 Mallo 5 Comments

The second of two ground-breaking Ultima Underworld games made by Blue Sky Productions (later to become Looking Glass Technologies) and Origin Systems.

Labyrinth of Worlds, first released in 1993, again features a very early (and successful) attempt to create a Role-Playing Game with a fully-explorable 3D environment. Both this – and its predecessor, The Stygian Abyss – were developed concurrently, and were a significant leap forward in terms of software technology at the time.

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Electronic Arts, gog.com, Looking Glass Technologies, MS-DOS, Origin Systems, PC

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, PC

January 22, 2018 Mallo 12 Comments

The first of two ground-breaking Ultima Underworld games made by Looking Glass Technologies (formerly known as Blue Sky Productions) and Origin Systems.

The Stygian Abyss, first released in 1992, is one of the first Role-Playing Games to feature first-person action in a 3D environment.

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Bethesda, MS-DOS, PC, US Gold

The Elder Scrolls: Arena, PC

January 20, 2018 Mallo 2 Comments

The first game in the famous Elder Scrolls series (Oblivion; Skyrim) was first released by Bethesda Softworks for PC MS-DOS in 1994.

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Bethesda, MS-DOS, PC, US Gold

Daggerfall, PC

January 19, 2018 Mallo 4 Comments

The second game in the famous Elder Scrolls series, this one called The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.

Daggerfall is a sprawling MS-DOS-based RPG, full of monsters and magic (and fun), and was first released by Bethesda (and US Gold, in the UK anyway), back in 1996.

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Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Ocean Software, PC, Sensible Software

Wizkid, PC

January 13, 2018 Mallo 1 Comment

Wizkid is also subtitled “The Story of Wizball II”, which is interesting, although it doesn’t really look or feel like a sequel to Wizball at all to me.

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Disney, gog.com, Linux, MacOS, MS-DOS, PC, Windows

Stunt Island, PC

January 10, 2018 Mallo Leave a comment

This excellent MS-DOS title, released by Disney Interactive in 1992, literally allows you to set up stunts, film them, and then edit them together into an independently-playable movie afterwards.

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MS-DOS, PC, Realtime Games Software

Elite Plus, PC

January 8, 2018 Mallo 9 Comments

There were many versions of the classic space combat/trading game, Elite. The best, though, is arguably Elite Plus on the PC in VGA. Made by Chris Sawyer of Realtime Software in 1991.

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MS-DOS, Novalogic, PC, Windows

Comanche: Maximum Overkill, PC

January 4, 2018 Mallo Leave a comment

Novalogic released a series of Comanche helicopter combat games in the 1990s. They began with the excellent Comanche: Maximum Overkill in 1992, and continued on with them until 2001.

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