DOS-Box Weekend

On this long Thanksgiving weekend (Canada) I decided to do something a little different and break out every old DOS game that I still kept around and try to mess around with DOS Box. My sister and I recently moved in to the same house so we wanted to take a trip down memory lane. We started with The 7th Guest.



I used to love this game back in the day. I cannot say the same any longer. I found it quite annoying and repetitive. I still had the glowing sense of nostalgia from playing it again but my impatience got the better of me so we moved onto the next game. Full Throttle.



I used to love this game and remember playing the demo over and over again. I was really hoping it was as good as I had remembered. I LOVED it! It was a little slow in places but everything still held up like I had remembered. We actually played the game from beginning to end in about 5 hours and enjoyed it all the way through. I really wish they didn't cancel the sequel. Next up we decided to blow off the dust on some old floppy disk games. Duke Nukem was next. (Before 3D)



This game I remember was quite fun. It was the only series that I had felt reproduced the fun I had on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. At least I thought that back then. Alas this game too became boring and nothing more than a fond memory as I found it more annoying to play than fun. We moved onto the original Prince of Persia next.



I really wanted to play this old game and got it to work but without sound and I couldn't control anything so I just closed it and moved on to Test Drive 3.



I was never really big on this game but my sister and best friend LOVED this game so she and I played it for her and she laughed at how much the game had aged and the fact that she STILL enjoyed playing it. Next up was another game that I never enjoyed yet friend and sister did, was Quarantine.



We got this game to work with sound but the game played so damn fast that it was actually unplayable. I even changed the speed of the emulation and it was STILL too fast. After we gave up on that I decided to give Scorched Earth a try.



This game ate up a lot of my high school free time on the computers. It was a simple game about 2 tanks (or more) battling one another. It was simple, fun, and worked great after all these years. I couldn't believe that it was still fun. Even my sister got a kick out of it. We must have played it for about 2 hours. After we battled it out for a few hours we decided to play the original Civilization.



I remember spending SO many hours playing this game. It was so revolutionary back in the day. However after playing it also has not aged well. I still had fun playing it and that awesome sense of nostalgia, but I have played many newer games that just do it better now. Especially the original Age of Empires. YES I liked that game more which is like blasphemy to some but I don't care. I loved AOE and even the music that played during the game.

Hmmm speaking of which I think I will try that next. I wonder if I can find that CD. Not to mention I still can't find the System Shock or Day of the Tentacle games. OH DOOM I definately have to try that again. Well the weekend isn't over yet so I'll let you know how all that goes. How could I forget Doom?