Cyberspeed, Virtual Stupidity, Pressure Drop, Under Pressure. I'm trying hard to avoid the Win32s and Win16 "compatible with windows 95" stuff from memory.

You can probably wiggle Doom into it as there is a late 95 release of Doom95 that's a bit older and obscure to hunt down (and should not be confused with WinDoom which is win32s)

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - released in AUG/95. On my system at the time it ran like a dog.

fsmith2003 wrote:

Also, if any of these games were also made for DOS then do the Windows versions bring anything special to the game?

Huge slow down
Abe's Oddysee got blurred in higher res

Hover
Fury³

Filtering for Windows and 1995 in MobyGames' Game Browser yields 246 results, which should be mostly accurate:
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/1995/windows/

derSammler wrote:

Fury³

Actually runs on Win 3.1 with Win32s as well 😀

einr wrote:

derSammler wrote:

Fury³

Actually runs on Win 3.1 with Win32s as well 😀

Err... that's the whole point of Win32s: bringing the Win32 api to Win3.1x so you can run Win95 apps with it. The Fury³ box says "Designed for Windows 95". If Win32s is a no-go, then you can only list games that uses DirectX, and in 1995, there were probably none. First widely used version of DirectX was 2.0 and that's already from 1996.

derSammler wrote:

If Win32s is a no-go, then you can only list games that uses DirectX, and in 1995, there were probably none.

Cyberspeed is one of the earliest GDKDirectX games ever so that's certainly one. I think Locus was another

Looks like Pitfall was released for Win3.x in 1994. So are there any advantages to the Windows 95 version which was released in August 95?

Cyber speed looks like it may be one of the first exclusives being released in December.

There's also Havoc by Reality Bytes, which I was surprised to find was released in 1995. More of a curiosity than a fun game these days though.

fsmith2003 wrote:

Looks like Pitfall was released for Win3.x in 1994. So are there any advantages to the Windows 95 version which was released in August 95?

Cyber speed looks like it may be one of the first exclusives being released in December.

Not sure if it was really released for Win3.x... but in 1994 it was released for consoles - Genesis, SNES, Jaguar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall:_The_Mayan_Adventure

Wasn't the first version of SU-27 Flanker heavily marketed as specifically designed for WIn95?

Interesting as I am currently building my unisys cwd-486 dx2/66 without cache as a win95 system.

- Pitfall the Mayan Adventure is to slow on that machine.
- Lemmings (win3x) does work good.
- BattleChess (Win3x) does work great, but is missing digisounds because of the "multitasking". To bad that this was never fixed.
- Civ1 (win3x) does run very well to.
- Pirates Gold (win3x) runs good.

I am collecting AAA-Titles that are very playable on that machine, either on win95a or Win3x. I have also installed Dos, OS2 Warp3 and WinNT 3.51 on that machine.

senrew wrote:

Wasn't the first version of SU-27 Flanker heavily marketed as specifically designed for WIn95?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/su-27-f … eShotId,357636/

Wow! that looks great...but will perhaps be too slow on a 486 DX2/66 (without cache).
I can change to CPU to a DX4/100 AMD or INTEL but I have no clue if that brings a marginal performance-boost
and I also don't know about the TDP of a DX4 instead of a DX2/66, because it's a very tiny litte machine.

Hover! is a classic. Oh and 3D pinball

Yay, I loved playing Hover when I was little ! ^^
3D Pinball ran on Win32s, though (it's such a bad, bad boy! 😉 )