AncapDude wrote on Yesterday, 05:59:

There are many games I love, but I think the most early influencing one was Dune 2. That started my RTS love continuing with Warcraft 1+2 and C&C of course.

Dune II and what followed turned me from a casual gamer to an addict.

Prince of persia and simcity

Gods (Platformer), Lotus (Racing), Settlers (RTS), Scorced Earth (Multiplayer), Kyrandia (Adventure), Wizardry 7 (RPG), Blockout (Puzzle)

doom quake, descent the 6dof

For me it was the Sierra adventure games - Leisure Suit Larry, Hero's Quest (i.e. Quest for Glory), and Space Quest. I did most of my action style gaming on my NES home console and left the PC for games that were more demanding of something like a keyboard and mouse. I'll love those silly games to the day I die!

Moria and the original Rogue. The Infocom games, particularly Zork I and A Mind Forever Voyaging. Then, King's Quest I. The first 256-color adventure game that really blew me away was King's Quest V, floppy disk version. If we could only have all of that wonderful art in 4k resolution verses the old 320x200 pixelated DOS screens. I wonder what ever happened to the original paintings which were used for the game.

Alley Cat and Burgertime for arcade games. Later, the usual suspects: Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, Quake, etc.

The original Need for Speed for DOS with SVGA graphics (640x480) is the first PC driving game that truly blew me away. Screamer was a close second, and it came out the same year. Seems like just yesterday, but those games are now 31 years old. They still hold up very, very well. I'd rather play them today than all of the rubbish, bloated so-called A-level games of 2026 which have budgets in the hundreds (!) of millions of dollars, which is obscene.

Strike Commander... I spent over an hour on the phone to Origin getting enough conventional memory to get it to work!

NeoG_ wrote on 2026-06-29, 13:04:

marxveix wrote on 2026-06-29, 09:34:

At one summer i played a lot Rally Sport game with very good handling.

DOS - Rally Sport (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Pc9ZvttSU

Haven't seen that one before, I like it

For that time it was good dos game from finland and they love rallying, now i may want to try this game again.

Wolfenstein 3D on my 286 was the main draw.