What was your favorite MS-DOS CD game?

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Muderous_Teapot548@reddit

CD? Because I had some 5.25 and 3.5 disk games, too....

Cassette tape - Pyramid (A Text based adventure game)
5.25 - Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? tied with Wizard of Oz
CompuServ Download - Empire
3.25 - Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (This is also when my dad randomly stopped letting me game, and I started again when he bought a CD ROM)
CD - Timelapse, 11th Hour, Phantasmagoria

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Earl_Gurei@reddit

All the point-and-click adventure games, like King's Quest 6.

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ReadilyConfused@reddit

The Quest for Glory VGA remake.. Sooo good. Wish they remade 2 in the same way.

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Earl_Gurei@reddit

This? https://www.agdinteractive.com/games/qfg2/homepage/homepage.html

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ReadilyConfused@reddit

GASP

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darxide23@reddit

Syndicate and Duke Nukem 3D.

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

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braxtel@reddit

I got that for Xmas one year and it was awesome. I used to play against friends on dial-up.

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

I have a soft spot in my heart for Warcraft 1 - 3. Good call.

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DapperCrow84@reddit

Star Wars: Tie Fighter.

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ohCaptainMyCaptain27@reddit

Also X-Wing

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Medical_Solid@reddit

The music for this game was incredible — the “Imperial March” but as a heroic theme.

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COV3RTSM@reddit

Defenders of the empire

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FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit (OP)

Good one. In the same time period, I was partial to N64's Shadows of the Empire for a console space combat sim.

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Suspicious-Block-614@reddit

Kings Quest V

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lostinmyway@reddit

I learned how to type from playing King's Quest 2! Loved all the Sierra games bavk then. King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry when my parents left me home alone.

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NotJustMyDisorders@reddit

Kings Quest taught me to always Save Early, Save Often!

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El_Otro_Lebowski@reddit

Loved the Kings Quest series

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Skerrydude@reddit

Return to zork and I guess myst.

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notresearch503@reddit

Holy shit I was about to comment to see if anyone had ever heard of Return to Zork! I actually played it again a few years ago. Such a hilarious game.

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Skerrydude@reddit

Yes! Such a great game. The characters were so well developed and it seemed to be so realistic with the limited graphics.

Do you use an emulator or something else to play such classics?

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notresearch503@reddit

Yeah it was a type of video that didn't really take off, the way the actors were actually in the game or something, like Rayanne from My So-Called Life. I don't remember what it's called.

I saw it available on steam for like 5 dollars. I couldn't believe it, so I downloaded and played it in a day with my much younger friends watching and they were dying. I remember it being so hard too and you could basically drop the wrong items at any time and render the game un-winnable. They don't make em like that anymore, for sure.

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cmgww@reddit

Flight Simulator, Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom were a few of my favorites. And the OG Need For Speed

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Polymox@reddit

I had an MSDOS NASCAR racing game I played the heck out one summer in the 90s. I thought it was pretty realistic at the time.

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Novel-Suggestion-515@reddit

Mechwarrior 2.

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Novel-Suggestion-515@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3GD0UnBCk

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ReadilyConfused@reddit

This and the then GBL intro were sooo good.

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adamousg@reddit

Return to Zork

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notresearch503@reddit

Holy shit TWO whole people in this thread remember this game! I played it again a couple of years ago, so much fun.

Who are you? Don't matter...

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adamousg@reddit

now let me get this STRAIGHT… RIGHT now, we’ve got plenty of illuminite

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CherryPickens@reddit

Tie Fighter, hands down. Still chasing the high of playing that game to this day.

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-bobsnotmyuncle-@reddit

Mixed up mother goose

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MisRandomness@reddit

I liked this one too!

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RoughnecksStreetHock@reddit

Nice to see this mentioned here. I had it on 5.25 floppy and was devastated when the drive died.

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UndoxxableOhioan@reddit

Red Storm Rising

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itsasnowconemachine@reddit

Under A Killing Moon. 4 CDs of greatness.

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lostinmyway@reddit

The Tex Murphy games were so damn good!

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Such_Grab_6981@reddit

Wolfenstein.

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xxlouserxx@reddit

I probably spent half my childhood playing this and doom 😂

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Esc1221@reddit

Command and Conquer 1

honorable mentions: Warcraft 1, Karateka, there was also a game where you were a soldier killing large bug like aliens in a top down shooter, but I can't remember the name.

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Linux_is_the_answer@reddit

Wow I didn't know C&C was a MSDOS game

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Linux_is_the_answer@reddit

I really liked lemmings

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TheJustBleedGod@reddit

Lands of Lore

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LeftHandedGuitarist@reddit

I'm always delighted to find other people remember these games!

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everythinghappensto@reddit

Most of the games named so far that I had came on floppies, for me at least. I wonder if my dad got a CD-ROM drive around the time I went off to college (with a Mac), so that's why I don't remember many.

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LeftHandedGuitarist@reddit

Oh, too many to choose from! It's still my favourite era of gaming.

TIE Fighter
Full Throttle
Space Quest
Lands of Lore 1 & 2
Command & Conquer
Police Quest
Gabriel Knight
Star Trek: A Final Unity
Wing Commander 3 & 4
Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Legend of Kyrandia
The Dig
Stunt Island
Civilization
Broken Sword
Strike Commander
Rebel Assault
Myst and it's sequels

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Ineedavodka2019@reddit

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. Also, banner maker on the dot matrix printer.

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lusvstrasse@reddit

Descent: destination Saturn, Warcraft, Warcraft 2, King's Quest VI.

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Reticent_Robot@reddit

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

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TummyLice@reddit

Doom 2

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Ejigantor@reddit

Descent

Quake

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

Phantasmagoria

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VeryBunnyRabbit@reddit

Whoa blast from the past~

Golden Axe, Xenon, Romance of Three Kingdom

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Voluntary_Perry@reddit

Elder Scrolls: Arena

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DamarsLastKanar@reddit

Battle Chess was metal.

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redmeansdistortion@reddit

Especially because the king would whip out a gat and let em have it.

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Schmuck1138@reddit

Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, and Battle Chess were my jams as a kid

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PotentialHoliday5054@reddit

Dune 2

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brainfreeze77@reddit

I don't know what qualifies as a CD game. Myst, Baulder's Gate, Doom 2, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Diablo, Starcraft, and Half-Life were all released on CD in the 90s and all amazing games.

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RoughnecksStreetHock@reddit

Those were designed for Windows I believe.

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brainfreeze77@reddit

Possibly, I don't know which ones can and can't run without Windows. I know the iD games can run in straight DOS 5.0, and I am pretty sure MYST will. Windows wasn't really an operating system until XP. It ran on top of DOS, and a lot of applications could run without it.

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emcmahon484@reddit

The Bards Tale

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TonyNoPants@reddit

Loved this game

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Myshirtisbrown@reddit

Descent

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tersegirl@reddit

X-Com 2: Terror From the Deep. I’d load it right now if I knew a workaround for the sound card

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BRUISE_WILLIS@reddit

Available on steam

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tersegirl@reddit

Hell yeah

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JustLikeABeatUpTruck@reddit

Mine was most definitely “King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart go Yonder”. Great game and graphics. For a point and click it had an amazing story and loads of action.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

I loved the Lucas Arts point and click games, especially Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road

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gooch_norris_@reddit

Day of the tentacle was transcendent. I was also super into Indiana jones and the date of Atlantis

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G_o_O_s@reddit

Doom2 and SimCity 2000 were my favorites. Also loved Decent, X wing vs Tie Fighter, Sim Ant, A-Train, 3D boxing, Lords of the Realm, and Nascar Racing on PC.

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paulster2626@reddit

The 7th Guest! Oh no, memories unlocked…

My POS 386 didn’t have enough RAM and my 5B drive couldn’t handle shit but my friends mom had a sweet 486 in their basement with speakers and everything. Buddy and I obsessed over that game for a week, it was awesome.

Then we realized the word processing software had the exact same font as our drivers licenses, so we were able to print on packing tape with the laser printer to make us 19 years old (legal drinking age here). This began a lifetime of liver abuse, or exercise depending on how you look at it….

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jasonmoyer@reddit

Quake

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cmoney1142@reddit

Magic the gathering: shandalar

Excellent magic port that still holds up, I play it now and then to this day. Not many people played it though, even amongst magic players

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Pissouthaass@reddit

Xanthus was a badass fantasy fp game

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CaltropsCarpet@reddit

Quest for Glory: So you want to be a Hero

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aftershave_cabinet@reddit

Solid choice.

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ImAnOptimistISwear@reddit

I'll always have a soft spot for my first game - Carmen San Diego.

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FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit (OP)

I had that on 5.25 floppy in the 80s.

Anyone remember Math Blasters?

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ImAnOptimistISwear@reddit

I probably got it in 90 or 91 and also had the America's Past version, there were so many of those big floppy discs per game and I was an anxious kid so i was always worried I was going to bend them trying to hurry and continue so I didn't sacrifice any game time.

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Lemmy_Axe_U_Sumphin@reddit

Betrayal at Krondor, Wolfenstein, Doom, Doom II, tie fighter, x wing, sim city

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Soft-Piccolo-5946@reddit

I was about to say Betrayal at Krondor. Wow, throw back.

Shared…? all these titles with my homies back in the day.

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vonjoy1980@reddit

Freespace 2, the xwing games, Monkey Island, endless point and clicks, the gold box games, WIng commander 2 - 4, Full throttle, Dune 1&2, Sierra games, Dune 1 & 2, star trek 25 anniversary... so many. Those were the days, I had a full on old school big box collection for my 486 and later pentium 1. Main thing i remember were my extended battles with extended memory and constant tweaking of config.sys and autoexec.bat.

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Wordtothinemommy@reddit

Dark sun was a dope rpg. And I loved both Ultima VIIs and UO. Those were some of the best games ever for me.

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LoudAd1396@reddit

I wish I had finished Starship Titanic