A very solid collection of classic PC games! While DOSGames.com is probably the ideal place to go for DOS games, there are plenty of Windows-era PC games here to check out.
A very solid collection of classic PC games! While DOSGames.com is probably the ideal place to go for DOS games, there are plenty of Windows-era PC games here to check out.
i can't really believe this research was never done or published over the years. it's funny how basic knowledge like this disappears: the original typeface that graced the cover of every Ultima game.
"Victorian" was created by english typeface designers Freda Sack and Colin Brignall in 1976, and was included in the ITC typeface library.
top: Victorian Standard Regular typeface.
bottom: Worlds of Ultima - Martian Dreams box cover, with a slightly modified version of the Victorian font. You'll notice that the M has a very pretty descender added by an artist at Origin Systems. i *suspect* this was painted or airbrushed by Denis Loubet (does anyone know denis here?), but there are no credits given in any of the manuals.
both use an exactly 64 point font.
MS. PAC-MAN for IBM-PC. From 1983. Okay, I am really bad at this game... but at least the emulation is working!
Sometimes, I just love to dig into really old games. Here's 1983s "Ms. Pac-Man" from Atarisoft. The game came on a double-density, single-sided 5.25inch disk of 160K. But when you tried to look into it from DOS, it just seem completely empty, because it's a "Booter" without a file system. Interestingly, this one doesn't seem to be copy-protected at all.
P.S. Here's the link:
https://archive.org/details/pc_mspacman_kfraw
Interesting... I just found this awesome 6-disk set of DOOM 1.1 and it includes both Shareware and Registered versions of the game. I guess the publisher honestly "hoped" that people would only share disks 1+2 with their friends, but not 3-6. Sure! Of course! LOL
Here's the link: https://archive.org/details/pc_doomj_kfraw
Casino Tournament of Champions
Source: Electronic Entertainment 15 (March 1995)
Scan Source: RetroMags
Ich steh auf solche feinen Details! Hatte darüber erst kürzlich gelesen und wollte mir das jetzt mal selbst in der deutschen Ausgabe ansehen:
Für die EGA Version von Monkey Island hatten sie ja nur 16 Farben zur Verfügung und mussten da dann wohl etwas mit der Farbpalette jonglieren. In der Szene mit der großen, animierten Leuchtreklame wechselt die Aktivierungsfarbe daher im Inventar plötzlich von Hell-Lila auf Rot. Das war mir bisher nie aufgefallen!
Duke Nukem 3D [E4L8] Critical Mass
Tristan Pinball
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 5.5 (September/October 1992)
Scan Source: RetroMags
back in the mid-90s just prior to sierra's downfall into fmv and poorly funded titles (their sale to CUC international), the company started looking for low-risk low-profit income avenues.
in the post-doom FPS feeding frenzy, the bloom was off adventure games. they were expensive to produce, and their audience was shrinking fast.
one solution was recycling old software, and honestly, it was great for a 13 year old kid like me, because it meant that i could buy a "sierra game" for $10 instead of the $60-$80 i would normally have to pay for a flagship title
Crazy Nick's Software Picks were collections of mini-games taken from sierra adventures. there were several of them - LSL, King's Quest - I happened to find this Conquest of the Longbow pack at a pharmacy.
the games were *great* - Archery and Nine Men's Morris kept me absolutely occupied for weeks. I had no idea at the time that they were culled from a full sierra adventure, until I discovered it by accident in my twenties.
today i found my copy of the game, buried in another game box. it still has the greasy kid fingerprint from me eating a bag of Old Dutch (regular) chips while i played
Duke Nukem 3D [E4L7] XXX-Stacy
Duke Nukem 3D [E4L6] Going Postal
Pulsoid (Fifth Dimension Company, 1998) #DOSGaming #UkrainianVideogames
how did i only learn now that Uncharted Waters 2 had a DOS port?
the dithering style is unusual and beautiful - almost like woodcuts with the very intentional horizontal spacing between vertical lines
Duke Nukem 3D [E4L11] Area 51
Duke Nukem 3D [E4L5] Pigsty
Bio Menace has been remastered by Apogee and is coming to Steam later this year (video via dosgamert, a nice dude and an excellent YouTube follow, as he does lots of playthroughs of DOS games and often posts exclusives like this that you'll see first on his channel.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaf8z2ik3o
Wishlist it on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459100/BioMenace_Remastered
Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939-43
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 5.5 (September/October 1992)
Scan Source: RetroMags
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 5.5 (September/October 1992)
Scan Source: RetroMags
Hostage: Rescue Mission
Source: VideoGames and Computer Entertainment 11 (December 1989)
Scan Source: RetroMags