Favorite old dos game

[Garrett]

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned already. Wolf 3D, Doom, Tie Fighter. Daggerfall, too. I didn't play that one nearly as much as Morrowind or Oblivion, though. I loved the two Terminator games of theirs that I played back then. Future Shock and Skynet. Both were made using the same engine that was used for Daggerfall. They were buggy, like most Bethesda games, but a lot of fun.

 

[Goliath]

The Wing Commander series, Doom, and Blood.

"Ahh...fresh victims for the ever-growing army of the undead!"

 

[Lindley]

As simple as it is, my favorite game is the original Broderbond classic Lode Runner, for the C64. It's simple but addicting, with customizable levels

I only ever played the original Load Runner a few times, but I got very addicted to Load Runner: The Legend Returns (the color versions with more types of traps).

 

[Misfit Toy]

Empire, SimCity , Star Control

 

[Holdfast]

Frontier: Elite II
Thanks to that game, I now know how to properly fly a spaceship.

So many hours of my life, gone...

Never heard of Stunt Island, but that reminds me of this game that I spent countless hours on as a kid.

Cherry Chassis...

 

[kv1at3485]

Rogue: The Adventure Game
Turbo Trek

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Frontier: Elite II
Thanks to that game, I now know how to properly fly a spaceship.

So many hours of my life, gone...

And most of that was spent merely trying to fly to the space port at Alpha Centauri...

 

[SlaveOfSeven]

The first XCOM game. Still play it now and then. One of the greats.

 

[Holdfast]

Frontier: Elite II
Thanks to that game, I now know how to properly fly a spaceship.

So many hours of my life, gone...

And most of that was spent merely trying to fly to the space port at Alpha Centauri...

I remember there was a particularly profitable but safe trading route between Wolf359 and another system. So many trips back and forth...

I had this big fat trading ship but loaded it up with some serious firepower. Used to make mincemeat of most pirates in a single shot.

The espionage/sabotage missions used to bug me though - you had to close up on the sites at really low level to photo/bomb them and if you got it wrong, you crashed into the planet, so you couldn't use the hyper-time feature to speed things up.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I remember there was a particularly profitable but safe trading route between Wolf359 and another system. So many trips back and forth...

Ross 154 and Barnard's Star had a neat trading route, and some useful Federation missions (although the best Federation missions were in Sol and Eta Cassiopeiae). However, to really get anywhere, I always played as the Imperials. There were these two core Imperial worlds "west" of Achernar where you could do loads of courier missions at a go and rise through the ranks quickly. Had a neat trade route there too.

The espionage/sabotage missions used to bug me though - you had to close up on the sites at really low level to photo/bomb them and if you got it wrong, you crashed into the planet, so you couldn't use the hyper-time feature to speed things up.

I loved those missions. Best done in an Asp Explorer (the one that looked most like the Millennium Falcon). I preferred the spy missions to the bombing runs: once you've seen one installation form an irradiated crater at the hands of your nuclear bomb, you've seen them all. Although for the latter, to make things more fun, I've tended to swoop in close and take several pretty pictures of the installation before fleeing from the mass of Imperial Couriers and casually tossing my nuke in their direction...

Assassination missions were frustrating but fun. It was fun to play "stakeout" in front of a space station waiting for the prey to launch. (All that was missing were the salted peanuts and Phil Collins incidental music...)

 

[TEH BABA]

I wish ron moore would do a wing commander series

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I wish ron moore would do a wing commander series

Nah, human Kilrathi would suck.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Wing Commander 1/2.
Gabriel Knight.
Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Judgement rites.
Dune 1/2.
The Zork games.
Police quest games.
Space Quest games.

There are just so many.

 

[Miss Chicken]

My children and I had a great time playing adventure games together including

The Monkey Island games
Indiana Jones games
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Loom


of the platform games I liked Hocus Pocus the most

I also liked Ultimate Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. I played it for a long time (several month?). I got down to the lowest level, rescued the baron's daughter and only needed two more tlaisman to get out but my son decided to delete the game from our computer because he needed room to put another game on . I was very upset with him.

 

[Niorah]

Doom II
Duke Nukem 3D
Ascendancy (one of the best games I've ever played)
Master of Magic
Heretic

 

[Misfit Toy]

Empire, SimCity , Star Control

I meant Starflight not Star Control.

Empire was really my first "black hole" game. You know, one that when you sit down to play, you look back at the clock, hours have passed...

 

[Luckyflux]

Definitely a thumbs up to Lode Runner!

I loved Zork as mentioned above. To go along with the Enchanter series, (Enchanter, Sorcerer and Spell Breaker). A text based game that I never played but sounded really cool was A mind Forever Voyaging. You had to travel forward in time at set intervals and record what the time period looked like.

I liked Kings Quest but never finished it, as well as Impossible Mission. Both were my first introduction to animated games as opposed to text-based games I was used to.

Then there was a Dungeons and Dragons type of text game, were a crude map was drawn out of old type-faced chacters such as | _ ----- . I cannot remember the name but that was fun too.

 

[gh4chiefs]

Starflight is one of the early games that I have a fond memories of. Recently when playing Mass Effect, I was struck by some similarities of the two games. It was kind of like SF was ME's great-great-great-grandfather or something.

Also there was this text based Star Trek game that I've totally forgotten the name of. I never did finish it because I stuck on this one part, I don't know if I had a glitch or exactly what was going on, but I just couldn't get it to do what it seemed like it was supposed to do. Oh if we would have just had gamefaqs.com back then.

 

[Davros]

Dungeon Master

 

[JGordon]

Civilization <-- Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet
Privateer
Xwing/TIE Fighter
SimCity 2000

Honorable Mention:
Doom
Dark Forces
Duke Nukem 3D (still DOS, right?)
Star Trek 25th Anniversary edition
Strike Commander