Need help finding vintage PC games

[Ar-Pharazon]

I've been thinking about using DOSBox to run some old PC games I have and keep thinking about a couple others I can't remember the names of.

Both are very early 1990's (if not late 1980's), pre CD-ROM (at least the versions I had).

1st one - Post-nuclear wasteland around Las Vegas. Various monsters & mutants you needed to kill included a "humongous wolf". You'd find bigger & better weapons with which to kill bigger & badder mutants, and armor and other things.

2nd one - I remember less about this one. It was space based and involved building an "empire" and doing battle with other races. Less a battle type game and more tactical and long term strategic in nature.

Any ideas?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

2nd one - I remember less about this one. It was space based and involved building an "empire" and doing battle with other races. Less a battle type game and more tactical and long term strategic in nature.

Any ideas?

There are quite a few games like this. Master of Orion is probably the most obvious example, but one that not many people remember (and which I've mentioned on occasion and still play) is a Windows 3.1 game called Stars! which is essentially a very low budget version of MOO. I'm not sure if that's what you had in mind.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Looking at the Google images for MoO, I think that's the one. Thanks!

1993 sounds about right and it was still DOS based. I stubbornly kept using DOS until Windows 95 had been out a couple years.

I do remember getting pretty frustrated with MoO and giving up after a while. Which is probably why I couldn't remember too much about it.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

MOO 2 was great and I think you might be able to get Star Trek mods for it; MOO 3 was crap. I never played the original MOO. Star Trek: Birth of the Federation seemed like it was based on a modified MOO 2 engine.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The first one sounds like Fallout's precursor, Wasteland. I agree with the others that the second sounds like Master of Orion.

 

[sojourner]

Yep, guessing the wasteland sounding one is Wasteland. The original MOO is still a game I pullout and play on my netbook. Great for lounging in airports.

This thread might get better/more responses in the games forum.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

You're right, I'll move it.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Master of Orion 1 & 2 are both available together on Good Old Games:

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/master_of_orion_1_2

 

[SD70ACe]

GOG is the way to go. That, or Steam, but Steam doesn't carry MoO.

Yet.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Right on with Wasteland. Looked at some images for it and that's the one.

I may need to add these 2 to my collection of vintage games I haven't been able to play

 

[Itisnotlogical]

If you're willing to overlook some rather large failures, The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall is a pretty fun romp through a gigantic, if cookie-cutter, fantasy world. It takes a long time to set up but if you get it from the Elder Scrolls official website it comes with a step-by-step instruction file.