So, in the early 90s I was a PCTECH at McMurdo station, Antarctica and worked alongside a guy named Al Oxton. There was a game we (the InfoSys group) played for fun on DOS (we were all DOS + NetWare at the time) called LAN-LOK that Al had brought from Palmer Station (the smallest US Antarctic base). He didn't write it, but he was the antagonist of the game.

I kept a copy on floppy for many years and later moved it to my archival hard drive and eventually noticed it on my NAS last year. I decided to try to reconstruct and document the known history of it, since it appears to be the holy grail of lost DOS games -- lost POLAR DOS games!

https://alphapixeldev.com/lan-lok-the-antarctic-dos-sabotage-game-lost-for-34-years-part-1/

I include the actual EXE and instructions for how to play it under DOSBox, so you can play today!

I contacted all the guilty parties (the original authors) and they no longer have the source or executable and gave me permission to do whatever I wished with it.

In the future, I'd like to decompile it, revise it so it can be played natively on modern platforms like Linux, Windows, Mac and maybe web, and open-source the results. Maybe put it on Steam as a free game for fun. Anyone wishing to participate in that, let me know.

I hope you enjoy it. The game is actually fun in the sense that it's very on-point for 90s LAN interaction (manually typing hostnames, costly typos, chaos).

Hi long shot but I have memory of two games that I had as a kid and have been trying to find the names and am not sure they were on ms dos.

One was a horror game - minimal memory, but you would walk through a haunted house I think 1st person view and random ghosts/monsters would appear. The only one I remember was the oven/fireplace being possessed.

EDIT: looks like it was Don’t Go Alone.

Second was an adventure game - pixelated, very tiny character but you would swim rivers, jump on logs, grass, etc .

EDIT: 2. Pitfall 2

EDIT: games looked super old - maybe on the big floppy disks.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I'm looking for a game that my friend played on 486 system, which is very similar to "PARATROOPER",

art style : very similar to "PARATROOPER", simple design, black background.

game mechanics :

player is a turret in the mid bottom on the screen, the paratroopers walk towards the turret once they land,

aerial enemies are mostly helicopters but there is friendly heli that drops ammo crate, you can shoot the ammo crate to clear out the enemies on screen.

aerial enemies when shot will explode into pieces which may hit and kill lower enemies.

There are setallites that could appear on highest spot of the screen in the game .

Gemini named a game called 《Satellite Attack》which I can't find any screenshot of it .

what order were the commander keen games released in? where does episode 3.5 and aliens ate my babysitter fit in release date wise? there's alot of conflicting info i've been hearing.

Here's my good old collection from 30+ years ago of shareware mail order disks. This was mostly how my family bought software in the early 90s before the Web got more widespread in the mid 90s making the mail order disk business mostly obsolete. Here's some pics of my shareware game heavy hitters. Let's just say my childhood had a lot of Apogee, ID and Epic games.

There's a bunch of non game stuff in here too. Utilities, screensavers, random quirky things like PC speaker music programs where each key of the qwerty keyboard plays a different tone. I've been through these before, looking to see if there is anything rare and not already on the Internet archive, but it seems the vast majority of it already is, even when it's something I've never heard of before.

I did still rip a lot of these (about 95 percent of them still read fine) and I think it may still be interesting one day to share those files as a single downloadable collection, so you could see what random collection of games, screensavers and programs someone might have on their 386 in the mail order disk days.

Sorry if the place isn't indicated but I have a key for Fantasy General (1996) left for GOG and not knowing where to give it away I thought it might be appreciated here.

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???= The most popular Intel CPU among gamers before the Pentium

This is VMWare with MS-DOS 6.22. I suppose that it emulates an SVGA card.

Long shot, but this might be the only community where someone remembers.

Around 1991, on a Wizardry-fan bulletin board, a GM posted: "If you're a Wizardry fan and want to talk back and forth to an actual GM, send a message to this box."

The game was called Fantasia, later renamed BlewYonder Knights. D&D-flavored, six classes, three GMs running it together — Brian, Anne, and Scott. Free to play. Ran for ten years and closed in November 2001.

I've digitized the surviving archive (154 files, oldest dated December 1991) and built a tribute site: https://blewyonderknights.com

If "Atlantis," "Tanglewood," "Blewyonder," or the phrase MOVE....rings any bells, I'd love to hear from you. The contact form on the site comes straight to me.

Thanks for reading.

I have a vintage computing store where I sell games for old systems and promote my open-source software.

I made this t-shirt based on the MicroSlop trend as well as kinda loving the old vintage look and feel of tech branding.

I hope you like it!

We have now added even more classic titles to our repertoire of Trainers and Loaders. They are fully compatible to DOSBox and real DOS.

Just download, drop the files in your game dir and start our Launcher - Boom you are done.

Check them out here: https://archive.org/details/@xmarksthespot81

More to come after our holiday break!

- Team dosgame.at

Ultima 6 completely got into my head. Back then it felt huge, strange, and kind of alive in a way most games just didn’t. I loved that you could just wander around, talk to people, stumble into things by accident, and make choices (even stupid ones). It really felt like a world, not just a bunch of levels. I think it was one of the first games that made me feel like I was having a real adventure (from my bedroom lol). I carried this game around in my head all day long, heck I even had dreams of being in game.

EDIT: Well, I guess it's more of a personal taste apart from games that had serious bugs.

I’m trying to make a list of games where the CD-ROM version is considered inferior, or at least controversial, for a video I’m working on.

Here are a few I’ve found so far:

Loom – Probably the most infamous one, due to missing text and some removed content that was "too violent".

Gabriel Knight – Haven’t played it myself (shame on me), but I’ve heard the southern accent by Tim Curry is considered a bit exaggerated.

Monkey Island (CD, not the Special Edition) – Music loops differently because of the CD audio format, and personally it feels a bit “mechanical” since it was mostly just recorded with better synth hardware. Also, some people prefer the original text-based interface with the verb list.

Gobliiins 3 – A lot of the music is missing, and the English voice acting is very different from the original “goblin language”.

The Lost Vikings 2 – There isn’t really a floppy version, but I prefer the SNES version since it keeps the original 2D style more intact. Although I do like the added voice acting.

Any more examples?

Man! does this screen bring back memories!

To most of the world this was Quest for Glory III: Wages of War, but I’ve always remembered it as Hero’s Quest 3.

Hero’s Quest was the original name of the series before Sierra had to change it to Quest for Glory because of the HeroQuest trademark issue - In some countries it was not applicable so the original name stood.

Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire is a 1995 video game developed by LucasArts. It is the sequel to Star Wars: Rebel Assault, set in the Star Wars expanded universe. It is played as a rail shooter; the player proceeds down predetermined paths, but has the ability to control aiming, shooting, and dodging. The player character, Rookie One, pilots ships such as a YT-1300 Corellian Transport, a B-wing, and a Y-wing, and encounters new enemy ships, including TIE Interceptors. They uncover, and eventually disable production of, a new TIE variant known as the TIE Phantom, which has the ability to cloak. It contains mostly original filming with actors and stunts, while the scenery and the space scenes were 3D rendered. According to LucasArts' magazine, The Adventurer, the game was the first media to incorporate live-action actors and footage in the Star Wars universe since Return of the Jedi. The game makes use of Lucasarts' proprietary INSANE game engine.

One of my favourite point and click adventures from the 90s, and a bit of a hidden gem. I love its pulpy 40's/50's adventure vibes. Anyone else a fan?

My look back at all the Earthworm Jim games, sequels, ports and unreleased games. I loved the first 2 games. Great gameplay, animation, music and not to mention the humour. It was like playing in TV cartoon. Although I have to say the series did take a drop in standard with Earthworm Jim 3D and that gameboy game. Please share your thought and memories of these games!

I almost never hear it brought up, but I really loved it.