I Play Old Games: DOS Video Extravaganza!

Greetings my good people. Even though I am currently working my way through Persona 2 Innocent Sin (i.e. the one that only came out in Japan and has Hitler), I figured you all deserved some sort of an update from me. Thus, here are some videos of games that I considered, at some point, to do a blog thing about recorded through DOSbox's internal video codec. Unfortunately, music for this codec only works if certain sound cards are used, so movies may occasionally not have music. Otherwise, enjoy!

X COM UFO Defense

Master of Magic

Might and Magic: World of Xeen

Command and Conquer: Red Alert

Greetings my good people. Even though I am currently working my way through Persona 2 Innocent Sin (i.e. the one that only came out in Japan and has Hitler), I figured you all deserved some sort of an update from me. Thus, here are some videos of games that I considered, at some point, to do a blog thing about recorded through DOSbox's internal video codec. Unfortunately, music for this codec only works if certain sound cards are used, so movies may occasionally not have music. Otherwise, enjoy!

X COM UFO Defense

Master of Magic

Might and Magic: World of Xeen

Command and Conquer: Red Alert

Wait, there's a video feature for DOSBox? Why the hell haven't I figured this out yet? For games, I'm working through Persona 1 (the America-released one with a cock-tailed scorpion for a final boss). So close, so close....

Nice, 3 of my fav games of all time, UFO, Red Alert and Master of Magic. I still play them from time to time... *without nostalgia goggles - you certainly can' t replace classic gameplay with graphics it seems.

I forgot how bad the command bar in the DOS version of Red Alert is compared to the windows one but its still a great game, I prefer the original C&C though. 

X-Com is one of my favorite games of all time, and yet for some odd reason, it seems like there is nobody out there willing to make games like this anymore. Valkyria Chronicles is pretty much the closest thing to a new X-Com game that I think we're going to get.

DOS games era > Every other PC gaming era that came after.

Might and Magic II was my childhood equivalent to Oblivion, endless questing and monster-slaying. I dimly remember by health getting so high that it started to go off the screen and fighting dinosaurs (why are there not more rpgs with dinosaurs). I'm not sure if I could go back to it now thanks to the retina-burning colours though.
Red Alert is one of the great RTSes of its time an this confirms that I should just buy XCOM from steam already.

Do WC2. Best DOS game ever.

Damn, that's some old-school gaming right there. I'm a bit sad that I was too young at the time to ever learn how to properly play any of those first-person RPGs like Wizardry, Might & Magic, Eye Of The Beholder, etc. They were just too difficult and complicated for me.
 
Now I might be able to learn how to play them but it's hard to go back to such archaic gameplay mechanics. Not to mention I wouldn't have any "real" nostalgia goggles to help me ease into them either.

You want some old school gaming?  Look to the origins of current adventure games like Sam & Max, good old Sierra Online and the Kings Quest and especially Space Quest series.  Along with the old SCUMM games like Maniac Mansion and Full Throttle, those games defined my youth.  

Red Alert and X-Com are two great games. Never heard of World of Xeen.

" Never heard of World of Xeen. "

Nice, I'm way to young to remember or play any DOS games but luckily GOG has me covered for games like X-com.

No System Shock? List fails...

Just stick a pin in Bullfrog's catalogue and you're almost guaranteed to hit a classic.
 
The 00's were a barren gaming wasteland compared to the 90's.

I still play X-Com.  Great game.  
 
If you can find it, I suggest you check out Twilight 2000.  That game.  Literally.  The most hardcore game I have ever seen.  You get around 50 troops.   Tons of different weapons, vehicles and skills.  There is a skill for everything.  Boats, plains, foraging.  The list is immense.  And each person you can custom set up. And it is the same kind of Turn Based combat that X-Com has.   I don't really know why nobody talks about this game.  As back in the day these kinds of games with depth were welcomed. 

X-COM was so good.  I remember playing the demo disk from PC Gamer (3.5 floppy) and thinking that this is the greatest thing I have ever seen.  I've thought about playing the newer clones but haven't gotten around to it.  There is a free one online somewhere that's supposed to be really good.

" No System Shock? List fails... "

" @ArbitraryWater: I was implying "If you want some more rad DOS-era games, I recommend anything by Bullfrog".  I'd start with Syndicate if you haven't played it, because Syndicate is glorious. "