finally doing it.

[aloe@app.wafrn.net]

https://archive.org/details/msdos_cryxtels_shareware

[dank@jorts.horse]

@eniko
ooh! puzzle and puzzl-y adventure games!
besides all the classics:

the Gobliiins series is fun and has a great style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf5jofa5OwY

The Incredible Machine is a physics puzzler with hundreds of levels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNaXLAEbpfY#t=1m30s

ClockWerx is another offbeat puzzler with great music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF9s30OUEXo

The Greatest Paper Airplanes is not quite a game, but i had hours of fun with it as a kid. Look at those graphics!!
https://archive.org/details/PAPERAIR

[mahadevank@mastodon.social]

@ratsnakegames @eniko agreed, probably the only perk is the original soundtrack

[raddevon@techhub.social]

@eniko Got a weird one for you: an edutainment game I played long after it would have been of educational value to me.

https://www.igdb.com/games/follow-the-reader

In Follow the Reader, you change words in a sentence to have Mickey Mouse do stuff of your choosing and create a story. The game reads your sentence, and then you watch Mickey act it out on screen.

What you choose can put Mickey into a different scenario (i. e., calling a friend up for a beach trip moves Mickey to the beach) and present you with new options appropriate to the situation.

It's not fun in a mechanical sense, but the agency you have was impressive and gratifying even though the overall option surface area is small. Far more agency than a typical visual novel, although it does share some in common with that genre. It was also a power fantasy for me as a child with little agency since Mickey can basically do as he pleases.

It's incredibly chill. I haven't played it in a long time, but I think I could get a kick out of it even now in middle age.

[pooserville@dice.camp]

@eniko Darklands

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@eniko dos on the bare metal or it doesn't count

[brie@venera.social]

@eniko Scorched Earth. Stunts. Prince of Persia. Duke Nukem 3D. Warcraft. HoMM. SimCity. Cannon Fodder.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Airball was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. There is a time pressure element, and the castle is full of passive hazards that lead to rapid game overs, but I've always played the game with the primary goal of just exploring a little more rather than trying to actually beat it. ymmv https://archive.org/details/msdos_Airball_1987

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@RadDevon i love a good edutainment game actually

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

y'all got some weird notions about what constitutes chill

[captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com]

@eniko I made a list years ago of games that I still have yet to check out. I don't remember them all but here's the list:

• SimCity
• Wheel of Fortune
• Rampage
• King's Quest
• Microsoft Adventure
• Zork series
• Night Hunter
• Wasteland
• Battlezone
• Life & Death
• Paku Paku (pac-man clone)
• Silpheed
• Thexder
• Vette!
• Paratrooper
• Leisure Suit Larry I
• Commander Keen
• Ford Simulator II
• Girlfriend Construction Kit
• Lost Dutchman Mine
• Maniac Mansion
• Hugo's House of Horrors
(1/4)

[mikaeleiman@mastodon.sdf.org]

@eniko Pinball Dreams

[captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com]

@eniko more

• Castlevania
• Wizardry
• Dig Dug
• Donkey Kong
• Ms Pac-Man
• Rouge
• Qbert
• Karateka
• Space Quest: Chapter 1
• Tetris
• Mach 3
• Arkanoid
• Double Dragon
• Star Wars
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game
• Indiana Jones in Revenge of the Ancients
• Operation Wolf
• Pipe Dream
• Prince of Persia
• A Dudley Dilemma
• Rainbow Dreams
• Doom
• Doom II
• Quake
• Duke Nukem
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Rise of the Triad
• Blood
(2/4)

[captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com]

@eniko

• Flight of the Amazon Queen
• Blackthorne
• Another World / Out of this World
• Descent
• Discworld
• Discworld II
• Dungeon Keeper
• Earthworm Jim 1+2
• Fallout
• Fallout 2
• Full Throttle
• Grand Prix II
• Grand Theft Auto
• Heretic
• Hexen
• Jazz Jackrabbit
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2
• MDK
• MechWarrior
• MechWarrior 2
• Mortal Kombat
• Mortal Kombat II
• Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey
• Rayman
• Realms of the Haunting
• Shadow Warrior
• SimCity 2000
• Star Wars: Dark Forces
(3/4)

[captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com]

@eniko

• Star Wars: TIE Fighter
• Super Street Fighter 2 TURBO
• System Shock
• Elder Scrolls Arena
• Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
• Theme Park
• Tomb Raider
• Worms
• X-COM series
• Epic Pinball
• Secret of Monkey Island
• BlockOut
• Pipe Mania
• Night Raid
(4/4)

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko OK so here's SOME that I keep in my DOSbox because of nostalgia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackthorne which I loved for the “shoot behind your back” gesture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiendish_Freddy%27s_Big_Top_o%27_Fun where you have to play circus tricks while a capitalist sabotages your actions because he wants to buy the circus.

HoverTank, a shareware game that you can find here https://cheesysoftware.net/alphaomega/index.html that allows hotseat 1vs1 play (it's tanks shooting at each other, very fast, very funny sounds)

and then some classics.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko (classics include Big Top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Top_(video_game) , Prince of Persia 1 and 2, Doom, ZOOL and ZOOL2, Bananoid, Future Wars, Lemmings, Pipe Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Mania , Mortal Kombat 3, North vs South, Secret Service II)

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@eniko Traffic Department 2192. Just a simple top-down shooter but I remember the writing and dialogue in the cutscenes being amazing. Lt Velasquez is badass.

https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Traffic_Department_2192.html

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@eniko oops I had completely missed the «chill» indicator. Then Stratego is the only thing I can think of, but that's just the boardgame, in computer form 8-D