DOS games

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Stargunner - (1996 game) box art

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(on Wikipedia)
(on Steam)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/922/stargunner/
was https://3drealms.com/catalog/stargunner_45/

A side-scrolling ship-shooter with upgrades.

While pretty neat, it's unforgiving and a bit annoying.

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X-COM꞉ UFO Defense image

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(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com

Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.

Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I'm not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.

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I'm not sure how to describe this game. It's an oldschool oldschool point-and-click game.

I think I would have liked this back in the day, but these days I find a bunch of the mechanics and gameplay too frustrating to deal with.

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Master of Orion II - Battle at Antares - (1996 game) image

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(on Wikipedia)

This is a generally crappy game. Several elements of gameplay are annoying, or take too many clicks or whatever. Sigh.

  1. Master of Orion - (1993 game)
  2. Master of Orion II - Battle at Antares - (1996 game)



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Doom - (1993 game) DOS cover

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(on Wikipedia)

A first-person shooter.

This page deals with both the original and various open source efforts.



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