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The era of DOS games is gone, but the DOS games are still floating around. Among them one can find many special games which invented genres, or just were really niche and did something really well. So if old graphics doesn't intimidate you, I am inviting you to check out the following games (without mentioning quests which deserve their own article): 1984 (Beyond) Castle Wolfenstein (the original) Alley Cat Soko-Ban (Remastered many times) Spy Hunter Tapper 1986 Donald Duck's Playground Karateka 1987-1988 Bad Street Brawler Rampage Popcorn Fire and Forget 2 Battle Chess 1989 Street Rod (SR2 @ 1991) Shinobi Outrun Gauntlet2 Budokan: the Martial Spirit Bubble Bobble Arkanoid 2: The Revenge of Doh Action Fighter Prince of Persia 1990 Wing Commander (WC2 @1991, WC3 @ 1994) Commander Keen: First trilogy Red Baron California Games 2 Dangerous Dave Italy90 North & South (Remastered) Star Control Test Drive 3 Zeliard 1991 Golden Axe Gobliiins (g2 @ 1993, g3 @ 1994) Eye of the behol...

 You have the crave to play some quick arcade games, and you want to satisfy it when it comes without fussing with emulators, downloads etc. Just setup a basic small arcade home environment which you can jump to whenever you feel the need. Ingredients Raspberry pie (the brains of the system) SD card (storage of the OS + Roms) HDMI cable USB cable (power for the RP [or use the RJ45 for POE if you use RP 4 or later]) LAN (rj45), keyboard - needed for first setup Screen Joystick of your choice (8bitdo?) Supposing you have cables (hdmi, rj45, usb) lying around, and a screen to use as well as an SD card, then the only needed purchases are the actual raspberry pie and joystick, which don't accumulate to a lot of money. Raspberry pie Unless you want to emulate more modern systems (playstation 2 and up) then you can use a raspberry pie 3 (not even the plus version) and it will satisfy your needs without compromise. Please note that I do recommend buying the RP 3+ as if you will need it for...

Originally Ken & Roberta Williams began their Sierra Quests while trying to invent a new Genre - Interactive books. Roberta loved the idea of having kids play a fairy tale book thus King's Quest I was created. Her inspirations were text games which were games without any graphical trace, so on the screen you would see a description of where you are now and you could try doing things using your imagination and the text parser. Roberta thought to upgrade these games by adding graphics and having the player move the main character over the screen (yes, without a mouse) in order to move between screens or moving in the same screen getting to various objects, while still sending commands using her text parser (move rock, climb tree [Spoilers?] etc). Sierra quests were massive success and actually were a beginning of a genre, but as with many genre inventers (except Steve Jobs as he was perfect) she tried her hand in inventing these types of games, and many game des...

I want another machine at my home which will be dedicated to games These are my requirements Many different games without the hassle of installing and setting them up (console emulator) Cheap machine (console emulator, probably not one of the newer ones like ps2 and up) Joysticks (several bucks at eBay) Multiplayer support Wireless controllers (so the kids won't damage the machine when they pull the controllers) Nice launcher (So each game will be presented nicely) Launcher could scrape online databases for the details on every game Wifi support (optional, as I can connect to RJ45 once and get all of the scraping done) HDMI output Community support After some digging I think I can get the best results with Android or Rspberry PI. I think there is better support for the Raspberry machines, so I went on the Raspberry PI B+. So I need the following:  Buy Raspberry PI b+ with a simple case (latest version) (about 45$ with shipping etc) OS (linux ...

If you want to play good games, but don't want to play online games, and don't want to waste your time for searching games one after the other till you find a decent and free good game then just read this post and I will guide you to the perfect and effortless set of free games you can obtain in 5 minutes. These games will fit any person with the following requirements from his games: Only free games Don't care about graphics (So if a game has good playability you want to play it even if it is 20 years old) Hundreds of games to pick from Obtain them in 5 minutes Have a nice launcher where each game will have a picture and you only need to click the picture to play the game The answer is simple my friend, you are looking for a good console games emulator with a beautiful launcher. Emulators, emulate a specific gaming machine so, for example, you can download a Nintendo (NES) emulator and play all of the Nintendo original games. But still you will nee...

THIS ARTICLE ISN'T LONG! -- First section = 3 terms related to this topic briefly explained -- Second section = Main article - how to install SCummVM on your android (even new androids) -- Last section = UNIMPORTANT, feel free to skip it, it's only a list of games compatible with your android after installing SCummVM ----------------------------------------------------------------- SCummVM - Lucasarts' gaming engine used for their good old games / quests like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones, Monkey Island etc. AGI - Sierra's first gaming engine used for their good old quests like King's Quest, Larry quests, Police quests, Space quests. SCI - Sierra's second gaming engine used for their newer games (since about 1990), the quests programmed with this engine didn't need the text parser but used the mouse for every action needed during the game. If you have an Android machine (cell phone, tablet) and want to play any game which u...

So you want to be king. If you ever have that nostalgic mood and want to jump and play those good old king quest games, there is no need for a dosbox and the old text parsing games. King Quests 1-4 have beautiful remakes with improved plots and a much better point and click interface. Who created them? - fans. Where can you find them? It appears that three different groups had taken on themselves to remake the quests. King Quest 1 & 2 were remade by AGDInteractive King Quest 3 was remade by infamous adventures King Quest 4 is being remaked by Magic Mirror Games

Do you remember this game? I used to play it for days over days - really loved it. So, for the sake of nostalgy I decided to search for the game in order to play it, to no avail, the game works only on a dos machine. So i've tried playing it using a good DOS emulator: DosBox, but it didn't go well. I searched harder and found a new version of Master of Magic which works on XP. So, if you are suckers to nostalgy, And if you have some spare time, Give it a try. The game can be downloaded from here: First part  , Second Part  . The dos game is abandonware thus freeware, The XP version is also freeware from Implode's site. Enjoy, Chaiavi.