DOS Games Discussion

Not sure; here is a list of games with hacking as a theme: https://www.mobygames.com/group/2730/th ... dohacking/

One game in the list for C64 is e.g. Max Headroom

Something like Dragon Saber, or possibly Dragon Spirit?

Both were available on Wii, and the first game has a two-player mode; not sure about the second game but at least the arcade version had a 2 player mode.

Maybe something can be found in the Transformation group: https://www.mobygames.com/group/14946/gameplay-feature-transformation/ I was thinking Shadowcaster , but it is rather old (1993), and has full shape transforms, not limb-specific ones. It did have a Demo , which you could play. (Mr Flibble mi...

One of the Animorph series? There is one game made for Windows, seems to be in third person view though:
Animorphs: Know the Secret

Master of Orion?
The 1st version was available on floppies as well as CD - and you can choose our race from various aliens.
Not sure about the ziplock bag though - and it was released in 1993.

Why reverse engineer someone elses work, if they have other future plans for it?
Better create your own adventure, if that is what you want to do.
Plenty tools for rolling your own, I gather; look at e.g. http://textadventures.co.uk/

I don't think the actual games were hosted on DOSgames site at the time, but only linked to the developers own site, which is not archived. I searched for the authors name, and it seems to be quite a common name. The games original hosting pathname included 'mallo' and there is a similarity to an al...

I found an archived screenshot of the other game:

Thanks for the update; here is the obligatory MobyGames link: Wacky Jacks

A gameplay video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w1gUJutGqA

This is a shareware game: https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/discord-times The game homepage is dead since 2009, only an archived version is available. The demo of 9MB can be found on the developers site, but the full game (about 100MB) ordering link does not work. (Possibly a full version can b...

For pure DOS it is good enough, but with XP and then an emulated DOS environment for an action game...it could be you have need for more RAM to run the XP+DOSBox+Game without swapping out processes, look at the disk performance meters to see what is going on.

It's a DOS game, so it should be able to run in DosBox if nothing else - there are some youtube videos on of which is showing the game running under DosBox - the starting sequence shows some settings that work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8opG6YMIhzU

A quiz games list for Windows: https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/ ... game-show/

(the list is limited to 250 games, but there were some more - select years to reduce list size)

No idea other than to look through the years close to 2000 in this list of windows shooters:
https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/ ... n/shooter/

Maybe the Discworld games - magic & fantasy style.
Shannara? Lure of the Temptress? Curse of Enchantia? Black sect?
Gnome Ranger series? The Black Cauldron?

Most games I listed are fantasy-related more than real medieval.

This thing: https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/ ... sen-dronez

Was released as tech-demo only in the west, full game in Russia & Japan.

The tech-demo can be found at archive.org, not sure if I should link to it here.

The Playcrafter website was active between 2008-2011.
(Some of it is archived, but the Flash content I'm unsure of)
https://web.archive.org/web/20100131002 ... after.com/

Kurt Dekker seems to have a twitter account, still active in 2023: https://twitter.com/kurtdekker
(The person does looks similar to the pics sometimes seen in the PalmOS game images on the PLBM site)
It also matches with the itch.io profile: https://kurtdekker.itch.io/

something in this genre perhaps: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/ge ... e-creation

Something like Fallen Haven?