Big namers

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Sat May 01, 2004 6:54 pm

Let's try to think of all the big namers in DOS games.

Apogee/3D Realms and Epic MegaGames, the list so far

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Sat May 01, 2004 9:38 pm

Id Software
LucasArts
Origin
Sierra
Infocom

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Mon May 03, 2004 3:48 am

Interplay
Electronic Arts
Dynamics
Housemarque
SoftDisk
Team 17
Core Desing
Westwood
Virgin

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:00 am

Safari (I love you HH)

Matozoide · Post by **Matozoide** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:00 pm

Don't forget Blizzard, back in the days of Warcraft I and Blackthorne.

Post by **wardrich** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 9:38 pm

3D Realms

LlamaGod · Post by **LlamaGod** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:31 am

Blue Sky Software (better known as Looking Glass Studios)

Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 and System Shock 1 were DOS, and all very good.

Post by **wardrich** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:02 pm

Soleau (Lavacap, Oilcap, Bolo, Facetrex, Raku, ladderman... just to name a few of his games)

-Richard-

x86_Game-Junkie · Post by **x86_Game-Junkie** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:04 pm

Micropose (Microsoft's Gaming Label)

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:55 pm

SSI-probably the best.

x86_Game-Junkie · Post by **x86_Game-Junkie** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:56 pm

Capstone

Post by **wardrich** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:24 pm

what'd SSI make again?

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:07 pm

Advanced Dungeons&Dragons, Great Naval Battles, Cyclones, Steel Panthers...

Post by **Dogbreath** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:05 pm

...Eye Of the Beholder 1,2&3, Anvil of Dawn (considered by some to be the best RPG ever made), Pools of Darkness, Star Command, Dark Sun 1&2, Dungeon Hack, Panzer General 1&2, Panzer General 3 (Scorched Earth), , the Ravenloft games, Neverwinter Nights,, Sword of Aragon, and many, many more.

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:41 am

Westwood made 1&2 before they quit.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:50 pm

1&2 of Eye of the Beholder? Westwood Studios was a developer for SSI. SSI produced and published the games.

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:40 am

Right.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:05 pm

How can you leave out Atari?

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:24 pm

Because DOS generally refers to MS-DOS, not whatever the Atari computers used.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:55 pm

Atari released most of their classic arcade games for dos...