Revisiting DOOM

Revisiting DOOM

Author: DOS Game Club June 17, 2025 Duration: 2:11:34
Florian has been counting all of our regular "one game a month" episodes, and it turns out we've hit 100 of them! We started this club back in March of 2017 with the first DOS game that came to mind, which happened to be DOOM (id Software, 1993). In hindsight this was a bit of […]

The DOS Game Club is a monthly gathering for anyone who remembers the beige boxes, the whir of a floppy drive, and the distinct charm of 80s and 90s PC gaming. Each episode focuses on a single game from the DOS era, diving deep into its design, its historical context, and the very specific joys and frustrations that come from revisiting software designed for a different technological age. You’ll hear genuine discussion that captures the spirit of friends talking around a computer monitor, covering everything from groundbreaking titles to forgotten curiosities. The conversation explores how these games were made, how they were played, and what they feel like to return to now, often wrestling with archaic controls and graphical limitations to find the enduring fun underneath. This isn't just a nostalgia trip; it's an archaeological dig into a foundational period of video game history. Tune in to this podcast for thoughtful, often humorous, and always detailed retrospectives that treat these digital artifacts with both curiosity and a critical eye. Whether you lived through the era or are just discovering it, the DOS Game Club provides a welcoming and insightful guide to the pixels and prompts that started it all.
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Interview: Hadrosaurus Software [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:41:06
Making commercial games for DOS nowadays is not a good business model, right? Hadrosaurus Software is hard at work proving this claim to be totally wrong. Their games Acronia and The Aching (which we played in July) are…
Stunts [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:04:28
The late 80s and early 90s were filled with "true 3D" polygon-based first-person driving games. There was Hard Drivin' in the arcade by Atari, Geoff Crammond released Stunt Car Racer, Spectrum Holobyte published Stunt Dr…
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:42:41
The original Speedball from 1988 was already a highly acclaimed futuristic sports game, lauded for its action-packed arcade-style gameplay and superb audiovisual presentation. But when the Bitmap Brothers released the se…
Discworld [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:33:55
The official Terry Pratchett-approved Discworld point & click adventure game has been pinned on our forums for over two years, as April 2023 would have been his 75th birthday, had he lived to experience it. Although Prat…
Star Wars: Dark Forces [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:38:48
"It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ult…
Alien Legacy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:54:53
In 2119 the United Nations Seedship Calypso was launched. Headed for Beta Caeli, the farthest star yet attempted, this ark ship holds thousands of people in cryogenic sleep ready for colonising this remote system. Ever s…
B-17 Flying Fortress [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:43:32
Europe, 1943. World War II is in full rage, the United States joined the war effort and are now supporting the British air raids against German occupied western Europe with their legendary B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. C…
Albion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:21:27
In 1995 Blue Byte released Albion, an ambitious 2D/3D scifi/fantasy RPG, exclusively for MS-DOS PCs. It's made by some of the same people who previously, under the banner of Thalion Software, made Amberstar and Ambermoon…
Interviewing the Albion devs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:46:58
This is a special extra bonus episode! In December we played Albion, the 1995 fantasy/scifi RPG by Blue Byte. We had the chance to speak to Erik Simon and Jurie Horneman, two of the creative forces behind the game. We di…
One Must Fall: 2097 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:29:57
In 2097 the World Aeronautics & Robotics corporation (W.A.R.) is looking for a suitable representative to watch over Ganymede, the Jupiter moon that will soon be colonised. The Board at WAR has decided that the applicant…