Six Small Games

Six Small Games

Author: DOS Game Club February 14, 2019 Duration: 1:40:36
Hello DOS people! We're a little behind schedule, but remember last December? We featured no less than six games that month! Because we had received a bunch of suggestions for smaller games, we decided to pick a few and play them all in a single month. The games we played were: * Ugh! * Bolo […]

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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Jones in the Fast Lane – International edition [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:31
Update: In case it wasn't clear already, this was an april fool's joke. We made an English language podcast about Jones too and will keep the show in English of course. --- Original post: --- It's 1 APRIL again and that…
Raptor – Call of the Shadows [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:51:53
The Mega-Corps pay well, for those good enough to survive. They call you into the shadows with dreams of wealth, and you answer, the only way you know how. Apogee's 1994 vertical shooter Raptor - Call of the Shadows was…
Space Quest [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:52:33
What have you gotten yourself into this time, Roger Wilco? You wanted to have an easy, laid back job as a janitor on a space ship, but somehow it all went straight to crazy land the moment a bunch of space pirates came t…
Transport Tycoon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:34:13
Did you really, really want a model train set as a kid, with a landscape modeled after your preferences, stations where you want them and amazing trains that you control? Was it absolutely out of reach for you as well? W…
Hugo’s House of Horrors [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:14:08
Oh no! First Penelope is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Hammerstein, then your uncle Horace is murdered and finally, you crash your airplane in the South American jungle where Penelope gets bitten by a venomous spider! Join u…
Carmageddon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:07:33
Hang on to yer helmet while we drive over a couple pedestrians and cows and try to wreck the other drivers in Stainless Software's 1997 cult classic "Carmageddon". Join us as we try to figure out what the whole hype was…
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:57:51
It's time for round four of our "year of the adventure game"! So far we've covered Day of the Tentacle, Lost Eden and Simon the Sorcerer, but now it's time to go beyond the stars with Interplay's 1992 Star Trek: 25th Ann…
The Lost Vikings [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:16
Back when Blizzard Entertainment was still known as Silicon & Synapse, they made a funny looking puzzle-platformer called The Lost Vikings. It's hard as nails, utterly unfair, but also weirdly kind of compelling. What mo…
Simon the Sorcerer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:59:11
Calypso needs your help! The evil sorcerer Sordid has turned him (and a couple other people) into stone. You need to become a Wizard and save the day in Adventure Soft's 1993 graphical adventure hit "Simon the Sorcerer"!…
Syndicate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:25:27
In May we played Syndicate, the 1993 tactical shooter game by Bullfrog. Set in a futuristic dystopian cyberpunk world where governments have been replaced by corporations, it's quite a bit grittier than many of Bullfrog'…