In the last month, I have downloaded a couple dozen games that I will probably never play through. The first one is Space Engine. After looking at Limit Theory and other games that have much more appealing environments than EOC, I searched for a supplement. I found
this
site. Space Engine is a very neat program. I would not call it a game, since it isn't especially fun, but instead a planetarium/space simulator. The renderings are incredible, and the soundtrack is awesome.
Then I started looking into other Dos games. I found one called Elite. This Elite is the precursor to the modern Elite: Dangerous and is awesome in many ways. You can make money by trading, bounty hunting, pirating, and mining. The game also has its downfalls. They make for interesting gameplay, but are not realistic. your ship cannot stop moving at any time. It cannot go backwards, strafe, and has no yaw controls. The stations are constantly rotating, making docking a perilous task. Also, if you collide with another ship, it will drain one of your energy units, but destroy the other ship. On the other hand, their are some super awesome things about Elite. I watched
this
twenty-two minute documentary about it and learned these things: Elite was the first 3-D game ever made, it was the first 3-D space simulator ever made (obviously), it used procedural content generation, and it was only 22k large, using almost every byte of memory houshold computers had those days. The game also has a save function, but in the version I got, there is a glitch preventing it from working right. The fix for this is
here
.
Other games for DosBox:
Scorched Earth //mother of all games
Elite Plus //A version of elite with more colors
Boulderdash
Dig Dug //a fairly boring game, but one that I have played before.
Outer Ridge
fighter wing
Armada 2525 //an extremely complicated space strategy game
Mechwarrior //the original
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries
Mechwarrior 2: 31st century combat //with expansion pack
//will get Mechwarrior 4 for windows
Bruce Lee Lives: the fall of Hong Kong Palace
Bruce Lee
Games for Windows:
Mechcommander 2 //I downloaded the source code for this since my CD:DVD drive stopped working. It //includes the finished version, with another version that runs much smoother on my computer, but has //a few minor glitches.
Celestia
Orbiter 2010
Games for the Mame arcade game emulator: //These, along with Dig Dug, were on a Namco //Plug'n'Play I had. and are the only old arcade games I am personally familiar with
Galaga
Bosconian
Rally-X
Like I said, I doubt I will play through all of them.
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