Awesome PC Games from the 90's [and DOSBox appreciation] Thread

[A Black Falcon]

System Shock, Flashback, Ultima 8, and Relentless: Twinsen's Odyssey from my personal catalog to work. It's cool to be able to play these old games again, it's been ages since I last booted them up. I would be nice if it wasn't such a hassle though, even with DOSBox some games still won't run very well, or at all in some cases.

I've still got a few more that I'm going to try out like Alone in the Dark 1 and 2, Thunderscape, Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager, Whiplash, Hexen II, Interstate '76, Out of This World, and a few games from the Forgotten Realms Archive.

Of all those I only have Whiplash, I76, Out of this World (Genesis version), Alone in the Dark, and Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure... though I have played the Hexen II demo several times and have the first game. The Hexen games are good. Whiplash... fun, once you can get past the very rough 3d graphics (like Screamer, for example). Alone in the Dark I've already said never did interest me. Relentless is of course great.

I've thought about trying more Ultima games before (I only have Ultima Underworld and Ultima 1 thanks to PC Gamer's Classic Games Collection from the late '90s, on the magazine's disc one month), but just never have... I do agree that it's very hard to go back and play '80s or early '90s RPGs. I do have Wizardry VI and VII, and tried to play those several years back. I eventually stopped because of the manual mapping, very high difficulty level, numerous frustrating design decisions, etc. Wiz VI was worth playing some of, to see what it's like, but those games are so hard to play from a modern perspective...