I grew up on a hand-me-down PC with a chunky screen that hummed. I kept floppies in a cracked plastic box. After school, I’d type little commands like “cd games” and “doom.exe” with sweaty hands. It felt like a secret door. These are the DOS games that stuck to my brain. I’ve played each one …
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Note: This is a creative first-person style review. You know what? I still think about that big beige PC case that hummed like a fridge. Boot beep, blinking cursor, and a pile of floppies that smelled like paper and dust. I can almost hear the Sound Blaster hiss before the music kicks in. Old, sure. …
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I grew up with a beige box under a wobbly desk. A Packard Bell 486DX2, Sound Blaster 16, and a ball mouse that needed a good wipe every week. I can still hear the hard drive hum. I can still smell warm dust. I played these games on real floppies, with real restarts, and yes, …
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I first played Blood on a beat-up beige PC in my uncle’s garage in 1999. Late night. Big CRT hum. A bowl of stale pretzels between us. The game booted, Caleb growled “I live… again,” and we both laughed a little too loud. Then I got blown up by my own TNT. Classic me.Years later …
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You know what? I fired up Dangerous Dave online last week, and I didn’t expect to smile this much. For anyone unfamiliar, Dangerous Dave is a classic platform game developed by John Romero in 1988 that revolves around snagging gold trophies while outwitting a parade of quirky foes. I grew up watching my cousin play …
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I’m Kayla, and I grew up with this game. Picture this: a chunky beige PC, loud fans, and me in my cousin’s basement, eating cold pizza and trying to beat “just one more level.” That was Jetpack for me. It’s a fast puzzle platformer from the early ’90s. You fly, grab gems, dodge robots, and …
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You know what? I didn’t plan this. A rainy Sunday turned into a whole week of old PC games. I set up a DOS games collection on my Windows laptop, using DOSBox (I leaned on the basic setup guide) and a simple front-end, LaunchBox. Most of my games came from GOG (they run inside DOSBox), …
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I grew up with a rattly 486 and a stack of floppies. That hum? The CRT sang me to sleep. I’ve played these games for real—after school, on snow days, and way past bedtime. I still boot them through DOSBox now and then, and the magic still pops. If you want an even broader look …
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I grew up mashing keys on a beige PC in my uncle’s garage. That humble rig also hosted many of the treasures that would later make my personal roundup of the best DOS games of all time from my beige box to yours.One game always pulled me back: Alley Cat. Last week, I fired it …
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