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Tag: CGA

  • Some DOS Games for the IBM PC

    The early IBM PC was not really all that good at playing games, it was after all primarily designed for businesses. Despite this many developers did make games for them, although they were typically very limited by the capabilities of the PC. I didn’t get to play any of these…

  • Silly Knight for DOS

    Today I’m looking at a small home brew game named Silly Knight made by Petr “AfBu” Kratina in 2017. It was made for a DOS game creation competition hosted at high-voltage.cz. It uses a special CGA text mode for drawing at 160×100 resolution with 16 colours by using code developed…

  • Paganitzu: Romancing the Rose for DOS

    Whilst Apogee were better known for publishing action games they also had some puzzle games in their catalog. Todays game, Paganitzu is one of those puzzles games, having some features in common with Sokoban. I’m just playing the shareware episode, but you can still buy Paganitzu on steam or through…

  • Freddy’s Rescue Round-up for DOS

    Today’s game is an early CGA game originally made for IBM in 1984 by D.P. Leabo and A.V. Strietzel. It was included on software sampler disks that came with many IBM PCs. You play as Freddy who has to rescue all the road runners before the maintenance bots gone rogue…

  • MagiDuck for DOS

    I was browsing the web recently when I stumbled across DOS Haven, A site devoted to home brew games made for MS-DOS machines. This is a welcome and quite unusual find as there isn’t much of a home brew scene for these machines as opposed to other platforms like the…

  • Chopper Commando for DOS

    Back in my teens I aspired to create my own computer games and actually made some nifty little games, but I didn’t ever distribute them. Today’s game, Chopper Commando was made by Mark Currie when he was 15 and did make it out in 1990. It’s a fairly simple arcade…

  • Squirmer for DOS

    I’ve started to recover from quite a nasty cold this week, so today we’re looking at another obscure MS-DOS game. It’s called Squirmer and was made by Stephen Lee Parker in 1990. It is an interesting take on the standard snake game that later became popular on feature phones. Squirmer…

  • Robomaze III: The Dome for DOS

    Since I’m still setting up my computer lab space today I’m looking at a game called Robomaze III. It was made by a company called Wetware for MVP software back in 1991. This is of course a sequel to Robomaze II, but unlike it, this game is a top down…

  • Arctic Adventure for DOS

    Arctic Adventure was released in 1991, when the author George Broussard had just merged his company with Apogee. It is a sequel to the first game: Pharaoh’s Tomb, and shares the same game engine that was originally developed by Todd Replogle for Monuments of Mars. It shares most of its…

  • Pharaoh’s Tomb for DOS

    Pharaoh’s Tomb is one of the earliest titles in the Apogee library being released back in 1990. It was designed by one of the key members of Apogee, George Broussard, before he became part of the company. He originally released the game under the Micro F/X name. It uses the…