Your favorite DOS games

er... Knights of Xentar (aka Dragon Knight III) is a surprisingly good Japanese computer RPG that got a DOS localization. Humorous dialogues, fun characters, rapid pace, and a semi-automated battle system that seems a little too hands-off at first but gets fun once you get spells. Of course, it's an eroge, so that might turn some people off, but the fact is that it's a good game without any of that stuff. But it's a PC-98 port.

Zeliard was a good side-scroller RPG and early Game Arts release (with a banking system, oddly enough) - but it was a PC-88 port.

Both of these I found through abandonware sites some years ago, when I learned that a few Japanese CRPGs had actually been released here in the early '90s. I also finished Mad Paradox (decent-ish, but the best part is still its title) and played some Cobra Mission (extremely annoying random encounters, so I never finished it).

I never really played DOS originals, though. In those days we had an old Macintosh computer, and the only game we had was the original Monkey Island. Which was cool, but when never made it far.

Entirely possible. I think you could just remove those scenes. They're kind of extraneous to the experience, anyway - they just kind of happen as rewards for helping people out IIRC, so you could take them out and the game wouldn't make any less sense.

I should really try to finish Monkey Island. That'd be my White Whale, come to think of it.

I don't play too many DOS games these days (so many games, so little free time). But when in middle and high school, I played quite a lot of them. And I mean many dude. So I can do a top twenty five for you from those memories. All of this stuff I played via DOS, no Windows ports here.

Ex's Top 25 Favorite DOS Games (in alphabetical order)

I honestly believe you personally would really enjoy LOOM. Plus the VGA version is on GOG now:

www.gog.com/game/loom

I played through it via EGA. It was still great.

I also think you'd enjoy this adventure game:



I beat the DOS version of that one back in the mid-'90s, it was very good.