All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'DOS, free, casual' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us Street Rod is one of the finest dos racing games of the late 80s. It allows you to tune up and trick out your 50s or 60s era ride and then drag or street race them for money or pink slips. Beef up your cars to eventually challenge the King and his black Corvette.

]]> 27 Nov 2006 01:51:54 "You could play this game just for the amazing sound tracks, but the gameplay is also very catchy. Simply, you need to steer your space vehicle along the course, jumping and dodging blocks that will wipe you out when you're flying along at light-speed. Balancing acceleration and fuel usage becomes tricky when you've got a time limit to beat with hardly any fuel in the tank. Your reflexes and timing will be the difference between getting home safely and floating aimlessly through space."
-dosgamesarchive.com

This is truly an original. Very simple, very addictive.

]]> 19 Mar 2007 09:09:34 Alley Cat is a game created in 1984 for the PC and Atari 800. In the game the player controls a cat trying to get the best things in life, such as mice and fish, while avoiding bad things like dogs and brooms.

]]> 06 Feb 2007 03:24:45 Jetpack is a DOS game that was an immediate hit when it was released in 1993, and a cult following grew internationally. The author received a ton of mail and submissions by people creating their own Jetpack levels. The built in level editor is one of the most popular features - over 1000 levels have been created. Some teachers bought Jetpack because they considered the editor to be educational, encouraging their students' creativity.

Jetpack was the top selling game for both publishers that carried it (Software Creations and Impulse Games). Jetpack runs fine on an 8086, and surprisingly well on today's computers!

Jetpack has been made freeware by its author so it is now free to download.

]]> 02 Mar 2007 05:07:48 Jack in the Dark was released by Infogrames in between the first and the second Alone in the Dark games. It is substantially smaller in scale and length, and served as teaser for the upcoming sequel.

The game stars Grace Saunders, the kidnapped girl in the main story, who gets locked in a toy store on Halloween. The goal of the short game is to solve the mystery of the toy store and escape. Utilising the same engine as the Alone in the Dark games, Jack in the Dark plays pretty much the same, though Grace has only Search and Close as her available actions. The puzzles are interesting and varied, and the creepy story unfolds via various means such as a book that explains the past of a certain ghostly character.

]]> 11 Mar 2007 05:44:19 A rather original game where you have to knock down dominoes to progress through the levels.
The fun part is that there are several different dominoe types which perform different actions.
You have one that split in two, one that floats, one that is a blocker, etc, and you have to arrange them in order to be able to knock them down with one push and making sure that one special dominoe that acts like the "goal" is the last one to be knocked down.
The game has 100 levels distributed across 9 zones.

]]> 03 Feb 2007 02:09:21 Troll's Tale is an adventure game created by Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry, The Black Cauldron). An evil troll has hidden the treasures of the Dwarf King, and it is up to you to get them back!

Each screen featured a graphic and a menu of decisions. If you find the treasure, but the troll is on the screen at the same time, you would not be able to pick up the treasure.

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]]> 26 Aug 2007 02:20:10 "Ishido, the first game Accolade ported to the Sega Genesis, is, despite its name, not an ancient Japanese pastime. Rather, it was developed in 1990 as a type of tile matching game. First released for MS-DOS and Macintosh, Accolade was able to produce a version for the Genesis through reverse-engineering. (If you'd like to know more about how reverse-engineering works, start here).

All versions of the game have now fallen out of print, and the Macintosh version has been made freely available by its programmer."

- Cool Copyright
http://www.coolcopyright.com/cases/chp7/segaaccolade.htm

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