Remembering Apogee Software/3D Realms

[Iafeta]

I quite enjoyed Wolfenstein and Captain Keen I must admit, but I found myself being more of a Sierra man. Police Quest, Kings Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry... great times. I was surprised to come back into this sub-forum and find the Old Abandonware games thread basically dead. There were a lot of monumental games back then. I've loved recently cruising those sites for some of those great games.

 

[alien]

This thread brings back alot of memories. I forgot about some of these games. Was Monster Bash made by them aswell?

 

[Nuke]

'Monster Bash'!!! Yeah, they were made by the same mob as 'One Must Fall 2097' I'm pretty sure.

In fact, I have (somewhere) a shareware disk of 'OMF2097' and I think 'Monster Bash' was on there too.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Are we talking shareware floopy disks? I remember back in the days I used to love buying those shareware disks after school for $2.00 from crazy prices or go-lo with whatever pocket money I had left over lol. I remember you used to buy an old game and it came with a bonus game. I remember I bought Scorched Earth and it came with some weird game called 'Heavy Water Jogger' lol - I never figured that one out.

 

[axl rose]

Are we talking shareware floopy disks? I remember back in the days I used to love buying those shareware disks after school for $2.00 from crazy prices or go-lo with whatever pocket money I had left over lol. I remember you used to buy an old game and it came with a bonus game. I remember I bought Scorched Earth and it came with some weird game called 'Heavy Water Jogger' lol - I never figured that one out.

I saved up enough money to buy Hugos House of Horrors! loved it but to dumb to figure it out.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Wasn't that a game where you have to save your girl friend or something?

 

[Bulldog Force]

http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/secret-agent-the-hunt-for-red-rock-rover/

I just took a look at that website now. It's got a little video on the right-hand side that you can play... and it's the old Secret Agent game. Brought back so many memories. Take a look guys if you get a chance

 

[Nuke]

'Scorched Earth'!!!
Hell yes! I know it's not an Apogee / 3D Realms game (well, I don't think so), but damn that was a great game. I must see if I still have that somewhere on a disk.

And BF, yes, I'm talking about those 3½ inch floppy disks.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Scorched Earth came from Mojo software. I remember you had to fire up MS-DOS and run the A:\mojoinst command to launch the installer :lol: - it gave you 3 options, install Scorched Earth, install Heavywater Jogger or Exit :lol:

Here you go dude, they got this game for download

http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/scorched-earth/

Just scroll down the bottom.

Scorched Earth:

 

[skeepe]

I quite enjoyed Wolfenstein and Captain Keen I must admit, but I found myself being more of a Sierra man. Police Quest, Kings Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry... great times. I was surprised to come back into this sub-forum and find the Old Abandonware games thread basically dead. There were a lot of monumental games back then. I've loved recently cruising those sites for some of those great games.

Sierra have actually released compilations of their games that are designed to run on newer computers running XP or Vista. There's the Space Quest compilation, Kings Quest and Police Quest as well (although Police Quest only contains the first 4 games, before it became SWAT). I think there might be Leisure Suit Larry but I don't remember.

You can pick them up for about $20 from online retailers if I remember correctly.

The Island of Dr Brain was another great game, back when they knew how to make educational games fun... and Eco Quest as well.

 

[Nuke]

Scorched Earth came from Mojo software. I remember you had to fire up MS-DOS and run the A:\mojoinst command to launch the installer :lol: - it gave you 3 options, install Scorched Earth, install Heavywater Jogger or Exit :lol:

Here you go dude, they got this game for download

http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/scorched-earth/

Just scroll down the bottom.

I actually beat you to it by about 12 hours ... I did indeed download it from that site (along with Alley Cat!!!) just last night. Thanks all the same BF. I had a good hour or so playing it before going to bed!

 

[Bulldog Force]

I actually beat you to it by about 12 hours ... I did indeed download it from that site (along with Alley Cat!!!) just last night. Thanks all the same BF. I had a good hour or so playing it before going to bed!

No worries mate. What you should try to do (I've never gotten around to it) is play a 1000 round game (and use the save option when you've had enough) then just re-load that game and see how you go. Also, just to start yourself off, have $10,000 set to cash at start, and set the Interest rate to... I think it's either 0.3% or 0.03% (the highest available in the game) and watch your money explode after about 30 odd rounds :lol: you'll have more than you can possibly spend

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

I actually prefered Cinemaware back in the day. I thought they had some absolute classic games. TV Sports Football and Basketball as well as classics like Defender of the Crown and Wings were all pretty awesome. Spent many an hour battling away with those games on the good old Amiga 500 back in the day.

You can actually go to the Cinemaware website and play a flash version of Defender of the Crown. Not quite as good as the original and it has some time lag issues but still a good walk down memory lane.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Speaking of trips down memory lane, does anyone remember this?

 

[mongoose]

I quite enjoyed Wolfenstein and Captain Keen I must admit, but I found myself being more of a Sierra man. Police Quest, Kings Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry... great times. I was surprised to come back into this sub-forum and find the Old Abandonware games thread basically dead. There were a lot of monumental games back then. I've loved recently cruising those sites for some of those great games.

Haha leisure suit larry, that was classic. I remember my dad got it from a friend at his work and wouldnt let me play it. Ofcourse i played it when he wasnt home.

Make sure you wear the rubber or your genitals will flash red after

 

[Nuke]

BF, ET's RL is one of my all-time favourite games!

It's funny, with all of today's high-quality graphics and whatnot, for all the games that are out there that are supposedly light years ahead of these old games ... I will play an ET's RL or an Indianapolis500 or a Scorched Earth in preference to anything that's come out in the past 15 years. I love the simple, cheesey-graphic kinda games.

 

[Bulldog Force]

True that mate. I don't care how good action games get these days, nothing will replace Double Dragon or Streets of Rage for me

Double Dragon:

Streets Of Rage:

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[Bulldog Force]

Flicking threw the retro thread reminded me of this one. There's a website somewhere where a software company recreated Raptor: Call of the Shadows that runs perfectly on Windows 7 systems free to download. I'll try to find it...

 

[Bulldog Force]

My mistake. It was free. Now it costs $2 :lol:

http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/137/raptor-call-of-the-shadows-2010-edition

 

[Firey_Dragon]

Rise of the triad remake is in development...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-RD6_GXZ8