We spent our July playing Jill of the Jungle, one of the big milestones in PC gaming history for making Epic Megagames actually "mega" and allowing them to build all those future games we all so dearly love. But is Jill itself a noteworthy game? Or do we need the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia to […]
Hello everyone! Last June we spent playing our first text adventure with the club. Incredible that we never did one before, so good thing we got that sorted. It's a genre that can be difficult to get into, so we decided to pick a very accessible game: Frederik Pohl's Gateway, by Legend Entertainment, released in […]
Greetings DOS fans, Last May we featured not one, but many games. All of the same genre: PINBALL! Helping Florian ("rnlf") and Martijn ("Tijn") out are two very knowledgeable experts. First of all DGC regular Tim ("Spacefarer"), who has made an elaborate video series covering the history of pinball videogames, from the very basic beginnings […]
Welcome to my death machine, interloper! My plans have come to fruition prematurely, quite to my satisfaction. You have my thanks, hacker. Let me show you the destruction podcast episode you I have brought upon the planet Earth. Martijn and Florian are joined by David ("evilcommiedictator") and Jozef ("yozy") in their fight against SHODAN in […]
Hello Dostalgicians! We still haven't quite caught up with our schedule, but we're getting there. One step along the way is this episode in which we discuss Parallax Software's 1995 hit game Descent - the game we played back in March. Martijn and Florian are joined by Elias ("pumpuli"), Rami ("JikissGamer") and Jonathan ("microwerx") in […]
It is the year 2020 and yet, some of us are still fascinated by an operating system that hasn't been updated in nearly 20 years. In this episode we are trying to answer the question "why"? That DOS is still relevant today is demonstrated by the success of DOS Games Jam - a game jam […]
Bonjour DOS fans! In our ongoing attempt to get back on schedule, we present to you our podcast episode on Nomad, the obscure 1993 space adventure game we played in February. The show is filled with DGC veterans, as Florian ("rnlf") hosts for a change, joined by Martijn ("Tijn") and Esko ("FireFyte"). Suggested by DGC […]
Hello! We hope everyone is staying safe with all this craziness going on. When in doubt: stay inside and play DOS games, folks! Back in January we played Worms with the club and boy did we have a lot of fun with that one. We even organised a little club tournament to see who has […]
Hello fellow DOS fans! A while back we ran a Twitter poll to see what people thought a good RPG would be for us to check out. And although Dark Sun, Darklands and Albion all good respectable scores, there was one clear winner: Ultima VII, released in 1992 by Origin Systems. So that became our […]
Yo yo yo! It's been a while since we last featured a racing game, so we dove into the suggestion forum and came up with 90s 3D pod racer Wipeout. Most people probably remember this as a title for the Sony Playstation, but the first game in the series actually saw a release for PC […]
Oh hello there! Every year in October we try to pick a game that fits with the spooky nature of the Halloween season. This year that game was The 7th Guest, developed by Trilobyte and released by Virgin in 1993 on not one, but two (!) CD-ROMs. Both our hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") […]
Sail ho! Back in September we appropriately played Sid Meier's Pirates!, the classic 1987 pirate game by Microprose. While not Sid Meier's first game by any stretch, it is the first game which has his name in the title, firmly establishing him as the famous game designer he's known as today. We're excited to announce […]
Hello! We're back with another podcast, and this is a big one! We're discussing the game we played in August, which was UFO: Enemy Unknown, known in North America as X-Com: UFO Defense. As in our previous episode, regular co-host Florian ("rnlf") had to miss this one due to his holiday and moving house. Luckily […]
Hi fellow DOS fans! Remember us? We used to make podcasts about DOS games, haha. It wasn't easy to schedule this episode about Theme Hospital, the game we played back in July. But we've pulled through and here it is! Sadly Florian ("rnlf") isn't joining us for this one, as he's away on holiday and […]
Hello! In June we played Knights of the Sky, an excellent World War 1-themed 3D flight simulator, released in 1990, both developed and published by the mighty Microprose. This game was suggested by new DGC member David ("evilcommiedictator"), who used to watch his dad play this game when he was young and later played it […]
Yo DOS peeps! Can you believe we never had a fighting game on? So we browsed the suggestion forum and came across one: Rise of the Robots. It's the game we picked for May, but it turns out... the game is actually famous for being terrible, haha. We still had a lot of fun discussing […]
Hey hey! Seems like we're still behind schedule, but at least it's not getting worse, as proven by this new episode. Also, we're going to record the next episode in just a few days which will mean we're back on track. Anyway, this time we discussed our April game: Blizzard's classic platformer BlackThorne (or BlackHawk […]
Yo yo yo, Oh my, we're running late a bit 😮 But the good news is: we've got a new podcast episode for you all! In March we like to play big first person shooters and for this year we played Blood, the 1997 cultist shooter by Monolith Productions. To discuss this game, your regular […]
Guten Tag! This is a DOS Game Club Extra Special Episode. You see, recently we held our first DOS Game Club Meetup, as we went to the Revision Party 2019 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Exciting! Revision is a demoscene party, which means they have a stage with a big screen and speakers on which all sorts […]
Hey WeirDOS! Time for another DGC episode! In February we played Life and Death, the hyper-realistic, hyper-difficult surgery simulator by The Software Toolworks, published in 1988. Florian ("rnlf") is back hosting this episode, but didn't play the game at all, so he's just posing lots of uninformed questions to the other participants in this show: […]
Hi there! For January we really wanted to feature a big open-world RPG, as we've never had one of those with the club. We went over to the suggestion forums, where there's a great RPG thread with many awesome suggestions (you can find the link down below). One game in particular seemed to stand out: […]
Hello DOS people! We're a little behind schedule, but remember last December? We featured no less than six games that month! Because we had received a bunch of suggestions for smaller games, we decided to pick a few and play them all in a single month. The games we played were: * Ugh! * Bolo […]
Hey hey hey! In November we featured the amazing Master of Orion 2, as suggested by our trusty co-host Florian. He's been wanting us to play this one ever since we started DOS Game Club, so we're very excited to finally talk about one of his favourite games. Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") […]
Bonjour mes amis, it's a new DOS Game Club episode! In October we were looking for a spOo0ky game to play and luckily, we had several great suggestions over on our game suggestion forum. Out of the options available, we decided to go with 1992's "Alone in the Dark", suggested by long time DGC member […]
Hey! A new DOS Game Club episode! This time we're covering The Secret of Monkey Island - even if you haven't played the game, if you are into games at all, you more likely than not have at least heard about it. For some this is the pinnacle of Point & Click Adventure games, and […]
Do you remember the Twitter poll we mentioned last month? The one Prince of Persia won? After playing that in July we felt sorry for the runner-up, so that's what we played in August! And that runner-up was of course Warcraft II. Joining Martijn and Florian to talk about this cool RTS game are Tyler […]
Hello! After we almost caught up with our delay from the summer break with the last episode, this new episode means were back on schedule! We ran a poll some time ago about which game to play in July. We had no idea what to play, so we pitted just a bunch of random favourites […]
Hello! We had a bit of a summer break, but we're back now! We hope to be back on track shortly. Now back in June we wanted to play a vertical shooter, as this is a genre that we haven't covered so far. We ran a poll on Twitter between some classic games in the […]
Hello there! We're about halfway through June, so there's still plenty of time left to dive into TYRIAN, our game of the month. You can share your opinions on this game over on our forums. - - - - - - - - - - - - PODCAST EPISODE #18: DEATH RALLY In May we […]
Hello, hello, hello! In April we played Starflight, a game of hard to define genre, that is nonetheless pretty damn cool! - - - - - - - - - - - - PODCAST EPISODE #17: STARFLIGHT Starflight is a game from the very early days of DOS gaming. Still from a time when game […]
