#dos posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/dos/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #dos. Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:24:00 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Old DOS games https://bencrowder.net/blog/2011/old-dos-games/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2011/old-dos-games/ Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT I’ve been thinking about some of the old DOS games I used to play as a kid, as part of a goal this year to collect family stories — more on that in an upcoming post. In trying to find one of the games I remembered playing, I discovered that people have posted gameplay videos to YouTube for most if not all of these. Enter a bucketload of nostalgia.

My childhood was spent playing games like Command Keen:

And Joust:

And SkyRoads:

Here, then, are most of the DOS games I remember with fondness (or at least remember playing more than once), with links to videos:

Going through these is making me feel ten years old all over again. Ah, childhood. (You can play pretty much all of these through DOSBox, by the way. Most are still shareware, and a lot have been released as freeware.)

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