Asteroids, Missile Command, and Combat.

Chip’s Challenge:

Commander Keen:

Can’t forget good ol’ Ski Free:

one of the best DOS games ever, Battle Chess!

watching the knight lop the arms off the pawns never got old!

gameplay footage

Lemmings

DESQview - multi-tasking for DOS:

Norton Commander - shell/file manager for DOS:

Pajama Sam: You are What you Eat From Your Head to Your Feet was a favorite of mine as a child:

Also had to look it up but Elmo’s Preschool was a big feature of my under-5 PC gaming:

2nd grade or so was a lot of Disney Princess: Magical Dressup with some cute mini games and a LOT of uncanny valley jank lol:

And alongside that was the PC version of Battle for Bikini Bottom, with mini games instead of the platformer the console had, but I’m struggling to find any decent gameplay screen grabs.

Of course that’s all just PC gaming.

Anybody remember the Cartoon Network island flash games? It was like a resort and I could have sworn there were multiple installments.

Whatever you are… MAKE ME A PIZZA (Zoombinis)

Infocom games such as Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

Telemate, by Tsung Hu, was one of the best pieces of DOS software I ever got to use. It featured internal multitasking via its own file reader and composer. With every other terminal program out there if you wanted to create a new file or use a scratch pad you had to exit the program first and load something else.

With telemate you could download a text, open it in the internal reader, then start copying bits over to the internal composer and then cut and paste the whole thing back into the terminal. This was godlike power at the time.

It had a slew if other really useful comm program features, the file downloading system was super tight and had every protocol, the local file browser was really nice. ansi and other graphics support was superb.

I eventually put it into autoexec.bat so my 286 would boot right into telemate. I was terminally online when online barely existed 😅

I learned to program thanks to this app. I used it to dial up and access shell accounts so i could IRC and MUD. I made friends I still talk to today through it. For years it was my daily companion.

If i could celebrate one single DOS app it would be the humble yet amazing Telemate by Tsung Hu (who went by Winfred Hu at the time)

you can grab it here: https://archive.org/details/telemate

The only reason i ever stopped using it was I graduated on to Slackware!

I grew up on 500-in-1 shareware discs as a real young kid, got into playing heaps of Runescape on mom’s laptop in late primary school, and when she eventually got me my own Pentium 4 PC I played the ever-loving shit outta the classic Source games and mods. Many nights were spent with my international pals playing Garry’s Mod or Zombie Master til the early winking of daylight met my dried, crusty eyes. Good times. Better times.

Although I never saw the packaging. All games I had for the C64 I got at school.

Ultima V

Gen z here. Animal jam was goated
I remember when they removed shelves from the in game stores so there was just a black market of shelves for no reason

Kingdom Hearts Re-coded is the best game ever and you can’t change my mind. I got my dad’s cartridge and DSi and it was the BEST.

Ive actually just now gotten around to playing the actual kingdom hearts 1 and OMG I don’t know how they managed to make the controls WORSE than a DSi game with like 10 buttons, it’s so bad you can’t see anything while in combat.
In the DS one you could at least snap the camera to look at the back of your head

edit: also coolmathgames.com

Thinkin Things

And Sammy’s Science House

Treasure Cove