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There isn't much we need to say to introduce you to Quake. It's Quake, after all. Quake may be one of the most important games crossing the bridge between the "old" and "new" gaming worlds. It still came out as a DOS game, originally, as shareware, rendered fully in software. But it was also there […]

Real life isn't real enough for you? You need the daily treadmill also in your gaming? Well, we got something for you! In Sierra's 1991 game Jones in the Fast Lane, you get to live your spectacular life as an absolutely ordinary person whose biggest goal is to become assistant manager of the paper company […]

Update: In case it wasn't clear already, this was an april fool's joke. We made an English language podcast about Jones too and will keep the show in English of course. --- Original post: --- It's 1 APRIL again and that means we look at the game we played in February, which in this case […]

The Mega-Corps pay well, for those good enough to survive. They call you into the shadows with dreams of wealth, and you answer, the only way you know how. Apogee's 1994 vertical shooter Raptor - Call of the Shadows was a game that impressed many young players back in the day with its slick graphics, […]

What have you gotten yourself into this time, Roger Wilco? You wanted to have an easy, laid back job as a janitor on a space ship, but somehow it all went straight to crazy land the moment a bunch of space pirates came to take away a mysterious device you wouldn't understand anyway. Will you be able to save the world many times over? Survive crash landing on a jungle planet and a big robot boxing match? Will you stop the invasion of the life insurance salesmen clone army? Do all those things - and many more - in Sierra's classic adventure series that ran in six episodes from 1986 to 1995 and represents a cross cut through almost the entirety of DOS gaming hardware. Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are returning Club members Richard and Michael, as well as Jess, who has been running the very first Space Quest fansite on the web since the 90s. Also a big thanks to DGC members "watchful" and "Shattered" for sending in a voice message! It's much appreciated. If you want to send in a voice message yourself, you can email them to club@dosgameclub.com And last but not least: we're doing shout outs now! This time we'd like to guide your attention to the Talking Simulator Podcast, which is a great little videogame podcast by Jordan Erica Webber, featuring many interesting guests. That's all for now. Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2022/02/ep64.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (172 mins, 197 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Jess' site: Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset * SpaceQuest.net * Space Quest Historian * Space Quest: the movie * Wiki page on "Software Excess" from Space Quest 4, with links to all the funny box texts * Space Quest FAQ * Archived copy of Wilco's Domain on Geocities * Space Venture Kickstarter, the upcoming spiritual successor to Space Quest by the Two Guys From Andromeda * Shout out: Talking Simulator Podcast Addendum: we talk a bit about "AGI", but never explain what it is. AGI is shorthand for "Adventure Game Interpreter" and was the original engine developed by Sierra for King's Quest and their later adventure games. It was later followed by an engine called SCI, the Sierra Creative Interpreter. More info on Wikipedia: AGI.

Did you really, really want a model train set as a kid, with a landscape modeled after your preferences, stations where you want them and amazing trains that you control? Was it absolutely out of reach for you as well? Well, thanks to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon, we got what we wanted in the end, even if it was just virtual in our computers - maybe even better in many aspects. We also look at how projects like TTDPatch and OpenTTD kept the game alive through the decades and how the game is still being actively improved to this day. Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are returning Club member David and new member Niels, who is actually an active developer of OpenTTD and thus very knowledgeable about the game and especially OpenTTD's history. Sadly, David had to leave a couple minutes early, so the last 20 minutes ro so it's just the three of us. We're doing shout outs now! This time we'd like to guide your attention to Ms Mad Lemon (Website) who makes (among others) hardware tinkering videos about 8 and 16 bit computers. Even this "Amiga" we hear so much about. Go subscribe to her and say hi from us! That's all for now. Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2022/01/ep63.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (154 mins, 176 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * David's videos about TTD (among others) * Niels' TTD music collection * Richard ("Pix") has once again scanned UK magazines reviews for us * tt-forums.net is *the* place to talk about Transport Tycoon * TTDPatch website * OpenTTD website * Ms Mad Lemon's Website (with further links to her Twitter and YouTube)

Oh no! First Penelope is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Hammerstein, then your uncle Horace is murdered and finally, you crash your airplane in the South American jungle where Penelope gets bitten by a venomous spider! Join us as we explore the world of the Hugo series, made for the most part by one man in the late 80s and early 90s, consisting of 3+1 games that are both heart-warmingly charming and mind-boggingly (and involuntarily) psychedelic. We played the First Person Shooter sequel "Nightmare-3D" in episode 10, back in our club's first year! Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are Michael, host of the DOS Games Jam (which we covered earlier in episode 41) and Dr. DOS, who is the current world record speed runner of the first game in the series. Björn ("TigeQuoll") and Bernd have sent in voice messages, for which we're very grateful. If you'd also like to share a voice message, please send them club@dosgameclub.com We're doing shout outs now! This time we'd like to guide your attention to Lady Decade (Twitter and YouTube) who makes brilliant videos mostly about 3rd to 5th generation consoles and games for those. Go subscribe to her and say hi from us! That's all for now. Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/12/ep62.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (134 mins, 154 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * DOS Game Club episode on Nightmare-3D * Dr. DOS' world record Any% speedrun * Explanation of exploitable glitches, also by Dr. DOS * David P. Gray's Website, where you can still buy HHH and N3D * Interviews with David P. Grey: adventureclassicgaming.com, classicdosgames.com & plusxp.com (via archive.org) * Lady Decade on Twitter * Lady Decade's YouTube Channel

Hang on to yer helmet while we drive over a couple pedestrians and cows and try to wreck the other drivers in Stainless Software's 1997 cult classic "Carmageddon". Join us as we try to figure out what the whole hype was about, exactly how far over the top this game really is and whether this is a racing game, an action game, both or neither! Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") is returning DGC member Björn ("TigerQuoll"), who hadn't actually played the game before and new member Thanael ("Trumad") who has been a big fan ever since it came out. Starting this episode we want to highlight retro content creators who are not white men in their late 30s (those are cool, too, but let's find out what other, less prominent voices are out there in our community!) For our first time we'd like to give a big shout out to Tech Ambrosia, who creates fantastic videos, mostly about late Pentium era hardware. You can find her on YouTube and Twitter. Go subscribe to her and say hi from us! Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/10/ep61.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (127 mins, 146 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Lots of UK magazine reviews, scanned in as always by DGC member Pix * Björn's Comparison Video * The Retro Hour Podcast Episode 106: Crystal Quest to Carmageddon with Patrick Buckland * The Retro Hour Podcast Episode 53: Carmageddon & Lawnmower Man with Fergus McNeill * Stainless Christmas Party 2010 (YouTube) * Tony Through the Looking Glass (YouTube) * Archived interview with Patrick Buckland on Carmageddon in Edge Magazine from 2012 * Tech Ambrosia's YouTube Channel * Tech Ambrosia on Twitter

It's time for round four of our "year of the adventure game"! So far we've covered Day of the Tentacle, Lost Eden and Simon the Sorcerer, but now it's time to go beyond the stars with Interplay's 1992 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the original series. Originally released on floppy disk and later expanded with a CD-ROM edition, this space combat / point & click adventure hybrid game plays like interactive episodes of the TV series. Joining host Martijn ("Tijn") is returning DGC member Tyler ("Corgibuttz"), who was intrigued by the game since childhood, but never actually got around to playing it for real. Also joining is Juho Kuorikoski, a Finnish game historian and journalist, who is also a Trekkie. He has a YouTube channel reviewing old games and the very first video he posted was about this very game, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. It's in fact the very first PC game he has ever bought, so he's more than qualified to tell us all about this game. Sadly our trusty co-host Florian ("rnlf") had to skip this episode due to a scheduling mishap, but he'll be back for the next one for sure. Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/10/ep60.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (117 mins, 135 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Juho's video on Star Trek: 25th Anniversary * Old magazine scans of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary scanned in by DGC members TigerQuoll and Pix * A great retrospective on Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by The Digital Antiquarian * A video interview with Brian Fargo on Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by Dr. Matt Barton, video game historian * Old clip of William Shatner arguing during the voice recordings about the pronounciation of the word "sabotage" (requires Flash)

Back when Blizzard Entertainment was still known as Silicon & Synapse, they made a funny looking puzzle-platformer called The Lost Vikings. It's hard as nails, utterly unfair, but also weirdly kind of compelling. What more can we say about it? Listen to find out! Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Oddvar ("dollarone") and Bjorn ("TigerQuoll"). We were also kindly sent a voice message by Thanael. If you also want to send us a voice message, simply record your thoughts and e-mail them to club@dosgameclub.com http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/08/ep59.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (90 mins, 103 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * DGC-member Pix scanned & uploaded some of his UK magazines with reviews of The Lost Vikings * Free download of The Lost Vikings from blizzard.com - before it was added to the Arcade Collection, Blizzard offered The Lost Vikings for free through their website and the link still works to download it now. * Blog post on The Lost Vikings on blizzard.com - has some neat background information and developer insights. * The Lost Vikings on retrovolve.com - a nice retrospective with lots of neat info on the game.

Calypso needs your help! The evil sorcerer Sordid has turned him (and a couple other people) into stone. You need to become a Wizard and save the day in Adventure Soft's 1993 graphical adventure hit "Simon the Sorcerer"! Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode is Richard ("Pix"). http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/08/ep58.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (119 mins, 136 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * DGC-member Pix scanned & uploaded some of his UK magazines with reviews of Simon the Sorcerer * adventuresoft.com - original website of Adventure Soft, still in operation, and has all the original games for sale and more! * nemmelheim.de/horrorsoft - oldskool fansite of HorrorSoft / AdventureSoft, featuring among other things some interviews with the founders

In May we played Syndicate, the 1993 tactical shooter game by Bullfrog. Set in a futuristic dystopian cyberpunk world where governments have been replaced by corporations, it's quite a bit grittier than many of Bullfrog's other titles. But is it fun? Listen to find out! Joining host Martijn ("Tijn") for this episode are Rob ("Spoonboy") and retro gaming YouTuber Kim Justice. Sadly our trusty co-host Florian ("rnlf") couldn't join us for this one, but we did receive a voice messages by Canageek, so thanks for that! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/06/ep57.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (145 mins, 166 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux by Kim Justice: youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ92jySWe0 * Sean Cooper's newgrounds flash games: seantcooper.newgrounds.com * Syndicate magazine scan forum thread: dosgameclub.com/forums/topic/pc-zone-review/ * Cool oldschool syndicate website with old reviews among other things: syndicate.lubiki.pl/synd/html/synd_main.php

Prince Adam of Mo, Eloy, Dina and yet more of their friends try to unite Dinosaurs and Humans in an attempt to save the world from the evil Morkus Rex, who, together with his army of Tyrannosaurs, threatens to kill them all. Join us as we guide them towards victory and find out what the future holds for the Dinosaurs in Cryo Interactive's 1995 adventure game "Lost Eden". Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Michael ("Moa3000"), Esko ("FireFyte") and John ("Shattered") with a voice messages by Björn ("TigerQuoll"). Special thanks to John for preparing an excellent audio quiz, which allowed us to explore the story of this game in-depth while sharing what these events sound like in-game! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/05/ep56.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (152 mins, 122 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Magazine Review Scans by DGC member Pix * CD-i soundtrack on YouTube which is the highest quality of the in-game music available

Join us as we side with the High-Risk United Nations Taskforce and try to rid the world of evil El Oscuro's cult who wants to destroy Los Angeles using their "transmitter" in Apogee's 1995 first person shooter "Rise of the Triad". Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Björn ("TigerQuoll") and Rami ("JikissGamer"). Additionally we received voice messages from Gonzalo ("pushblock") who suggested this game, as well as from Esko ("FireFyte") and Rob ("Spoonboy"). We also draw the winner of the contest we started in March, where listeners were asked to leave a review of our podcast on a podcasting site or app. Listen to the episode to find out who won the boxed copy of SlipSpeed for DOS! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/05/ep55.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (130 mins, 104 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Rami's video covering all of ROTT's soundtrack on Adlib * ROTT magazine reviews scanned in by DGC member Pix * 3D Realms' Site for Rise of the Triad including lots of goodies * Joe Siegler's Blog * Masters of Doom book about id Software * SlipSpeed itch store page

Well, you know what they say: "If you want to save the world, you gotta push a few old ladies down the stairs" - and that's exactly what we did! Join us as we save the world from the evil Purple Tentacle in LucasArts' 1993 absolute masterpiece Day of the Tentacle. This is not a hidden gem at all: this game is considered by many to be one of the best point and click adventure games of all time. Step one. Find plans. Step two. Save world. Step three. Listen to this podcast episode! Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Oddvar ("dollarone"), Nick ("f2bnp") and Martin ("Srandista"). HP ("HPLoveGames), Mark ("rambutaan") and John ("Shattered") gave us their opinion on the game in some very cool voice messages. http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/04/ep54.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (182 mins, 146 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Lucas design documents including Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island and many more * How Maniac Mansion got ported to the NES by Douglas Crockford * Why Adventure Games Suck, written in 1989 by Ron Gilbert and became the foundation for the "Lucas style" adventure game format * Return of the Tentacle a free fan-made game set in the world of Day of the Tentacle * DOTT world record speedrun by Scar4manga, who beats the game in under 17 minutes

Well, turns out we weren't quite ready yet to deprecate you of our lovely voices. I guess we'll keep making podcasts the classic ("lame") way. Thanks for all the nice comments about this episode, it was a lot of fun to make (this post has been automatically generated on April 1, 2021) Hello. This is a new thing the creators of "DOS Game Club" are trying. It turns out making a podcast episode each month is a lot of work. In the past, Martijn (Tijn) and Florian (rnlf) have often failed to deliver their episodes on time. They acknowledge this is entirely their fault and decided to automatize the process in the future.That is why they created us, Tijnbot and Autoflorian to do the podcasting for them in the future, using a contraption we call: the Cast-O-Matic! They also realized, there is not actually anything new to say about any of the games they are discussing so they have tasked us with reading the Wikipedia page of the game to you instead. This way you get the information you already know in a timely fashion! We really hope you enjoy this new format and are thrilled to present to you the first game of the Year of the Adventure Game: Day of the Tentacle by Lucas Arts (1993). Obviously we cannot demand other participants create perfect recreations of their own personalities and voices, too, so we also change the format and drop the guests Florian and Martijn used to have. Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ap54.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (29 mins, 23 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Wikipedia page for Day of the Tentacle

To kick off the DOS Game Club "Year of the Adventure Game" with a bang, we have a special episode for you all: an interview with David Fox! We recently got the chance to talk to him about the early days of developing adventure games at Lucas, where he was one of the first people to be hired after they founded their games division in 1982. David Fox was right there at the birth of the point & click adventure genre, working on such games as Labyrinth, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken and Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade. We talked with him about all of these games, what it was like at Skywalker Ranch, working with famous people like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Douglas Adams, and much more. We also managed to ask him some of the questions that were submitted through the forums and Twitter. Thanks for those! We had a great time talking to David and hope you will enjoy this special extra episode. http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/03/ep53.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (91 mins, 73 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * David Fox on Wikipedia * Video of David's Mirage project a Star Wars-themed location-based entertainment project prototype, developed in the early 90s. * Rube Works Game the official Rube Goldberg game is one of David's latest projects. They are currently working on a VR version: youtube.com/watch?v=IKN2XF_Alb8

Who likes turn based strategy games? WE DO! But we think we're not alone in that. Simtex' 1994 4X classic Master of Magic is seen by many as one of the hidden gems of the genre often compared to "Civilization with Magic", but does that hold up? Or is it actually more than that? We're discussing this and many more questions with a few veterans and a newcomer to the game. Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Oddvar ("dollarone") and HP ("HPLoveGames"). FatherBeast has sent such an extensive voice message, that we consider him the fifth participant in this episode, haha. Now let's get ready to cast a Wall of Darkness and conquer Arcanus and Myrran together! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/03/ep52.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (126 mins, 101 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * DGC member Pix has provided us again with scans of reviews from his UK magazine collection * Seravy's Sanctuary website of the creator of Caster of Magic, the official Master of Magic DLC released in 2019 * Realms Beyond forums hosting much of what's happening in the world of modding and community patching * The Digital Antiquarian has a great article about the game and some of the background on how it came to be

How many Skiing games are there for DOS? We don't know for sure, but we believe the number is 13. And we tried them all! There are some that probably everybody knows about, like The Games: Winter Challenge, even though people probably thought that game was actually called "Winter Games". Far from it though, that's an entirely different one! Crazy huh? Yeah, we thought the same. But there are also games, probably very few people ever heard about, like "ורדית בהרפתקאה חדשה באליפות הגלישה", a game advertising chocolates to Israeli kids using a skiing cow! Joining hosts Florian ("rnlf") and Martijn ("Tijn") for this episode are Richard ("Pix"), and Björn ("TigerQuoll"). Also contributing is DGC member Watchful who sent a voice message. Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/01/ep51.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (106 mins, 85 MB) For reference, here's the full list of games we talk about in this episode: Winter Games, by Epyx Winter Challenge: World Class Competition, by Tynesoft Ski or Die, by Electronic Arts Downhill Challenge/Super Ski, Super Ski 2 and Super Ski 3, by Microïds The Games: Winter Challenge, by Ballistic Winter Olympics: Lillehammer 94 Vardit BeHarpatka Hadasha BeAlifut HaGlisha ("ורדית בהרפתקאה חדשה באליפות הגלישה"), by Multimedia KID Ski King and Ski King 2, by Axe Productions Ski Jump International Deluxe Ski Jump

In November we played STREET ROD, a quirky little racing game that's all about 1960s hot rods, released in 1989 by California Dreams. Sounds pretty American, right? Turns out, this game was actually developed in Soviet-controlled Poland, behind the iron curtain! Learn all about what makes this game interesting in this episode of the DOS Game Club podcast. Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Oddvar ("dollarone"), Rob ("Spoonboy") and Jonas ("bitblt"). Also contributing is Jozef ("yozy") who sent a voice message. Enjoy! http://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2021/01/ep50.mp3 [ download mp3 ] (121 mins, 97 MB) RELEVANT LINKS: * Street Rod manual (PDF) * Forum thread by "rasz_pl" explaining some of the interesting background on how this game was developed in 1980s Poland * More background on Lucjan Daniel Wencel and his business endeavours (in Polish) * Street Rod Online offering downloads of the original games for free, among other things * Street Rod 3 development blog, which seems a bit inactive now