lots of good memories with dos games on my old 386 computer. I've played about half of these games and many of them i forgot about and didn't remember the names of a lot of them. It's cool to see them again, i played a lot of tyrian and jill of the jungle so it's cool to see them at #1 and #2. I actually bought jill of the jungle at retail.

I started gaming on DOS in 1992 when I was 7 years old, but imo there are some games missing.

1) Command & Conquer
2) Monkey Island
3) Kings Quest
4) Theme Park
5) Bundesliga Managers Hattrick (German game)
6) Dungeon Keeper
7) Reeder (German game)
8) Warcraft
9) Anstoß (German game)
10) Riddle of Master Luu

anyone remember d-zone? I freakin loved that game, i don't know how common it was though.

Yay Master of Orion was mentioned! I loved that game

How are they underappreciated when they are the most popular DOS games?

Noboday talks about them because they're DOS games and we have better things now.

Looks like indie games from 2015.
(I have played many of them - a looooong time ago).

Haven't played anything like Gorillas.BAS (or Scorched Earth) for a very long time. That was fun multiplayer games.

EDIT: So many game styles that are underused today: Top-Down Scrolling Shooter, 3D Isometric Adventure, One Screen Artillery Game and other.

I still own pretty much half the games on the list on disqettes (mostly 3.5 inch ones, though a few of the games are on 5.25 floppies), a few on CDs and a handful only now trough GOG. Those where the days...

Dune was the first Game I ever finished. It's pretty easy when you know how the rules work in the game

I still remember how we played both Magic carpet titles as 2 players controlling one single wizard: One did the Joystick controls, the other one did the keyboard commands. We both lacked the hand-eye coordination back then to pull it off alone back then, both this way we where pretty good at this game. And in between 2 rounds we often played Gorrilas or Battle Chess (still hurts me watching pawn defeating knight. Ever got kicked your balls with a lance?)

I never got really into the first one, but I still play the second one to this day. On Impossible difficulty, as a DicSubCreLaRi with AttDefSpy as negative Traits. And not using the Uncloak/Fire/Cloak again exploit as it feels to cheap for me

My top8 (in no specific order):

Scorched Earth (this was the party game, you played with your friends)
The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall (loved this game, has things others in the series never had)
The Incredible Machine (who doesnt like a good puzzle?)
Raptor: Call of the Shadows (probably the best shooter type Ive ever played)
Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy (fun platformer)
UFO: Enemy Unknown (I have a thing for turn based rpgs ;)
Little Big Adventure
Battle Chess

To this day, Id say above games are still fantastic and worth a play through.

Ah the memories.
You didn't need red/blue glasses for Magic carpet's stereogram mode, that's the whole point of stereograms. It doesn't work on newer (bigger) monitors as the repeating patterns can't be further apart than your eyes are. It was a fun experimental mode, not very practical.

Where is Sid Meier's Civilization (1991)?
I impressed my children by changing the text file for the introduction so that their names were included!



...and where is SimCity (1989)? It was so far ahead of its time!

...and the EA games of old, like LHX Attack Chopper 1990). First real 3D game for me.

EDIT: Ooh! it was "underappreciated"! My bad!

EDIT 2: Looking at the list again I would not say these games were underappreciated! Some, or maybe most, was the beginning of big developer studios and had good reviews and sales.