Hidden Gems of the DOS/Windows PCs

[fox099]

Scorched Earth: awesome 2-D tank fight

Wacky Wheels: total mario kart knock-off, but made me love to play on my pc before i really discovered my snes

Gizmos and Gadgets: A platformer that allowed you to build creations to race. It was educational and really really fun!

[bobbynewmarkiii]

I don't know if it's quite obscure enough to be considered a hidden gem, but SYSTEM SHOCK was and is awesome - it laid the groundwork for intelligent FPS games such as it's sequel SS2, deus ex, bioshock & more through using storytelling elements, and the sound files on the CD edition which i played made it fantastically immersive and atmospheric. The inventory and boost sytem was way more advanced than other FPS's of it's day, I understand this was carried over from the Ultima series of dungeon crawling RPG's? It had a non linear design, and also spawned one of the greatest videogame baddies of all time. Anyway, it was totally less well known than doom, wolf 3d, ROTT, hexen, dark forces, unreal et al. and gets my vote.

[t0yrobo]

I'd suggest Cyber Dogs, I thin it also went by C-Dogs. It was pretty good on it's own, but on two player it was awesome.

[TheyCallMeTheSwede]

Monster Bash

Under A Killing Moon

Ripper

Shadow Warrior

Blood

One Must Fall 2097

First Samurai

Raptor

[Beak]

Any of the MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) text-based games.

Zork is an excellent example.
More modern, but still obscure, are games like Avalon.

[attorneyriffic]

Outpost

Outpost Wikipedia

I had a lot of fun with this one before I moved on to Civilization.

[MaliceValentine]

Sam and Max Hit the Road
Little Big Adventure 2/Twinsens oddessy
MDK
MDK 2
Harvester
Silver
American McGee's Alice
Grim Fandango

all i can think of really

[Funk, E]

Haha, oh man, Harvester is certainly not a gem in any way at all.

[marurun]

Did anyone mention Abuse? You can get it freely on-line nowdays. It was pretty revolutionary at the time. It was an action platformer/shooter in which you move with the keyboard but you aim with the mouse.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Did anyone mention Abuse? You can get it freely on-line nowdays. It was pretty revolutionary at the time. It was an action platformer/shooter in which you move with the keyboard but you aim with the mouse.

Have it for Mac. Its quite alot of fun. I mostly download large conversions of dos games for mac to play now. Really some neat titles out there. But still cant find Megarace *sigh*