June 4th, 2011 
PatMan Im trying out another feature for the website, inspired by our very own Gunsages “top games of the year” posts and also inspired from our discussion topic of retro PC gaming on Wonderpod. I will be picking PC games that I once enjoyed years ago and posting a video to help those that have never played them understand why I like them so much. I am starting with the game Descent. If you suffer from motion sickness this is not the game for you as I unintentionally ended up playing upside down for probably half the game myself. It really was a cool and different take on the corridor shooters that were so popular on PC at the time. It had amazing freedom of movement in all directions that was very smooth as you piloted a ship inside underground bases, looking for survivors to rescue , enemy ships to engage and a core reactor to destroy. Although easy on the first few levels, the core reactor (or whatever it was called its been a while) was heavily defended and if you DID succeed in destroying it, you had to find an escape route out before the entire underground base was destroyed, with you inside it. The video below shows off the very first level on an easy difficulty, but do not be fooled by the ease of escape and lack of challanging opponents. This game becomes amazingly difficult as you progress, especially when fighting the reactors and finding the way out in time.I never could finish the game it became so hard. Descent for me was a classic PC game in a classic era, even if I was playing much of the game upside down. Did anyone else play this game back in the day, and what did you think of it?
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I did play this one, actually, and I really enjoyed it. Doesn't work too well on DOSBox sadly, but a very fun game. I don't think Wiki listed it on the FPS lists, which really pisses me off as I wanted to at least highlight them, but yeah, good stuff.
I hear good and bad things about DOSBox, Gunsage. Are there a lot of games from the 486-pentium 1 era that work well on DOSBox? I would love to play a few of the ones I still own on disk or find some that are not for sale anymore on a site. There was a "Descent like game" on the N64 later on that I rented and enjoyed, but I just don't remember the name of it.
The game you're thinking about is Forsaken and it was very meh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsaken_%28video_ga…
Think Quake 3 + Descent. Strangely, it actually works with Snoopy's Flying Ace, so you got me there. DOS Box seems to work for most games except FPSs. For example, with Blood, everytime the screen goes to flash, it causes lag for some weird reason. Virtually everything else works fine, but yeah.
Forsaken, right now I remember , thanks. It had better visuals than Descent did on PC, but it was not as good to play. Still, it was worth a rental back in the day. I don't think I played Descent 2 now that I think about it for some reason, which is odd considering how much I loved the first.