Saturday, April 19, 2008

I'm sooo Retro!

I'm born in the early 80's. Naturally i play games that are developed in the 90's in my early days.

When i was a kid. I used to play this: Prince of Persia.



Today Prince of Persia looks like this:



Back in those days, people played DOS games. Some of you might be wondering what are DOS games.
DOS Games are games played in MSDOS, you know the useless Command Prompt in your Accessories that you never even bother to touch. To execute the games, we have to type stuff like "dir" or "cd" "C:\>" and weird shit like that. We have to use command lines in DOS to execute the game.

These days, people just double click and start the game/program. The luxury!

Keep in mind that modern computers these days hardly can execute these prehistoric programs. It can hardly recognize the program and with some tough tweeking, MAYBE it will run. So I'm going step by step teach you how to relive the 90's.

This is how you can play retro gamesnow. Let me share my geeky love with you!
1. Go to http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/
2. Go to the Download Section.
3. Download the D-Fend-Reloaded-0.3.2-Setup.exe
4. Install it and follow through the instructions.( Installation size:20MB)
5. Download DOS Games from http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/
6. Add it into D-Fend Reloaded. ( Contact me if you are interested and unsure)
7. Play!

The fights in those days were like this:

And this.



Prince: Urggghh... (dead)

Don't judge by it's looks. The game itself is tough. 60 minutes to save a princess. If the Prince dies, you have to restart at the beginning of the level. And dying like the picture above is so common since the Prince love to run fast but can't brake, slip and plunge to his death. I don't know whether it's because the Prince doesn't wear shoes or he just love sharp swords poking up his 0||0 .
One word: Insane difficulty.

Cool aye'? Now let's get retro.

Time to save that princess. The old school way!

1 comment:

чLιиg said...

This long long time ago game~~~>.<
I like to ply..but quite hard to ply..
wahhh..change so many arr..haha!