ITT: Post shitty DOS shovelware you were forced to play as a child because you had no other choice

>>11860283 (OP)
I was really young so I don't know how we got the game on our 386 exactly (probably my older brother got it off a friend or one of my cousins), but it has a copy-protection scheme where you had to go to a page in the manual and then pick the Simpsons character that was on that page, and we didn't have said manual, so I'd just keep trying to open it and pick characters at random until it finally worked. I'd savor the few times I actually got to go in-game.

>>11860283 (OP)
I honestly really enjoyed it. I had other choices since I had DOS-based emulators as well, but sometimes playing weird DOS games scratched that itch

>>11860283 (OP)
>Tyrian 2000
>shovelware
Sigh, yet another cookie-cutter example of "OP is a fag" in action...

>>11860298
Bait

>>11860283 (OP)
>>11860298
So this is just a low effort bait thread?

>>11860335
>>11860347
Look, it's fine if you want to keep nostalgiaposting about dogshit like Tyrian just because you happened to like dicking around with it as a kid, but that doesn't mean you actually have to pretend that it's a good game.

I'm too young to have played on DOS, but somehow this thread still works for me since we had Super Angelo on the school computers - although they were already running Win98 I think

>>11860283 (OP)
I used to love jumping over other cars with the jacks, should go back and see if its shit.

ITT: Low effort bait
Kill yourself OP

>>11860283 (OP)

>>11860283 (OP)

It came on a CD with about 200 games. The games were categorized into good/ok/bad by a total fag who put anything that took more than 2 IQ to play into the worst category. For example shining force 2 was in there. On second thought I think the maker just didn't even know english.

Circa 2004

even doslop seemed magical when you were 5

>>11860585
The slop you thought was magic when you were 5? It was magic. All of it.

>>11860310
Here you go Anon. Now you can play The Simpsons without worry.

Uh...who the fuck are most of those characters?

>>11860550
This one is fun

i remember downloading all kinds of shareware on the AOL Game section

some of my favorites were the Winged Warrior games which was mostly just grinding, something I've done my entire life and sitll enjoy to this day actually

>>11860613
Early Simpsons was weird as fuck. IIRC some of the shit you see in the game were concepts that didn't even make it into the show itself (Marge having rabbit ears hidden under her hair, for example).

>>11860283 (OP)
Fuck you.

>>11860283 (OP)
you first

>>11860283 (OP)
>>11860352
What's your favorite game?

>>11860760
NTA but
>deflection
It doesn't matter what his favorite game is, it doesn't change the quality of Tyrian as a game.
If you want to disprove him, you need to actually show that Tyrian is good

>>11860768
NTA this conversation is now deferred to Ross Scott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w025kQRMZwA

If you had a computer, you weren't forced to play "shovelware" or bad games because you had access to hundreds of games effortlessly.

>>11860310
>so I'd just keep trying to open it and pick characters at random until it finally worked.
That's how I broke the Larry 1 child-protection when I was 12, by writing down every question and trying different answers until one worked. Same for 688 Attack Sub.

>>11860838
>it's good because.... ummm... the game has seven bajillion shields so you can never die! and.... umm... you have seven bajillion random interchangeable weapons.... so that makes the shitty copy-paste level design of the same three enemies uniformly going down the screen good, okay????

>>11860870
needs more strawman

>>11860768
>If you want to disprove him, you need to actually show that Tyrian is good
nta but that's not how it works. OP didn't give any arguments of why the game sucks, what is there to disprove? If you can't articulate why something is bad or good, your opinion is irrelevant. That's a problem this whole site has, kids come here, drop an unfunded comment and expect everyone else to just nod.

>>11860283 (OP)
Hundreds of shareware games, like pic related.
Had amazing music, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUNFo-fX8XM

>>11860283 (OP)
Pic fucking unrelated. Tyrian is THE TITS.

>>11860768
OP is a faggot, it's all the proof I need.

>>11860847
>If you had a computer, you weren't forced to play "shovelware" or bad games because you had access to hundreds of games effortlessly.
Most people didn't have internet access in the DOS era. They had to rely on whatever they could obtain on physical media. Piracy was rampant but it wasn't "effortless" the way it is now.

Why the fuck was OP's Tyrian cover image deleted?

>>11860617
Keen is neither shovelware nor shitty.

>>11861075
Because Tyrian isn't shitty shovelware.

>>11860870
seven bajillion shields and weapons yet won't challenge yourself against harder enemies and then complains about it LOL

>>11860352
>>11860768
Words have meanings, and however you feel about Tyrian's game design, it has more than enough artistic and technical effort put into it to not qualify as shovelware. Shovelware isn't just a game you don't like or even an objectively bad one. It's zero effort shit that's either barely functional or barely even a game to begin with, that has no reason to exist but to make a quick buck. Pic related, this game has one awful droning music track, trivial, tedious gameplay, shitty art, no variety or level design whatsoever, and this piece of shit came out in 1994 so there's not even any chance of technical merit. There was tons of garbage like this in the shareware era. Tyrian's not great, but it's far above the average for its time and platform.

>>11860283 (OP)
played various dos shit from caiman.us