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Hey.

I want to try some multimedia cd games, on my 486dx266 machine, which has 24m of RAM.

I already have the way things work, I tried to get "Night Trap" but I can't find a download of the DOS version.

Recommendations of other multimedia cd games which will run well on my machine, would be much appreciated.

If I can find a download of them, I will burn and try them out.

EDIT both MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 based games are okay.

P.S: I already have, Day of The Tentacle, The Way Things Work, and Myst.
 
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Most 'multimedia' games required at least Windows 3.1 for some reason... but there are some that emulate windows style menus in DOS.
 
There was a windows 3.1 multimedia game in which you travel back to mid evil times, sort of an action puzzle game

Ran best under dos but had a windows mode as well

Completely forgot the title
 
ScanDisk said:
I want to try some multimedia cd games, on my 486dx266 machine, which has 24m of RAM.
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Congrats, those specs let you run essentially all DOS multimedia titles, and all Windows 3.1 multimedia titles. Some suggestions:

- 7th Guest
- Jones in the Fast Lane (must be the multimedia edition, has full redbook audio for the speech, this assumes your CDROM has redbook audio playable via your sound card or external speakers)
- Myst
- Wing Commander 3 and 4

Cheesy, but still fun:

- Novastorm
- Who Shot Johnny Rock
- Wetlands

For a full list, go through http://www.mobygames.com/genre/sheet/fmv/ and http://www.mobygames.com/genre/sheet/video-backdrop/ and pick out anything that says it runs in DOS.

rmay635703 said:
There was a windows 3.1 multimedia game in which you travel back to mid evil times, sort of an action puzzle game
Completely forgot the title
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Are you thinking of The Horde? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/horde
 
By "multimedia" I take it you mean games with videos?

MegaRace
Rebel Assault
Dragon Lore
 
Does WaterWorld count? I remember it having Myst-like grainy live-action videos between levels.

My copy says it requires DOS 6.0 (Windows 95-friendly) a Pentium 90 CPU, and at least a double-speed CD drive.
 
I'm amazed nobody has mentioned The Journeyman Project yet. It's another multimedia point and click adventure game of the era. Very fun.
There is also Gord@k. The box system requirements suggest a Pentium but I have run it on a 66mhz 486. The major demands for performance are from its heavy use of Quicktime and QTVR assets.
 
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Plasma said:
By "multimedia" I take it you mean games with videos?

MegaRace
Rebel Assault
Dragon Lore
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I once owned a copy of Star Wars: Rebel Assault, but I could never get to grips with the "flying on rails" approach. (It didn't help that I'd already played several of the free-flying X-Wing series.) In retrospect, I think it was similar to Tomcat Alley on the Sega CD/Mega CD. I didn't get far with that either.
 
NeXT said:
I'm amazed nobody has mentioned The Journeyman Project yet. It's another multimedia point and click adventure game of the era. Very fun.
There is also Gord@k. The box system requirements suggest a Pentium but I have run it on a 66mhz 486. The major demands for performance are from its heavy use of Quicktime and QTVR assets.
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Oh my little brother used to love The Journeyman Project. I had to help him constantly as he was too little to play such a game, but he loved it nonetheless. Man, those were the days.
 
I'll have to check that out. I wonder how it stacks up against the PlayStation and Saturn versions. Direct port?
 
Check out Cyberia & Cyberia II. They got almost universally panned by the press but I love 'em. Fun hybrid adventure-rail shooter games with a ton of '90s cyberpunk camp.

I think a lot of CD-ROM graphic adventures would also pique your interest. Chronomaster, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, and The Space Bar (<-- picked that up in a thrift shop a while ago, have yet to play it though!) also come to mind.
 
Kings Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (DOS and Windows 3.1) on CD is considered a Multimedia game (has video with speech for the sound card, music of your choice, and SFX).
 
I have these from 1991 - 1994:

Terminator 2029
Seven Cities of Gold
A-10 Tank Killer [4/4]
Mystic Towers
Alone in the Dark
Ambush at Sorinor
The Elder Scrolls: ARENA
Battle Chess 4000
BloodNet
The Blue and The Grey -- Civil War/Military Simulator.
The Bard's Quest I
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
Shadow Caster
Civilization Master Edition
Comanche : Maximum Overkill Enhanced
Comanche Missions Disk 2
Corridor 7
Caeser DELUXE
Dark Legions
Darklands
Darksun - The Shattered Lands
Stephen Kings - The Dark Half
Detroit
DOOM v1.1
COMMERCIAL DOOM.WAD v1.0 Extra-Hard
DOOM - Nine New Levels
DOOM - New Sounds taken from "Aliens" You MUST have the Doom Audio Editor.
DOOM - Put in Barney the dinosaur
DOOM - Add-on .wad for "Doom Beast"
DOOM - Beavis and Butthead audio patch
DOOM - Professional AddOn for Level 2
DOOM - Hall of Fame: 17 .LMP files of Battles
DOOM - Use to install the HARD version.
DOOM - Deathmatch scenario: Hellsinki
DOOM - Editing Utilities v2.0 - Map Editor
DDOO - Deathmatch scenario
DOOM - The Best Graphical Editor
DOOM - DATAfix 1.0c - Removes dir C:\DOOMDATA
DOOM - Editor - The Real Thing v2.60b
DOOM - Editor v4.0
DOOM - Editor v2.0
DOOM - Network Menuing System v2.0
DOOM - Episode 4: Yahoos in Hell
DOOM - Episode 5: New Monsters/Scenary,
DOOM - Faq (Fequently Asked Questions) v5.0
DOOM - Faq v5.5.
DOOM - Fixes a bug in Sersetup, allows 14.4k
DOOM - Ghetto Patch - Changes sounds.
DOOM - Gravis Ultrasound Patch.
DOOM - New Warehouse Level.
DOOM - Hockey .WAD file.
DOOM - Many Modem Init strings, even USR.
DOOM - New Add-On .WAD levels (5 new levels)
DOOM - 32 New Sound Effects for v1.2
DOOM - Six New Episodes for v1.2
DOOM - sets up modem like it's a network card
DOOM - 1.2 SERSETUP fix - no more jerky games
DOOM - PacMan Graphics/Sound Patch for v1.2
DOOM - Sound Editor v1.0
DOOM - SerSetup for up to 19200k modem speed.
DOOM - Better Serial Drivers
DOOM - 1.2 SERSETUP replacement to get 14.4k
DOOM - Thing Editor
DOOM - problems with USR sportsters explained
DOOM - Voodoo Sounds to replace the originals
DDOOM - Nine New .WAD adventures
DOOM - Add the troopers from Wolfenstein
DOOMMORF - 160 frame animation of monsters
RunDOOM v2.2á - Front end shell for DOOM 1.2
RunDOOM v4.0 - Front end shell for DOOM 1.2
COMMERCIAL DOOM.WAD v1.0 Extra-Hard [2/8]
DOOM - Utilities: Inc. Savegame Format
Day of The Tenticle
Might and Magic V : Dark Side of Xeen
Might and Magic V - Crack/Patch
Might and Magic V - Save Game Editor
Might and Magic V - Trainer +???
Dune I
Dungeon Master
Dungeon Hack
Frontier Elite
Empire Deluxe
Entity
Eye of the Beholder I
Eye of the Beholder ][
Eye of the Beholder ]I[
F-14 Fleet Defender
Falcon 3.0
Mig-29 - Falcon 3.0 Data Disk
Fantasy Empires
Final Fight
Front Page Sports Football Pro
Microsoft Flight Simulator v5.0
Microsoft Flight Simulator - AddOn
The Great War!
Hand of Fate 2 - Kyrandia ][
Hand of Fate 2 - Kyrandia ][
Isle of the Dead
King's Quest 6
Betrayal at Krondor
Lemmings ][ - The Tribes
Links Golf 386
Lands of Lore
Mantis Experimental Fighter
Speech Pack/Mantis Experimental Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Monopoly - Deluxe Addition
NCAA
NHL Hockey
Great Naval Battles of North Atlantic
Ultima VIII - PAGAN
Spectre VR
Pools of Darkness
Populous ][
Prince of Persia ][
Privateer
Protostar
Patton Strikes Back
Al-Qadim
Ravenloft - Strahd's Possession
Rome - Pathway to Power
RailRoad Tycoon Deluxe ][
Return to Zork
Sim City 2000
Strike Commander
SSN-21 Seawolf
Serf City - Life is Feudal
Street Fighter ][ - Hyper Edition
SimAnt by Maxis for DOS
SimCity Classic
SimEarth
SimFarm
Sim Health
Microsoft Space Simulator
Spear of Destiny
Spectre
Star Control ][
Stunt Island
Star Trek: Judgement Rites
Stronghold
Stunts!
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Syndicate
Tie Fighter
Reunion
Starlord
The Summoning
Twinion
Ultrabots
Ultima Underworld
Ultima Underworld ][
Forgotten Realms - Unlimited Adventures
Warlords ][
Wing Commander Academy
Wing Commander I
Wizardry 7
Castle Wolfenstein
World War ][
Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator
 
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