DOS Game Club

Hello Everybody!

Episode three is finally here! A small delay this time due to various reasons, but here it is.

We played SimCity 2000 for the whole of May and discussed it in our typical roundtable. Tijn and rnlf are joined by previous podcast participants toasty and wan.

One thing we did was to play a succession game: We took turns developing the same city. Here's what that looks like: .

The current episode is around 95 minutes long, so around 90-100 seems to become the norm for our little podcast. Here it is for you to enjoy:

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This month we are playing two games: Scorched Earth and Strike Commander. We will make two (shorter?) podcast episodes about them.

So, join our forum, play the game and discuss with us! We are also looking for people to join our discussion at the end of the month, so if you are really into one of those games, by all means, let us know about it!

Hi DOS gamers!

Month two of DGC has passed and we had a lot of fun! We are 26 club members now, that's a gain of 9 new people since the last podcast episode and the forum for Grand Prix Circuit has more posts than the one for DOOM, which, given that GPC is a much smaller and less widely known game seems to point at the fact that we are reaching more and more people who enjoy discussing the games.

That being said, the month is over and it was time to wrap it up in our usual roundtable format (well, if you want to be pedantic, then it has only become the "usual" format after we have recorded episode 2 now, because before that it was just the only way we've had it exactly once, but let's not argue about that!)

This time Tijn and rnlf are joined by our club member wan, who proposed to play Grand Prix Circuit in the first place and, as a special guest, Andries, who after all research we've done seems to be the current world record holder in Grand Prix Circuit! If you can beat his times, please let us (and him!) know. Tijn contacted Andries after we found his amazing GPC time trial videos on YouTube and he was so kind to join us. We had a lot of fun discussing the game with him and getting humiliated by his lap times. We thought we were pretty fast already, but we had no idea how fast one can actually go in this game.

We compared our scoreboard times to his and I am pretty sure that if we raced one lap on all tracks in the game in a row, by the time he'd have finished, we'd just be starting the last course. That's what you get for 20 years of practice.

The new episode is about 105 minutes in total - roughly 20 minutes more than episode 1. We hope you enjoy it!

https://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2017/04/ep2.mp3

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With April over, it's now time to start playing our game for May, which is SimCity 2000, by Maxis from 1993.

We've archived the Grand Prix Circuit threads and started a clean new forum for discussing SimCity, so post away!

We encourage you to share your cities through the forums as well, so you can show off your impressive skills as mayor.

Happy city planning!

Before you ask: Yes, we'll have two games for June! The reason for that is that we are not sure a smaller game like Strike Commander (Origin, 1993) will have enough in it to keep us busy for a month. So we added a second game to fill up the remaining space. This game will be the 1991 shareware classic Scorched Earth.

We want to keep this mode from now on: In one month we'll play one big game, that is likely to keep us entertained for the whole time and has enough depth to encourage a lot of discussion. In the next month, we'll play two or more smaller games, that should sum up to about the same estimated time investment as one "big game". We jokingly said we'd measure each game in a unit of size that we'll call a DU or "DOOM unit": When DOOM is worth 1DU, then we'll see to it that each month gets as close to 1DU as possible. Of course we don't always know the games in advance (in fact, we're doing DGC to learn about games we don't know, yet!), but we'll be trying our best.

Strike Commander

Scorched Earth

I think that's it for now! Please enjoy the podcast, join the club, play SimCity 2000 and discuss the game on our forums. Have fun!

Hello everyone!

The first month of DOS Game Club is over. Launching this website has been very exciting for all of us and we're proud to see we've got 17 members already and the forums are actively used. Keep it up everyone!

To fully conclude our month with Doom, we've recorded the first real podcast episode for DOS Game Club, in which we discuss various aspects of the game and our experiences with it.

Joining your familiar hosts Tijn and rnlf, is DGC member toasty. The three of us sat down and talked about Doom for about 80 minutes, so there's plenty of stuff for you to enjoy!

https://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2017/04/ep1.mp3

Now for April, as you're surely aware, we're playing 1988's Formula 1 racing simulation game Grand Prix Circuit. A thread was started by rnlf to compare laptimes, but a forum thread turns out to be not very suitable for this purpose. So instead we proudly present: the DGC Grand Prix Circuit online scoreboard \o/

This webpage allows you to post your best lap times for all circuits in the game, optionally supported by a screenshot proving the time is indeed legit. A few times have been posted already, but a lot of the tracks are empty at the moment, so now's your big chance to get your name on there!

We're also announcing the next game, which we'll play in May. It has been suggested by DGC member toasty as well (who you still remember from the podcast), it's: SimCity 2000.

This classic game by Will Wright from 1993 is of course the sequel to the original SimCity (from 1989), and is lauded as one of the best city builders ever created. An exciting game to look forward to!

As March is over and April has begun, we've moved all the Doom-topics over to the archived forums and started a fresh board for Grand Prix Circuit. Note that the archived forums are not closed, you can still contribute to any discussion there or even start new threads if you please.

We've also added a few new features to the forum. You can now for example see what topics you haven't read yet. There are also badges for people who have participated in the podcasts, so if you would like one, please join us for one of the next editions!

OK, that's it for now. We're hope you're having as much fun with DGC as we are!

Hello and welcome to the brand new DOS Game Club! We're very excited to launch this thing and hope you are too.

So, what's this all about? In DOS Game Club, each month we select a DOS game to play during that month. It's like a book club, where everyone is reading the same book to discuss it afterwards, except with DOS games instead of books. And instead of waiting until the end of the month, you can discuss the game the whole time right here on the forums of our amazing website.

At the end of the month, we'll record a roundtable discussion podcast with a few of the members, to wrap up what our thoughts are on this particular game we've been playing. We'll talk about what people have been saying on the forums and include our own thoughts and opinions on how well the game has aged, if it's still fun to play, etc.

To kick it all off, Florian and Tijn have recorded an introductory podcast in which we explain the concept a bit further. You can listen to that right now!

https://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2017/02/ep0.mp3

Now, without further ado, we're announcing the very first game we're going to play in DOS Game Club, which is 1993's classic mega hit by id Software: DOOM. We felt DOS Game Club should start with a bang, and Doom is sure to deliver that.

We're starting the club right now, so for the entire month of March we'll be playing Doom. If you're interested in taking part, please register an account and join the discussion on the forums. By the end of March, we'll record our very first podcast in which we'll gather our thoughts about Doom and announce the next game for next month.

That's it for now! Thank you for reading and we hope to see you around.