I’mma Throw A Souprise Birthday Parteh
I was checking out an old Disney-related DOS game that I found over at the Abandonware website, and that is Mickey’s 123’s: The BIG Birthday Surprise.
In this game, I start off by pressing the number of the amount of sheep you want him to dream about (you can press 0 and he won’t dream and instead just gets up). Then he says a random name he’s going to throw a birthday party for. I wanted it to be Donald so I replayed the part over and over until I got his name, and so the first thing I did is go to the toy factory to make a toy for Donald, and I chose the Mickey Mouse doll:
The next thing I did is go to the food store to buy 9 out of all the things to give the guests as much as possible because I wanted to be a really good host. 🙂
The last thing I did is go to the post office and invite everyone to come over to Donald’s surprise birthday party.
I chose to first invite Minnie as she’s Mickey’s girlfriend. Another thing about the post office is if I try to invite the same character twice, he says he’s already invited them. For example: “I already invited Donald.” Anyways, everyone’s been invited! Mickey then goes home with groceries and puts them in the fridge before decorating. He and his party guests await Donald to arrive with the lights turned off while Mickey says “Quiet. Donald’s coming!” and the next thing after that: Surprise! Happy birthday, Donald!
I gave one of each kind of food for most of the characters because I chose to give Chip ‘n’ Dale 2 burgers and fries instead of 1, as they are 2, and then I gave Gus Goose just an apple and milk as he needs to lose some weight very badly. 😛 Finally, all of the characters that Mickey invited are dancing their way out of his house one by one and afterwards he’ll say “Goodbye! Thanks for coming.”
And then he goes back to sleep which starts the game all over again. This old Disney game is a lot of fun, and now I’m off to discover more new (old) stuff.
And now for sumthin’ completely diff’rent
I was recently in a mood to play an old DOS game called Clock Solitaire. It’s a card game where you’ve got cards forming a circle as if they’re numbers on the clock with an extra pull pile in the middle of the circle, and the objective is to complete all other four-of-a-kind sets before the fourth king is revealed in order to win the game:
I finally managed to beat the game of Clock Solitaire and I celebrated my victory by snagging all the playing cards from that game, making a sprite sheet out of them so that it can be uploaded to The Spriters Resource:
Anyways, it was a fun game but extremely difficult to win.
Playing around some Castle of the Winds
Last night I’ve been doing some Castle of the Winds in Windows 3.11 under DOSBox since it’s been a long time since I played it during the Windows XP years. Here’s a screenshot of what the gameplay looks like in the game:
So far I have made some good progress. I have journeyed my way along the highway that leads to the village of Bjarnarhaven since the village at the very beginning of the game got mysteriously burned down. I am now currently in Fortress level 4 of this game, but I’ll plan going to the fifth Fortress Level whenever I feel like playing Castle of the Winds again. 🙂
Late Night Fun with After Dark in DOSBox
I decided to install the After Dark 3.2 screensaver program on my Windows 3.11 program under DOSBox, and I played every single screen saver and they all seem to be working fine but only in a 256 color screen resolution. Here are some screenshots of some After Dark screen savers that I took under DOSBOX:
I even checked out You Bet Your Head, and that screen saver seems to work too. Oh, and not only did I install After Dark, I also installed old Windows programs that are suitable to run in Windows 3.1 under DOSBox such as the Spiderman Cartoon Maker, the Symantec Game Pack, Castle of the Winds, etc.
So far everything seems to work fine under that old operating system, and I was happy about that. 🙂 So now that I got that done, I must now head off to Sleepsville and wonder what I should dream about tonight. Something that includes friendly cartoon characters and going out on cartoonish adventures.
Some Old School Arcade Pool for DOS
Been playing a bit of an old DOS game that I’ve never tried out under DOSBox earlier this evening. It’s called Arcade Pool, a game where you can compete a Pool competition against other computer players and/or human players. Here’s a screenshot of what this game would look like:
All you got to do is use the left mouse button to line up the cue ball and then right click to fire away to see if any balls would go down the sinker holes until there is a winner at the end. I like how there’s different Pool games such as Custom Pool, US Open Pool, UK Open Pool, etc.
This here is a screenshot of the results made in the game of Pool that has numbers of shots made, fouls made and balls sunk down. This game is fun to play but hard to score some shots when it comes to making fouls and misses. It will now be added to my private collection of old DOS games.
Playing around some Dig Dug for DOS
Last year I went to My Abandonware and found a DOS game called Dig Dug, so I decided to give this a try:
You’ll play as the dude dressed in white clothing, and you’re digging underground to destroy all Pookas (the red round monsters that wear yellow goggles) and Fygars (the green dragons that breathe fire) by blowing them up with your air pump or crushing them with large rocks:
I’d say this is a really fun DOS Game. I was thinking about playing other Namco DOS games like Pac-Man and Galaxian, but I’m gonna have to wait on that for another time. 😀
The Green Rabbit Strikes Back
I played some Jazz Jackrabbit yesterday and I have completed the first episode after defeating an evil turtle known as Devan Shell, who’s riding on his bouncy spaceship:
So that’s one down and five more to go. I will dig into this some more any other day, and hopefully Jazz can stop Devan and his twin mega battleships from destroying his home planet Carrotus, and rescue his girlfriend Eva Earlong. 🙂
Playing around some Time Slaughter
I found another DOS game where Street Fighter meets Mortal Kombat. This is Time Slaughter, a fighting game made by Bloodlust Software. I decided to tear into this old-school fighting game.
You will play as one of the ten characters and the object of the game is to defeat every opponent to get all the way up to the hideous robotic monstrosity known as Portal. Here’s what the game looks like:
The gameplay looks nice and so do the characters. Your character’s winquote will appear after you win two rounds against your opponent just like in the Street Fighter games:
Here’s one of the winquotes that really made me laugh my ass off:
Another thing in this game, if you successfully use a slaughter move (or fatality) on all ten original characters with no continues, then you will fight against the bonus character named Staine. Now that’s amazing! 🙂 What I like about this game are not only the characters, but also their battle stages like the deserted island, the New York alley, the prehistoric caveman times, etc.
Unfortunately, the creators of the game never made a sequel. 🙁 So anyway, that’s what the game is all about. It’s bloody fun! 😀
Super Mario Jongg
I decided to play some Mah Jongg since it’s been awhile. This time I’m using the Super Mario Bros. tile set:
I made this because I remembered playing Mario games like Mario Kart and Super Mario World when I was a little kid. 🙂
The DOSBoxing Adventure Continues
Last night I went to My Abandonware and got a couple of DOS games that I wanted to try out:
The first one is called Life In The Fast Lane (a.k.a. LifeGenesis). You just use the spacebar to create life cells and press Enter to generate the cell field. What I like about this is you can do other things like if you press the R key it makes a random field of life cells, and you can save and load your creations on to your computer. Here’s my creation in this game:
And this DOS game is called Poker Galore:
The gameplay is not bad at all, and what I like about it is the different video poker games like Jacks or Better, Joker’s Wild, Second Chance, etc. 🙂