{"id":810,"date":"2011-10-14T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2011-10-16T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:50:11","slug":"the-10-greatest-ms-dos-games-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/810\/the-10-greatest-ms-dos-games-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Greatest MS-DOS Games of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/241668\/the_10_greatest_msdos_games_of_all_time.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/10_greatest_msdos_games_small.jpg\" alt=\"Benj's The 10 Greatest MS-DOS Games of All Time on PC World.com\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way back in early August, I put together a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/241668\/the_10_greatest_msdos_games_of_all_time.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 Greatest MS-DOS Games of All Time<\/a> for PC World to coincide with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/792\" target=\"_blank\">30th anniversary of the IBM PC<\/a>.  Everything was set to go, then my editor got into a doozy of a bicycle accident.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, he&#8217;s OK.  He managed to edit the slideshow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/241668\/the_10_greatest_msdos_games_of_all_time.html\" target=\"_blank\">which is up now<\/a>, despite having a few broken ribs.  Take a peek.<\/p>\n<p>My original captions have been expertly truncated to more appropriately fit the slideshow format, so it may not contain as much of my reasoning for each game&#8217;s inclusion as I had hoped.  Still, it turned out very well, and I feel strongly about my picks.  (I also love my intro slide, the crafting of which sometimes becomes my favorite part of making slideshows.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is my inclusion and ranking criteria, from my original introduction from before it was shortened:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For this author, a combination of factors roll together to constitute Greatness: among them, innovation, influence, fun factor, and replay value with considerations for each game&#8217;s contribution to the MS-DOS gaming culture thrown in. In the ranking, games that originated or most prominently thrived on non-DOS platforms were generally disqualified from consideration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whenever I do a slideshow like this, I like to remind people that my top 10 list is nothing more than a work of educated opinion.  I&#8217;m typically not a fan of the format because the results are always subjective, but I still think it works because it stimulates public thought and gives me a good excuse to both entertain and educate on a subject I love.<\/p>\n<p>So now I turn the spotlight to you, dear readers.  If you were assembling a top 10 MS-DOS games list, what would be on it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in early August, I put together a list of the 10 Greatest MS-DOS Games of All Time for PC World to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC. Everything was set to go, then my editor got into a doozy of a bicycle accident. Thankfully, he&#8217;s OK. He managed to edit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}