PC MS-DOS games list!

Total reviews!

Handheld: 57

16/32bit Computers: 592

8bit Computers: 382

8bit Consoles: 41

16bit Consoles: 76

32/64bit Consoles: 98

128bit Consoles: 24

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Best on 8bit micro!

Batman The Movie - Commodore64
Shadow of the Beast - Commodore64
International Karate + - Commodore64
Xyphoes Fantasy - AmstradCPC
Robocop II - AmstradCPCPlus
Arkanoid II - AmstradCPC
Pang - AmstradCPCPlus
Wrath of the Demon - Commodore64
Night Hunter - AmstradCPC
Barbarian - AmstradCPC
Prince of Persia - SamCoupe
Lemmings - SamCoupe
Draconus - AtariXE

Best on 16bit micro!

Turrican 2 - Amiga
Shadow of the Beast - Amiga
Jim Power - Amiga
Apidya - Amiga
Leander - Amiga
Turrican 2 - AtariST
Project X - Amiga
Super Frog - Amiga
Another World - AtariST
Flashback - Amiga
Toyota Celica GT Rally - Amiga
Toyota Celica GT Rally - AtariST
Wrath Of The Demon - AtariST
Wrath Of The Demon - Amiga
Dark Seed - Amiga
Stardust - AtariSTE
Stardust - Amiga
Banshee - AmigaAGA
Flashback - Archimedes
Star Fighter 3000 - Archimedes
Warlocks - Archimedes
Cannon Fodder - Amiga
Another World - Appleiigs
Turrican 2 - PC
Universe - Amiga
Turrican 3 - Amiga
Hurrican - PC
Tyrian - PC
Super Stardust - AmigaAGA
Cannon Fodder - Archimedes
Dark Seed - PC
Pac-Mania - X68000

Best on 8bit consoles!

Chuck Rock II - MasterSystem
Robocop II - GX4000
Pang - GX4000

Best on 16bit consoles!

Jim Power - snes
Donkey Kong Country - snes
Aladdin - snes
Alien Soldier - Megadrive
Street Fighter 2 - pcengine
Blazing Lazers - pcengine
Raiden - pcengine
Super Star Soldier - pcengine

Best on 32bit consoles!

G-Darius - psone
Super Mario 64 - n64
ISS - psone
Raiden - Jaguar
Perfect Dark - n64
Sensible Soccer - Jaguar
Batman Beyond - n64
Dino Crisis 2 - psone
Resident Evil 2 - psone
Metal Gear Solid - psone
Driver - psone
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - psone
Klonoa: Door To Phantomile - psone
Nights Into Dreams - Saturn
Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams - Saturn
Flashback - CDi

Best on 128bit consoles!

God Of War - PS2
Resident Evil Zero - GameCube
Gran Turismo 4 - PS2
Black - xbox
Halo Combat Evolved - xbox
Star Fox Adventures - GameCube
SoulCalibur - Dreamcast
Under Defeat - Dreamcast
Soul Calibur 2 - GameCube
Metroid Prime 2 - GameCube

Best on handhelds!

Metroid Fusion - GBA
Raiden - Lynx
Robocod - GameGear

Game info

Dark Seed

Genre

Adventure

Developer / Publisher

Incentive Software / Cyberdreams

Released

1992

Media

4 x

Rating

Graphics:
Sound:
Gameplay:
Excellent

Reviewed by

ndial

Dark Seed is an adventure game designed by the famous horror designer H.R.Giger. The game is based on horror and mystery issues and was developed by Cyberdreams for the Amiga (OCS), Amiga CD32, Macintosh and PC in 1992. The game was later published by Gaga for the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn video-game consoles.

Review

Mike Dawson is a manager in a big company but his dream was always to become a famous writer. So he recently bought an old and quiet mansion somewhere in Woodland Hills. But here is where the problems begin. He didn�t know about the existence of a parallel universe in there, after finding clues of the previous owner's death! One day, after he wakes up from a terrible nightmare, he finds out that someone (or something) has implanted in his brain a dark seed (an alien embryo into his brain). Everything is different now. Everything is scary. He suffers from headaches which show that the nightmare is no longer in his sleep but in reality. His main purpose now is to find out what is going on, having only three horrifying days to do it gameplay occur in different places, not only in the mansion, including traveling to a universe through the living room mirror (!) etc.
Unlike most point-and-click adventure games, which give the player time to explore, many actions in Dark Seed must occur within precise time limits.
Has a great scenario, has nice visuals and sound, its great!

The PC version, features fantastic graphics, made with the use of only 16 on screen and being identical to the Amiga version (probably a direct port)! I was expecting way more colors here, but still it looks perfect adding a lot to the spooky atmosphere and kinda of film-noir scene! The perspective seems as if you are watching a theatrical play (with those curtains shown on the two sides of the screen) and characters move in a pseudo-3D environment. All characters are digitized, and all scenes offer remarkable visuals for the time. Note that the PC version runs faster when compared to the Amiga , with fewer loading time too.
Sound supports pc-speaker or AdLib/Soundblaster sound hardware. It offers various sampled sound FX (but of low quality here) for the disks version, including creepy tunes, plus digitized dialogues when you interact with another person! The CD version offers sampled speech of everything being written during gameplay. The music is also good and quite creepy too!

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Comparable platforms

16 colors

Commodore Amiga OCS/ECS

16 colors

PC MS-DOS

Hardware information

PC (ms-dos based)

CPU: Various processors from Intel,AMD, Cyrix, varying from 4.77Mhz (Intel 8088) to 200Mhz (Pentium MMX) and up to 1995 (available on this site)
MEMORY: 640Kb to 32MB RAM (typical up to 1996)
GRAPHICS: VGA standard palette has 256 colors and supports: 640x480 (16 colors or monochrome), 640x350 in 16 colors (EGA compatability mode), 320x200 (16 or 256 colors). Later models (SVGA) featured 18bit color palette (262,144-color) or 24bit (16Milion colors), various graphics chips supporting hardware acceleration mainly for 3D-based graphics routines.
SOUND: 8 to 16 bit sound cards: Ad-Lib featuring Yamaha YMF262 supporting FM synthesis and (OPL3) and 12-bit digital PCM stereo, Sound Blaster and compatibles supporting Dynamic Wavetable Synthesis, 16-bit CD-quality digital audio sampling, internal memory up to 4MB audio channels varying from 8 to 64! etc. Other notable sound hardware is the release of Gravis Ultrasound with outstanding features!