Category: The DOS Gaming Scholar

Conquered Kingdoms

 Getting ready to capture a castle Finally, I present a genuine PC gaming classic… Conquered Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy game released by QQP in 1992.  The game followed QQP’s other successful turn-based games like The Perfect General and The Lost Admiral by offering innovative, extremely enjoyable gameplay, solid AI and basic, functional graphics. This game was clearly influenced […]

Test Drive III: The Passion

View of the California coast   Test Drive III: The Passion  is a driving game released by Accolade in 1990.  It’s a sequel to of 1989’s  Test Drive II: The Duel and it generally follows the standard Test Drive formula of driving exotic cars and fleeing from the police, except instead of 2D sprites the action […]

F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0

Over the USS America, Libyan Theater Bombing the Presidential palace in Baghdad F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 is a combat flight sim released by Microprose in 1991.  It’s an “upgrade” of sorts of 1988’s popular F-19 Stealth Fighter game, which was the first flight sim to tackle the mysterious stealth fighter.   F-19 was released before anyone outside […]