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Re:More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive by merty on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:33AM (#21245493)
Impressive how well MS-DOS games stood to the test of time. I still find them much more enjoyable than modern games.

Well, since the topic is relevant, a quick question to those who know their MS-DOS games well...

The other day, I was trying to remember an MS-DOS game in which you were a Pac-man like character that was eating chips on a motherboard or something. For some reason I recall the name of the game as “Yep” but nothing turned out when I searched for it. Any ideas?

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Re:More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive by salicideblock on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:34AM (#21245502)
Supaplex, maybe?
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Re:More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive by BigJono on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:49AM (#21245776)
I got this game as part of some shareware compilation disc. One of the earliest games I remember playing! What an absolute banger of a game.
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Re:More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive by merty on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:43AM (#21245539)
Yes, that’s the one!

Thank you so much!

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Re:More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive by Macuyiko on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:03AM (#21245827)
If you're looking for a great Windows remake that keeps the original style, check out Megaplex. Apparently the original website is gone, but archive has it as well:

https://archive.org/details/MegaPlex_1020

Supaplex is even on Steam, but probably not linked to the original creators, which have declared the game as freeware.

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Re:More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Internet Archive by babuskov on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:36AM (#21246453)
If you really want to play those games, I recommend you install Rocks and Diamonds, which implements Supaplex, Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Sokoban and even has some additional content. It's open source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks%27n%27Diamonds

There are versions for Windows, Linux, Mac.

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