DOS Games Discussion

I recently had a job trip over to Dallas, Texas a few days ago. I decided to go take a look at the nearby retro game store to see if I found something, and I did.

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What do you guys think about these? The guy told me they're for DOS. I've looked around in the market to see if there were any like these but I have yet to find them.

I noticed the distributor of these is ZooM Software, which I think is or was a software company in the Dallas area no?

I'm a big fan of the box art on these. So detailed and really nice looking, they're slide boxes like the ones on shoe boxes.

I haven't heard of Zoom Software before, but the Wolf3D cover somehow seems familiar. It's not on MobyGames though, apparently. Maybe you'd scan it and contribute to MG's Wolf3D entry?

BTW, are those shareware or registered games?

MrFlibble wrote:I haven't heard of Zoom Software before, but the Wolf3D cover somehow seems familiar. It's not on MobyGames though, apparently. Maybe you'd scan it and contribute to MG's Wolf3D entry?

BTW, are those shareware or registered games?

Thanks for the reply!

I honestly don't know. Heres better pictures of the floppies and the yellow paper. (I apologize for the huge pictures. lol)

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I have yet to fire these up, since I don't have an actual compatible DOS machine with a floppy drive.

EDIT: Just noticed Duke Nukem is misspelled on the paper. lol

reyna1do wrote:I honestly don't know. Heres better pictures of the floppies and the yellow paper. (I apologize for the huge pictures. lol)

If there's only one floppy for Wolf3D and two for Doom, these are most likely shareware versions.

BTW, there must be some tag to downsize posted images, I gotta check what it is.

reyna1do wrote:Just noticed Duke Nukem is misspelled on the paper. lol

It isn't. The first Duke Nukem game was temporarily called Duke Nukum because of copyright infringement concerns, which eventually turned out to be unsubstantiated (hence the character's name was reverted to Duke Nukem in later games). Here's more info on that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nuke ... _game_name

Oh yeah, I still have those "Duke Nukum" versions.

As for these, they are clearly shareware. But even if they weren't, it is not so much out of the ordinary for a third party publisher to have an agreement with the developer or the primary publisher to distribute their games to a specific market. In most such cases, the distributor has nothing to do with the game, except being a channel for getting the games on the shelves.

dr_st wrote:Oh yeah, I still have those "Duke Nukum" versions.

As for these, they are clearly shareware. But even if they weren't, it is not so much out of the ordinary for a third party publisher to have an agreement with the developer or the primary publisher to distribute their games to a specific market. In most such cases, the distributor has nothing to do with the game, except being a channel for getting the games on the shelves.

I figured, but they are a real deal from back in the days right? I think I paid a steep price but the box art had me sold already lol.

Awesome posts, reyna1do! Hope you don't mind - I edited your posts so that the pictures weren't quite so big. I've set them all to hyperlinks, though - so if you click on them you'll be taken to the full-size.

wardrich wrote:Awesome posts, reyna1do! Hope you don't mind - I edited your posts so that the pictures weren't quite so big. I've set them all to hyperlinks, though - so if you click on them you'll be taken to the full-size.

No problem boss! Thanks again. Still learning the forum software here. Dx