Help me find this old DOS game

[Farmer]

So I used to played this game as a kid. Side scrolling, you flew in a biplane and you shot bullets rightward and dropped bombs. I remember it was like a desert setting.

I think I played only the demo, but I don't remember the name at all.

 

[Dankk]

Skunny?

 

[Farmer]

Skunny?

Yes! That's the one! Holy shit!

 

[AlexAL]

Yes! That's the one! Holy shit!

Lol.

 

[Dankk]

Yes! That's the one! Holy shit!

Damn dude. That's one major coincidence if I've ever seen one. Skunny is one of those tiny, obscure games I had on a shareware disk years and years ago, and didn't even think anyone else knew about. I'm glad I was able to actually help someone.

 

[paperfist]

LessThan Dan managed to pull that out of his brain where it lay dormant for 20 years in less than four minutes. The feat is nothing less than stunning! He deserves a round of applause or some free Steam games

Equally stunning is that the company that made that game seems to still be in business and selling copies of it: http://www.copysoft.com/desert_raid.php

 

[videogames101]

LessThan Dan managed to pull that out of his brain where it lay dormant for 20 years in less than four minutes. The feat is nothing less than stunning! He deserves a round of applause or some free Steam games

Equally stunning is that the company that made that game seems to still be in business and selling copies of it: http://www.copysoft.com/desert_raid.php

haha awesome!

 

[Dankk]

That's crazy they still sell it. Looks like their website is still stuck in the 90's as well. I downloaded the shareware demo, but it obviously won't run. Can't be assed to install DOSbox at the moment.

20 years ago? Not quite; more like 15 or 16. I'm actually 20 years old, and although the game was apparently released in 1990, I didn't play it until '94 or '95. Aroundt hat time, my mom (maybe it was my dad?) picked up a bunch of floppy disks full of shareware DOS games. Spent a lot of time playing those. Windows 3.1 was actually our main OS.

I would've been around 4 years old at the time. Of course, I couldn't get past the second level or so.

Here, I dug it out of my storage chest just for fun. Took this photo just barely.

 

[CPA]

20 years ago? Not quite; more like 15 or 16. I'm actually 20 years old,

What? I don't believe that at all. I put you at about 35.

 

[Tweak155]

What? I don't believe that at all. I put you at about 35.

No wonder he's been able to play all these games, lol.

 

[Tweak155]

That's crazy they still sell it. Looks like their website is still stuck in the 90's as well. I downloaded the shareware demo, but it obviously won't run. Can't be assed to install DOSbox at the moment.

20 years ago? Not quite; more like 15 or 16. I'm actually 20 years old, and although the game was apparently released in 1990, I didn't play it until '94 or '95. Aroundt hat time, my mom (maybe it was my dad?) picked up a bunch of floppy disks full of shareware DOS games. Spent a lot of time playing those. Windows 3.1 was actually our main OS.

I would've been around 4 years old at the time. Of course, I couldn't get past the second level or so.

Here, I dug it out of my storage chest just for fun. Took this photo just barely.

With the XBox / controller turned on in the background, like a boss.

This is why LessThanDan has played every game in existence. Games always going!

 

[EDUSAN]

hahaha that pic... i wonder what else do you have in that MAGIC STORAGE CHEST... i would have thrown away stuff like that

 

[JTsyo]

That's crazy they still sell it. Looks like their website is still stuck in the 90's as well. I downloaded the shareware demo, but it obviously won't run. Can't be assed to install DOSbox at the moment.

20 years ago? Not quite; more like 15 or 16. I'm actually 20 years old, and although the game was apparently released in 1990, I didn't play it until '94 or '95. Aroundt hat time, my mom (maybe it was my dad?) picked up a bunch of floppy disks full of shareware DOS games. Spent a lot of time playing those. Windows 3.1 was actually our main OS.

I would've been around 4 years old at the time. Of course, I couldn't get past the second level or so.

Here, I dug it out of my storage chest just for fun. Took this photo just barely.

haha he even has the disk from 15 years ago.

 

[KeithTalent]

This thread is awesome.

KT

 

[AlexAL]

LessThanDan: Special Agent For Hire

 

[StinkyPinky]

Holy....they still sell that game?! Talk about beating a dead horse until it becomes a zombie and eats your face off.

 

[amdTJL0]

I want to play it haha

 

[looper]

Semi-sideways thread hijack coming up...sorry...

Here's some retro cool stuff... slightly modified music of 'Doom'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GZ8VcM0L0Y

Scariest music..... wow... creeped me right out back then... When I had my original 486 DX-33 comp with Vesa Local Bus, ATI Graphics Expression vid card, with Voodoo graphics add-on card... great memories. Had our 2 comps connected with a null, and ran Doom Deathmatch over our little network... FUN, FUN, FUN...

 

[Farmer]

I would've been around 4 years old at the time. Of course, I couldn't get past the second level or so.

Here, I dug it out of my storage chest just for fun. Took this photo just barely.

That is insane how quickly you got it. I thought I was the only person to ever play that damned game.

I never saw the disk, I think I only had shareware as well. My dad would goto the computer expos and bring back tons of floppy disks with software. I remember SimCity, ChessMaster 2000, Push-Over?

Still, that was when I was too young to actually get into gaming. It was just on our computer (486 at the time, top of the line), which is why I played it.

The first game that I actually bought was C&C Red Alert in 1996 I think, that I played on a 75MHz Pentium Win95 box.

 

[Baptismbyfire]

Yah, I remember that game. It came on one of those 100 Shareware games CD. That site owner must be wondering why he is getting a massive hike in # of visitors.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Seems you already found your game. But when I read your OP I thought you might be looking for Sopwith, which is another shareware game based on the same premise and gameplay.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I raise a beer in your name for pulling that one out.

 

[paperfist]

Is that Shareware packaging? I don't recall games coming in a wrapper like that. I think though I was more of an Amiga zealot back then where everything came in a tri-fold folding package.