Hello, I am new to the speedrun community but I've watched some videos, and they reminded me of a game I used to play, Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures. I hope I can make friends and look for new games to speedrun, bc I have an old pc as my main, and I will install Win 3.X and 98 in separate hard drives. Not a native english speaker myself, sorry for any mistakes. Now I got one week to learn all the rules and install my little wonder on my pc, hope you all have a wonderfull day.
You can look on games with the MS-DOS platform: https://www.speedrun.com/games#platform=MS-DOS
My favorites back from the MS-DOS era (2D platformers):
Duke Nukem 1 Hocus Pocus Crystal Caves series Commander Keen series Cosmo Cosmic Adventure
I guess (like Oreo321) that you're looking for MS-DOS games. The search-option is your friend, Oreo321 provided you the link to it. It would also help if you let us know what kind of genre you prefer.
My favorite mix of speedrun games from DOS-Win98 times: MS-DOS:
- https://www.speedrun.com/zeliard
- https://www.speedrun.com/warlords2
- https://www.speedrun.com/moonstone_a_hard_days_knight
- https://www.speedrun.com/star_control_ii_the_ur-quan_masters
- https://www.speedrun.com/the_lost_vikings Win98:
- https://www.speedrun.com/mechcommander_gold
- https://www.speedrun.com/thiefgold
- https://www.speedrun.com/dx
If it's MS-DOS games we're talking about, it'd almost be a crime not to mention the Doom series.
I'm not sure if computers with very old hardware or operating systems could handle web games. Back then everything was slow or low on memory, and things were built accordingly. Web pages were minimal and contained only relevant stuff.
Now web pages load lot of JavaScript and CSS libraries, even when 90% of it is redundant, and Html5 games aren't better. Performance and memory just aren't a priority nowadays, because everyone knows a modern computer could handle them.
I want to get into speedrunning but I would like some suggestions for a game that is suitable for someone who is just starting.
