1. Mario's Game Gallery
1995 · Presage Software, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
The game is a collection of board games, in which you play with Mario.
The 10 best DOS board game games, as the players of dos.games rate them. Mario's Game Gallery leads the list, ahead of Battle Chess and Astérix: Caesar's Challenge.
Every game on the list plays in your browser, with nothing to install. The order comes from players' ratings and real play time, so it moves as people play.
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1995 · Presage Software, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
The game is a collection of board games, in which you play with Mario.
1988 · Interplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
Battle Chess is a quite typical chess game, but it comes with a twist: all pieces are represented by small, realistic figures that walk around on the chessboard, and when one piece takes another, they both take part in an animated battle.
1995 · Infogrames · Strategy / tactics
This interactive board game offers action and adventure as Asterix and his friends journey around the Roman Empire on a challenge from Caesar while learning about different countries' history and culture.
1995 · SimTex, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
Based on Avalon Hill's board game of the same name, 1830 is a railroad empire building game that is along the same lines (although a different style of gameplay) as the much more famous Railroad Tycoon.
1996 · Kosmos Verlag · Strategy / tactics
Turn-based strategy, an adaptation of the board game, which tells about the colonization of Catan Island.
1990 · Accolade, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
The board game Stratego is a more elaborate version of Capture the Flag.
1992 · Interplay Productions, Inc. · Strategy / tactics
The Battle Chess series took the basic game of chess and added animations for each battle between pieces, bringing the game to a wider audience, with no intention of providing something for Kasparov to spar with.
1992 · Sierra On-Line, Inc. · Simulation
Functionally identical to the original Jones in the Fast Lane, but delivered on a CDROM and containing the following enhancements: DOS version: Redbook CD Audio for the voice acting; additional animation and actor portraits; takes very little space on hard drive.
1991 · IBS · Strategy / tactics
In the game you join a private cards club, which specialization is preference.
1986 · Panther Programs · Strategy / tactics
Risk is a turn-based strategy game based on the board game of the same name.
| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50 | +0.00 | ||
| Score | 3.2 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50 | +0.00 | ||
| Score | 3.2 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Hex| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50 | +0.00 | ||
| Score | 3.2 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50 | +0.00 | ||
| Score | 3.2 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Hexxagon| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50 | +0.00 | ||
| Score | 3.2 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Animated Bugs| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50 | +0.00 | ||
| Score | 3.2 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Battle Chess: Enhanced CD-ROM| Signal | Adds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Player ratings0% · no ratings yet | 0.00 | ||
| Archive default3.20 × 100% · never scored by the catalogue · stands in for 8 ratings | 3.20 | ||
| Blended rating | 3.20 | ||
| Play activitynobody has booted it here · capped at +0.50 | +0.00 | ||
| Score | 3.2 | ||
Recomputed from the database as ratings and sessions land. Every title in the archive goes through this same arithmetic — there is no manual adjustment step.
Open Hexxagon II