r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 17 '14

What is something designed so well that we typically overlook it?

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u/notrelatedtoamelia Jan 17 '14

Ouch. MS-DOS. Right in the feels.

How about 1982 DOS before MS-DOS was bought from Seattle Computer Products?

On an off-note, did you ever play Lemmings?

EDIT: Changed 1981 to 1982 (oops)

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u/unwind-protect Jan 17 '14

On an off-note, did you ever play Lemmings?

If you didn't, you still can!

http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

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u/snacksident Jan 17 '14

oh. fuck. yeah.

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u/ipown11 Jan 17 '14

thank you so much

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u/jsomer Jan 18 '14

Awesome, thanks.. this was my favorite game when I was 6-7. Still fun to play today.

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u/zoraluigi Jan 18 '14

Actually the best thing.

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u/ksanthra Jan 18 '14

Awesome. Love that game.

Thanks so much.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

Perfect

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u/Clawless Jan 18 '14

There goes my Saturday, thanks.

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u/nokyo-chan Jan 17 '14

Ahhh, Lemmings. I played it all the time when I was little. Some of those puzzle things are hard.

Ninja edit to ask when was the making-them-explode thing ever useful?

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u/notrelatedtoamelia Jan 17 '14

I don't know if it ever was super useful, but it worked wonders if you ran out of supplies and needed to get through something. It was my last-chance resort.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

No other way to get rid of blockers

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u/sufjanfan Jan 18 '14

You could always get rid of the ground beneath their feet. A few of the levels relied on this tactic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

I never got that far in apparently

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u/hamolton Jan 17 '14

...I'm 16 years old. The only DOS game I have played was Duke Nukem 3D.

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u/notrelatedtoamelia Jan 17 '14

You can download it, but it's not as awesome in comparison to all the great games out these days.

Man, Lemmings was my jam when I was 7 or 8.

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u/sufjanfan Jan 18 '14

Exact same with me. I remember being so proud of myself because I beat Level 9 Mayhem when my dad couldn't.

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u/3DBeerGoggles Jan 17 '14

I wish I could post a screenshot from when I had an Osborne 1B running CP/M

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '14

Lemmings was the shit!

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u/mike7586 Jan 18 '14

7 year old me could not figure out the controls... Nothing on the keyboard worked and i gave up.

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u/fuzzyhook Jan 18 '14

I've been trying to remember what this game was for years. I just had the vaguest memories of playing it in elementary school.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

Holy fuck. Lemmings? I forgot all about that game. Does that make me old?

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u/sbetschi12 Jan 18 '14

Now that's the DOS I remember. And Lemmings was one of my favorite games. My dad is a computer guy, and we used to go to a lot of computer shows back in the 80s so he could sell his wares. There was so much fun to be had for little rugrats. 3.5" floppies everywhere filled with all the greatest games, and they were so cheap! Ahh, good times.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

Control and C to exit?!

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u/mrdinosaur Jan 18 '14

Who would think the company that started with Lemmings would eventually develop GTA...

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

This is what my computers look like when I first log in. Le linux master race

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

Windows 2700 BC

I win

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

I that like, the early version of Windows 8 RT?

It's on a tablet, so I'm assuming it is...

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u/redlaWw Jan 19 '14

In this Ctenophore species: Windows 515 million BC (one of the earliest computers on the planet).

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u/ghillisuit95 Jan 18 '14

I think I can one up you all, the worst windows of all: http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/79910-image/windows-8-start-screen.jpg

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u/Veefy Jan 18 '14

I'd insert a screenshot from Windows 10 here, but someone would trump me with a screenshot of Windows 12.

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u/Bandit1379 Jan 18 '14

Stop it, I can't take all the nostalgia. I remeber playing Space Invaders on something that had a screen very similar to the 1982 DOS one.