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What is your favorite underrated or unknown DOS game? (retrolemmy.com)
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We all love our "Doom"," Command & Conquer", "Commander Keen" etc.

But what is a game that you love that no one seems to know and/or like? What is that one gem that makes you type your "C:>cd games" just that little tiny bit faster?

I'll go first. My pick is Normality from 1996 by Gremlin Interactive. A 3D first person point and click adventure with FMV Cutscenes. It's goofy and weird but perfectly playable. I highly recommended anyone who loves point and click adventures to try this one out. It's basically Doom Point 'n Click

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Very cool. Jealous that you got to talk to Kenny Chou. Him, Josh Jensen, and the Elam family are all my heros - I've read the OMF manual so many times that I still remember all their names, nearly three decades later. I wonder how their baby, Bethany Kay Elam is doing these days, and if she's still chewing on joysticks and slobbering over keyboards...

I vividly recall the distinct humor and light-heartedness of the manual, which instructed me to print it out, give it to my friends and even put it in my bird cage. I couldn't do the latter since I didn't have a bird cage.. but I did I print out several copies and gave it to my friends. My first manual was printed on a dot matrix printer. Later down the line, I managed to upgrade to an inkjet version - and even printed out a few pages in color (because color printouts were a precious thing back then), put it in a nice folder and made fancy borders and stuff around it.

The manual really struck a chord with me for some reason. Maybe because it went so detailed into the back stories of all the pilots, or maybe it's was the down-to-earth language of it and the candid descriptions of the developers that made me feel like I got to know them personally... there was just something different about it, compared to all other game manuals at the time. Till date, I've never come across any official manual for a game with this sort of character to it. If Ryan Elam is still around, I'd love to meet him sometime and have a few beers with him.