God of Thunder for DOS 🕹️

Does anyone remember God of Thunder? No, not the Marvel movie, or the KISS song, or even the Greek mythological God, but the DOS game about that Greek mythological God. This God of Thunder is a 1993 DOS top down puzzle adventure game, loosely inspired by Zelda. It was made by a small team of people, and you can feel that scrappy nature in the inventive and sometimes janky puzzles, the interesting enemies but sometimes unfair placements, and the self-aware humor. It’s a solid game, and I played it a lot as a kid. Something I never did as a chid was beat it. I got pretty far, and I saw my friend Xaq beat it, and while you can save anywhere, I was always stopped by some challenging room or another. I decided I wanted to see if I could finish the game as an adult. I downloaded the first episode of three—this was a small DOS game released in the early 90s, so of course it was Shareware. I loaded it on my little hand held game emulator, and played it off and on for a week or so. It was…