Yesterday I checked out my DOS games folder and chose those that would produce interesting TASes..
For the moment, I believe platformers would be the most popular so,
- Bio Menace - a rather lengthy platformer (3 episodes ~15-20 mins each), lots of shooting, bosses and death abuse
- Commander Keen (all 7) - the first games being more about precise jumping, 6th one has ton of glitches so that might be the most interesting piece
- Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure - that creature can stick to walls!! Pretty unusual platformer but a classic nevertheless
- Crystal Caves - some potential in this classic too
- Dangerous Dave 2 - a lot of hard and deadly monster-dodging and planned use of the limited and slowly reloadable ammunition would make this one interesting
- Duke Nukem 1 - don't think you need comments on this one
- ElectroBody - one of the slowest platformers I know but it does become very hard towards the end
- Hocus Pocus - haven't played much but seemed runnable
- Jazz Jackrabbit - of course, probably the best candidate for entertainment value. A bunch of pretty short episodes.
- Monster Bash - pretty good
- Nicky Boom - cute platformer with long and puzzling levels and hard bosses, pretty underrated
- Prehistorik - that classic caveman game everyone loved, this would require well planning cause it requires a certain amount of food to pass a level, very many choices everywhere, thus interesting
- Prehistorik 2 - a lot shorter than the first game because of no food requirement, this would consist of precise jumps, a few glitches and short boss fights. Yeah.
- Secret Agent - quite long and puzzling levels, not bad
- Titus the Fox - considered as one of the hardest platformers ever, this would be mostly enemy-dodging, intentional damage boosting and fast boss fights, thus pretty fun
- Ugh! - very original taxi game. 70 or so levels with tons of hard maneuvres - good candidate.
and of course, when the FPSes become fully supported there's no stopping for Blood, Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein, Descent, Hexen, Duke Nukem, etc. etc. etc. and etc.
also, there's a number of good RPGs like Arena, Daggerfall, Wastelands, Nethack (!)
I wouldn't mind some unusual ones such as Death Rally, The Incredible Machine, Action Supercross, Grand Prix Circuit, Crime Fighter either.
I'd do some of the platformers myself (CK's, Titus, Prehistorik, Jazz) but the rerecording Dosbox has some problems running here, and pressing ALT (used in most platformers) freezes the game until pressed again :/
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Hmm. That was simple.