Castle of the Winds is one of my favorite games of the Windows 3.1 era, so I was thrilled to see it get a shout-out on the latest Cathode Ray Dude video. It's a great game, and kind of obscure, so I'm always excited when I find out other folks also have fond memories of it.

In the video he touches on playing it growing up without really understanding that it was a roguelike, and that was my experience as well. It's funny; I can't stand the modern roguelike genre, but I loved Castle of the Winds. I really want to dig into that one of these days and figure out why that is.

Coincidentally, I recently went to the trouble of installing Windows 3.1 in a new DOSBox environment to get the proper Castle of the Winds experience, with Windows 3.1-style controls. Now that I have it, I find myself wondering what other games I could install to build a fully-stocked pretend Windows 3.1 gaming PC. If any of y'all have suggestions, shoot me an email! I'd love to hear them.