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Turbo Pascal was the Unity of many game developers on MS-DOS days.

Of course for serious games, one would use macro Assemblers like MASM and TASM.

Or for those short on money for the pro versions, which included the Assemblers, inline Assembly with naked functions/procedures.

There were quite a few commercial games written in Pascal/Delphi back in late 90s and early 2000s. Original War was quite successful RTS game that comes to my mind.

Interesting (looked it up thanks to your post). As a means of recompiling old code for newer systems that is a great solution.

The most interesting part is that they've also made a very nice cross-platform clone of 1) Turbo Vision (yes, text mode and all), and 2) VCL.

Then, using that TV clone, they wrote a cross-platform clone of the original DOS Borland Pascal IDE - that even comes in the base FPC distribution. Works great in Linux console:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FPIDE_1.0.10_de.png

And using VCL, they wrote a cross-platform clone of Delphi (circa version 3) IDE!

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Screenshots