For some reason at the main menu I am shown the option to type either Y (Yes) or N (No) to Exit to DOS which is to quit the game and shut it down.

I press no, but it refuses to and I am still stuck in the Yes or No option to Exit DOS.

None of my other games that uses DOSBox have that problem?

So what gives?

is something holding down your esc key?

No

Odd

Just checked mine and it's running fine.

Change DOSBOS (or whatever emulator) it's using? Update Windows recently?

It has happened to me sometimes in Wolfenstein 3D, but only very rarely, on a rather weak Win10 operated laptop. Since it's such a rare glitch, I don't find it too annoying.

Dosbox.

Hmm... Might be triggering it's anti piracy feature

have you repaired / verified the files 1 file can do this, planet strike or aliens of gold.

also can you save your game?

Check the games FILE_ID.DIZ

should say:

████▓▒░ ALERT THE SYSOP IMMEDIATELY! ░▒▓████
████████████████████████████████████████████
THIS FILE IS NOT SHAREWARE -- it is ILLEGAL
and forbidden to upload this copyrighted
software to bulletin boards. If you see this
message on a BBS, please request that the
Sysop remove this software IMMEDIATELY!!!
█▓▒░ OR CONTACT APOGEE: (214) 278-5655 ░▒▓█
IT IS ILLEGAL TO GET THIS FILE FROM A BBS!
████████████████████████████████████████████
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Just so you know, Blake Stone has a Windows sourceport:

https://github.com/bibendovsky/bstone/releases/tag/v1.2.8

I recommend using that in place of Dosbox.

Ack! Nasty typos....