So many to pick... But I will choose only a few...
Age of Empires 2
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Civilization
Doom 2
- Ff4, 6, and 7
- Chronotrigger
- Super Metroid
- Castlevania SOTN
- Zelda a Link to the past
- Tony hawk's pro skater 1 and 2
- Any of the street fighter
- Pokemon
- Star craft + brood war
- Diablo 1 and 2
And so much more!
I've bought SOTN for 4 different systems/platforms now. Double Crissaegrim and double Rings of Varda ftw.
I used to play it that way to. OP. To the max. It was more fun to try the other weapons and items to be honest. The game has tonnes of unique gear!
This is almost my exact list. They're all games I will happily replay.
I'm kinda surprised it took this long to see Pokémon mentioned.
Top 5
Doom and Doom II
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Super Mario World
StarCraft with Brood War expansion
Duke 3D
Similar to mine, I'd add TIE Fighter and Warcraft II as well.
This is the perfect list for me. Command & conquer was a gem!
Agree for C&C:RA. I easily spent hundreds of hours playing that game. But would you believe they were all on the PS1? (family didn't have a PC in the 90s 🫤)
You can play Super Mario World on the PS1?
I gotta see that. Lol
This is the perfect list for me. Command & conquer was a gem!
Earthbound
and of course motherfucking Half-Life
The exact two that came to my mind!
that's a big hi five, bro!
Definitely Half-Life.
Legendary ending and silly humor throughout made this my goat game. Super Mario World and Super Metroid tie for second.
Hard to pick one but if I had to I'd go with Final Fantasy VII since it was the game that got me into RPGs, and I got some good memories of watching my brother play it when we were kids.
I remember beating Final Fantasy VII and just staring at my TV in shock. Like, mouth hanging open, mind blown.
What's crazy is for the life of me, I can't even remember the basic gist of the ending of the game today. I just remember how it made me feel.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
One of my all-time favorite Zelda games!
Mine too!
That game is trippy af. One of the first games I ever played and completed. An absolute classic
StarCraft
The StarCraft storyline and characters resonated so much with me as a kid.
Command and conquer, before Westwood was fucked over by EA
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Goldeneye
Baldur's Gate
- Quake
- Thief
- Metal Gear Solid
- Half Life
- System Shock 2
Honourable mention to Final Fantasy 7, and Zelda Ocarina of Time. They might have been great when released, but I don’t think they’ve aged well.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Those are some excellent choices. I'd pick quake for multiplayer - and SS2 for single. Honorable mention to Dune 2.
The original System Shock is definitely one of my all time favorites too. An absolute game changer playing that late night with headphones on.
Yeah, super nice choices!
With exception of MGS, I still play all of those (Quake and Thief series) every few years.
My favorite games as a child growing up in the 90s:
Zelda OoT
Super Mario 64
Pokemon Red
Zelda OoA/OoS
Though after later playing Final Fantasy 7 in 2003 that quickly captivated me and became really special to me. It was my first Final Fantasy I ever played and one of my most cherished games to this day.
Also, while I never played the original 90s game, I absolutely adored Black Mesa and the Half Life franchise. It was damn impressive what Valve accomplished with the original Half Life back then.
Donkey Kong Country 2
Original Unreal. Ranked #1 in the world at one point for a couple weeks. Nothing compares to that game and time for me.
Total Annihilation... couldn't get enough of it. Even playing strategy games today I desperately miss the elaborate control and mechanics of TA.
Pretty sure you can get a modern copy of TA. Either on steam or gog.
And if you like the general style but want to broaden your horizons a bit, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and Planetary Annihilation: Titans are both good options!
Unpopular opinion: Total Annihilation > Star Craft
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Never played that, but how about Supreme Commander? That game still beats out any other RTS imo
Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Heroes of Might and Magic III !!!!!!
A great choice as well! Both are my favorites from the series, but 2 is the one that I got to play first as a kid.
Handheld it's Pokemon red/blue, no competition.
Edit: although it's actually gold/silver if that counts (released 1999 in Japan, 2000 in North America)
Yes, I spent many years with red/blue/yellow, but I have to say, gold/silver were the most bang for the buck. I remember reading so many articles about what the new game would have (day night cycle, radio with daily lottery system, weekly events, new pokeball types, holding/berry systems, etc.) and they delivered on absolutely everything in spades. It was only after I beat the elite four that I realized you could go back to kanto and do 8 more gyms! It was by far the most satisfied I have ever been with a new release to a series. I have since read that the devs were under the impression that it would be the last game in the franchise (lol!) so they poured everything into it. And it shows.
Yes Game Boy was a must in that years, even with just Tetris was great as device and then Pokemon have make the addiction.
Super Mario World
Super Mario Bros 3 is a timeless game and is my favorite side scroller although Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country give it a run for its money
SMW is one of the greatest platformers of all time, but SMB3 was such a huge leap forward it's hard to say
Spyro
Gonna throw Crash Bandicoot on this one as well
I replayed Spyro recently, and honestly, I felt like it didn't hold up. It felt like the objective was to get all of the gems, but there was no reward for getting gems. And maybe because it was a kids game, I just felt like it was way too easy. You could basically just walk to the end of each level, skip any gems and dragons that weren't in the main path to the exit of the level, and finish the game in a couple of hours. I also felt like the level design was kind of wonky. Like, there were paths where you would follow to a dead end just to get gems, and there was nothing else there. That's fine if that happens a couple of times in the game, but it was like this like 4 or 5 time per level.
Spyro 2 was a huge improvement to this formula, because you use the gems to buy upgrades and unlock new paths, or pay the dude to let you use the elevator and such. It made getting gems - and therefore the rest of the game - feel a lot less pointless.
Fallout. I'm yet to play the second part and people say it's even better. You just don't see such game design anymore, I can't say modern or old one is better, both have their advantages but playing Fallout was totally worth it
Commander Keen
Age of empires 1
Pyramid: Challenge of Pharaoh's dream
Atlantis: The lost tales
Ski free
Metal gear solid was brilliant.
Then wipeout 2097.
Also, does anyone else remember the Music franchise of games on PS1?
Seconded. Nothing really compares to MGS imo. That being said, I stopped gaming around 2001.
You mean Parappa the Rapper?
No, I meant this game: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_(video_game)
I spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours on that!
Quake 3 arena
Excellent
It's still the first game I run with every PC upgrade.
Dune 2,
Descent,
Transport Tycoon,
Starcontrol 2,
Starcraft,
Civilization,
Commander Keen,
Jill of the Jungle
Turrican 2
Day of Tentacle
Wing Commander
Might and Magic
Ufo
Dune 2 ... such a great game! I was just playing a bit of OpenRA last night. Great to see your comments this morning!
- Counter-Strike
- SiN
- Delta Force
- Baldur's Gate
Counter-Strike overtook the others by a mile in the 00s but in the 90s I probably enjoyed Delta Force more actually.
Counter-strike was in the 2000s though right? Or am I gone mad?
I thought it was 1998 but the mod came out in 1999, then Valve bought them out and released it as a standalone game in 2000.
I was just trying to remember the name of SiN earlier today, thanks.
SIN was so good (patched)! I even somehow remembered the day Sinclair was born when that date came irl.
Later when Episode 1 (of 1) came out I set my ringtone to its theme music.
Final Fantasy VI (or III as it was known then). Just a masterpiece with great music, a great story, great characters, and fun gameplay.
In no particular order:
THPS
Super Smash Bros.
Goldeneye
Worms
Lemmings
FIFA World Cup’98
Pokémon red/blue
LoZ: Links’s Awakening
Super Metroid
There are too many to mention, but the top five for me in no order:
- SimCity 2000
- Baldur's Gate (1&2)
- Final Fantasy VI (or III, as we called it in the States)
- Doom II
- Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
And I'd still play any of them to this day.
By far:
- Leisure Suit Larry
- Prince of Persia
Both 80s aren't they?
- Ultima series, especially Ultima VII and Ultima Underworld I & II
- Myst series
- Hexen
- Doom
- Quake
- Duke Nukem
- Postal and Postal II
- Diablo and Diablo II
- SimCity and Simcity 2000/SCURK
- Civilization series (still play!)
Sanitarium.
PC:
- Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
- Day of the Tentacle
- The Monkey Island trilogy
- Sam and Max Hit The Road
- Full Throttle
- Loom
- X-Wing
- TIE-Fighter
- The Dig
- Space Quest 4 and 5
- Quest for Glory 3 and 4
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Broken Sword 1
- Flashback
- Out of this World
- Prince of Persia 1 and 2
- Test Drive 3
- Ultima VII
- Doom and Doom 2
- Twinsen’s Adventure
- Descent
- Syndicate
- MDK
- Interstate ‘76
- Command and Conquer
- Age of Empires
- SimCity 2000
- SimTower
Console (NES/SNES):
- Mega-Man 3
- Super Contra
- Ninja Gaiden 2-3
- Dr. Mario
- Battletoads
- Little Nemo: The Dream Master
- Captain Skyhawk
- Kiwi Kraze
- Base Wars
- Batman: Return of the Joker
- A Boy and his Blob
- Whomp’Em
- Yo! Noid
- Fester’s Quest
- Bart vs. The Space Mutants
- Caveman Ugh-Lympics
- Ghostbusters 2
SNES
- Super Mario World
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
- Chrono Trigger
- Pilotwings
- Starfox
- Zelda: A link to the Past
- Donkey Kong Country
- F-Zero
- Street Fighter 2 Turbo
- ActRaiser
- Castlevania 4
- Super Mario Kart
- Secret of Mana
- Megaman X
- Final Fight
- NBA Jam
- Contra 3
- Axelay
- Super Bomberman 2
- Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose
- Prince of Persia (Mechner's favorite)
- TMNT: Turtles in Time
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors
- Star Wars trilogy
- Out of this World
- Joe & Mac
- Disney's The Lion King
- Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
N64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Super Mario 64
- Mario Kart 64
- GoldenEye 007
- Star Fox 64
- Diddy Kong Racing
- Donkey Kong 64
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- WipEout 64
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
- Killer Instinct Gold
- Gauntlet: Legends
- Cruis'n World
I think those adventure games deserve the accolade considering they really were the pinnacle of the genre, and it hasn't even really continued since then.
Some of my favourite that bring back good memories:
- Age of Empires II
- Caesar games
- C&C Red Alert
- Diablo
- Magic & Mayhem
- Pharaoh
- Pokémon (Yellow, Blue/Red)
- Postal
- SimCity 2000
- StarCraft
- Warcraft II
Streets of Rage 2. Honourable mention to FFVII and FFVIII.
I second streets of rage. It has an amazing soundtrack.
Interstate 76
Oh, yeah, this game is cool, I loved playing it when I was a kid, the car combat was really nice, I would love a modern game like this.
It's pretty hard to pick one but I do have favorites among different categories.
Solo RPG - Chrono Trigger
MMORPG - Ultima Online
FPS - Quake
RTS - C&C: Tiberian Sun
Solid choices all!
Age of Empires 2
Metal Gear Solid
Monkey Island 2 (The first one is arguably better, but 2 was my introduction to the series, so I have a bit of a soft spot for it)
I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.
Brave Fencer Musashi! It's a fun RPG from squaresoft. Very much a hidden gem. The music in it was streets ahead.
Now you're asking a question I can answer. FFVII or Pokemon. That's all I ever played. Thank you for your time.
Giving you an upvote for FFVII, that was the game that got me into gaming. Still have the best memories of that one
I played those 2 because my mom could afford the consoles after much saving, but not much else. Those are the 2 games I got to choose. I even had to play ffvii without a memory card. Sooooo many hours restarting after a power outage or someone turning off the PlayStation. I'm a very very patient person now.
Descent
It was a multi player net work game we used to play at work over lunch or occasionally on weekends.
Just a great game. Descent 1-3 were loads of fun.
From what I understand, the IP owners basically became scumbag squatters, and no hope for a revival of the IP ever occurred
Occasionally I rewatch one of the best trailers ever crafted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHFazkfmBE4&t=2
This one (2022!) is the last good trailer I spotted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kNtEKfN4Hg&t=48
Regarding my favorite games:
Scortch, Worms 1, Tomb Raider 1 + 2, Diablo Hellfire, Gran Turismo 1 + 2, Koudelka
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Hated that game. My friends would always find where the exit was, and let me wait there while they did the job.
Age of Empires 2
But only started playing it a few years back
Wololo
The Shining Force series
I still play Civilization 1 from time to time.
And with friends, Worms 2 is a banger, and so is the cave flyer Wings
Worms was so much fun
Still is 😊
Banjo-Kazooie
Its still one of the best of its genre
I've always been a Nintendo fan, and their first- and second-party catalog from the 90s is phenomenal:
- Zelda OoT / MM
- Goldeneye / Perfect Dark
- Super Mario Bros 64
- Mario Parties
- Banjo Kazooie / Tooie
- Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow
- Pokémon Stadium
Outside of Nintendo, the standout titles for me are:
- Crash Bandicoot
- Spyro
- Metal Gear Solid
- FF VII & VIII
Myst: Riven
I have fond memories of friends coming over, all huddled together in front of my 15" monitor to figure out our way through Riven. Those eureka moments where we were like "wow! These are symbols for a base 5 number system!"
For me it is probably a tie between Sid Meier's Civilization and Doom. Both were groundbreaking in their genres and they had immense influence on the type of games I since became interested in playing.
Top is hard. Probably OOT.
Top five would be OOT, Doom, Sonic 2, crash bandicoot, and half-life.
Way too many good ones to pick from haha.
Definitely a tie right now between Sonic 1 or 2, which I managed to get copies of for Genesis 3 years ago when I first got a Genesis.
Transport Tycoon
Doom
Goldeneye 64 (I bought a N64 console just for this game)
Frontier Elite
Baldur's gate
Fallout 2
X : Beyond The Frontier
Goldeneye 64 (I bought a N64 console just for this game)
Also did this! Played it at a friend's, fell in love, so 13 year old me got a job and worked til I could buy it. What a game.
Sim City 2000
Command and Conquer
Red Alert
Goldeneye
Mario Kart
NBA Hang time
Perfect Dark
MDK
Man that's a tough one. The 90s covered a huge spectrum of games and consoles.
Perhaps at the time, Final Fantasy VII was my favorite. No other game absorbed me like it did. I spent so much time playing it. But it's aged badly now.
But as far as games that I would still go back and play? I'd say probably twisted metal 2. The game is just so good. The music, the characters, the vibe of the game.
The entire list of releases from the year 1998, the objectively best year in all of video gaming history.
I agree, subjectively.
Too tough to name one I can only narrow it to three
Xcom UFO Defense
Chrono Trigger
Super Street Fighter 2
Was looking for Street Fighter II on here. That game set me back DM150 and it was worth every bit of it. Possibly surpassed by Virtua Fighter II eventually,
The Secret of Monkey Island
still play it nowadays from time to time
Donkey Kong Country 2
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Holy shit this is amazing
Diablo
Doom
Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis
Lotus
I know the other three games, but never heard about lotus
TOCA Touring Car Championship
Gran Turismo
Syphon Filter
Super Mario 64
For me... Monster Truck Madness, both 1 and 2
I loved Monster Truck Madness 2, I loved those crazy Monster Truck, the Monster Patrol and the Sting monster trucks were my favorites.
Road rash
Shining force
Redneck rampage
Bottom of the 9th 99
My personal favorites in no specific order and no preference on the system:
- Metal Gear Solid
- Sonic 1&2
- M1 Tank Platoon
- F-Zero
- A link to the past (Zelda)
- Test Drive 3
- Duke 3D
- Dune 2
- Ultima 7
- Stunts 3D
- Comanche (All parts)
- Delta Force
- Hind-E
- Sim City 2000
- FF 8 &9
- TFX
- GTA 2
- Transport Tycoon
Rogue Squadron!
Gotta get that RAM expansion for the 64!
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.
I got it working on Linux just so I could play it on steam deck. Side bonus! It's so old integrated graphics can more than handle it at modern resolutions. I put that game on every laptop I own.
Old business machines are great for that purpose, snag one on recycle day, install Nobara, install Elite Force.
One day I'm going to have a dedicated LAN match room exclusively for this game.
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Mechwarrior 2. Controlling a heavy mech was 90s af.
And I can still hear the startup sequence in my head. Reactor online Sensors online Weapons online. All systems nominal.
It's between Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden II. I think it goes to the latter.
The 90s were peak gaming for me - a lot a creative things were going on, new genres being explored. And we were spoilt for choice with all the blatant piracy.
But if I had to choose one game that really blew me away, that would be Thief.
Super Mario Kart and NHL '94
I liked the Marathon series for Mac and the Twisted Metal series for PS.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Zelda OoT
Super Mario World
Doom
TIE Fighter
Diablo
The ones I played the most were:
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Heroes of Might & Magic
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Civilization
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Genghis Khan ][: Clan of the White Wolf
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ZZT
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Final Fantasy 6
not in order, mind
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Sonic 3 & Knuckles
The one i played the most was probably super mario world
My favorite snes game
But ocarina of time was great too.
For pc id say, red alert or diablo.
Sam n Max Hit the Road and King's Quest 5, 6, and 7. <3
Master of Orion.
Ultima Underworld.
Shadowgate.
Goldeneye.
Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9.
Golgo 13.
Wing Commander 3.
Lands of Lore.
SimTown.
Yo Noid
RCT 3
After Dark ;P
Also Catz.
SimTownThat one I have not heard in a while. It works great using wine! But the controls are really awful (compared to todays standards) 😵💫
Homeworld and Half Life for me: both were just awesome. I spent a very long time in both.
There is a shocking lack of Star Control 2 in here. Easily the best game I have ever played, period. It frequently gets name dropped in lists of game developers' favorite games of all time. Later space epics like Mass Effect stood on Star Control 2's shoulders to reach the heights they did.Good news! The devs released it to the open source community under the name The Ur-Quan Masters. You can play it now for free! And they're developing a sequel as we speak over at Pistol Shrimp Games
Super Melee was so much fun! Chenjesu and Khor-Ah were the toughest but the other ships were pretty well balanced. So much fun.
I loved exploring new star systems too. Just an incredible game!
Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid.
Oh this one is good. I have like 12 hours stuck in an empty community college lounge today. I found an APK for Android and I've been playing for a solid 4 hours. It's a lot of fun even just gathering resources and upgrading the flagship.
How do I find tech upgrades? My lander needs some environmental resistance for sure.
.. you'll find upgrades eventually :)
There are so many... Here are some that I probably spent the most time with:
- Master of Orion
- XCom (the original)
- unreal tournament
- Elder Scrolls Daggerfall
- Falcon 3.0
- Mechwarrior 2
Seven kingdoms
The Secret of Monkey Island Super Metroid Yoshi's Island
Sonic Adventure.
If 1998 in Japan and 1999 everywhere else is too close to the '00s (and in the context of what SA1 meant for the Sonic franchise I wouldn't blame you,) Sonic CD.
Syndicate and Wing Commander Privateer
So many amazing games to choose from such as all the D&D based ones, Morrowind, the SimCity ones and the Championship Manager games, but my absolute favorite was Fallout 2 for sure!
Jagged Alliance 2
I wish they could do something with the franchise. I spent so much time pouring over different mercenaries and guns. Atheist as much time as actually playing.
Jagged alliance 3 just came out and it's pretty great so far! Not as many mercs but maybe M E.R.C opens up later.
Sid Meier's Colonisation, my 10 year old laptop that I replaced last year only had enough power to play that game and I put so many hours into it when I didn't have access to my main pc. It's just a shame that my new laptop doesn't upscale dosbox the same way my old one did but I think that's just because of the differences between MacOS and Windows.
(Edit: wrote the wrong game series somehow)
Tekken 3. Late 90s but I spent HUNDREDS of hours playing it.
Technically 2000, but Sacrifice. It's still one of the most unique games I've ever played, and is my top wish for a remake/remaster.
It's a hybrid action RPG and RTS, which isn't completely unheard of, but even in its niche genre it's unlike anything else. You play a wizard with a range of both spells and summonable units, which can be ordered around to a limited degree, or more commonly used as a personal escort. Both the units and your own spells are very creative, and the higher level ones can be ridiculously powerful. In a glorious early celebration of terrain deformation, many of the high level spells will create volcanoes, mountains, craters, or even gaping voids in the already surreal landscapes. The story mode is also very weird and funny, with some top level voice actors.
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Super Mario 64 was my first "3D" so to speak, but OoT took that to the next level. The feeling of wonder when I first left the Lost Woods and came out into the field will never be topped.
Star fox 64
backyard baseball
MGS 1 for obvious reasons.
Blitz and NBA street 1&2 were definitely some faves.
Jet Moto series.
Jet grind radio had so many hours sunk into it.
Resident evil 1-2 was absolutely terrified of these games but couldn’t stop playing and quickly became a favorite of me and my dad.
Flashback. There's something cinematographic in that old Delphine gem.
- STAR CONTROL 2
- Another World
- Action Quake 2
- Street fighter 2
I don't really know what to pick so I'm going to go with something kind of obscure, "The Adventures of Bouapha: Spooky Castle". The gameplay is a little hard to explain but it kind of plays like Zelda but you can pickup upgrades for your main weapon that allows it to be thrown in many directions and it has sub-weapons that can either be found or dropped by enemies and they have limited ammo.
I actually forgot this game existed until itch recommended me "Hamsandwich", which is a free and open-source collection of updated versions of a bunch of old Hamumu Software games. There are mods available for specific games and it's available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android and any other OS/device that can play the online version.
I loved the game Tomba! 2 The Evil Swine Return, it was creative, intricate, and very far ahead of its time, I would love to see the series get a reboot or a remaster
There were a lot of games released in the 90s. It would take 2-3 per genre to start getting close.
Picking just one single game... I guess I'll go with Fallout 2
Baldur’s Gate. That game blew me away.
Can’t pick a favorite. But I will say the one I return to the most often is Super Metroid
It's impossible to pick just one (even when talking specific genres)
But when it comes to fighting games, Marvel vs. Capcom and KOF '97 where among the best.
loved KOF 97, 98 back then. Bloody Roar 2 as well. That game was so much fun.
I don't think I can choose between games like Alpha Centauri, Marathon, Chrono Trigger, Homeworld, Quake, Counter-Strike (I played the beta in '99, does that count?), not to mention King of Fighters '98, Half-Life, Star Craft... wow it really was the golden era of gaming wasn't it?
Shattered Galaxy, it marketed itself as an mmorpgrts. The depth of gameplay was fantastic. While the graphics look a little dated, I would still play it if there was any server population left.
- Half-life
- the Doom games
- the Quake games
- Shogo
- POD
- Outlaws
- Soldier of Fortune (it was released in 2000 tho but it's almost the 90's lol)
Subspace - Meet people from all over the world, and then kill them.
One of the first online multiplayer games. It has a very long skill curve, and a ton of variety in game types.
It's still alive in Steam as Continuum!
Can't decide between at least:
Homeworld
Frontier: Elite II
Warcraft II
Burden of the Crown
X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs TIE Fighter, X-Wing Alliance
Rebel Assault
Simant
Happyweed
Feeling happy and enthusiastic
So unfortunately I didn't play video games until about 2001 when I turned 5 and got an N64 for my first Christmas in the USA. The game itself is from 2000 though.
Mickey's Speedway USA for the N64.
Goddamn I loved that game. I have so many fun memories with it.
Titanic: Adventure out of Time The game had quite the ambiance (Smethelles awkward FMV face & that haunting D deck music still haunts my dreams sometimes). In addition, I really liked the laid back mystery solving gameplay that it provided... I feel like it was pretty unique and haven't found anything that quite scratches that same itch.
Also, sim tower.. That game is just awesome.
Banjo-Kazooie
Buzz aldrin's race into space I was already a geek at that time
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri - it was the Crysis of its time, in that whatever computer you had, you needed a better one to be able to play it.
Also, we all decided that the atrocious acting in the FMVs was deliberate, so that's okay.
Ape Escape!
Albion
WILLY BEAMISH
Toy Story 2 for PSX.
My top favorites, can't decide which one is the best:
- Dyna Blaster / Bomberman
- Commander Keen
- Skyroads
- Hero's Hearts
Everquest. Also my favorite game from the 2000's, 2010's and 2020's
A lot of the greats have already been mentioned by others, but Myst (1993) and Riven (1997) deserve to be up there.
Not only for the immersive worlds you got to experience through masterfully crafted imagery, sound and music, but also combined they held the record for best selling game series until they were surpassed by The Sims.
In no particular order, these are the games I played the most back then.
SNES
- Super Bomberman II
- Stunt Race FX
- Super Mario Bros
- Yoshi's Island
PS1
- Gran Turismo 2
- Spyro 1 & 2
- Crash Bandicoot series
- Twisted Metal 2, 4
- Jet Moto series
- Coolborders series
- Pro Skater series
- Einhänder
PC
- After Dark Games
And a couple of nearly-90s favorites,
PC
- 4x4 Evo 2
- Red Alert 2
- OG Halo
Mega Man Legends!
Doom 2 Wolf3D StarCraft Warcraft 2 Chrono Trigger F15 Strike Eagle 2 (might be late 80s though) Super Mario World Shadowrun (Sega Genesis) Sonic
Of all those, StarCraft on BattleNet changed my life. What an amazing thing, to play against people from around the world. So it's hard to rank when we're mixing platforms and online and whatnot.
