Name that game

Red Alert 2.

I’ve gone four hours without mentioning it

By far my favorite game of all time. 11/10
- Hell yeah! There are dozens of us! No game has topped it for me
I was so disappointed in RA3. It was absolute shit
- I completely agree. That was my biggest disappointment in gaming.

Video games changed so much during the 90s. I feel like this describes a single year.

Soundtracks have always been fire though. I still have the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack, Red Alert soundtrack, Sim City 3000, etc in my playlist.
- Carmageddon's sound track was made by Fear Factory 🔥🔥🔥🔥

It's Doom.

It's literally a photo of id software devs. You can tell by John Romero's glorious mane.

Doom 1 and Doom 2016 are in this picture.
- How big was the team for 2016?

Morrowind.

I still listen to this music when working. Puts me right in the mood
Maybe if the book was eight times taller
- The book is from the game and actually only has 2 pages in it.
Morrowind!

Crazy Taxi

Baulders Gate

Goldeneye

Spin the roulette wheel of all Sonic games.

The snowboarding level, and the carnival stage.
- Lol which one, there's like a dozen of each of those themes!

Half Life.

Age of Empires II.

Homeworld.

Homeworld hired an actual band though.

Jet set radioooooooo

Looking Glass Studio

System Shock
Thief
Theif 2

Miss them so much

Crusader: No Remorse

MechWarrior 2, especially Ghost Bear's Legacy

Descent 1 + 2

Dungeon Keeper 2

Unreal 2

Populous

Prince of Persia series

+1 for mech warrior. Played that in the CD player a ton.

Nobuo Uematsu carried hard with his music. Squeenix hasn't been the same since he left the company

Completely agree. That being said, they still have Masayoshi Soken, and he is easily in the top 3 modern Video Game Composers.
- So much of my emotional investment in FFXIV is enhanced by the music, especially in Endwalker.

Populous: The Beginning

~~Black and White~~

Warcraft 1 & 2

Monkey Island 1-3

I could go on.

Black and White was 2000s
- Ah, so it was. That era is pretty much all blurred together in my mind.

About the majestic soundtrack of Doom: That's why it's still my ringtone.

Donkey Kong Country had like. One of the best video game soundtracks of all time. Game was really hard towards the end too. One of my fav games of all time.

Doom could apply here too. ID was very much a small studio of dorks with a limited budget.

Megaman 2 for me. Shit was hard but I still listen to the soundtrack

MegaMan 2 isn't a 90's game though.

Optimal game dev size.

Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood.

Those were build different.

I still remember playing the Colin McRae rally demo on PS1 for the first time in 1998 or 1999 and seeing the Impreza WRX get mud splatters on it's sides in real time while drifting through the Scottish highlands. There have been few if any as awe inspiring gaming moments since, maybe the original Gran Turismo replay graphics.

I don't remember this game much, but the sound track is a banger

https://youtu.be/NW9ARJgn3ek?si=7qro8Hfucr7DTfg2

Star Control 2

Timesplitters 2

I want a nightdive port of that so fucking bad
- I was unreasonably excited when I saw it on my ps5.

Any of the Legacy of Kain games

You gotta change that book to encyclopedia size. The amount of shenanigans you can’t explain without going into the other tomfoolery Amy Hennig and the rest of those wacky geniuses came up with…
- Did Soul Reaver 3 ever come out?

This has been Gothic for me, although it missed the 90's mark by just a bit

Dito. And Gothic 1 is from '98

I never really had sounds in the 90s. Always caused my mom to get headaches. All video games were played on low or no volume.

You poor bastard.
I started playing Day of the Tentacle without voices because I couldn't figure out the sound configuration.

Ultima Online, for sure. Anyone who says the Minoc theme song isn't banging is drunk and on drugs

Graphic's

The face even looks like a Deus Ex NPC.

Just a picture of Tim follin on the bottom right would have been enough, his music is sole weird voodoo only a Tim filling could pull of.
Bro went fire on everything, like pictionary; https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=SJwh3erQlyE

Dev's

what does the dev possess?

WHAT DOES THE DEV POSSESS???

Come on Lemmy.

Its been 23 hours since this got posted.

How has Chrono Trigger not already been mentioned?

Because Chrono Trigger's story is more like three bibles stacked. Not a flimsy novella.
I thought that had a good memorable story?

ah yes, the touhou games I still haven't completed a single one without retries

Created by one person, he made everything in the game including game engine.

Secret of Mana would fit everything but the graphics. Those graphics were fire when they came out.

For me it'd be Driver 1 and 2 followed by Lost World: Jurassic Park for the PS1.
The beat for Driver 1's San Francisco theme just slaps

Thought it was going to be Seinfeld for a moment

Wing Commander, Privateer, and Strike Commander for me.

Counterpoint, some 90s games like Half-Life had a pretty good story

I think the meme is suggesting most games had a decent story. Not Game of Thrones level, but a decent 200 page book.

System Shock 2

I am not sure about the budget portion for GameFreak during the release of Pokemon Colosseum as Nintendo was reworking the pay structure and their work with GameFreak around that time.

Colesseum though, I just played it for the first time ever and my god it is hardest and most tedious of the entire series and the music is killer. The underlying narrative and lore is interesting when you start adding XD Gale or Darkness into the mix as well.

Anything with the Folletts on soundtrack duty.

DEATH BY STEREO AAAAUUUUYYYYAAAAHHH

bonus points to whoever gets the deep cut

The dream

Prince of Persia.

Jordan Mechner is one of the greatest.

soundtrack spot on

KoF 96 and 99. X men Cota. SF3 second impact. You go back to those and the gameplay is hard as balls. Cota is like playin in a honey jar. Kof 96 has 3 characters that bitchslap all the others no problem. 99 I heard the meta has some.outliers but for casuals is like they tried something and nothing at the same time. Second impact came to fix newgen and fix.it did but boy it's crazy to play half the shit goes wonky. All of them where made with low to nonexistent budgets although Second impact has an asterisk since is more like a patch. All teams where small. Music is fire for all of them.

Killer Loop

Bob et Bobette for Game Boy Color. OST by Maniacs of noise https://youtu.be/yg6Ebg2JT8g

what the fuck are these images supposed to convey this some egyptian hyrogliphic shit wtf

Graphics: See image render quality Team: Small group of people, probably friends Story: Reasonable length, linear, like a book Budget: Probably no real budget, just however much time everybody can put in, so empty wallet Gameplay: Sweaty - old games do tend to be difficult and frustrating Soundtrack: Actually fire
- The book is another layer. It references the image format of two books next to eachother, one being labeled as a long story and the other labeled as the same story, but with some twist that makes the story much shorter or non-existant.
  
  So it's saying that it has short or non-existant story.

Any OG Pokemon game

Crash Team Racing music goes so fucking hard

good ol Minecraft
or the old versions anyways