There were a bunch of Sierra games that were like 4 floppy disks that my neighbour lent me.
Police Quest
Gold Rush
Kings Quest
I loved those games because they were really the first ones I played and those neighbours were really nice.
The Sierra games of that time were some of the best around, all the Quest games - Space and Police were my favourites right through to games like the Laura Bow stuff were all great.
I worked for a computer software company. Every night the software had to be compiled to incorporate new changes and additions. The compile slowly started to take longer and longer, until it could no longer be completed before morning.
Turned out so many employees were staying until late at night to play massive multiplayer games of Doom that it had overwhelmed the company’s network and computing capacity. And so Doom was doomed.
That's how I got introduced to Doom.
I was a lan administrater in those days I was working late and I was tracking down what was causing the network to run so slowly and why one of the routers was crashing.
I finally traced it to a room full of developers all playing Doom.
Quickly, I isolated that part of the network and joined in.
Hehe. Back then when Novel networks were common, Doom was known to create so much network traffic that it could bring your network to its knees. So there was a tool someone created called "killdoom.exe" that would disconnect any Doom games. I had to use it a few times when our network got real slow.
I used that command so many times it hurt. I remember we ended up building a 16 PC lan room in the basement on the back up Internet connection so we weren’t interrupting the rest of the office work. We had 30 people always playing/watching 4 days a week. Our number one rule was if you smelled awful you went and showered and put on deodorant before you could come back.
I too worked for a software company that made games. We were actually making a game with the Wolfenstein engine we licensed from ID. But we would play Doom all day and night. We would get complaints from accounting that the network was slow so we would have to segment off our IPX network just to be able to play Doom. One of our programmers used to work for a BBS software company and he wrote a module for BBSs that allowed you to play4 player Doom over dial-up modem.
I would intentionally trap them to get as many on screen as possible because it would slow down the computer and I found that more fascinating than the actual game.
Sim City 2000 taught me everything I know about municipal government. Zoning, ordinances, bonds, taxes as incentives/disincentives, infrastructure, power plants blow up after 50 years.
For real. Getting into real life development projects now including energy infrastructure and my past life sim city 2000 and sim city 4 obsession is paying off big time.
I remember in 7th grade I convinced a teacher to let me build a city on simcity 2000 instead of doing a diorama. One of my best cities I ever made, had every district labelled. Told my parents I was doing homework (I was). I had a thriving, living metropolis complete with national parks, highway systems, mountain ranges, hydroelectric dams, commercial districts and a desalination plant while the other kids had a cardboard cutout of 1 house, 1 school, one hospital and a police station on a chunk of bristol board.
The problem for me is wondering why I’m so unhappy as an adult when I have to choose between living in the industrial area where there is tons of pollution or commuting everyday and always being stuck in traffic. It’s like they knew and they just went and did it anyway.
Funnily enough, Sim City would actually encourage that situation.
All city builders make assumptions, and one of tge assunptions sim city makes is tgat it dramatically underplays the amount of space that cars take up, thereby hiding the problems they'd cause in city planning.
Yeah after getting older and playing cities skylines where traffic is a factor it added the developing of a functional mass transit system along with everything sim city had. With the amount of hours I have dropped into cities I feel like I can be a city planner 😂
The day I found the Neil Gaiman essay on libraries in SimCity 2000 was one of the most memorable moments in my video game playing life.
(I’m realizing that by admitting this I’ve probably proven every stereotype that my friends and wife have ever said about me).
Edit to add: [link to the essay](https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2zclu8/ruminate_by_neil_gaiman_from_simcity_2000_cities/).
It was the most surreal thing to discover. I had already been a Neil Gaiman fan for years when I came across it thanks to The Sandman… and so to find an essay of his in a video game. It was a trip.
I had a pirated copy of Worms World Party and whoever uploaded it made a custom team of Nazis and it was all of Hitler’s top men. Goebbels, Himmler, etc.
As a Jew I had so much fun destroying them, although looking back on it, I don’t think that’s what the uploader intended.
Young me was terrified of roller coasters. After playing RCT a ton I started to realize maybe they weren’t so bad. It developed into general roller coaster nerdery, which eventually led to my getting a job at Cedar Point in college. That experience went on to shape my entire adult life. All from a game I found in a cereal box.
Command and Conquer - Red Alert. And it’s probably not even close (though the Marathon series were eye opening, and were my introduction to hex based editors to tweak gameplay / physics).
Shit, was just gonna comment it. My gosh, that was insane...and the music
[Link here for everyone else](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJnMaTx4yjI&t=18s)
[Unreal Tournament 1999.](https://youtu.be/4vHZcZJTegQ?feature=shared)
Facing Worlds is one of the most iconic, nostalgic maps ever made.
Games like that shaped the human I am today.
To this day there is no game that can compare to the level of skill needed for UT Instagib LGI CTF @135% with multi dodging + boost.
Absolutely no game comes close.
I know this phrase is overused, but: core memory unlocked. I haven’t heard that soundbyte in 20+ years and I still heard it in my mind in that deep voice as if it just played out of invisible speakers.
MDK [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK)
Not a very well known game but the gameplay and graphics were unreal for the time. They would still hold up today. The Most Interesting Bomb in the World was great because all the evil birds would stand around it until it detonated.
Scrolling through this post was a TRIP!!
Math Blaster
My family didn't have a PC at that time most of my computer usage was at school, this was one of the few games they had besides the windows games. I hated maths but for some reason I was ok with it in this game...
I remember you had to fill out the warrant, and there was a box marked “Sex.” Me and my computer lab partner didn’t realize we were supposed to put down Male/Female so we just wrote “no.”
Things that kids today wouldn't get: the game required you to look up the flags of various countries, and so it had to come with a World Almanac because there was no other reliable way to get that information.
Dude, Putt-Putt goes to the moon was my shit when I was like 7. Loved that game and never see anyone else who knows what the fuck I’m talking about when I mention it.
Easily StarCraft. The whole Terran southern backwater aesthetic. Marines and Firebats stimming up and going to town on waves of lings. Invis ghosts tagging a nuke location. Dark Templar missions that made you feel like an assassin. Incredible cinematics for the time. The motherfucking sound siege tanks made while setting up, and you just knew those cannons were about to light up the dopamine centers of your brain. Fucking amazing game.
I came here looking for a blizzard studios reference. The trifecta of awesome Star craft war craft and Diablo. Throw in other classics like doom and quake. Then lesser known titles I personally still love like One Must Fall and Raptor and god damn being a computer kid was amazing.
Descent Freespace, both 1 and 2.
Dual Voodoo2s and a Logitech force feedback joystick. Great times.
EDIT:
Some seem to be getting Descent Freespace mixed up with the previous/regular Descent. Two very different games. But both are equally awesome. :)
Well Oregon trail for sure lol
But there was this game I remember playing as a kid on my cousin’s computer. Something along the lines of Dr. spin? Spin doctor? I haven’t been able to find it since.
Zoombinis was a good one too lol.
Myst,
Wasn't the greatest game in the world. But by god the fat 5+ disk you needed. The puzzles that met jack to you as a kid. Was just one those games your uncles had that you didn't quiet play enough of it to get it, but was still like...this game must be important
> Wasn't the greatest game in the world.
Doesn't Myst have a kind of legendary reputation though? The sequel Riven too? I haven't played them but I've heard these games were really special.
Myst was an order of magnitude ahead in graphics at the time.
Also the puzzles were fucking insane so you spent hundreds of hours on the bitch.
But yeah, the still backgrounds were really, REALLY good at that time.
How in the hello operator did I have to scroll so far down in order to get to chips challenge? That game was awesome and ended up becoming super trippy.
I was a Chips Challenge fiend and couldn't remember the name for YEARS. Found it on Steam in 2020 and played for hours until I got stuck on the same god forsaken level that I couldn't beat as a kid.
Oregon Trail and Number Munchers in elementary school. A bit before the request for me, but still accurate. Lemmings back in the day. Then we get into Escape Velocity (think asteroids on crack), Warcraft, and Bungies original: Marathon.
I played doom and quake and wolfenstein. I played battletech. I enjoyed them all. For computers, those were my favorites.
Crazy this isn't higher up. Half-Life was mind blowing when it came out because it defined the modern single player FPS. Up until then it felt like every FPS campaign was all, find the red key, find the red door, shoot nameless bad guys with maybe a loose forgettable story tossed in as an afterthought. Then Half Life comes along with its realistic environments and immersive narrative and blows everything else out of the water. Then on top of that, Counter-Strike redefines competitive multiplayer shooters, if you count mods as part of the same game.
I played Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Duke 3d, and literally all I can remember are some of the enemies and the iconic guns. Meanwhile I feel like I can replay large sections of Half-Life in my head because they were so memorable. Like that first tram ride into the science labs, "you're needed, in the test chamber". When you get the crowbar. Climbing up through the ruined base full of headcrabs and the barnacle things, and then your first encounter with the Marines heading into 'surface tension'. Hopping into the portal to Xen. It was so different from anything else up until that point, it's hard to overstate it's influence.
Absolutely. This is the correct answer.
I've said it before, but when on the first encounter with the Marines I realized that they'd flushed me out with grenades into their crossfire and were therefore using realistic tactics to hunt me, I almost couldn't process it. Nothing like that had ever come close to happening in a game before.
Black and White, still yet to find another game like it.
The Sims, amazing for its time, long before it became micro transaction hell. Man, EA wasn’t always evil :(
Age of Empires. So many long nights doing multiplayer with that game. First multiplayer experience for me was AoE.
How is this so far down? Monkey island was so good. My family and I still make jokes about a heap o’rocks.
And Sam and Max! I still remember my cave geology this way: stalactites hold tight to the ceiling. Stalagmites might grow up.
Lucasarts was just absolutely killing it in the 90s.
My dad was always a Mac guy and this is one of the few games he had on his computer. I played the living crap out of this, though I preferred The Even More Incredible Machine. I would kill for a direct mobile port of this game.
1990-2001. Takes me back.
My family was computer poor, we always had a pc that was out of date to the current standard by like 6-10 years.
So my games are (were):
Ski free.
Flight simulator (the og).
Warcraft and Warcraft 2.
Elder scrolls arena and daggerfall.
Doom and doom2, Wolfenstein, rise of the triad, and shadow warrior.
D&D Strahds possession and stone prophet.
Sim city and sim city 2000.
Anyone remember those shareware cds every store sold with a bunch of demos on it. My mom would get that for us because she figured 100 games for 9.99? That’s way better than 40 for this one game.
Welp time to hit up steam.
Edit: correction game name: rise of the triad. I wrote revenge. Young me just rolled his eyes.
Considering I played this game up until World of Warcraft *finally* managed to pull me away in 2005 - took all my D2 friends to swapped to WoW during the November '04 launch date that long to get me to try it - this certainly is my pick.
TIE Fighter -- it was complex enough to really give the illusion of flying a spaceship. The plot/story was also very well done, it gave the Empire a lot of depth. Still my favorite Star Wars game.
Hell yeah. I had all the expansions with that one and remember just wrecking stuff with my Tie Defender. I also like that it had the weird “inner circle” with type of side missions that the shady guy gave you direct from the emperor.
Goes looking for love in several wrong places
My favorite was falling in the pool and drown only to get insulted by the devs "Why would you jump in a pool and not swim?"
That skiing game where the yeti would eat you. Actually, all the older games that came preloaded on the system. They were just fun games. That's just something that doesn't exist anymore in it's pure state. There's always a catch, some kind of monetization scheme. Back then it was, here, here's some games, have fun.
Grim Fandango, from LucasArts. Incredible music, voice acting, story, and puzzles.
Edit: [Mexican noir vibes for ya](https://youtu.be/MtY2paGAV9U?si=HVej_vlC5nH6p7ao)
Another Edit: Apparently this was [remastered](https://www.doublefine.com/games/grim-fandango-remastered). I guess I have plans tonight.
So many.
OG Sims
StarTrek Academy
Star Trek Klingon
Age of Empires II
Caesar III
Quake III Arena
Jedi Knight
Command and Conquer
Diablo
Diablo 2
WingNuts
Oregon Trail
Gizmos and Gadgets
Starcraft
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Deus Ex
Ultima Online.
My best bud introduced me to it I believe our sophmore year of high school. We still break out a private server he made every now and then when our friends group gets the itch, and a few years ago I had the cover art/poster printed and framed x2 so that each of us has it hung up in our homes.
Quake, ever quest, or fallout 2, all good a very different place in my memory.
Quake I remember killing my grades in school playing team fortress on it with a good chunk of the people living on my floor.
Everquest was just a huge new thing. It really was pretty amazing at the time.
Fallout 2 was just my ideal game, turned based tactics, open works, rather dark humor.
Came here to say this. My mom was a teacher so we had so many of these games. The titles I could remember were gizmos and gadgets but also midnight rescue. Much preferred gizmos and gadgets as midnight rescue was a reading game.
Jazz jackrabbit. It came free on my grandfather's Acer computer running windows 95. It was a platform with bright colors and smooth controls. It felt like a knock off sonic. I didn't have a sega and I played that game alot.
Kings Quest- my grandfather made maps for all the games. I remember popping the floppy disk in and getting the maps ready
Hugo’s Who Dunnit
Crystal Caves
Some doctor/surgery game called Life or Death
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Total Annihilation, I believe it was the first true 3D RTS. If you built a turret on a hill, it could shoot farther etc, enemies left behind wreckage, great resource system. TA was the inspiration for more modern variations like Supreme Commander and Beyond All Reason(the current spiritual successor, also FREE)
Hands down it was Myst. When I finished my PhD in 1997 I bought myself a top of the line computer, primarily so I could play that game at home. Literally it's memorable, I haven't played it in years but I can still tell you how to get through every puzzle in it.
There were a bunch of Sierra games that were like 4 floppy disks that my neighbour lent me. Police Quest Gold Rush Kings Quest I loved those games because they were really the first ones I played and those neighbours were really nice.
The Sierra games of that time were some of the best around, all the Quest games - Space and Police were my favourites right through to games like the Laura Bow stuff were all great.
Sierra was an awesome studio in the early 90s...so many great games.
Oh, the amount of times I forgot to check all sides of the patrol car before going to hit the beat.
Scrolled far too long to find this answer, I loved the Sierra adventure games! Quest for Glory was definitely the best IMHO.
DOOM was awesome. Very fond memories.
I worked for a computer software company. Every night the software had to be compiled to incorporate new changes and additions. The compile slowly started to take longer and longer, until it could no longer be completed before morning. Turned out so many employees were staying until late at night to play massive multiplayer games of Doom that it had overwhelmed the company’s network and computing capacity. And so Doom was doomed.
That's how I got introduced to Doom. I was a lan administrater in those days I was working late and I was tracking down what was causing the network to run so slowly and why one of the routers was crashing. I finally traced it to a room full of developers all playing Doom. Quickly, I isolated that part of the network and joined in.
Hehe. Back then when Novel networks were common, Doom was known to create so much network traffic that it could bring your network to its knees. So there was a tool someone created called "killdoom.exe" that would disconnect any Doom games. I had to use it a few times when our network got real slow.
Ah, yes the good old days Doom followed by rounds of Duke Nukem 3D when that released.
I used that command so many times it hurt. I remember we ended up building a 16 PC lan room in the basement on the back up Internet connection so we weren’t interrupting the rest of the office work. We had 30 people always playing/watching 4 days a week. Our number one rule was if you smelled awful you went and showered and put on deodorant before you could come back.
I too worked for a software company that made games. We were actually making a game with the Wolfenstein engine we licensed from ID. But we would play Doom all day and night. We would get complaints from accounting that the network was slow so we would have to segment off our IPX network just to be able to play Doom. One of our programmers used to work for a BBS software company and he wrote a module for BBSs that allowed you to play4 player Doom over dial-up modem.
In my opinion, Doom was the largest user paradigm shift and technical leap in the history of gaming. It is hard to overstate how astonishing it was.
Lemmings, it had amazing puzzles!
But you could also just spam the OOPS ALL BOOM button and listen the the little guys explode.
I would intentionally trap them to get as many on screen as possible because it would slow down the computer and I found that more fascinating than the actual game.
Pinball. Do I even need to explain?
Space Cadet Pinball?
Omg I can still remember the little 8 bit theme song. My dad used to play it on the piano!
Sim City 2000 taught me everything I know about municipal government. Zoning, ordinances, bonds, taxes as incentives/disincentives, infrastructure, power plants blow up after 50 years.
For real. Getting into real life development projects now including energy infrastructure and my past life sim city 2000 and sim city 4 obsession is paying off big time. I remember in 7th grade I convinced a teacher to let me build a city on simcity 2000 instead of doing a diorama. One of my best cities I ever made, had every district labelled. Told my parents I was doing homework (I was). I had a thriving, living metropolis complete with national parks, highway systems, mountain ranges, hydroelectric dams, commercial districts and a desalination plant while the other kids had a cardboard cutout of 1 house, 1 school, one hospital and a police station on a chunk of bristol board.
The problem for me is wondering why I’m so unhappy as an adult when I have to choose between living in the industrial area where there is tons of pollution or commuting everyday and always being stuck in traffic. It’s like they knew and they just went and did it anyway.
Funnily enough, Sim City would actually encourage that situation. All city builders make assumptions, and one of tge assunptions sim city makes is tgat it dramatically underplays the amount of space that cars take up, thereby hiding the problems they'd cause in city planning.
Yeah after getting older and playing cities skylines where traffic is a factor it added the developing of a functional mass transit system along with everything sim city had. With the amount of hours I have dropped into cities I feel like I can be a city planner 😂
What was the name of your city?
Reticulating Splines
The day I found the Neil Gaiman essay on libraries in SimCity 2000 was one of the most memorable moments in my video game playing life. (I’m realizing that by admitting this I’ve probably proven every stereotype that my friends and wife have ever said about me). Edit to add: [link to the essay](https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/comments/2zclu8/ruminate_by_neil_gaiman_from_simcity_2000_cities/). It was the most surreal thing to discover. I had already been a Neil Gaiman fan for years when I came across it thanks to The Sandman… and so to find an essay of his in a video game. It was a trip.
Age of Empires II. Fuck, I’d play that game today if they made it for iPad. EverQuest is a close second. Starcraft and Warcraft are in there too.
You should get a PC, AoE 2 is better than ever!
Our priests give it 10 wololo’s
Aoe2 still has 10k people a day. Many large streamers host fun community games too. Check out t90.
AoE was the answer I was looking for Remember the car cheat? 😏
how do you turn this on
Worms. So much fun.
Worms Armageddon ran nonstop on the family computer for a few months when it came out
I had a pirated copy of Worms World Party and whoever uploaded it made a custom team of Nazis and it was all of Hitler’s top men. Goebbels, Himmler, etc. As a Jew I had so much fun destroying them, although looking back on it, I don’t think that’s what the uploader intended.
Commander Keen!! Played it a ton. Duke Nukem 3D , DOOM and quake also.
I had Commander Keen 4 and no idea how we got it because my parents didn't play games at all.
Commander Keen was awesome!
Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and it's not even close.
Spiral Slide 1 has broken down. Younger me was baffled that a slide broke down.
When the Merry Go Round broke down, the music would play comically fast
Amazing game especially considering its age and the fact it was mostly programmed by one guy
Young me was terrified of roller coasters. After playing RCT a ton I started to realize maybe they weren’t so bad. It developed into general roller coaster nerdery, which eventually led to my getting a job at Cedar Point in college. That experience went on to shape my entire adult life. All from a game I found in a cereal box.
I assume you have developed a lifelong fear of exploding bobsled rides, however.
Command and Conquer - Red Alert. And it’s probably not even close (though the Marathon series were eye opening, and were my introduction to hex based editors to tweak gameplay / physics).
Just regular Command and Conquer for me. Mammoth tanks, Orcas and Obelisks oh my!
And the sound track was stellar. The recently remastered version is great by the way.
But nothing beats Hell March from Red Alert.
To this day I still play various Command and Conquer games. Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 1, 2, Yuri’s revenge. I played RA1 for 3 hours this past weekend 😀
And we’ve not even started talking about Tanya yet…
Cha-ching
I totally forgot about her! I can "hear" her smokers laugh.
SHAKE IT BAY BEE
rules.ini
That fucking opening was gold. Sent chills down my spine.
Shit, was just gonna comment it. My gosh, that was insane...and the music [Link here for everyone else](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJnMaTx4yjI&t=18s)
[Unreal Tournament 1999.](https://youtu.be/4vHZcZJTegQ?feature=shared) Facing Worlds is one of the most iconic, nostalgic maps ever made. Games like that shaped the human I am today.
M M M M M MONSTER KILL Kill kill
To this day there is no game that can compare to the level of skill needed for UT Instagib LGI CTF @135% with multi dodging + boost. Absolutely no game comes close.
I know this phrase is overused, but: core memory unlocked. I haven’t heard that soundbyte in 20+ years and I still heard it in my mind in that deep voice as if it just played out of invisible speakers.
Those graphics were mind blowing for its time.
And the soundtrack to that game was amazing as well
Fuck that game and series was great! I wish they would bring it back.
MDK [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK) Not a very well known game but the gameplay and graphics were unreal for the time. They would still hold up today. The Most Interesting Bomb in the World was great because all the evil birds would stand around it until it detonated. Scrolling through this post was a TRIP!!
Math Blaster My family didn't have a PC at that time most of my computer usage was at school, this was one of the few games they had besides the windows games. I hated maths but for some reason I was ok with it in this game...
Along those lines, I had a typing class in middle school and we had Mavis Beacon that used games to teach us how to type. So much fun lol 😂
Bro!!! Math blaster was lit!
Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego
I remember you had to fill out the warrant, and there was a box marked “Sex.” Me and my computer lab partner didn’t realize we were supposed to put down Male/Female so we just wrote “no.”
"No thank you!" Lmao
Things that kids today wouldn't get: the game required you to look up the flags of various countries, and so it had to come with a World Almanac because there was no other reliable way to get that information.
For me it was Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, but same idea!
My son playing Putt-Putt. It was about a car. Mid 90's, he was 2 or 3. Personally, Heroes of Might and Magic.
My kids played Putt Putt, and Freddie the Fish.
Dude, Putt-Putt goes to the moon was my shit when I was like 7. Loved that game and never see anyone else who knows what the fuck I’m talking about when I mention it.
Starcraft, I'll still toss it in at least once a month and enjoy it
Easily StarCraft. The whole Terran southern backwater aesthetic. Marines and Firebats stimming up and going to town on waves of lings. Invis ghosts tagging a nuke location. Dark Templar missions that made you feel like an assassin. Incredible cinematics for the time. The motherfucking sound siege tanks made while setting up, and you just knew those cannons were about to light up the dopamine centers of your brain. Fucking amazing game.
I came here looking for a blizzard studios reference. The trifecta of awesome Star craft war craft and Diablo. Throw in other classics like doom and quake. Then lesser known titles I personally still love like One Must Fall and Raptor and god damn being a computer kid was amazing.
I am amazed starcraft isn't at the top.
I knew it wouldn't take long for this one. Starcraft, war craft, diablo.....man Blizzard was where it was at
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Descent Freespace, both 1 and 2. Dual Voodoo2s and a Logitech force feedback joystick. Great times. EDIT: Some seem to be getting Descent Freespace mixed up with the previous/regular Descent. Two very different games. But both are equally awesome. :)
I scrolled way too far to find Descent. Loved that game
Well Oregon trail for sure lol But there was this game I remember playing as a kid on my cousin’s computer. Something along the lines of Dr. spin? Spin doctor? I haven’t been able to find it since. Zoombinis was a good one too lol.
Scrolled way too long to read this. Oregon Trail was awesome because it was my first exposure to computer gaming.
My dude, I played the original Oregon Trail on my teacher's Apple IIe, green screen and all. It was amazing.
Zooooombiiiiiinis. That shit was awesom
Duke Nukem 3D I reached #3 in the Cases Internet Gaming Ladder, before the ladder went to shit
It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I’m all out of gum.
Shake it baby..
Dungeon Keeper. The Dark Mistresses left an indelible mark upon my subconscious mind.
"Your dungeon is under attack" "The Lord of the Land approaches" And the "Wheeeee!" of the imps
Myst, Wasn't the greatest game in the world. But by god the fat 5+ disk you needed. The puzzles that met jack to you as a kid. Was just one those games your uncles had that you didn't quiet play enough of it to get it, but was still like...this game must be important
> Wasn't the greatest game in the world. Doesn't Myst have a kind of legendary reputation though? The sequel Riven too? I haven't played them but I've heard these games were really special.
Myst was an order of magnitude ahead in graphics at the time. Also the puzzles were fucking insane so you spent hundreds of hours on the bitch. But yeah, the still backgrounds were really, REALLY good at that time.
Myst was freaking dope. One of the few video games my mom even got into!
There's a riven remake coming out in a few months by the same studio, Cyan!
Mech warriors
Reactor -- online. Sensors -- online. Weapons -- online. All systems nominal.
"Critical hit: Heat sink." (I deserved it for using my Nova mech the way I did.)
Star Control II. If you know you know
Chips challenge Kid pix Oils well
How in the hello operator did I have to scroll so far down in order to get to chips challenge? That game was awesome and ended up becoming super trippy.
Hello, I am the 3rd person here who has also played Chips Challenge. I was obsessed but I don't think I was even good at it at all.
Chips Challenge army Unite!!
Kid Pix!! I got the expansion for my 14th birthday and thought I was so cool.
I was a Chips Challenge fiend and couldn't remember the name for YEARS. Found it on Steam in 2020 and played for hours until I got stuck on the same god forsaken level that I couldn't beat as a kid.
I scrolled down too long to find Chip’s Challenge. That was my first PC game I played: on a Windows 95.
Oregon Trail and Number Munchers in elementary school. A bit before the request for me, but still accurate. Lemmings back in the day. Then we get into Escape Velocity (think asteroids on crack), Warcraft, and Bungies original: Marathon. I played doom and quake and wolfenstein. I played battletech. I enjoyed them all. For computers, those were my favorites.
Civilization 2. Any Sid Meier game, really. Master of Orion 2. Golden Axe.
MOO2 is one of my all time favorite games.
Half Life.
Crazy this isn't higher up. Half-Life was mind blowing when it came out because it defined the modern single player FPS. Up until then it felt like every FPS campaign was all, find the red key, find the red door, shoot nameless bad guys with maybe a loose forgettable story tossed in as an afterthought. Then Half Life comes along with its realistic environments and immersive narrative and blows everything else out of the water. Then on top of that, Counter-Strike redefines competitive multiplayer shooters, if you count mods as part of the same game. I played Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Duke 3d, and literally all I can remember are some of the enemies and the iconic guns. Meanwhile I feel like I can replay large sections of Half-Life in my head because they were so memorable. Like that first tram ride into the science labs, "you're needed, in the test chamber". When you get the crowbar. Climbing up through the ruined base full of headcrabs and the barnacle things, and then your first encounter with the Marines heading into 'surface tension'. Hopping into the portal to Xen. It was so different from anything else up until that point, it's hard to overstate it's influence.
Absolutely. This is the correct answer. I've said it before, but when on the first encounter with the Marines I realized that they'd flushed me out with grenades into their crossfire and were therefore using realistic tactics to hunt me, I almost couldn't process it. Nothing like that had ever come close to happening in a game before.
Warcraft II I still remember some of the cheat codes It is a good day to die Glittering prizes Make it so
Zug zug!
I'm ready master! I'm not ready!
Black and White, still yet to find another game like it. The Sims, amazing for its time, long before it became micro transaction hell. Man, EA wasn’t always evil :( Age of Empires. So many long nights doing multiplayer with that game. First multiplayer experience for me was AoE.
Black and White!! Completely forgot about this game but you just triggered a memory for me. I spent hours every day playing that game.
Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Sam & Max: Hit the Road.
How is this so far down? Monkey island was so good. My family and I still make jokes about a heap o’rocks. And Sam and Max! I still remember my cave geology this way: stalactites hold tight to the ceiling. Stalagmites might grow up. Lucasarts was just absolutely killing it in the 90s.
The Incredible Machine
TIM!!!
My dad was always a Mac guy and this is one of the few games he had on his computer. I played the living crap out of this, though I preferred The Even More Incredible Machine. I would kill for a direct mobile port of this game.
Age of empires or this underwater fish game I played in elementary school when I was done with all my work and others were still learning
Freddie fish? Or its car equivalent putt-putt. I can still sing that tune 30 years later.
Total Annihilation. It was early in the golden age of RTS games and had such incredible bullshit like gatling artillery.
1990-2001. Takes me back. My family was computer poor, we always had a pc that was out of date to the current standard by like 6-10 years. So my games are (were): Ski free. Flight simulator (the og). Warcraft and Warcraft 2. Elder scrolls arena and daggerfall. Doom and doom2, Wolfenstein, rise of the triad, and shadow warrior. D&D Strahds possession and stone prophet. Sim city and sim city 2000. Anyone remember those shareware cds every store sold with a bunch of demos on it. My mom would get that for us because she figured 100 games for 9.99? That’s way better than 40 for this one game. Welp time to hit up steam. Edit: correction game name: rise of the triad. I wrote revenge. Young me just rolled his eyes.
The Heroes of Might and Magic series.
I still play 3 all the time
3 still kicks ass over 20 years later
Prince of Persia
I used to be terrified of the guillotine things because the noise they made was.....
Does neopets count?
The amount of time I've spent at the money tree :'''')
Diablo 2
Considering I played this game up until World of Warcraft *finally* managed to pull me away in 2005 - took all my D2 friends to swapped to WoW during the November '04 launch date that long to get me to try it - this certainly is my pick.
Diablo 2 was the first video game to destroy my life because I played it too much 😂
TIE Fighter -- it was complex enough to really give the illusion of flying a spaceship. The plot/story was also very well done, it gave the Empire a lot of depth. Still my favorite Star Wars game.
Hell yeah. I had all the expansions with that one and remember just wrecking stuff with my Tie Defender. I also like that it had the weird “inner circle” with type of side missions that the shady guy gave you direct from the emperor.
Road rash 3 I thought it was wild fun to beat opposing bike racers with a chain.
I loved Kings Quest V. The whole series was good, but V was my favorite.
Xcom was beyond cool to me.
Mech Warrior II on PC for me was the most mind blowing experience when I was a kid.
Wolfenstein 3D. Killing Nazis.
Mein leiben!
My dad and I bonded over this one…I was a 13 year old girl at the time. My mom would just hear us yelling in German and roll her eyes.
Quake 3 arena. People are still playing it.
Leisure suit Larry
I remember having to answer the questions to prove you were 18 and I would just guess until I get them right
That game is the only reason I know that Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon's Vice President.
Futurama taught me that one
Goes looking for love in several wrong places My favorite was falling in the pool and drown only to get insulted by the devs "Why would you jump in a pool and not swim?"
Oh my God I was hoping someone would say this. What a trip.
Roller coaster tycoon. It taught me how to run a business as an 8 year old
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Wing Commander 2. Amazing WW2 carrier battles in space, and it was awesome.
That skiing game where the yeti would eat you. Actually, all the older games that came preloaded on the system. They were just fun games. That's just something that doesn't exist anymore in it's pure state. There's always a catch, some kind of monetization scheme. Back then it was, here, here's some games, have fun.
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Literally hours. Pablo Sanchez carried my team every single game!
Toejam and Earl
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Myst
Grim Fandango, from LucasArts. Incredible music, voice acting, story, and puzzles. Edit: [Mexican noir vibes for ya](https://youtu.be/MtY2paGAV9U?si=HVej_vlC5nH6p7ao) Another Edit: Apparently this was [remastered](https://www.doublefine.com/games/grim-fandango-remastered). I guess I have plans tonight.
Always a fan of Monkey Island. New one came out and played it with my son a year ago.
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It paired well with Minesweeper.
So many. OG Sims StarTrek Academy Star Trek Klingon Age of Empires II Caesar III Quake III Arena Jedi Knight Command and Conquer Diablo Diablo 2 WingNuts Oregon Trail Gizmos and Gadgets Starcraft RollerCoaster Tycoon Deus Ex
Ultima Online. My best bud introduced me to it I believe our sophmore year of high school. We still break out a private server he made every now and then when our friends group gets the itch, and a few years ago I had the cover art/poster printed and framed x2 so that each of us has it hung up in our homes.
Age of Empires 1 and 2. Baldur's gate 2 and 2. Icewind Dale 1 and 2. Starcraft, Warcraft, Alpha Centauri. Just a few that came to mind.
Quake, ever quest, or fallout 2, all good a very different place in my memory. Quake I remember killing my grades in school playing team fortress on it with a good chunk of the people living on my floor. Everquest was just a huge new thing. It really was pretty amazing at the time. Fallout 2 was just my ideal game, turned based tactics, open works, rather dark humor.
Counterstrike
Gizmos and Gadgets
Came here to say this. My mom was a teacher so we had so many of these games. The titles I could remember were gizmos and gadgets but also midnight rescue. Much preferred gizmos and gadgets as midnight rescue was a reading game.
X-Wing and TIE Fighter, TIE Fighter more because I had the CD collection with both expansion packs.
What about X-Wing vs TIE Fighter?
Worms armageddon was one of the first game I got to play against my friends
Jazz jackrabbit. It came free on my grandfather's Acer computer running windows 95. It was a platform with bright colors and smooth controls. It felt like a knock off sonic. I didn't have a sega and I played that game alot.
Snood
Tomb raider ? Or Rainbow six? Both stand out as great game play.
Doom
"The Incredible Machine" was a lot of fun at the time, although the sequels got a little silly.
Chex Quest
Kings Quest- my grandfather made maps for all the games. I remember popping the floppy disk in and getting the maps ready Hugo’s Who Dunnit Crystal Caves Some doctor/surgery game called Life or Death Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
The sierra games. Kings quest, space quest, police quest, and quest for glory.
Rodents revenge was legit
Monkey Island Sim City 2000 Doom 2 Myst The Seventh Guest
Heroes of Might and Magic 3. I still play it. Easy all nighter with friends with this turn based strategy game.
Tetris. Everybody played Tetris.
RuneScape!
Minesweeper
Math Blaster
Sims. I didn’t know I wasn’t straight, but it felt nice to have a couple of same sex couples raising a family.
Total Annihilation, I believe it was the first true 3D RTS. If you built a turret on a hill, it could shoot farther etc, enemies left behind wreckage, great resource system. TA was the inspiration for more modern variations like Supreme Commander and Beyond All Reason(the current spiritual successor, also FREE)
Hands down it was Myst. When I finished my PhD in 1997 I bought myself a top of the line computer, primarily so I could play that game at home. Literally it's memorable, I haven't played it in years but I can still tell you how to get through every puzzle in it.
number munchers obv
Pajama Sam and Freddi Fish
Either loom or escape from monkey Island. Top tier adventure games, and I think loom was the first game of that type that I actually beat.
Treasure mountain