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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

Difficult to pick a single fave. Here are the games I've spent most of my time playing back then.

On PC:

• X-Wing series (X-Wing, TIE Fighter, etc.)
• Star Control 2
• Earthsiege 1 and 2
• Starsiege: Tribes
• Team Fortress mod for Quake
• EverQuest

On arcade, mostly fighting games, and some side-scrollers:

• Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3, 4
• Killer Instinct 1 and 2
• Virtua Fighter 1 and 2
• Marvel Vs. Street Fighter
• TMNT
• X-Men: Children of the Atom

Want to go back to the 80s? Lode Runner, Rescue on Fractalus! and Karateka. Also Gyruss introduced me to modern remixes of classical music.

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.

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

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.

Age of Empires 2

The Shining Force series

I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.

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.

The entire list of releases from the year 1998, the objectively best year in all of video gaming history.

For me... Monster Truck Madness, both 1 and 2

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.

• STAR CONTROL 2
• Another World
• Action Quake 2
• Street fighter 2

Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven

Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Rogue Squadron!

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.

Sim City 2000

Command and Conquer

Red Alert

Goldeneye

Mario Kart

NBA Hang time

Perfect Dark

MDK

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

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

Road rash

Shining force

Redneck rampage

Bottom of the 9th 99

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)

The Secret of Monkey Island

still play it nowadays from time to time

Too tough to name one I can only narrow it to three

Xcom UFO Defense

Chrono Trigger

Super Street Fighter 2

Banjo-Kazooie

Donkey Kong Country 2

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.

Zelda OoT

Super Mario World

Doom

TIE Fighter

Diablo

Baldur’s Gate. That game blew me away.

It's between Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden II. I think it goes to the latter.

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.

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.