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Top 5

Doom and Doom II

Command and Conquer: Red Alert

Super Mario World

StarCraft with Brood War expansion

Duke 3D

• 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!

StarCraft

Command and conquer, before Westwood was fucked over by EA

1. Quake
2. Thief
3. Metal Gear Solid
4. Half Life
5. 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.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

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

Commander Keen

Age of empires 1

Pyramid: Challenge of Pharaoh's dream

Atlantis: The lost tales

Ski free

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.

• 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.

Wait I forget about consoles:

• GoldenEye 64, opened my eyes to FPS I guess
• Wave Racer 64, was the staple racer in our household

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

Quake 3 arena

Baldur's Gate

Age of Empires 2

But only started playing it a few years back

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Goldeneye

By far:

• Leisure Suit Larry
• Prince of Persia

Streets of Rage 2. Honourable mention to FFVII and FFVIII.

• 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!)

Diablo

Doom

Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis

Lotus

Sanitarium.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In more or less this order:

Fifa 99

Duke Nukem 3D Doom

Rise Of The Triad

Test Drive 5

Simcity

Hardball 3

Madden 98

Starcraft

Age Of Empires 2

Need For Speed 2

All Points Buletin

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

I still play Civilization 1 from time to time.

And with friends, Worms 2 is a banger, and so is the cave flyer Wings

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

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

Baldur’s Gate. That game blew me away.

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.

Brave Fencer Musashi! It's a fun RPG from squaresoft. Very much a hidden gem. The music in it was streets ahead.

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.

Super Mario Kart and NHL '94

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.

Banjo-Kazooie

Donkey Kong Country 2

Age of Empires 2