Top 5
Doom and Doom II
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Super Mario World
StarCraft with Brood War expansion
Duke 3D
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
- 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’m kinda surprised it took this long to see Pokémon mentioned.
This is almost my exact list. They’re all games I will happily replay.
StarCraft
The StarCraft storyline and characters resonated so much with me as a kid.
Command and conquer, before Westwood was fucked over by EA
- 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.
@Platform27@lemmy.ml @mayflower@lemmy.ml Those are some excellent choices. I’d pick quake for multiplayer - and SS2 for single. Honorable mention to Dune 2.
Yeah, super nice choices!
With exception of MGS, I still play all of those (Quake and Thief series) every few years.
The original System Shock is definitely one of my all time favorites too. An absolute game changer playing that late night with headphones on.
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
One of my all-time favorite Zelda games!
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
Syndicate was glorious
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
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.
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
If you loved it, you must play 2! It’s so good.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Goldeneye
Age of Empires 2
But only started playing it a few years back
Wololo
Quake 3 arena
Excellent
It’s still the first game I run with every PC upgrade.
Baldur’s Gate