RetroGaming

Fate of Atlantis is pretty good

SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga

Myth The Fallen Lords and Myth 2 on the Macintosh. This was my favorite multiplayer game I’ve ever played by far.

Other great Mac games from my youth: The Odyssey (1994) by David Larkin Sim City and Sim City 2000 Rogue Sim Ant Prince of Persia The Scarab of Ra Realmz Path Ways into Darkness and Marathon

And my favorites on BBS were Major Mud and Legend of the Red Dragon.

I didn't have a PC, but when I went to friend’s houses I would play the shit out of Doom.

C64: Elite. the game is my personal number one as I played only Elite constantly for a long time, despite all other games available for C64.

Amiga: Chaos Engine, Transarctica.

486: Elite Frontier, Descent, Descent II.

• Sonic the hedgehog
• Golden axe
• Streets of rage
• Micro machines
• Super Mario Bros 3
• Super Mario world
• Cool boarders
• SSX tricky
• Speed freaks
• Crash bandicoot
• Soul Reaver
• Tony hawk
• Tomb raider 3
• Abes oddesy
• Crazy taxi
• Duke nukem 3D

Ocarina of time Red Alert .. yeah probably just those two would do me

• Transport Tycoon
• C&C Red Alert and Tiberian Sun
• Anno 1602 (1602 A.D.)
• Theme Park
• Commander Keen
• Doom 2 (and Wolfenstein 3D to some extend)
• GTA2
• Half-Life
• Dungeon Keeper (mainly DK2)
• Leisure Suit Larry 6
• Worms 2 & Armageddon
• Age of Empires 2
• Sim City 2000 & 3000
• SimTower
• The Settlers 2
• Lemmings
• Incredible Machine
• Commandos
• Outcast
• Quake 3 Arena
• Descent
• StarCraft (although I started playing it later)

Xwing, day of the tentacle, Sam and Max hit the road, terminal velocity, half-life, journeyman project, Myst, that weird Encarta cdrom trivia game, counterstrike, EverQuest, you don't know Jack, Spiderman cartoon maker, master of Orion, monkey Island, Commander keen, and DOOM

Lode Runner for Apple II. Still remarkably playable. You could also go for The Legend Returns on PlayStation / Saturn.

Carmageddon is a game that I loved at the time, and am very hesitant to revisit... I suspect it hasn't aged well!

Amiga:

• Sensible Soccer
• Soccer Kid
• The Chaos Engine

ZX Spectrum:

• Chaos
• Robocop
• Midnight Resistance

• MECHWARRIOR 2
• QUAKE 2
• Broken Sword 1
• Half-Life 1
• Jedi knight dark Forces 2
• Police Quest 1
• Aliens vs predator
• System shock 2
• Unreal tournament
• Star Trek Starfleet Academy
• Zork 1 and 2
• Heavy Gear 2
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2
• Pandemonium
• Total annihilation

Myst and Obsidian

• MULE
• Might and Magic VI
• Master of Orion
• Civ 1 & 2

Lords of the Realm 2, the OG X-Com trilogy, Total Annihilation, Dark Reign, Civ II Test of Time

I was a fan of Midtown madness, both 1 and 2.

I had LAN parties with my friends by booting the game, then ejecting the CD and passing it along.

Sadly the third one wasn't on PC.

Squarez Deluxe (which is now Freeware!)

It's a thinking man's Tetris and about 100x more rewarding to play

Baldur's Gate
Lords of the Realm 2
Descent (1, 2, and 3)
Sim City 2000

amiga wings of fury

atari 1040ST outrun (the audio on atari!!!)

c64 zak mckraken

Late and I cannot possibly read everything here, but I'll come back to it as well.

And just to do some due diligence:

• Saw it multiple times already, but Homeworld.
• Star Wars Rogue Squadron or many of the other Star Wars flight games before it.
• Imperium Galactica 2. Amazing space RTS with space and ground combat.
• I think one of the Formula 1 games from the era is considered among the best, but I'm not sure which. If you like F1 and racing that's worth checking out.
• Star Trek Armada is from 2000, but very good too.
• Sid Meier games.
• Nintendo games, including Mario Kart 64. Unfortunately the first Mario Party isn't as good as modern ones I hear, but may also be up your alley.
• Scorched Earth or Tank Wars for DOS. Worms for a more modern take on the genre.

Very space- and RTS-themed, but that's what got my attention at the time. And they were having their golden age. Also I was very young in the 90s, so that's all I have.

Total Annihilation. It was released in 1997 and brought inspiration to games like Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation.

Also, mother fuckin' Cap'N Crunch's Crunchling Adventure. I don't have to explain that one.

There was this older 90's (I think?) game I loved but I can't figure out the name or find it, despite some googling. You played the part of someone piloting a drone on a space station that had a viral outbreak. The virus alerted the DNA of the victims that the automated security system could no longer identify them as friendlies and so went on a killing spree. You're trying to find video clips from the inhabitants, collecting DNA samples, very point and click adventure with neat animated scenes with FMV. If this rings a bell or if anyone knows it, let me know!

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Doom (1 then 2) Dune 2
Command & conquer: Red alert
Quake 2 & 3 Unreal tournament
Rise of the triad
Heretic
Hexen
Space Quest 4
Quest for Glory series
Simcity 2000
Leisure Suit Larry 6
Grand Theft Auto (top down)

Quake, Doom, Half-Life, One Must Fall 2097, Microsoft Encarta's Mind Maze

Obligatory shout-out for any Bullfrog games of that era, especially Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2. Lionhead's Black & White is 1 year out of your window, but such a good game.

Also:
Syndicate Wars
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Grim Fandango
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Descent
Grand Theft Auto

Half Life. While I am too young to have played it when it released, it still was an astounding game for its time.

Out of This World - 1991

Ultima VII - 1992

Doom - 1993

Magic Carpet - 1994

Myth: The Fallen Lords - 1997

Ultima Online - 1997

Die by the Sword - 1998

Quake 3 Arena - 1999 and Quake 3 Weapons Factory Arena

Everquest - 1999

Rollercoaster Tycoon is an obvious must-play. And Zeus: Master of Olympus came out in 2000 but runs on Windows 95. It's a Sierra city builder, and I have thousands of hours in it.

• FFVII (and VIII)
• Homeworld
• Shadowrun (Sega Genesis version)
• Parasite Eve
• Wing Commander Series
• Colony Wars: Vengeance
• Gran Turismo 2
• Freespace (can't believe I forgot about that one)

...I'm in my late forties, so pre-2000 was my peak gaming time. As a result the list could go on and on and on....

• Quake II
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
• Power Dolls
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert
• StarCraft with the Brood War expansion
• Fallout
• Star Wars: Dark Forces
• The Oregon Trail (obviously)
• Syndicate
• Star Wars: TIE Fighter (X Wing was good too, but TIE Fighter was better)
• Dune II: Battle for Arrakis
• Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss
• SimCity (1989)
• X-COM: UFO Defense

The dig. The game is inspired by an idea originally created for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories series.

Blood (1997) Pretty much the best OG build engine game IMO.

Total Annihilation
Starcraft

Command and Conquer: Tiberium Sun

Tomb Raider

Mortal Kombat 3

Streets of Rage

Metal Gear Solid

Duke Nukem 3D

Metal Slug

Tie-fighter was a good one.

And StarCraft like someone mentioned and Warcraft.

Duke Nukem 3d

Pc games I really loved masters of orion 2

Most of my 80s/90s gaming was console games, but here's a bunch of computer games that I liked back then :

Lemmings 1 and 2 (the tribes). You can try 3 if you're curious, it's kind of its own thing, different scale and some think it's kind of not the same game anymore. 3D is interesting, but not easy on the eyes.

Lands of Lore. Very good real time maze dungeon-crawler with many obscure secrets, and full voice acting (that blew my mind back then. And there's Patrick Stewart in the cast).

Lands of Lore 2 is a very ambitious sequel in 3D, with FMV incorporated directly into the 3D world. It's quite hard and weird, very creepy at times, moreso if you're the kind who stray off the path.

Creatures. Life simulation with a bunch of furry things you can make hatch and take care of. You teach them to speak, make them breed, watch them interact with the world, reinforce their behaviour with friendly scratches or slaps, and hopefully make them smarter (or miserable, it's your choice). The game simulates their neural system, internal chemistry, immune system, DNA, it's kind of crazy. Requires typing to speak. 3 is the most complete version but requires a bit of tinkering for it to work.

Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy. I still own this series on steam and play it when I get nostalgic.

Bubble Bobble

Transport Tycoon

Some of my favorites in a variety of genre:

• TIE Fighter and/or Freespace
• Planescape: Torment
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• Pharaoh

Also one of Sierra's adventure games. A popular one is King's Quest VI.

Civilization II

Settlers

X-COM: UFO defence

Monkey Island

My mom got us this “Kids Cube” game collection in CompUSA when I was a kid and there were some gems in there. I’ve been looking for years to try and find the list of games but it’s one of those cheap dollar bin software collections. Anywho, some of the games I loved from that included:

Battle Bugs Jetpack Mice Movers Loader Larry

Non Kids Cube games: Doom (duh) Hero’s of might and Magic 3 Kings Quest VI Return to Zork Raptor: Call of the Shadows Battle Chess Jazz Jackrabbit Prince of Persia (the classic DOS 2D) Duke Nukem 2D

Did a quick search and thank you Archive! Found the Kids Cube! There’s a lot of weird stuff on there but I would spend hours just trying stuff out. https://archive.org/details/aztech_kids_cube