I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.
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I still play Civilization 1 from time to time.
And with friends, Worms 2 is a banger, and so is the cave flyer Wings
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The Shining Force series
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.
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Now you're asking a question I can answer. FFVII or Pokemon. That's all I ever played. Thank you for your time.
Giving you an upvote for FFVII, that was the game that got me into gaming. Still have the best memories of that one
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Age of Empires 2
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.
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Brave Fencer Musashi! It's a fun RPG from squaresoft. Very much a hidden gem. The music in it was streets ahead.
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Sonic 3 & Knuckles
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.
Donkey Kong Country 2
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.
Sim City 2000
Command and Conquer
Red Alert
Goldeneye
Mario Kart
NBA Hang time
Perfect Dark
MDK
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.
The entire list of releases from the year 1998, the objectively best year in all of video gaming history.
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Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor
Heroes of Might and Magic III
The Secret of Monkey Island
still play it nowadays from time to time
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
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.
Too tough to name one I can only narrow it to three
Xcom UFO Defense
Chrono Trigger
Super Street Fighter 2
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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)
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
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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.
Super Mario Kart and NHL '94
It's between Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden II. I think it goes to the latter.
Road rash
Shining force
Redneck rampage
Bottom of the 9th 99
Super Mario 64
Baldurβs Gate. That game blew me away.
The ones I played the most were:
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Heroes of Might & Magic
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Civilization
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Genghis Khan ][: Clan of the White Wolf
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ZZT
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Final Fantasy 6
not in order, mind
Homeworld and Half Life for me: both were just awesome. I spent a very long time in both.
TOCA Touring Car Championship
Gran Turismo
Syphon Filter
backyard baseball