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.
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Terranigma. Still my favorite RPG to this day and one of my favorite games to this day, but it's hard to gush about this game without any spoilers and its written in a way that requires a bit of attention from the player. You do need to either have an EU / PAL SNES or emulate it though, because it never released in the Americas due to publisher drama.
Secret of Mana is great too, or if you already played that, Seiken Densetsu 3, which is the sequel title that never got released in the West, but got fan translated roms out there. Seiken Densetsu 2 being SoM, and the original Seiken Densetsu 1 was released as Final Fantasy Adventures and sort of a side story to the Final Fantasy franchise, which got dropped and became its own franchise with the second game. SD3 (or "Secret of Mana 2") is a significant step up to the first game in many aspects and even has multiple characters & branching endings based on your character selections.
On the PC definitely the Command & Conquer's Tiberian series, starting with the first game and a GDI campaign run, followed by a NOD campaign run. It got those cheesy but amazingly entertaining little clips between the missions that actually get you immersed into the story and it has a killer soundtrack too. It's one of the many great franchises ruined by EA, but I heard the remastered version is actually decent (I still won't buy because I still boycott them). The already suggested Red Alert is a spin-off series with some references to the Tiberian series, so I would not start with that one until you played the Tiberian one.
Starcraft!
Oh what a wonderful chance to share.
Princess Maker 2. Great life sim game where you raise a girl and try to make her into a princess. (Includes optional final fantasy combat and exploration)
SimCity. If you don't know what that is you need to experience it.
Tank Wars, great turn based shooter.
You might wanna consider getting qbasic going on it. There's a large collection of homebrew games for it. http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/topten/topten.shtml
Gex
Mario Teaches Typing
All of the ‘Blaster Learning System’ games like Math Blasters: In Search of Spot
I was pretty young still so those educational ones were hella fun and my parents would let me play as much as I wanted
So how was your typing and such after playing them? Did they actually work?
Yeah they worked amazingly. I went into classes already knowing a lot of the math and science material and the teachers lessons taught principles instead of just formulas. I would say they are still beneficial for todays kids although there may be better ones now. There’s nothing like saving your little video game buddy to force you to memorize things haha
For the typing yeah it trained me not to look at the keyboard and type things very quickly. One trick my typing teacher in school used was to put cardboard over the keyboard so you can’t see. I think that would probably pair nicely with the game.
Homeworld
Kharak is burning
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
Jetpack was tight, yo
- 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
Die Hard Trilogy
Carmageddon is a game that I loved at the time, and am very hesitant to revisit... I suspect it hasn't aged well!
Jagged Alliance 1 and 2
Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain (1997 on Windows, 1998 on Mac), a real time 4X game set in space.
This game is one of my all-time favourite.
I was just trying to remember that game. That would be a fun one to revisit.
Little Fighter 2
The descent games someone else already mentioned were fantastic. Starcraft was outstanding. Also, it just barely made the cut but I even still play it, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is phenomenal.
Blue Byte's "Albion" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(video_game)
I discovered Albion very late through gog, and I'm glad I did. It made me experience again the same feeling of traveling through a strange land that I felt before in Morrowind.
I don't know how popular it was since none of my friends remember it but I loved Phantasmagoria. Its a point and click horror mystery game with video captured graphics.
Starquest v
Oregon trail II
Widget workshop
That drawing program with the programmable turtle
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My family’s first PC was hand-me-down Amiga 2000; so these games helped shape me growing up:
Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis T-Rex Warrior* Cannon Fodder Sensible Soccer** The Settlers After the War
- Funny anecdote, if memory serves - it took my child brain over a year to figure out that holding down both mouse buttons made you move forward..
** Namely, the demo disk version which was set in 1945 and replaced the ball with a bomb that would periodically explode, killing nearby players and removing them from the match.
Lode Runner for Apple II. Still remarkably playable. You could also go for The Legend Returns on PlayStation / Saturn.
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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
Might and might 3 F19 stealth jet Doom Wolfenstein Red alert Warcraft 3
Age of empires Star wars galactic battlegrounds Deus ex (I think that was pre 2000) Cossacks European wars
Quarantine
My guy, we have the technology. You can edit that title to fix the horrible grammar lol.
"What are your favorite pre-2000 video games?"
Whoops! I didn't realize I could edit titles lol. Fixed :)
The Last Express - really great story
Pizza Tycoon - this was such a fantastic management sim, I spent ages playing it back in the day
Killer Instinct
Amiga:
- Sensible Soccer
- Soccer Kid
- The Chaos Engine
ZX Spectrum:
- Chaos
- Robocop
- Midnight Resistance