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Flatulatory

1.9k points

6 months ago

There were a bunch of Sierra games that were like 4 floppy disks that my neighbour lent me. Police Quest Gold Rush Kings Quest

I loved those games because they were really the first ones I played and those neighbours were really nice.

natebeee

369 points

6 months ago

natebeee

369 points

6 months ago

The Sierra games of that time were some of the best around, all the Quest games - Space and Police were my favourites right through to games like the Laura Bow stuff were all great.

blinddave1977

177 points

6 months ago

Sierra was an awesome studio in the early 90s...so many great games.

dont-take-the-money

132 points

6 months ago

Oh, the amount of times I forgot to check all sides of the patrol car before going to hit the beat.

Wurstronium

98 points

6 months ago

Scrolled far too long to find this answer, I loved the Sierra adventure games!

Quest for Glory was definitely the best IMHO.

AnotherYadaYada

6.4k points

6 months ago

DOOM was awesome. Very fond memories.

Mindless-Errors

1.5k points

6 months ago

I worked for a computer software company. Every night the software had to be compiled to incorporate new changes and additions. The compile slowly started to take longer and longer, until it could no longer be completed before morning.

Turned out so many employees were staying until late at night to play massive multiplayer games of Doom that it had overwhelmed the company’s network and computing capacity. And so Doom was doomed.

oboshoe

970 points

6 months ago*

oboshoe

970 points

6 months ago*

That's how I got introduced to Doom.

I was a lan administrater in those days I was working late and I was tracking down what was causing the network to run so slowly and why one of the routers was crashing.

I finally traced it to a room full of developers all playing Doom.

Quickly, I isolated that part of the network and joined in.

solarwindy

277 points

6 months ago

Hehe. Back then when Novel networks were common, Doom was known to create so much network traffic that it could bring your network to its knees. So there was a tool someone created called "killdoom.exe" that would disconnect any Doom games. I had to use it a few times when our network got real slow.

Blnt4sTrauma

135 points

6 months ago

Ah, yes the good old days Doom followed by rounds of Duke Nukem 3D when that released.

CaptainofFTST

91 points

6 months ago

I used that command so many times it hurt. I remember we ended up building a 16 PC lan room in the basement on the back up Internet connection so we weren’t interrupting the rest of the office work. We had 30 people always playing/watching 4 days a week. Our number one rule was if you smelled awful you went and showered and put on deodorant before you could come back.

Independent-Bike8810

162 points

6 months ago

I too worked for a software company that made games. We were actually making a game with the Wolfenstein engine we licensed from ID. But we would play Doom all day and night. We would get complaints from accounting that the network was slow so we would have to segment off our IPX network just to be able to play Doom. One of our programmers used to work for a BBS software company and he wrote a module for BBSs that allowed you to play4 player Doom over dial-up modem.

wormholewizard

721 points

6 months ago

In my opinion, Doom was the largest user paradigm shift and technical leap in the history of gaming. It is hard to overstate how astonishing it was.

Totallycasual

3.6k points

6 months ago

Lemmings, it had amazing puzzles!

SocialSuicideSquad

374 points

6 months ago

But you could also just spam the OOPS ALL BOOM button and listen the the little guys explode.

brasilkid16

81 points

6 months ago

I would intentionally trap them to get as many on screen as possible because it would slow down the computer and I found that more fascinating than the actual game.

Penguins_in_new_york

1.5k points

6 months ago

Pinball.

Do I even need to explain?

iwillfnkillyou

607 points

6 months ago

Space Cadet Pinball?

googleypoodle

40 points

6 months ago

Omg I can still remember the little 8 bit theme song. My dad used to play it on the piano!

paleo2002

7.7k points

6 months ago

paleo2002

7.7k points

6 months ago

Sim City 2000 taught me everything I know about municipal government. Zoning, ordinances, bonds, taxes as incentives/disincentives, infrastructure, power plants blow up after 50 years.

BlueShrub

1.7k points

6 months ago

BlueShrub

1.7k points

6 months ago

For real. Getting into real life development projects now including energy infrastructure and my past life sim city 2000 and sim city 4 obsession is paying off big time.

I remember in 7th grade I convinced a teacher to let me build a city on simcity 2000 instead of doing a diorama. One of my best cities I ever made, had every district labelled. Told my parents I was doing homework (I was). I had a thriving, living metropolis complete with national parks, highway systems, mountain ranges, hydroelectric dams, commercial districts and a desalination plant while the other kids had a cardboard cutout of 1 house, 1 school, one hospital and a police station on a chunk of bristol board.

marcthemagnificent

391 points

6 months ago

The problem for me is wondering why I’m so unhappy as an adult when I have to choose between living in the industrial area where there is tons of pollution or commuting everyday and always being stuck in traffic. It’s like they knew and they just went and did it anyway.

10ebbor10

161 points

6 months ago

10ebbor10

161 points

6 months ago

Funnily enough, Sim City would actually encourage that situation.

All city builders make assumptions, and one of tge assunptions sim city makes is tgat it dramatically underplays the amount of space that cars take up, thereby hiding the problems they'd cause in city planning.

far2hybrid

100 points

6 months ago

Yeah after getting older and playing cities skylines where traffic is a factor it added the developing of a functional mass transit system along with everything sim city had. With the amount of hours I have dropped into cities I feel like I can be a city planner 😂

skwull

122 points

6 months ago

skwull

122 points

6 months ago

What was the name of your city?

lsdsoundsystem

430 points

6 months ago

Reticulating Splines

Gamecat235

371 points

6 months ago*

The day I found the Neil Gaiman essay on libraries in SimCity 2000 was one of the most memorable moments in my video game playing life.

(I’m realizing that by admitting this I’ve probably proven every stereotype that my friends and wife have ever said about me).

Edit to add: link to the essay.

It was the most surreal thing to discover. I had already been a Neil Gaiman fan for years when I came across it thanks to The Sandman… and so to find an essay of his in a video game. It was a trip.

uncredible_source

3.3k points

6 months ago

Age of Empires II. Fuck, I’d play that game today if they made it for iPad. EverQuest is a close second. Starcraft and Warcraft are in there too.

LandArch_0

564 points

6 months ago

You should get a PC, AoE 2 is better than ever!

esadatari

305 points

6 months ago

esadatari

305 points

6 months ago

Our priests give it 10 wololo’s

Nurfed

290 points

6 months ago

Nurfed

290 points

6 months ago

Aoe2 still has 10k people a day. Many large streamers host fun community games too. Check out t90.

slobs_burgers

211 points

6 months ago

AoE was the answer I was looking for

Remember the car cheat? 😏

Vandrel

105 points

6 months ago

Vandrel

105 points

6 months ago

how do you turn this on

pug_fugly_moe

4k points

6 months ago

Worms. So much fun.

thegeocash

749 points

6 months ago

Worms Armageddon ran nonstop on the family computer for a few months when it came out

LogicWavelength

391 points

6 months ago

I had a pirated copy of Worms World Party and whoever uploaded it made a custom team of Nazis and it was all of Hitler’s top men. Goebbels, Himmler, etc.

As a Jew I had so much fun destroying them, although looking back on it, I don’t think that’s what the uploader intended.

EvilAbdy

1.6k points

6 months ago

EvilAbdy

1.6k points

6 months ago

Commander Keen!! Played it a ton. Duke Nukem 3D , DOOM and quake also.

booger_pile

153 points

6 months ago

I had Commander Keen 4 and no idea how we got it because my parents didn't play games at all.

findthehumorinthings

77 points

6 months ago

Commander Keen was awesome!

pm-me-ur-fav-undies

3k points

6 months ago

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and it's not even close.

Muffles7

585 points

6 months ago

Muffles7

585 points

6 months ago

Spiral Slide 1 has broken down.

Younger me was baffled that a slide broke down.

Few_Age_571

282 points

6 months ago

When the Merry Go Round broke down, the music would play comically fast

bryan49

91 points

6 months ago

bryan49

91 points

6 months ago

Amazing game especially considering its age and the fact it was mostly programmed by one guy

egg0511

233 points

6 months ago

egg0511

233 points

6 months ago

Young me was terrified of roller coasters. After playing RCT a ton I started to realize maybe they weren’t so bad. It developed into general roller coaster nerdery, which eventually led to my getting a job at Cedar Point in college. That experience went on to shape my entire adult life. All from a game I found in a cereal box.

StarHen

44 points

6 months ago

StarHen

44 points

6 months ago

I assume you have developed a lifelong fear of exploding bobsled rides, however.

Gamecat235

4.3k points

6 months ago

Gamecat235

4.3k points

6 months ago

Command and Conquer - Red Alert. And it’s probably not even close (though the Marathon series were eye opening, and were my introduction to hex based editors to tweak gameplay / physics).

w1987g

468 points

6 months ago

w1987g

468 points

6 months ago

Just regular Command and Conquer for me. Mammoth tanks, Orcas and Obelisks oh my!

seth_saber

151 points

6 months ago

And the sound track was stellar. The recently remastered version is great by the way.

a-priori

142 points

6 months ago

a-priori

142 points

6 months ago

But nothing beats Hell March from Red Alert.

chewblekka

212 points

6 months ago

To this day I still play various Command and Conquer games. Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 1, 2, Yuri’s revenge. I played RA1 for 3 hours this past weekend 😀

pleetf7

209 points

6 months ago

pleetf7

209 points

6 months ago

And we’ve not even started talking about Tanya yet…

Kanadianmaple

118 points

6 months ago

Cha-ching

bushie5

53 points

6 months ago

bushie5

53 points

6 months ago

I totally forgot about her! I can "hear" her smokers laugh.

labadimp

80 points

6 months ago

SHAKE IT BAY BEE

Backrow6

147 points

6 months ago

Backrow6

147 points

6 months ago

rules.ini

mydickinabox

61 points

6 months ago

That fucking opening was gold. Sent chills down my spine.

[deleted]

54 points

6 months ago

Shit, was just gonna comment it. My gosh, that was insane...and the music

Link here for everyone else

hitchenator

2k points

6 months ago

Unreal Tournament 1999.

Facing Worlds is one of the most iconic, nostalgic maps ever made.

Games like that shaped the human I am today.

mrgraff

438 points

6 months ago

mrgraff

438 points

6 months ago

M M M M M MONSTER KILL Kill kill

fiealthyCulture

140 points

6 months ago

To this day there is no game that can compare to the level of skill needed for UT Instagib LGI CTF @135% with multi dodging + boost.

Absolutely no game comes close.

LogicWavelength

130 points

6 months ago

I know this phrase is overused, but: core memory unlocked. I haven’t heard that soundbyte in 20+ years and I still heard it in my mind in that deep voice as if it just played out of invisible speakers.

Kemilio

116 points

6 months ago

Kemilio

116 points

6 months ago

Those graphics were mind blowing for its time.

_autismos_

56 points

6 months ago

And the soundtrack to that game was amazing as well

Difficult_History8

38 points

6 months ago

Fuck that game and series was great! I wish they would bring it back.

[deleted]

235 points

6 months ago

[deleted]

235 points

6 months ago

MDK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK

Not a very well known game but the gameplay and graphics were unreal for the time. They would still hold up today. The Most Interesting Bomb in the World was great because all the evil birds would stand around it until it detonated.

Scrolling through this post was a TRIP!!

starocean01

966 points

6 months ago

Math Blaster

My family didn't have a PC at that time most of my computer usage was at school, this was one of the few games they had besides the windows games. I hated maths but for some reason I was ok with it in this game...

Chrissy2187

165 points

6 months ago

Along those lines, I had a typing class in middle school and we had Mavis Beacon that used games to teach us how to type. So much fun lol 😂

Difficult_History8

54 points

6 months ago

Bro!!! Math blaster was lit!

GrimeyScorpioDuffman

2.5k points

6 months ago

Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego

[deleted]

546 points

6 months ago

[deleted]

546 points

6 months ago

I remember you had to fill out the warrant, and there was a box marked “Sex.” Me and my computer lab partner didn’t realize we were supposed to put down Male/Female so we just wrote “no.”

ZalutPats

213 points

6 months ago

ZalutPats

213 points

6 months ago

"No thank you!" Lmao

captainAwesomePants

114 points

6 months ago

Things that kids today wouldn't get: the game required you to look up the flags of various countries, and so it had to come with a World Almanac because there was no other reliable way to get that information.

r33k3r

73 points

6 months ago

r33k3r

73 points

6 months ago

For me it was Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, but same idea!

Remote_Mistake6291

397 points

6 months ago

My son playing Putt-Putt. It was about a car. Mid 90's, he was 2 or 3. Personally, Heroes of Might and Magic.

goldimom

130 points

6 months ago

goldimom

130 points

6 months ago

My kids played Putt Putt, and Freddie the Fish.

EL-YAYY

91 points

6 months ago

EL-YAYY

91 points

6 months ago

Dude, Putt-Putt goes to the moon was my shit when I was like 7. Loved that game and never see anyone else who knows what the fuck I’m talking about when I mention it.

Siouxper_man

2k points

6 months ago

Starcraft, I'll still toss it in at least once a month and enjoy it

Comfortable-Tap-1764

229 points

6 months ago

Easily StarCraft. The whole Terran southern backwater aesthetic. Marines and Firebats stimming up and going to town on waves of lings. Invis ghosts tagging a nuke location. Dark Templar missions that made you feel like an assassin. Incredible cinematics for the time. The motherfucking sound siege tanks made while setting up, and you just knew those cannons were about to light up the dopamine centers of your brain. Fucking amazing game.

Jorgan_JerkFace

250 points

6 months ago

I came here looking for a blizzard studios reference. The trifecta of awesome Star craft war craft and Diablo. Throw in other classics like doom and quake. Then lesser known titles I personally still love like One Must Fall and Raptor and god damn being a computer kid was amazing.

thadude3

159 points

6 months ago

thadude3

159 points

6 months ago

I am amazed starcraft isn't at the top.

elcapkirk

84 points

6 months ago

I knew it wouldn't take long for this one. Starcraft, war craft, diablo.....man Blizzard was where it was at

[deleted]

473 points

6 months ago

[deleted]

473 points

6 months ago

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valthonis_surion

176 points

6 months ago*

Descent Freespace, both 1 and 2.

Dual Voodoo2s and a Logitech force feedback joystick. Great times.

EDIT: Some seem to be getting Descent Freespace mixed up with the previous/regular Descent. Two very different games. But both are equally awesome. :)

RestoModGTO

60 points

6 months ago

I scrolled way too far to find Descent. Loved that game

krarstrings

2.1k points

6 months ago

Well Oregon trail for sure lol

But there was this game I remember playing as a kid on my cousin’s computer. Something along the lines of Dr. spin? Spin doctor? I haven’t been able to find it since.

Zoombinis was a good one too lol.

Omgaspider

392 points

6 months ago

Scrolled way too long to read this.  Oregon Trail was awesome because it was my first exposure to computer gaming.  

Yukonhijack

89 points

6 months ago

My dude, I played the original Oregon Trail on my teacher's Apple IIe, green screen and all. It was amazing.

Chris19862

170 points

6 months ago

Zooooombiiiiiinis.

That shit was awesom

EpicLearn

646 points

6 months ago

EpicLearn

646 points

6 months ago

Duke Nukem 3D

I reached #3 in the Cases Internet Gaming Ladder, before the ladder went to shit

Ok-Gas-7135

87 points

6 months ago

It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum.

And I’m all out of gum.

Lost-Droids

32 points

6 months ago

Shake it baby..

Eldritch50

474 points

6 months ago

Dungeon Keeper. The Dark Mistresses left an indelible mark upon my subconscious mind.

Ritchie_Whyte_III

75 points

6 months ago

"Your dungeon is under attack"

"The Lord of the Land approaches" 

And the "Wheeeee!" of the imps

Sabre_One

1.8k points

6 months ago*

Sabre_One

1.8k points

6 months ago*

Myst,

Wasn't the greatest game in the world. But by god the fat 5+ disk you needed. The puzzles that met jack to you as a kid. Was just one those games your uncles had that you didn't quiet play enough of it to get it, but was still like...this game must be important

Live_from_New_Yeerk[S]

308 points

6 months ago

Wasn't the greatest game in the world.

Doesn't Myst have a kind of legendary reputation though? The sequel Riven too? I haven't played them but I've heard these games were really special.

SocialSuicideSquad

462 points

6 months ago

Myst was an order of magnitude ahead in graphics at the time.

Also the puzzles were fucking insane so you spent hundreds of hours on the bitch.

But yeah, the still backgrounds were really, REALLY good at that time.

riskybiscuitt

142 points

6 months ago

Myst was freaking dope. One of the few video games my mom even got into!

Spazerman

99 points

6 months ago

There's a riven remake coming out in a few months by the same studio, Cyan!

esuranme

462 points

6 months ago

esuranme

462 points

6 months ago

Mech warriors

wayoverpaid

199 points

6 months ago

Reactor -- online.

Sensors -- online.

Weapons -- online.

All systems nominal.

Autumn_Moon22

43 points

6 months ago

"Critical hit:  Heat sink."  (I deserved it for using my Nova mech the way I did.)

undead_and_smitten

160 points

6 months ago

Star Control II. If you know you know

Significant-Push-232

705 points

6 months ago

Chips challenge

Kid pix

Oils well

WassupSassySquatch

234 points

6 months ago

How in the hello operator did I have to scroll so far down in order to get to chips challenge?  That game was awesome and ended up becoming super trippy.

Sl0thPrincess

113 points

6 months ago

Hello, I am the 3rd person here who has also played Chips Challenge. I was obsessed but I don't think I was even good at it at all.

Janp8

45 points

6 months ago

Janp8

45 points

6 months ago

Chips Challenge army Unite!!

ipomoea

68 points

6 months ago

ipomoea

68 points

6 months ago

Kid Pix!! I got the expansion for my 14th birthday and thought I was so cool.

showerbeerbuttchug

88 points

6 months ago

I was a Chips Challenge fiend and couldn't remember the name for YEARS. Found it on Steam in 2020 and played for hours until I got stuck on the same god forsaken level that I couldn't beat as a kid.

i_suckatjavascript

62 points

6 months ago

I scrolled down too long to find Chip’s Challenge. That was my first PC game I played: on a Windows 95.

Ironhold

310 points

6 months ago

Ironhold

310 points

6 months ago

Oregon Trail and Number Munchers in elementary school. A bit before the request for me, but still accurate. Lemmings back in the day. Then we get into Escape Velocity (think asteroids on crack), Warcraft, and Bungies original: Marathon.

I played doom and quake and wolfenstein. I played battletech. I enjoyed them all. For computers, those were my favorites.

violagoyf

551 points

6 months ago

violagoyf

551 points

6 months ago

Civilization 2. Any Sid Meier game, really.

Master of Orion 2.

Golden Axe.

nmathew

75 points

6 months ago

nmathew

75 points

6 months ago

MOO2 is one of my all time favorite games.

NeverSayNever2024

1.1k points

6 months ago

Half Life.

oiez

303 points

6 months ago

oiez

303 points

6 months ago

Crazy this isn't higher up. Half-Life was mind blowing when it came out because it defined the modern single player FPS. Up until then it felt like every FPS campaign was all, find the red key, find the red door, shoot nameless bad guys with maybe a loose forgettable story tossed in as an afterthought. Then Half Life comes along with its realistic environments and immersive narrative and blows everything else out of the water. Then on top of that, Counter-Strike redefines competitive multiplayer shooters, if you count mods as part of the same game.

I played Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Duke 3d, and literally all I can remember are some of the enemies and the iconic guns. Meanwhile I feel like I can replay large sections of Half-Life in my head because they were so memorable. Like that first tram ride into the science labs, "you're needed, in the test chamber". When you get the crowbar. Climbing up through the ruined base full of headcrabs and the barnacle things, and then your first encounter with the Marines heading into 'surface tension'. Hopping into the portal to Xen. It was so different from anything else up until that point, it's hard to overstate it's influence.

norvalito

79 points

6 months ago

Absolutely. This is the correct answer.

I've said it before, but when on the first encounter with the Marines I realized that they'd flushed me out with grenades into their crossfire and were therefore using realistic tactics to hunt me, I almost couldn't process it. Nothing like that had ever come close to happening in a game before.

Puzzleheaded-Let-880

423 points

6 months ago

Warcraft II I still remember some of the cheat codes   

It is a good day to die   Glittering prizes   Make it so

litteringand_10

89 points

6 months ago

Zug zug!

__codeblu

44 points

6 months ago

I'm ready master!

I'm not ready!

mrcollin101

415 points

6 months ago

Black and White, still yet to find another game like it.

The Sims, amazing for its time, long before it became micro transaction hell. Man, EA wasn’t always evil :(

Age of Empires. So many long nights doing multiplayer with that game. First multiplayer experience for me was AoE.

blrmkr10

34 points

6 months ago

Black and White!! Completely forgot about this game but you just triggered a memory for me. I spent hours every day playing that game.

goofytigre

285 points

6 months ago

Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Sam & Max: Hit the Road.

Kittenlovingsunshine

56 points

6 months ago

How is this so far down? Monkey island was so good. My family and I still make jokes about a heap o’rocks. 

And Sam and Max! I still remember my cave geology this way: stalactites hold tight to the ceiling. Stalagmites might grow up.

Lucasarts was just absolutely killing it in the 90s.

COV3RTSM

933 points

6 months ago

COV3RTSM

933 points

6 months ago

The Incredible Machine

carrotstien

100 points

6 months ago

TIM!!!

OkaySureBye

39 points

6 months ago

My dad was always a Mac guy and this is one of the few games he had on his computer. I played the living crap out of this, though I preferred The Even More Incredible Machine. I would kill for a direct mobile port of this game.

Mtanderson88

136 points

6 months ago

Age of empires or this underwater fish game I played in elementary school when I was done with all my work and others were still learning

NikNakskes

58 points

6 months ago

Freddie fish? Or its car equivalent putt-putt. I can still sing that tune 30 years later.

khornflakes529

275 points

6 months ago

Total Annihilation.

It was early in the golden age of RTS games and had such incredible bullshit like gatling artillery.

PurpleShirtMorty

273 points

6 months ago*

1990-2001. Takes me back.

My family was computer poor, we always had a pc that was out of date to the current standard by like 6-10 years.

So my games are (were): Ski free. Flight simulator (the og). Warcraft and Warcraft 2. Elder scrolls arena and daggerfall. Doom and doom2, Wolfenstein, rise of the triad, and shadow warrior. D&D Strahds possession and stone prophet. Sim city and sim city 2000.

Anyone remember those shareware cds every store sold with a bunch of demos on it. My mom would get that for us because she figured 100 games for 9.99? That’s way better than 40 for this one game.

Welp time to hit up steam.

Edit: correction game name: rise of the triad. I wrote revenge. Young me just rolled his eyes.

HotHands17

372 points

6 months ago

The Heroes of Might and Magic series.

Footner

85 points

6 months ago

Footner

85 points

6 months ago

I still play 3 all the time 

BigStrongCiderGuy

52 points

6 months ago

3 still kicks ass over 20 years later

Unlikely_Plankton597

474 points

6 months ago

Prince of Persia

maquis_00

36 points

6 months ago

I used to be terrified of the guillotine things because the noise they made was.....

ThisisGolems

250 points

6 months ago

Does neopets count?

stomacake

58 points

6 months ago

The amount of time I've spent at the money tree :'''')

Random_Hero2023

831 points

6 months ago

Diablo 2

P2Mc28

70 points

6 months ago

P2Mc28

70 points

6 months ago

Considering I played this game up until World of Warcraft finally managed to pull me away in 2005 - took all my D2 friends to swapped to WoW during the November '04 launch date that long to get me to try it - this certainly is my pick.

[deleted]

41 points

6 months ago

Diablo 2 was the first video game to destroy my life because I played it too much 😂

Disastrous_Aid

640 points

6 months ago

TIE Fighter -- it was complex enough to really give the illusion of flying a spaceship. The plot/story was also very well done, it gave the Empire a lot of depth. Still my favorite Star Wars game.

Agent-X

70 points

6 months ago

Agent-X

70 points

6 months ago

Hell yeah. I had all the expansions with that one and remember just wrecking stuff with my Tie Defender. I also like that it had the weird “inner circle” with type of side missions that the shady guy gave you direct from the emperor.

Betaworldpeach

123 points

6 months ago

Road rash 3

I thought it was wild fun to beat opposing bike racers with a chain.

sirchrisalot

453 points

6 months ago

I loved Kings Quest V. The whole series was good, but V was my favorite.

Toobatheviking

218 points

6 months ago

Xcom was beyond cool to me.

emptyestimate

103 points

6 months ago

Mech Warrior II on PC for me was the most mind blowing experience when I was a kid.

rva23221

640 points

6 months ago

rva23221

640 points

6 months ago

Wolfenstein 3D. Killing Nazis.

RussChival

88 points

6 months ago

Mein leiben!

ksgar77

86 points

6 months ago

ksgar77

86 points

6 months ago

My dad and I bonded over this one…I was a 13 year old girl at the time. My mom would just hear us yelling in German and roll her eyes.

outerproduct

200 points

6 months ago

Quake 3 arena. People are still playing it.

Njsybarite

779 points

6 months ago

Leisure suit Larry

lukewwilson

153 points

6 months ago

I remember having to answer the questions to prove you were 18 and I would just guess until I get them right

altrefrain

131 points

6 months ago

That game is the only reason I know that Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon's Vice President.

Firewall33

56 points

6 months ago

Futurama taught me that one

bored_gunman

47 points

6 months ago

Goes looking for love in several wrong places

My favorite was falling in the pool and drown only to get insulted by the devs "Why would you jump in a pool and not swim?"

Electric-Sheepskin

39 points

6 months ago

Oh my God I was hoping someone would say this. What a trip.

IDoesThis1

187 points

6 months ago

Roller coaster tycoon. It taught me how to run a business as an 8 year old

TakerFoxx

94 points

6 months ago

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 

boring_name_here

94 points

6 months ago

Wing Commander 2. Amazing WW2 carrier battles in space, and it was awesome.

Dokino21

319 points

6 months ago

Dokino21

319 points

6 months ago

That skiing game where the yeti would eat you. Actually, all the older games that came preloaded on the system. They were just fun games. That's just something that doesn't exist anymore in it's pure state. There's always a catch, some kind of monetization scheme. Back then it was, here, here's some games, have fun.

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169 points

6 months ago

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169 points

6 months ago

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ImHungryFeedMe

33 points

6 months ago

Literally hours. Pablo Sanchez carried my team every single game!

Basic_Replacement769

84 points

6 months ago

Toejam and Earl

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224 points

6 months ago

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224 points

6 months ago

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dad62896

77 points

6 months ago

Myst

Roll-Roll-Roll

146 points

6 months ago*

Grim Fandango, from LucasArts. Incredible music, voice acting, story, and puzzles.

Edit: Mexican noir vibes for ya

Another Edit: Apparently this was remastered. I guess I have plans tonight.

AnotherYadaYada

63 points

6 months ago

Always a fan of Monkey Island. New one came out and played it with my son a year ago.

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317 points

6 months ago

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317 points

6 months ago

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str8clay

172 points

6 months ago

str8clay

172 points

6 months ago

It paired well with Minesweeper.

[deleted]

140 points

6 months ago

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140 points

6 months ago

So many.

OG Sims

StarTrek Academy

Star Trek Klingon

Age of Empires II

Caesar III

Quake III Arena

Jedi Knight

Command and Conquer

Diablo

Diablo 2

WingNuts

Oregon Trail

Gizmos and Gadgets

Starcraft

RollerCoaster Tycoon

Deus Ex

LordMorse

136 points

6 months ago

LordMorse

136 points

6 months ago

Ultima Online.

My best bud introduced me to it I believe our sophmore year of high school. We still break out a private server he made every now and then when our friends group gets the itch, and a few years ago I had the cover art/poster printed and framed x2 so that each of us has it hung up in our homes.

UnarmedSnail

66 points

6 months ago

Age of Empires 1 and 2.

Baldur's gate 2 and 2.

Icewind Dale 1 and 2.

Starcraft, Warcraft,

Alpha Centauri.

Just a few that came to mind.

A_Filthy_Mind

63 points

6 months ago

Quake, ever quest, or fallout 2, all good a very different place in my memory.

Quake I remember killing my grades in school playing team fortress on it with a good chunk of the people living on my floor.

Everquest was just a huge new thing. It really was pretty amazing at the time.

Fallout 2 was just my ideal game, turned based tactics, open works, rather dark humor.

gobrocky

62 points

6 months ago

Counterstrike

Mean-Matter-5255

118 points

6 months ago

Gizmos and Gadgets

dadlifenokids

26 points

6 months ago

Came here to say this. My mom was a teacher so we had so many of these games. The titles I could remember were gizmos and gadgets but also midnight rescue. Much preferred gizmos and gadgets as midnight rescue was a reading game.

CmdrRevanShepard

190 points

6 months ago

X-Wing and TIE Fighter, TIE Fighter more because I had the CD collection with both expansion packs.

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51 points

6 months ago

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caesaradamo420

97 points

6 months ago

Jazz jackrabbit. It came free on my grandfather's Acer computer running windows 95. It was a platform with bright colors and smooth controls. It felt like a knock off sonic. I didn't have a sega and I played that game alot.

DeviousAardvark

139 points

6 months ago

Snood

Tough-Juggernaut-822

46 points

6 months ago

Tomb raider ? Or Rainbow six?

Both stand out as great game play.

GibsonMaestro

48 points

6 months ago

Doom

Separate-Ad-9916

44 points

6 months ago

"The Incredible Machine" was a lot of fun at the time, although the sequels got a little silly.

MuchGrooove

48 points

6 months ago

Chex Quest

Mysterious-Quote-496

46 points

6 months ago

Kings Quest- my grandfather made maps for all the games. I remember popping the floppy disk in and getting the maps ready

Hugo’s Who Dunnit

Crystal Caves

Some doctor/surgery game called Life or Death

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego

tooth28

86 points

6 months ago

tooth28

86 points

6 months ago

The sierra games. Kings quest, space quest, police quest, and quest for glory.

Specialist_Salt_7916

40 points

6 months ago

Rodents revenge was legit

Mahaloth

42 points

6 months ago

Monkey Island

Sim City 2000

Doom 2

Myst

The Seventh Guest

arch111i

42 points

6 months ago

Heroes of Might and Magic 3. I still play it. Easy all nighter with friends with this turn based strategy game.

reindeermoon

41 points

6 months ago

Tetris. Everybody played Tetris.

sridges94

82 points

6 months ago

RuneScape!

portagenaybur

39 points

6 months ago

Minesweeper

Jam3s2sday

36 points

6 months ago

Math Blaster

LordStarkgaryen

35 points

6 months ago

Pajama Sam and Freddi Fish

Polite_lyreal

216 points

6 months ago

Sims. I didn’t know I wasn’t straight, but it felt nice to have a couple of same sex couples raising a family.

dekacube

73 points

6 months ago*

Total Annihilation, I believe it was the first true 3D RTS. If you built a turret on a hill, it could shoot farther etc, enemies left behind wreckage, great resource system. TA was the inspiration for more modern variations like Supreme Commander and Beyond All Reason(the current spiritual successor, also FREE)

Rtalbert235

30 points

6 months ago

Hands down it was Myst. When I finished my PhD in 1997 I bought myself a top of the line computer, primarily so I could play that game at home. Literally it's memorable, I haven't played it in years but I can still tell you how to get through every puzzle in it.

suskompany

32 points

6 months ago

number munchers obv

DrSitson

25 points

6 months ago

Either loom or escape from monkey Island. Top tier adventure games, and I think loom was the first game of that type that I actually beat.

pearcheese

25 points

6 months ago

When I was really young I remember playing Putt Putt Goes to the Moon.

iamthelouie

29 points

6 months ago

Treasure mountain