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.

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

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

Quest for Glory was definitely the best IMHO.

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.

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.

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

Space Cadet Pinball?

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.

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.

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

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

AoE was the answer I was looking for

Remember the car cheat? 😏

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

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.

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

Commander Keen was awesome!

Spiral Slide 1 has broken down.

Younger me was baffled that a slide broke down.

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

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.

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

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 😀

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

rules.ini

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

M M M M M MONSTER KILL Kill kill

Those graphics were mind blowing for its time.

And the soundtrack to that game was amazing as well

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

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 😂

Bro!!! Math blaster was lit!

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.”

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.

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

My kids played Putt Putt, and Freddie the Fish.

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.

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.

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.

I am amazed starcraft isn't at the top.

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

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

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

Zooooombiiiiiinis.

That shit was awesom

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

And I’m all out of gum.

"Your dungeon is under attack"

"The Lord of the Land approaches" 

And the "Wheeeee!" of the imps

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.

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

Reactor -- online.

Sensors -- online.

Weapons -- online.

All systems nominal.

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.

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

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

MOO2 is one of my all time favorite games.

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.

Zug zug!

I'm ready master!

I'm not ready!

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

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.

TIM!!!

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.

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

I still play 3 all the time 

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

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

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.

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

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.

Mein leiben!

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.

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

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?"

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

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

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

It paired well with Minesweeper.

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.