In no particular order

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2

Caesar III

Spyro

Metal Gear Solid

Gauntlet

Half life/2 should probably be on there, but it still doesn't feel like an "old" game, especially since I play them every year or two, they haven't left my computer since 2010, and honestly I can't see myself not playing it when I'm 60.

The instructions are contradictory. I’m not sure how it’s possible to comply.

• Pac-Man (Atari 400)
• Pole Position (Arcade)
• Parsec (TI-99/4A)
• The Legend of Zelda (NES)
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (PC)

I can't limit it to 5.

I keep trying to, and it doesn't work, I end up leaving out something that I spent a massive amount of time on and also very strongly impacted my conception of what a game can be.

Off the top of my head:

• Karate Champ II (arcade)
• Pac-Land (arcade)
• Gryzor aka Contra (Amstrad CPC)
• Sorcery (Amstrad CPC)
• Xenon (Atari ST)

Oh wait, Elite (BBC, Amstrad, and ST) — probably more so than Xenon.

Minecraft, Team Fortress 2, Apex Legends, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (1 and 2) and Terraria. I'm not very old X)

• Pikachu volleyball. Legends, we played it in computer class
• Dota. The OG of moba
• snakes. The only game in our phone
• suikoden
• ff8

I m old.

stone tablets

Right there with ya OP!

• Defender
• Tempest
• Rogue
• Gato
• MechWarrior 1

• Microsurgeon
• Quake
• Ultima Online
• Myst
• Fallout 2

Age of Empires II and Rollercoaster Tycoon, that's about it.

I was born in 1995, but didn't have a capable PC until my late teens so I was stuck with whatever ran on my win98 potato without internet connection. Great games though, still play them today

What an interesting way to look at demographics!

Commodore Vic 20/Commodore64: Clowns, Omega Race, a space station game, Ghosts and Goblins, Zork, there was a Transformers game (looked fan made), Lode Runner, and about a dozen more

california games.
Flowers of crystal.
Tetris.
Daedelian opus.
Tetris.
ET because fuck me and fuck that game

Twisted Metal 2 Final Fantasy 7 Legend of Dragoon Final Fantasy 8 Hydro Thunder

Commander Keen

Neverhood

Earthbound

Super Mario World

Secret of Mana

I was in high school when I bought my first console, so it's pretty much just Landstalker and Phantasy Star IV.

Games that i bonded with my siblings playing growing up. Our lives would have not been the same without them.

Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, Xena Warrior Princess, Going Quackers, Pokémon Stadium

Am I young or everyone else old?

• Super Mario Bros
• Delta Force
• Unreal tournament 99
• GTA San Andreas
• NFS Underground 2

No order:

•Chrono Trigger •FFVII •Panzer Dragoon Saga •GTA3 •EverQuest •(Street Fighter Alpha 2 is up there too)

Half Life

Team Fortress Classic

Mecharrior 4: Vengeance

Ocarina of Time

Diddy Kong Racing

Those are the ones where I'd be a different person now without.

Elite, Hanse, Pirates, Castles of Dr. Creep, Lode Runner.

Bonus points if you know any of them...

Cytus

Pokémon Platinum

Diablo 1

Mabinogi

Yume Nikki

Cytus is pretty much the core of my whole personality (and music taste) so it is The Most Defining game for me. Platinum is special since it was my first game instead of a family game or whatever. Diablo scared the crap out of baby me but I really liked playing it! It was something my entire family played, everyone had a character save. I always was interested in MMOs but Mabinogi is The One that works for me. I reminded me a lot of Runescape when I played it but didn't have an egregious pay wall behind half the content (when I got to playing mabi, ik they had some pay walled stuff that they've gotten rid of over the years). I play any tab target MMO and I'll just have 'damn I'd rather be playing mabinogi rn' in the back of my head most of the time. And Yume Nikki was my first real foray into horror. I'm a wimp and hate playing horror games but I loved how vague everything was that I learned everything I could about the game. Enough to guide a friend through it over a phonecall.

Well, I'm not as old as some people, but here goes.

• Sonic Mega Collection

• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 ( w/ all expansions )

• Borderlands 1

• Worms Armageddon ( the xbox360 version )

• Destroy All Humans 2

Super Mario Bros 3 Dark Reign Unreal Tournament Homeworld Gears of War

Super Mario Galaxy

Red Alert 2

Age of Empires 2

Fallout New Vegas

TES Oblivion

Pokémon, wow, final fantasy tactic advanced, harvest moon, civilization I guess ?

• Civilization 1
• Wing Commander Privateer
• X-wing
• Hanse
• Eye of the Beholder 2: Darkmoon

And then there were games like Pizza Connection (my mother loved playing all parts except for the action sequences, which were my obligation), Aces over the Pacific, Lands of Lore, One Must Fall: 2097, Mortal Kombat, Stars!, Sinistar, Master of Orion 2, M.A.X., Z, Gender Wars (lol the story was utter trash but the gameplay was fun), Metal Marines (I just loved shooting rockets between windows on my desktop)...

And the longer i think, the longer the list gets because i start to remember more, like Syndicate, Alley Cat (i just found out that there is a Remeow Edition for free!, Abuse, Mechwarrior 2, ...

Damn, gotta look into my old archives and go on a retro rampage this weekend

• Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Chrono Trigger
• Ultima VIII (mostly as a gateway to the others in the series, but still got a soft spot for it)
• Final Fantasy VII
• Xenogears