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The Shining Force series

Transport Tycoon

Doom

Goldeneye 64 (I bought a N64 console just for this game)

Frontier Elite

Baldur's gate

Fallout 2

X : Beyond The Frontier

Age of Empires 2

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.

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.

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.

Now you're asking a question I can answer. FFVII or Pokemon. That's all I ever played. Thank you for your time.

Brave Fencer Musashi! It's a fun RPG from squaresoft. Very much a hidden gem. The music in it was streets ahead.

I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.

• STAR CONTROL 2
• Another World
• Action Quake 2
• Street fighter 2

For me... Monster Truck Madness, both 1 and 2

Rogue Squadron!

Too tough to name one I can only narrow it to three

Xcom UFO Defense

Chrono Trigger

Super Street Fighter 2

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.

Banjo-Kazooie

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)

Road rash

Shining force

Redneck rampage

Bottom of the 9th 99

The entire list of releases from the year 1998, the objectively best year in all of video gaming history.

Sim City 2000

Command and Conquer

Red Alert

Goldeneye

Mario Kart

NBA Hang time

Perfect Dark

MDK

The Secret of Monkey Island

still play it nowadays from time to time

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.

• Frontier: Elite II
• Quake
• Command & Conquer
• Civilization
• Quest for Glory
• Simcity
• Doom
• Wolfenstein
• Prince of Persia
• Syndicate

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.

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.

Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven

Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor

Heroes of Might and Magic III

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

Technically 2000, but Sacrifice. It's still one of the most unique games I've ever played, and is my top wish for a remake/remaster.

It's a hybrid action RPG and RTS, which isn't completely unheard of, but even in its niche genre it's unlike anything else. You play a wizard with a range of both spells and summonable units, which can be ordered around to a limited degree, or more commonly used as a personal escort. Both the units and your own spells are very creative, and the higher level ones can be ridiculously powerful. In a glorious early celebration of terrain deformation, many of the high level spells will create volcanoes, mountains, craters, or even gaping voids in the already surreal landscapes. The story mode is also very weird and funny, with some top level voice actors.

I don't really know what to pick so I'm going to go with something kind of obscure, "The Adventures of Bouapha: Spooky Castle". The gameplay is a little hard to explain but it kind of plays like Zelda but you can pickup upgrades for your main weapon that allows it to be thrown in many directions and it has sub-weapons that can either be found or dropped by enemies and they have limited ammo.

I actually forgot this game existed until itch recommended me "Hamsandwich", which is a free and open-source collection of updated versions of a bunch of old Hamumu Software games. There are mods available for specific games and it's available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android and any other OS/device that can play the online version.

backyard baseball

It's between Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden II. I think it goes to the latter.

Baldur’s Gate. That game blew me away.