Asklemmy

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.

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

The Shining Force series

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.

Age of Empires 2

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.

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

Donkey Kong Country 2

Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven

Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Xcom UFO Defense

Chrono Trigger

Super Street Fighter 2

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

Road rash

Shining force

Redneck rampage

Bottom of the 9th 99

Sim City 2000

Command and Conquer

Red Alert

Goldeneye

Mario Kart

NBA Hang time

Perfect Dark

MDK

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.

Banjo-Kazooie

The Secret of Monkey Island

still play it nowadays from time to time

Rogue Squadron!

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)

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

Mechwarrior 2. Controlling a heavy mech was 90s af.

And I can still hear the startup sequence in my head. Reactor online Sensors online Weapons online. All systems nominal.

I've always been a Nintendo fan, and their first- and second-party catalog from the 90s is phenomenal:

• Zelda OoT / MM
• Goldeneye / Perfect Dark
• Super Mario Bros 64
• Mario Parties
• Banjo Kazooie / Tooie
• Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow
• Pokémon Stadium

Outside of Nintendo, the standout titles for me are:

• Crash Bandicoot
• Spyro
• Metal Gear Solid
• FF VII & VIII

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

Homeworld and Half Life for me: both were just awesome. I spent a very long time in both.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

The ones I played the most were:

• Heroes of Might & Magic

• Civilization

• Genghis Khan ][: Clan of the White Wolf

• ZZT

• Final Fantasy 6

not in order, mind