Where do I even start ?
- Raw vs Smackdown
- IGI 2
- Freedom Fighter
- KKND
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Chips Challenge for Windows, Sim City 3000, Age of Empires 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (Technically not pre-2000 because it was released in 2000.)
- MECHWARRIOR 2
- QUAKE 2
- Broken Sword 1
- Half-Life 1
- Jedi knight dark Forces 2
- Police Quest 1
- Aliens vs predator
- System shock 2
- Unreal tournament
- Star Trek Starfleet Academy
- Zork 1 and 2
- Heavy Gear 2
- Jazz Jackrabbit 2
- Pandemonium
- Total annihilation
Baldur's Gate
Lords of the Realm 2
Descent (1, 2, and 3)
Sim City 2000
God I love Lords of the Realm 2. I bought it on GoG and go back and play that every few years for a spell. Rarely see others mention in and it was one of my favorite games of that era.
Yeah, it's one of the games I consistently return to regularly. Was very disappointed in the sequel.
Reticulating splines.
I still play it now and then, while I like the newer editions this is the one that aged better in comparison.
Half Life. While I am too young to have played it when it released, it still was an astounding game for its time.
Obligatory shout-out for any Bullfrog games of that era, especially Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2. Lionhead's Black & White is 1 year out of your window, but such a good game.
Also:
Syndicate Wars
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Grim Fandango
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Descent
Grand Theft Auto
- FFVII (and VIII)
- Homeworld
- Shadowrun (Sega Genesis version)
- Parasite Eve
- Wing Commander Series
- Colony Wars: Vengeance
- Gran Turismo 2
- Freespace (can't believe I forgot about that one)
...I'm in my late forties, so pre-2000 was my peak gaming time. As a result the list could go on and on and on....
Parasite Eve was a great game, but it never released for DOS/Windows 95. It was PlayStation exclusive (and still is).
Whoops. My mistake. I completely skipped reading the "computer" part of the sentence and started listing off games in general.
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- Quake II
- The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
- Power Dolls
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- StarCraft with the Brood War expansion
- Fallout
- Star Wars: Dark Forces
- The Oregon Trail (obviously)
- Syndicate
- Star Wars: TIE Fighter (X Wing was good too, but TIE Fighter was better)
- Dune II: Battle for Arrakis
- Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss
- SimCity (1989)
- X-COM: UFO Defense
OP said pre-2000, Starcraft wasn't released until....
checks Wikipedia
Damn.
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Some of my favorites in a variety of genre:
- TIE Fighter and/or Freespace
- Planescape: Torment
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- Pharaoh
Also one of Sierra's adventure games. A popular one is King's Quest VI.
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My top of the pops are:
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (With Tim Curry)
- Dungeon Keeper
Honorable mentions:
- Starflight
- Pirates! Gold Plus.
- Loom (Which is sadly ignored despite it's fantastic gameplay mechanic).
- Ultima VII
- Sam & Max Hit the Road
- Lands of Lore
- Cannon Fodder
- Caesar II (Plebs are needed!)
- Broken Sword
- Theme Hospital
- Turok
- System Shock 2 (I think it is playable in Win98? Probably in Win95 but it is a stretch.)
I unforgivingly forgot:
- Master of Orion 2
- Thief Gold (I think it does work with Win9x)
- Outlaws (Despite showing its age, it has some fantastic level design and very tense shootouts.)
- Legacy of Kain
- Anno 1602
- Sid Meier's Covert Action
- The Colonel's Bequest
And by law any PC running DOS is mandated to have a copy of Tyrian 2000 installed in it.
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Tie-fighter was a good one.
And StarCraft like someone mentioned and Warcraft.
Tie fighter is one of the best games ever, my dad pirated a ton of games from a guy he didn’t like just to get those games for me and my siblings.. I bought a flight control stick, I still love the game nothing has come close to the fun
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Anything by Blizzard
Anything by id
Most things by Maxis
Half Life
Deus Ex bends the rule a bit, being 2000, but I can't not mention it
Maniac Mansion. I never got far, but it's a silly little point and click game.
Definitely go and find Marathon and it's sequels, preferably in their original form on the Mac. But you don't need to go through all that trouble necessarily, Bungie released all the source some time ago and it is all freely available for new hardware now.
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Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy. I still own this series on steam and play it when I get nostalgic.
Bruh, you just made my fucking MONTH with the knowledge that this is on Steam! I never even thought to look for it there.
Holy nostalgia. I spent so many hours as a child trying to beat this game!
Just bought the complete pack for $2. Thank you for this!
Yeah. You can buy the complete collection on steam and I was ecstatic when I found out too.
I spent hours playing Transport Tycoon.
Jazz Jackrabbit Epic Pinball Elder Scrolls Daggerfall Monkey Island 1, 2 and 3 Heretic and Hexen
When I was. Small child in the early 90s, my dad was a network engineer and he setup our family computer with DOS and lots of games. I don't remember all of them but I do remember the following:
- Various arcade games that began running too fast to play after he upgraded the processor
- Commander Keen
- After Dark, which wasn't really a game so much as a cool and highly adjustable screen saver. But for some reason me and my siblings spent many hours playing this "game".
Anyway, I guess Commander Keen is my only real suggestion here and I do believe it's a great game. Just wish I could remember some other games he had installed on the DOS system for us that weren't baby games like Mickey's ABCs and 123s.
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What I spent ages on:
- It came from the desert
- Moria
- Nethack
- Sierra games, PQ and KQ and Manhunter in particular
- Rainbow Islands
- Hillsfar
- Motor Massacre
- Monkey Island, first 3
- Populous
- IK+
- North and South (multiplayer)
- Nuclear War (multiplayer)
Kings Quest 5, 6, & 7
Jill of the Jungle trilogy (free on GOG!)
Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
Torin's Passage
... Can you tell my dad was a Sierra Online fan? ^^'
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ZZT is number one for sure
Sierra's Quest for Glory series
Heroes of Might and Magic
Warcraft 2 slapped. Was WC3 also in the 90's?
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There are tons. The game that I considered my first "proper" game was World of Xeen. It's phenomenal. And it's actually two games. Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen and Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen. When you combined them you could travel between the two sides of the flat world and had more quests to solve and an ultimate end.
It was always hard to make space for them even though we had a gigantic 250 MB hard drive. Each game took up 20-30 MB.
Edit: Other must haves: Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen, Doom, Quake, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis