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So many to pick… But I will choose only a few…
Age of Empires 2
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Civilization
Doom 2
And so much more!
I’ve bought SOTN for 4 different systems/platforms now. Double Crissaegrim and double Rings of Varda ftw.
I used to play it that way to. OP. To the max. It was more fun to try the other weapons and items to be honest. The game has tonnes of unique gear!
This is almost my exact list. They’re all games I will happily replay.
I’m kinda surprised it took this long to see Pokémon mentioned.
Command and conquer, before Westwood was fucked over by EA
Top 5
Doom and Doom II
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Super Mario World
StarCraft with Brood War expansion
Duke 3D
This is the perfect list for me. Command & conquer was a gem!
Similar to mine, I’d add TIE Fighter and Warcraft II as well.
Agree for C&C:RA. I easily spent hundreds of hours playing that game. But would you believe they were all on the PS1? (family didn’t have a PC in the 90s 🫤)
You can play Super Mario World on the PS1?
I gotta see that. Lol
This is the perfect list for me. Command & conquer was a gem!
StarCraft
The StarCraft storyline and characters resonated so much with me as a kid.
Hard to pick one but if I had to I’d go with Final Fantasy VII since it was the game that got me into RPGs, and I got some good memories of watching my brother play it when we were kids.
I remember beating Final Fantasy VII and just staring at my TV in shock. Like, mouth hanging open, mind blown.
What’s crazy is for the life of me, I can’t even remember the basic gist of the ending of the game today. I just remember how it made me feel.
Earthbound and Chronotrigger are the two games with the most memories for me.
U. N. Squadron and Super Punch-out! We’re the two I played through the most - just over and over again. So much fun.
Super Mario Bros 3 is a timeless game and is my favorite side scroller although Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country give it a run for its money
SMW is one of the greatest platformers of all time, but SMB3 was such a huge leap forward it’s hard to say
I’d day I enjoyed playing sm3 over world.
World was a little friendlier, especially with the extra power up and Yoshis. But it’s the kind of game I can’t go back and play anymore. I played it a ton back then and I’m satisfied with it to never want to play it again. But 3, I can’t get enough of.
This thread isn’t complete without mentioning how Super Mario Bros 3 was introduced to the world in the climax to the movie The Wizard.
Such a core memory of my childhood. Blew my tiny little mind.
I love the power glove, it’s so bad
It is, in fact, so bad. Alas, not in the 80s way.
It was unusably awesome
Baldur’s Gate
Honourable mention to Final Fantasy 7, and Zelda Ocarina of Time. They might have been great when released, but I don’t think they’ve aged well.
@Platform27@lemmy.ml @mayflower@lemmy.ml Those are some excellent choices. I’d pick quake for multiplayer - and SS2 for single. Honorable mention to Dune 2.
Yeah, super nice choices!
With exception of MGS, I still play all of those (Quake and Thief series) every few years.
The original System Shock is definitely one of my all time favorites too. An absolute game changer playing that late night with headphones on.
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
One of my all-time favorite Zelda games!
Mine too!
That game is trippy af. One of the first games I ever played and completed. An absolute classic
Donkey Kong Country 2
Handheld it’s Pokemon red/blue, no competition.
Edit: although it’s actually gold/silver if that counts (released 1999 in Japan, 2000 in North America)
Yes Game Boy was a must in that years, even with just Tetris was great as device and then Pokemon have make the addiction.
Yes, I spent many years with red/blue/yellow, but I have to say, gold/silver were the most bang for the buck. I remember reading so many articles about what the new game would have (day night cycle, radio with daily lottery system, weekly events, new pokeball types, holding/berry systems, etc.) and they delivered on absolutely everything in spades. It was only after I beat the elite four that I realized you could go back to kanto and do 8 more gyms! It was by far the most satisfied I have ever been with a new release to a series. I have since read that the devs were under the impression that it would be the last game in the franchise (lol!) so they poured everything into it. And it shows.
Doom. I wasn’t even alive when it came out yet the game is still great and in my opinion has aged extremely well outside of graphics.
Doom is the reason why my brothers and I set up a lan at our parents’ house. IPX over coax, and NE2000 network adapters.
I still play Doom 2 deathmatch against other Doom enthusiasts using source ports. It’s just perfect FPS in my opinion.
Commander Keen
Age of empires 1
Pyramid: Challenge of Pharaoh’s dream
Atlantis: The lost tales
Ski free
Super Mario World