I played tons of the classic 90s games like Backyard baseball, Spy Fox and 7th Guest (Which I’m sure had nothing to do with me being desensitized to Horror movies and games XD), but I also spent a lot of time messing with programs like GameMaker, Anim8tor and random maze creator type programs. What were yours?
Monkey island 2. Any of the original lucasarts point and click graphical adventures.
Norton Commander, edit.com, the Wacom C/C++ compiler, pmode/w and upx. I had a peculiar childhood.
Doom, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, GoldenEye 64, Super Smash Bros, Deus Ex, Toejam and Earl, Tetris for Gameboy, Carmageddon, Quake, Unreal, Betrayal in Antara, Heroes of Might and Magic 2, Super Mario Bros 3, Sonic
I don’t want to brag, but I once made it to level 12 in Tetris for gameboy, in a T.J Maxx in the 90s. I only lost because my mom said she was done shopping. But I had the perfect lighting spot and didn’t want to move. So I said “Just go back to shopping. You love shopping.”
And my mom took that personally.
My best ever tetris run may have gone on even further. I’ll never know where I’d have gotten. In the end, my run was ended by my mom dragging me out of the store by my ear.
Still though. Level 12.
Bro that’s was the last level. You were so close to being the first person to ever finish Tetris for Gameboy!
In no particular order: Age of empires, HoMMs, Disciples, StarCraft, WarCraft, Dark Reign, Battlezone, Red Alert, Dune, Lula, 3D maze screensaver, strip poker, Duke Nukem, a virused version of that desktop mayhem thing that let you smash it in all kinds of way and many others that will be mentioned in other comments.
Games that give you a lifetime of fun.
!holup@lemmy.world one of these is sus 😳
Seriously, Dune ii I get, but Dune?
Why not? It’s a fun adventure with a little strategy. I like it.
I honestly never played Dune, just Dune 2 which was awesome.
Ultima underworld, that was the shit.
Absolutely, that game was groundbreaking!!!
I grew up with some of the first games. Loved Sierra’s library. Played some of the more eclectic games like Battle Beast and Howie’s Great Word Adventure. As far as programs went, I didn’t get much into it until later. But, I do remember using the Microsoft Works Creative Writing Program. That was fun to do designs on.
Doom 1/2. Wolfenstein 3d, Duke Nukem 3d
I spent a lot of time playing Sonic Mega Collection on gamecube. At least before maybe 6th or 7th grade when I got Borderlands 1 on xbox360.
Okay, so I think this impacted by the platforms I owned, which was:
- Commodore 64
- Game Boy
- SEGA Master System
- SEGA Genesis
- A bunch of DOS/Windows PCs
- iMac
If I were to consider my favourite games across all these systems, they would be:
- Lode Runner
- Great Giana Sisters
- OutRun
- Super Mario Land
- Tetris
- Sonic 2
- Road Rash
- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
- NHL 94
- Earthworm Jim
- MDK
- SimCity
- Civilization
- Heretic
- Marathon
- Escape Velocity
- GeneForge
- Tomb Raider
- Earth 2140
Road Rash! How fun. I had forgotten about that game until right now. (Carmen & Earthworm Jim are also classic).
Ultima IV, Elite, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Kikstart II, RC Pro Am, Racing Destruction Set, Zaxxon
But the first was ….
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_TV_Fun_series
Played this for hours.
Yeah I’m old.
The big one for me was Ultima Online.
My family used to put in hundreds of hours into Civilization 2 and once we were a little older we played Red Alert spending even more time building maps for ourselves to play. We could never figure out how to set up a LAN growing up, but it was a lot of fun all the same.
My absolute first PC game I ever remember was Math Blaster lol I loved it
Off the top of my head: Savage Empire, LHX Attack Chopper, Operation Wolf, Lemmings, some German football manager game (I forgot the name, just Zuruck and Weiter are etched into my brain), Supaplex, …
Bundesliga Manager?
That’s what ChatGPT kept suggesting but no, doesn’t look like it at all. The graphics I remember hardly contained any greens. I can remember black backgrounds with harsh pink/purple borders and texts.
Having gone through some of the football manager games of that period, it seems the one I had back in the day was rudimentary, even compared to its contemporaries. I now suppose it was some hobby project that was distributed in small circles, and somehow got into the hands of my Dad, who passed it along. That was the seed for my years-long addiction to Championship Manager :D
some German football manager game
Anstoss?
Anstoss
I don’t think so, that looks way too modern. I’m trying to find out the name but it’s hard with so little info :)
Okay, wish you good luck on your search.
Total annihilation was my jam. Especially when I started finding mods and new units online.
Commander Keen! We had 1, 4, 6 and Dreams. Probably all of them Shareware. Those games made me want to get a pogo stick.
Might and Magic 4+5: World of Xeen waa what I considered our first “real” game. I didn’t really understand it at the time. It’s turn based but I played it like it’s real time. I still play it every other year.
