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?
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!
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.
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.
Doom 1/2. Wolfenstein 3d, Duke Nukem 3d
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.
Outside the super common ones like Mario, Zelda, Quake, etc…I’ll list some pretty early ones.
River Raid
Comixzone
Flashback
CastlesA good chunk of my early pc games were demo disks from magazines
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!!!
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.
Old mac user: Lode Runner, KidPix, Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat, Allied General
Mega Man X
Played it for like 6 hours straight when I first got it. Took me over a year to beat Sigma.Mega Man Legends
Also took me a while to finish, especially because it took a few months between getting the PS1 and buying memory cardsI did spend a lot of time with RPG Maker 2000 too, I did probably some 3 different games, never finished or published any of them.
Norton Commander, edit.com, the Wacom C/C++ compiler, pmode/w and upx. I had a peculiar childhood.
Boulderdash 2, Kickstart 2, Jumpman jr, Hawkeye and Flimbo’s quest. And probably tons of others I’ve forgotten about unfortunately.
Monkey Island, Master of Orion 2, Commander Keen, Heroes of might and magic, Diablo, Warcraft.
Total annihilation was my jam. Especially when I started finding mods and new units online.
