I’m setting up my MiSTer FPGA and want to prioritize a bit. I currently have DOS and Win 95 running, but plan to setup Macintosh and any other worthwhile computer platforms. Any computer platform welcome (I already have the consoles figured out). What are your “must try” game suggestions?

Edit: I just got back to this post and am pleasantly surprised by the response. I’ll probably be adding most if not all of these to test since I have the space. Thank you to everyone who commented.

  • rzlaticEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    C64: Elite. the game is my personal number one as I played only Elite constantly for a long time, despite all other games available for C64.

    Amiga: Chaos Engine, Transarctica.

    486: Elite Frontier, Descent, Descent II.

  • @jiberish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    Myth The Fallen Lords and Myth 2 on the Macintosh. This was my favorite multiplayer game I’ve ever played by far.

    Other great Mac games from my youth: The Odyssey (1994) by David Larkin Sim City and Sim City 2000 Rogue Sim Ant Prince of Persia The Scarab of Ra Realmz Path Ways into Darkness and Marathon

    And my favorites on BBS were Major Mud and Legend of the Red Dragon.

    I didn’t have a PC, but when I went to friend’s houses I would play the shit out of Doom.

  • @lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•7 months ago
    • 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
  • EarMasterEnglish
    2•6 months ago
    • Transport Tycoon
    • C&C Red Alert and Tiberian Sun
    • Anno 1602 (1602 A.D.)
    • Theme Park
    • Commander Keen
    • Doom 2 (and Wolfenstein 3D to some extend)
    • GTA2
    • Half-Life
    • Dungeon Keeper (mainly DK2)
    • Leisure Suit Larry 6
    • Worms 2 & Armageddon
    • Age of Empires 2
    • Sim City 2000 & 3000
    • SimTower
    • The Settlers 2
    • Lemmings
    • Incredible Machine
    • Commandos
    • Outcast
    • Quake 3 Arena
    • Descent
    • StarCraft (although I started playing it later)
  • Maxnmy'sEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    Maniac Mansion. I never got far, but it’s a silly little point and click game.

  • tiredofsametab
    2•6 months ago

    SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga

  • massive_bereavement
    2•7 months ago

    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.)
    • massive_bereavement
      1•7 months ago

      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.

  • @thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    English
    1•6 months ago

    My family’s first PC was hand-me-down Amiga 2000; so these games helped shape me growing up:

    Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis T-Rex Warrior* Cannon Fodder Sensible Soccer** The Settlers After the War

    • Funny anecdote, if memory serves - it took my child brain over a year to figure out that holding down both mouse buttons made you move forward…

    ** Namely, the demo disk version which was set in 1945 and replaced the ball with a bomb that would periodically explode, killing nearby players and removing them from the match.

  • SuzyQEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    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? ^^’

  • TXLEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    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)
  • @serj@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    The dig. The game is inspired by an idea originally created for Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories series.

  • ZloubidaEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain (1997 on Windows, 1998 on Mac), a real time 4X game set in space.

    This game is one of my all-time favourite.