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.
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
Command and conquer, before Westwood was fucked over by EA
- Quake
- Thief
- Metal Gear Solid
- Half Life
- System Shock 2
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.
Earthbound
and of course motherfucking Half-Life
Legendary ending and silly humor throughout made this my goat game. Super Mario World and Super Metroid tie for second.
Definitely Half-Life.
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
That game is trippy af. One of the first games I ever played and completed. An absolute classic
One of my all-time favorite Zelda games!
Mine too!
Original Unreal. Ranked #1 in the world at one point for a couple weeks. Nothing compares to that game and time for me.
- Ff4, 6, and 7
- Chronotrigger
- Super Metroid
- Castlevania SOTN
- Zelda a Link to the past
- Tony hawk’s pro skater 1 and 2
- Any of the street fighter
- Pokemon
- Star craft + brood war
- Diablo 1 and 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!
I’m kinda surprised it took this long to see Pokémon mentioned.
The 90s were peak gaming for me - a lot a creative things were going on, new genres being explored. And we were spoilt for choice with all the blatant piracy.
But if I had to choose one game that really blew me away, that would be Thief.
Banjo-Kazooie
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.
I got it working on Linux just so I could play it on steam deck. Side bonus! It’s so old integrated graphics can more than handle it at modern resolutions. I put that game on every laptop I own.
Old business machines are great for that purpose, snag one on recycle day, install Nobara, install Elite Force.
One day I’m going to have a dedicated LAN match room exclusively for this game.
In no particular order:
THPS
Super Smash Bros.
Goldeneye
Worms
Lemmings
FIFA World Cup’98
Pokémon red/blue
LoZ: Links’s Awakening
Descent
It was a multi player net work game we used to play at work over lunch or occasionally on weekends.
Just a great game. Descent 1-3 were loads of fun.
From what I understand, the IP owners basically became scumbag squatters, and no hope for a revival of the IP ever occurred
Hated that game. My friends would always find where the exit was, and let me wait there while they did the job.
In more or less this order:
Fifa 99
Duke Nukem 3D Doom
Rise Of The Triad
Test Drive 5
Simcity
Hardball 3
Madden 98
Starcraft
Age Of Empires 2
Need For Speed 2
All Points Buletin
Shout out to FIFA 95 on the SNES which was completely isometric. A good era for soccer games with a lot of worthy competitors:
- International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
- Super soccer
- FIFA
- Sensible soccer
Move sensible to the top of the list. Aftertouch was genius game design.
Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid.
