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.
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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.
Ocarina of time Red Alert … yeah probably just those two would do me
Maniac Mansion. I never got far, but it’s a silly little point and click game.
- 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
- 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)
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.)
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.
SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga
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.
- Sonic the hedgehog
- Golden axe
- Streets of rage
- Micro machines
- Super Mario Bros 3
- Super Mario world
- Cool boarders
- SSX tricky
- Speed freaks
- Crash bandicoot
- Soul Reaver
- Tony hawk
- Tomb raider 3
- Abes oddesy
- Crazy taxi
- Duke nukem 3D
Xwing, day of the tentacle, Sam and Max hit the road, terminal velocity, half-life, journeyman project, Myst, that weird Encarta cdrom trivia game, counterstrike, EverQuest, you don’t know Jack, Spiderman cartoon maker, master of Orion, monkey Island, Commander keen, and DOOM
There was this older 90’s (I think?) game I loved but I can’t figure out the name or find it, despite some googling. You played the part of someone piloting a drone on a space station that had a viral outbreak. The virus alerted the DNA of the victims that the automated security system could no longer identify them as friendlies and so went on a killing spree. You’re trying to find video clips from the inhabitants, collecting DNA samples, very point and click adventure with neat animated scenes with FMV. If this rings a bell or if anyone knows it, let me know!
Oh what a wonderful chance to share.
Princess Maker 2. Great life sim game where you raise a girl and try to make her into a princess. (Includes optional final fantasy combat and exploration)
SimCity. If you don’t know what that is you need to experience it.
Tank Wars, great turn based shooter.
You might wanna consider getting qbasic going on it. There’s a large collection of homebrew games for it. http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/topten/topten.shtml
Anything by Blizzard
Anything by id
Most things by Maxis
Half Life
Deus Ex bends the rule a bit, being 2000, but I can’t not mention it
Lords of the Realm 2, the OG X-Com trilogy, Total Annihilation, Dark Reign, Civ II Test of Time
Total Annihilation. It was released in 1997 and brought inspiration to games like Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation.
Also, mother fuckin’ Cap’N Crunch’s Crunchling Adventure. I don’t have to explain that one.
