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.
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.
The big one for me was Ultima Online.
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).
Doom 1/2. Wolfenstein 3d, Duke Nukem 3d
Runescape and Diablo 2. Soul Caliber was also a favorite with my friend group a little bit later.
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, 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!
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
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.
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.
Old mac user: Lode Runner, KidPix, Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat, Allied General
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2 (shout-out to OpenRCT!), Island of Dr Brain, Oregon Trail 3rd edition, Math Blaster, and a bunch of little educational games that nobody else has ever heard of from Ohio Distinctive Software.
a bunch of little educational games that nobody else has ever heard of from Ohio Distinctive Software.
If you remember at least the names, you should consider contributing to the MobyGames database
Looks like all they have rn on record is like 3 games lmao
That’s really funny because Internet Archive has everything I had as a kid and more.
Anim8or
Thanks for this. Just recently I was trying to remember what this program was called. I remember doing the egg plant tutorial.
