Heroes of Might and Magic II, I still will fire it up to play occasionally! I have so many fond memories of me and my dad playing into the long hours of the night.
Gaming
It's gotta be DOOM! The first game to introduce me to PC Gaming outside of Minesweeper and Solitaire!
Not to be the hispter, but my fav. is a very niche game called "Het Yogo Yogo Spel", it's a promotional game for a drink in the Netherlands. for some reason i have such strong nostalgic feelings for it, i really loved playing it as a kid and even more as an adult because it reminds me of that time so much. and no, it's not an amazing platformer (not bad either) but man...
Probably Lotus Racing (ran off one floppy), then Quake 1 and Carmageddon 1. Never really gamed much after those few.
Xargon and Highway Hunter.
Ultima Underworld. Bought my first sound card for this game.
Going by most influential, it'd have to either be Doom or Ultima Underworld. Both of these inspired entire genre's that still live on to this day (FPS and First-Person RPG's like The Elder Scrolls). Personally? Ultima 7.
Wolfenstein 3D, my first ever PC game
my dad gave me a floppy disk from one of his coworkers with instructions on how to navigate and run the game from DOS and I felt like a hacker lol
Every once on a while i get back to Mad TV. Casual game before it was cool. Also Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis
Ultima series.
Sid Meier's covert action. Absolutely amazing spy game with lots of minigames and a randomly generated hierarchy of bad guys to catch every mission. Really want a remaster but I don't think I'm getting one.
Supaplex and Gorillas are my go tos!
Quake.
Quad Damage intensifies
> bind q "impulse 255"
Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret
Sometimes I wish they made an FPS reboot, then I remember EA owns it.
Magic Carpet was my favorite dos game I think, that or Loom.
Magic Carpet had you flying around on a Carpet, blasting fireballs at snake things, collecting mana orbs, building castles, and destroying castles of the enemy.
Loom was a Lucas Arts game where you played as a "can't look at the face of" mystical weaver of reality.. Dude under a robe with a Hoodie. You pick up a Magic staff, learn combo's of letters to play on the staff (I had a little notebook next to me with them all written down) and the game got absolutely wild. Fabric of reality breaking sorta wild.
I never had a DOS computer back then and only played a few games through emulators in recent years. It has to be DOOM for me.
Star Command was my favorite. Loved recruiting crew members, buying and upgrading ships, and going around the galaxy to complete missions. It's the game that got me hooked on RPGs as a kid
Hard to say. Secret Agent, Treasure Mountain, Azrael's Tear, Chill Manor, etc. All solid games. Hard to pick just one.
Space Hulk would definitely be mine
Gunship 2000. Shit was amazing.
Star Control II for sure. Fantastic game, still one of the best story-based games I've played. Heavily inspired a lot of more modern franchises, too, including Mass Effect.