RetroGaming

StarCraft Diablo1 MechWarrior 2 Need for speed 2

Die Hard Trilogy

Homeworld

Gex

Mario Teaches Typing

All of the ‘Blaster Learning System’ games like Math Blasters: In Search of Spot

I was pretty young still so those educational ones were hella fun and my parents would let me play as much as I wanted

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

My mom got us this “Kids Cube” game collection in CompUSA when I was a kid and there were some gems in there. I’ve been looking for years to try and find the list of games but it’s one of those cheap dollar bin software collections. Anywho, some of the games I loved from that included:

Battle Bugs Jetpack Mice Movers Loader Larry

Non Kids Cube games: Doom (duh) Hero’s of might and Magic 3 Kings Quest VI Return to Zork Raptor: Call of the Shadows Battle Chess Jazz Jackrabbit Prince of Persia (the classic DOS 2D) Duke Nukem 2D

Did a quick search and thank you Archive! Found the Kids Cube! There’s a lot of weird stuff on there but I would spend hours just trying stuff out. https://archive.org/details/aztech_kids_cube

• 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

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.

Jagged Alliance 1 and 2

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.

I don't know how popular it was since none of my friends remember it but I loved Phantasmagoria. Its a point and click horror mystery game with video captured graphics.

Starquest v

Oregon trail II

Widget workshop

That drawing program with the programmable turtle

The descent games someone else already mentioned were fantastic. Starcraft was outstanding. Also, it just barely made the cut but I even still play it, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is phenomenal.

Little Fighter 2

Blue Byte's "Albion" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(video_game)

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

Lode Runner for Apple II. Still remarkably playable. You could also go for The Legend Returns on PlayStation / Saturn.

Carmageddon is a game that I loved at the time, and am very hesitant to revisit... I suspect it hasn't aged well!

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.

The Last Express - really great story

Pizza Tycoon - this was such a fantastic management sim, I spent ages playing it back in the day

Wolfenstein and Hover.

Star Control 2

All challengers can GTFO 🧐

Might and might 3 F19 stealth jet Doom Wolfenstein Red alert Warcraft 3

• Turrican 1-3 [Amiga]
• Command and Conquer
• Monkey Island 1 [Amiga]
• Sim City 2000 (Network edition)
• Unreal Tournament
• Super Metroid [Super Nintendo]
• Metal Slug [Neo Geo/Arcade]
• Pinball Dreams/Illusions (made by DICE before they renamed themselves)

I always go back to the original Age of Empires as a classic.

Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe and Cannon Fodder are must try (there are both Amiga and dos versions for both).

Lemmings is really good. Original Worms. Lost Vikings. Syndicate.

Myst is an all-time classic. I'd just wander around exploring the world.

I tried so hard to get anywhere in Magic Carpet but our home computer ran the game too fast. I needed the "turbo button" to slow the game down but we didn't have one.

Also had the PC version of Garfield Caught in the Act (just called Garfield on PC). Played through it over and over again. The Genesis game with improved graphics, an exclusive level and one of the most underrated soundtracks in gaming. Seriously, look up the soundtrack to the PC version, the entire thing jams.

EDIT: Also, Age of Wonders. I actually spent more time in the level editor than in the game itself, building Middle Earth as a map and placing cities, factions and leaders on it as something of an "old school" (for the time) Battle for Middle Earth.