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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This game was huge. People that weren’t around at the time don’t understand how much better it was than previous games.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Nintendo 64

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Space Cadet 3D Pinball (PC)

(tell me you didn't just hear that sound in your head)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Super Mario World. The perfect platformer.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Castlevania Symphony of the Night - PlayStation

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] CaptDust 33 points 1 month ago

Tetris - Gameboy

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)
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Final Fantasy 7 - PlayStation

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Unreal Tournament

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Donkey Kong Country - SNES

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bubble Bobble, Arcade, 1986

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Diablo (1996?)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

The Legend of Zelda - NES

[–] GrumpyDuckling 25 points 1 month ago

Super Mario Bros. - NES

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Street fighter 2 - hyper fighting edition (arcade).

Played this every day after school for years as did a huge portion of my school.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - N64, 2000

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Master of Orion - MS DOS, Mac OS

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Baldur's Gate, both 1 & 2 on PC (I prefer #1). I had to actively consider whether it had been at least 25 years it came out and...I feel super old now 😅.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Pokémon Crystal is just shy of your 25 year threshold depending on what month it was released (it came out in 2000 in Japan), so I'll say Pokémon Yellow or Pokémon Gold and Silver. We can sit here and nitpick about which is the best, but Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal were all amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wipeout 2097 (Wipeout XL), PSX, 1996

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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Earthbound - SNES (with the oversized box and guide)

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[–] loaf 17 points 1 month ago

Final Fantasy 4, SNES.

(Still one of the best games I've ever played.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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Elite - BBC Micro Model B originally.

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Duke Nukem 3D, PC

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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Commander Keen (series), PC

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

UFO (or xcom) - enemy unknown.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

I’ll propose Age of Empires 1. That one is my childhood pretty much 😄

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Rollercoaster Tycoon

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Spyro (series) Playstation 1998-2000

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Metal Great Solid

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