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.
- 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)
Pc games I really loved masters of orion 2
The Last Express - really great story
Pizza Tycoon - this was such a fantastic management sim, I spent ages playing it back in the day
Infantry. My first online multiplayer game. Somehow I made it into a squad that got 2nd place in the seasonal tournament and also had arguably the best player in the whole game. I didn’t play in the matches but I was in the squad!
- Quake II
- The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
- Power Dolls
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- StarCraft with the Brood War expansion
- Fallout
- Star Wars: Dark Forces
- The Oregon Trail (obviously)
- Syndicate
- Star Wars: TIE Fighter (X Wing was good too, but TIE Fighter was better)
- Dune II: Battle for Arrakis
- Ultima Underworld: Stygian Abyss
- SimCity (1989)
- X-COM: UFO Defense
Syndicate was for me the precursor of GTA, I think I spent more time messing around than actually finishing missions. (In part because it was pretty hard)
OP said pre-2000, Starcraft wasn’t released until…
checks Wikipedia
Damn.
Yeah, I know. I felt it too.
Boy that is tough. There are a few just after 2000 but I was not doing much in the late nineties. I can’t think of anything after xwing series that was not after 2k. Doom2. I honestly cannot remember what I was doing computer game wise in the late 90’s.
Starcraft!
Definitely go and find Marathon and it’s sequels, preferably in their original form on the Mac. But you don’t need to go through all that trouble necessarily, Bungie released all the source some time ago and it is all freely available for new hardware now.
Marathon had though some nightmarish level design. But the lore is amazingly detailed for a FPS.
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.
Killer Instinct
Bubble Bobble
That’s just the best game ever!
Age of empires Star wars galactic battlegrounds Deus ex (I think that was pre 2000) Cossacks European wars
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.
Might and might 3 F19 stealth jet Doom Wolfenstein Red alert Warcraft 3
Fate of Atlantis is pretty good
