RetroGaming

Star Control 2

All challengers can GTFO 🧐

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.

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.

Gothic I from '98

Star Flight

Fairy Tale Adventure

Both from the 80s

Crash Bandicoot 2

Quarantine

Amiga:

• Sensible Soccer
• Soccer Kid
• The Chaos Engine

ZX Spectrum:

• Chaos
• Robocop
• Midnight Resistance

Ocarina of time Red Alert .. yeah probably just those two would do me

Fate of Atlantis is pretty good

Chips Challenge for Windows, Sim City 3000, Age of Empires 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (Technically not pre-2000 because it was released in 2000.)

1995ish, Starfighter 3000 - DOS Windows 95

Janky as fuck by today's standards, but that was my gateway drug into PC gaming.

Right on Y2K was NFS Porsche Unleashed aka Porsche 2000. As long as you play the PC version it's an amazing game and there are a few graphics enhancing mods too.

I'm old so a lot but I always mention SSI DnD games like Pool of Radiance. I think the games would be a bit of slog for most people today. All the Ultimas besides 9.

X-Com - UFO Defense and Terror from the Deep (I remember hacking my demo copy of UFO Defense and bypassing the shareware check. Still my all time favorite strategy game)

Doom

Duke Nukem 1, 2, and 3D

Wolfenstein 3D

Jetpack

Commander Keen

Raptor: Call of the Shadows

Rise of the Triad

Monster Bash (Just pretty much anything 3D Realms or Apogee related was gold)

Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven(Only ever had the shareware version as a kid, but I played it over and over)

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.

Ore Truck Simulator '96

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.

There was this older 90's (I think?) game I loved but I can't figure out the name or find it, despite some googling. You played the part of someone piloting a drone on a space station that had a viral outbreak. The virus alerted the DNA of the victims that the automated security system could no longer identify them as friendlies and so went on a killing spree. You're trying to find video clips from the inhabitants, collecting DNA samples, very point and click adventure with neat animated scenes with FMV. If this rings a bell or if anyone knows it, let me know!

SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga

Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

Ganja Farmer...

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!