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.

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

My top of the pops are:

• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (With Tim Curry)
• Dungeon Keeper

Honorable mentions:

• Starflight
• Pirates! Gold Plus.
• Loom (Which is sadly ignored despite it's fantastic gameplay mechanic).
• Ultima VII
• Sam & Max Hit the Road
• Lands of Lore
• Cannon Fodder
• Caesar II (Plebs are needed!)
• Broken Sword
• Theme Hospital
• Turok
• System Shock 2 (I think it is playable in Win98? Probably in Win95 but it is a stretch.)

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.

• MECHWARRIOR 2
• QUAKE 2
• Broken Sword 1
• Half-Life 1
• Jedi knight dark Forces 2
• Police Quest 1
• Aliens vs predator
• System shock 2
• Unreal tournament
• Star Trek Starfleet Academy
• Zork 1 and 2
• Heavy Gear 2
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2
• Pandemonium
• Total annihilation

• 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)

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

Maniac Mansion. I never got far, but it's a silly little point and click game.

What I spent ages on:

• It came from the desert
• Moria
• Nethack
• Sierra games, PQ and KQ and Manhunter in particular
• Rainbow Islands
• Hillsfar
• Motor Massacre
• Monkey Island, first 3
• Populous
• IK+
• North and South (multiplayer)
• Nuclear War (multiplayer)

Bubble Bobble

The dig. The game is inspired by an idea originally created for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories series.

Baldur's Gate
Lords of the Realm 2
Descent (1, 2, and 3)
Sim City 2000

Obligatory shout-out for any Bullfrog games of that era, especially Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2. Lionhead's Black & White is 1 year out of your window, but such a good game.

Also:
Syndicate Wars
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Grim Fandango
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Descent
Grand Theft Auto

• FFVII (and VIII)
• Homeworld
• Shadowrun (Sega Genesis version)
• Parasite Eve
• Wing Commander Series
• Colony Wars: Vengeance
• Gran Turismo 2
• Freespace (can't believe I forgot about that one)

...I'm in my late forties, so pre-2000 was my peak gaming time. As a result the list could go on and on and on....

• 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

Anything by Blizzard

Anything by id

Most things by Maxis

Half Life

Deus Ex bends the rule a bit, being 2000, but I can't not mention it

Command and Conquer: Tiberium Sun

Tomb Raider

Mortal Kombat 3

Streets of Rage

Metal Gear Solid

Duke Nukem 3D

Metal Slug

*your

Doom (1 then 2) Dune 2
Command & conquer: Red alert
Quake 2 & 3 Unreal tournament
Rise of the triad
Heretic
Hexen
Space Quest 4
Quest for Glory series
Simcity 2000
Leisure Suit Larry 6
Grand Theft Auto (top down)

Fate of Atlantis is pretty good

Total Annihilation. It was released in 1997 and brought inspiration to games like Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation.

Also, mother fuckin' Cap'N Crunch's Crunchling Adventure. I don't have to explain that one.

Lords of the Realm 2, the OG X-Com trilogy, Total Annihilation, Dark Reign, Civ II Test of Time

Amiga:

• Sensible Soccer
• Soccer Kid
• The Chaos Engine

ZX Spectrum:

• Chaos
• Robocop
• Midnight Resistance

Myst and Obsidian

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!

• 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

Squarez Deluxe (which is now Freeware!)

It's a thinking man's Tetris and about 100x more rewarding to play

amiga wings of fury

atari 1040ST outrun (the audio on atari!!!)

c64 zak mckraken

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

Total Annihilation
Starcraft

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

• MULE
• Might and Magic VI
• Master of Orion
• Civ 1 & 2

Out of This World - 1991

Ultima VII - 1992

Doom - 1993

Magic Carpet - 1994

Myth: The Fallen Lords - 1997

Ultima Online - 1997

Die by the Sword - 1998

Quake 3 Arena - 1999 and Quake 3 Weapons Factory Arena

Everquest - 1999

Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy. I still own this series on steam and play it when I get nostalgic.

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.

Civilization II

Settlers

X-COM: UFO defence

Monkey Island

Kings Quest 5, 6, & 7

Jill of the Jungle trilogy (free on GOG!)

Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth

Torin's Passage

... Can you tell my dad was a Sierra Online fan? ^^'

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

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