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    Your favorite game from the 90s?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Razor2, Jun 17, 2008.

  1. Razor2

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    Whats your favorite?

    Mine is Master of Orion 2, is still one of the best of it genre, but can't get it to run on Vista.
     
    Razor2, Jun 17, 2008
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    Golden Eye for N64

    Edit: I want to change my to that old DOS game where the Gorillas threw bananas at each other over buildings.
     
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    Diablo 1

    The first real game I've played.
     
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    Commander Keen 1

    Even though I probably haven't played the game in almost 10 years it's still among my all-time favourites.

    EDIT: Sorry havent thought about Age of Empires 2, that would probably be my favourite game of the 90's, possibly even my all-time favourite.
     
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  5. talin

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    Wow, so many to list.

    Wing Commander Series, still fond of that.
    Freespace Series, superb!
    Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity, one of the best games I've ever played, great story, and graphics were pretty good for the time!
    Klingon Academy (will NOT run on newer hardware, OS's :()
    Starfleet Academy
    Star Trek: Borg - great interactive movie from Simon & Schuster! Plays in Vista great, I recommend it if you can find it. (Get the patch though).
    Can't think of any others offhand.
    Well, Janes: Fighter's Anthology was great too, lost so many hours making custom maps/missions, and mods. :D Wont play on 2000 >. It might run in virtualpc under 98. :)
     
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    Golden Eye on N64 was a GREAT game! kept me and my brother going for so long in both 1 player and multiplayer. Lots of hidden chars, great level and music design and I like 007 stuff.

    Perfect Dark was not even half as good as a "sequal" Anyways my favorite? Its hard for me to imagine what was in the 90's and not before or after as I dont keep track of time well but.... Since it was playstation I am rather sure XenoGears was in the 90's and thats one of my fav/best RPG games ever that no other RPG has done similar yet.

    FF6, FF7, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, all great games but have other games similar, only XenoGears had a very specific gameplay that I miss.
     
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    Total Annihilation and Starcraft for RTSes

    MW3 and Wing Commander 5 for simulations.

    Half Life and all its attendant mods, including CS, Day of Defeat, Frontline Force, Team Fortress

    Diablo and Fallout
     
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    Very late in the 90's I know, but Homeworld has to be my favourite game of the 90's.
     
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  9. talin

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    Right, forgot to mention that one!! Good game indeed. :)
    As soon as I get my new lappy, I should pull it out of mothballs and play it again. :)
     
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    Wolfenstein 3D

    My Reaction: "HOLY $#&*@"

    And the Lucas Arts collection + Myst.
     
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    Full Throttle, baby.


    Edit:

    Master of Orion one and two were also fantastic games.

    Privateer 2: The Darkening. Seriously, I think that's where Clive Owen got his start.

    Also, my Avatar. It's eponymous
     
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    Yes, Lucas Arts had the best adventure games ever made. Monkey Island 1-3 or Maniac Mansion 2, superb.
     
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    Doom and Doom 2 :cool:
     
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    knights and merchants, and Unreal torunament (barely in the 90's).

    i cant think of any that come to mind, i was only 10 at the time of these games bearing in mind.
     
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  15. talin

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    Duke Nukem was pretty cool too.
    "It's time to kick @ss and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of gum".
    I loved his one-liners. :D
     
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    Lucas Arts adventure games. Especially, Sam and Max: Hit the Road, The Dig (damn them not making the movie version, they had a script!) and Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis.
     
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    FF7,
    Red Alert (Westwood),
    Grim Fadango,
    CS!
     
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    Shadowrun on SNES and Gabriel Knight 1/2 on PC
     
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    Jedi Knight was one of my fav if not my fav FPS game of all time.

    force powers + guns + light saber ftw.

    None of the newer games had quite the same style or appeal, man lots of mods/skins for that game too.

    Its also why I gave shadowrun a shot thinking it could be the reincarnation of it... but man shadowrun was the biggest waist of 50$ I ever spent on a game period.
     
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    Doom & Half-Life, they changed my life & gaming foerever :D
     
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    Metal gear Solid

    Turok

    Half-life
     
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    Dungeon Keeper series, Age of Wonders series. Played too many games in the 90s to have one favourite for all of them.
     
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    Warbirds, the massive multiplayer WWII flight simulator that came after Air Warrior.

    The community around it was just amazing. I was a member of the first brazilian squadron there, and we had people like real life airline pilots, fighter pilots, aeronautical engineers... and it was like that all around the world. I still fly there sometimes and the community still goes on (with the best off-topic forum I ever knew in the whole internet).
    But I passed most of the 90's decade waking up on Sundays on 5.am (to get the best of our connections at that time, no broadband) to fly our Squadron Mornings. And happy about it :)
     
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    starcraft/ red alert for rts (bfore online play was possible i used to do link games in red alert with my friend where u'd connect two playstations and tvs together)
    golden sun for rpg - no question :)
     
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    Jedi Knight WAS a good game, great cutscenes too. ;) The graphics were very subpar though. :(
    Another game tucked away in my dungeon. :D
    What was best, was following the Dark Side path of the game, that was awesome, especially the ending cutscene. ;) :cool:
     
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    Red Alert! Link up play was the absolute biz - the amount of times me and friends started at 10pm and ended at 6am was unreal.

    Also, Streets of Rage on the MegaDrive - just wow. It's still great fun today. I went back to Jedi Knight recently and was a little sick in my mouth when I started playing :D

    Speaking of which.....Rebel Assault II!! Ok, so it was a naff on rails game, but the cut scenes were so awesome...
     
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    Doom, Duke Nukem, HMM2, NFS SE, Starcraft, Hellfire.
     
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    Starcraft.
     
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    that all? I used to play 24/7 whenever my friends were around lol. 2 of us vs 2 comps. no comparison lool :p
    Now i'm more into starcraft, excited about the forthcoming starcraft 2 release anyone?
     
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    The longest Journey and Grim Fandango.... definately !
     
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    Lets see... Sonic the Hedgehog, Doom, HL, Resident Evil 1, MGS..

    Think Metal Gear tops it..
     
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    Mmm...

    Roller Coster Tycoon
    Theme Hospital
    Tomb Raider
    FF7

    ...and Treasure Cove. :p
     
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    I'd have to say Golden-Eye for the N64.
     
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    Baldur's Gate 1!
     
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    Age of Empires II:Age of Kings!
     
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    For me :

    Wouah i got so many ...

    Sim City 200 ( I've put on so many hours into that it's unbeleivable )
    Duke Nukem
    Doom I & II
    Quake
    Heroes of Might and Magic 2
    Warcraft I & II
    Command & Conquer - also Red Alert 1
    Lucas Art Collection was amazing too
    RailRoad Tycoon

    That's some of them
    It's weird but i liked gaming more back in that time .. !
     
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    A number of the games already listed, but I add Total Annihilation and SimIsle.
     
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    There are way too many I could list. The 90s were the best for gaming.

    Red Alert
    FF7
    Jedi Knight
    Super Mario 64
    Diablo
    Sim City
    HoMM3
    Roller Coaster Tycoon
    Starcraft
     
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    rainbow six, ghost recon, bought diablo 2 but never played.
     
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    Diablo 1,2/ Duke Nukem 3D !!!/ Rollercoaster tycoon/ Rainbow six / Counter strike / Wacky wheels :p/ age of empires/ Dungeon keeper 1,2 and i prob forget about 25 more titels :p
     
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    System Shock
    Wing Commander series
     
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    Battletoads for Sega Genesis
     
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    Baldur's Gate
     
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    Hmm.. not sure it is late 80s or early 90s, but
    Final Fantasy 1, that was the first game I ever bought used, out of Funco in the back of a Nintento Power, way before Game Craze and stuff
    Dragon Warrior
    Wizardry 1 - Spent HOURS rolling characters. Ninja ftw!
    Zork - This was OLD school

    And Everquest on release. Best game I ever had the pleasure/displeasure of wasting years of my life on. Tallon Zek!
     
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    Final Fantasy 1 was released in 1987 in Japan but in 1990 in North America. So I guess it counts! :p

    Chrono Trigger
    Final Fantasy VI
    Starcraft
     
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    baldurs gate and Half life (98 was a good year)
     
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    Starcraft, no questions asked. Still one of the best games ever made if you asked me.

    Also, there was a Sonic racing game called "Sonic R" that I loved back in the day lol..
     
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    Oh how could I forget Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis!
    I loved that game!

    There are a lot of games from the 90s. I really loved the Blizzard PC games (Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo series).
    I really got into the Final Fantasy games, 6 being my favorite. Chrono Trigger is probably my favorite game to date.
    And the Sonic games were just awesome... probably the first video game I ever played was the first Sonic for the Genesis!
     
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    Age of Empires 2 is my favorite game of all time. LOL. :) :) Did it come out during the 90s? :confused: I think it did, but I didn't start playing it until 2001.
     
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    It came out in '99.
     
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