For me, it was the game Rocket Jockey released by Sega Soft in '96. It was perfect. The game featured a surf rock soundtrack by Dick Dale. The entire premise of the game was to ride around on rockets and using long cables to yank your opponents off theirs. Referees were also fair play. I don’t think I’ve met anyone else who has played the game, so if you have, let me know!
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Unreal Tournament '99!
I really loved Tie Fighter from 1994. The music was pretty cool because it changed based on the state of the mission you were on and star wars music was a cheat code to my feelings.
I also thought it was so cool when you’d complete secret objectives and they’d bring you in to the emperor’s secret order and tattoo your arm. I thought that was just fucking great. Those cut scenes were so cool.
Also thanks to all of you who posted cool older games im going to try some of these. I’m thinking about trying fallout I’ve never played any in that series.
Lucas arts was so strong at that time. I loved dark forces(?) the FPS
Wait, you forgot to mention that he tattoes your arm with FORCE LIGHTNING.
Honestly Lucasarts of the early-90’s to mid 2000’s had such a high batting average.
Tie Fighter really captured the feel of the original trilogy that only a few games have actually done, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight both did the same.
The Commander Keen series.
Jazz Jackrabbit, and all of its versions and the sequel. Banging soundtrack too
Jazz is the DOS Game Club game of the month in August, which is exciting! Been waiting for them to cover it ever since it launched.
Also monster bash
I was a big LucasArts graphic adventure game fan. Maniac mansion, Zak McKracken, Indiana Jones, Loom, Monkey Island Then all the Sierra games: leisure Suits Larry, Police Quest, King’s Quest, Camelot…. Good times.
ahem you forgot to mention full throttle ;)
Whenever I smell asphalt, I think of Maureen.
The original “Master of Orion” was great, and I also spent countless hours playing “Archipelago”
X-COM UFO Defense
So good!
ID games of course (Keen/Wolf3d/Doom), Sim City series. Raptor, Warcraft I&II, LucasArts games.
Raptor and tyrian, 2 great tastes that taste better together.
Rollercoaster Tycoon
The Moraff adventure games. Moraffs World and Moraffs Dungeons of the Unforgiven.
Also Castle of the Winds.
It’s either tough or impossible to get purchased copies of any of them now, but that means there are sites willing to host the full unlocked versions of them now. As far as I know, the creators of both are still alive though. So I suppose if you tried really hard you might still be able to get money to them.
In both cases they were games I played when I was a kid and they stood out as games I wanted to come back to when I was less bad at stuff. And in both cases I did, and little me was right.
I remember the death messages of Castle of the Winds: RIP Killed by Huge Ogre or RIP Killed by Kobold. I had never seen or heard of an Ogre before and thought it was “org” so I pronounced it that way too for the longest time. Until Shrek was released.
I vaguely remember the death message said “another one bites the dust” and I had no idea what that meant.
I recently played through Castle of the Winds again, works great in DOSbox with Win98. Still a great game.
Does Bubble Bobble through an emulator count?
I keep playing Total Annihilation. I play it at least once a day.
Sometimes that’s me an Supreme commander: forged alliance.
You’d think I’d be better by now.
I’ve tried both Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation.
I think what mostly bothers me about updated versions of the concept is that there are too many “this type of unit counters that type of unit” pairs. You’ll start a campaign level, build yourself a nice mixed bag of versatile units, and then an enemy will show up with a horde of some specific unit X that completely overwhelms you, because you didn’t have enough Z artillery which is like the only effective thing against X.
I rarely had that problem in the original TA. Generally, all units are vulnerable to all other units, so you have to use geography and consistent resource-denial strategy to your advantage.
I recall getting stomped online by guys that would amass 3-400 little flyers and just rain hell on you before air defense could knock them out in TA.
So Im a Star Wars nut, but here goes:
Episode 1 Racer
Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight
A couple other Lucasarts games:
The Curse of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
There are so many more, but those are my choices for least talked about entries
Fallout. Astonishing bit of work. I wish there were more isometric RPGs of that style.
Loved the older fallout series but wow that gameplay was unforgiving. I remember dying constantly, though I was probably just bad.
Yeah, the unfortunate downside to the Fallout games is that it gives you a wide variety of potential character builds, but unless you’re somewhat proficient in combat, your odds of survival are slim. Which, I suppose, would be accurate to a real-life post-apocalypse scenario
SimAnt holds deep reverence with me since I remember playing it at my friends house all the time as a kid.
Lands of Lore, Ultima Underworld, Wing Commander, and Master of Orion, because I played them with my brother all of the time.
And Police Quest and Number/Word Munchers because they were some of the first I played in school.
Oh and King’s Quest V (and really all the Sierra games, for that matter) have honourable mention because I played it ALL THE TIME at my dad’s and I miss those days.
