Favourite 90s games

[TakeshiLive]

Metal Slug, started in the mid-90s with only two games in that decade but the formula remains the same throughout the series


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[Glaice]

Let's see..

Doom/Doom 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario 64
Super Mario RPG

And probably more I have not thought off the top of my head.

 

[kamay]

Quest for Glory I-IV (I was re-released in 1990)
Basically all the Square SNES rpgs
Age of Empires 2
Yoshi's Island
And I played the Cruis'n games A LOT on N64

Ah Quest For Glory. Old school. You know I only ever played the first one...which I remember liking. But I kept dying in ways that I would not have expected, which was kind of frustrating. Which was the best one in your opinion?

first and third were my favs, and yes the pattern of most Sierra games of that time was dying a lot.

 

[bluepotatosack]

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

No contest. I've played through that game well over a dozen times. In all honesty, I was probably a bit young for the material at the time. Great plot, voice actors (can't go too far wrong with Tim Curry and Mark Hamill, even if Curry's Cajun accent is a bit dodgy), setting, dialogue... And good god was that a well researched game. Just a great mix of the supernatural and the real world.

By the by, there is no shame in using a walkthrough for parts of this game. Some viciously hard puzzles in there. Just look at this intro. With it's badass midi music.

Spoiler: Best. Intro. Ever.

 

[Generalissimo]

a list:

Metaltech: Earthsiege
Earthsiege 2
The incredible machine
Doom
command and conquer: tiberian dawn
Super mario 64
mario kart
star wars: dark forces
Sonic 1-3
Sonic 3 and Knuckles
Half Life plus expansions

i loved these games, and still play most of them to this day

 

[excalipoor]

Sonic 1-3/S&K, PS1 era Final Fantasies, Spyro the Dragons and Crash Bandicoots, as well as GB Pokémons. That's most of my childhood right there already.

 

[Tyelcapilu]

Might & Magic (6-8)
Doom
Battlezone
Half-Life
Banjo-Kazooie
Toe Jam and Earl
Wolfenstein


I need to try dungeon keeper

 

[gorfias]

Let's see..

Doom/Doom 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario 64
Super Mario RPG

And probably more I have not thought off the top of my head.

Doom/Doom2. Anyone writing otherwise missed out on something!!!! The Super Marios you list were also great! For me, include also Link to the Past, Lion King (SNES) Ocarina of Time and... this is stupid but me and my boy loved it: Clay Fighter 64.

Shadow of Empire 64 was pretty special too.

 

[dscross]

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

No contest. I've played through that game well over a dozen times. In all honesty, I was probably a bit young for the material at the time. Great plot, voice actors (can't go too far wrong with Tim Curry and Mark Hamill, even if Curry's Cajun accent is a bit dodgy), setting, dialogue... And good god was that a well researched game. Just a great mix of the supernatural and the real world.

By the by, there is no shame in using a walkthrough for parts of this game. Some viciously hard puzzles in there. Just look at this intro. With it's badass midi music.

Spoiler: Best. Intro. Ever.

You sir have good taste. Did you play any other Sierra games?

 

[uzo]

Ahh, the 90s. My teen years. Fondest gaming memories:
THE GREATEST
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Elite II: Frontier
Civ II
Myth: The Fallen Lords


Then...
Aces of the Pacific
Police Quest
Dune
Legend of Kyrandia
Doom
Quarantine
Pirates! Gold

 

[PonceyMcTosserFaic]

the 90's huh? or as I like to say "the golden age of gaming"

well, my favorite games are

Mechwarrior 2: 31st century combat
Descent
System Shock 2
Jazz Jackrabbit
X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter
Incoming
Army Men
Fury 3
Hellbender
Doom

Those were some good times.....good times.

 

[dscross]

I also enjoyed the Disney movie-/cartoon-based games (yes, there was a time when movie-based video games were good/enjoyable).

Which ones in particular? I remember the Lion King and Aladdin games for Mega Drive (Genesis). They were class!

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I also enjoyed the Disney movie-/cartoon-based games (yes, there was a time when movie-based video games were good/enjoyable).

Which ones in particular? I remember the Lion King and Aladdin games for Mega Drive (Genesis). They were class!

Well, you already said Lion King (one of my personal favorites) and Aladdin. There was also Toy Story and The Jungle Book.

 

[Ulkjen]

And Pokemon Blue
And Shining Force

Those are awesome.

Battletanx... holy crap such good memories. Me and my buddies blasting the crap out of eachother. I really cant decide on my 'The Favorite'. Its really hard but my top 10 loved games are:

Duke Nukem 3D (Shrink ray, who doesnt love stepping on another player?)
Battletanx (all of em!)
Mechwarrior
Yoshi's Story

Super Mario World for the SNES
Sonic the Hedgehog
The legend of zelda OOC & Majoras Mask
Hexen 1 (Never played the second one. But i did a lot of RP with my buddies in this one)
Mario Kart 64

Okay I lied. There are only 9. These are the ones that stand out to me and thus spent the most time in. I have a lot of xbox lovers though. Sad that this is a 90s collection only

 

[GonzoGamer]

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. Played that shit into the ground. Funnily enough, I never finished the single player story, I mostly played online or downloaded maps and mods to try out.

The story was good. Did you ever buy the expansion pack? That was even better. I also played the hell out of XWing/Tie.
As a 40K fan, I liked Final Liberation...after they patched it, it was a mess before.
And what was that D&D FPP series. That was really good.

The console titles that stand out to me are also the RPGs: the Phantasy Stars, Soul Blazer, Act Raiser (more of an action/strategy game), Chrono Trigger.

 

[Anathrax]

Medievil. Spyro 2, Spyro 3, Crash bash(NOSTALGIA!!!)and some odd game called G-Police or E-Police or something like that, you'd pilot wire-frame vehicles(In the future) and that's about all I remember.

 

[bluepotatosack]

You sir have good taste. Did you play any other Sierra games?

Not a whole lot besides the GK series really. I missed out on King's/Space Quest. I did play Phantasmagoria 2, though! Probably not their best work really.



P.S. Sorry for the mild threadromancy.

 

[Sir Christopher McFarlane]

Final Fantasy 7, 9 and 6.
Chrono Trigger.
Super Mario World.
Steep Slope Sliders
Fighters Megamix
Dragon Quest V (although I prefer the Nintendo DS version)
I used to play the hell out of Diablo, but I wouldn't do it again.

 

[EvolutionKills]

I had a N64 growing up, so a lot of that consoles staple's.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
007: Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Super Mario 64
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Wave Race 64
Extreme G


As for the PC...

Fallout 1 & 2
Half-Life
Baulder's Gate
Planescape: Torment
Civilization II
SimCity 2000

 

[Bertylicious]

Growing up I loved Streets of Rage 2; when I was a nipper my family went on holiday to Coombe Martin and we'd stay in a chalet there. The son of the people that ran the... resort, or whatever it was, had a mega drive and we used to play it together. Completed it a couple of times.

I always liked playing as Max because he was ridonculous.

Also enjoyed the Road Rash series, although I could never find a copy of Road Rash 3, which I had rented once from Blocbuster. Actually that isn't true; one day my mum and I were out shopping on my birthday and she told me I could have one game. We were in HMV in Stratford and they actually had a copy but I'd been hearing great things about Earthworm Jim. In the end, I asked her to get me Earthworm Jim 2. It was alright.

I never saw another copy of Road Rash 3 and it has haunted me for the rest of my life. Now I buy everything. Life is poverty now but the tears... they come but not often.