Anyone born in the 70s? Remember how good the 90s games were?

[A Computer Guy]

Sopwith (video game) - Wikipedia

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I remember playing this one.

 

[freeagent]

My first system was a Magnavox Odyssey 2, then a 2600, GameBoy, SNES, GameGear, PS1, DreamCast, PS3, Wii U, Wii, PS4, Switch, A White Xbox with an S in it

In that order

 

[lexluthermiester]

My first system was a Magnavox Odyssey 2, then a 2600, GameBoy, SNES, GameGear, PS1, DreamCast, PS3, Wii U, Wii, PS4, Switch, A White Xbox with an S in it

In that order

No NES?!?

 

[freeagent]

No NES?!?

No, but my buddy down the street had one, he also had a TurboGrafx16, NeoGeo, and Sega Saturn, pretty much in that order, and my cousin had a Genesis, and another friend had a Master System. Actually a few of my friends had SNES, but I was the first with a gameboy mwahaha

But really.. those were pretty much weekend toys when it was too cold to go out, or on long summer nights during summer vacation

Good times man, this adulting stuff..

 

[lexluthermiester]

For me it was 2600, NES, SNES, TG16(withCD), Genesis, TurboDuo, SegaCD, 32X, Playstation, Saturn and to round out the 90's, the N64.

Good times man, this adulting stuff..

True that! I will NEVER let go of my inner kid. Have seen what happens to people who do let go of their inner kid and I will never do that to myself.

 

[Bagerklestyne]

74 model here.

All my early gaming is C64/Amiga stuff.
For me there's 2 parts to the 90's

Early 90's
Settlers
Dune 2
Pinball dreams, fantasies, illusions (3 games)
Railroad Tycoon
Supercars 2
Speedball 2
Deuteros
Megalomania
There's a myraid of others but they stretch back to the 80's (and tie into C64 days)

Late 90's
Command and Conquer (on serial cables)
Red Alert
Diablo
Warcraft 2
Starcraft (just saw there's a remaster, didn't know about that one)

I know I am missing lots (there may be edits)

 

[wolf]

I'm an 80's kid, and I think a similar thread about 2000-2010 games would be awesome, but I started gaming from a young age, so here's a few that I remember. Trying to stick to pc (DOS, WIN 3.1, WIN95) here but had some choice consoles in the day too.

Sam and Max hit the Road
Sim Town
The Lion King (holy crap this game was hard)
Wing Commander 2
Star wars Rebel Assault
Star Wars Wing VS Tie Fighter
Star Wars X Wing Alliance
Star wars Rogue Squadron 3D
Star wars Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars Dark Forces
Duke Nukem 3D
DOOM And DOOM2
Quake and Quake 2
Worms Armageddon
Carmageddon 2(?)
Interstate 76 and 82

Im certain more will come to me as I keep reading and catch up on all the comments. Boy do I miss good vehicular combat games, and it was such an awesome age for Star Wars gaming.

 

[64K]

Sam and Max hit the Road

I'm glad there's someone out there that also liked this game enough to remember it.
Truly a classic with a wacky sense of humor.

 

[Fokker]

I was born in the tail end of the 70s, started gaming almost immediately with Pong and then jumped into everything C64 (I had just about all of the accessories) and boxes upon boxes of floppies with a few hundred games (too many to list). I then moved into a 386 and continued the trend while mastering MS-DOS and getting further into Basic and Pascal. I had a pop-top, external SCSI CD-ROM when they were first introduced and got my first taste of CD quality music with my games playing Rebel Assault. I also first started dipping into the Internet in the early 90s while playing the first Mechwarrior on the Genie network and then later playing numerous games (Quake, Jedi Knight, Duke Nukem, Mechwarrior 2) on the Kali network. I started getting more into hardware taking the family Pentium computer from a P75 with 16MB and a 512KB GPU to a P133 (after flashing BIOS) with 128MB EDO and a glut of upper end GPUs at the time (chasing max frames). This later moved into P2 and P3 machines playing just about anything I could get my hands on in the mid to late 90s, and by the early 2000s I was playing at tons of LAN parties and building multiple machines while learning about networking and Windows networks (with some Apple and Novell) at the local college while also working in the IT department there. We would have regular LAN parties with the gaming club at the college too.

I've played every title I've seen listed in this thread and I still have some of them squirreled away in boxes somewhere. I wish I could spend as much time playing as I used to (I still play often, just can't devote days to it).

 

[wolf]

I'm glad there's someone out there that also liked this game enough to remember it.
Truly a classic with a wacky sense of humor.

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It was memorable if nothing else, I was so young I remember being fairly creeped out and found it a bit scary, ultimately though like you say it's truly a classic.

 

[jarablue]

The Sierra game Dagger of Amon Ra was one of the first pc games I got when I got my first Tandy PC in 1993. Played that game all day all night. Then my buddy had the hacker chronicles on cd. He copied his cd onto floppies for me and I sat up during the nights the entire summer of 1993 looking at geeky hacker stuff with my buddy back then. We played Warlords 2 and other games. I remember feeling the summer night air on the Jersey shore as if I were there now. Crazy how the mind holds onto such fond memories. Such a good time in the history of the world to be alive. I saw Jurassic Park that very summer and it changed my life for the better. Started my entire career. Thank you Mr. Spielberg!

 

[Hyderz]

there was grim fandango and monkey island games which i didnt get into...

 

[Fokker]

Brother and I did a lot of Appletalk LAN multiplayer stuff around that time. Minotaur - Marathon I/II - Spectre - Bolo - etc.

We had Marathon installed on the Macs in the chem lab at high school and would play multiplayer during lunch.

there was grim fandango and monkey island games which i didnt get into...

I love the LucasArts adventure games. I just finished playing through Full Throttle a while ago and I'm slowly working my way through Grim Fandango again. The Dig is one of my all time favorites.

 

[WhiteNoise]

1972 here. I didn't get into PC gaming until I was 27. Before that, I was playing on the Atari 2600 in the late 70's/early 80's and the Nintendo when it came out later in the 80's.
Games back then that I loved? (when my Dad would let me play)
River Raid
Starmaster
Atlantis
Astroids
Yars Revenge


When I was 27 I bought my first PC and enjoyed the Tex Murphy games such as Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive and Overseer. Next was Half-Life. Man, that game blew my mind. My PC couldn't even run it, which forced me to buy my first video card, a RIVA TNT2 PCI card. I remember spending a lot of time on 3dfiles.com learning how to install the card, I learned a lot at those forums.

Anyways, nice to see I'm not the only 70's child here!

 

[Kapone33]

For me it was 2600, NES, SNES, TG16(withCD), Genesis, TurboDuo, SegaCD, 32X, Playstation, Saturn and to round out the 90's, the N64.


True that! I will NEVER let go of my inner kid. Have seen what happens to people who do let go of their inner kid and I will never do that to myself.

I went from 386 to 2600, SNES, TG 16 to PS. The SNES had me loving Games that were on the NES but got the Super moniker like Contra.

 

[Yukikaze]

I wasn't born in the 70s, but I am about to get some music stuck in your heads:
One Must Fall 2097 - Soundtrack (youtube.com)
I still play it to this day!

 

[AusWolf]

I wasn't born in the '70s, but I still remember '90s games like I played them yesterday. I used to count the minutes at school so I could go home and sit in front of the PC. Good old days!

To name a few:

• Need for Speed 2 (my first game ever),
• Doom,
• Age of Empires 2,
• Warcraft 2,
• Commandos,
• Star Wars: Dark forces 2: Jedi Knight,
• Half Life,
• and so on...

 

[xtreemchaos]

born 63 so the first forray into gaming was Pong on the b/w tv i think about 76 then c64 about 82 not too sure but if i went in the loft and dug the c64 out id know but can be bothered as ive loads of work to do today funny no work for 2 weeks then a shed load comes along. as for games there a lot of water passed under that bridge, so off the to of my head fallout 1 and 2, Doom of course , Quake alex kidd in miracle world, fire fox, Astroids ect.

next day me and i went in the loft for something else and the c64 has 82 on it so i wasn't far out.

 

[xrobwx71]

Born 1971, multiple games on Atari 2600.

90's- On my Cyrix 233 MHz CPU, S3 video card. From there to one of the 3Dfx Voodoo GPU's.
Wolfenstein-
Doom- my first online multiplayer experience.
Jedi Knight Dark Forces (all versions) (the modding community was awesome) Screen name -HyA_Roland_Deshain or some variation with the xX......Xx
Serious Sam
Half Life
Duke Nuke Em
C&C
Unreal
Quake
Heretic

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I'm an 80's kid, and I think a similar thread about 2000-2010 games would be awesome, but I started gaming from a young age, so here's a few that I remember. Trying to stick to pc (DOS, WIN 3.1, WIN95) here but had some choice consoles in the day too.

Sam and Max hit the Road
Sim Town
The Lion King (holy crap this game was hard)
Wing Commander 2
Star wars Rebel Assault
Star Wars Wing VS Tie Fighter
Star Wars X Wing Alliance
Star wars Rogue Squadron 3D
Star wars Shadows of the Empire
Star Wars Dark Forces
Duke Nukem 3D
DOOM And DOOM2
Quake and Quake 2
Worms Armageddon
Carmageddon 2(?)
Interstate 76 and 82

Im certain more will come to me as I keep reading and catch up on all the comments. Boy do I miss good vehicular combat games, and it was such an awesome age for Star Wars gaming.

Star wars had such a good golden age. Long nights trying to beat x wing missions as a 6 year old were, looking back, hilariously out of my league.

Red alert 2, age of empires II, XvT, DOOM, quake, worms, and Axis and Allies were much of my childhood, despite being far younger then most here, mostly because they ran on my potato of a PC....

What I truly miss from this era, and the 2000s, was LAN play. Even if you have a game that does LAN, nobody wants to uproot their desktop anymore and go play at a friends house. GOD do I want to do an old fashioned LAN party, with doritos and mac n cheese and far too much soda (or beer today) slowly burying your buddies in hours long Age of Empires matches.

 

[basco]

i forgot Full throttle and lucasarts had lots of good games then.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I grew up in the 80s and 90s era of gaming. My favorite genre of those days were RPG games on the NES, SNES and Genesis.

You're looking at the Dragon Warrior games (1 thru 4) on the NES and FF3. Also all the FF games on GameBoy.
Breath of Fire, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore and so on for the SNES.
Shinning in the Darkness and the Phantasy Star series on Genesis.

I had many other games I enjoyed back then, but RPGs were my bread and butter.

Before all those games I played every game imaginable on the Atari 2600. I found out later in life that my uncle, through his place of work at the time, had pirated every single Atari 2600 game (this includes the X-rated ones) and gave copies to his siblings. We had them all back in 1985.

Now, can I say that games were better back then? Not really. It's all about your own personal perspectives and opinions. Did I really like playing games and trying to do special tasks in them, like in the first Dragon Warrior on NES where you'd try find and to kill the metal slime? Yeah, I thought that was a fun challenge (even though the stupid slime ran away almost every single encounter), but doesn't mean it was a better game over what is out there now. Even as the Dragon Warrior games expanded and improved as you moved up the Roman numeral count doesn't mean they were better games over what is available now. I thought it was amazing when you could get a ship in the DW2 game (if memory serves me right) and how it vastly increased the areas you got to explore and enemies you encountered and then getting party members to aid you in your quest..... All are great memories and I really did like these games for the value they offered then. Today, though, it's just nostalgia.

Out of sheer curiosity some years ago I found an emulator for the NES and even found copies of the Dragon Warrior games....while it was neat to see them again and play them just a little, the nostalgia wore off as I found them to be dull, boring and tedious. Does that mean the games suck? No, not as I think about it. I just means that the games were great when I played them all those years ago. Just like it means that some newer, more recent games I've played were great (for me) when I played them, even after multiple play throughs.

As I've been going back and replaying older PC games in my collection there were a couple that I really, really liked and I even played through them multiple times when I first got them. The most recent play through I found the games to be kind of lackluster and boring, but some I still found to be as fun as enjoyable as the first time I played them. Does that mean the games I used to like, but don't really enjoy anymore are bad games or does that mean something else such as maybe I got all the enjoyment out of them that I ever will?

Nostalgia is a bitch.

 

[P4-630]

Nice that my CD-i stuff is still worth something, a game that I happen to own L'Affair Morlov seems to be rare and sells @ 300 EUR today, Another one Brain Dead 13 sells for 100 EUR today, I got more CD-i's hard to find. I'll just keep my CD-i stuff in a box, curious what it's all worth in about 1 or 2 decades from now...

 

[Kapone33]

Nice that my CD-i stuff is still worth something, a game that I happen to own L'Affair Morlov seems to be rare and sells @ 300 EUR today, Another one Brain Dead 13 sells for 100 EUR today, I got more CD-i's hard to find. I'll just keep my CD-i stuff in a box, curious what it's all worth in about 1 or 2 decades from now...

I made almost $400 selling some PS2 Games. Used some of the money to buy one of those grey market dead console drives and I love it. So many Games that I never had or heard of. Of course there are some gremlins like Ace Combat looking like absolute Garbage but Ridge Racer is still just as fun as before.

 

[wolf]

Star wars had such a good golden age. Long nights trying to beat x wing missions as a 6 year old were, looking back, hilariously out of my league.

I can't believe how hard those XWing missions were for me too being so young at the time (born 87), but damnit it was still fun.

Red alert 2, age of empires II, XvT, DOOM, quake, worms, and Axis and Allies were much of my childhood, despite being far younger then most here, mostly because they ran on my potato of a PC....

I can relate to that too, I got hand me down computers/parts till I was in high school and got a part time job, I remember being so excited to play BF1942 on my own rig at the time and it was practically a slideshow on the K6-2 533mhz and GeForce 2 MX400 PCI lol.

What I truly miss from this era, and the 2000s, was LAN play. Even if you have a game that does LAN, nobody wants to uproot their desktop anymore and go play at a friends house. GOD do I want to do an old fashioned LAN party, with doritos and mac n cheese and far too much soda (or beer today) slowly burying your buddies in hours long Age of Empires matches.

I feel that more than anything, it was, and in my heart still is, the defining social occasion of the time. For myself, my friends and so many others. It's up to us to keep the tradition alive, and although we're lucky to do 2 a year now instead of the every weekend it used to be, and we eat, drink and talk a lot more shit than play games, I never want to stop doing it.