Asklemmy

Baldur’s Gate. That game blew me away.

The 90s were peak gaming for me - a lot a creative things were going on, new genres being explored. And we were spoilt for choice with all the blatant piracy.

But if I had to choose one game that really blew me away, that would be Thief.

In more or less this order:

Fifa 99

Duke Nukem 3D Doom

Rise Of The Triad

Test Drive 5

Simcity

Hardball 3

Madden 98

Starcraft

Age Of Empires 2

Need For Speed 2

All Points Buletin

I've always been a Nintendo fan, and their first- and second-party catalog from the 90s is phenomenal:

• Zelda OoT / MM
• Goldeneye / Perfect Dark
• Super Mario Bros 64
• Mario Parties
• Banjo Kazooie / Tooie
• Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow
• Pokémon Stadium

Outside of Nintendo, the standout titles for me are:

• Crash Bandicoot
• Spyro
• Metal Gear Solid
• FF VII & VIII

Zelda OoT

Super Mario World

Doom

TIE Fighter

Diablo

TOCA Touring Car Championship

Gran Turismo

Syphon Filter

The ones I played the most were:

• Heroes of Might & Magic

• Civilization

• Genghis Khan ][: Clan of the White Wolf

• ZZT

• Final Fantasy 6

not in order, mind

Technically 2000, but Sacrifice. It's still one of the most unique games I've ever played, and is my top wish for a remake/remaster.

It's a hybrid action RPG and RTS, which isn't completely unheard of, but even in its niche genre it's unlike anything else. You play a wizard with a range of both spells and summonable units, which can be ordered around to a limited degree, or more commonly used as a personal escort. Both the units and your own spells are very creative, and the higher level ones can be ridiculously powerful. In a glorious early celebration of terrain deformation, many of the high level spells will create volcanoes, mountains, craters, or even gaping voids in the already surreal landscapes. The story mode is also very weird and funny, with some top level voice actors.

The one i played the most was probably super mario world

My favorite snes game

But ocarina of time was great too.

For pc id say, red alert or diablo.

Homeworld and Half Life for me: both were just awesome. I spent a very long time in both.

Super Mario 64

backyard baseball

I don't think I can choose between games like Alpha Centauri, Marathon, Chrono Trigger, Homeworld, Quake, Counter-Strike (I played the beta in '99, does that count?), not to mention King of Fighters '98, Half-Life, Star Craft... wow it really was the golden era of gaming wasn't it?

Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid.

Subspace - Meet people from all over the world, and then kill them.

One of the first online multiplayer games. It has a very long skill curve, and a ton of variety in game types.

It's still alive in Steam as Continuum!

So many amazing games to choose from such as all the D&D based ones, Morrowind, the SimCity ones and the Championship Manager games, but my absolute favorite was Fallout 2 for sure!

Sid Meier's Colonisation, my 10 year old laptop that I replaced last year only had enough power to play that game and I put so many hours into it when I didn't have access to my main pc. It's just a shame that my new laptop doesn't upscale dosbox the same way my old one did but I think that's just because of the differences between MacOS and Windows.

(Edit: wrote the wrong game series somehow)

I liked the Marathon series for Mac and the Twisted Metal series for PS.

It's impossible to pick just one (even when talking specific genres)

But when it comes to fighting games, Marvel vs. Capcom and KOF '97 where among the best.

There were a lot of games released in the 90s. It would take 2-3 per genre to start getting close.

Picking just one single game... I guess I'll go with Fallout 2

Can’t pick a favorite. But I will say the one I return to the most often is Super Metroid

Tekken 3. Late 90s but I spent HUNDREDS of hours playing it.