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Princess Maker 2. Great life sim game where you raise a girl and try to make her into a princess. (Includes optional final fantasy combat and exploration)
SimCity. If you don't know what that is you need to experience it.
Tank Wars, great turn based shooter.
You might wanna consider getting qbasic going on it. There's a large collection of homebrew games for it. http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/topten/topten.shtml
Starcraft!
Die Hard Trilogy
My mom got us this “Kids Cube” game collection in CompUSA when I was a kid and there were some gems in there. I’ve been looking for years to try and find the list of games but it’s one of those cheap dollar bin software collections. Anywho, some of the games I loved from that included:
Battle Bugs Jetpack Mice Movers Loader Larry
Non Kids Cube games: Doom (duh) Hero’s of might and Magic 3 Kings Quest VI Return to Zork Raptor: Call of the Shadows Battle Chess Jazz Jackrabbit Prince of Persia (the classic DOS 2D) Duke Nukem 2D
Did a quick search and thank you Archive! Found the Kids Cube! There’s a lot of weird stuff on there but I would spend hours just trying stuff out. https://archive.org/details/aztech_kids_cube
Jetpack was tight, yo
C64: Elite. the game is my personal number one as I played only Elite constantly for a long time, despite all other games available for C64.
Amiga: Chaos Engine, Transarctica.
486: Elite Frontier, Descent, Descent II.
StarCraft Diablo1 MechWarrior 2 Need for speed 2
Gex
Mario Teaches Typing
All of the ‘Blaster Learning System’ games like Math Blasters: In Search of Spot
I was pretty young still so those educational ones were hella fun and my parents would let me play as much as I wanted
Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain (1997 on Windows, 1998 on Mac), a real time 4X game set in space.
This game is one of my all-time favourite.
Jagged Alliance 1 and 2
Carmageddon is a game that I loved at the time, and am very hesitant to revisit... I suspect it hasn't aged well!
Starquest v
Oregon trail II
Widget workshop
That drawing program with the programmable turtle
Xwing, day of the tentacle, Sam and Max hit the road, terminal velocity, half-life, journeyman project, Myst, that weird Encarta cdrom trivia game, counterstrike, EverQuest, you don't know Jack, Spiderman cartoon maker, master of Orion, monkey Island, Commander keen, and DOOM
Little Fighter 2
Lode Runner for Apple II. Still remarkably playable. You could also go for The Legend Returns on PlayStation / Saturn.
My family’s first PC was hand-me-down Amiga 2000; so these games helped shape me growing up:
Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis T-Rex Warrior* Cannon Fodder Sensible Soccer** The Settlers After the War
** Namely, the demo disk version which was set in 1945 and replaced the ball with a bomb that would periodically explode, killing nearby players and removing them from the match.
I don't know how popular it was since none of my friends remember it but I loved Phantasmagoria. Its a point and click horror mystery game with video captured graphics.
The descent games someone else already mentioned were fantastic. Starcraft was outstanding. Also, it just barely made the cut but I even still play it, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is phenomenal.
Blue Byte's "Albion" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(video_game)
I discovered Albion very late through gog, and I'm glad I did. It made me experience again the same feeling of traveling through a strange land that I felt before in Morrowind.
Crash Bandicoot 2
Gothic I from '98
It's an awesome game, but from 2001.
Edit: oh shit. Wikipedia claims 2001 indeed... Now makes me want to check what exactly we played or whether I manufactured that memory....
~~Nope. G1 is from 98, G2 is from 01.
I played them in Germany in German back in the day maybe the English release was later?~~
I loved the Harpoon series of naval warfare simulation games. I haven’t played since the late 90s but they were a lot of fun.
Might and might 3 F19 stealth jet Doom Wolfenstein Red alert Warcraft 3
Killer Instinct
Heavy Gear? Monster truck madness? Age of Empires?
The Last Express - really great story
Pizza Tycoon - this was such a fantastic management sim, I spent ages playing it back in the day