Half-Life 1 (and expansions)
SimCity 3000, SimCity 4
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Deus Ex
Zoo Tycoon
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
Morrowind
Industry Giant 2
Fallout 1/2
Arcanum
SimTower
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Half-Life 1 (and expansions)
SimCity 3000, SimCity 4
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Deus Ex
Zoo Tycoon
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
Morrowind
Industry Giant 2
Fallout 1/2
Arcanum
SimTower
Great list. I think I will replay about half your list at some point over the coming years. And might first time play Love For Sail as well.
I still love all of the 90s FPS games like Doom and Quake.
Same. The rise of the boomer shooter was fun but you can't beat OG.
Have you tried playing on a lower difficulty level?
I love you.
I’ll let my wife know that someone finally does!
I still play through The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at least a couple times a year though it's usually with the randomizer these days. It is objectively the best video game ever made, which helps.
I'll still crack open any one of the Age of Empires series from time to time.
You just reminded me I have the first version of that game around somewhere, I might dig it back out one of these days soon.
The original and Rise of Rome are great. If you don't have Rise of Rome it's almost mandatory, it runs a lot better and has a lot of quality of life improvements, like a higher population cap.
Guild wars 1. I don't play it often but every once in a while I get the itch. It's honestly still really compelling.
Half-Life 1
One mod specifically (Sven-Coop). Been playing almost daily since 1999.
I still fire up Duke 3d and Quake mods from time to time as well. There are lifetimes of user-made content in some of these older games.
Final Fantasy 6 but, back in my day, it was called Final Fantasy 3.
The Pokemon games on all of Nintendo's handheld consoles emulate really cleanly on a smartphone.
I'm a sucker for the Gen 1 nostalgia every now and then.
DOOM.
The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.
Serious Sam.
The first one. The demo is fine. Start off with a pistol. Its pretty easy to die at first, even if you know the game. I think that's why I keep opening it, I know it really well, and it still catches me.
Tales of Maj'Eyal; all the old scumm games, daggerfall, toejam & earl.
Here goes:
pc:
megadrive:
Wow Cannon Fodder. I felt so bad for the guys that got wounded and just stayed there suffering.
Quake. Still hold up, modding community makes tons of maps to play so it stays fresh.
Dungeon Keeper - keeperfx is a modern update of the engine / bug fix that makes it easy to play on a modern system.
I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it's just not the same. I'll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it's not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.
not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.
That's the biggie that the young kids of today just will never experience!
Super Nintendo:
PC:
The music in the SNES Megaman X series is magic.
If I could I'd still be playing wow but it's just not the same without the plentiful free time for it.
Private servers with boosted rates can scratch that itch while severely reducing the grind. Every couple years I'll poke my head into one, level to endgame in like a week, do some raids, do some PVP, then completely forget it exists. Couple years later, rinse and repeat.
Syndicate Wars. I honestly haven't seen anyone emulate that gameplay as well as SW did it since then.
I have replayed Baldur's Gate 2 more than any other narrative game, and will probably do another playthrough in the coming years. So it's most likely that. Oh, and Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven multiplayer on the PS2 whenever I am over at one specific friend's place. That was our go-to couch game growing up and it's still nostalgic.
I've been on a Doom kick for a bit, although it's modified to retain some more current gen flair. Just finished Going Down Turbo with Project Brutality. Is it faithful to the OG? Not quite, but it's truly amazing how far the the engine has come despite being heavily modified in its own right.
Fallout 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 9, Elite
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Worms Armageddon
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
HOMM3 is like a warm blanket when you're sick and tired.
Worms Armageddon was a classic
I didn't have video games in my youth, so I'm just catching up now.
Every time Final Fantasy Tactics comes out again, I’m all over it.
Major mix of eras and platforms, but here is my list.
AoE2
NFSU2
Halo MCC
Sim City 2000
Streets of Sim City
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Mario Kart 64
Perfect Dark
Goldeneye
Battlefield 3
Super Mario Bros Deluxe
Mario 64
Overwatch
Half Life 2 +eps
Gary's Mod
Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour
Fallout New Vegas
The original Legend of Zelda. I still have it on cartridge and every once in a while I'll just steamroll the entire game and whoop Ganon's ass. I can usually do it in about 4 hours.
I don't use any glitches or speedrun optimizations, I just know where everything is and what order to do things in.
Rayman's saga Especially Rayman 3 and Rayman 2, I am so excited for the upcomming fan-remake Rayman 2: Redreamed
Solitaire.
I still find Civil War Generals 2 to be a really fun and challenging game. The visuals are still perfectly readable and charming.
I bloody loved Harry The Handsome Executive. It was an Ambrosia Software shareware game from the 90s and was surprisingly underrated. Will probably run on Infinite Mac but it never got an OS X port or anything
I have an old iBook which it still runs great on
Quest for Glory series! Betrayal at Krondor
Yeeeeah! I haven’t played these in forever but Hero’s Quest was my first Sierra adventure and holy shit was it magic. And Krondor - Raymond freakin Feist writing games!!
Both absolutely epic! Although in my case we’d be playing fast and loose with the term “youth” this was stuff I played after college but still.