These are my favorite games, since I started gaming back in 1992..? Back on my 66mhz computer, using the good ol' MS-DOS. When I was a child my parents very much hated video games, and stuff of that nature so you'll see a lack of any early console classics. I never got any console until I was able to afford to buy one on my own and that was the Playstation 1. Enjoy taking a trip through my favorites both old and new!
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3D racing what more could you ask for?! This is 1994 and you could drive your car, OFF a track and into a lake. Back then that was groundbreaking.
The first driving simulator I ever played. If you can believe it this game had a completely open city like Grand Theft Auto! Three cars to choose from; back then that was amazing!
I never finished it as I was too young to solve the more complicated puzzles and did those Kyrandia games have some crazy puzzles. What I got out of it was some really funny writing, great art and a fascination with Malcolm the evil jester magician who took great pleasure in toying with peoples lives.
Amazing game. I got it in a Costco bargain bin of all places and was extremely worried at the time the clerk would sound some sort of WW2 alarm siren because it was a MATURE title with blood, gore and even nudity. Very dark, extremely violent, extremely twisted. The game came with a really well crafted, hand written journal in which the protagonist of the story wrote out his thoughts. With time the writing became sloppier and sloppier and the thoughts slowly slipped into madness. Eventually you just got full pages of "SLEEEEP MUST SLEEP.." scrawled erratically. Haven't played a game like it since.
Instilled a love for third person shooters in me. The main character seemed so cool, a rogue bounty hunter type in super cool red armor just decimating anything in his path! These days thats pretty generic trope but back then man it was something!
What an adventure game for those times! You got to choose a character from a ridiculous roster of supernaturals and go forth solving classic point and click puzzles. The interesting and unique gameplay mechanic present here was that each puzzle had multiple solutions depending on your character choice. Locked door? The thief can picklock it, the vampire can turn to mist and slide underneath and the lady in a mech suit can just smash it down.
Haha CD-ROM CLASSICS! When I saw that cover pop up when I loaded this into the list my heart felt all warm and fuzzy! Great game! The plus version let you play on an even harder setting. I thought the original was hard enough but this is the version I owned. Got to customize limbs of your cyber agents and buy all sorts of different guns. Even hijack vehicles!
Everything was seemingly made out of weird balls in this game and it had a princess. As a kid this was all I ever wanted!
Welcome to the world of 3D! Extremely weird and very SCI-FI. In the opening sequences of the game you're already beating a fellow test subject to death with his own arm. Also this was one of the first games I remember playing where you didn't shoot "bosses" to kill them, but rather used environmental puzzles to overcome them. The first boss you fought was a giant cyber t-rex and you have to trick him into falling down a cryogenic tube and then you'd freeze him.
Game had style! The action was evenly divided between fighting in a giant mech (that could transform!) and first person shooting on foot. What I remember clearly was how graphic the on foot blood effects were and how fast you died. Interesting to note was that I was playing basically pure anime, and I didn't even know what anime was at the time!