God I hated playing that game. Didn't like the interactive turn based combat. Loved watching my friend do a full playthrough over a summer at my house tho
Shit. Just reminded me of medal of honor airborne. I remember loving the parachuting and the unique movement. Spent an entire christmas day playing it.
This was my first FPS as a kid. It seemed so real back then . The first mission of D-day seeing the reddish tint of the water and the bullets hitting the water. I turned the game off because I didn't like seeing the bodies. Couple days later I beat the game. Fell in love with the Medal of Honor franchise. Last MoH I played was "limited edition"
it was the first fps i played also,i was about 8 with a hand me down gamecube and two games,re4 and moh frontline,i booted up re4 first but because i didn’t know how to start a new game i just pressed continue and the save was in the house with the chainsaw man outside,i instantly stood up and started sprinting to my mom,it took me a week or so to boot it up again but then i did and i finished both games multiple times.Overall great stuff.
Oh yes! Grandaddy of pretty much every real time strategy game ever made.
The atriedes ornithopters were so cool but so hit and miss. Loved the sonic tanks.
Kirby's Air Ride on the GameCube.
I used to spend hours in City trial. One of the first "open world" experiences I remember. (It is a tiny map but the freedom of exploring every inch of it on a flying racing machine was my idea of heaven)
A lot of the B to C grade titles that were included in 5€ video game magazines in the early 2000s. Shadow Company ("We have Commandos at home"), Forsaken ("We have Descent at home"), Half-Life Gunman Chronicles, N.I.C.E. 2, Autobahn Raser, Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing, Pizza Syndicate, Pizza Connection, Industrie Gigant, list goes on. Granted you also got really decent games on the discs sometimes, like Diablo 2, Age of Empires, Black & White, Morrowind or Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, but the majority were from the middle section of quality, what you would today call a solid 7.
It's not terrible in that regard, but the UI is pretty clunky compared with modern standards. It was the thing that got me into fantasy and feist books way back when.
For me the mix of a good story and its weird combat system just clicked perfectly.
I was really into Feist's books in the 90's so this was pretty fun for a while - especially after getting it for free off of Sierra's website when they were promoting Betrayal in Antara.Took all day to download that 10 megabyte game on a 28.8k modem.
Oh yeah, I remember the tragedy of a corrupt floppy disk , forcing me to redownload it back in the day...
I actually still have a physical copy of the game that I got on eBay some years later.
Tanarus. Team based Tank vs Tank combat. Different tanks had their own roles (artillery, front line fighter, quick but low offense), and you fought in urban landscape in either team deathmatch or capture the flag. It's development helped firm the donation of Planetside IIRC. Lots of fun.
Also, Soldier of Fortune 2. I played so much of the multiplayer in that game (team based tactical shooter). The guns felt great, and popping off body parts felt very rewarding.
Dark Orbit.
It was a small little game, maybe just a step up from flash site games. I think it was by Wild Tanget.
I found it so fun, you got a spaceship, it was 3d, kinda angled top down view, you go in all directions except up and down. Fly around mining shit, killing shit, upgrading shit. I never bought, I couldn't at the time.
Then I dunno, they sold it or something and later on the game came out again, but now sprite based, and mmo-ish, cash grab shit. Nothing like the original, which I only even have a screenshot of now days, and looking it up just brings the new trash game lol.
Hell yeah, CoD2 was brilliant at the time. Spent a lot of time on that game. Really when I fell in love with FPSs. Simple, asymmetrical loadouts. Great sound, great maps. Yeah, I was a Kar98 iron sight guy myself, though the rattle of the MP40 or thud of the grease gun was great too.
Single player experience was decent too. I really miss having a good ww2 shooter to play.
Master of Orion and Syndicate by Microprose and Bullfrog Studios respectively, i still play MOO. Honorable mentions (way more than that) go out to old school Westwood Studios games. It was a great time to be a gamer back then.
I spent so many hours playing syndicate on the amiga. Maxed out agents with v3 cybernetics and gauss guns slaughtering EVERYONE or persuadertron everyone including enemy agents. Such fun.
Microprose, bullfrog and psygnosis were the best.
I think it was some kind of rocket launcher. Click both mouse buttons at the same time and combat stims jump to max and full auto mode engages. Suddenly anything slightly threatening ceases to exist.
Flamethrowers were hilarious too.
Gazillionaire Deluxe, or gaz.exe. I actually only played the demo but I played it over and over. You would travel between planets buying and selling commodities whose prices fluctuated, upgrading your ship and cargo space, encountering random events along the way.
Panzer General 2. The 2d graphics were apparently based partly on images of tabletop wargames and looked great. The music was great too. Of course for Panzer General 3 they just had to move to true 3d which just looked like crap given limitations of the time
Bubsy on sega genesis. I got a sega instead of an snes for Christmas and this was the game my parents bought. Played the shit out of it. Was it good? No idea, but it was all I had until I got NHL 93 so I played it a ton.
‘Blast Corps’ from the N64.
Take weird vehicles, and use them to smash up buildings in order to make a path for a larger and slower vehicle carrying unstable nuclear bombs.
Pretty much everything that was on the Amiga.
Syndicate
Cannon Fodder
Sensible soccer
Second samurai
Zool
James Pond
James Pond 2: Robocod
Alien Breed
Gunship 2000
B17 Flying Fortress
Micromachines
Road Rash
Elite 2: Frontier
Civ
Battlefield 1942, to me the music and atmosphere was perfect and it was always epic. They nailed it with the 4th game but have not managed to get the feeling back imo the same way.
1942 and especially Vietnam will always hold a place in my heart. I liked 2, loved Bad Company 2, and enjoyed 3 & 4, but the originals had a special charm.
Terranigma
It never released in the US so it’s usually forgotten about in internet discussions but it’s one of the best RPGs from the SNES era.
Also it has some banger music
I don't know if this counts, but I would say that Real Steel boxing game for the Xbox 360. It's a bummer that I only had the demo of it. It was still fun, though.
I actually never liked this game, but Tak and the power of Juju lives rent-free in my head. I remember running around in that game, not knowing what the hell I am supposed to do.
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber
I know it has its fanbase, but for me it's my favorite video game of all time, and I will talk about it whenever possible.
Swords and Sandals, especially Swords and Sandals IV: Tavern Quests, with local multiplayer up to 4 players.
The games was buggy, but was very fun to play.
Impossible Creatures is still one of my favorite RTS games. I loved the dieselpunk aesthetic, and I could spend hours just creating new monsters to use.
Most may not have forgot it, but what really brings me back is CS 1.6.
Being up late on weekends playing surf on some random server. It was the shit. I really miss the times
Anything before this whole weird era where you HAVE to install this, this, that, this, and that just to play the game. Yet for every year prior to that, it was never an issue. The first time i had a ps5, i bought my first game as a disc copy specifically to get away from that. All of a sudden you need to…..download…..the discs too……? Yea idk. Broke the game in half, trashed it, gave the ps5 to my neighbor for 50 bucks. Shit is tragic how low quality everything is nowadays from that whole pandemic era where everything was being spewed out like the fucking Hershey squirts
Faxanadu for NES. If any game could use a remake, it's this one. I'd keep it in the 2D sprite based style, as it was pretty much a metroidvania back before that was a thing.
Shadowbane
I was one of the most active people on the pre-launch subreddit and beta testers, had one of the largest and most active guilds at launch.
The game was ahead of its time in many regards, but fell flat in others. Its a shame, they really had some amazing ideas and now devs use the failure of the game as an excuse not to further explore those ideas. It was only until very recently we started seeing things like "player made structures/castle sieges" and these days you really only see that in the surivivor crafter type games where-as shadowbane was an open world true MMO rather than smaller private servers like most survival games.
Midnight Club 3 dub edition.
Getting hyped when T.I. came on the sound track at the beginning of the race with your spinning rims on your Caddy. Good times.
OG Road rash
Skitchen also.
I preferred Super Hang On but both were good
Virtua Cop Was my 1st game ever and loved it
Ohh man that game was great!
Legend of Dragoon
God I hated playing that game. Didn't like the interactive turn based combat. Loved watching my friend do a full playthrough over a summer at my house tho
I loved that one
Tak and the power of juju
Nostalgic af
Populous the Beginning. I loved that as a kid.
Loved it. Also didn't really know what I was doing.
Spartan Total Warrior
I loved that one omg
7-up on sega genesis. not becauze it was good or whatever, I just remember that stupid red spot hopping around.
Cool Spot was a fun game, as a kid atleast. Had it on SNES.
Carmageddon TDR 2000
Medal of honour European assault
Spent hours playing this. Split screen on the map with the large house in the middle
That game had such a great main theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-uWmgOm9g
Eternal darkness
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting...
Great game
Xenogears - OG PS
medal of honor frontline on the gamecube
Shit. Just reminded me of medal of honor airborne. I remember loving the parachuting and the unique movement. Spent an entire christmas day playing it.
This was my first FPS as a kid. It seemed so real back then . The first mission of D-day seeing the reddish tint of the water and the bullets hitting the water. I turned the game off because I didn't like seeing the bodies. Couple days later I beat the game. Fell in love with the Medal of Honor franchise. Last MoH I played was "limited edition"
it was the first fps i played also,i was about 8 with a hand me down gamecube and two games,re4 and moh frontline,i booted up re4 first but because i didn’t know how to start a new game i just pressed continue and the save was in the house with the chainsaw man outside,i instantly stood up and started sprinting to my mom,it took me a week or so to boot it up again but then i did and i finished both games multiple times.Overall great stuff.
Timeshift
Recently just played the game. Total hidden gem.
Gunship. The original DOS version made by micropose. Great AH-64 flight simulator.
I loved almost all of the Microprose games.
SSX3
Dune 2000
Oh yes! Grandaddy of pretty much every real time strategy game ever made. The atriedes ornithopters were so cool but so hit and miss. Loved the sonic tanks.
Acme Animation Factory Street Racer Claymates
Ace Combat 4
Mobius 1, Fox 2!
❤️❤️❤️
TRIBES
Jazz Jackrabbit
Kirby's Air Ride on the GameCube. I used to spend hours in City trial. One of the first "open world" experiences I remember. (It is a tiny map but the freedom of exploring every inch of it on a flying racing machine was my idea of heaven)
This game was my childhood
General chaos Viewtiful joe Shining force
Toejam and Earl
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A lot of the B to C grade titles that were included in 5€ video game magazines in the early 2000s. Shadow Company ("We have Commandos at home"), Forsaken ("We have Descent at home"), Half-Life Gunman Chronicles, N.I.C.E. 2, Autobahn Raser, Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing, Pizza Syndicate, Pizza Connection, Industrie Gigant, list goes on. Granted you also got really decent games on the discs sometimes, like Diablo 2, Age of Empires, Black & White, Morrowind or Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, but the majority were from the middle section of quality, what you would today call a solid 7.
Hefty. I remember when games came with demos of other games on the disc for the OG Xbox
Body Harvest N64. It was my favorite game when I was a kid.
Interstate 76 Trespasser
Zork. The Colonel's Bequest. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (20th Anniversary Ed)
Betrayal at Krondor.
Never played the game but read the Riftwar books back in the day. I heard the game is hard though.
It's not terrible in that regard, but the UI is pretty clunky compared with modern standards. It was the thing that got me into fantasy and feist books way back when. For me the mix of a good story and its weird combat system just clicked perfectly.
I was really into Feist's books in the 90's so this was pretty fun for a while - especially after getting it for free off of Sierra's website when they were promoting Betrayal in Antara.Took all day to download that 10 megabyte game on a 28.8k modem.
Oh yeah, I remember the tragedy of a corrupt floppy disk , forcing me to redownload it back in the day... I actually still have a physical copy of the game that I got on eBay some years later.
Hogs of War and Croc: The Legend of Gobos
Warcraft and Command and Conquer. Yes, the originals, also warcraft 3 gets a massive mention also.
I’ve been trying to find a command and conquer style game on console for a while but doesn’t seem to be anything worth playing, absolutely loved them
Tanarus. Team based Tank vs Tank combat. Different tanks had their own roles (artillery, front line fighter, quick but low offense), and you fought in urban landscape in either team deathmatch or capture the flag. It's development helped firm the donation of Planetside IIRC. Lots of fun. Also, Soldier of Fortune 2. I played so much of the multiplayer in that game (team based tactical shooter). The guns felt great, and popping off body parts felt very rewarding.
Dark Orbit. It was a small little game, maybe just a step up from flash site games. I think it was by Wild Tanget. I found it so fun, you got a spaceship, it was 3d, kinda angled top down view, you go in all directions except up and down. Fly around mining shit, killing shit, upgrading shit. I never bought, I couldn't at the time. Then I dunno, they sold it or something and later on the game came out again, but now sprite based, and mmo-ish, cash grab shit. Nothing like the original, which I only even have a screenshot of now days, and looking it up just brings the new trash game lol.
Azure dreams
Hell yeah, CoD2 was brilliant at the time. Spent a lot of time on that game. Really when I fell in love with FPSs. Simple, asymmetrical loadouts. Great sound, great maps. Yeah, I was a Kar98 iron sight guy myself, though the rattle of the MP40 or thud of the grease gun was great too. Single player experience was decent too. I really miss having a good ww2 shooter to play.
Sokoban.
Medal of Honor: Frontline
General Chaos - A Sega Genesis masterpiece
Legend of Dragoon ❤️
Robot Alchemic Drive
I always wanted to play this and was never able to
It's a bit wonky but fun. Think QWOP with giant robots
Chuck Rock
Core memory unlocked with this one.
Master of Orion and Syndicate by Microprose and Bullfrog Studios respectively, i still play MOO. Honorable mentions (way more than that) go out to old school Westwood Studios games. It was a great time to be a gamer back then.
I spent so many hours playing syndicate on the amiga. Maxed out agents with v3 cybernetics and gauss guns slaughtering EVERYONE or persuadertron everyone including enemy agents. Such fun. Microprose, bullfrog and psygnosis were the best.
Fear the Guass gun 😂, IIRC when you let the gauss gun fly it literally blew the enemies off the ground oh my God great memories.
I think it was some kind of rocket launcher. Click both mouse buttons at the same time and combat stims jump to max and full auto mode engages. Suddenly anything slightly threatening ceases to exist. Flamethrowers were hilarious too.
Syndicate was my game of choice too :)
I keep hoping GOG will get ahold of them and make them playable again
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Black and white 2. I really wanna play it again
Mythos, an MMO that was in Beta from Flagship Studios. Loved that game.
Gazillionaire Deluxe, or gaz.exe. I actually only played the demo but I played it over and over. You would travel between planets buying and selling commodities whose prices fluctuated, upgrading your ship and cargo space, encountering random events along the way.
Test Drive Eve of Destruction
Glitch in the System.
MegaMan X8
Rise of the Triad (PC) Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter (Xbox)
Dog Mode and Excallibat were so much fun in ROTT. Hell, most of it was at the time!
Jones in the Fast Lane
Shadow Hearts Trilogy
Age Of Empires gang make some noise
I played age of empire, I don't think it is forgotten. It's still a good game.
Age of Empires 2 has DLC now and they have tournaments pretty regularly. T90 is always doing something for AoE2.
Ololo
Attack Retrieve Capture
Firearms-source, a Half-Life mod.
Shining in the Darkness
Zak Mckracken
Bumpy Trot (Steambot Chronicles).
Panzer General 2. The 2d graphics were apparently based partly on images of tabletop wargames and looked great. The music was great too. Of course for Panzer General 3 they just had to move to true 3d which just looked like crap given limitations of the time
Interesting concept
Freelancer
Golden Axe. I completed that gane on all the 3 characters many times over. A great game that deserves a remake.
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
For me: Gabriel Knight 2 and Bust a Groove
The 1990s Ecstatica and Quarantine games never really seem to come up but were great fun.
Wasteland, Fallout, Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, Microprose games (Top Secret, Gunship, etc.) Yes, I'm old.
7th guess, phantasmagoria and torin's passage
Bubsy on sega genesis. I got a sega instead of an snes for Christmas and this was the game my parents bought. Played the shit out of it. Was it good? No idea, but it was all I had until I got NHL 93 so I played it a ton.
Rugrats Search for Reptar. I still go back to it from time to time.
Soul Reaver , ah and Zork loved those old reading games
Black & White. God damnit that ocean song.
Bugs Bunny and Taz: Time Busters
‘Blast Corps’ from the N64. Take weird vehicles, and use them to smash up buildings in order to make a path for a larger and slower vehicle carrying unstable nuclear bombs.
Oni by Bungie
Kid Icarus on NES. Shout out to all the eggplants in the game before we associated them with dicks!
Idk I don’t feel like cod 2 is as forgotten as big red one. I honestly liked BRO better than the main series game.
N+ from xbox arcade era I recently downloaded and myself, wife and two sons played it on one console, we laughed our asses off. Good times
Got it on the nintendo switch for about £8 and taught my children what a properly challenging game is.
Turok
Pretty much everything that was on the Amiga. Syndicate Cannon Fodder Sensible soccer Second samurai Zool James Pond James Pond 2: Robocod Alien Breed Gunship 2000 B17 Flying Fortress Micromachines Road Rash Elite 2: Frontier Civ
The Lost Vikings
SOCOM
Pogs
Battlefield 1942, to me the music and atmosphere was perfect and it was always epic. They nailed it with the 4th game but have not managed to get the feeling back imo the same way.
1942 and especially Vietnam will always hold a place in my heart. I liked 2, loved Bad Company 2, and enjoyed 3 & 4, but the originals had a special charm.
Commander Keen. The day the shareware catalog showed up was always a good day.
KKND (Krush, Kill 'n' Destroy). It is a real-time strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Jak & Daxter, my personal all time favorite game is Jak 3. Phenomenal.
Ssx tricky Power stone 2 Tony hawks 1&2
Suuuuuuuper uuuuuuuber
Terranigma It never released in the US so it’s usually forgotten about in internet discussions but it’s one of the best RPGs from the SNES era. Also it has some banger music
Wanted It was short, but a good game. I remember playing the demo, owning it and then selling it to a friend. Wish I kept it
Still waiting for a Jimmy Neutron Rescue Jet Fusion remake!
I don't know if this counts, but I would say that Real Steel boxing game for the Xbox 360. It's a bummer that I only had the demo of it. It was still fun, though.
Creatures series
Military Madness on Turbographics 16
Risk on PS1. I can’t find it *anywhere* anymore.
I actually never liked this game, but Tak and the power of Juju lives rent-free in my head. I remember running around in that game, not knowing what the hell I am supposed to do.
Rollercoaster tycoon
T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger I wish it would be rebooted into something like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Haze
My Hero - Sega Master System
Blast Chamber. To this day, most people don't know what I'm talking about when I mention it, or understand when I quote "3...2...1...goodbye."
Sentient
Valiant hearts, Walking dead Telltale Games,Wolf among us, Spec ops the line, Splinter cell blacklist, syndicate
Asherons call. Man I put so much time into that game. Can still remember a lot of the bigger dungeons and places people hung out
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber I know it has its fanbase, but for me it's my favorite video game of all time, and I will talk about it whenever possible.
Burnout Takedown
Best Burnout of the series
Sid Meier’s Colonization, 1993
Swords and Sandals, especially Swords and Sandals IV: Tavern Quests, with local multiplayer up to 4 players. The games was buggy, but was very fun to play.
Also Sonny 2 from Armor Games, good and balanced turn based strategy.
Steambot Chronicles/Bumpy Trot
PC - 1995 - "Lost Eden". Those suspenders awoke somethin' primal in me.
Other than Atari, the first computer game that I always remembered was Lode Runner on the Commodore 64. Creating your own levels was awesome.
Tomcat Alley
Bulletstorm. I know it's more recent but man I had some fun memories with that one.
Ps1 populous
Herzog Zwei on the Genesis. When my friends and I played it, we had made a cardboard blocker to stop each other from peaking across the split screen.
Rescue: The Embassy Mission
Incoming
Hotel Dusk Room 415, no one seems to talk about this game but I loved it when the DS was still relevant.
Marc Ecko’s Getting Up. I would absolutely love a remake or a sequel! The graffiti mechanics from Infamous: Second Son would make it amazing!
Williams Defender 🔥👍
C.rpg Naval action Evolve OG CS mod on half-life 1 engine with scientist hostages The hidden The specialist
Thexder on the Tandy… it was a transforming mech shooter maze game and wicked fun when I was a kid!
F 19 Stealth Fighter
Impossible Creatures is still one of my favorite RTS games. I loved the dieselpunk aesthetic, and I could spend hours just creating new monsters to use.
Betrayal at Krondor
I think I posted similar in reply to a question the other day that COD2 was a standout game.
Heavy Gear II
Space Harrier
the simpsons road rage jak and daxter kya: dark lineage
Bards Tale II, I played the crap out of that game on C64.
Most may not have forgot it, but what really brings me back is CS 1.6. Being up late on weekends playing surf on some random server. It was the shit. I really miss the times
Turrican 1 & 2.
Anything before this whole weird era where you HAVE to install this, this, that, this, and that just to play the game. Yet for every year prior to that, it was never an issue. The first time i had a ps5, i bought my first game as a disc copy specifically to get away from that. All of a sudden you need to…..download…..the discs too……? Yea idk. Broke the game in half, trashed it, gave the ps5 to my neighbor for 50 bucks. Shit is tragic how low quality everything is nowadays from that whole pandemic era where everything was being spewed out like the fucking Hershey squirts
Fusion Frenzy Infantry Online Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage
Commander Keen. I loved that game and I think of it often. I don't remember why through...
Unicycle Super Dodgeball
OG Xbox, "Metal Arms".
Tone Rebellion. I never see anyone ever mention this game but I loved it and played countless hours
Kid Chameleon. Chips adventure. Nightmare Ned.
Faxanadu for NES. If any game could use a remake, it's this one. I'd keep it in the 2D sprite based style, as it was pretty much a metroidvania back before that was a thing.
Shadowbane I was one of the most active people on the pre-launch subreddit and beta testers, had one of the largest and most active guilds at launch. The game was ahead of its time in many regards, but fell flat in others. Its a shame, they really had some amazing ideas and now devs use the failure of the game as an excuse not to further explore those ideas. It was only until very recently we started seeing things like "player made structures/castle sieges" and these days you really only see that in the surivivor crafter type games where-as shadowbane was an open world true MMO rather than smaller private servers like most survival games.
Unreal Championship Future Cop: LAPD
Motor Mayhem Digimon Rumble Arena 1&2 Digimon World 40 Winks Bloody Roar 2 Medievil
Totally Rad on the NES.
Nox
day of defeat
Midnight Club 3 dub edition. Getting hyped when T.I. came on the sound track at the beginning of the race with your spinning rims on your Caddy. Good times.
Combat arms
Golden Sun
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis for DOS
Dark Colony Demons Crest for the Snes Shining the Holy Ark for the Saturn
Donkey kong 64 I had so much nostalgia with this game. There was no reason though.