Rollercoaster Tycoon. Super chill game, you just manage amusement parks and build rollercoasters. Openrct2 is an updated engine for it, which supports modern high resolution screens, but requires a copy of the game for the art assets.

RPG: Star Ocean 2, Breath of Fire 3, Grandia 1 and 2, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, Zelda link to the past, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 9, Skies of Arcadia, Legend of Heroes series (start with trails in the sky), Persona series (start with 4), FF Tactics series, Tactics Ogre series, Phantom Brave series

Fighting: Tekken 3, Soul Calibur, Rival Schools, Power Stone 1 and 2, SNK vs. Capcom

Racing: Ridge Racer series, Tokyo Xtreme racer series, Colin McRae rally series, Burnout Paradise, FlatOut series

Shooters: Mars Matrix, Einhander, Cotton series, Ikaruga, Bangai-o, Rez

Fps: Time splitters 2, Red Faction series, Quake series, anything in Orange Box, Rise of the Triad

Adventure: Beyond good and evil, Devil May Cry series, Gurumin, Sleeping Dogs, Syberia series

Platformer: Klonoa Series

I ran out of brain but maybe I’ll add more when I wake up.

Red Faction (PS1, PC) - Just one of my favorite series. One of the early FPS’s with destructible environments. Continued with a series, RF 2, RF: Guerrilla, and RF: Armageddon. RF 1 and RF: Guerrilla are the best imo.

Indigo Prophecy, a.k.a. Fahrenheit (Xbox, PC) - “Interactive Drama” with a wild story. From the same studio and precursor for Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human.

These ate just a couple off the top of my head that I haven’t already seen posted here.

I just finished X-COM Enemy Within for like the 3rd time. One of my all time favorites.

Alright lots of recommendations in here, some that are making me question how old I am now since some of these don’t strike me as old enough to require a recommendation but I’ll just suggest one as a bit of a dark horse.

Tyrian 2000, the classic PC Shmup of a time long gone. Oh and I guess Jazz Jackrabbit cause that soundtrack is funky.

The older Bomberman games, the Metal Slug games from the Neo Geo, Gunbird, King of Fighters 2002, Final Fantasy games like II (PSP is the most complete version), VI and Mystic Quest, コテ・DE・メクール (a PC-98 game), the first Shantae, modern homebrews like Tanglewood, Nyx - The Paradox Relic, Augury Red Code and Micro Mages, Mega Race, Kunio-Tachi no Banka (rebranded as River City Girls 0 in its recent release, and has an option to play with untouched dialogues), Wonder Boy in Monster World, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Phoenotopia (Adobe Flash version).

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For a Gameboy suggestion, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. This is the first game featuring Wario. You can complete the worlds in any order. When you get a game over you lose all the Golden Coins you’ve obtained which act.as keys to enter the final world. So you still have to reheat the final stage in each world again if you get a game over. One of the worlds is a giant mechanical Mario you get to go through!

I haven’t played this, but the next game in the “series” is Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 lmao. But I have played Wario Land II. Wario Land II is interesting because you cannot die in the game. Getting hit makes you lose a few coins and that’s it. When a boss hits you you get sent back in the stage a bit. Rather than having power ups, some of the enemies affect you. For example, if a bee stings you then you begin to swell up and float. If you’re lit on fire then you catch on fire and can burn certain blocks. These are fun because they’re oftentimes the only way to progress.

A lot of Gameboy games were kinda crappy. No offense to them or if you liked them, but these two still really hold up. They look and sound amazing. It’s a shame to me that so many people seem to remember and are nostalgic for the first Super Mario Land but haven’t played the second which is WAY better.

warcraft 3 and half-life 2

Fatal Frame(s), Silent Hill 1-4, and I agree with the top comment with Katamari. I don’t think I’ve ever frowned playing that game. Also, Sonic the Hedgehog.

Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers

It is a puzzle game like Myst but the puzzles make more sense, less like rubbing 2 coconuts on everything until they fit, and the world has more life to it.

- Little Big Adventure 2
- Total Annihilation (Best RTS)
- Earth 2150
- Empire Earth
- Patrician 3
- Crysis
- Half-life
- SimCity 4
- The Sims 3
- The Incredible Machine

This is what I played as a teenager that still hold up in my eye.

X-wing alliance

Age of Mythology

Strongholds Crusaders

Rise of Nations

Midtown madness

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters

Diablo

Starcraft and Broodwar

Super Street fighter II turbo

Super Mario World

Kirby All star

Heroes of might and magic 3

Age of Wonders

• Tron 2.0 - A FPS game set inside computers from the early 2000s. There were a lot of great weapons in the game but I always went back with the Disc throwing weapon.

• Homeworld 1/2/Cataclysm- An 3D space RTS series 1999/2000s. During the campaign all units made carry through to the next mission.