I’m setting up my MiSTer FPGA and want to prioritize a bit. I currently have DOS and Win 95 running, but plan to setup Macintosh and any other worthwhile computer platforms. Any computer platform welcome (I already have the consoles figured out). What are your “must try” game suggestions?

Edit: I just got back to this post and am pleasantly surprised by the response. I’ll probably be adding most if not all of these to test since I have the space. Thank you to everyone who commented.

  • @[email protected]
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    47 months ago

    Starquest v

    Oregon trail II

    Widget workshop

    That drawing program with the programmable turtle

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      I don’t know any game called starquest 5, do you mean Space Quest 5?

      If so, yes, OP play this and also Space Quest 6 after it. They’re quite funny and accessible as far as Sierra point and click go.

      Older Space Quests are… rough. The kind that punishes you in late game for missing the smallest item at the beginning and forces you to save all the time because everything kills you (sometimes in funny ways).

      5 and 6 still kill you a lot, but not nearly as much and they let you rewind before the stupid move. Much more enjoyable IMO. Narration in those games is hilarious.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        That’s definitely what I was talking about, it’s been 30ish years since I played it on a mac

  • @[email protected]
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    117 months ago

    Late and I cannot possibly read everything here, but I’ll come back to it as well.

    And just to do some due diligence:

    • Saw it multiple times already, but Homeworld.
    • Star Wars Rogue Squadron or many of the other Star Wars flight games before it.
    • Imperium Galactica 2. Amazing space RTS with space and ground combat.
    • I think one of the Formula 1 games from the era is considered among the best, but I’m not sure which. If you like F1 and racing that’s worth checking out.
    • Star Trek Armada is from 2000, but very good too.
    • Sid Meier games.
    • Nintendo games, including Mario Kart 64. Unfortunately the first Mario Party isn’t as good as modern ones I hear, but may also be up your alley.
    • Scorched Earth or Tank Wars for DOS. Worms for a more modern take on the genre.

    Very space- and RTS-themed, but that’s what got my attention at the time. And they were having their golden age. Also I was very young in the 90s, so that’s all I have.

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    97 months ago

    Definitely go and find Marathon and it’s sequels, preferably in their original form on the Mac. But you don’t need to go through all that trouble necessarily, Bungie released all the source some time ago and it is all freely available for new hardware now.

    • massive_bereavement
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      Marathon had though some nightmarish level design. But the lore is amazingly detailed for a FPS.

    • massive_bereavement
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      87 months ago

      Reticulating splines.

      I still play it now and then, while I like the newer editions this is the one that aged better in comparison.

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      God I love Lords of the Realm 2. I bought it on GoG and go back and play that every few years for a spell. Rarely see others mention in and it was one of my favorite games of that era.

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        27 months ago

        Yeah, it’s one of the games I consistently return to regularly. Was very disappointed in the sequel.

  • Zloubida
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    47 months ago

    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.

    • massive_bereavement
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      My highlight in Civ II was losing against a mega empire and then half of it seceded and started a war, so I eventually got the upperhand.

      For X-COM, I remember the sheer terror of boarding a ship with my puny squad.

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        27 months ago

        One time, in Civ I, I was living my best life as Rome on a big island until the Chinese sent a battleship to my shores and started destroying my triremes. Somehow, I used a diplomat to take over one of their cities and production was stuck on mobile infantry (must have been a bug), which gave me the ability to make units that could defend against their tech. Then I sent more diplomats to steal tech. The list of tech ran off the screen, but it allowed me to still select tech I couldn’t see. So I started scrolling beyond the visible point and blindly stealing tech. When I accidentally stole nuclear weapons, I built one, loaded it on a trireme, and sent it to Beijing. Their empire instantly split, and I was able to survive. It’s still my best memory from any Civilization game.

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    Total Annihilation
    Starcraft

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      Ooo I used to love Total Annihilation. Forgot all about that game! I used to spam build hundreds of tiny fighter planes and swarm the enemy.

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    227 months ago

    Half Life. While I am too young to have played it when it released, it still was an astounding game for its time.

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    127 months ago

    Some of my favorites in a variety of genre:

    • TIE Fighter and/or Freespace
    • Planescape: Torment
    • Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
    • Pharaoh

    Also one of Sierra’s adventure games. A popular one is King’s Quest VI.

    • massive_bereavement
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      37 months ago

      I remember the difference between xwing and tie fighter. How tight where the missions and the campaign… If there’s a remake to make that’s the one for me.

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    X-Com - UFO Defense and Terror from the Deep (I remember hacking my demo copy of UFO Defense and bypassing the shareware check. Still my all time favorite strategy game)

    Doom

    Duke Nukem 1, 2, and 3D

    Wolfenstein 3D

    Jetpack

    Commander Keen

    Raptor: Call of the Shadows

    Rise of the Triad

    Monster Bash (Just pretty much anything 3D Realms or Apogee related was gold)

    Moraff’s Dungeons of the Unforgiven(Only ever had the shareware version as a kid, but I played it over and over)