1. Zork
2. Civilization
3. Daggerfall
4. MechWarrior 2
5. The Journeyman Project

I played a lot of Atari and Collecovision as a kid, but games didn’t feel “important” until my family bought our first PC. After that, game consoles in general stopped being important. It was a new world of possibility.

• Super Mario 64

• Pilot Wings 64

• Balloons Tower Defense

• Portal 2

• Banjo Kazooie: nuts and bolts (I dont care if it killed the franchise, I really enjoyed this game)

• Commander keen

• Wingnuts

• Burn:Cycle

• Myst

• Duke Nukem (the first one but also 3D)

Wingnuts was a dumb fmv ‘dog fighting’ game, but when you beat it you could play it again with silly dialogue. I also remember when setting up the sound card the test audio was a guy saying ‘ah veiners, just ze vay I like zem!’ In a bad German accent.

Burn:Cycle was an fmv adventure game that I adored, it also came with a sound track cd and a little packet of leaflets based on in game stuff that was really cool. I still listen to the ost on occasion

• Sims 3

• Skyrim

• Animal Crossing New Leaf

• Cities: Skyline

• Sims 2

So I don’t really feel that old when reading the notes, I do however apologise to anyone having an age crisis reading this.

1. Sopwith

2. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

3. Super Mario 1 & 3.

4. 688 Attack Sub

5. Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Halo:CE would probably be the single most important, but it just missed my teenage years.

• Super Mario Bros
• Zelda
• Zanac
• Golden Axe
• Street Fighter II

Lego Star Wars

Discworld

Unreal Tournament

Doom

Halo

• Maniac Mansion (and sequel)
• The Curse of Monkey Island (and sequels)
• Wing Commander (and sequels)
• Baldur’s Gate (and sequels)
• Autodesk Animator

Counter-Strike 1.4 Counter-Strike 1.5 Counter-Strike 1.6 Call of Duty: United Offensive Day of Defeat

• 🔸Super Metroid
• 🔸Goof Troop
• 🔸Metal Gear Solid
• 🔸The Legend of Dragoon
• 🔸Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee

Star Ocean 2, FFVII, Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon, Resident Evil 2.

Honorary mention for literal every ps1 game.

I can’t limit it to 5.

I keep trying to, and it doesn’t work, I end up leaving out something that I spent a massive amount of time on and also very strongly impacted my conception of what a game can be.

Minecraft, Team Fortress 2, Apex Legends, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (1 and 2) and Terraria. I’m not very old X)

Half Life

Team Fortress Classic

Mecharrior 4: Vengeance

Ocarina of Time

Diddy Kong Racing

Those are the ones where I’d be a different person now without.

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