I played tons of the classic 90s games like Backyard baseball, Spy Fox and 7th Guest (Which I’m sure had nothing to do with me being desensitized to Horror movies and games XD), but I also spent a lot of time messing with programs like GameMaker, Anim8tor and random maze creator type programs. What were yours?
Norton Commander, edit.com, the Wacom C/C++ compiler, pmode/w and upx. I had a peculiar childhood.
My absolute first PC game I ever remember was Math Blaster lol I loved it
I grew up with some of the first games. Loved Sierra’s library. Played some of the more eclectic games like Battle Beast and Howie’s Great Word Adventure. As far as programs went, I didn’t get much into it until later. But, I do remember using the Microsoft Works Creative Writing Program. That was fun to do designs on.
Well, Deluxe Music and Deluxe Paint when it comes to programs; and oh so many Rainbow Arts games: Giana Sisters, Turrican 1 - 3, X-Out, Mad TV. But also the classic Civilization and Sim City.
Sim City.
Many many hours sunk into Sim City 2k lmao…I should get back into it
SC2k surely was a simpler time :D
I loved Speedy Eggbert and played Oregon Trail. Also played Math Muncher.
Eventually started playing StarCraft, Warcraft, Red Alert, Quake, Doom, UT, Half Life. Then didn’t bother with educational stuff on my PC until I tried Blender and tutorials had you trying out generating models with Python
I completely forgot about Speedy Eggbert LMAO core memory unlocked
Outside the super common ones like Mario, Zelda, Quake, etc…I’ll list some pretty early ones.
River Raid Comixzone Flashback Castles
A good chunk of my early pc games were demo disks from magazines
Old mac user: Lode Runner, KidPix, Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat, Allied General
Boulderdash 2, Kickstart 2, Jumpman jr, Hawkeye and Flimbo’s quest. And probably tons of others I’ve forgotten about unfortunately.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2 (shout-out to OpenRCT!), Island of Dr Brain, Oregon Trail 3rd edition, Math Blaster, and a bunch of little educational games that nobody else has ever heard of from Ohio Distinctive Software.
a bunch of little educational games that nobody else has ever heard of from Ohio Distinctive Software.
If you remember at least the names, you should consider contributing to the MobyGames database
Looks like all they have rn on record is like 3 games lmao
That’s really funny because Internet Archive has everything I had as a kid and more.
Okay, so I think this impacted by the platforms I owned, which was:
- Commodore 64
- Game Boy
- SEGA Master System
- SEGA Genesis
- A bunch of DOS/Windows PCs
- iMac
If I were to consider my favourite games across all these systems, they would be:
- Lode Runner
- Great Giana Sisters
- OutRun
- Super Mario Land
- Tetris
- Sonic 2
- Road Rash
- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
- NHL 94
- Earthworm Jim
- MDK
- SimCity
- Civilization
- Heretic
- Marathon
- Escape Velocity
- GeneForge
- Tomb Raider
- Earth 2140
Ultima IV, Elite, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Kikstart II, RC Pro Am, Racing Destruction Set, Zaxxon
But the first was ….
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_TV_Fun_series
Played this for hours.
Yeah I’m old.
I spent a lot of time playing Sonic Mega Collection on gamecube. At least before maybe 6th or 7th grade when I got Borderlands 1 on xbox360.
Doom 1/2. Wolfenstein 3d, Duke Nukem 3d
Mortal Kombat 1 on a black and white laptop, playing 2 player matches with both players using the same keyboard
Anim8or
Thanks for this. Just recently I was trying to remember what this program was called. I remember doing the egg plant tutorial.
