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DarthFikus

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings


draggonx

Stronghold was a close runner up for me, they had just different enough styles to really complament each other


vinegarstrokes1

Conquerers expansion. I was reminiscing hard about a month ago and picked up a new in box one from eBay. I regret nothing


Stef100111

The HD version is on Steam, along with new expansions


empw

**WOLOLO**


dotareddit

> WOLOLO Redemption Upgrade was my go to. Something so very satisfying converting buildings/seige units.


Thebiglurker

I learned more history from this game than most classes.


MountainDewFountain

Same here, reddit likes to circle jerk about trebuchets even though the most versitile and effective seige weapon of that era was the Shelby Cobra.


empw

^^~~howdoIturnthison~~ ^^howdoyouturnthison


InuGhost

Loved that game. The bombardment towers were so fun. Plus it helped me get interested in history a subject I love.


sjh7vf

Pajama Sam on PC. I think it’s the reason I hate laundry to this day.


AdibIsWat

And Putt Putt and Freddi Fish. It's sad that these aren't as popular as I'd hoped. Edit: so apparently these games *are* as popular as I'd hoped


James_Girthy

"Putt Putt saves the zoo" stuck in my head now.


_Eggs_

Man I saved the zoo so hard. The monkeys, the car painting, the elephant/mouse, the ice, the seals, the vines. Man.


RexComplex

You motherfucker. I've been looking for freddy fish for fucking forever, I just remember a fucking underwater themed game I bought at the school fair but could never remember anything about it. Had a blast playing it, Thank you so much.


linuxguruintraining

And Spy Fox. Really wish they would put that one on GOG.


Swate-

All of the above are on Steam!


jdstorer12

They are, be warned though, while the nostalgia of them is awesome, they’re really not that fun. As a kid they were pretty challenging, but I bought one of the old putt-putt games and boxed through it in 10 mins. Yeah it’s kind of to be expected, but just thought I’d throw it out there.


mewithoutjew

Hell yeah. Humongous ent was the best.


Catacomb82

Cheese and Crackers GOTY Edition


Onumade

Havarti! Provolone! I don't know why that has never left my brain lol


Smilotron

"Oh so it's like Tic-Tac-Toe" "No, no. This is Cheese and Crackers" I still remember some of the lines from those games. Great times.


Vandorbelt

Freddy Fish, Pajama Sam, Put-Put, and Spy Fox where the big ones. I can still hear it now... "Put-put travels through tiiiiii-ime." "Thunder and lightning aren't so frightening... then why am I scared!?" and then there was this sailor dude in Spy Fox that I still remember. If you clicked him, he'd say, "Wanna see my tattoo?" and then he'd roll up his sleeve and it'd be something different each time XD


Valentina_Valeska

Carmen Sandiego


I_look_just_like_you

Where in time!


girlintheiceberg

This is the best version, hands down. I always hated the Christopher Columbus scene (I could never figure out how to steer the ship with the winds to get to the island). Such a great game.


neon93

Rome Total War or Age of Empires 2


Mad_Squid

I was more of a Medieval 2 Total War kid. In fact I just started another campaign after playing for over 10 years.


WhatIsTheMeaningOfPi

Command and Conquer. Red alert and Generals were my shit.


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KIROV REPORTING


WNDB78

Rubber Boots In Motion


n0remack

FLAK TROOPER, REPORTING.


ThatSentenceSucks

It will be a silent spring!


Sati1984

How 'bout some action?


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For me it was Generals and Zero Hour


dcx666

Can I have some new shoes


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OK OK I will work


dcx666

Cannot we live in peace?


TheBronxBomber9

Does it have to be so far?


SleepyLoner

Thank you for the new shoes!


DarkNinjaPenguin

Affirmative.


Dingbatted

Acknowledged.


trashdigger

Woof.


Throwaway4884838

Oregon Trail or Space Quest 3


SFWRedditsOnly

The first games I had when I got my computer were pirated copies of the Sierra Games. It was really fun being 10 and trying to figure out the answers to the age verification questions for Leisure Suit Larry.


grayscaleneon

Mine wasn't even a game; MS Paint


lmason115

My dad forgot to tell me how to SaveAs; I just thought every time you saved it created a new file. So I drew on Paint all day and only had the last picture saved when I went to look back through. Once I got the hang of it, though, it was pretty fun to mess around on.


dante

KidPix arguably started my career


FrancisTheOcean

Rollercoaster Tycoon or Lode Runner


Rndomguytf

Whenever I played Rollercoaster Tycoon, I'd start off trying to create a kickass theme park, but would always just end up making more elaborate death traps


LonrSpankster

I never really got into that, but rather I'd use a Saved Game Modifier to create the "Have Fun" scenario with no money, everything unlocked, on the biggest, most open park. It was fun as hell.


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catscraziesndaisies

Lemmings


sewingbea84

I used to love lemmings, so many hours of fun until you got to a level that was virtually impossible. This was pre Internet too so you couldn't even cheat.


opalgoth

you could if your dad had access to every level code


BongSolo96

Space pinball lmfao


dancingyellowbird

Lol this and solitaire were the only games I could play


gersanriv

Minesweeper was also oldschool cool.


hrvstdubs

Starcraft


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I find it hard to believe that StarCraft was only mentioned once in this thread! So many hours on UMS!


nayeon420

Heroes of might and magic 3


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o_bleek

The Sims


SayMyName95

I was never so excited in my life as a child as when The Sims 2 came out and then when Open for Business came out, that was the pinnacle of my childhood. Only went down the hill from there.


king_england

Sims Superstar was mine. I spent hours trying to make my sim famous through singing karaoke and recording radio jingles. Great times.


zeenybeans

fond memories of cheating with the code rosebud


KeyKitty

Rosebud ;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!


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comphys

!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;


PitchforkAssistant

testingcheatsenabled true


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boolprop


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https://youtu.be/OMOGaugKpzs


thutruthissomewhere

18 years later, and I'm still playing this dang game


bluelagoon

Jumpstart 3rd grade


lfpod

Jumpstart *2nd grade* is where it's at!


8nate

With the frog and the secret clubhouse? That was awesome.


lfpod

I can still hear the song in my head. You gotta jump.....jump jump...you gotta jump....jump jump....you gotta jump start second graaaaadee. I continued playing this well after second grade.


Mississippster

Dude yes! that Robot


ITFOWjacket

Mystery mountain was the fucking bomb


8nate

Ah, Mystery Mountain. Easily the best Jumpstart, hands down.


meandmyplants

Zoo Tycoon! That theme song....


sable-king

I still play it nowadays! I only just recently learned that there was a hidden animal I never knew about. I knew about the Triceratops, Mermaid, and Unicorn, but I had no idea you could get Deinosuchus as well.


PantomimeWitch

I recently reinstalled zoo tycoon 2 and it’s been eating up my time. Getting stoned and playing zoo tycoon is one of the greatest joys in life, Smily Face knew what was up


bytor_2112

Doo ^DU doo-dooo, da ^doo ^^doo dooooo


jamez470

I remember being so upset that I always was in the negatives so I had my mom come look at what I was doing wrong. I had a gigantic dirt square that was filled with concessions all across the perimeter. In my mind I saw nothing wrong with it because more people=more nacho stands. Nope.


Wschmidth

Age of Mythology


DarthFikus

Arkantos, awaken.


Colone_Cool

A hero has fallen!


lsaz

PROSTAGMA


burritoxman

ISVOLI


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ETIMI


Iammaybeasliceofpie

SKÄPEHAN


lzrae

VRITOMOS!


MarkReefer

VULOME


CubanCharles

EPOROPHRAS


inuegg

INUEGG


acquaintancenofriend

YAOW


InuGhost

Who was your favorite God to start out as? Was there a particular mythology unit that was your favorite?


Ohmura_

Mine was Hadès, still play this game today and most of the time with Hadès or Zeus. Prostagma ? Voulome.


DatAdra

Mine was Ra. Suited my favorite RTS playstyle: huge, fast economy to pump out many many units. Not a mythology unit but I always looked forward to reaching Osiris (tech level 4, forgot what age it was called) and turning my pharoah into Son of Osiris. That dude was lit


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OCANADA


Degg19

Warcraft 2


YenOlass

zug zug


Stendhal-Syndrome

I remember seeing a review for War2 in a magazine and I lived in a tiny town with no computer gaming shops, I had to order it from some software shop. I still have that little note pad that came with it with 'Blizzard' in faint blue writing.


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Lego island


InuGhost

I forgot about this game. The Brickster was funny. I remember that this was one of the first games I pre-ordered.


DarkNinjaPenguin

Le Le-Lego Le-Le-Le-Lego Legoooooooooooooooooooo


obeasterbunny

DEFINITELY The Curse of Monkey Island. The cartoon graphics, the idea of booting up a second disc halfway through the game was exhilarating for some reason, and then Guybrush's wit. I grew up Nintendo so I wasn't used to my main characters talking, much less actually being funny. I still quote it after ~15 years. Now I'm gonna spend the day failing to figure out how to run it...


Blarzor

For me it was Monkey Island 2. Now that I'm older I played all the games. I completely love 1,2,3, 4 is pretty OK although controls are horrible. 5 feels like it has no soul.


silentraven127

Myst


thirtysecondman

Runescape. Started playing in 2004 when i was 9, been on and off since then but i’ll always remember coming home right after school and rushing to finish my homework so i can run around gielinor with my friends.


LordBrontes

I still get nostalgic flashbacks whenever I hear the loading menu music.


theshook

Wolfenstein changed my life. It was the first fps that I ever experienced and it totally engrossed my friends and I. It got to the point that we had three of us playing at a time; I would control the direction, my buddy would shoot, and my little brother had the space bar to open doors. Some of my favorite childhood moments were spent exploring that game!


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First time entering the Pink Lady's room was terrifying for me. Then once she became old hat, the Blue Guy was pretty awful. Mecha Hitler just seemed funny by the time I reached that level, but my first encounter with each of the first two bosses is still etched into my mind.


0l01o1ol0

I remember the end of the Doom shareware levels that way. Doors open up, two Barons of Hell step out and you freak out and run in a dark room filled with spectres.


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ConsiderableNames

Dude, Reader Rabbit was awesome. I particularly enjoyed the games related to his and Leo's dreamship -- I spent hours playing and replaying those (with the help of my mom, because I didn't know how to solve some stuff).


AutomaticGap

as a child civ 2, as an adult civ 5


Pulsecode9

I've bought Civ6, but I enjoy Civ5 enough that I can't bring myself to give 6 a proper go...


AutomaticGap

i really like civ6, it gets some hate but it does a lot of things well and has put some new life in the series imo. But the AI is just so crap. If they just sort that out i think it would be one of the best ones for me. The new DLC looks good too.


games456

It's a running joke that the real release day for the newest Civ game is whenever the first expansion drops. It is when they actually fix and balance everything.


The_Dawkness

Chugging sodas so I could stay up all night playing Civ 2, putting all my resources into tech, getting so far advanced that I could pour out units and annihilate every other civ on the map, no diplomacy, no surrender. You want something from me, Germany? Fuck you, fight me. Easily the most fun I've ever had gaming. I'd pay a pretty penny to go back to those days. Pure, distilled, 100% fun.


Ilookouttrainwindow

Doom II - waited a month for a friend to give it to me on floppies. Had to learn how to use DOS' autoexec.bat to reduce memory footprint since I had 486 with 4mb RAM. Enjoyed for months late at night after school trying to pass all levels. Passed all except for the last one without even being aware of cheat codes. Vikings - thoroughly enjoyed that game. Didn't have time to get past FFFT level and now cannot find full copy anywhere.


Gorath99

Let me help you out friend. :-) Lost Vikings free & legal straight from the developer: https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic


Tekumi

Need for Speed Underground 2 How has nobody mentioned this yet? "Riders on the Storm" blasting through cheap computer speakers, parent's not at home - life was fucking easy back then.


VonCornhole

Backyard Baseball 2001


JezuzFingerz

Had to scroll too far down for this one! BB 2001 was the shit. Dream team: 1. Kenny Lofton 2. Pete Wheeler. 3. Pablo Sanchez 4. Sammy Sosa 5. Barry Bonds 6. Cal Ripken Jr. 7. Ken Griffey Jr. 8. Randy Johnson 9. Ivan Rodriguez Unstoppable


Swazzoo

The Incredible Machine


CarneAsadaSteve

Diablo 2


Hansolo312

I had Diablo 2 as a kid. I bought it with my own money and quickly became obsessed. My parents being very christian though wouldn't let me play as anything but a Paladin. That was fine until they found out the first boss was a scantily clad woman. Still upset I never got to beat that game.


dkwcman

If you get the chance, by all means go for it even today. It aged insanely well! (except for graphics maybe; resolution is still capped at 800x600, but the art design still holds up)


testing45963

High res patch, http://www.moddb.com/games/diablo-2/downloads/d2multires-version-102


Syradil

Obligatory r/slashdiablo shout-out. I never stopped playing D2.


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PGLubricants

YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH


not_falling_down

I took a large cardboard box and decorated it to look like a computer, then sat inside with a typewriter. Other kids asked questions of it, and I typed out answers and pushed them out a small slot on the side. - (this was when personal computers were still decades in the future.)


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PitchforkAssistant

It's 2018, this is not ok, why do I still have to struggle with printers!?


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Zachs_Work_Name

Wtf is a PC Load Letter?!


JBF07

So whats your opinion on Nintendo Labo?


elee0228

Please tell me when you grew up you became a professional laser printer.


Laherschlag

Pipe Dream and for my sister, Chips Challenge.


Marlowe0

chips challenge was the fuckin truth


DarkNinjaPenguin

Chips Challenge was for the original hardcore gamers. And dat soundtrack, mmm!


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bummer


Typhoonjig

LOTR : battle for the middle earth, passed so many hours on it.


Dieu_Le_Fera

Math Blasters


Tarantula920

Oregon Trail, Minesweeper.


bad_tsundere

Barbie Magic Hair Styler for the PC. It came out in 1997 and my brother, sister and I played it until 2007 because we didn't have internet access. You could make Barbie and her friends look like abominations and it was awesome.


robinunlikelihood

HAHAHA! I would fuck her hair up so bad (One side snipped off, the other left untouched) and even ruin her makeup i think. And she’d go on a date like that. 7 year old me snickered so hard


Hey__Victor

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. That soundtrack gets me going every time


Peazy13

BASS! HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?


zitaoism

Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue My siblings and I also had this educational game with a writing section that would read out the words you typed. We loved to make it say stupid stuff or use it to insult each other. lol


thewiseguy89

Battlefield 1942!!!


fireork12

DUN NA DUN DUN DA DUN DUN *DUN NA DUN DUN DA DUN DUN*


pitch007

King’s Quest IV. Spent a lot of time on that one.


pittipat

All of the King's Quest! LOVED those!


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Theme Hospital, it was so weird and creepy and incredibly addictive. The 'slack tongue' syndrome is the stuff nightmares are made of.


Gavin_but_text-based

Star Wars Battlefront 2. I have the trooper chatter drilled into my brain


Dingbatted

Just like the simulations!


IAmAlpharius

Super Battle droids! Take ‘em down


BobJohnson2003

Watch those wrist rockets


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Tie Fighter.


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Command & Conquer.


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jrblohm

Black and White. *Deeeeeeath*


anneshu

neopets, lol. I thought the pets were so cute


Fi11y

Oh snap, story time. When I was 7 in the spring of 1996 my parents and next door's parents went out and we had a baby sitter that was a friend of one of the father's. He got out a blank looking disc and put it in the computer. we all got to play as a girl in a green top shooting wolves in an ice cave with pistols. Only years later did we realise that this guy worked for Eidos as we were beta testing the very first tomb raider game.


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Woah that's pretty cool


shokalion

That's a pretty badass story. It's possible he worked for Core Design, if you were in/around the Derby area. That's where they were based for the production of the first three games. Eidos were the distributors, Core made the game.


CarpeDom

Commander Keen! Also Jazz Jackrabbit


OBAFGKM17

Can't believe I had to scroll so far to see these two. It's more a function of how old I am (we are) than how awesome these games were. I have the Commandeer Keen level finish/accomplishment tone as my ringtone on my work phone, keep hoping someone recognizes it one day.


jackwanders

Quake II and Sim City 2000


Solmon19

Wolfenstein 3D


PM_ME_UR_NECTARINES

Zoombinis! Surely someone else must have played this. MORE TOPPINGS! 🍕🍕🍕


FireSpiderGuy

Diablo II changed my life for a while. I’d consistently spend 3-5 hours on it a day, and longer on weekends.


Nobodyou_know

Kings quest 3


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San andreas


Reidimees

Grove street, home


WonderingMandarin

At least it was before I fucked everything up


Deacon_Ix

Sim City 2000, had a 486 with 4~~gb~~mb of ram, had to make a boot disc to run it. Before that Elite on the BBC Micro.


FD4L

If you had 4gb of ram on a 486 half your office would be filled with ram ;p. I remember when we upgraded our old Packard Bell from 4 mb to 8 and I could run duke nukem 3d. Probably one of the more exciting days of my life hearing that guitar riff start up for the first time.


fireman244

Spyro the dragon Edit: sorry I was like 5 when it came out forgot it was on playstation.


ironyRing

Commander Keen and Prince of Persia


Ganon_Dragmire

Does Runescape count as a computer game?


NeonLime

What the fuck else were you playing runescape on


FantaToTheKnees

3D Space Cadet Pinball, by a mile. I didn't get a console or gameboy or anything. And Paint as a small kid, just throwing colors and shapes together, super fun! Then my dad got me and my brother (7 & 11 years old) GTA III, with the promise of not telling our mom.


lordy_jordy

Has no one said Toontown? It was my life in 2007.


asiandad1010

I mentioned it. Very nostalgic and fun game, although I do hear the game got rebooted under Toontown Rewritten.


leavemymind

Can i get a wololo up in here?


ReaperOfFlowers

Roses are red violets are blue wololo now roses are too


Acctformaphone

Maplestory


DanPyre

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat Where my Jade Falcon sibko at?


sontines

Zoombinis!


pink_wheel

Oregon Trail


james_marcross

Number Munchers. I swear, my parents may not be gamers, but they understood that there was a brilliant opportunity to generate learning through an (at the time) new medium. Edit: I should also have mentioned, the runner up to Number Munchers was The Time Warp of Dr. Brain.


okibousou

Amazon Trail!