Best PC games of the 90s?

I didn't play a great deal of PC games when I was younger but of those I had i played a lot. Here are my favourites, what are yours?

POD (Planet of death)

Theme Hospital

Grand Theft Auto

Theme Park

Worms

3D Movie maker (does that count as game? Probably not...oh well)

Hmm, mine would me:

Syndicate

X-com: Ufo Defense

Baldurs Gate

Fallout 1+2

Crusader: No regret

Outlaws

Half-Life

Duke Nukem 3D

Sin

Doom

Quake 2

Shogo Mobile Armor Division

System Shock 2

Thief: The dark project

Theme Park

Descent: Conflict freespace

Mechwarrior 2

Battlezone 2

Star Craft

Command & Conquer

Dune 2 (think it was '92?)

Dungeon Keeper

Heroes of might & Magic 3

Diablo

Warcraft 2

The 7th guest

Realms of the haunting

Planescape Torment (just made it timewise, barely).

Warhammer: Shadow of the horned rat

Likely forgot a handful, but those would be my favorite PC games of the 90'

Oh, a lot. I was more of a PC gamer back then.

Here are some greats I still enjoy to this day:

XCOM

X-Wing

Tie Fighter

Lemmings

Colonization + Civilization

Warcraft 1+2

SimCity 2000

Starcraft

Diablo

Baldur's Gate

Thief

The Incredible Machine

Age of Empires

I will just say the three games that I bought along with my first PC back then.

1. C&C Red Alert.

2. Diablo.

3. Tomb Raider.

You can imagine why I stayed to PC for the rest years till today... :P

did either of you play riven or myst? man those games confused the hell out of me.

I didn't have a PC back in the 90's but I did played only one PC 90's game and that was Half-Life. Half-Life is the only game I ever play back in 1998 and it did change the way we play FPS games.

Age of Wonders
Blood
Crusader: No Regret/No Remorse
Descent 1-2
Doom series
Fallout 1-2
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Heroes of Might & Magic III
Jagged Alliance 2
Magic Carpet 2
Planescape: Torment
Rainbow Six
Rayman Forever

@pikachewbacca: Oh yes. Riven and Myst :-) I'm replaying Myst now, actually. They are tough - truly puzzle solving games, and they don't mess around about it.

Really, too many favorites for me to list them all :-(

I'm showing my darker side but there was a racing game I had for PC where you could run over sheep... was a lot of fun haha wish I could remember what it was called.

I was an Amiga gamer exclusively until 1991. Then I started to move toward PC gaming.

• Loom
• The Secret of Monkey Island series
• Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
• Silent Service II
• Ultima series
• Aces of the Pacific and Aces Over Europe
• Dune 2
• Day of the Tentacle
• Steel Panthers series
• Crusader: No Remorse
• 1942: Pacific Air War
• Command and Conquer
• Red Alert
• Warcraft 2
• X-Wing/Tie Fighter
• Doom/Doom 2
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Full Throttle
• The Journeyman Project
• Blade Runner
• GLQuake/Quake 2
• Jane's WW2 Fighters
• European Air War
• Falcon 4.0
• Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2
• Close Combat series
• Mechwarrior 2
• Unreal Tournament
• Grim Fandango
• plus others I lost track of.....

I'd drop in the original System Shock and Marathon franchise in addition to much of what's already stated.

Rayman
Heroes Of Might & Magic III
Diablo

The only known game from the PC I played was Counter Strike...such timeless graphic and excitement,and that game introduced me to gaming(I was quite a show for a kid who played this in public back then),if i want to replay it now. I'd rather play with bots who only swing knives. The rest.....does Sid Meier's Golf sim included? Because I have more fun with that,'cause back then I dont't have a PS1 to continue my gaming career.

Omicron, Messiah, BladeRunner, Unreal, Riven, Anochronox.....just too many to list. I hope to see modern remakes of some of those one day.

Yeah, I did play Myst, notice how it is not on my list :P

Joke aside, Myst looked really good at release, but even though I liked adventure games, Myst often lacked emidiete responce, and tended to take to cake when it came to riddles, and problem solving.

I know many people consider it a watermark, but personally I did not like it that much. Personal oppinion though, I am not stating that the game was bad, just that it was not for me.

The original Half-life, Quake, Diablo, Starcraft, Jedi Knight and Tomb Raider come to mind as well as Planescape Torment and the then beautiful Unreal.

But my favorite 1990's PC game was definitely Doom 2.

I will try to keep the list as short as possible of the games that I played that I really liked:

Half-Life

Unreal

Quake II

Sin

Grim Fandango

Forsaken.

Moto Racer 2

Need For Speed III/II/I

Tomb Raider

Quake

Cybermage Dark Light Awakening

One Must Fall 2097

Raptor Call of Shadows

FX Fighter

Wacky Wheels

Rise of the Triad

Duke Nukem 3D

Jedi Knight

Of those the games I played and finished and played all they way through were Half-Life, Unreal, Quake II and Forsaken, FX Fighter, Raptor, Duke Nukem 3D, One Must Fall 2097 and I am trying to finish Sin and hope to buy the re-make of Grim Fandango. My favorite would have to be Half-Life, it was such a revolutionary game for it's time. Also, notice that many of those games came out in 1998, Half-Life, Unreal, Forsaken, Sin, Grim Fandango, Need For Speed III, Moto Racer 2. 1998 was quite possibly the greatest year in gaming in terms of the impact it had in the PC Gaming scene. I won't even go into the console world where there it too had revolutionary games that came out in 1998 like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or other PC Games that I haven't played that came out in 1998 like Thief. Other notable exception would be Quake II Mission Pack The Reckoning that came out in the summer of 1998 which I am playing through.

What surprises me is that I am still trying to play through and buy and finish playing games that came out in 1998! That's how good that year was.

Toonstruck. One of my favorite point and click adventures ever and always overlooked.

Starcraft

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Doom series

SimCity 2000

Civ II

Baldur's Gate
Diablo
Doom 1 and 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Fallout 1 and 2
Half-Life
King's Quest V and VI
Star Wars Dark Forces
Starcraft
Warcraft 2

Lets see:

The Need For Speed SE

Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit

Age of Empires

Descent II/3

Red Baron II

MYST

Toonstruck

Fury3

@SantaTerb: Yes! I recently discovered this gem. I really wish it was completed. Only about half of the game was released.

Oh hell yea I love soo many of these. The Voodoo2/3 Timing of PC games was amazing. Add the original Unreal to that list. Was a great campaign.

Doom 1 & 2

Duke Nukem 3D

Commander Keen Series

Jazz Jack Rabbit 1 & 2

Diablo 1 & 2

Quake

Scorched Earth

SimCity 2000

I didn't have my own unit back then. So there's only few that I played.

CounterStrike
Half Life
Starcraft

That few.

I completely forgot about the simpsons pc game calledVirtual Springfield. Its not a great game by any means but I had quite a bit of fun playing it.

I never heard of it. Virtual Springfield sounds like Hit and Run. Hit and Run was really fun on PS2.

Bevies and Butthead: Virtual Stupidity. I still have it and the guidebook.

@davillain- : its a first person exploration/point and click/object finding game all around springfield. hardly any gameplay but the attention to detail is superb. every simpsons fan should play it.

I played these the most (probably forgetting some though):

• Rebel Assault II
• Tie Fighter
• X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter
• Dark Forces
• Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight
• Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
• Yoda Stories
• Monster Truck Madness 1 & 2
• CART Precision Racing
• DethKarz
• Wing Commander III
• Doom
• Diablo
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Sonic CD
• Front Page Sports: Football Pro '98
• Front Page Sports: Baseball Pro '98
• Virtua Fighter 2
• Manx TT Super Bike

System Shock 2, umm was Deus Ex '99 or' 00?can't remember if it's the former then that as well

Well that a lot compare to me with just three. LOL

Championship Manager 2 and the updates.

RA2.

Frontier Elite II.

• Little Big Adventure 2
• Theme Hospital
• Redneck Rampage
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Total Annihalation + Kingdoms
• Age of Empires 1 + 2
• Doom 1 + 2
• Half-Life
• Counter Strike
• Blood
• Shadow Warrior

<The biggest game of the 90s

Ultima VII Part I: The Black Gate + Forge of Virtue expansion

Ultima VII Part II: The Serpent Isle + Silver Seed expansion

Hands down the best RPG of the 90's.

LiKe Like... ;) Oldy games has its charm.

I have quite a few CD-ROM games in my collection. As well as some old software on 5.25 and 3.5 floppies.

The Elder Scrolls 1 and 2 (arena and daggerfall)

Carmageddon

Rise of the triad

Tom Clancys Rainbow six covert ops

Shadow warrior

Command and conquer red alert

WWII Normandy

Age of empires 2 gold edition
The next tetris

Diablo

Number munchers

Operation combat 2

Carmageddon 3

Extreme pinball

Ultima underworld 1 & 2

Fallout 2

And I probably have more somewhere too

StarCraft

WarCraft

The Command and Conquer games

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Duke Nukem

JezzBall

Lords of the Realm

Didn't really play PC in the 90's, but those are the games I remember. Of course since I've become more of a PC gamer, I've gone back and played some awesome games from then.

I never could get into RTS games. I wish I could, they look addictive but for whatever reason I just can't get past the learning curve and tutorials. I also found that I sucked at games like Stronghold. My little villages always got conquered.

Thats what I thought about RTS at first, then I saw CnC red alert at goodwill for $1. Picked it up and I love that game now.

I really need to get to playing this. Got it on sale from GOG some time ago.

@gameofthering: I love you! When I was a kid I remember playing a disc of pc game demos and I used to get frustrated that I couldn't play more because I would get into a few of them. One I recall had me going around a village in the rain conversing with an elephant... now that I've looked up your favourites I realise it was little big adventure 2!

Im also trying to remeber the name of a helicopter shooter that was on that disc. so basically a 1997/1998 pc helicopter shooter.

Captain Claw

Quake 2

Unreal

Myst and Riven

Curse of Monkey Island

Master of Orion 2

Starcraft

Half Life

I can't remember that one game I play with a cousin of mine. At first I thought it was Blood Omen. Someone out there had a full list of rpg that has some knight, dwarves as char. And they can find equips thrue the dungeons. Like Elven sword or something.

Sure why not .

And by the way are you knowledgeable with PC games?

System Shock 2, and starcraft are my favorites

And you guys didnt mention Ecstatica 1 + 2.... all so good.
Carmageddon
Resident Evil 1
Fifa 98-99
Warcraft 1-2
Diablo
Destruction Derby

Best of the 90s for me:

star control 2

dungeon keeper

Grim Fandango

Day of the Tentacle

Monkey Island 2

Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis

Monkey Island 1