You Don’t Know Jack — the German editions. Loved those games. Unfortunately the new ones didn’t get translated as far as I see, and while I speak English quite well, I miss the cultural context for many questions. And the old ones are somewhat outdated for a lot of questions.

But I loved the attention to detail in those games.

Descent - really loved the immersive 3D world and gameplay.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)

But I must have my CH Flightstick Pro to get the most out of the manuverability of the ships.

200-503 CH Products Flightstick Pro USB 4-Button Joystick 8-Way Hatswitch https://a.co/d/4DzrpAv

Of course I haven’t played it in 30 years so I might be a tad rusty now even if I have all the gaming upgrades. 😁

Maniac Mansion, Commander Keen, Out of this World, Battle Toads, Time Traveller.

Some because I remember them being funny or having really cool styles, others just because I’m old/lazy and tracking down emulators and making time is too much.

I really wish there was a better modern version of Mac Syndicate.

There is a PC remake but it misses the spirit of what was so great about the original game, which was that your agents were largely autonomous (or at least could be) by idk, 1994 standards. It didn’t add anything to their autonomy.

As a kid it felt like you were working with your agents as if they were intelligent to accomplish the missions. investing in their upgrades made them make better decisions.

I’d love a remake or reimagining where you are literally training AI agents do so these missions, maybe go against other players AIs, copy and sell your own. It could be super cool.

UT99. To this day one of the best shooters. Can’t play it like I used to, since I don’t have anyone who’d play it with me. Also, only LAN parties are the real deal for games like that.

Hardwar is something I wanted to play but didn’t think I’d get a chance to, but it’s up on steam now (so I just bought it)

I want to play baldurs gate 1 and 2 to completion but I just don’t have time for it

I never did play through Final Fantasy 7, and it’s a chonker of a game to play through

I’ve played through the later Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games, but I never got very far into Final Fantasy Tactics.

I own all 5, but my main focus in life has been my little guy.

And as a bonus… I kinda want to have game of civ… one more turn!!!

Why did you write this like your a time traveler doing research?

Marathon. Not the extraction shooter that Bungie recently announced, but a remake of the original with a modern graphics engine.

I can still play these games today, but just don’t have the time:

• Dangerous Dave, John Romero’s first “popular” game, predating Keen/Wolf/Doom. Three decades later, and I still haven’t managed to beat this game (without using cheats or save states that is).

• Bio Menace, An action platformer by Apogee, made using the same engine as Keen. You are Snake Logan, a CIA operative who needs to save Metro City, which has been invaded by mutants. A very fun game with good controls and smooth movements.

• The Skunny series, A bunch of platformers featuring Skunny the squirrel, made by Copysoft. Save our Pizzas in particular was pretty memorable, where Skunny travels back in time to ancient Rome because an evil chef wants to destroy the invention of pizza so that he can make his own imitation. Very whacky and cartoony, kid me loved this game.

• SkyRoads, A fun space runner. Think Temple Run, except you’re in a spaceship that’s… not flying and is on a road, in space, and it can also hop! In hindsight, it sounds weird, but trust me, it’s fun.

I can name one - The Last Express. Still absolute quest masterpiece. Real time, a lot of different endings, pre-wwi setting where every person speaks their own language. Graphics also keeps up.

1. SimAnt. I spent way too long guiding my ant colony to the kitchen. SimEarth gets an honorable mention here, although I don’t remember playing it for nearly as long.

2. M.U.L.E. , it’s funny how much time I spent playing a economics game.

3. Lords of Conquest, it was an 80s strategy game that was kind of RISK jr.

4. Impossible Mission, I had a hacked copy and didn’t have any instructions so I just guessed at what to do

5. Project Space Station on the C64. I remember playing that and thinking how far away the 2000’s seemed. I thought we’d have more space stations by the 2020s. It turns out all we have is more memes.

Sheesh, now I need to find a good C64 emulator

Edited to add: OG Railroad Tycoon was 1990 and RRT 2 was 1998, those were a lot of fun, too. I think I bought RRT2 from GOG at one point for the nostalgia

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Assuming it’s ok to include arcade games (and at the risk of dating myself)….

Pong Simple yet challenging and you could carry on a conversation while playing it.

Zork Puzzles and world building were engaging. Imagining the world from the text descriptions was like getting lost in a book.

Battle Zone This was the first FPS that I played. Loved the immersion.

Missile Command Just a fun save-the-world game that ate all my quarters.

Myst Great worlds, great story, great puzzles. Amazing considering that it ran in HyperCard.

Inner Space. Unlikely to work very well on a non-Windows platform because of its unique game mechanic: the icons of other programs installed on the computer are the items you’re trying to collect in this game. You’d need a Windows environment populated with other apps for it to use, or write a program that gathers the icons of the apps on your real environment and generates stub executables for the game to find.

The GPU-specific versions of MechWarrior 2. That game originally used a software renderer, but many versions of it were made for specific GPUs (this was before Direct3D and OpenGL were available), and some of them looked quite good. Some of them can be played on modern hardware because there is a shim for the GPU they were designed for (most notably the 3Dfx version), but the others cannot be played any more.

Just one… Bring back Gigantic :'(