Any kind of game
EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear
Idk, I remember hide-and-go-seek being pretty sick as a kid. I don’t often see it mentioned.
Ahhh shit, I just did and now I can’t say it.
Commander Keen might be one of the few old enough not to have been mentioned to me since the internet became well-known.
Also, Squarez.
Commander Keen
Only if you never watch CV-11.
Two very niche board games from the 70s: “Snit’s Revenge” “Lie, Cheat, and Steal”
And an old Avalon Hill wargame: “Wooden Ships and Iron Men”
Lie, Cheat, and Steal!!! We used to play that as kids! Excellent call.
Did you play the Mad magazine game where the objective was to lose all your money?
No… Tell me more.
My memory fails me, I just remember that one and Lie, Cheat and Steal from childhood.
Looks like someone on Amazon is selling the Mad magazine game for $150!
Hero’s Quest by Sierra (Later renamed to Quest for Glory)
Sid Meiers’ Pirates of the Carribean
Lode Runner
Shallow Thought Of The Day: Any game mentioned in this thread twice is automatically someone who didn’t read all the comments before posting.
Technically any mention of any game is a breach of the requirements since by virtue of them posting it it already disqualifies their very same comment as per the requirement.
Dungeon Keeper
Def one of my all time favorites.
Me too! I do play KeeperFX though, which is an amazing remake.
I don’t know how to link the Dungeon Keeper community here on Lemmy but I made on lemmy.world for it.
Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters
The original creators are doing a follow-up!
After the lackluster “sequels” (Star Control 3 and Star Control: Origins) that were made largely without the original developers input, I had pretty much given up the franchise for dead till now.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity
For those of you not in the know, you can get Star Control 2 for free on Steam and see what the pinnacle of DOS adventure gaming was all about :D
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2645580/Free_Stars_The_UrQuan_Masters/
Yep, I backed the Kickstarter and hang out in their Discord. Wasn’t sure on the rules about promoting stuff like that so I didn’t mention it. :-)
All time biggest time sinks are probably Civilization 2 and Factorio.
Biggest time sink you’ve never heard of is Ancient Dungeons of Mystery, a one-man Roguelike dungeon delving passion project.
You have never seen Factorio being mentioned on the internet?
You never read comments you reply to till the end?
Do you play ADOM?
Spent some time with DCSS but in the end I felt it just got tedious, the need to get lucky somehow too. Adom was hard because of the graphics IIRC even got stuck where I couldn’t hit the enemy, so that ended my check-out of ADOM :-).
Civ II was peak of the series imho… Immersive gameplay trumps graphics
Haven’t seen it mentioned here, but my favorite game of all time is one that is Rarely mentioned - if ever,
The World Ends With You, originally for the DS, now on Switch.
MC Neku has 7 days to figure out wtf is going on in The Reaper’s Game, but he can’t remember anything.
Fun combat mechanics, the DS version had you fighting 2 combat encounters at the same time, one on the top screen, and the main one on the bottom screen. The sound track was amazing! I still have multiple soundbytes from that game as ringtones.
Plus it has some bitchin songs https://youtu.be/i0569Wt-cZ0?si=xZ84zeNmAzgehLln
Love Calling, its actually my ringtone :D
That’s funny, I’ve actually been playing through it for the first time recently. I played NEO 2 years ago and loved that, and I definitely love the og game too.
Really cool and creative game, both from gameplay and story. And mate, the music, its fucking art. Like the rest of both games, yeah.
3D Movie Maker (1995) - Game for Windows 95
“What’s up Wanda” “Let’s sprint”
The delivery of those two lines are burned into my memory.
Inevitably every movie I’d make in that program would just be 2 characters karate kicking each other and then exploding
The Sexy Brutale!
It’s a murder/puzzle game and I really enjoyed it.
I really liked that game!
I always find it strange that nobody ever mentions World of Goo
I hate games like that but I couldn’t put it down!
I assume you saw the sequel?
I’ve been seeing that one mentioned a lot lately because the sequel just came out.
Escape Velocity Nova
That game is the shit. It’s even easy to play on Windows now, which was very much not the case back in the day.
Since most games are often mentioned on the internet, I’m going to reach waaaaaaaay back to my childhood and mention Cartooners:
This was a game for kids to make their own cartoons. I spend so much time making all kinds of funny and weird stories. It was very basic, but it had me giggling every time.
