I’m pretty sure Doom will be the most popular (and my pick too), but I’ll throw a shout-out to Epic Pinball; that Android table was the best one in the game anyway.
Sky Roads, Test Drive 2, Jill of the Jungle, Halloween Harry, Jetpack, so many great games that I played the hell out of their shareware versions.
We used to play Sky Roads on the school computers all the time. Great game.
Oh boy I loved Jetpack and Skyroads!
“Stars!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!
A 4X game for Win 3.11 that was set up for multi-player by email and ftp turbo.
Fantastically ergonomic use of early GUI features.
You could design your own alien race and ships, the default races were well balanced, but all played very differently.
Escape Velocity and its sequels.
Geez, I’d forgotten about that game. I spent an unreasonable amount of time playing those.
No such thing as unreasonable with those games because they were brilliant.
Time to sink into the next: Endless Sky (also @[email protected])
Somewhat different style, but there’s also Starsector!
Right, I forgot about that one… Haven’t tried it yet. Come to think of it, Soldat was also shareware, and I sunk hundreds of hours into it.
My first FPS and an excellent one. Sooo many hidden rooms and insane enemies.
Apogee was on fire during that whole era
I’ve been trying to remember the name of this game for ages. Thank you!!!
Such a gem… Oh go on then, I will revive my dosbox and play it all evening. You’ve twisted my arm :-P
We had to be memory experts back then. QEMM FTW!
Wolfenstein 3d, and commander Keen
Who want-a some Wang?!Memory unlocked
“I am da Shaddo wahdiyah. Lessuh fight!”
I was always struck by the similarity to the blue robot on that table to Cyborg from Rise of the Robots and I wonder if there was some cross-pollination there.
He’s actually based on the genie from Aladdin
I was a huge fan of Solar Winds: The Escape. Cool plot, aliens, dogfights, ship systems management, evil shadow governments, rebels… what’s not to love? It was my introduction to the genre and will always hold a special place
Solar winds blew my mind once I actually figured out all the controls. The universe they built was super cool and I really dug the combat. Can’t count the number of times I got owned by this guy trying to blow him up from the get go.
I’m so stoked to see this here. It was my first thought when I saw the thread.
It was a stand out experience from my childhood.
For real though, I’d love to see a modern take on this - something in between NMS, Mechwarrior, and FTL. I’ve not found anything out there with the correct combination of exploration, ship customization and management, and sinister plot. Several games get closer, but they’re all missing something
Oh my gawd. I was reading the comment above yours when Solar Winds popped into my head. Then I scroll down to see this. Bless you.
Mordor 1 The Depths of Dejenol
still available from Decklins DemiseIts the game that got me into dungeon crawlers particularly Demise: Rise of the Ku’Tan, and the epxansions Ascension and Revenge of the Tavern Keeper
Scorched Earth
Don’t remember the name of it but it was a Geometry Wars style shooter where the playing field would tilt as you moved. Played a ton of that game.
I spent a lot of time playing Raptor: Call of the Shadows, a vertically-scrolling shooter with an upgrade system.
There was also Rise of the Triad, a pretty decent Doom-clone
I actually bought the boxed version of the game on 4 separate 3.5" floppies :o
Was in a clearance bin at Toys R Us for like 5 bucks. I remember being so stoked to be able to buy all the different weapons they teased at the end of the shareware episode!
Want a fun piece of trivia? Epic Pinball launched Digital Extremes, the developer behind Warframe.
And is named Epic because of Epic (Mega)Games
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