i got most of my old disc games , getting some of them to work on a modern system is hit and miss though. glide wrapper helps alot as does Dos Box but even then quite a few of them don't recognize modern video cards so have to run software mode.

I loved physical copies,pretty soon it we'll go digital.

It wasn’t even about just the cd. The boxes were huge and awesome, and with lots of stuff inside, and usually cool posters too. It was grewt

Homeworld was amazing!

Homeworld was INCREDIBLE... and the cutscenes were totally ART

No hagas cosas buenas q parezcan malas, ni malas q parezcan buenas. En Pro de Los Derechos Humanos: tomar en cuenta y respetar Derechos Humanos; asi como Creencias Religiosas. Saludos. Dios los bendiga. Los Derechos Humanos, se defienden; no se negocían. Favor de compartir. Gracias. No al Bulling, ni al castre. Favor de compartir. Gracias.

I was into 3dfx 3D accelerator cards. They revolutionized 3D gaming and the Internet even dial up was revolutionary along with networking. There were Bulletin Boards and that was also an intriguing experience before the Internet became mainstream.

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Seeing the birth and growth of 3D gaming created some very fond memories. It helps that the games were amazing regardless of the technology.

Favorite Sierra game was Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory, that and Space Quest.

Also raptor call of the shadows

Shut up dork...

@@wineem69them19 Kids like you wouldn't get it... 🤷

Right

so you're not satisfied with your life?

And now we only have about half

Don't be sad those days are gone, be glad they happened!

@@dogzer 👍🏿

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Still a great game today. You can also play it in a browser and you may even save your gameplay :)

@@drumme19r84 really? How can I get it?

Chess Sargon, power slave, quake, doom - best 90

Totally. I think the first Civilization game fit on like 2 diskettes or something. Which is insane since it actually had some serious depth to it. Or the old Defender of the Crown for the C64, which fit on one of the old diskettes (the kind with a hole in the middle which had even less memory) - and what an awesome game that was.

Looked better on the C64 too.

I had Championship Life Runner on my Atari 800XL. Loved it!

i want the fun times back

Yeah MechW2 was the shit. I remember loading out a timberwolf with nothing but 6 or 8 machine guns. Close range killer it was. Took out that Titan mech in like 5 secs

Mech Warrior totally deserves a remake.

@@MPlain they did remake it.

@@anthalas9 i meant properly. not the disaster i've seen. it's ok. but they screwed it up.

@@MPlain fair enough, I can’t argue against your point.

it is my favourit.

Diablo was the game changer (soz bad pun)

Diablo 2 is possibly the best game there is

When Blizzard still had a bright future.

Diablo 1 is still very playable. and i still have a killer arcade collection.

Haven't seen this game since 20 years back, just got a major flashback from this video, time goes by fast

@@Rallew123 same here

The 90s were the golden age for PCs. In the 80s they were a piece of shit. That era was more for Commodore and a few other brands.

@VintageKris .... and affordable well-built AV & hometheater gears, bikini open ....

@@alanfrost75 The 80s was revolutionary for desktop & mobile computing (compaq luggages & lunchboxes), and colored monitors & applications other than green. It is also known for memory & storage evolution, the explosion of office automation & productivity tools & softwares other than microsoft or apple, ai like prolog on desktops, and database builders, compilers & RADs. And we were all working within the 640k ram barrier.

@@litog888 Sure I agree with most of that. However, for PCs specifically, the 80s were nothing special from a purely gaming perspective. There were other computers you would buy if you were interested in gaming.

@@alanfrost75 Games are supposed to be fun and most are arcade-like & blocky even in other platforms. Games like load runner, prince of persia, space invaders or tetris did not require much learning. Our workstation is also our gamestation during off hours bec it's costly to own an XT or AT or even a clone Compaq back then. Games are suppose to relieve us of stress and not stressful themselves though one needs time to figure out ancient art of war or fly an attack helicopter sim. As hardware progressed so did gaming complexity & graphics. That happened in the 90s.

the best year in pc gaming industry ever

Totally agreed. Now it's all about greed. I was just thinking we didn't faced any sort of bugs back then. Now, most games are released half baked with tons of GAME BREAKING bugs. The QA nowadays!

Well, you're half right ... Before the internet, a game had to be finished and perfect. No such thing as "patch day". But, they were still greedy s.o.b.'s. LoL

No have nothing engine, Very much, more hard

Actually many people also complaining about graphic even tho the game itself is fun 🙁

Meanwhile Genx playing plant vs zombies on playstation at UHD 🤦‍♂️

Simcity2000 definitely!

Space Quest 6 :D

lucky bastard. i got my 486 only around 1996. it was a dream come true

Most definitely wing commander and mechwarrior series.

Where is indiana jones fate of atlantis in your list, surely you played it?

You're a gaming legend

Plus x-com and jagged allience2

X-wing vs tie fighter was my first big experience in LAN gaming with around dozen friends all playing that together. Such fun.

XCOM UFO defense and XCOM TFTD are games people still play and mod ;)

Marathon was 1995 :)

Missing some of the best games of all time on this list.

Especially when your mom quit giving you free sugar

@@djnak7856 😂. It WAS real!!!!

Fantastic game!! I wish they would redo it!

scratches?

@@mojebi3804 yep, scratches, thank you! :) English not my main.

All of those were awesome and deserve to be on this list. I would add Starflight and Pool of Radiance as well. Such great games. Thank goodness for GOG!

I'd take it further than games which were left out: what about entire genres? I mean a best games of tthe'80s and '90s which leaves Final Fantasy, Zelda and Crusader no Regret/Remorse/etc out?

Where is Age of Empire???!!

@@otherpatrickgill Zelda wasn't (and still is not) on PC. Final Fantasy I think only 7 - 8 - 9. I'm not sure about FF8 & FF9 being on PC back then. They are now, but on that time, I'm not sure.

Also not one RPG, and those were the killer genre for the PC, especially in the 80s/early 90s. And simulations, and graphic adventures (also not one!) and turn-based strategies.

Starsiege tribes, mech warriors, lands of lore, Sea Rogue, Outlaws.

Civ

bro are u joking? 30-40 games missing here and 26 is shows what some of them is shit

Because they were so good games

Because they may be old and rusty, but in their time they were everything one could wish for. Today there such game maybe once in a 2-3 years... others are just substandard and you can tell unlike people which didnt know better

What do they play?

and game is still good

well done sprite art with smooth animation is something that looks very appealing to the eyes and is still done today contrary to 3D graphic with low res texture

Most of these look better than today's games lol

I think you play the wrong games today ;-)

@royviscourt @knarf2570 “some 😂 “

Exactly which games are you referring to?

Also missing any mention of the Dragon Quest games, Final Fantasy games, Metroid

Age of Empires! Excellent call!

Yes and you forget Wing Commander and X-Wing and T-Fighter.

@@RingwelskiJacek perhaps because those were playstation games.

I remember playing an AoE game over dialup with 4 other people online. The efficiency of the code was phenomenal. I wished coders these days would be able to perform similarly.

Commandos, said to be one of hardest game when it came out. A question though. Do you do the normal tactic (whatever that means) of the hard way, or do you also do some kind of cheating/cheesing (which I consider it to be) of how I did it? What I meant by cheating/cheesing, when I just want to get the stage over with, I either, 1. Command several soldiers at once. Hide behind a building. Fire a gun. Then kill every nazis that come that way. This makes patrolling nazis meaningless. And you can also pretty much wipe out a whole garrison of nazis coming out from the swastika building (they seems to replenish after certain time, but it's not unlimited wave after wave - i.e. they stop). This makes you clear the objective without any interference. 2. Blow up the swastika building (not objective building) with a spare bomb/grenade or by blowing up a vehicle next to it, which makes nazis have no reinforcements.

@@andrewyp6724 I assume you're talking about Commandos behind enemy lines (cmmds 1), it's the hardest of the franchise (along side Commandos beyond call of duty). There is no "normal tactic" as you can play using the tactic you want. Also doing what you said (shooting with everyone at one enemy, and blowing garriaons or prisions with trucks) is not considered cheating as the game allows you to do so. I tend to use those both as well as killing the enemies with the green beret's knife, the marine's arpoon, or the machine-gun that the driver carries. The bear teap is fun to use as well. You should also try the other commandos games: Beyond call of duty is the expansion of Behind Enemy lines, it is the hardest of the whole franchise (and characters have more actions to do) but it cames with just 8 missions (plus the commandos 1). Commandos Men Of Courage (cmmds 2) is my favorite game, it has better graphics and you can do more actions with your characters. It's a bit shorter and easier than Commandos 1 so I recommend you to play it in the hardest mode. But it's pretty fun to play, I personally tend to clear the maps by stealth (punching and gagging the enemies, and i almost never shot any gun except when the mission requires you to do so). Then Commandos Destination Berlin (cmmds 3) is the worst of them all. It's TOO short (you can clear the game in half a day) and the tactical strategy of previous games is lost here. I managed once to beat the last mission by using only an alied soldier, I didn't even touched the Green Beret. But commandos 1 and 2 are awesome games, and they are fan to play even today. But you should download or buy a version that allows you to play on widescreen if you have a modern computer. There is also Commandos destination Paris which is a fan-made game that uses commandos 2 engine, it has like 300 missions to play (but i recommend you beating cmmds 2 first before trying the fan-made game). You should be careful from where you download Destination Paris as it can contain a trojan virus. Please excuse my english, as it's my second language.

I wish people like you had discovered the Myth series instead of the StarCraft. Such a primitive game in comparison. 3d physics based tactical battles > poopy tower defense building and unit production game

I loved Police Quest

kings quest yaaaay

The person who made the video obviously didn't play point & click adventures at all. :(

Yea I was playing those games

Heretic and Hexen were great games!

Damn right. When gaming was an art - not all about money!

Ok boomers

@@fredericmartin1550 you know that doesn't really count as a response of any merit right?

That's just nostalgia, games today are a lot more entertaining

@@Pedroppl1 that's subjective. What is entertaining for you might not be entertaining for others. And always remember, while nostalgia is real, so is Recency bias.

Yeah, Nirvana and Doom! ^^

1997, 1998, 1999, 2000... those were GOLDEN years there was much more games in every genre like RPG, Strategis

ouch man .. PII 233 and a voodoo was old by the time that game released in 1999. i built my first pc then too but it was a bit newer hardware (albeit on a budget) played the game on a Slot -A AMD Athlon Thunderbird at 650 mhz with a geforce 2 ultra (the first PC i built). originally to cut cost when i first built it i had an older tnt 2 ultra on it. but only took me two weeks of work to afford the Geforce 2 ultra. two years later i upgraded the video card again as well as the CPU , got a Geforce 4 4400 TI and for CPU i got a 850 mhz Thunderbird. EDIT: god damn miss that PC . i gave it to my bro and some 3 years later (2003) the PSU fried on it which killed all but the processor on the system.

Loved it and Disciples too.

Jagged Alliance was immense

Grizzly always seems to be on everyone's team

@@ryuosaka1778 yes, that is true

yeah Lemmings was good

Oooo yes

Yes, I remember there was no group select in Dune 2, you had to click on units one by one

Ever tried total annihilation?

If you list old Pc magazines your eyes will explode between 1997-2001 more good games than in rest of entire history. Many still alive in its reiterations sequels... People which did then liked what they did, they did games for themselves to play only then for money. For that short time it was real art.

Current games are much more advanced, more complex and better than the old ones. That's a fact.

@@Science_Atrium define better? If you mean easier and made for wider audience (for stupid) then you are right

@@prolamer7 More advanced mechanics, gameplay, graphics and audio, more multiplayer and online resources, and more control resources, not counting the advancement of hardware and graphics processing, and the digital media. You obviously can't compare an old gaming technology era with the modern one. Videogames have improved a lot so far, I'm glad I'm alive in 2021. Sadly the nostalgia doesn't allow you to see the obvious.

@@prolamer7 is like my game to have more than an obnoxious soundtrack and 10 pixels that resemble a window

yeah, on any machine I install linux, the first app I install is midnight commander (not quite as good but ok). I can't remember how often NC saved my hide through serial/parallel data transfer made super easy through a serial/parallel cable.

@@Bareego it also kept me away from windows 3 and 95 for years. Above all, it gave a graphical interface to the ms-dos. I mean, things like "copy this b:\ etc", seriously? NO. Norton Commander.

Syndicate Wars are great game from windows 95

O my... Dungeon keeper... What a game

Deus Ex came in the year 2000 😉

Dungeon Keeper !....Hahaha Crazy

OMG that first Deus Ex game, what a gem in it's time.

Champions of Krynn!

Was very surprised to not see any of the SSI games mentioned. I wore out a few C64s playing them.