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[Cavalier]

Inspired by manzoman96's Dos games thread. Yep it's that time period when Pentium 2 MMX took over the world up until Pentium 3 1Ghz came out and set the world on fire. When ATI had terrible drivers for 3D applications but we tolerated it because it was the only option we had. That is until 3DFX & Nvidia came out with proper 3D accelerators and dropped the bomb on everyone. The good old days when 56k was the norm and Cable/DSL connection was just about to take over. Can be from pre- or post- 3d acceleration era. What were you playing on PC back then when I was playing these games?

Some I remember

Omikron: The Nomad Soul :

Rainbow Six:

Interstate 76:

Motorhead:

 

[Dr Campino]

Hover and Chip's Challenge were just about everything I played as a kid. I still remember some of the level codes for CC.

 

[John Kowalski]

Ignition!!

I had tons of fun playing this in split screen when i was a wee lad.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

The one and only:

 

[EvilKatarn]

 

[Fedemgsuy]

Nocturne, a fantastic survival horror by Terminal Reality:

 

[Bedameister]

Oh boy Interstate 76. That was so awesome

 

[Ramsiege]

The Journeyman Project!

 

[cameron]

Incoming

I remember the demo being displayed on Win 98 PCs in retail chains.

 

[Zarx]

MechWarrior 2 Mercenaries

Interstate '76

Age of Empires

Starcraft

Damn, those were the days

 

[Octavia]

-Hover

-Spiderman Cartoon Maker:

I easily spent the most time with this thing. Loved it so much.

Other games were:
-Myst
-Lennys Multimedia circus

Then there was a million dos games:
-Duke 3D
-Strife (game was awesome)
-ROTT shareware campaign
-Terminal Velocity
-Wacky Wheels
-Duke Nukem 1-3

One game I remember not liking was Mario's Time Machine. The intro with the SMW graphics were such a tease and I'd rather just be playing SMW.

 

[chrominance]

I would kill for an Interstate '76 remake.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

MechWarrior 2 Mercenaries

Interstate '76

Age of Empires

Damn, those were the days

Interstate was so good. Never played the sequel though.

 

[AlexMogil]

Interstate 76 was the shit. THE SHIT. Playing that online was so much fun.

Mech warrior 3 was great, too. It was one of my first super complex mech games. I played it with the Gravis Phoenix:

Look at that sexy beast. LOOK AT IT.

In truth my friend helped design that controller and my first piece of advice to him was to replace that stick immediately. They did with a molded controller.

 

[Ultimadrago]

-Spiderman Cartoon Maker:

I easily spent the most time with this thing. Loved it so much.

Preach!

Made my own sloppy boss battles all the time with this thing (including health bars).

 

[Alric]

Myth II: Soulblighter - Greatest RTS/tactical game ever.

 

[orava]

Shogo Mobile Armor Division. The gunfights felt so good.

 

[hypotc]

A lot of great games here. I especially remember Microman, Ignition and Interstate 76.

Here's another crazy game I played a lot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmGdoqsOY2E

 

[Canis lupus]

How is Omikron? Does it have controller support? I have it on steam, the only Q Dream game I still need to play.

 

[Incendiary]

-Spiderman Cartoon Maker:

I easily spent the most time with this thing. Loved it so much.

Oh man that hits right in the nostalgia. I remember my friends and I playing that thing to death. I had completely forgotten about it and now I want to mess around with it again for old time's sake. Wow.

 

[Zizbuka]

Heretic II

Loved this game, and it had quite a cult following. Lots of devoted fan sites.

Just tried to get it to run on Win8........... no luck

 

[bemusedchunk]

 

[Sickboy007]

Gotta love the multimedia craze:

 

[roytheone]

First game I ever played on windows 95:

Unreal. Everybody always talks about doom and quake, and both games are very good, but the first unreal is very overlooked. Too bad the series is dead because of the disappointing Unreal II . (No, unreal tournament doesn't count, I see that as a different series).

 

[Nzyme32]

Microsoft Fury 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXZefki1xM (That music too haha so many memories.)

 

[Ecto311]

Return fire was one of my favorites. Even on 3DO it was fun as shit.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

Preach!

Made my own sloppy boss battles all the time with this thing (including health bars).

I was more about the Simpsons Cartoon Studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LF2tSM7lc

 

[orava]

Loved unreal. First game that i played with my voodoo banshee.

 

[gabbo]

First game I ever played on windows 95:



Unreal. Everybody always talks about doom and quake, and both games are very good, but the first unreal is very overlooked. Too bad the series is dead because of the disappointing Unreal II . (No, unreal tournament doesn't count, I see that as a different series).

Epic really should have taken a longer look at Legend before handing it over to them.

 

[pashmilla]

My first video game. I played the shit out of it on Windows 98 when I was a kid, even though our terrible Tiny laptop meant that all the characters' faces (as well as a few plot-relevant items) were invisible.

 

[orava]

Heretic 2. So pretty and fun. Was a bit weird at first because it was 3rd person.

 

[Backfoggen]

Anyone remember this shit?

Outwars

 

[DaBuddaDa]

This was the hot stuff:

Descent II

 

[Zarx]

Man so many memories, anyone remember this oddity?

Man I think a trip to GOG.com is in order

 

[Ingueferroque]

Myth II: Soulblighter - Greatest RTS/tactical game ever.

It really is. What an amazing, amazing game.

Was Fury3 just Terminal Velocity?

 

[hypotc]

Another great game:


Seek & Destroy

 

[Ingueferroque]

Another great game:


Seek & Destroy

I played this for Amiga, I didn't know it had a Windows release.. looks like it has improved graphics.

 

[biteren]

 

[orava]

Man so many memories, anyone remember this oddity?

Man I think a trip to GOG.com is in order

I remember playing demo of this from a gaming magazine cd. I just wanted a "modern" proper speedball 2 sequel those days.

 

[Cavalier]

How is Omikron? Does it have controller support? I have it on steam, the only Q Dream game I still need to play.

Not sure haven't tried playing it today. I just remember being blown away by the game due to 3D free-roaming environment it featured. I was able to just walk around the city or call a cab. Go into the building to get to my apartment. Visit a restaurant to meet up with someone. It was just insane for its time.

Anyone remember this shit?

Outwars

I remember seeing it on PC Gamer magazine back then. How was that??

Another game I was obsessed with back then: Heavy Gear 2. It was glitchy as F but was fun to stomp on little people.

 

[funkypie]

half life

total annihilation

x wing alliance.

 

[Lé Blade Runner]

Microsoft Fury 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXZefki1xM (That music too haha so many memories.)

This was among the first games I got for my Pentium 1 PC. The graphics were mind-blowing back in the day.

Doom 95 was amazing, too, as I had only played the DOS shareware -versions, and I finally got the full game along with the system.

 

[crimzonflame]

Half Life
Unreal Tournament
Starcraft
Wacraft 2
Diablo 2

 

[KittenMaster]

Man so many memories, anyone remember this oddity?

Man I think a trip to GOG.com is in order

Oh dang. I remember this (Hyperblade for those that need a name). It came with one of those off-brand video cards designed to enable 3D acceleration back when 3D acceleration was very new.

I almost didn't give the game a chance back in the day, but I eventually learned how to play it (it was kinda easy IIRC). Movement was fun. Also had a Running Man "gruesome game show in a cynical future" angle to the setting.

 

[Wyndstryker]

Played the korean beta of this oldie! Lineage 1 was my first forays into MMO's.

And how can we forget this classic.

 

[deadman69]

-Spiderman Cartoon Maker:

I easily spent the most time with this thing. Loved it so much.

I used to spend hours on this, loved it.

This was the hot stuff:

Descent II

I've been trying to remember this game for ages after i remembered about Hover(after watching a giantbomb video), i remembered there was a game that was like Hover but was more of a combat game and here it is.

 

[Jyrii]

Back in the day when my parents decided to buy our first computer I was promised one game as a christmas gift. For the whole time my father was choosing the computer, I browsed through the games section. I almost picked Fade to Black, but my father suggested Command & Conquer instead. I think he had asked the store clerk for a suitable game.

Unfortunately I could never get C&C to run on that computer. Apparently the processor we had was not compatible with the game.

Later on I got Tie Fighter which ended up being one of my favorite games ever.

 

[Elios83]

Tomb Raider II

Rayman 2:

Monkey Island 3

Grim Fandango (god bless the remaster we're getting next year)

Unreal

Half Life

Silver

Final Fantasy VII and VIII (yeah played those first on PC!)

I have really great memories of those games in the lates 90s =)

 

[DaBuddaDa]

I've been trying to remember this game for ages after i remembered about Hover(after watching a giantbomb video), i remembered there was a game that was like Hover but was more of a combat game and here it is.

Descent 1 2 and 3 are all classics IMO.

Funny enough, they were made by people still around today, now as Volition, making the Saint's Row games.

 

[NeoFaff]

I only had a few games on Win98 but these were awesome:

Midtown Madness 2 - racing game with 2 massive maps: San Francisco and London

Kingpin - gritty FPS which I think was actually the first to implement gun mods

Re-volt - you race RC cars around amazing tracks. The best game on Windows 98