Gaming

Theme Park. So classic.

Not to be the hispter, but my fav. is a very niche game called "Het Yogo Yogo Spel", it's a promotional game for a drink in the Netherlands. for some reason i have such strong nostalgic feelings for it, i really loved playing it as a kid and even more as an adult because it reminds me of that time so much. and no, it's not an amazing platformer (not bad either) but man...

Going by most influential, it'd have to either be Doom or Ultima Underworld. Both of these inspired entire genre's that still live on to this day (FPS and First-Person RPG's like The Elder Scrolls). Personally? Ultima 7.

Duke Nukem II. Also love the first one. Apogee in general made some really excellent DOS games.

It's gotta be DOOM! The first game to introduce me to PC Gaming outside of Minesweeper and Solitaire!

Probably Lotus Racing (ran off one floppy), then Quake 1 and Carmageddon 1. Never really gamed much after those few.

I got into ZZT, a "topdown" 2d game with its own map editor and even a rudimentary scripting language. Stumbled on it because I wanted to make games. People made some seriously impressive shit on that thing and its successors.

Heroes of Might and Magic II, I still will fire it up to play occasionally! I have so many fond memories of me and my dad playing into the long hours of the night.

Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret

Sometimes I wish they made an FPS reboot, then I remember EA owns it.

Supaplex and Gorillas are my go tos!

I never had a DOS computer back then and only played a few games through emulators in recent years. It has to be DOOM for me.

Ultima series.

Wolfenstein 3D, my first ever PC game

my dad gave me a floppy disk from one of his coworkers with instructions on how to navigate and run the game from DOS and I felt like a hacker lol

Quake.

Hard to say. Secret Agent, Treasure Mountain, Azrael's Tear, Chill Manor, etc. All solid games. Hard to pick just one.

Sid Meier's covert action. Absolutely amazing spy game with lots of minigames and a randomly generated hierarchy of bad guys to catch every mission. Really want a remaster but I don't think I'm getting one.

Star Command was my favorite. Loved recruiting crew members, buying and upgrading ships, and going around the galaxy to complete missions. It's the game that got me hooked on RPGs as a kid

Every once on a while i get back to Mad TV. Casual game before it was cool. Also Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis

Space Hulk would definitely be mine

Gunship 2000. Shit was amazing.

Star Control II for sure. Fantastic game, still one of the best story-based games I've played. Heavily inspired a lot of more modern franchises, too, including Mass Effect.

Probably X-Com: UFO Defense. Got really into it and holy hell got angry at that game. But damn it made me want to play more!

Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, Zak McKraken and the alien mindbenders, One Must Fall 2097