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There is a shocking lack of Star Control 2 in here. Easily the best game I have ever played, period. It frequently gets name dropped in lists of game developers' favorite games of all time. Later space epics like Mass Effect stood on Star Control 2's shoulders to reach the heights they did.
Good news! The devs released it to the open source community under the name The Ur-Quan Masters. You can play it now for free! And they're developing a sequel as we speak over at Pistol Shrimp Games
Super Melee was so much fun! Chenjesu and Khor-Ah were the toughest but the other ships were pretty well balanced. So much fun.
I loved exploring new star systems too. Just an incredible game!
Age of Empires 2
Transport Tycoon
Doom
Goldeneye 64 (I bought a N64 console just for this game)
Frontier Elite
Baldur's gate
Fallout 2
X : Beyond The Frontier
Difficult to pick a single fave. Here are the games I've spent most of my time playing back then.
On PC:
On arcade, mostly fighting games, and some side-scrollers:
Want to go back to the 80s? Lode Runner, Rescue on Fractalus! and Karateka. Also Gyruss introduced me to modern remixes of classical music.
The Shining Force series
Sam n Max Hit the Road and King's Quest 5, 6, and 7. <3
Master of Orion.
Ultima Underworld.
Shadowgate.
Goldeneye.
Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9.
Golgo 13.
Wing Commander 3.
Lands of Lore.
SimTown.
Yo Noid
RCT 3
After Dark ;P
Also Catz.
Man that's a tough one. The 90s covered a huge spectrum of games and consoles.
Perhaps at the time, Final Fantasy VII was my favorite. No other game absorbed me like it did. I spent so much time playing it. But it's aged badly now.
But as far as games that I would still go back and play? I'd say probably twisted metal 2. The game is just so good. The music, the characters, the vibe of the game.
Brave Fencer Musashi! It's a fun RPG from squaresoft. Very much a hidden gem. The music in it was streets ahead.
Now you're asking a question I can answer. FFVII or Pokemon. That's all I ever played. Thank you for your time.
Giving you an upvote for FFVII, that was the game that got me into gaming. Still have the best memories of that one
Too tough to name one I can only narrow it to three
Xcom UFO Defense
Chrono Trigger
Super Street Fighter 2
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Definitely a tie right now between Sonic 1 or 2, which I managed to get copies of for Genesis 3 years ago when I first got a Genesis.
Donkey Kong Country 2
Metal Gear Solid
Monkey Island 2 (The first one is arguably better, but 2 was my introduction to the series, so I have a bit of a soft spot for it)
Road rash
Shining force
Redneck rampage
Bottom of the 9th 99
The Secret of Monkey Island
still play it nowadays from time to time
Sim City 2000
Command and Conquer
Red Alert
Goldeneye
Mario Kart
NBA Hang time
Perfect Dark
MDK
My personal favorites in no specific order and no preference on the system:
The entire list of releases from the year 1998, the objectively best year in all of video gaming history.
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.
I got it working on Linux just so I could play it on steam deck. Side bonus! It's so old integrated graphics can more than handle it at modern resolutions. I put that game on every laptop I own.
Old business machines are great for that purpose, snag one on recycle day, install Nobara, install Elite Force.
One day I'm going to have a dedicated LAN match room exclusively for this game.
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Top is hard. Probably OOT.
Top five would be OOT, Doom, Sonic 2, crash bandicoot, and half-life.
Way too many good ones to pick from haha.
For me it is probably a tie between Sid Meier's Civilization and Doom. Both were groundbreaking in their genres and they had immense influence on the type of games I since became interested in playing.
TOCA Touring Car Championship
Gran Turismo
Syphon Filter
It's between Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden II. I think it goes to the latter.
Technically 2000, but Sacrifice. It's still one of the most unique games I've ever played, and is my top wish for a remake/remaster.
It's a hybrid action RPG and RTS, which isn't completely unheard of, but even in its niche genre it's unlike anything else. You play a wizard with a range of both spells and summonable units, which can be ordered around to a limited degree, or more commonly used as a personal escort. Both the units and your own spells are very creative, and the higher level ones can be ridiculously powerful. In a glorious early celebration of terrain deformation, many of the high level spells will create volcanoes, mountains, craters, or even gaping voids in the already surreal landscapes. The story mode is also very weird and funny, with some top level voice actors.
backyard baseball
The ones I played the most were:
Heroes of Might & Magic
Civilization
Genghis Khan ][: Clan of the White Wolf
ZZT
Final Fantasy 6
not in order, mind
Mechwarrior 2. Controlling a heavy mech was 90s af.
And I can still hear the startup sequence in my head. Reactor online Sensors online Weapons online. All systems nominal.