It's pretty hard to pick one but I do have favorites among different categories.

Solo RPG - Chrono Trigger

MMORPG - Ultima Online

FPS - Quake

RTS - C&C: Tiberian Sun

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.

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.

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:

• X-Wing series (X-Wing, TIE Fighter, etc.)
• Star Control 2
• Earthsiege 1 and 2
• Starsiege: Tribes
• Team Fortress mod for Quake
• EverQuest

On arcade, mostly fighting games, and some side-scrollers:

• Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3, 4
• Killer Instinct 1 and 2
• Virtua Fighter 1 and 2
• Marvel Vs. Street Fighter
• TMNT
• X-Men: Children of the Atom

Want to go back to the 80s? Lode Runner, Rescue on Fractalus! and Karateka. Also Gyruss introduced me to modern remixes of classical music.

Age of Empires 2

Some of my favourite that bring back good memories:

• Age of Empires II
• Caesar games
• C&C Red Alert
• Diablo
• Magic & Mayhem
• Pharaoh
• Pokémon (Yellow, Blue/Red)
• Postal
• SimCity 2000
• StarCraft
• Warcraft II

Secret of Mana

Ace of Empires 2

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Pokemon Blue

Goldeneye

I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.

Brave Fencer Musashi! It's a fun RPG from squaresoft. Very much a hidden gem. The music in it was streets ahead.

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.

Now you're asking a question I can answer. FFVII or Pokemon. That's all I ever played. Thank you for your time.

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.

Rogue Squadron!

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.

For me... Monster Truck Madness, both 1 and 2

Donkey Kong Country 2

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Banjo-Kazooie

I still play Civilization 1 from time to time.

And with friends, Worms 2 is a banger, and so is the cave flyer Wings

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)

Sim City 2000

Command and Conquer

Red Alert

Goldeneye

Mario Kart

NBA Hang time

Perfect Dark

MDK

So unfortunately I didn't play video games until about 2001 when I turned 5 and got an N64 for my first Christmas in the USA. The game itself is from 2000 though.

Mickey's Speedway USA for the N64.

Goddamn I loved that game. I have so many fun memories with it.

My personal favorites in no specific order and no preference on the system:

• Metal Gear Solid
• Sonic 1&2
• M1 Tank Platoon
• F-Zero
• A link to the past (Zelda)
• Test Drive 3
• Duke 3D
• Dune 2
• Ultima 7
• Stunts 3D
• Comanche (All parts)
• Delta Force
• Hind-E
• Sim City 2000
• FF 8 &9
• TFX
• GTA 2
• Transport Tycoon

The entire list of releases from the year 1998, the objectively best year in all of video gaming history.

The Secret of Monkey Island

still play it nowadays from time to time

Too tough to name one I can only narrow it to three

Xcom UFO Defense

Chrono Trigger

Super Street Fighter 2

Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven

Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor

Heroes of Might and Magic III

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.

Baldur’s Gate. That game blew me away.

Super Mario 64

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.

It's between Final Fantasy Tactics and Suikoden II. I think it goes to the latter.

In more or less this order:

Fifa 99

Duke Nukem 3D Doom

Rise Of The Triad

Test Drive 5

Simcity

Hardball 3

Madden 98

Starcraft

Age Of Empires 2

Need For Speed 2

All Points Buletin

I don't really know what to pick so I'm going to go with something kind of obscure, "The Adventures of Bouapha: Spooky Castle". The gameplay is a little hard to explain but it kind of plays like Zelda but you can pickup upgrades for your main weapon that allows it to be thrown in many directions and it has sub-weapons that can either be found or dropped by enemies and they have limited ammo.

I actually forgot this game existed until itch recommended me "Hamsandwich", which is a free and open-source collection of updated versions of a bunch of old Hamumu Software games. There are mods available for specific games and it's available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android and any other OS/device that can play the online version.