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Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Arcade
A timeless masterpiece of 2D fighting with beautiful sprite work and a banger soundtrack. Other fighting games come and go, but we still play this one online and in tournaments 25 years later.
I am very sad that I’ve scrolled several pages and haven’t seen the obvious one (though I could just be blind):
Deus Ex.
Edit: or perhaps it’s because Deus Ex is from 2000 and I don’t know if it counts yet. Maybe I’ll wait 'til next year!
June 22nd
SkiFree (PC)
Check out Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders for modern SkiFree vibes!
I mean… if there’s no yeti trying to eat me it just won’t feel the same…
Remember to press F to go faster
There’s also a really nice skiing game called ‘skiing’ (no joke) by featherweight games. The ads aren’t too bad, and I think they did a really good job of capturing the rhythmic back and forth of slaloming.
Skiing Yeti Mountain?
Ah, thanks, that’s what it’s called in the program seller on the phone. It just appears as ‘skiing’ on the desktop underneath it’s button.
Thanks for the recommendation and I’ll check it out. Skiing would be a terrible name to search…lol
This game occupied a big chunk of my early years. Fear the yeti!
I think it’s still fun today. Maybe only for a few minutes, but it never fails to entertain me.
Pokémon Crystal is just shy of your 25 year threshold depending on what month it was released (it came out in 2000 in Japan), so I’ll say Pokémon Yellow or Pokémon Gold and Silver. We can sit here and nitpick about which is the best, but Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal were all amazing.
I’d lean in favor of Gen 2 being better, but it’s definitely a tough call whether the original or the first refinement is better.
Its really about whether GS are better than Yellow, GS are definitely better than RB. Anyone saying RB is better than any of the other GB ones is saying it for nostalgia.
Yellow is pretty bad honestly, it’s just the novelty of being a bit more like the anime. The pokemon you can catch and what’s available for early gyms are both poor.
That’s fair. To be honest, I never played it as a kid, so I don’t really know what’s there. I guess I always thought you could catch everything in it. I know you can get all the starters. I know in later “third games” you can’t catch everything (or in some like Platinum they added some).
Edit: One day I’ll learn to not type “okay” instead of “play” lmao
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Mega Drive
My first game ever… good times
Wipeout 2097 (Wipeout XL), PSX, 1996
Banjo-Kazooie - N64
Star Control II, PC.
A wonderful game, but I have always been fond of its spiritual predecessors: Starflight and Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula.
What a great game. It made me imagine what it would be like to travel such a wonderfully large universe.
Apparently the original team behind Star Control is making a direct sequel to II, since SC 3 was done by a different studio and did not follow the storyline that the creators had in mind.
And it’s supposed to be released this year. They are calling it “Free Stars: Children of Infinity”, since they don’t own the rights to the Star Control name. But they do own all the rights to the content in SC 1and SC 2, so this could be fun!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Stars:_Children_of_Infinity
I did like SC 3 as well, but it wasn’t nearly as great as SC 2. I can barely remember the main storyline.
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap - Master System
aka:
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap - Game Gear
- Dragon’s Curse - TurboGrafx-16
Stunts (a.k.a 4D Sports Driving) [1990] - PC, Amiga and others
NiGHTS into Dreams… - Saturn
Half-Life
Bloody hell, I didn’t realize it’s that old. I played it in high school, feels like yesterday.
Play Black Mesa, you deserve it. Not only it’s Half-Life like you’ve never seen it, but there’s also a completed Xen campaign.
I did, it’s amazing. Also just replayed HL2 with some fancy graphics mod, pretty cool stuff.
Yeah, this is the make us feel old thread.
We’re only a couple months from the launch lineup for the ps2 qualifying here.
My hope is that this becomes a living document that will show up in search engines and make people aware of lemmy and can be reffered to when people ask “what should i play?” Thats why the title says “best” instead of “most popular.” There’s a lot of hidden gems posted already.
My thought when reading the title of the thread was “If Half-Life fits the bill, it’s half life.”
Revolutionary game.
Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995
I hear people say all the time that it is perfect. It definitely has imperfections.
However while I will insist on it being imperfect it has still been my number one favorite game for at least two decades.
It is easily the closest to perfect I think you could possibly ask for with the hardware limitations and the fact that teams don’t have magical infinite time or budgets. Anyone with even a slight interest in RPGs should play it.
Plus it gave us the musical career of Yasunori Mitsuda
The SNES library of RPGs will always be peak gaming. Chrono Trigger & Earthbound fight for the top spot for me, #3 depends on the day.
PS1’s rpg library is nothing to scoff at, either. Square’s golden years (3 mainline final fantasy, tactics, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve and more), Suikoden, Persona, Breath of Fire 3, Valkyrie Profile.
Best JRPG of all time and I’ll die on that hill 🤣
I never played it, what are everyone’s thoughts on the 2018 pc version? Some reviews don’t like the port?
Super Mario Bros 3 - NES
This game was huge. People that weren’t around at the time don’t understand how much better it was than previous games.
They made a freaking MOVIE to promote it!
And that stupid glove.
Looking back, boy did they have vision. I get that the Power Glove wasn’t all it was cracked up to be but Nintendo really saw early on how we want to interact with our machines.
Then somewhere along the way they realized they could make a lot of money by relicensing the same game over and over again, and suing their most loyal fans out of existence.
The power glove was like Wii version 0.0.0.1.
The amount of weird tech that got thrown around in the NES days was baffling. U-force was probably the weirdest thing I ever tried to play a game with.
I love the Power Glove™️.
It’s so bad.
YES. It’s absolutely criminal that people always show the first one off and out it on a pedestal.
