- The Secret of Monkey Island
- Empire Earth
- Sim City
Can you think of others?
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Dorothy · January 5, 2026 at 6:25 am
Populous, Black & White, Sim Ant, Lemmings
Don Curton · January 5, 2026 at 6:40 am
Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat, Red Baron, Sid Meirs Pirates from the mid-90’s, Star Wars Battlefronts from 2001 (I think), etc.
I think a lot of the 90’s era games were the bomb, mostly cause I haven’t played computer games in forever. Fallout New Vegas is pretty much the only thing recently. Turns out you can still download a lot of the older stuff, I just added a 20 year old Star Wars game and started playing yesterday. Funny you should post this.
Michael · January 5, 2026 at 6:51 am
You miss them? They are still available from various sources.
Or do you mean you’ve played them so often that there’s is no surprise value and you can “win” at any level of difficulty?
I’m not a computer guru, barely a user so when I wanted to keep my Windows 7 game, I kept my old windows 7 computer to play it.
I’ve never been good at “converting” an older game to a newer OS.
Divemedic · January 5, 2026 at 7:46 am
I miss games in that style. I don’t really like FPS games, nor do I like sports games. I do like RTS games, or ones that involve solving puzzles (like Monkey Island). The closest I come to an enjoyable FPS game is DCS.
Boneman · January 5, 2026 at 6:57 am
+1 on Sierra’s Red Baron. Knights Of The Sky was another WWI flight simulator that had a feature if you built a “Null Modem” cable, you could hook two computers together, you and another person could have DOGFIGHTS!
A lot of Sierra games were awesome and who could forget the Leisure Suit Larry games. Al Lowe was both nuts and a genius all at once. Space Quest was another of his that was both fun and funny as all hell. He would break the 4th wall with a COMPUTER game and it was unexpected when it happened and would sometimes get you busted at work as you couldn’t help but LOL at the stuff that went on.
“Attention video game players: Please don’t eat the urinal cakes” – a sign on the wall in “Lefty’s Bar” from the original Leisure Suit Larry game. THAT… you could pass around the office on a single flexible disk!
LLII, “Passionate Patty” actually had clues that you needed to use to complete the game cleverly written in the booklet that came with the packaging. If you did not have that, or a copy of it, there was no way you were able to complete the “mission”. A very interesting, somewhat clever and rudimentary way to attempt to prevent software “piracy” back in the day.
Thanks for stirring the memory!
EN2 SS · January 5, 2026 at 9:10 am
Space Invaders
Missile Command
Divemedic · January 5, 2026 at 10:06 am
I have Space Invaders, but not missile command. Old school 80s stuff, for sure. I put this in my game room it lets me pretend that I still am 16 years old…
Fishlaw · January 5, 2026 at 11:55 am
Aces over the Pacific, Aces over Europe.
Anonymous · January 5, 2026 at 12:40 pm
If you have not played Portal, it is worth your time. Great problem solving game, and the dark humor is hilarious.
TCK · January 5, 2026 at 4:01 pm
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is a VERY good classic TBS (in the Civ style, having been made by most of the same people) that I highly recommend if you haven’t played it yet.
lynn · January 5, 2026 at 5:23 pm
The first Doom game on MSDOS was awesome. The following games got too bloody and too dark.
Danny · January 5, 2026 at 6:02 pm
In the 80s my next door neighbor and I would go up the street to a video game shop and play all the classics. PacMan, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug (bet you forgot that one), Tron, Space Invaders, Galaga – those were fun days.
I’m old enough to say that I remember going to a bar and playing Pong. Which you say at a table across from each other. With a cold draft, of course. I’d wager no-one here did that.
Divemedic · January 5, 2026 at 6:12 pm
I played pong when it came out, but I wasn’t old enough to drink yet.
Don Curton · January 6, 2026 at 8:06 am
Absolutely did that.
Jean · January 5, 2026 at 8:32 pm
MouseTrap when I was a little kid. That was a board game before computers. Archon on the Comodore 64
Skyler the Weird · January 5, 2026 at 9:02 pm
I miss Descent, Eastern Front 1941 and Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator Pacific
Jack · January 6, 2026 at 12:22 am
Sim City, the original with the orange text and a dot matrix printer. I printed out the layout and spread it across the floor to do my version of urban planning, must have taken 20 sheets.
Sim City 2K….before I got that….I priced out what a computer needed to run it back in 1994….$1200 ….I had to wait a few years to afford that.
Red Baron, I wish they still had an uncomplicated flight sim to play.
Battlefield 1942 ! loved that one and all the mods
Now this one will age me….M.U.L.E on an Atari 400. Which I still have, along with a floppy drive.