DOS Doom! (I'm old). I remember we couldn't load it on Windows 3.1 and had to wait until Windows 95 to run it without exiting to DOS...those were the times.
Quake was spectacular back then. Discovering Strafe-jumping and using multiplayer was a whole new thing.
Total Annihilation. This game also got me into StarCraft, which got me into Diablo II, which got me into EverQuest, which got me into World of Warcraft. But the Total Annihilation was the RTS that started it all, and gave me a taste of competitive video games.
For me, the original browser demo of Minecraft was really exciting. I grew up with LEGO, and the Minecraft demo really brought back the joy of just making things for no other reason than to make them. I’ll always have a soft spot for it
There is definitely a sort-of wonder I felt in the early days of Minecraft that I've been striving to find in a game since, and have been left wanting.
Hello fellow old person! You’re thinking of Wolfenstein 3D, which I also played on a 286. Return to Castle Wolfenstein was from around the year 2000, I believe.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this game also the engine upon which Enemy Territory was built? I logged soooo many hours in that multiplayer mode...
I think it was Morrowind for me. I walked all the way to Balmora and I distinctly remember how astonished I was when I saw the starry night's sky. It was truly a magical experience.
Honestly? For me I'd have to say Commander Keen. I spent an hour on a long distance BBS to download the 1MB demo with a 2400 baud modem just to try it. It was totally worth it (to me, not my grandma's phone bill) and absolutely blew my mind at the time. Seeing that smooth scrolling and having a platformer like SMB on the PC was seriously crazy at the time.
Plus eventually that led me to Wolfenstein 3-D which was mind-blowing itself, and then of course Doom.
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