Doom, no question. I was an Amiga owner at the time, and we were used to being the go-to platform for computer gaming. Then Doom came along and pretty much sent the Amiga scene on a quest for a "Doom clone" that it would never achieve.
I loved that game as a kid, I've never found anyone else who has heard of it. I remember having a print out of the game lore and reading through it a bunch of times before I would play because it was so cool, and probably the loading times were so long back then I had a lot of opportunities to read it.
Mass Effect definitely up there. Everything was right with that game (perhaps not the excessive time in the lifts). The story line and sound tracks were beyond amazing.
Minicar racing. My brother and I used to play split screen multiplayer on the pc for hours. Having mostly only played 2d games before, the 3d aspect of it really blew my mind
Day of the Tentacle! Going from Maniac Mansion on the NES to the graphics, voice work, and interactivity on this CD-ROM - I’m still in awe decades later.
The cut scenes were so gripping as a kid! Showed the game to a neighbor who had been adopted by this mormon grandma, she walked in on us playing after I brought him a floppy disk copy. She was NOT stoked seeing the intro French cinematic lol
Either Mechwarrior 2 or Star Wars X-Wing, probably. Can't really remember that far back but I remember watching my dad play those on his computer, which probably got me into gaming from that moment.
Half-Life playing deathmatch for the first time on a 56k modem, lagging like hell but when i saw someone else for the first running around my mind was blown haha
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