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What are your favorite pre-2000 computer games? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/retrogaming

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I'm setting up my MiSTer FPGA and want to prioritize a bit. I currently have DOS and Win 95 running, but plan to setup Macintosh and any other worthwhile computer platforms. Any computer platform welcome (I already have the consoles figured out). What are your "must try" game suggestions?

Edit: I just got back to this post and am pleasantly surprised by the response. I'll probably be adding most if not all of these to test since I have the space. Thank you to everyone who commented.

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[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Civilization II

Settlers

X-COM: UFO defence

Monkey Island

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My highlight in Civ II was losing against a mega empire and then half of it seceded and started a war, so I eventually got the upperhand.

For X-COM, I remember the sheer terror of boarding a ship with my puny squad.

[–] slingstone 2 points 6 days ago

One time, in Civ I, I was living my best life as Rome on a big island until the Chinese sent a battleship to my shores and started destroying my triremes. Somehow, I used a diplomat to take over one of their cities and production was stuck on mobile infantry (must have been a bug), which gave me the ability to make units that could defend against their tech. Then I sent more diplomats to steal tech. The list of tech ran off the screen, but it allowed me to still select tech I couldn't see. So I started scrolling beyond the visible point and blindly stealing tech. When I accidentally stole nuclear weapons, I built one, loaded it on a trireme, and sent it to Beijing. Their empire instantly split, and I was able to survive. It's still my best memory from any Civilization game.

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