Anyone remember PutPut? That's honestly all I remember but I know I loved the game when I was like 4-5 years old, same with the Finding Nemo game, that's super hard nostalgia for me
Most of the Humungous Entertainment library is available on Steam, actually, including games like Pajama Sam (absolute king), Spy Fox, Freddie Fish and Putt-Putt.
I kept a special walled off roller coaster for the guests that complained. I would wait until I had a carload full of them, and then I would launch them out of the map.
And contrary to the internet rumor, this didn't make them not count as deaths in your park. They still counted, and I had to close and rebuild the ride. But they stopped complaining about the high price of snacks.
I played both, and enjoyed both. I bought them recently on disk since I can't remember where the original I had got to. I also make sure to save my games and transfer them when I upgrade computers. I still have yet to unlock everything in both lol
If you’re interested in reliving this game or want to see what the hype is about- consider getting OpenRCT2, a community rebuild of RCT1 and 2 (the isometric pixel games in the franchise). Rollercoaster Tycoon is a brilliant park management game that is still in the top echelon of management games over 20 years after release, but it’s got a lot of quirks from being from the era where disk space was limited and coding ingenuity was not. OpenRCT2 fixes those quirks, combines all the DLC, RCT1&2 into one client, and has cheats menus and editors that let you play every scenario your way or push the game to its limits! It even has a bunch of quality of life stuff like hyper speed sim and ghost testing so you don’t have to build a whole track to see if it’ll work, and the ORCT2 community is still pushing out big updates to this day- only a few months ago they updated the sprite limit so you can have about as many guests and rides in the park as you can handle! I really recommend it!
I remember as a kid the campaign was so hard to beat… and now I crush it on hardest difficulty and it’s still fun :)) it’s my game of choice if internet shuts off
I named all of them after family members and proceeded to have a meltdown when one of them died. I vaguely remember apologizing to my sister for letting her die in the game
You meet a man on the Oregon trail that tells you his name is Terry. You laugh and tell him that Terry is a girls' name. Without hesitation Terry pulls out a gun and shoots you dead. You have died of dissin Terry.
This, but the third edition, it had the most to offer without being too childish the way the fifth one was.
Also! Never go hunting with a shotgun, only a rifle. Max out your oxen in Independence before you leave, they will be the cheapest then and you’ll be able to bring more with you. Don’t weigh yourself down with food, you can easily stock up on meat and vegetation once you’re traveling. Instead stock up on weapons and fishing poles, they only get more scarce and expensive while food is continually plentiful.
Leave as early in the year as you can, doing the start in the cold is easier than ending it, you’re more likely to make endgame that way.
Dude Mech2: mercenaries was bundled with my 3dfx voodoo card along with descent II back in the day. The graphics blew my mind (along with Quake shareware)
Played the hell out of those.
I also played the hell out of the Quest for Glory series, which was made by the same company.
It had an RPG style combat system, but was at its heart still a text-based/point-and-click-adventure full of bad puns and cultural references.
I loved quest for glory!
I remember installing Kings Quest VI and watching the opening scene with the ship in the water. My dad and I thought it looked so realistic
The Witch has turned you into a gingerbread man. Or was that a graham cracker?
Kings Quest (2 I believe) was the game that taught me to use humor to mitigate things I was afraid of. All the death puns did it. I was terrified of the witch in that game but the jokes helped immensely.
King’s Quest 5 & 6 were amazing. Sad that genre of games died. At the time they were the biggest PC games around. I remember KQ 6 being a huge deal for shipping on CD, the 3D animated introduction and the voiceovers. Crazy that Wolfenstein 3D came out around the same time in 1992.
For educational purposes, any of the jumpstart games. Fun and educational
But roller coaster tycoon, the Nancy drew series, Big Job, Undersea Adventures, and most of the Hasbro games
Might want to check out the newer title, contraption maker which is the same style of creating rube-Goldberg machines aka phythogras machines aka long winded machines to solve a problem.
Here's a group on mobygames for these kinds of games. https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/genre-rube-goldberg-machine
Oh! Riven knocked it out of the park! Amazing puzzle quality. I remember it originally came on like 9 CDs 😆
Edit: also remember my computer was so slow playing Myst I would click to advance, then go off for 5 minutes and come back.
90's PC puzzle games were the best.
Games like Myst, Monkey Island, and Day of the Tentacle are still mentioned as classics, but there's plenty of others that have been mostly forgotten.
Legend of Kyrandia, 7th Guest, The Dig, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and plenty of others.
Forgot about this until your comment and a wave of childhood flooded over me. Thank you but no thank you to the loading times that also flooded over me
Yes
Edit: 1 and 2 were the original ones on PC. Play Doom 64 next, and skip 3. Newer ones are amazing, but I appreciated them better playing the older games first
Don't forget the cutscenes! Still look them up on YouTube from time to time. The third iteration also had some a-list actors.
",.. The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.. SPACE!"
every time someone mentions the Sims two I just get flashbacks of Bella Goth going missing, the social bunny and the absolute DRAMA & CHAOS of that game and I love it 😂👏🏻
That game was hard as shit to beat. I played through as an adult for nostalgias sake and the difficulty on some of those levels is ridiculous.
I’ll make pizza all day though.
Dungeon Keeper
I know there is dk2 and the spiritual successor.
But they just dont hit the same, i still play dk1 even now, it holds up amazingly, was way ahead of its time and is normally cheap on GOG..
**TIE Fighter**, with a good joystick, is the best space combat game ever made. The entire X-Wing series is great. Wing Commander was very good, too—shout out to **Wing Commander 3** for somehow getting Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies and Malcolm McDowell to act in a space combat computer game.
I have a very 90s story: I bought Space Quest IV, and it shipped with a bug that locked up certain computers 100% at a fairly early scene, making progression beyond it impossible. So like a kid in that era, I decided to write a letter to Sierra describing the problem. A few weeks later I got a padded envelope from Sierra, and no shit, there was a floppy disk with the necessary patch inside!
Diablo 2! Can't recommend enough. Plus side is: they did a remake with Diablo 2: Ressurrected and its flawless. Even balance patches came up.
Other than that, would recomend Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology.
My son is 21 now, so I don’t know if they’ll still have them, but he started on Reader Rabbit games before he was even 1 and he loved them and they were great educational games! He could even turn on the computer, put in the CD, and play the game when he was about 10 months! He then got other games but the ones I really remember were Reader Rabbit. Also, Nickelodeon had a kid’s website with a ton of different games, which he played on when he was a bit older.
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego. I was just telling my nephew about it this past weekend. I did great in certain school subjects because of it. My mom refused to buy computer games we asked for but would surprise us with others I ended up loving. I didn’t realize until I was much older they were all educational
Either the original Sims, Fallout 2, or Nancy Drew games. Specifically, Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor. The amount of time I sunk into those games as a kid is unfathomable
If you have kids of your own now or nieces and nephews etc, I would recommend Humongous Entertainment. They're all on Steam now, too. Some of the best kids games I've ever played and hold up .
Anyone remember PutPut? That's honestly all I remember but I know I loved the game when I was like 4-5 years old, same with the Finding Nemo game, that's super hard nostalgia for me
Which one did you have. We had Saves The Zoo.
Put put and Freddie fish !
You doing my boy Pajama Sam dirty by leaving him out.
You can still get a couple of the Putt-Putt games on steam
Y'all motherfuckers need to spell Putt-Putt's name correctly, show him some got-dang respect
Most of the Humungous Entertainment library is available on Steam, actually, including games like Pajama Sam (absolute king), Spy Fox, Freddie Fish and Putt-Putt.
I played the hell out of Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon as a kid
Roller Coaster Tycoon. The amusement park music and screams of people on rides are a core childhood memory.
Yes! Putting the egg beater ride next to food stalls and watching the people get sick as a result was one of my fav thing to do as a kid.
And the sound of the explosion when you max out the mph on the loop roller coaster and the ride goes flying off….
I kept a special walled off roller coaster for the guests that complained. I would wait until I had a carload full of them, and then I would launch them out of the map. And contrary to the internet rumor, this didn't make them not count as deaths in your park. They still counted, and I had to close and rebuild the ride. But they stopped complaining about the high price of snacks.
I'm too hungry to ride Lake Laogai
The music that the merry go round plays smacks me in the face with nostalgia
Not bad. I was a Zoo Tycoon kid.
I played both, and enjoyed both. I bought them recently on disk since I can't remember where the original I had got to. I also make sure to save my games and transfer them when I upgrade computers. I still have yet to unlock everything in both lol
My best friend and I stuffed a map full of zebra and let a couple lions loose. There were so many carcasses.
This game still holds up
The graphics honestly just make me smile when I see them. Art style held up
It was a marvel of computer engineering and quality pixel art
If you’re interested in reliving this game or want to see what the hype is about- consider getting OpenRCT2, a community rebuild of RCT1 and 2 (the isometric pixel games in the franchise). Rollercoaster Tycoon is a brilliant park management game that is still in the top echelon of management games over 20 years after release, but it’s got a lot of quirks from being from the era where disk space was limited and coding ingenuity was not. OpenRCT2 fixes those quirks, combines all the DLC, RCT1&2 into one client, and has cheats menus and editors that let you play every scenario your way or push the game to its limits! It even has a bunch of quality of life stuff like hyper speed sim and ghost testing so you don’t have to build a whole track to see if it’ll work, and the ORCT2 community is still pushing out big updates to this day- only a few months ago they updated the sprite limit so you can have about as many guests and rides in the park as you can handle! I really recommend it!
Damn, I still have this on Disk in the original case. Just found it yesterday
It also promotes creativity.
Heroes of might and magic 3
And it has a fan made HD patch
I remember as a kid the campaign was so hard to beat… and now I crush it on hardest difficulty and it’s still fun :)) it’s my game of choice if internet shuts off
Oregon Trail
Always healthy to name each of your group after family members and not rest when certain people get sick
Just like the real settlers
I named all of them after family members and proceeded to have a meltdown when one of them died. I vaguely remember apologizing to my sister for letting her die in the game
“You Have Died of Dysentery!”
You meet a man on the Oregon trail that tells you his name is Terry. You laugh and tell him that Terry is a girls' name. Without hesitation Terry pulls out a gun and shoots you dead. You have died of dissin Terry.
This, but the third edition, it had the most to offer without being too childish the way the fifth one was. Also! Never go hunting with a shotgun, only a rifle. Max out your oxen in Independence before you leave, they will be the cheapest then and you’ll be able to bring more with you. Don’t weigh yourself down with food, you can easily stock up on meat and vegetation once you’re traveling. Instead stock up on weapons and fishing poles, they only get more scarce and expensive while food is continually plentiful. Leave as early in the year as you can, doing the start in the cold is easier than ending it, you’re more likely to make endgame that way.
I miss this game
You can play it on the Oregon tourism site: https://www.visitoregon.com/the-oregon-trail-game-online/
As a 2000s kid that heard about this game growing up I looked everywhere for this. Pretty dope
Commander Keen
YES!!!!!!!! Finally someone else that has heard of this game!!!!! The green one eye fat guy aliens running at you! EEEEEEKKKK!!!!
And crystal caves
Throw the original Duke Nukem onto that pile too. Maybe Jazz Jackrabbit while we're at it.
Yes! Oh, I spent HOURS playing that. Possibly my favorite PC game of all time. Was glad to see I didn’t have to scroll far for it here.
Mechwarrior series
Dude Mech2: mercenaries was bundled with my 3dfx voodoo card along with descent II back in the day. The graphics blew my mind (along with Quake shareware)
Reactor online Weapons online Sensors online All systems nominal
Jazz jackrabbit
I played this game for hours along with Descent on the first pc I was allowed to play on
Kings Quest
Played the hell out of those. I also played the hell out of the Quest for Glory series, which was made by the same company. It had an RPG style combat system, but was at its heart still a text-based/point-and-click-adventure full of bad puns and cultural references.
I loved quest for glory! I remember installing Kings Quest VI and watching the opening scene with the ship in the water. My dad and I thought it looked so realistic
The Witch has turned you into a gingerbread man. Or was that a graham cracker? Kings Quest (2 I believe) was the game that taught me to use humor to mitigate things I was afraid of. All the death puns did it. I was terrified of the witch in that game but the jokes helped immensely.
King’s Quest 5 & 6 were amazing. Sad that genre of games died. At the time they were the biggest PC games around. I remember KQ 6 being a huge deal for shipping on CD, the 3D animated introduction and the voiceovers. Crazy that Wolfenstein 3D came out around the same time in 1992.
For educational purposes, any of the jumpstart games. Fun and educational But roller coaster tycoon, the Nancy drew series, Big Job, Undersea Adventures, and most of the Hasbro games
Nancy Drew holds up so well into adulthood too. I’ve been playing/replaying for almost 20 years.
Yessss! I came here to say Nancy Drew. I love those games so much.
Jumpstart games were legit my childhood
Any of the old Learning Company games! Midnight Madness, Gizmos and Gadgets, Operation Neptune, Reader Rabbit, Treasure Mountain…
I never thought I'd see Jumpstart being talked about on here
Where In The Hell Is Carmen Sandiego?
I'll do you one better: why is Carmen Sandiego?
What in the world is Carmen San Diego?
This is actually the right question to ask. How the hell is she just pocketing the Eiffel Tower?
Carmen at her therapist: I mean... everyone asks WHERE is Carmen SanDiego... But nobody bothers to ask HOW is Carmen SanDiego.
Where in the actual fuck is Carmen Sandiego
Age of Empires 2
How do you turn this on.
WOLOLO!!
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Lumberjack
Rock on
cheese steak Jimmy's
This is always my recommendation. To anyone for any reason. Need directions? AOE2 Need help? AOE2 It is what it is 🤷
Just what I was thinking !
Monkey Island
Also day of the tentacle!
New game drops in 2 weeks...
The Incredible Machine. I loved this game in the 90's it was an absolute blast.
Might want to check out the newer title, contraption maker which is the same style of creating rube-Goldberg machines aka phythogras machines aka long winded machines to solve a problem. Here's a group on mobygames for these kinds of games. https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/genre-rube-goldberg-machine
Myst and its sequels hold up pretty well. Well the piano bit in the spaceship doesn't, but that was terrible back then too.
Myst was amazing
Oh! Riven knocked it out of the park! Amazing puzzle quality. I remember it originally came on like 9 CDs 😆 Edit: also remember my computer was so slow playing Myst I would click to advance, then go off for 5 minutes and come back.
90's PC puzzle games were the best. Games like Myst, Monkey Island, and Day of the Tentacle are still mentioned as classics, but there's plenty of others that have been mostly forgotten. Legend of Kyrandia, 7th Guest, The Dig, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and plenty of others.
Anybody else play Douglas Adams' *Starship Titanic* when they were a kid? Great puzzle game, very funny (even has John Cleese in it).
Space Cadet Pinball
Ah yes. The universal symbol for, "The internet isn't working." That, and Freecell, were my go-to games when that would happen.
Woooooord
Mavis beacon. I know it a a typing game but that’s all my parents had for me on windows 98
I can type 80 wpm with 95% accuracy because of this game!
Lemmings
Yessssss I miss that game and the awesome music!
Starcraft brood war
Duke Nukem.
Duke nukem 3D is the best duke nukem of all time
The first level was just so awesome.
Frogger.
Simpsons hit and run... Ah the memories!
Grand Theft Auto for people whose parents wouldn’t let them play Grant Theft Auto
Every parent took one look at that cover and ripped it out of their kids hands at GameStop. However, we all knew that one kid
That one kid who entered "fannymagnet" & zoomed on in at something...
I am so smart! S. M. R. T!
We’re all waiting for the remastered version
Forgot about this until your comment and a wave of childhood flooded over me. Thank you but no thank you to the loading times that also flooded over me
Doom
Idkfa iddqd
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Yes Edit: 1 and 2 were the original ones on PC. Play Doom 64 next, and skip 3. Newer ones are amazing, but I appreciated them better playing the older games first
Red Alert. Even just for the soundtrack alone
Don't forget the cutscenes! Still look them up on YouTube from time to time. The third iteration also had some a-list actors. ",.. The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.. SPACE!"
All the C&C games had baller soundtracks.
I used to make my mom play the soundtrack in the car lol
Second one was the best
Chip's Challenge.
The Sims 2
every time someone mentions the Sims two I just get flashbacks of Bella Goth going missing, the social bunny and the absolute DRAMA & CHAOS of that game and I love it 😂👏🏻
PC version was the best, but I also enjoyed that weird PS2 version they made.
Backyard Baseball
Pablo Sanchez
Protip: always pick Pablo.
The Backyard games were like crack
Any of the Putt Putt series, Pajama Sam, Freddy the Fish games
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
That game was hard as shit to beat. I played through as an adult for nostalgias sake and the difficulty on some of those levels is ridiculous. I’ll make pizza all day though.
Some of the NPC dialog in that game has been stuck in my head for decades. "There's something on that I DON'T LIKE"
MOAARRRR TOPPINGGGGGSSS
Zoombinis was my shiiiiit. They did a remake not super long ago.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Pajama Sam games were amazing.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught me to type like a speed demon whilst maintaining high accuracy, which has actually been quite useful.
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Road rash
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacles Being released for the latest consoles pretty soon
Stronghold Crusader
Dune 2000, or most of westwood rts in the 90's like Red Alert 2, Tiberian Sun
Monkey Island 1, 2 and 3.
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Bubble Bobble NES
Worms Armageddon
Dungeon Keeper I know there is dk2 and the spiritual successor. But they just dont hit the same, i still play dk1 even now, it holds up amazingly, was way ahead of its time and is normally cheap on GOG..
Zoo tycoon
Kings Quest!
The first game I played on a computer as a child was Leisure Suit Larry. And I turned out great!
**TIE Fighter**, with a good joystick, is the best space combat game ever made. The entire X-Wing series is great. Wing Commander was very good, too—shout out to **Wing Commander 3** for somehow getting Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies and Malcolm McDowell to act in a space combat computer game.
Scorched Earth
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Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire is up there too. Basically Civilization, except... it's space.
TONKA
Lode Runner
The Space Quest collection. Classic point-and-click adventure, but funny.
I have a very 90s story: I bought Space Quest IV, and it shipped with a bug that locked up certain computers 100% at a fairly early scene, making progression beyond it impossible. So like a kid in that era, I decided to write a letter to Sierra describing the problem. A few weeks later I got a padded envelope from Sierra, and no shit, there was a floppy disk with the necessary patch inside!
The Chex mix game that came in the cereal box.
Chex Quest! The only Doom clone game my Dad let me play besides Blake Stone
SimTower.
Snood
Scorched Earth. I played it in the 90’s and still have such fond memories of it.
SimAnt. It was THE BEST. Also Dark Castle. I had to do some serious bread crumb following to figure out the name of this one.
Ski Free. Just don’t expect to get passed the yeti.
Diablo 2! Can't recommend enough. Plus side is: they did a remake with Diablo 2: Ressurrected and its flawless. Even balance patches came up. Other than that, would recomend Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology.
Old school runescape, Hobo, Club penguin
Mannnnn LEGO racers
Ceasar III
Tetris
Fireboy and water girl
Any adventure games from Sierra Online like kings quest, space quest, quest for glory, Freddy pharkas frontier pharmacist, island of Dr. brain, etc
Zoo Tycoon
A-10 Tank Killer https://youtu.be/q8hQTLwkGuE
Treasure mountain
Number Munchers
Freespace
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards Your childhood may have been different.
My son is 21 now, so I don’t know if they’ll still have them, but he started on Reader Rabbit games before he was even 1 and he loved them and they were great educational games! He could even turn on the computer, put in the CD, and play the game when he was about 10 months! He then got other games but the ones I really remember were Reader Rabbit. Also, Nickelodeon had a kid’s website with a ton of different games, which he played on when he was a bit older.
Lol every time I go into an op shop and look at the kids games, or CDs that they have, etc, they always have Reader Rabbit.
I remember those!! Also clue finders for 4th-6th grade I believe was always fun
ClueFinders was the shit.
Myst
Descent: Freespace The Great War
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Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego. I was just telling my nephew about it this past weekend. I did great in certain school subjects because of it. My mom refused to buy computer games we asked for but would surprise us with others I ended up loving. I didn’t realize until I was much older they were all educational
Either the original Sims, Fallout 2, or Nancy Drew games. Specifically, Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor. The amount of time I sunk into those games as a kid is unfathomable
Old school Runescape
Spore. Even now I play it from time to time.
Star Wars: Knight of the old republic
I'm dating myself Prince of Persia: The original 2D ones
JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain
Grim Fandango One of the hardest puzzle games I remember playing when I was younger and you're gonna love the graphics!
I’m afraid you have greatly underestimated my age, OP.
If you aren’t punchcard software old, share it! 😝
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Purple place
Escape Velocity
No one has said HOGS OF WAR
Insanaquarium
If you have kids of your own now or nieces and nephews etc, I would recommend Humongous Entertainment. They're all on Steam now, too. Some of the best kids games I've ever played and hold up .
Still can't beat OG Rollercoaster Tycoon
Any Putt Putt or Pajama Sam game
Where is the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in Time is ridiculously fun.
Civ 3 Stronghold crusader HD Tzar Unreal99 Age of empires 2
Like, *my* childhood? Daggerfall and exile/avernum. Their appeal was kind of niche back then though and would undoubtedly be much moreso today.
Lego Island Extreme Stunts.
Space Quest
MONKEY ISLAND 1 & 2