If you’re thinking of buying Z now - the modern remake is a careless trash port FYI
Quake series. Thousands of hours on them.
I don’t remember where we got it, but back in the old days when everyone was trying to replicate the success of Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2, we had School Tycoon. It’s certainly no Rollercoaster Tycoon since it was specifically aimed at a younger audience, but I find it still enjoyable enough when you want to just kill time.
Definitely better than Deep Sea and Space Tycoon. That’s a definite. We had those as well and I could never figure out how the hell to actually properly play them.
Z is a fantastic game but some of the levels infuriated me, no matter how well I played the AI seemed to have an answer… Turned out the difficulty goes up a notch after each loss since the devs expected you to git gud.
Oh wow, I wasn’t aware of that!
I remember initially falling in love with the concept of the game and the humor and the graphics, but them feeling absolutely crest falling that I couldn’t accomplish anything in the game.
But then I had my very first big gamer epiphany, you need to be aggressive! So not only was it one of my big surprise favorites, I had one of my very first aha! moments as a gamer with it
Crack Dot Com’s “Abuse”. Greatest run-and-gun platformer ever.
Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2. There was a box set with both games in it, and the box art for DK1 caught my eye, just this cartoonish grinning demon. Of course I got it home, and then noticed the box art for DK2, which certainly got my attention and definitely not because I have a fetish for thighs.
