Best early 90s era video game?

[WillHunting]

I got Super Mario brothers. Any Street Fighter II alumni around? Sonic the Hedgehog perhaps?

[Spice Weasel]

Are you interested in DOS games?

[coutts99]

I'm more of a late 80's/Amiga man myself :)

[cascade9]

UFO- Enemy Unknown (aka X-Com- UFO Defense or X-com- Enemy Unknow).

I'm still playing it, over 15 years after release ;)

[WillHunting]

I grew up on old school Nintendo - state of the art in 1992 - although I did have a fledgling romance with Space Invaders around 1989-1990....

[Bluesan]

Other than Mario Kart, and a couple of other racing games (can't remember the names), I didn't have much interest in arcade style games back then. Most of my time was spent playing computer games, such as...

Heretic,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQHOAXnITA

and Hexen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rlSVvqku5M

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQHOAXnITA)

[NightwishFan]

I agree with SF and Sonic. Also Double Dragon.

[del_diablo]

Can't we all just agree on Metroid? :P

[blueturtl]

8-bit StarCraft (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B16eAS1dwA)?

[Majorix]

I would go with the Final Fantasy series.

[roggenschrotbrot]

master of orion, closely followed by civilization

[Naiki Muliaina]

Frontier Elite II, Flashback, Another World Road Rash and the Shadow of the Beast series on Amiga.

Not sure if that was late 80's actually...

[pwnst*r]

Another World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)) (Out of this World)

[wkhasintha]

Mario brothers :P

[chriswyatt]

We had Lemmings and Theme Park on our old Windows 3.1 PC, both really good games.

[_outlawed_]

My vote would goto Zelda (A Link to the Past,1991) on the SNES. :D

[Khakilang]

I like "Leisure Suit Larry Goes to Hollywood" and "Dune" on DOS.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Monkey Island I&II, Day of the Tentacle, basically every adventure game Lucas Arts made in those days.

[Spice Weasel]

Monkey Island I&II, Day of the Tentacle, basically every adventure game Lucas Arts made in those days.

Playing Monkey Island right now and loving it. :)

[ukripper]

sorry didn't see early in title..edited..


mario bros and contra

[samalex]

I loved Joust for the TRS-80 with the flying ostriches. Also Star Raider, yars Revenge, and Asteroids for Atari and Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES. For DOS there was this wicked cool Star Trek game I found on a BBS years ago called Trek-N... just looked it up and found a link to it here (http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/314/Star_Trek:_The_Nth_Iteration.html).

And who can forget the many Door games on the BBSes... my fave was Trade Wars 2002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradeWars_2002) which I still play from time to time on a few of the boards that still carry it.

Take care,

Sam

[Swagman]

Genetic Species (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa_eJlaNRNQ)

[emmag]

Around '90 Space Invaders and Batty (a bat-and-ball) Around 1988-`1989. :D

[Frogs Hair]

Shivers & Shivers II , I like puzzle games.

[DoktorSeven]

Doom.

There is no other.

:)

[alexan]

The first quake

[era86]

Duke3d and Warcraft

[pwnst*r]

The first quake

For some reason I thought we were only referring to consoles... if not, then this^

[Gonxo]

I liked seeing Heretic and Hexen make the list. ... I would have included Duke3d and Shadow Warrior. But they barley sneek into the 'early' 90's ...

but as far as console titles go.. Sonic the hedgehog is a personal favorite. Sonic and Knuckles. :)
all mario titles ..Especially the strange second one. ...
Zelda of course . a link to the past was a great game..

I'm a sucker for 90's everything right now though .. so yeah . haha

[samalex]

I like "Leisure Suit Larry Goes to Hollywood" and "Dune" on DOS.

Oh mean I can't believe I forgot about LSL. LSL: Land of the Lounge Lizards is still the one game I think I spent the most time on during my DOS days :) I remember hitting Fidonet trying to find how to get past certain levels.

[andymorton]

My vote goes to Target Renegade, a great 2 player game that I spent hours and hours engrossed in. Also Sensible World of Soccer - still, in my opinion, the best football game ever!

[forrestcupp]

Duke Nukem' 3D or Kings Quest VI.

[Schrute Farms]

One of my favs was Mutant League Football by EA Sports on Sega Genesis.

[kabloink]

Doom.

There is no other.

:)

+1

It's one of the few early 90s games that I still occasionally play.

[forrestcupp]

Doom.

There is no other.

:)

I got frustrated with Doom because you couldn't jump. When Duke 3D came out, and for the first time you could jump, fly, duck, and swim, I was pretty amazed.

[Duncan J Murray]

Cannon Fodder
Frontier: Elite II
Chaos Engine
Roketz

[sisco311]

Also Double Dragon.

best ending theme song ever!!! :)

if games from the late 80's count too, then

ATV Simulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATV_Simulator)
Golden Axe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Axe_(series))
RoboCop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(video_games))

EDIT: oh, TIM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_(game)) is from the early 90's. =)

[bobbob1016]

Doom.

There is no other.

:)

I'd say Duke 3d (+ Expansions) ~= Doom

[doorknob60]

Super Mario World. Or maybe Donkey Kong Country series.

[Ctrl-Alt-F1]

Wing Commander/Wing Commander 2

[krendar]

My vote goes to Doom. Was probably one of the games I have spent most time on (together with Diablo 2).

[MisterGaribaldi]

Yeah, I have some old favorites...


Marathon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_%28video_game%29)

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4707/marathoni01.png


Crystal Quest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Quest)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1702/crystalquest01.png


Prince of Persia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia)

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4058/princeofpersia01.png


Full Throttle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Throttle_%281995_video_game%29)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/7136/fullthrottle01.png


Solarian II (http://download.cnet.com/Solarian-II/3000-2099_4-10005986.html)

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/1671/solarianii01.png


Ahhh... good times!

[hhh]

After playing it on NES, I used to see Dr. Mario in my sleep...
http://nintendo8.com/game/495/dr._mario/

Not early 90's but still 90's, Goldeneye 007 on N64 was killer, and playing multiplayer with 3 other people was freaking awesome!
http://goldeneyegame.com/

[DeadSuperHero]

Since I can't just pick a specific one, I guess I'd just have to say the Space Quest and Quest for Glory series by Sierra were amazing. Really, they're the games that made me love adventure games so very much.

Edit: Also, Sierra kind of pioneered the whole "tons of cool crap in the game box" concept. In the Quest for Glory boxes alone, they came with fake adventure trade school correspondence guides, a big fat game manual, and occasionally a hint book. It makes me sad since including novelty items as part of a game's packaging is really kind of unheard-of anymore.

[forrestcupp]

Not early 90's but still 90's, Goldeneye 007 on N64 was killer, and playing multiplayer with 3 other people was freaking awesome!
http://goldeneyegame.com/

multiplayer Goldeneye was fun.

[hhh]

multiplayer Goldeneye was fun.
Word.

[forrestcupp]

Word.

Word up.

[pwnst*r]

SP Goldeneye was awesome as well.

[Zoot7]

For me, it'd probably be Raptor: Call of the Shadows. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor:_Call_of_the_Shadows) Sunk hours and hours into that back in the day.

http://i56.tinypic.com/317ik37.jpg

[forrestcupp]

SP Goldeneye was awesome as well.

Word.

[Ctrl-Alt-F1]

Really mid 90's but WarCraft 2 was legendary. Still better than WC3 imo.

Also: Jackal for Nintendo. Who doesn't love driving around in army jeep blowing stuff up?

[98cwitr]

Gran Turismo 1 and 2

close 2nd:
Sonic 3 and Mortal Kombat II

[pwnst*r]

Word.

Word up.