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Marathon.
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Arcade
A timeless masterpiece of 2D fighting with beautiful sprite work and a banger soundtrack. Other fighting games come and go, but we still play this one online and in tournaments 25 years later.
Galaga
Bubble Bobble, Arcade, 1986
Great, now I’ll have the music from this game stuck in my head all day
Unreal Tournament
Street fighter 2 - hyper fighting edition (arcade).
Played this every day after school for years as did a huge portion of my school.
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee (PS1)
So many games that I even upvoted that are still absolutely amazing haven’t really aged perfectly control- or gameplay-wise, but Oddworld could be released today and it would still be perfect.
Diablo (1996?)
Freelancer, PC
A great pick, but it’s not 25yo yet, tho
Pokémon Crystal is just shy of your 25 year threshold depending on what month it was released (it came out in 2000 in Japan), so I’ll say Pokémon Yellow or Pokémon Gold and Silver. We can sit here and nitpick about which is the best, but Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal were all amazing.
I’d lean in favor of Gen 2 being better, but it’s definitely a tough call whether the original or the first refinement is better.
Its really about whether GS are better than Yellow, GS are definitely better than RB. Anyone saying RB is better than any of the other GB ones is saying it for nostalgia.
Yellow is pretty bad honestly, it’s just the novelty of being a bit more like the anime. The pokemon you can catch and what’s available for early gyms are both poor.
That’s fair. To be honest, I never played it as a kid, so I don’t really know what’s there. I guess I always thought you could catch everything in it. I know you can get all the starters. I know in later “third games” you can’t catch everything (or in some like Platinum they added some).
Edit: One day I’ll learn to not type “okay” instead of “play” lmao
I am very sad that I’ve scrolled several pages and haven’t seen the obvious one (though I could just be blind):
Deus Ex.
Edit: or perhaps it’s because Deus Ex is from 2000 and I don’t know if it counts yet. Maybe I’ll wait 'til next year!
June 22nd
Perfect Dark, N64
An incredible port, plays amazing on mouse and keyboard.
I still can’t find the pair off socks it knocked off.
Quake 2, PC
I liked quake 2, but 1 and 3 were better
I think Q2 largely started the mass multiplayer FPS gaming culture. Multiplayer was trivial to setup over LAN unlike other games at the time. It quickly exploded in LAN parties and clubs. Q3 continued in that vein and was also great.
Interesting. My experience with Quake 1 is that it was also easy to do on LAN, but also at that point, people had only been LANning for a short time in my area, so I think that’s why Quake 3 & Unreal Tournament were the first to pick up a ton of steam with the masses where I lived in the rural US.
I think Q2 had the best mods and TCs though
What were the good Q2 mods? I think I missed out on them.
Action Quake 2 was great, there was also Urban Terror I think similar to Counter Strike.
Lots of small things you could do like player skins, and audio, never had to pay for that either unlike the nonsense mtx of today
AQ2 was peak.
I don’t think I ever played it.
I should say “peak for me”.
It looks like there are 4 humans in servers right now, or some bot matches.
A precursor to CS.
Thief (1998)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Mega Drive
My first game ever… good times
