Are they the ‘epics’ of their time, or some things that are less well known?

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    Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.

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      Yeeeeah! I haven’t played these in forever but Hero’s Quest was my first Sierra adventure and holy shit was it magic. And Krondor - Raymond freakin Feist writing games!!

      Both absolutely epic! Although in my case we’d be playing fast and loose with the term “youth” this was stuff I played after college but still.

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    They’re all well-known: Pac-Man (first game I ever played), Super Mario games, Metroid games. Anything past SNES I feel like I was too old to consider it my “youth.”

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    I still play through The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at least a couple times a year though it’s usually with the randomizer these days. It is objectively the best video game ever made, which helps.

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    The Pokemon games on all of Nintendo’s handheld consoles emulate really cleanly on a smartphone.

    I’m a sucker for the Gen 1 nostalgia every now and then.

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    Half-Life 1 (and expansions)

    SimCity 3000, SimCity 4

    Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

    Deus Ex

    Zoo Tycoon

    Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail

    Morrowind

    Industry Giant 2

    Fallout 1/2

    Arcanum

    SimTower

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      Great list. I think I will replay about half your list at some point over the coming years. And might first time play Love For Sail as well.

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    Half-Life 1

    One mod specifically (Sven-Coop). Been playing almost daily since 1999.

    I still fire up Duke 3d and Quake mods from time to time as well. There are lifetimes of user-made content in some of these older games.

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    If I could I’d still be playing wow but it’s just not the same without the plentiful free time for it.

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      Private servers with boosted rates can scratch that itch while severely reducing the grind. Every couple years I’ll poke my head into one, level to endgame in like a week, do some raids, do some PVP, then completely forget it exists. Couple years later, rinse and repeat.

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        I tried retail again last year in a similar way, they’ve actually built so much mechanics now to catch up. But it still felt like a massive task to catch up to actual active players. Private server is a good shout, I’ll take a look next time I get the itch.

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    DOOM.
    The old game got way better when they open sourced it and Quake 3d code was backported to make zDOOM. Its one of the largest modding communities that has ever existed. If you want to see what it can do, try Brutal Doom. That same engine is behind a new release called Selaco.

    Serious Sam.
    The first one. The demo is fine. Start off with a pistol. Its pretty easy to die at first, even if you know the game. I think that’s why I keep opening it, I know it really well, and it still catches me.