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Add one more here. Some of the greatest games came out in that period.

I made before a list of the top 10 games that impacted me the most and a large part are from that period. In no particular order:

Worms (particularly Worms World Party)
The Settlers II
Master of Orion II
Heroes of Might and Magic (particularly the first 3)
Phantasmagoria
WWF WrestleMania
Monkey Island (especially 1-3)
Dizzy (all games in the series)
Jet Set Willy

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refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The best thing about this reply is that literally none of those games are on my list, since I haven’t played any of them (except for a Flash clone of Worms as a kid). That just goes to show the sheer amount of quality gaming that there was.

My list is moreso comprised of console games. In no particular order, and includes some later indie games:

Chrono Trigger (GOAT, ranked number 1 above all the rest of these. Fantastic story, gameplay, music, pacing, etc. I haven’t played any other game as polished as this one)

Terranigma (A surprisingly deep and philosophical game for the time, even compared to other great JRPGs of the same era, or of any era)

Yoshi’s Island (just raw fun)

Super Mario 64 (also just raw fun)

Majora’s Mask (Surprisingly deep and emotional for a Zelda game)

Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3 (2 in particular opened my eyes to actually being able to feel emotions for the first time)

Super Meat Boy (Addiction: the video game)

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Crack: the video game)

OMORI (another fantastic and emotional game, almost on the level of Silent Hill 2, but replay value isn’t very high IMO)

A Link to the Past (Just raw fun, but in Zelda form)

Guitar Hero 1, 2, and 3 (I was especially involved in the customs scene back then)

Final Fantasy VI (A fantastic story in general)

Super Smash Bros (the series as a whole)
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- lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I didn’t have any consoles, so couldn’t play a lot of those games. But on PC (and on 8-bit computer before that), I played hundreds of games. There were no copyright laws in my country when I was a kid and my dad got everything he could get his hands on. In the 8-bit era he collected over 40 cassette tapes (8-10 games on each). Then when we got the PC there were boxes and boxes of floppy disks (I remember Need for Speed was on over 30 disks). Then CDs came out and I remember one CD that had 200 games on it. And as my dad collected, I tried every single one of them.
  
  That just goes to show the sheer amount of quality gaming that there was.
  
  I made that top 10 list years ago from some silly Facebook game that was going around at the time. The hardest part was picking just 10. My initial list had about 70 games on it.
  
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  - refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Emulation is magical. It’s how I discovered most of these games.
    
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    lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, I remember when I first got ZSNES and suddenly I had access hundreds of games I wasn’t able to play before. Played through Super Mario RPG, spent so much time in Harvest Moon, and finally played the first Final Fantasy games and Legend of Zelda.
    
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Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Could not play master of orion II

Played birth of the federation before i even heard of master of orion and it ruined it lol

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