Guys and Ladies; I wanted to add explaining.. I collected data from that era's meta critic magazines, sites etc. Made Polls in retro social media groups. I didn't prepared list with my own decisions. So; I am agree with you about some games.. They need to be in list. 2nd subject is; Same dates, i was preparing for Sega, Ps1 and many other game lists like this. Final Fantasy (Mostly this one said by community) mistakenly mixed into pc list. Sorry about that but if there is video maker inside of you; days and days you are creating a database and construct video piece by piece. I couldn't see that, with tired eyes and focus.. Thats my fault. It needed to be in PS1 video. Apologize.
Games back then were somewhat more pure and with soul. All those GTAs and Far cries, CoDs and many other ruined the industry. You simply had to produce more with less and that stimulated creativity and imagination
@@keenmate9719 Wrong, they didn't ruin the industry, nor did they ruin gaming. If you want to play old games you can do so, the same goes for new games. I play and like both and in this video alone are 11 games I have currently installed, on top of games like Far Cry 5 and 6, and GTA 5, just to name those you complained about.
I remember playing lot of this games in my grandparents house, my grandfather was a freak of technology and he was getting them for me, sometimes playing also on his computer because mine was not so good hehe Thank you grandfather for this nice memories, you saved me from lot of bad moments of my life thanks to video games, I could focus on something else but what was happening around me, I never told you and now is too late, love you for ever.
They had to do more with less. These days it's about "here you have every tool known to man, do something with it", it's not really about "I have a dream of a game, what technologies will get be the closest and how to overcome their limitations"
@@keenmate9719 Aye, it kinda was better when game devlopers as well as players had to left things open for imagination, thus everybody could have his or her own imaginations about these games, a part of what made them so magical in my opinion. Nowadays it's often bland and shallow. Exceptions certainly exists, but they have become quite rare nowadays.
this video is a documentary over my childhood. Well, I turned 18 in 2000. Remember downloading quake demo over 33.6 modem för an entire night. Many great games came out 96-97. Makes modern gaming pale in comparisson with just rehashes of older games or micro transactions.
Progress in 3D graphics in those crucial 4 years was really astonishing, compare games from 96 and 99 for example... It was THREE years. Right now we don't even get a new generation of GPUs in such time period 😀
What i missing is speed busters from 1998. Definitely one of the best games of this time with incredible graphics, good soundtrack and good special effects
The golden age of gaming, from graphical leaps (gfx cards became a thing), general gameplay innovation, modding and multiplayer gaming (the internet). This was a really exciting time to be a gamer, I feel sorry for those that missed it. Also sad I didn’t see XCOM apocalypse 1997 on the list…
There were a lot of good games released during 2000-2005 too. The Xbox dealt a heavy blow to PC gaming, but there were still a ton of classics released. It's only after 2006 and the release of the 360 that things went completely down hill.
1996 - could be the best year ever in videogames. You can see why Tomb Raider and Quake were such huge events when they released at that time. Quake still plays great today.
As does DOOM. So many games from that era that are still sooooo accessible. I guess it's pretty much because these genre defining games.....well....defined the genres we know and love today.
6:52 OMG I finally found it. I remember my Aunt showing me this game when I was a kid in 1999. The only thing I can vaguely recall happens to be the moment you showed in the video. Lands of Lore. Finally I know what it's called. Thanks :D
Tolga hocam sorma.. ben 15 gündür bunların arasindayim. Hele bazılarını kurup oynayıp video çektim. Şu anda bıraksan 62 saat retro oyun oynayacak durumdayım. :)) Beğenilerinize sonsuz teşekkürler 😊
Agh, the golden age of games that needed 2d DX and a couple megabytes of VRAM to run - and are still magnificent. (not to belittle original HL and CS, which could, indeed, benefit from having a measly MX2 :))
@@user-jv1su4xp8q The original Silent Hill only ever came out for the original Playstation. It was later made available to run on the PSP (as many PS1 games were), the PS Vita and apparently the PS3. There WAS a package created by someone many years ago that claimed to be Silent Hill for Windows (or maybe DOS?), but what it actually was, was a copy of the PS1 game, pre-packaged with an emulator. I never tried it myself, but I recall hearing that it was rather finicky and wouldn't run on all systems. It still wasn't an actual computer release though.
@@user-jv1su4xp8q Wrong, it NEVER ever was released for Pc. It's sequels were tho. The first one was only ever on PS1, it was emulated on other things but the only ever port of the game that exists is Ps1.
@@lurkerrekrul Yeah I remember that, that's what people are thinking about. Someone just made a standalone version of epsxe with optimized settings for the game and iso already loaded and had it run as 1 compiled program via a custom front loader. That was spread all over the place. It actually ran really well but as soon as windows started updating it'd act up worse and worse and now it's unusable. But really if you just took the time in an emulator you would have gotten the same effect. Now tho the best route to go is duckstation, it's the only way to play the first game in my opinion anymore unless you play the original game on a top end Trinitron CRT
My top 5 90's games 1- Doom 2- Half Life (Opposing Force) 3- Street Fighter 2 4- Fifa 98 5- Midtown Madness Also I tried Commandos a lot but I couldn't manage to accomplish any damn misson. I bet I can't still play that game.. Greetings from all 90's kids from Turkey. Btw Age of Empires, Heretic, King of Fighter 97, Outlaw were my other favs :))
I remember playing the demo to fifa, it was included with another game which i can't remember. The first video game i was addicted to was Roller Coaster Tycoon. I played the sims on my cousins computer. Doom and wolfenstiein 3d were some of the first games i played on pc.
Its the magic that is lost. Pixelated undefined graphics leaves room for imagination, struggle for realism is because in adults child die. Games are so real to kids, reality in those games were special, unique, not such close representation of real one.
Mesajı şimdi gördüm. Lütfen kusura bakmayın. Çok teşekkür ederim. Malum geçim derdinden baya zamandır içerik üretmiyorum. Ancak yakında planlarım var. Tekrar kusura bakmayın lütfen
Wow watching this is like watching my entire career of video games… Career, because I would put in 40+ hours a week on video games. Right now I’m playing the old classic Shadow or War:Mordor.
Its pleasure to get that kind of message. But; I am over 40 years old and i need to work :) RUclips things mostly for free guys who doesn't have children responsibilities. If i have free time, really i wish to continue with pc part-3 and sega, playstation series.. Thanks for motivating message
WOW.. Haven't played most of these game in awhile back in the day..I can''t believe of the number of DOOM and C&C and SIMCITY and DIABLO clones they made? RTS was the bomb and shooters back them it was people wanted..DARK FORCES was ahead of it's time..Godd memories
Lol, I remember getting unreal with my Voodoo 3000 TV series card and was blown away. I still have that card and enough parts to put a pc together to put it in. Maybe I will do it for nostalgic purposes.
DAmn i freaking forgot about the Delta force games, man those was some dope games when they came out. especially the black hawk down version, man why havent they made another one. that would be crazy awesome
There are lots of true masterpieces here but I'd just like to say one thing that nobody says: in 1997 had been published a videogame whose name was Galapagos. It was far from perfection but it was the first true attempt to center a machine learning model as main character in a videogame. Nowadays you can legally download a working demo and run it through qemu, if you're curious about it. Cheers.
Guys and Ladies; I wanted to add explaining.. I collected data from that era's meta critic magazines, sites etc. Made Polls in retro social media groups. I didn't prepared list with my own decisions. So; I am agree with you about some games.. They need to be in list. 2nd subject is; Same dates, i was preparing for Sega, Ps1 and many other game lists like this. Final Fantasy (Mostly this one said by community) mistakenly mixed into pc list. Sorry about that but if there is video maker inside of you; days and days you are creating a database and construct video piece by piece. I couldn't see that, with tired eyes and focus.. Thats my fault. It needed to be in PS1 video. Apologize.
No worries thanks for making this video
Uy
The best five-year period in gaming history
For both pc AND consoles!
Fantastic 5year✨👍💯✨
indeed
Games from my childhood. Best days of my life! Damn, how time flies... :(
I Love you
What keeps you from playing these games today?
@@vladdracul5072 yep! i still go back to old games. Having a blast! :)
I had to give up gaming 3 years ago cuz of eye disease "/
Pure nostalgia.
I played like 80 % or more of these games.
What a time it was back then.
Games back then were somewhat more pure and with soul. All those GTAs and Far cries, CoDs and many other ruined the industry. You simply had to produce more with less and that stimulated creativity and imagination
@@keenmate9719 Wrong, they didn't ruin the industry, nor did they ruin gaming. If you want to play old games you can do so, the same goes for new games. I play and like both and in this video alone are 11 games I have currently installed, on top of games like Far Cry 5 and 6, and GTA 5, just to name those you complained about.
@@vladdracul5072 thank you, now I see the situation completely differently
I remember playing lot of this games in my grandparents house, my grandfather was a freak of technology and he was getting them for me, sometimes playing also on his computer because mine was not so good hehe Thank you grandfather for this nice memories, you saved me from lot of bad moments of my life thanks to video games, I could focus on something else but what was happening around me, I never told you and now is too late, love you for ever.
It's the sound-effects that get to me after all these years, more than the visuals.
They had to do more with less. These days it's about "here you have every tool known to man, do something with it", it's not really about "I have a dream of a game, what technologies will get be the closest and how to overcome their limitations"
@@keenmate9719 Aye, it kinda was better when game devlopers as well as players had to left things open for imagination, thus everybody could have his or her own imaginations about these games, a part of what made them so magical in my opinion.
Nowadays it's often bland and shallow. Exceptions certainly exists, but they have become quite rare nowadays.
Unreal tournament ‘99 should definitely have been on the list
Shoutout to [ULL] 😂, what a great time we had in ut99 assault.
If I had a dollar for every hour I played these games... Its fun to hear sound effects that I haven't heard for 25 years again.
Command and conquer music increased anyone's testosterone that played it by 100%
Best RTS games were made in this time. Miss it soooo much. Each Remake would be a great success.
I still listen to Diablo2 OST from time to time, hit me right in the feels...
Great selection of games. Two I loved from this period were Terra Nova and Planescape Torment
This is amazing how many amazing games we had in this four years.
Peak of my PC gaming era right there, great list!
this video is a documentary over my childhood. Well, I turned 18 in 2000. Remember downloading quake demo over 33.6 modem för an entire night. Many great games came out 96-97. Makes modern gaming pale in comparisson with just rehashes of older games or micro transactions.
Man I forgot how many RTS games there were during this time period! Cool list. Two I would have definitely included are both Aliens vs Predator games.
he missed AVP, Kingpin & Soldier of fortune.
Curse of Monkey Island (1997) is on my list. Loved the puzzles and the story.
Played and loved a bunch of these! Thank you.
Thank you too..
I love these trips down memory lane... Thanks for making these videos!
Progress in 3D graphics in those crucial 4 years was really astonishing, compare games from 96 and 99 for example... It was THREE years. Right now we don't even get a new generation of GPUs in such time period 😀
Thank you very very very much , I have found one of my childhood precious memories
The fact that Quake 2 isn't on this list despite being the benchmark for PC gaming for multiple years is a joke.
What i missing is speed busters from 1998. Definitely one of the best games of this time with incredible graphics, good soundtrack and good special effects
100% of great classic games.
1996 was pure magic.
1998 was even better: Unreal, Half Life, Battlezone, Urban Assault.
This really was the golden era of gaming for me in my college years. We had it so good then! Look at the lefacy these titles left behind!
2000 was the year I got my first PC.
I played all games from this list released in 2000.
What a time!
One of the best games ever is not on this list, or at least, I skipped it.
G-Police.
10/10
The golden age of gaming, from graphical leaps (gfx cards became a thing), general gameplay innovation, modding and multiplayer gaming (the internet). This was a really exciting time to be a gamer, I feel sorry for those that missed it. Also sad I didn’t see XCOM apocalypse 1997 on the list…
The best era of gaming imo. And the best era of my life. 21'st century sucks 😢
There were a lot of good games released during 2000-2005 too. The Xbox dealt a heavy blow to PC gaming, but there were still a ton of classics released. It's only after 2006 and the release of the 360 that things went completely down hill.
1996 - could be the best year ever in videogames. You can see why Tomb Raider and Quake were such huge events when they released at that time. Quake still plays great today.
As does DOOM. So many games from that era that are still sooooo accessible.
I guess it's pretty much because these genre defining games.....well....defined the genres we know and love today.
Imagine, CS 1.6 and Diablo 2 still hold up today from this age.
if CS 1.6 was still active and not full of hackers ill still play to this day
@@thomson770 same
A good chunk of my childhood there.
6:52 OMG I finally found it. I remember my Aunt showing me this game when I was a kid in 1999. The only thing I can vaguely recall happens to be the moment you showed in the video. Lands of Lore. Finally I know what it's called. Thanks :D
Enjoy I recently replayed Lands of Lore 2 and 3 on GOG and it was a glorious blast from the past. Gotta love Belial
valla gittik geldik çocukluğumuza yine..süper olmuş eline sağlık :)
Tolga hocam sorma.. ben 15 gündür bunların arasindayim. Hele bazılarını kurup oynayıp video çektim. Şu anda bıraksan 62 saat retro oyun oynayacak durumdayım. :)) Beğenilerinize sonsuz teşekkürler 😊
1998 I played Warcraft orcs vs humans for days with no sleep. And red alert 🚨 I was hooked
Half Life, Duke Nukem, Rainbow Six. Lord, forgive me for the time I spent playing these things
I'm with the guy that wants a part 3. Been searching for a game/ demo I played as a kid and still cant find it. Love these videos
This is a little "time maschine" !
Looking back at some real good old days...
good list, playing lots of them even today :)
90´s was the golden age for games
Good times... Good ideas, good scenarios, great games... and no shitotransactions or lootboxes...
Agh, the golden age of games that needed 2d DX and a couple megabytes of VRAM to run - and are still magnificent.
(not to belittle original HL and CS, which could, indeed, benefit from having a measly MX2 :))
Very nice list, Dude!
Wow some awesome memories & quiet a few games I've not seen before
I had totaly forgot all about KKND. Aww man.
OMFG I cant belive its been 22 years since I play Diablo 2 when I was 12... Im super fucking old man 😮
1998 was perfect for FPP games :)
Yes: Unreal, Half Life, Battlezone, Urban Assault.
Swat 3 was unforgettable for its realism. A giant who Ready or Not pays tribute to
The original Silent Hill was never released for computers.
This is false.
@@user-jv1su4xp8q The original Silent Hill only ever came out for the original Playstation. It was later made available to run on the PSP (as many PS1 games were), the PS Vita and apparently the PS3.
There WAS a package created by someone many years ago that claimed to be Silent Hill for Windows (or maybe DOS?), but what it actually was, was a copy of the PS1 game, pre-packaged with an emulator. I never tried it myself, but I recall hearing that it was rather finicky and wouldn't run on all systems. It still wasn't an actual computer release though.
@@user-jv1su4xp8q Wrong, it NEVER ever was released for Pc. It's sequels were tho. The first one was only ever on PS1, it was emulated on other things but the only ever port of the game that exists is Ps1.
@@lurkerrekrul Yeah I remember that, that's what people are thinking about. Someone just made a standalone version of epsxe with optimized settings for the game and iso already loaded and had it run as 1 compiled program via a custom front loader. That was spread all over the place. It actually ran really well but as soon as windows started updating it'd act up worse and worse and now it's unusable. But really if you just took the time in an emulator you would have gotten the same effect. Now tho the best route to go is duckstation, it's the only way to play the first game in my opinion anymore unless you play the original game on a top end Trinitron CRT
Came here, a year late.. to say exactly this
Nice video I’m glad myth made it on here. One of bungies greatest
Ellerine sağlık abim, çok güzel bir video olmuş :)
My top 5 90's games
1- Doom
2- Half Life (Opposing Force)
3- Street Fighter 2
4- Fifa 98
5- Midtown Madness
Also I tried Commandos a lot but I couldn't manage to accomplish any damn misson. I bet I can't still play that game.. Greetings from all 90's kids from Turkey. Btw Age of Empires, Heretic, King of Fighter 97, Outlaw were my other favs :))
Age of ... :) Tamam... Yapıyorum... :P
those were the times you dont need to worry about fps
I remember playing the demo to fifa, it was included with another game which i can't remember. The first video game i was addicted to was Roller Coaster Tycoon. I played the sims on my cousins computer. Doom and wolfenstiein 3d were some of the first games i played on pc.
If you never played the original Dungeon Keeper, pick it up right away
yine bir retrokafa klasiği ve aşırı kaliteli içerik. eline sağlık abi
Perkele'm, o senin güzel gören gözün. Çook teşekkür ediyorum. 🙏
Its the magic that is lost. Pixelated undefined graphics leaves room for imagination, struggle for realism is because in adults child die. Games are so real to kids, reality in those games were special, unique, not such close representation of real one.
They’re treasure in our youth! Resident Evil, Sanitarium and Blade Runner are classic!
absolutely mate.. We were lucky generation......
Kanalı simdi keşfettim basarili işler yapiyorsun tebrikler dostum
Mesajı şimdi gördüm. Lütfen kusura bakmayın. Çok teşekkür ederim. Malum geçim derdinden baya zamandır içerik üretmiyorum. Ancak yakında planlarım var. Tekrar kusura bakmayın lütfen
17:23 Silent Hill was never released for PC. It's a PlayStation exclusive to this day.
Civ 2 and C&C stole my childhood
Wow watching this is like watching my entire career of video games…
Career, because I would put in 40+ hours a week on video games.
Right now I’m playing the old classic Shadow or War:Mordor.
When games were made by REAL gamers!
lol Diablo: "The sanctity of this place has been fouled"
*Fouls it some more*
Those barrels were killers!
This and part 1 are both great videos. Overall good selection of games. Too bad we didn't get part 3.
Its pleasure to get that kind of message. But; I am over 40 years old and i need to work :) RUclips things mostly for free guys who doesn't have children responsibilities. If i have free time, really i wish to continue with pc part-3 and sega, playstation series.. Thanks for motivating message
WOW.. Haven't played most of these game in awhile back in the day..I can''t believe of the number of DOOM and C&C and SIMCITY and DIABLO clones they made? RTS was the bomb and shooters back them it was people wanted..DARK FORCES was ahead of it's time..Godd memories
1997-98 best period in gaming history
I remember winning a Rainbow 6 mplayer championship and myth 2 multiplayer were the best games. Shout out to asherons call as well.
Great times.
OMG Daggerfall - what an RPG that was! Was ambushed, pickpocketed, lied to and goodness knows what!
You bought your own freaking house and gave the finger to Uriel septum quests?
in a world without internet.....good times
Thanks for this video!
I miss those simpler times.
So many memories in 20 minutes 😍
"Richman monopoly" is a fun series that people may miss.
Where is Part 3 ?
That was a cool collection.
Güzel video üstadım.
Çok teşekkür ederim nazik yorumunuz için.
14:59 That's the first alien/monster I see beginning to run away, in a PC game, instead of attacking. It feels Unreal, lol...
Lol, I remember getting unreal with my Voodoo 3000 TV series card and was blown away. I still have that card and enough parts to put a pc together to put it in. Maybe I will do it for nostalgic purposes.
DAmn i freaking forgot about the Delta force games, man those was some dope games when they came out. especially the black hawk down version, man why havent they made another one. that would be crazy awesome
Can't remember Silent Hill 1 being a PC game.
I miss demo CDs :)
Polybagged with PC Gamer!
I am olso missing Shogo Mobile armor division. Damn that was good!
I love so much Age of Empires!!!!
There are lots of true masterpieces here but I'd just like to say one thing that nobody says: in 1997 had been published a videogame whose name was Galapagos. It was far from perfection but it was the first true attempt to center a machine learning model as main character in a videogame. Nowadays you can legally download a working demo and run it through qemu, if you're curious about it. Cheers.
What Dune 2000 mod is that?
I miss the heroes of might and magic 3. It was the 2nd game I purchased when my mom brought me my first computer when I was a little boy.
Althought I didn't play most of games from this videos, that I played were enjoyable.
Tfw when you played damn near all of these games.
The OG GTA - that was class and spent so many hours playing it.
quake. such the best times. i love my life, but I truly do miss lan deathmatches
The golden Era
Starcraft, my gaming promise
Yalnız video şampiyonlar ligi gibi, ellerinize sağlık
Çok teşekkür ediyorumm 😊🙏
After all these years Manny Calavera walked back into my life.
Great to see some love for KKND in there!
I still play Unreal to this day.😁
My jaw dropped the first time I saw Vampire the masquarade: Redemption.
kim yaptı lan bunu ne kadar yaşlandığımı öğrenmiş oldum şaka şaka kim yaptıysa ellerine sağlık amaaaa bayağı hüzünlendim bee.....
what a golden age of gaming!!!
Exactly.. 10 years of golden era..