Games from the 90s

Although my own memories of it are from the arcade, it was later released on the PlayStation. The Ridge Racer series may not be as well known as some racing games but it has lasted long beyond its arcade days.

The basic gameplay has remained largely the same over the years and consists of track based races usually taking place on city streets. Building on the already known Ultima universe, Ultima Online was technology advancing at its best. It began with a single world but expanded over the years to add new worlds, lands and features. Breaking ground as a social and economic experiment in gaming, it was massive both in the late 90s and for years to come. Gaming on this level had never been done before and it blew the minds of RPG gamers.

Metal Gear 2 is, not surprisingly, the sequel to the original Metal Gear. It was hugely popular back in when it was released. At the time the action-adventure stealth video game was groundbreaking in style, gameplay and graphics. It builds upon the original game and takes the stealth mechanism to a new level.

Since its release it has been built upon and re-released over the years. Populus: The Beginning is a real-time strategy game which allows you to build a settlement and grow your tribe. It evolved from earlier titles in both graphics and gameplay. This incarnation puts you into the tribe to influence it, rather than having you be a God like figure. Playing God was a popular pass time for s gamers as AI became more advanced and real-time strategy games increased in popularity.

This quirky puzzle-platformer from back in is considered a classic in my household. One of the best received video games of the early 90s it was cute, quirky and very addictive. The popularity of the game has led to many similar games as well as spin-offs and sequels. Each level starts with a trapdoor depositing lemmings onto your screen. You then have to assign different tasks to lemmings in order to guide the rest into the exit, avoiding the traps along the way.

The Oddworld series of games are primarily action-adventure platformers. Each one takes place on Oddworld. The first game was released back in and was a huge hit among gamers.

In it you play Abe, a worker at a meat-packing plant. He is a very happy soul until he discovers that his boss intends to use Mudokon slaves as a new source of meat. Peter Parker's adventure into the metaverse could have been so much more. Helen began playing games at an early age with her first computer being a hand-me-down Sinclair ZX Spectrum. She juggles the daily demands of life with a family and somehow still finds the time to indulge her two passions in life, writing and gaming; sometimes both at the same time.

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You can get Doom on gog. The late s were arguably the golden age of the real-time strategy genre, and one of that age's pinnacles was this fantastic followup to 's Age of Empires. The action moves from antiquity to the medieval era, and improved unit AI check out those sweet marching formations! Although the prevalence of early rush tactics means some matches end before anyone even builds a castle, other games can blossom into true empire-vs.

Some of the greatest RTS units of all time live here, from the deadly English Longbowman to the breathtakingly powerful trebuchet. CRPG fans didn't quite know what to make of Diablo when it released in It didn't have much story, character customization was minimal, and the gameworld was mostly limited to a town and the dungeon underneath it.

But Diablo wasn't trying to be Ultima or Might and Magic. Why do you ask? And you know what? These games are still fun. Yes, I say that as a fully grown adult. Some were part of long-running series, while still more of them received a number of remakes and reboots as technology improved.

The Munchers series' conceit was simple: They taught kids the basics of math and grammar. Number Munchers was originally released in for the Apple II, while Word Munchers had arrived a few years earlier in The original Math Blaster! Between and , a whopping 20 games were released in the Blaster Learning System — and somewhat astonishingly, a few more follow-ups trickled out between and Math wasn't the only subject addressed by the series; Reading Blaster!

A Science Blaster! Math Blaster! These activities were designed to teach everything from problem-solving to typing; you could even make terrible MIDI music by jumping up and down a set of colorful stairs. Scooter's Magic Castle also has a super earworm-y theme song , so if you now have it stuck in your head for the rest of the day… sorry.

My bad. The four major entries in the series — Where in the World, Where in the U. Initially released in by Spinnaker Software Corporation, it was exactly the kind of game that appealed to very young children: It consisted of six mini-games that taught kids their way around a keyboard by having them draw pictures, match pairs, and other do simple activities.

If you have a kid in your life who's around 3 years old, it might be a fun time to play with them! As a child in a house full of gamers, naturally I adored Mario Teaches Typing , which first hit the scene in the early '90s. One of a number of educational Mario games released between and , it put the pixelated plumber to good work teaching us how to type.

Hitting the correct key would prompt Mario to hit blocks, jump on Koopa Troopas, and more.