We Love the 90s (For PC Games): 1992-1993

Posted Apr 21st 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Features

On Monday we began a fond look back at the 1990s, when Star Trek was well into The Next Generation and The X-Files was our favorite way to get scared. PC games also came into their own in that decade and to prove it we picked 15 titles that were released between 1992 and 1993.

It was the time period where adventure games were all over the place and an odd PC hardware add-on called the CD-ROM would make us forget floppies. Shareware was also making a huge impact on gamers, including a little game called Doom. Let's head back about 16 or 17 years and take a look at the 1990's games that we still like to play today.

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This compilation of games has me wondering if the author actually played PC games during the early 90's. A more realistic list of popular titles would include a few examples from this list:

Kings Quest
Microsoft Flight Simulator
SSI Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Test Drive
F117 Stealth Fighter
Links by Access Software

An early 90's list would be incomplete without games from Microprose, Accolade, Electronic Arts, Dynamix, Sierra Online, SSI and Three-Sixty Pacific.

I managed some of the highest volume software stores for Egghead Software during those years. We would have sold more copies of Ultima Underworld from Origin than most of the games on this We Love the 90s list. Maybe some other former employees from Software Etc., Walden Software and Babbage's can add their comments to this discussion too.Posted at 11:12AM on Apr 22nd 2009 by Toomuch

Dudes, no Ultima Underworld?Posted at 7:18AM on Apr 27th 2009 by mcbexx