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Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

Sid Meier is known for two different franchises. The first is the seminal 4X franchise Civilization, which made his name a household one and propelled him to the heights of game designer super-stardom. The second is arguably just as known as Civilization, only with a different group of people: Railroad Tycoon. The first game was one of the very first business simulations released to the consumer market, and ever since then the games have only been getting bigger, better, and prettier. Arguably the best game in the series is Railroad Tycoon 2, and with its re-release on Steam, new strategy gamers can immerse themselves in a timeless classic at a very low price.

PC gaming has been around since, well, PCs have existed. However the platform always seemed to get the short end of the attention stick compared to console game titles (with a few exceptions). That all changed in the 1990s as PC gaming entered a new golden age. With developments like shareware titles, CD-Rom games, Internet-based titles, Windows 95 and more powerful PCs, quite a few titles got a ton of attention and sales.

In this new multi-part feature we look back at that glorious decade of the 1990s as we focus on just some of the games that we loved to play (and in some cases still play) from that decade. Today we look back at a few of our favorite titles from 1990 and 1991:

Click on the image to the right to continue reading We Love the 90s (for PC Games)

Guinness World Records has recognized game designer Sid Meier -- the man behind Civilization, Alpha Centauri, Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon/Railroads, and other games.

Meier's claim to fame: he's officially won more awards than any other game creator. In addition to the countless awards received for games like Civilization IV, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Developers' Choice Awards and has been inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame, and the Computer Museum of America's Hall of Fame. He also received a star on the Walk of Game.

Despite his long history of PC game development, his next project -- Civilization Revolution -- is a console-only affair. No word yet on what his next PC project will be, unfortunately.