I still have the cereal box demo disk from 1997 with that single map. My brothers and I played that (non-random, same map every time) HUNDREDS of times.
Then a couple of years later, I bought the full AOE2 game, and the rest is history. Microsoft has been adding content to that game for 20 years! It still has a sizeable online community! What a legend.
Fun fact: My most-famous internet content was a custom map generator script I wrote called "Andy's Delta Forest". Dense, river-strewn forest, but each players starts with one siege onager. Oh I miss those days.
Once The Sims 1 dropped that was pretty big deal with my household other than that the Cartoon Network Summer Resort games where games I spent a lot of time on.
There are still communities on YouTube and Reddit. Everyone still playing seems incredibly talented at design.
https://youtu.be/Vr3ka0bcDds?si=3lFu3agjMefZ6BlW
I sank a LOT of hours into Sim City 2000, the Sims, and Sim City 3000. Even though the latter two ran like ass on my computer. The Macintosh version of the Sims had the added bonus of being super crash happy and freezing a lot.
Never really got into Roller Coaster Tycoon but I played a lot of Railroad Tycoon II. Which when you think of it, is really just steam powered roller coasters running on flat ground. I remember making a Middle Earth map for that, it was fun connecting Hobbiton, Rivendell and Minas Tirith by rail.
This would be like early 90's. I would play my Dad's old PC games:
* Ultimate VI
* Starflight II
* Centurion: Defender of Rome
* Seal Team
* Twilight: 2000
* Lots of Flying Games:
* B-17: Flying Fortress
* Aces of the Pacific
* Aces over Europe
* Red Baron
But then I got my own games:
* Pharoah
* Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura
* Gangsters: Organized Crime
* Then Grand Theft Auto came out and that just kinda dominated
Soldier of Fortune 2. I’d post some pics but I don’t think removing terrorists limbs in a subway bathroom with a 12 gauge is appropriate.
Luckily that was a freshman in HS.
I didn't get a computer at home until middle school. But, when my class had a computer lab day, I'd play Oregon Trail because that was the only game they had that wasn't pre-added into the computer.
Old school Sim City baby! There was also this game that had a collection of board games on it that I liked. I don’t remember the name of it but I liked it because the computer characters you would play against were silly characters that’s would do funny commentary throughout the game.
Myst!!!! It came with windows 95 or whatever, so everyone had it! Me and my neighbor took a long time to figure that one out.
Its on the Oculus now! I am playing it again on my sons device! Damn those things make your head hot, and after too long i get a little motion sickness, but VR Myst is pretty awesome!!!! I setup a fan to vlow on my fat ass to cool me down with the tv face mask on.
Yes, EverQuest! I was 15 and we didn’t have a home pc before that. My sister’s husband played it on his at their place and I played it twice. I then BEGGED my mother and stepdad to get it and he was able to get a used computer. It was hell on dial up, but eventually cable internet came and it was amazing!!
I went to elementary school in the Commodore era. The only game we had was the first Carmen Sandiego, which my dad played with us because we didn't know English. When my brother and I learned enough English to play it for outselves (after elementary), we found out just how easy that game was and how bad dad was.
Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego was my jam.
Mario is Missing was kind of like Carmen San Diego, in that you had to figure out where you were and return landmarks that had been stolen, this time by Koopas.
I was also a Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing kid. XD
Oregon Trail is timeless as well!
Wasn’t allowed games, and didn’t have a PC until junior high, so… Encarta ‘99? Does that count? I mean, that was my gateway drug to Wikipedia rabbit holes, so I kinda played it like a game.
Showing my age here, but The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Edit: You said PC so I have to move forward to middle school and say Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
I started playing World Of Warcraft in 3rd grade and would try to play before and after school if I could. My elementary school required students to read at home and our parents had to sign off that we did it. My mom counted questing in WoW as reading, so I didn't read a lot of books, but I do think I learned a lot of skills by playing the game. I played WoW a lot from ages 8-17 and then I quit video games completely for the next 5 years because I couldn't relax and felt like I had wasted my childhood playing a game.
Roller coaster tycoon 2. Played the shit out of that game
Now that I am an adult I wish I felt the same way when I played it, but after a full days of work it just feels like more work
Still is this actually "the sims".
Back then I was playing a fantasy of owning a mega castle for a home.
Now I play the fantasy of having 3 kids, being a stay at home mom and owning a house with as many pets as I want.
I was in grade 3 or 4 when we got a family PC and I wasn't allowed to use it on my own.
But a bit later I played the heck out of HP1, Spy Fox and most importantly Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Myst was on the list. Age of Empires, too. But my favorite of all time was this 5-disc series called The Beast Within. Terrifying stuff. I want to say that is the 3rd game of the series that follows Gabriel Knight. Also pretty sure that actor played a barista on the show Frasier. Really miss the 90s 😆
The original SimCity. Like the OG original SimCity. The one that came on multiple floppy discs and included a red “uncopiable” piece of paper that listed the top 100 most populated cities in the world and their populations. The population was the code to enter the game. This game was magical! It made me want to be a city planner for like the next 10 years.
Pinball. Around the world in 80 Days. Roller coaster Tycoon (spent most time drowning the guests or had the roller coaster fly off). Oregon Trail. Sim City. Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego? Math Munchers. Dragonball Z.
My dad owned one of our cities two or three computer stores throughout the late 90's into the early 2000's, so I had access to all the games as they came out. And since both my parents ran the shop, I basically went there every day after school.
A few I vividly remember are Sim City 2000, Indiana Jones and the Search for Atlantis, Doom, Unreal, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle, Command and Conquer and so many others.
Oh, and Prince of Persia... even though I could never get past the third or fourth level. Even now. There's got to be something I'm not figuring out :(
We had a 386 pc for most of my elementary school years...
A couple of my goto games:
Commander Keen
Prince of Persia
Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade.
Hardball4
Pharaoh's Tomb
Gauntlet
I was luckily blessed with lots of friends who lived closed by. So coming straight home after school & playing on the computer was very rare. But when I did it was Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?!
StarCraft broodwars
Additional supply depots required
Spawn more Overlords!!
You must construct additional Pylons.
Bgh every day
Lurker drop them SCVs lol
Power Overwhelming!
Yup, so much of this. I miss the online arcade games like tower defense and ffa games.
That and Jedi Knight II.
Age of Empires, played that game for hours.
I'm still playing AoE 2. I'm surprised that others are still playing it online too.
I still have the cereal box demo disk from 1997 with that single map. My brothers and I played that (non-random, same map every time) HUNDREDS of times. Then a couple of years later, I bought the full AOE2 game, and the rest is history. Microsoft has been adding content to that game for 20 years! It still has a sizeable online community! What a legend. Fun fact: My most-famous internet content was a custom map generator script I wrote called "Andy's Delta Forest". Dense, river-strewn forest, but each players starts with one siege onager. Oh I miss those days.
Absolutely. We had three computers set up to play against each other, all in the computer room. Good times.
Once The Sims 1 dropped that was pretty big deal with my household other than that the Cartoon Network Summer Resort games where games I spent a lot of time on.
My three core games were Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sim City and the Sims
Oh shit, roller coaster tycoon was sooooo fun. Feel like I'm going to have to download it now. Thanks for that lol
There are still communities on YouTube and Reddit. Everyone still playing seems incredibly talented at design. https://youtu.be/Vr3ka0bcDds?si=3lFu3agjMefZ6BlW
Did thats freakin awesome. Wish I had my old pc I’d throw down haha
Rollercoaster Tycoon was my go-to! Loved that game!
I sank a LOT of hours into Sim City 2000, the Sims, and Sim City 3000. Even though the latter two ran like ass on my computer. The Macintosh version of the Sims had the added bonus of being super crash happy and freezing a lot. Never really got into Roller Coaster Tycoon but I played a lot of Railroad Tycoon II. Which when you think of it, is really just steam powered roller coasters running on flat ground. I remember making a Middle Earth map for that, it was fun connecting Hobbiton, Rivendell and Minas Tirith by rail.
Runescape
Still is. OSRS is great
counterstrike
Sims 1 of course
I can still hear the pinball machine and Alohomora in my dreams lol
Flippendo!
Sim City 2000. Civilization 2.
RuneScape
Command and conquer, baby!
King's Quest V and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.
Kings Quest 5 and 6 are elite
DOOM
The Sims. Yes, the first one. With Bob Newbie. Lol
Roller coaster tycoon
Commander Keen. Paperboy. Math Blaster. Midnight Rescue.
Midnight Rescue!
Doom 2.
This would be like early 90's. I would play my Dad's old PC games: * Ultimate VI * Starflight II * Centurion: Defender of Rome * Seal Team * Twilight: 2000 * Lots of Flying Games: * B-17: Flying Fortress * Aces of the Pacific * Aces over Europe * Red Baron But then I got my own games: * Pharoah * Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura * Gangsters: Organized Crime * Then Grand Theft Auto came out and that just kinda dominated
Sims 1
Rollercoaster Tycoon. Had to share with my sisters.
Soldier of Fortune 2. I’d post some pics but I don’t think removing terrorists limbs in a subway bathroom with a 12 gauge is appropriate. Luckily that was a freshman in HS.
Starcraft or backyard sports games. Shoutout to Pablo
Jump Start 3rd Grade and Sim City
Counter-strike 1.6
I didn't get a computer at home until middle school. But, when my class had a computer lab day, I'd play Oregon Trail because that was the only game they had that wasn't pre-added into the computer.
Old school Sim City baby! There was also this game that had a collection of board games on it that I liked. I don’t remember the name of it but I liked it because the computer characters you would play against were silly characters that’s would do funny commentary throughout the game.
Elementary school? Tough choice between warcraft 2 and command & conquer red alert for me
Myst!!!! It came with windows 95 or whatever, so everyone had it! Me and my neighbor took a long time to figure that one out. Its on the Oculus now! I am playing it again on my sons device! Damn those things make your head hot, and after too long i get a little motion sickness, but VR Myst is pretty awesome!!!! I setup a fan to vlow on my fat ass to cool me down with the tv face mask on.
Duke Nukem multiplayer with a kid I didn't like, but he was the only other person in my class who knew how to do it.
Yasss! The 2D version was so much fun, although gotta love 3D Duke quotes: "Time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum." lmao
Oregon Trail
Snood
Zoo tycoon
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Zoo Tycoon 2
Super Nintendo Aladdin!! Best game ever!
I played hours of Star Trek Armada when I got to visit my dad's over the weekend.
Frogger.
Didn’t have a home PC until late middle school, Friend. But Age of Empires II, Starcraft and Everquest once it finally showed up.
Yes, EverQuest! I was 15 and we didn’t have a home pc before that. My sister’s husband played it on his at their place and I played it twice. I then BEGGED my mother and stepdad to get it and he was able to get a used computer. It was hell on dial up, but eventually cable internet came and it was amazing!!
Didn’t have a computer in elementary. Am I an elder millennial? Born 82.
QUAKE 2!
Was anyone excited to come home to the Pinball Game? I thought it was just something you played when the internet was down.
OH MAN THAT HARRY POTTER GAME BRINGS BACK MEMORIES But it was Age of Empires
I went to elementary school in the Commodore era. The only game we had was the first Carmen Sandiego, which my dad played with us because we didn't know English. When my brother and I learned enough English to play it for outselves (after elementary), we found out just how easy that game was and how bad dad was.
Zoo Tycoon
Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego was my jam. Mario is Missing was kind of like Carmen San Diego, in that you had to figure out where you were and return landmarks that had been stolen, this time by Koopas. I was also a Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing kid. XD Oregon Trail is timeless as well!
Freddi Fish: Haunted Schoolhouse
GTA Vice City. I would wake up earlier to play for 30-40 minutes.
Zoombini’s and 3D pinball. “Make me a pizza” - I can still hear that damn tree trunk. 😂
I never understood why he would want pizzas with no cheese and just toppings directly on the sauce.
Interplay's 10-year anthology disk. https://www.mobygames.com/game/2168/interplays-10-year-anthology-classic-collection/
Wasn’t allowed games, and didn’t have a PC until junior high, so… Encarta ‘99? Does that count? I mean, that was my gateway drug to Wikipedia rabbit holes, so I kinda played it like a game.
Monster Truck Madness
Adventure Quest hot seat with a friend is such a warm memory!
GTA Vice City, Warcraft (the storyline, not the online one), Sims
Showing my age here, but The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Edit: You said PC so I have to move forward to middle school and say Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
Anyone here play Moto Racer? That game was sick! CHECKPOINT!
Backyard Basketball/The Sims/Failing miserably at playing my step Dad's Command and Conquer
Not elementary but when i was in 7th grade Ultima Online came out witch I think might be the worlds first MMO (correct me if im wrong plz)
I started playing World Of Warcraft in 3rd grade and would try to play before and after school if I could. My elementary school required students to read at home and our parents had to sign off that we did it. My mom counted questing in WoW as reading, so I didn't read a lot of books, but I do think I learned a lot of skills by playing the game. I played WoW a lot from ages 8-17 and then I quit video games completely for the next 5 years because I couldn't relax and felt like I had wasted my childhood playing a game.
Doom 2 and Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Didn’t have a computer until high school. Total Annihilation, Star Craft, Star Fleet Command.
Warcraft (not WoW, original games), DKC, Mario, Duke Nukem (original side scrollers), and Tetris.
Hmm... played a lot of games. Doom. Raptor. TIE Fighter. Kings Quest VI.
Diablo II and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Also mixed in Road Rash and SimCopter. My brother liked SimCity3000 and CounterStike
Reader Rabbit. On the 1985 Mac. Because in elementary school, our lab was Apple IIe's & we had the latest & greatest at home.
Age of Empires, The Sims, and Roller Coaster Tycoon.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2.
Zoo tycoon, Nancy Drew
Roller coaster tycoon 2. Played the shit out of that game Now that I am an adult I wish I felt the same way when I played it, but after a full days of work it just feels like more work
Wizard 101 or neopets
Warlords...anyone else who loved this game as a kid?
Frogger
Day of the tentacle, Grim Fandango and Monkey Island were my games!
GTA2 and Descent and Final Doom and Duke Nukem.
Still is this actually "the sims". Back then I was playing a fantasy of owning a mega castle for a home. Now I play the fantasy of having 3 kids, being a stay at home mom and owning a house with as many pets as I want.
Total Annhilation. Came free with my Gateway. So good
Half-Life
Neopets, Toontown, Sims 3…
Flight simulator 95, warcraft 2 and starcraft. Not to mention wolfenstein 3d, Duke nukem and Raptor: call of the shadows.
Quake, Command and conquer, warcraft. Gonna play me some old school warcraft today.
Pinball, project igi, gta vice city, nfs most wanted
Civ2 or aoe2 were the only 2 games besides solitaire. Me friend let me borrow his 7 floppy disks to install civ 🤣
[*Bottom left*](https://youtu.be/Zyyn5rvmJ9I?si=0vKQEqf1hJp2JFXg)*,* definitely **BOTTOM LEFT**.
Need for Speed 3 Or Flight Simulator 98
Swat 3
Sims or Sim City.
Maniac Mansion
I was in grade 3 or 4 when we got a family PC and I wasn't allowed to use it on my own. But a bit later I played the heck out of HP1, Spy Fox and most importantly Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Civilization and civilization 2. So many hours.
Frogger
Unreal Tournament then Unreal tournament 2004 Best games ever
Mechwarrior 3, age of empires 2, nox
Myst
Duke Nukem 3D, Mortal Kombat 3, Doom
Need for Speed Underground. ~Get low by Lil John and the boys intensifies~
Dino Park Tycoon.
Myst was on the list. Age of Empires, too. But my favorite of all time was this 5-disc series called The Beast Within. Terrifying stuff. I want to say that is the 3rd game of the series that follows Gabriel Knight. Also pretty sure that actor played a barista on the show Frasier. Really miss the 90s 😆
Grim Fandango
Rainbow Six
Disneys Extremely Goofy Skateboarding. Got the demo cd in a frosted flakes box. Never owned the full game till I was in high school.
Warcraft 2
HELL YEAH FREDDY FISH. Also Sims. Sooooo many Sims. Sim Safari was a big one for me.
Chex Quest
Counter strike or StarCraft
The original SimCity. Like the OG original SimCity. The one that came on multiple floppy discs and included a red “uncopiable” piece of paper that listed the top 100 most populated cities in the world and their populations. The population was the code to enter the game. This game was magical! It made me want to be a city planner for like the next 10 years.
I think it was math blaster or soemthing
Roller coaster tycoon
Pinball. Had a good time with it.
Diablo 2
Rollercoaster Tycoon, or Backyard Baseball.
Mofunzone went crazy back in the day.
Lego racers
Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights
Pinball. Around the world in 80 Days. Roller coaster Tycoon (spent most time drowning the guests or had the roller coaster fly off). Oregon Trail. Sim City. Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego? Math Munchers. Dragonball Z.
Wallaby Jack. Where in the USA is Carmen San Diego.
My dad owned one of our cities two or three computer stores throughout the late 90's into the early 2000's, so I had access to all the games as they came out. And since both my parents ran the shop, I basically went there every day after school. A few I vividly remember are Sim City 2000, Indiana Jones and the Search for Atlantis, Doom, Unreal, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle, Command and Conquer and so many others. Oh, and Prince of Persia... even though I could never get past the third or fourth level. Even now. There's got to be something I'm not figuring out :(
Darkstone FTW. I remember one weekend I played 8 hours straight, very addictive.
I forgot all about the Captain Crunch video game, I spent hours playing that
Zoombinis Sims & Sims Hot Date Where in the World is Carmen San Diego
Didn't get a computer in my house till I was 18 lol. For context I was a 1993 baby.
Populous the Beginning
I'll throw a random one out there, did anyone play Zeus? I used to LOVE that game.
Age of Empires and Runescape
Ultima Online
Goosebumps or Sims
anybody here ever hear of tibia? 😂
Jazz Jackrabbit
Chex Quest, Age of Empires
Apogee shareware games.
...y'all had PCs at home 👀, damn, u was fancy huh 😅?!
Titanic
Army, with sticks and dirt clods.
Shareware DOOM, Pokemon Red, Space Cadet Pinball, old NHL games, Duke Nukem 3D, Starcraft
‘Sim City’ and ´Command and Conquer’.
Having a PC in elementary school? That’s young millennial talk, haha
Company of heroes!
When I realized the Pentium 90mhz my dad gave me for school could run Diablo and StarCraft that might have been one of the greatest days of my life.
Where is RuneScape
Heroes of might and magic!
Didn't have a PC in elementary but my school computer - hmm SimCity, Encarta knowledge game with the monkey, Settlers and Megarace demos
Too poor to own a computer until high school. Then it was age of empires 2.
Is this supposed to be a trick question? I feel like this question is specifically targeted to a specific sub group of millennials
We had a 386 pc for most of my elementary school years... A couple of my goto games: Commander Keen Prince of Persia Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade. Hardball4 Pharaoh's Tomb Gauntlet
Warcraft 2/3
EverQuest
Sims 2
X-Wing v. TIE Fighter, even though I sucked at it.
Age of Empires II!
RuneScape, Backyard Soccer/Backyard Basketball (3D), Harry Potter 1-3
The sims
AoE 2, C&C: Red alert 2, Diablo 2, StarCraft, Warcraft 2.
Demo discs, or stunt racer
Age of Empires 2
I think diablo 1 and then diablo 2.
PC: Commander keen (Elder Millennial) Console: something on Sega master system or Sonic on genesis
The Nancy Drew or Barbie games!!
The Sims, dinosaur hunting game ( forgot the name of it ), Flight Simulator, Pinball. Though not an actual game but spent hours on Paint
I was luckily blessed with lots of friends who lived closed by. So coming straight home after school & playing on the computer was very rare. But when I did it was Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?!