Elite (C64) - for the absolute vastness of the game.
Last Ninja 2 (C64) - for the flawless execution and blissfully free from pixel accurate jumping puzzles with no visual cues.
Skidmarks 2 (Amiga) - Because you could hook up 2 Amigas and multiplay in "widescreen" with half of the level on one screen, and the other half on the other.
ZeeWolf 2 (Amiga) - because it was like Desert Strike, but in real 3D.
Flashback (Amiga) - the pinacle of platform game evolution. Had "morphing" enemies that where an absolute pain.
Alien Breed Tower Assault (CD32) - because it was pretty, had a cool intro, was absolutely huge (I still haven't gotten through it all), and like other Alien Breed games, had awesome multiplayer gameplay.
Tomb Raider (Play Station) - because it was Indiana Jones / Rick Dangerous, in 3D and with a chick.
Mario64 (N64) - because it was a better game than Tomb Raider and the only successfully executed 3D platform game for nearly a decade.
Mortal Kombat (Arcade) - because you could rip peoples still beating hearts out through their chests and rip their heads off with the spinal cord still attached. Awesome.
Virtua Fighter (Arcade) - because it was a good fighting game, and the 3D perspective gave it an interesting twist.
Fallout (PC) - because it had a great story, was based around GURPS, and had mutants in it (and everyone knows mutants are cooler than elves). It was the game that finally got me to buy a PC.
Transport Tychoon (PC) - because it was massive and had an open ended gameplay, and possibly one of the only strategy games I've played where the computer AI doesn't overtly cheat.
Arcanum (PC) - because of the rediculous depth of characters and story.
Prince of Persia: Sands of time - the game that broke Mario64's monopoly on cool 3D platformers, the cool story, the suitable graphical effects, and how everything came together in a consistent and coherent way. Possibly the best game ever.
Vampire the masqurade: Bloodlines - for the first genuinely scary part of a video game I've ever experienced (the haunted house). Even today, having played through it a dozen times, knowing full well that it's next to impossible to die, and knowing exactly what's going to happen at all times, my hairs still stand on end when playing it. Excellent. Too bad everything else in the game is buggy as hell.
Last Ninja 2 (C64) - for the flawless execution and blissfully free from pixel accurate jumping puzzles with no visual cues.
Skidmarks 2 (Amiga) - Because you could hook up 2 Amigas and multiplay in "widescreen" with half of the level on one screen, and the other half on the other.
ZeeWolf 2 (Amiga) - because it was like Desert Strike, but in real 3D.
Flashback (Amiga) - the pinacle of platform game evolution. Had "morphing" enemies that where an absolute pain.
Alien Breed Tower Assault (CD32) - because it was pretty, had a cool intro, was absolutely huge (I still haven't gotten through it all), and like other Alien Breed games, had awesome multiplayer gameplay.
Tomb Raider (Play Station) - because it was Indiana Jones / Rick Dangerous, in 3D and with a chick.
Mario64 (N64) - because it was a better game than Tomb Raider and the only successfully executed 3D platform game for nearly a decade.
Mortal Kombat (Arcade) - because you could rip peoples still beating hearts out through their chests and rip their heads off with the spinal cord still attached. Awesome.
Virtua Fighter (Arcade) - because it was a good fighting game, and the 3D perspective gave it an interesting twist.
Fallout (PC) - because it had a great story, was based around GURPS, and had mutants in it (and everyone knows mutants are cooler than elves). It was the game that finally got me to buy a PC.
Transport Tychoon (PC) - because it was massive and had an open ended gameplay, and possibly one of the only strategy games I've played where the computer AI doesn't overtly cheat.
Arcanum (PC) - because of the rediculous depth of characters and story.
Prince of Persia: Sands of time - the game that broke Mario64's monopoly on cool 3D platformers, the cool story, the suitable graphical effects, and how everything came together in a consistent and coherent way. Possibly the best game ever.
Vampire the masqurade: Bloodlines - for the first genuinely scary part of a video game I've ever experienced (the haunted house). Even today, having played through it a dozen times, knowing full well that it's next to impossible to die, and knowing exactly what's going to happen at all times, my hairs still stand on end when playing it. Excellent. Too bad everything else in the game is buggy as hell.