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Civilization I. Although I should have been studying for college finals, I couldn't stop playing. The turn-based-strategy and entire concept were new to me. I wish I could go back and relive that.
Outer Wilds. I think I discovered it after reading a similar comment in a previous thread. It's a great space exploration game that has enjoyable and forgiving flight mechanics, really interesting and sometimes mind-bending environments and puzzles, and a fantastic soundtrack. You'll wish you could play it for the first time again after you finish it.
Chess. So many stories around it. So many interesting openings I tried. So many metaphors for real life. So many interesting characters in the history of chess. So many interesting books about it. Coincidentally my favorite is "My 60 Memorable Games" by Bobby Fischer. About one move in a game, Fischer writes "Sherwin slid the Rook here with his pinky, as if to emphasize the cunning of this mysterious move". Since I r…
Completely (too?) ahead of its time on a lot of fronts, from its sandbox, open-world design to social economy, deep crafting and the MMO game tech itself.
Memorable also in bold early ambitions and for, effectively, losing its entire playerbase overnight due to corporate greed from SOE with its NGE update.
But more memorable for me is Larry Laffer 3... spend hours with my cousins playing it ;) many jokes and sexyness, would be probably not okay to produce a game like this nowadays.
Biggest addiction I had was with Super Mario Bros on NES.
1) MS Flight Sim, starting with version 4 in 1989.
2) The entire Descent series from Parallax. Playing heads to head on 14.4k was a lot of fun. Later, Internet play became possible. Having bots jump out at you from nowhere lead to some nearly falling-out-of-chair-screaming moments!
3) Portal and Portal 2. The cake, was in fact, a lie.