I’m pretty sure Doom will be the most popular (and my pick too), but I’ll throw a shout-out to Epic Pinball; that Android table was the best one in the game anyway.

    • @ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I loved Whacky Wheels so much but recently put it on my Steamdeck and eh, it did not age well. Very choppy gameplay. But it still has a place in my heart.

    • @TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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      What is the name of this game, I played it so much as a kid but I always forget the name

      Edit: Wacky Wheels, got it though reverse image search

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    Duke Nukem 3D probably. That or Rise of The Triad.

    I eventually bought DN in the 90s and played the shit out of it.

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    Commander Keen is probably the one that I liked the most that is also well known.

    My personal favorite was Bass Class, which is weird because I’ve zero interest in real-life fishing, then or now.

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    Sky Roads, Test Drive 2, Jill of the Jungle, Halloween Harry, Jetpack, so many great games that I played the hell out of their shareware versions.

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        Indeed it was. Despite being mediocre, I played that game extensively. This was before Domino’s Pizza existed in our region - they wouldn’t expand here until a decade later.

  • @Gerudo@lemm.ee
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    Might be pushing the limits of shareware, but the demo of Quake 1 on cd for a buck. A simple console command unlocked the full version.

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    Commander Keen!

    Jumping around with the pogo stick in Keen 6 was so much fun. I recently found the full game. Was surprised how hard that factory level was. But the music was still how I remembered it.

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    Probably Rise of the Triad.

    Pretty sure I even bought the full game and never ended up getting very far. I also remember spending a little chunk of time on Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom, but could never figure it out enough to progress very far.

    Edit: Another one I was trying to recall, the name was H.U.R.L.

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      Loved the Hugo games. The jungle one was probably my favorite up to the point where I needed to find out some trivia question about the name of some person’s dog before the time of Internet.

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        I spent more time with Police Quest, which was similar. I remember trying the Hugo Jungle Shareware multiple times and getting frustrated going back-and-forth, stuck.

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    ZZT, the game that launched Epic. Say, there’s gotta be a ZZT community somewhere on lemmy, right?

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      I didn’t realize anybody else had ever played that game. I downloaded that from AOL back when I was signing up for a free month trial every month from those CDs in the mail.

        • Rob T Firefly
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          I’m so happy to learn there’s still an active community going, and that book is an instant purchase. Thank you for the info!

    • Rob T Firefly
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      I was so addicted to ZZT back then! The player-made worlds were such a delight, and my slow-ass computer which choked on so many then-current games ran them without trouble.

      Now I want to try it out again.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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        313 days ago

        People are still making games using it! When I get a bit more free time I want to polish up and republish the ones I made.

        • Rob T Firefly
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          I always wanted to play with the editor and make a game with it back then, but never got around to it. Perhaps it’s still not too late!

          • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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            ZZT is officially freeware these days, too! The last original floppy was purchased about five years ago, and afterwards Sweeney declared the program officially free to use, though sadly not open-source. I believe it has been successfully decompiled for over a decade, though.