If you’ve ever wondered what the origins of the colloquial verb “zerg” are, look no further. Requiring a blisteringly fast 90MHz Pentium processor and a staggering 16MB of RAM, StarCraft is hands down the most demanding of the games on the list, which is no surprise, really, given that you could amass armies of dozens to hundreds of Zerglings on screen simultaneously. This, alongside the multiplayer, is what really made StarCraft stand out to players and critics alike. What made StarCraft special was the fact that it offered three distinct, yet fairly balanced races to choose from, rather than offering only two sides, which often mirrored each other. All the same, StarCraft has largely become the poster child of the genre, and established a huge international following, as well as being considered one of the best video games ever. In fact, StarCraft developer Blizzard had already put out two games in the WarCraft series, which made Blizzard’s presence on the RTS scene known. Unlike previous titles on the list, 1998 strategy hit StarCraft was far from being the first RTS on the market. Myst‘s surprise success launched a franchise that persevered until 2005 with Myst V: End of Ages. Thankfully, my favorite BBS (Sort of a predecessor of the Internet, for those of you born after ’85 or so.) hosted an in-depth text-only guide which helped me through the trouble spots.īeing a slower-paced game than shooters like Doom, Myst focused heavily on immersive graphics, which you actually took time to appreciate and marvel at as you pounded your head against the desk trying to make the requisite leap of logic to solve one of the more esoteric puzzles. I remember fawning over the graphics at the time, although I’ll admit that I didn’t have the persistence at 11 years old to actually beat the game on my own. That’s a fairly impressive feat for a game that ran on a 386 with 4MB of RAM.
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That’s no hyperbole either, as Myst was the best-selling PC game for almost a decade, until people started finding creative ways to murder their virtual families in The Sims, which finally outsold Myst two years after its 2000 launch. You can’t talk about gaming in the ’90s without talking about Cyan’s 1993 smash hit, Myst. It was also the birthplace of gaming’s most amazing weapon, the BFG 9000.
While Wolfenstein 3D started moving the gaming audience towards the FPS genre, Doom sealed the deal, truly popularizing it.
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In fact, these groups even tried to blame the tragic Columbine shooting – something that happened a full six years after the release of Doom– on the game. Legendary developer John Carmack -now working on making viable VR technology with Oculus – created the idTech 1 engine the game uses, otherwise known as Doom engine.ĭespite the fact that almost every enemy in the game is a literal demon from hell, interest groups rallied together against the ultra violence inherent in the genre and so began the frequently-debunked myth that violent games lead to violent behavior. Releasing only a year after Wolfenstein 3D, the system requirements took a huge leap forward requiring a 386 processor and eight times the RAM required for its predecessor, a whopping 4MB. Hot on the heels of Wolfenstein 3D was id Software’s 1993 sci-fi horror shooter, and arguably one of the best known video games ever, Doom. In fact, you can even play a game of Wolfenstein 3D by resting in a bed in your hideout in The New Order. The mechanics in The New Order are quite similar to those of 3D, despite the FPS genre having moved away from health and armor pickups. to an alternate 1960s where the Nazis won the war and took over the world. There are a total of nine titles in the series, with the most recent being The New Order, which takes B.J.
The Wolfenstein franchise, which began in 1981 with Castle Wolfenstein, had a bit of a lull after 3D, but picked up steam again in the early 2000s with Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
That’s roughly the size of just one of my wedding pictures. Amazingly, it needed only 500k of memory and 8MB HDD space for the full install.
Wolfenstein 3D was amazing on the 486 in my father’s basement, but it only required a 286 processor to run. Shareware was all the rage, the 486 processors were getting to be affordable, and memory was still at a premium. Helping to popularize the FPS genre, Wolfenstein 3D introduced the world to renowned badass B.J. Whether or not you ever played an ASCII game on a BBS, if you’ve been playing games for a few years, you’re probably familiar with some of these classics.
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