Doom / Doom II is primarily what I come back to playing as it's so easy to pick up and play, while if I get bored I can always throw on a PWAD or two.

Solitaire

-Civilization II
-Imperialism II
-Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far
-Warcraft II
-Command and Conquer
-Age of Empires
-Panzer General
-Pacific General

Muz wrote on 2020-10-20, 17:33:

Which 95/98 games you constantly play and never get tired of it? For me its:

- Deadly Tide
- Warcraft 2

The Command & Conquer series
Half-Life
Doom + mods
System Shock 2

chinny22 wrote on 2020-10-21, 10:22:

What are peoples thoughts on Doom95? I still mainly play the vanilla dos version but fired up the Win95 version earlier this week and quite liked the better resolution.
On the one hand its a legit retro release, on the other i felt if I'm doing this may as well just play on a more modern port.

If you've played Doom 2 on it, you'll notice:

- the Windows FM OPL timbres makes a lot of music sound odd (though some generations growing up on this version first are most familiar with the MS GS Synth'd music going through XP on the Collector's Edition releases)
- the higher frequency sounds (SSG reload, respawns, etc) are played at a much lower rate
- sounds are generally played at a lower rate
- The aspect of the world and art is not corrected for 320x240/640x480
- the weapon sprite's scaling is pretty bad
- newer OSes hate the way it handles mouse input
- "Hanger"

also Hexen95 has these same issues, plus their launcher has a crash on Win98+!!! But overall it's more of an early, EARLY flagship DirectX port that had been in the works since mid-1994 in its earlier WinDOOM incarnation (which back then, was an early Win32s/WinG thing).
Probably the biggest feature benefit of the '95' ports is the DirectPlay networking.

(there was no Strife95 or Heretic95, though...it would be fun if one took SDL1 Chocolate and reverse the D95isms to it to theorize such ports)

Need for Speed 3
Need for Speed 2
Road Rash
Half-Life
Age of Empires
Doom(DOS)

Panzer General 2 - my all time favorite game - with custom files and equipment made by me.
Diablo 1/Hellfire/Diablo 2
Age of empires 2
Undying
Starcraft broodwar
Tank racer
NFS Hot pursuit1/2/High stakes/Porsche

-Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
-Nascar Racing 2 (DOS)
-Quake 2
-Half-Life
-Age of Empires

-Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
-Ignition
-Road Rash
-Star Wars: Rebellion
-NFS games

leileilol wrote on 2020-10-22, 02:31:

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chinny22 wrote on 2020-10-21, 10:22:

What are peoples thoughts on Doom95? I still mainly play the vanilla dos version but fired up the Win95 version earlier this week and quite liked the better resolution.
On the one hand its a legit retro release, on the other i felt if I'm doing this may as well just play on a more modern port.

If you've played Doom 2 on it, you'll notice:

- the Windows FM OPL timbres makes a lot of music sound odd (though some generations growing up on this version first are most familiar with the MS GS Synth'd music going through XP on the Collector's Edition releases)
- the higher frequency sounds (SSG reload, respawns, etc) are played at a much lower rate
- sounds are generally played at a lower rate
- The aspect of the world and art is not corrected for 320x240/640x480
- the weapon sprite's scaling is pretty bad
- newer OSes hate the way it handles mouse input
- "Hanger"

also Hexen95 has these same issues, plus their launcher has a crash on Win98+!!! But overall it's more of an early, EARLY flagship DirectX port that had been in the works since mid-1994 in its earlier WinDOOM incarnation (which back then, was an early Win32s/WinG thing).
Probably the biggest feature benefit of the '95' ports is the DirectPlay networking.

(there was no Strife95 or Heretic95, though...it would be fun if one took SDL1 Chocolate and reverse the D95isms to it to theorize such ports)

But on the positive side, you get to play the source port as recommended by Bill Gates himself, so I think that makes it even.

turok the dinosaur hunter
tomb raider

Gentlepoke wrote on 2020-10-22, 17:19:

But on the positive side, you get to play the source port as recommended by Bill Gates himself, so I think that makes it even.

It's less of a recommendation and more of a "doom is on windows...THERE now dos is dead!!!! windows can games!!! buy windows!"

I was never much of a Windows gamer TBH but for me the titles I did play were:

Starcraft/Broodwar
Mechwarrior 3/Pirates Moon
Freecell

Star wars Rogue Squadron 3D
Quake w/ darkplaces mod & reforged textures packs
Quake 2
Front Page Sports Football Pro 98

gca wrote on 2020-10-23, 12:44:

Starcraft/Broodwar

I'm so lame that I only started playing it on Vista. Now 10 years later and on Windows 7 I'm still stuck half-way through the Brood War campaign...

Civ II
nascar 1/2
diablo
RA, both win95 and dos versions. wish the resolution on the videos was better in win95 but no dice.
simcity
Grand prix legends
a bunch of older ones but im sticking to played in win9x.

dr_st wrote on 2020-10-23, 16:16:

gca wrote on 2020-10-23, 12:44:

Starcraft/Broodwar

I'm so lame that I only started playing it on Vista. Now 10 years later and on Windows 7 I'm still stuck half-way through the Brood War campaign...

Just wait until you hit Omega (very last level in Broodwar) then the struggle really begins. Took me an age to get through that one.

Links LS 2000
Rogue Squadron 3D
Viper Racing

So many games mentioned in this thread I've never played but intend too.

Streets of sim city, age of empires 1 and 2 with expansions, command and Conquer series, sim city 2k and 3k, gruntz. I've also been playing through all the magic school bus games with my 5 year old son.

GTA 1 up to SA
Jane's Fighters Anthology
Monster Truck Madness 1 and 2
Moto Racer 1 and 2
NFS2SE