Nineteen Ninety-Four: Games

On 07/30/2015 at 03:26 AM by KnightDriver

So here's a short list I made of the games I played back then and some I didn't but would love to now.

Doom II	PC/XBLA
Warcraft	PC
Donkey Kong Country	SNES/All VC
Heretic	PC
NBA Jam	Genesis
Final Fantasy VI (as III then)	SNES, Wii VC
Breath of Fire	SNES, GBA, Wii-U VC
Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure	Genesis
Pirates of Dark Water	Genesis
Shining Force II	Genesis. X360 (SUGC)
The Tick	Genesis
Shining Force CD	Sega CD

The top five there I played back then: Doom II, Warcraft and Heretic all on PC. Donkey Kong Country on SNES and NBA Jam on Genesis. The rest I really want to play and luckily some of them are available on Virtual Console and some collections I have. I think this week I'll try and revisit DKC on Wii Virtual Console and then, if there's time, Final Fantasy VI. I'll at least purchase both of them anyway.

Then, if I make it to my friend Mark's place, and my Xbox 360 this weekend, and I might not since I have a car show to go to on Sunday, I'll revisit Doom II. I wish so much that I could play Warcraft and Heretic again. Warcaft was the first of that RTS series and Heretic was a fantasy themed Doom clone. Heretic might be around on Steam or GOG but Warcraft I don't know. Blizzard doesn't seem too interested is rereleasing their old games. There used to be the War Chests they put out with Warcraft II and all it's expansions. I wonder how I could play the first Warcaft again. Any ideas?

Blake Turner Staff Writer

07/30/2015 at 05:07 AM

Doom 2 and Final Fantasy VI are among my favourite games of all time. Have you played Brutal Doom at all?

KnightDriver

07/31/2015 at 03:50 PM

No gul durn it! I'm tempted to go get a computer from Dell just for PC games. They have ones really cheap now that'll run somthing like Brutal Doom no prob. Or, I could just clean up my laptop and run it there. I've been advised to upgrade to Win 8 to speed things up. Not sure if that's a good idea. I'm watching others install Win 10 and see what happens.

07/31/2015 at 10:57 PM

Windows 10 is much better than Windows 8 for games from what I've heard. Honestly, a laptop would play most of my all time favourite pc games.

08/01/2015 at 03:17 AM

Yea, maybe I'll just whip some Win 10 on my laptop and see what happens.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

07/30/2015 at 05:11 AM

Donkey Kong Country had such amazing, unique graphics. Pretty impressive for the SNES. Kind of a sign of things to come, I think. I definitely recommend FFVI. Great game, great music. Never played the Shining Force games, but always wanted to.

07/31/2015 at 03:52 PM

I still have a muscle cramp memory ache from playing DKC with that SNES controller for, like, most of the day, weekend after weekend, back in '94-'95.

07/31/2015 at 04:06 PM

yeah, games these days just don't give you those same muscle cramps. Those were the days!

08/01/2015 at 03:14 AM

Yea, but now I get tweaked nerves like when I've been chopping blocks using the trigger in Minecraft for too long.

Cary Woodham

07/30/2015 at 06:09 AM

I strongly recommend FF6, as it is one of my top five favorite games of all time!

07/31/2015 at 03:54 PM

I gotta download it then. I'm almost finished with Batman The Animated Series disc 1 and then I'll download it on Wii VC.

mothman

07/30/2015 at 07:52 AM

Yay Boogerman!

07/31/2015 at 03:56 PM

I saw him first in Clayfighter's 63 1/3 Sculptor's Cut and thought he was really funny. "Fart slide!"

goaztecs

07/30/2015 at 10:47 AM

BOOMSHAKALAKA! I so many different versions of NBA Jam its crazy. Is Warcraft available on sites like GOG, or Steam? I dig those Warchests, all the game content plus a huge instruction book (I have Starcraft II I think in Warchest form)

07/31/2015 at 04:04 PM

I guess I might try the XBLA version that came out a few years ago. I've heard it's pretty good and even uses the same announcer voice.

Last time I looked, Warcraft wasn't on GOG or Steam. WHY!!! I used to have the WCII Warchest. Loved that game so much.

The Last Ninja

07/30/2015 at 04:16 PM

FF6 is amazing. Another awesome game that came out on the SNES in '94 was Super Metroid, which is one of the best games ever and still holds up perfectly after all these years. It was a good year!

07/31/2015 at 04:12 PM

I got Super Metroid on my list too. So many games, but I'm starting to schedule an hour a day to get to this stuff - in addition to weekends of course.

Super Step Contributing Writer

07/30/2015 at 08:45 PM

NBA Jam was such a fun game. I wish they still had AAA arcadey sports titles like that. DKC looked amazing back in the day too. I remember looking at the instruction manual from Blockbuster because I was so blown away. I have an oddly vivid memory of that.

I have a vaguer memory of the SNES version of The Tick. I remember liking the rental though.

07/31/2015 at 04:15 PM

I think The TIck game isn't all that good, but being a huge Tick fan, I have to try it out.

08/01/2015 at 02:08 AM

I mean, I was pretty young when it came out, so who knows? I also really liked Rise of the Robots, which is rightfully considered one of the worst games. lol

08/01/2015 at 03:47 AM

That's just the thing. Some games called bad can be good in some ways. That's why I'll usually give a so called bad game a try anyway.

08/01/2015 at 11:08 AM

No, the game itself is absolute shit, it just looked incredible for the time and you can still tell why. The mechanics are pretty much just literally punch and kick though, maybe a block button. I don't think anyone above my age at that time would be all that into it.

08/03/2015 at 02:55 AM

That's the trick, figuring out what is truly just bad and a game that has some redeeming value.

Ranger1

07/31/2015 at 07:21 AM

I actually played that Pirates of Darkwater game. Being as I don't recall much about it, it must not have been all that great.

07/31/2015 at 04:16 PM

Yea, I expected such. Still, I want to see those graphics. I guess I could just watch a let's play on youtube, but where's the fun in that?

daftman

08/02/2015 at 08:20 PM

I started playing WarCraft on a DOSbox emulator back in college and man, that genre has come a long way! You would find it very interesting, I'm sure. I remember that you couldn't highlight more than four units at a time, for example, or bind groups to hotkeys. An interesting piece of history indeed.

08/03/2015 at 03:23 AM

I had that game way back. I'll have to do the DOSbox thing sometime.

PixlBit