[RetroSeries] 90s Best of PC Games - Part: 2 1996-2000

[@RetroKafaYT]

Guys and Ladies; I wanted to add explaining.. I collected data from that era's meta critic magazines, sites etc. Made Polls in retro social media groups. I didn't prepared list with my own decisions. So; I am agree with you about some games.. They need to be in list. 2nd subject is; Same dates, i was preparing for Sega, Ps1 and many other game lists like this. Final Fantasy (Mostly this one said by community) mistakenly mixed into pc list. Sorry about that but if there is video maker inside of you; days and days you are creating a database and construct video piece by piece. I couldn't see that, with tired eyes and focus.. Thats my fault. It needed to be in PS1 video. Apologize.

[@AnthonyBecker9]

No worries thanks for making this video

[@KratoTor]

Uy

[@missingmiddlegames6742]

The best five-year period in gaming history

[@Old_Man_Jay]

For both pc AND consoles!

[@XMaviLarcivert]

Fantastic 5year✨👍💯✨

[@oldschooldriver]

indeed

[@Hidoidragon]

Games from my childhood. Best days of my life! Damn, how time flies... :(

[@zzkpeaceufo2857]

I Love you

[@vladdracul5072]

What keeps you from playing these games today?

[@Heisenblargh]

@@vladdracul5072 yep! i still go back to old games. Having a blast! :)

[@omgwerockhard]

I had to give up gaming 3 years ago cuz of eye disease "/

[@Xth3Z]

Pure nostalgia. I played like 80 % or more of these games. What a time it was back then.

[@keenmate9719]

Games back then were somewhat more pure and with soul. All those GTAs and Far cries, CoDs and many other ruined the industry. You simply had to produce more with less and that stimulated creativity and imagination

[@vladdracul5072]

@@keenmate9719 Wrong, they didn't ruin the industry, nor did they ruin gaming. If you want to play old games you can do so, the same goes for new games. I play and like both and in this video alone are 11 games I have currently installed, on top of games like Far Cry 5 and 6, and GTA 5, just to name those you complained about.

[@keenmate9719]

@@vladdracul5072 thank you, now I see the situation completely differently

[@kevnar]

It's the sound-effects that get to me after all these years, more than the visuals.

[@keenmate9719]

They had to do more with less. These days it's about "here you have every tool known to man, do something with it", it's not really about "I have a dream of a game, what technologies will get be the closest and how to overcome their limitations"

[@Justforvisit]

@@keenmate9719 Aye, it kinda was better when game devlopers as well as players had to left things open for imagination, thus everybody could have his or her own imaginations about these games, a part of what made them so magical in my opinion. Nowadays it's often bland and shallow. Exceptions certainly exists, but they have become quite rare nowadays.

[@CdeConspiracion]

I remember playing lot of this games in my grandparents house, my grandfather was a freak of technology and he was getting them for me, sometimes playing also on his computer because mine was not so good hehe Thank you grandfather for this nice memories, you saved me from lot of bad moments of my life thanks to video games, I could focus on something else but what was happening around me, I never told you and now is too late, love you for ever.

[@Dysturbed-00]

If I had a dollar for every hour I played these games... Its fun to hear sound effects that I haven't heard for 25 years again.

[@Xero141]

Unreal tournament ‘99 should definitely have been on the list

[@blvck86]

Shoutout to [ULL] 😂, what a great time we had in ut99 assault.

[@Schanny17]

Best RTS games were made in this time. Miss it soooo much. Each Remake would be a great success.

[@kevorka3281]

Command and conquer music increased anyone's testosterone that played it by 100%

[@Halflife2-y2m]

Played and loved a bunch of these! Thank you.

[@philvess6376]

I still listen to Diablo2 OST from time to time, hit me right in the feels...

[@jmkhenka]

this video is a documentary over my childhood. Well, I turned 18 in 2000. Remember downloading quake demo over 33.6 modem för an entire night. Many great games came out 96-97. Makes modern gaming pale in comparisson with just rehashes of older games or micro transactions.

[@kkolakowski]

Progress in 3D graphics in those crucial 4 years was really astonishing, compare games from 96 and 99 for example... It was THREE years. Right now we don't even get a new generation of GPUs in such time period 😀

[@keenhauberk]

What i missing is speed busters from 1998. Definitely one of the best games of this time with incredible graphics, good soundtrack and good special effects

[@kendoyle]

Great selection of games. Two I loved from this period were Terra Nova and Planescape Torment

[@jakubpytko5551]

This is amazing how many amazing games we had in this four years.

[@Mirrodin82]

The best era of gaming imo. And the best era of my life. 21'st century sucks 😢

[@linuxgameplayxp6246]

There were a lot of good games released during 2000-2005 too. The Xbox dealt a heavy blow to PC gaming, but there were still a ton of classics released. It's only after 2006 and the release of the 360 that things went completely down hill.

[@tnh723]

This really was the golden era of gaming for me in my college years. We had it so good then! Look at the lefacy these titles left behind!

[@Mike-rc4cz]

Curse of Monkey Island (1997) is on my list. Loved the puzzles and the story.

[@hotshot8365]

The golden age of gaming, from graphical leaps (gfx cards became a thing), general gameplay innovation, modding and multiplayer gaming (the internet). This was a really exciting time to be a gamer, I feel sorry for those that missed it. Also sad I didn’t see XCOM apocalypse 1997 on the list…

[@frankbizzoco1954]

Man I forgot how many RTS games there were during this time period! Cool list. Two I would have definitely included are both Aliens vs Predator games.

[@thomson770]

he missed AVP, Kingpin & Soldier of fortune.

[@MihzvolWuriar]

One of the best games ever is not on this list, or at least, I skipped it. G-Police. 10/10

[@sligacheese6470]

1998 I played Warcraft orcs vs humans for days with no sleep. And red alert 🚨 I was hooked

[@emartinsson81]

Peak of my PC gaming era right there, great list!

[@AyratHungryStudent]

2000 was the year I got my first PC. I played all games from this list released in 2000. What a time!

[@boaragile82]

Agh, the golden age of games that needed 2d DX and a couple megabytes of VRAM to run - and are still magnificent. (not to belittle original HL and CS, which could, indeed, benefit from having a measly MX2 :))

[@michaelfoley906]

1996 - could be the best year ever in videogames. You can see why Tomb Raider and Quake were such huge events when they released at that time. Quake still plays great today.

[@Justforvisit]

As does DOOM. So many games from that era that are still sooooo accessible. I guess it's pretty much because these genre defining games.....well....defined the genres we know and love today.

[@lordwarcraft666]

OMFG I cant belive its been 22 years since I play Diablo 2 when I was 12... Im super fucking old man 😮

[@Netizen56]

I love these trips down memory lane... Thanks for making these videos!

[@immolator6666]

100% of great classic games.

[@billg7813]

Half Life, Duke Nukem, Rainbow Six. Lord, forgive me for the time I spent playing these things

[@MrJuliano14]

Thank you very very very much , I have found one of my childhood precious memories

[@swedish_sadhguru3854]

Imagine, CS 1.6 and Diablo 2 still hold up today from this age.

[@thomson770]

if CS 1.6 was still active and not full of hackers ill still play to this day

[@swedish_sadhguru3854]

@@thomson770 same

[@stevebrown8298]

The fact that Quake 2 isn't on this list despite being the benchmark for PC gaming for multiple years is a joke.

[@DyingTiger]

1996 was pure magic.

[@sylviam6535]

1998 was even better: Unreal, Half Life, Battlezone, Urban Assault.

[@kenjeknowsbest]

6:52 OMG I finally found it. I remember my Aunt showing me this game when I was a kid in 1999. The only thing I can vaguely recall happens to be the moment you showed in the video. Lands of Lore. Finally I know what it's called. Thanks :D

[@danielperoverde1998]

Enjoy I recently replayed Lands of Lore 2 and 3 on GOG and it was a glorious blast from the past. Gotta love Belial

[@oneweyout8843]

I'm with the guy that wants a part 3. Been searching for a game/ demo I played as a kid and still cant find it. Love these videos

[@Kaospattern]

Good times... Good ideas, good scenarios, great games... and no shitotransactions or lootboxes...

[@Weird_guy79]

A good chunk of my childhood there.

[@ndowroccus4168]

Wow watching this is like watching my entire career of video games… Career, because I would put in 40+ hours a week on video games. Right now I’m playing the old classic Shadow or War:Mordor.

[@justusstern9125]

This is a little "time maschine" ! Looking back at some real good old days...

[@lurkerrekrul]

The original Silent Hill was never released for computers.

[@user-jv1su4xp8q]

This is false.

[@lurkerrekrul]

@@user-jv1su4xp8q The original Silent Hill only ever came out for the original Playstation. It was later made available to run on the PSP (as many PS1 games were), the PS Vita and apparently the PS3. There WAS a package created by someone many years ago that claimed to be Silent Hill for Windows (or maybe DOS?), but what it actually was, was a copy of the PS1 game, pre-packaged with an emulator. I never tried it myself, but I recall hearing that it was rather finicky and wouldn't run on all systems. It still wasn't an actual computer release though.

[@gex581990]

@@user-jv1su4xp8q Wrong, it NEVER ever was released for Pc. It's sequels were tho. The first one was only ever on PS1, it was emulated on other things but the only ever port of the game that exists is Ps1.

[@gex581990]

@@lurkerrekrul Yeah I remember that, that's what people are thinking about. Someone just made a standalone version of epsxe with optimized settings for the game and iso already loaded and had it run as 1 compiled program via a custom front loader. That was spread all over the place. It actually ran really well but as soon as windows started updating it'd act up worse and worse and now it's unusable. But really if you just took the time in an emulator you would have gotten the same effect. Now tho the best route to go is duckstation, it's the only way to play the first game in my opinion anymore unless you play the original game on a top end Trinitron CRT

[@ItsTheRealMrMaD]

Came here, a year late.. to say exactly this

[@emirares]

My top 5 90's games 1- Doom 2- Half Life (Opposing Force) 3- Street Fighter 2 4- Fifa 98 5- Midtown Madness Also I tried Commandos a lot but I couldn't manage to accomplish any damn misson. I bet I can't still play that game.. Greetings from all 90's kids from Turkey. Btw Age of Empires, Heretic, King of Fighter 97, Outlaw were my other favs :))

[@RetroKafaYT]

Age of ... :) Tamam... Yapıyorum... :P

[@tnh723]

Swat 3 was unforgettable for its realism. A giant who Ready or Not pays tribute to

[@JR05-1]

I remember playing the demo to fifa, it was included with another game which i can't remember. The first video game i was addicted to was Roller Coaster Tycoon. I played the sims on my cousins computer. Doom and wolfenstiein 3d were some of the first games i played on pc.

[@Vito-ro1mf]

They’re treasure in our youth! Resident Evil, Sanitarium and Blade Runner are classic!

[@RetroKafaYT]

absolutely mate.. We were lucky generation......

[@spikelee5716]

90´s was the golden age for games

[@Bijuklich]

good list, playing lots of them even today :)

[@stephenhamilton3499]

Wow some awesome memories & quiet a few games I've not seen before

[@gamingtonight1526]

OMG Daggerfall - what an RPG that was! Was ambushed, pickpocketed, lied to and goodness knows what!

[@Epilogue_04]

You bought your own freaking house and gave the finger to Uriel septum quests?

[@オールマイト-y1f]

I had totaly forgot all about KKND. Aww man.

[@chrismcconnell4476]

WOW.. Haven't played most of these game in awhile back in the day..I can''t believe of the number of DOOM and C&C and SIMCITY and DIABLO clones they made? RTS was the bomb and shooters back them it was people wanted..DARK FORCES was ahead of it's time..Godd memories

[@natehart1219]

Nice video I’m glad myth made it on here. One of bungies greatest

[@MitraPerkasa]

those were the times you dont need to worry about fps

[@Hatemode_NJ]

I remember winning a Rainbow 6 mplayer championship and myth 2 multiplayer were the best games. Shout out to asherons call as well. Great times.

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

1998 was perfect for FPP games :)

[@sylviam6535]

Yes: Unreal, Half Life, Battlezone, Urban Assault.

[@deWicher]

This and part 1 are both great videos. Overall good selection of games. Too bad we didn't get part 3.

[@RetroKafaYT]

Its pleasure to get that kind of message. But; I am over 40 years old and i need to work :) KZbin things mostly for free guys who doesn't have children responsibilities. If i have free time, really i wish to continue with pc part-3 and sega, playstation series.. Thanks for motivating message

[@whatevayalike]

When games were made by REAL gamers!

[@stonetic2515]

If you never played the original Dungeon Keeper, pick it up right away

[@ianwong411]

I miss the heroes of might and magic 3. It was the 2nd game I purchased when my mom brought me my first computer when I was a little boy.

[@nicolaicala5107]

what a golden age of gaming!!!

[@thomasbisset4544]

quake. such the best times. i love my life, but I truly do miss lan deathmatches

[@PiotrHarison]

I am olso missing Shogo Mobile armor division. Damn that was good!

[@GiovanniCamellini]

There are lots of true masterpieces here but I'd just like to say one thing that nobody says: in 1997 had been published a videogame whose name was Galapagos. It was far from perfection but it was the first true attempt to center a machine learning model as main character in a videogame. Nowadays you can legally download a working demo and run it through qemu, if you're curious about it. Cheers.

[@jayhool5482]

So many memories in 20 minutes 😍

[@mc3331]

"Richman monopoly" is a fun series that people may miss.

[@SDK2006b]

The OG GTA - that was class and spent so many hours playing it.

[@elephantparade2152]

Civ 2 and C&C stole my childhood

[@tolgasenyuz9212]

valla gittik geldik çocukluğumuza yine..süper olmuş eline sağlık :)

[@RetroKafaYT]

Tolga hocam sorma.. ben 15 gündür bunların arasindayim. Hele bazılarını kurup oynayıp video çektim. Şu anda bıraksan 62 saat retro oyun oynayacak durumdayım. :)) Beğenilerinize sonsuz teşekkürler 😊

[@TreyStylesPro]

DAmn i freaking forgot about the Delta force games, man those was some dope games when they came out. especially the black hawk down version, man why havent they made another one. that would be crazy awesome

[@sencadas32]

Very nice list, Dude!

[@votpavel]

in a world without internet.....good times

[@john_pedro]

Can't remember Silent Hill 1 being a PC game.

[@HorusLuperc]

1997-98 best period in gaming history

[@Black_Shaheen]

I still play some of these games from time to time specially theme hospital and commandos

[@roelfkromhout]

Tfw when you played damn near all of these games.

[@footba11_lord22]

Kanalı simdi keşfettim basarili işler yapiyorsun tebrikler dostum

[@RetroKafaYT]

Mesajı şimdi gördüm. Lütfen kusura bakmayın. Çok teşekkür ederim. Malum geçim derdinden baya zamandır içerik üretmiyorum. Ancak yakında planlarım var. Tekrar kusura bakmayın lütfen

[@dimkashevchenko8976]

I love so much Age of Empires!!!!

[@simcare2611]

Its the magic that is lost. Pixelated undefined graphics leaves room for imagination, struggle for realism is because in adults child die. Games are so real to kids, reality in those games were special, unique, not such close representation of real one.

[@logicisthejuice3240]

Thanks for this video!

[@tomekhome]

I miss those simpler times.

[@RtB68]

After all these years Manny Calavera walked back into my life.

[@zaphus]

Great to see some love for KKND in there!

[@Vinicius_Berger]

17:23 Silent Hill was never released for PC. It's a PlayStation exclusive to this day.

[@stanislavdaganov574]

14:59 That's the first alien/monster I see beginning to run away, in a PC game, instead of attacking. It feels Unreal, lol...

[@thepaxster1]

Lol, I remember getting unreal with my Voodoo 3000 TV series card and was blown away. I still have that card and enough parts to put a pc together to put it in. Maybe I will do it for nostalgic purposes.

[@ProBloggerWorld]

That was a cool collection.

[@TheNomadSoul4ever]

Silent Hill 1 for PC? Never published! Only for PS1. Another 2 best games: Outcast and Dark Earth.

[@nevzatyuksel649]

yine bir retrokafa klasiği ve aşırı kaliteli içerik. eline sağlık abi

[@RetroKafaYT]

Perkele'm, o senin güzel gören gözün. Çook teşekkür ediyorum. 🙏

[@Vinterloft]

lol Diablo: "The sanctity of this place has been fouled" *Fouls it some more*

[@BuriedFlame]

Those barrels were killers!

[@swedichboy1000]

The golden Era

[@kickstartnetworking3347]

I use to play a game called Recoil from zypper interactive all the time back in 1999.

[@keremsancak7992]

Ellerine sağlık abim, çok güzel bir video olmuş :)

[@myyoutube8921]

Cannon Fodder was my fav :)

[@Asaeis]

I still play Unreal to this day.😁

[@gelzamangitzaman1482]

nice selection of games.

[@stewheart]

I miss demo CDs :)

[@BuriedFlame]

Polybagged with PC Gamer!

[@m0nk3yl0v3r]

That Red Alert 2 track is fucking metal af

[@ErAcEr100]

The multi-player of some of these games on a 56k baud dial-up connection. Best played at night so no one picks up the phone line 🤣

[@andrewdunckley]

KKND was probably the most difficult game i remember playing...

[@theoDSP]

Computer player had unlimited resources that's why