Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older)
Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older)
If you think a game should be higher or lower in ranking, then upvote or downvote it. If you don't see a game on the list that you think should be on the list then create a top level reply with the name and system.
Xenogears
Metal Slug
Day of the Tentacle - PC
It just barely makes the cut off since it came out in 99, but Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is my favorite strategy game of all time. It even managed to get a Linux port and you can get it on GOG. I was excited when Civ: Beyond Earth was announced that it would be a true successor, but sadly it wasn't even close.
H.E.R.O.
Atari 2600
Galaga
Legacy of the Wizard - NES aka Dragon Slayer IV Drasle Family - MSX
Zork
I am very sad that I've scrolled several pages and haven't seen the obvious one (though I could just be blind):
Deus Ex.
Edit: or perhaps it's because Deus Ex is from 2000 and I don't know if it counts yet. Maybe I'll wait 'til next year!
Thief (1998)
Suikoden
Dance Dance Revolution.
(Do you feel old now?)
Final Fantasy Tactics
Metal Great Solid
X-COM: UFO Defense
Half-Life
Street fighter 2 - hyper fighting edition (arcade).
Played this every day after school for years as did a huge portion of my school.
Pokémon Crystal is just shy of your 25 year threshold depending on what month it was released (it came out in 2000 in Japan), so I'll say Pokémon Yellow or Pokémon Gold and Silver. We can sit here and nitpick about which is the best, but Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal were all amazing.
Warcraft 2 best Warcraft hands down
Spyro (series) Playstation 1998-2000
Doom
Heroes of Might and Magic III, PC
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Nintendo 64
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
Super Mario World. The perfect platformer.
Unreal Tournament
Diablo (1996?)
Out Run - Arcade
Super Metroid - SNES
Wipeout 2097 (Wipeout XL), PSX, 1996
Final Fantasy 7 - PlayStation
American McGee's Alice (2000) on PC
SkiFree (PC)
Tetris - Gameboy
Super Mario Bros 2, NES
Duke Nukem 3D, PC
IK+ (International Karate plus), Amiga, 1987
Warcraft 2
Super Mario Bros. - NES
Final fantasy 8, it is the best, no sarcasm.
I would give a testicle for a proper remake, expand the Laguna story, a more populated world, even more battshitery
The Legend of Zelda - NES
Fallout 2
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
Pirates!
Star Flight, 1986(?). Huge universe, multiple alien races, reputational, on two 360k floppy disks, and a great story too.
Commander Keen (series), PC
Penguin Adventure - MSX
Super Hang-On - Arcade
NiGHTS into Dreams... - Saturn
Elite - BBC Micro Model B originally.
Earthbound - SNES (with the oversized box and guide)
Final Fantasy 4, SNES.
(Still one of the best games I've ever played.)
Wonder Boy: Monster Land, Arcade, 1987
Carmageddon 2 - PC
Total Annihilation
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (C64)
missile command, arcade
Banjo-Kazooie - N64
Conkers Bad Fur Day N64
Syndicate PC/Mac
asteroids, arcade
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! - NES
Pac-Man/Ms. Pac Man.
Shinobi 3, Sega Genesis
Double Dragon II: The Revenge - NES (1988)
Earthbound 1&2
Shiren the Wanderer II - N64
Acrobat/Circus - Arcade
Bulk Slash - Saturn
Pong - Atari 2600
Aleste - MSX
Some games released in 2000, alone:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Counter Strike
Deus Ex
The Little Mermaid II: Pinball Frenzy
ToeJam and Earl - Sega Genesis
Puyo Puyo Tsu (1994)
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap - Master System
aka:
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap - Game Gear
- Dragon's Curse - TurboGrafx-16
Little Big Adventure 2
Death Rally, 1996 (PC)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), was on Sega Genesis for me.
I'm going to break the rules and just nominate every SNES RPG. FF4, FF6, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Mario RPG, Lufia 2, and even more that weren't released in America like Live A Live, Fire Emblem 4 and 5, Star Ocean, and Front Mission. Even listing that many, there are many more that I haven't played that it would be totally fair to say, "How could you forget X?" Amazing era for that type of game, and I'm only partially saying that because of nostalgia.
Stunts (a.k.a 4D Sports Driving) [1990] - PC, Amiga and others
Robot Odyssey - TRS-80
LAPD: Future Cop (PS) (1998)
Panel de Pon (1995)
