Definitely minecraft. It is still my favorite game after a decade of playing it. But aside from that, Spirit Tracks/Phantom Hourglass, Kirby Superstar Ultra and Jak and Daxter.

Halo Combat Evolved

I'm showing my age here, but:

• Scorched Earth
• Commander Keen
• Zoombinis
• Encarta maze game
• Old Windows hovercraft game
• Doom II (got a copy from a friend on floppy disk)

I religiously played back in the day Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland on my ps2 for hours. I'd also play Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and AoE II.

For me it would have to be a whole list of nostalgic games:

Heroes of Might and Magic 2&3 (1996/1999), Might and Magic 6, 7&8 (1998/1999/2000), Day of the Tentacle (1993), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992), Age of Empires 1&2 (1997/1999), Master of Orion 1 (1993), Warcraft 2 (1995), StarCraft 1 (1998), Anno 1602 (1998), Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000), Empire Earth (2001), Gothic 1&2 (2001/2002), Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (1999), Little Big Adventure 2 (1997), Rayman 2: The Great Escape (1999), Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (1998), Fantasy General (1996), Age of Wonders 1 (1999), Incubation: Battle Isle (1997), The Incredible Machine (1993)

I would be very surprised if there is anyone here who knows/has played all of them, some are fairly obscure, others not so much. Some of these are still among my favorite games to this day, others i have not even touched in a very long time. There are plenty of later games that i like more than some on this list but they just don't trigger the same nostalgia. I'm also not including games from this time period that i like but only discovered later such as Baldur's Gate.

Master of Orion 1, still have that one more turn effect, 27 years later.

I bet every comment is going to be so different, and will date each user haha. For me...

• Mortal Kombat II in the arcade, insanely difficult, I can almost taste the strawberry milkshake I'd always be drinking there
• Zelda - A Link To The Past on Gameboy
• an odd one, but the free demo that you got with the original PS, I remember my stepbro and I marvelling at the 3D t-rex / mantaray that we could spin around and zoom in / out of at will. How far we've come
• also for PS, the very first Tekken, and Tekken 2
• going way back, Horace Goes Skiing on my trusty ZX Spectrum. My first console and first game. You had to load it via a tape, and it sounded like an old modem!

Ghosts'N Goblins 🤘

That music always gives me goosebumps.

flashgames mostly, idk if the ones i played on miniclip are even still playable.

On PC, Lego star wars, Simpson's hit and run, NFS Underground.

My cousin had a SNES and N64 and we used to play smash bros 64, mariokart 64, and take turns on Super Mario World.

The Jak and Daxter games.

Mario Kart DS. In terms of nostalgia, nothing comes close

Good question. I'm a sucker for games from my younger days anyway, so picking just one is hard. Perhaps something like Dangerous Dave

Roller Coaster Tycoon

ARK: Survival Evolved

Project IGI , Desert Storm , Vice city !

Quake, C&C, SimCity, and Civilization for me

1. Super Mario RPG (SNES) loved it so much. My buddy and I left our Earth Science final early just to finish the game (still passed with a 79 and 80 respectively).

2. Street Fighter II World Warriors (Arcade) can still taste the pizza I ate right before I played. My grandpa would take me out to pizza every Friday and gave me 2 quarters to play.

3. The original TMNT (NES) I still get anxiety just from hearing the music from the swimming level. But then again I get a great burst of joy from hearing the overworld music. Such an emotionally taxing game.

Metal Gear Solid

BioShock baby! It has story, killer environment, lore....everything

Age of Empires 2. I listen to the soundtrack several times a year.

SSX3 and Tony Hawks 1-4ish

For some reason its NBA street vol. 2, funny because i dont even like basketball. Chrono trigger too.

Minecraft, GTA V and ARK Survival Evolved, those were the times!

I feel mild nostalgia for a lot of games, but I've got a specific place for Starcraft.

See, I must've watched my brother play Brood War quite a lot, because I had 6 images imprinted in my mind: the in-game sprites and portraits of Zealots, Dragoons, and Dark Templar. I didn't really have the wherewithal to process that these imahes were from a game. It was probably a few years later, when I came across my brother playing it again. I spent an absurd amount of time on that game and the sequel.

Anyway. Hate the game now. I haven't got the energy to spend hours every day honing my reflexes for that ludicrous sack of shit engine. I only ever watch compilations of Artosis getting furious these days.

The final Timesplitters game, almost everything about it's visuals, aesthetic, feel and banger soundtrack hits that perfect nostalgia center.

Unfortunately it was very "of it's time" in it's depiction of female characters, with only the barest fig leaf of early 2000s irony running cover for the objectification.

Oh, and just the entire soundscape of Jedi Knight:Dark Forces 2

Has to be Mario Sunshine (Via Wii) , Mario Galaxy, Kirby's Epic Yarn, or really any Wii game my grandma got us. I still tear up just by hearing the main menu ambience. Mario Sunshine was wild, cause I never really played it as a kid, but my dad did and the imprint was still nostalgic so when I did play it a few years ago in that definitely a scam Mario 3D Allstars it scratched an itch of nostalgia and new experience.

Final Fantasy (NES) for consoles.

Virtua Fighter for arcade cabinets.

Ex Machina

i'd say that tenchu: silent assasin 2..the best game ever for psx (tatsumaru best boy)

halo: CE. my first game and one of my favorites to this day. the pillar of autumn level gives me a rush of nostalgia every time.

There a couple very specific eras of JRPGs that hold a very special place in my memory.

The Super Famicom era around games like Chrono Trigger is the peak for me though. I remember I got it as a gift totally by mistake, my parents had meant to buy another game but got possibly my favourite game of all time instead. I can still go back and play that game and it holds up just fine.

PS1 era Squaresoft was also pretty much a golden era for me, Xenogears was a pretty massive influence on some of my younger intellectual development.