I need game recs and I need them NOW: 1990-1994 edition

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Not to be a downer, but according to IC this canonically is not true.

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(looking forward for the 2025 poll, assuming we stick to a 2-year cadence)

My recommendations for this block of years would be (alphabetical by year):

1990

  • Rise of the Dragon
  • The Secret of Monkey Island
  • Star Control II
  • Ultima VI: The False Prophet

1991

  • Gods
  • Lemmings
  • Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
  • Sid Meier’s Civilization

1992

  • Alone in the Dark
  • Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
  • Flashback
  • Pinball Fantasies
  • Ultima VII: The Black Gate

1993

  • Day of the Tentacle
  • Doom
  • Syndicate
  • Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds

1994

  • Doom II
  • Master of Magic
  • System Shock

There’s probably many others, but that is all that comes to mind for now. I wager my suggestions will have little overlap with most of IC, given that I did not have any (current) consoles during these years so did all my gaming on DOS or a friend’s Amiga.

These are all recommendations for things that came out during that time that I also played during that time.

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