Wanna Feel Old? The Following Games Turn 30 Years Old in 2025

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 (@dosnostalgic.bsky.social)

These DOS games are turning 30 years old this year: ---- Full Throttle Hexen Abuse Worms Terminal Velocity Dark Forces Command & Conquer BioForge Need for Speed Hi-Octane Destruction Derby Witchaven Descent Stonekeep Crusader Heroes of Might & Magic Warcraft 2 Phantasmagoria Discworld MechWarrior 2
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Chrono Trigger came out in 1995. A timeless classic. I remember playing Hexen, such a fun game too. Some of other games (console) that came out that year aside of the PS1's launch...

  1. Battle Arena Toshinden
  2. Mega Man X3
  3. Vectorman
  4. MMPR: The Movie
  5. Mortal Kombat 3
  6. X-Men 2: Clone Wars
  7. Mega Man 7
  8. Final Fight 3
  9. Virtua Fighter 2
  10. Killer Instinct (SNES Port)
 
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That was one hell of a year

Particularly loved Mechwarrior II, Descent, and Warcraft II... so many combined hours on those, and major breakthroughs for their respective genres.

Also Dark Forces is still the best of its franchise, I don't like any of the Jedi series as much as the original.
 
I've felt old for years, doesn't bother me.

1995 was also very good for SNES (DKC2, Chrono Trigger, Killer Instinct, Yoshi's Island), very mid for Genesis (Vectorman, I guess?), and of course Saturn and PSX came out in USA with all that entailed.
 
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I'm still waiting to buy the Descent games on Steam. $9.99 each and they go on sale for $7.99 each . . . not good enough considering i don't even know how they play these days.
 
If those games make you feel old, then my sex life is getting dusted off with an archaeologist's brush. I witnessed first hand this legendary flop that nearly ended the gaming industry.

 
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 (@dosnostalgic.bsky.social)

These DOS games are turning 30 years old this year: ---- Full Throttle Hexen Abuse Worms Terminal Velocity Dark Forces Command & Conquer BioForge Need for Speed Hi-Octane Destruction Derby Witchaven Descent Stonekeep Crusader Heroes of Might & Magic Warcraft 2 Phantasmagoria Discworld MechWarrior 2
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Reported for making me feel old. And it hurt my feelings
 
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I'm still waiting to buy the Descent games on Steam. $9.99 each and they go on sale for $7.99 each . . . not good enough considering i don't even know how they play these days.
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I've been waiting to replay these until a proper VR port comes out, with a fully pixellated cockpit and all. I'm sure TeemBeef or somebody will get there sooner or later.
 
Welcome to the club, youngsters. Imagine how it feels for us dungeon crawlers and Rogue-like players when ours are nearing 40 or already well above that (Wizardry is nearing 45 by now).
 
Meh, lets go back 40 years to really depress ourselves....

Super Mario Bros
Paperboy
Gradius
Super Hang-On
Space Harrier
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Etc....
 
That was the year I couldn't keep up with PC games, since you needed 8mb RAM for those and a 486, while I was stuck with a 386/33 PC that my parents had.
I remember trying some of these out anyway, but even if they didn't crash the system it wasn't pretty. A literal slideshow.

I did have a PlayStation at some point, I remember playing a demo of Destruction Derby A LOT.
 
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1995-2000 were my videogame golden years!


Some extra 1995 hits:
- Chrono Trigger
- Panzer Dragoon
- Time Crisis
- Wipeout
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Sega Rally
- Virtua Cop (Saturn)
- Virtua Cop 2 (Arcade)
 
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 (@dosnostalgic.bsky.social)

These DOS games are turning 30 years old this year: ---- Full Throttle Hexen Abuse Worms Terminal Velocity Dark Forces Command & Conquer BioForge Need for Speed Hi-Octane Destruction Derby Witchaven Descent Stonekeep Crusader Heroes of Might & Magic Warcraft 2 Phantasmagoria Discworld MechWarrior 2
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My man, what's it for you to verbally abuse our beloved elder members like Topher Topher by making this insidious thread? You could have very much made a PSA thread telling him where to avoid buying scamming new GPU.
 
Holy shit Command and Conquer. I was so hyped for that to come out when I was in my early teens.

I was a die hard Dune 2 player and the thought of the same genre with shinier graphics was something I was all over.

In the end it couldn't live up to my hype level. It was very good no doubt. But in hindsight I still love Dune 2 a lot more.
 
Man, CHRONO, Mech Warrior 2 , C&C, Warcraft 2. What a time to be alive.

Now I got these feels and have to go on a Teams call to discuss Microsoft ongoing shenanigans with Cloud and AI. 😱
 
I remember going back to a friend's house after school in 95 to play worms on his dad's PC.

1995 - 2005 was the golden age of gaming.
 
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I've felt old for years, doesn't bother me.

1995 was also very good for SNES (DKC2, Chrono Trigger, Killer Instinct, Yoshi's Island), very mid for Genesis (Vectorman, I guess?), and of course Saturn and PSX came out in USA with all that entailed.
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then n64 was 96
dreamcast 99

pc side got HL1, UT99, voodoo cards...

95-2000 shivered my timbers.
 
Very young at the time Pentium 2 1998 user here at the very tail end of the DOS goodness. I can't remember what DOS was and what the newer stuff was -- the dividing line. It's all a bit of a blur. So, practically a zoomer to this DOS stuff.
 
Full Throttle to this day absolutely deserves a sequel, but Tim Schafer copped out saying as the main actor behind Ben's voice isn't alive, means there wouldn't be a sequel, but it is such a rich universe that could quite easily have spin-offs yet nobody would take it on....
 
I was a wee lad, but already loved watching my bro play stuff like Hexen, Warcraft II or Destruction Derby.

Also Worms! Think he just had a demo, but the multiplayer was very fun to play, even if I couldn't aim for shit.
 
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