Here is a list of games software that has been significant to me over the years. I did waste a lot of my life playing games. I don’t play them anymore.
Arcade
Asteroids
Apple 2
Chop Lifter
Sabotage
Wilderness Campain
Trolls Gold
Lemonade
You can play old Apple games here: www.scullinsteel.com
Play Asteroids, Jetpac and more here: https://freeasteroids.org/
Spectrum
F15 Strike Eagle
Atic Atac
Manic Minor
Hungry Horace
Jetpac
Planetoids
Amiga
Civilisation 1, 2
Sim City 2000
Settlers 1
PC
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1, 2
Sims 2, 3
Civilisation 1,2,3,4
Sim City 2000
Sim City 3000
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Playstation 1, 2
Gran Turismo 1,2,3,4
Medieval 1 & 2
Spyro the Dragon 1, 2, 3, 4…
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Toca 2 Touring Cars
Fluid (not really a game, more like music software)
Sims 2
Android
Real Racing 3
My favourites were:
Apple: Chop Lifter
I just used to adore flying a helicopter, even if it was with paddles on the Apple 2, spent hours being killed on this game.
Spectrum: Jetpac
Who doesn’t want to have a Jetpac? I totally got into this as a kid, even dreaming of flying my Jetpac with recuring dreams of it.
Amiga: Civilisation
God game extreme, ruin the planet through time! 1 and 2 were great but 3 and 4 are terrible. Civ 1 on the Amiga was a lit of a nightmare before I got a hard disk for it as you needed to swap the floppy disks a lot.
PC: Roller Coaster Tycoon 1
Hooked is the only word to describe how I was with this game. Sooo many hours in theme park land have been lost. I did enjoy making some very awesome theme parks. Once I played it solidly for a day and went out to find myself in roller coaster land as a little person running about, no joke.
PS: MediEvil 1
I adore this game. Such a clever game indeed. Spyro 1 is close but this one is better, a joy to play with an amazing replay value. It has a “Nightmare Before Christmas” kind of theme to it. You start off quite weak and at the end you get the Big Sword, and you become quite powerful. One of the voice artists was Paul Darrow (Avon in Blakes 7)
PS: Spyro the Dragon 1
What a super game this is. The sequels were pretty bad, but number 1 was a very well-crafted game. The fact that you can play it beginning to end but then go back and tidy up 100% after (collecting all the gems and dragons) is very clever. So you don’t need to solve all the puzzles to move on. Later you come back to work on the level again until you find all the secrets. The music is by Stuart Copeland too (The Police drummer)
Awful:
Android: Real Racing 3
This game is awful. It is designed to make you spend loads of money, and for what? Buy a Lamborghini Countach that doesn’t drive any different to the other cars and that you need to drive on a tablet or phone. I quite liked Gran Turismo on the PS2 as the cars did drive differently to each other, also, not on a silly small screen.
PC: Sims 3
Why? Why? I did like the PS2 version of the Sims 2 as it wasn’t completely anal. What I liked about Sims 2 was making a cool house, I never was that much into having a real-life scenario on a computer. The sims themselves are rather annoying, needing careers, food, shower and a pee. Sims 2 PS2 sims were just dolls to run about your cool house.