I LOVED Master of Magic. I can’t get it to work on modern computers anymore, no matter how I try. 
How many times does it need to be said? 
(Yes, they have MoM, ready for modern computers.)
Lode Runner (mostly because I had made a ton of really cool levels with the level editor)
Star Control 2
Ultima 3
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Yay! I’ll check it out.
I’ve been telling my son about MOM (I’m sure he’ll be unimpressed).
(There’s a part of me that’s better off without some of those old games…) 
BTW- how about the old Magic:TCG game set in Shandalar?
Stellaris is interesting but still flawed. Endless Space is quite good. I didn’t like Gal Civ II at all. StarDrive II is pretty fun (and a shameless MoO II clone), but kind of falls apart late game.
I’ve played a few hours of Master of Orion IV (yeah, I’m calling it that, and so should you). I’m going to stick with it for a bit, but I wouldn’t recommend it to others at the moment.
No love for Leasure Suit Larry?
It’s right in my username. Played it through many times, ghost, Lytha, psychopath, etc style. I haven’t tried installing or playing it since I got a Windows 8.1/10 PC though.
As an aside, does anyone remember Happy Puppy? It was a website full of freeware/shareware computer games for download. I wonder what happened to it: Most likely, it got absorbed by GOG.
Yeah that was a good one! That was what introduced me to the card game version of Magic.
Or how about Tucows which was like the business, productivity version of that site.
Even if you tell him you love him, he still won’t call
heres the gog weekend sale list for this weekend … note theres some more current games in here but
id just list them all but I cant format it to fit in a post box
When I was in my teens my brothers and I played this obsessively. By the time you got really good, you would be getting up to level 100 or whatever and each game would take hours. We didn’t know about the level editor and this was pre-internet so it wasn’t so easy to find out about. One day my brother happened to hit some random keys and the level editor came up. But he had no idea what he’d hit. So we knew it was there, but we could never get back into it.
Close Combat
Just loaded Master of Magic and showed it to my son. We were playing on ‘easy’ and everything was going swimmingly.
I tried playing on hard and had my butt handed to me in 30 minutes!
Which means you pirated it, because the level editor was documented if you bought it…
No judgement, I also pirated it, but then later bought it
Interesting. We didn’t usually pirate things because my father was obsessive about not doing so. And we played it so much he must have known we had it. I can’t remember now.
This would be one of my top choices as well.
Also from Sierra, I have fond memories of the King’s Quest and Quest for Glory games. The 4th installment in the QfG series was unfortunately marred by bugs, but it stands out in my mind as having one of the best stories of any adventure game I’ve ever played. (Probably second only to the first Gabriel Knight game.) After building up your reputation as a hero for the first three games, you find yourself stuck in a distant land where no one’s ever heard of you and they don’t trust outsiders. The mix of horror and comedy elements was a lot of fun, and there were even some moments of real drama.
Or they bought it used and didn’t get the manual, or they only played it on school computers and didn’t have access to it, or they lost it, or they didn’t have time to go reading any silly manuals when there was a game to be played.
I liked the Infocom (?) HHGTTG game on my Apple IIe.
Ahh, nostalgia…Adventure on a Burroughs mainframe, Flash Attack on a Commodore PET, Wizardry and Wasteland on a IIe…