I really should have preferred the university guys (in Civ-type games I always play a scientific faction), but the game mechanics were so heavily biased towards the tree-huggers that it was really no contest.
One of the sad aspects to Civ, Civ II and Civ 2.5 was that the game was rigged in favor of one faction, and you could usually figure it out fairly quickly (my opinion on Civ II was confirmed by finding out which Civ had the delimiters 1, 1, 1 for the three factors a civ could have 
). They did a much better job of balancing things, I thought, starting in Civ 3.
I had a thing for Dierdre, just based on her voice. 
I’m once again playing through the Baldur’s Gate saga, from the first game through to Shadows of Amn all the way to Throne of Bhaal. I’m using a heavily modded installation, with additional fix packs, tweaks, kits, quests, etc. Most notably, I’m running the mega-mod called Baldur’s Gate Trilogy, which integrates the content of the first Baldur’s Gate into the BGII engine allowing you to play the whole thing as one giant seamless game.
It looks like you can buy it on Steam for quite a bit less than the cost of a USB floppy drive.
It looks like the sprites have been modified a bit, but the levels they show look like the ones I remember playing.
I still love Civ 2, unfortunately, it won’t run on 64 bit Windows 10. I’ve actually thought of buying an older PC just to run older games for that reason. I still have my Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2 floppies in the attic somewhere.
She’s a worm-capturing machine…automatic on your first attack, and up to 75% after that…although there does seem to be some form of limiting code that appears to be based either on advancement or year. Democracy-Green ASAP, and you’re golden.
I sunk a lot of hours into Syndicate Wars. Good times.
Also loved Alpha Centauri and Civilization II.
Anyone remember Heimdall? Probably a European-only game I suspect. I was rubbish at it but the graphics blew me away at the time. That and Contraption Zack.
I have a lot of fond memories of various C64 games, but especially Racing Destruction Set. I liked racing head-to-head, and that you could design your own tracks.
It’s fun that this thread came up, because I just beat the original Diablo last night with a Warrior. My friends all played it to death in the 90s, but at the time my mom wouldn’t let me get anything with ‘demonic’ influences. (By the time Diablo II came out, I was old enough that she let me do what I wanted, but not for Diablo the original).
Great game, great game.
I suppose my favourite pre-2000 video game would be “Civilization II.” But if I had to play one pre-2000 game now I’d ask for “TIE Fighter” and all its expansions. I can play a better Civ now, but I can’t play a better TIE Fighter.
“Red Baron” was also incredible.
EverQuest was quite something too, and it’s possible I had more fun playing that than any one game that came out in the 90s. Today, however, it’s blown out of the water to an extent Civ and TIE Fighter are not. EQ was incredibly hard, had huge technical bugs every time anything changed, and lacked quests - but to be honest I kind of wish WOW and other modern MMORPGs were harder.
Master of Orion II is one that I still drag onto DOSBox and play from time to time. There’s a few other 90s games that I’ve dug out in the last few years, but that one really stands out for me.
Well ? Which one ? Don’t leave us hanging man ! 
I think in the original Civ, the easiest faction was probably the Aztecs, because playing them meant that nobody else was the Aztecs. Plus, if you were playing on an Earth map, you were likely to get all of the Americas to yourself.
Does that work with the Steam enhanced versions?
There’s the Enhanced Edition Trilogy that’s supposed to do the same thing and include the Siege of Dragonspear, but that’s still a work in progress. I don’t have the enhanced editions, so I can’t say anything about how well the mod works.
Aside: This thread inspired me to fire up Alpha Centauri again, and I paid attention to the opening movie. Guess when the Unity launched from Earth?
One of my earliest gaming memories is meeting an Aztec mech infantry in central Asia when I was still using musketeers playing some European nation
here ya go all the vintage starwars ya need https://www.gog.com/games?sort=bestselling&search=star%20wars&page=1
you know the odd thing about pre wow mmorpgs is the game players themselves turned them them into the current "theme park " style … when I first played eq… it was "your born heres a letter you give someone for a optional class tutorial now go out and find your place "
then came the zone guides for it which were helpful Then by the time I had to quit there was the “complete playing a shadowknight guide from lvl 1 to 60” … and no one stayed in one place more than a lvl or two then it was off to somewhere else because they were following the guides
Wow just used quests to move you along in stead of "fight here until the monsters are too easy and move on " Although eq did try to offer something for most lvls in every zone it had problems implementing that correctly (the spectres in south ro for example)
Some games still do that, but they’re in “Collectors Editions” or “Super Premium Deluxe”-type editions rather than standard in the box as they were once upon a time.
I certainly recall playing my share of flight simulators so advanced and complicated I’m pretty sure I could now actually fly a real B-17G.
As for my favourite pre-2000 games: Jagged Alliance 2, Fallout & Fallout 2, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, Sid Meier’s Colonisation, European Air War, Red Baron II, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret were all excellent and still hold up well today, IMHO.
I got an Atari in 1982, so plenty of great games a long time before 2000.
Not dating myself if I mention Infocom Deadline and Infidel, Archon, Shamus, Ultima III-VII, Joust, Imperium Galactium, Agent USA, Spy vs Spy, Behind Jaggi Lines, Eastern Front, Seven Cities of Gold, Alternate Reality, Pharoah’s Curse or Dr. J and Larry Bird go One on One…
As for PC: Civilization, Doom, Seventh Guest, Tetris, Sims, Railroad Tycoon, Myst…
To this day I wish World of Warcraft had never existed. It took the concept, inherent in the old D & D games, that becoming powerful took effort and time, and threw them on the trash heap. Everquest 2 followed along because they had to, and it all went downhill from there. 