# The SDMB PC Game Hall of Fame: The First Round
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** video-games-e-games
**Created:** [January 9, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903 "2023-01-09T03:38:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/61 "2023-01-18T22:23:06Z")
> [@wolfman](#):
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> It was there of course, but it doesn’t feel like a PC game to me.
It does to me; that’s where I first encountered it, or possibly a generic playalike.
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### Author:  [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/62 "2023-01-19T01:08:11Z")
Tetris is a quintessential PC game. It was made by one dude tinkering around on his home PC and turned into a phenomenon. All the experimental stuff is one of the pillars of the PC platform. (Other pillars are throwing absurd amounts of power at a game and decades of backwards compatibility.)
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/63 "2023-01-20T00:19:59Z")
To the extent that there’s an association between Tetris and the Game Boy, I wouldn’t say that Tetris is a Game Boy game. Rather, I’d say that the Game Boy is a Tetris platform. What other great Game Boy games were there? Tetris, meanwhile, has appeared on absolutely every platform ever.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/64 "2023-01-20T00:32:57Z")
The first time I was introduced to Tetris was on my girlfriend’s word processor in college. So yeah, it’s been on plenty of platforms.
I dreamed about falling blocks for what, in hindsight, seems like weeks.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/65 "2023-01-22T01:36:26Z")
OK, my 10:
Bill Budge’s Pinball Construction Set (Atari 800)
Civilization 2
Master of Orion
Lode Runner (Apple 2)
Ultima: Underworld
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete
Castle Wolfenstein (Apple 2)
Portal
Star Control 2
Railroad Tycoon 2
RT2 was the only game I built a mod for, a historically accurate recreation of the development of the American oil industry.
SC2 - just fun as hell
Lode Runner - Possibly the first BIG microcomputer (PC, Apple, etc) port? Either this or Wizardry (or Ultima).
Civ2 - easily my most played game.
BBPCS - the birth of the mod. Hell, the entire game was a mod.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/66 "2023-01-22T01:55:19Z")
One more:
_Pro Pinball: Timeshock_
I’ve always enjoyed pinball, even in the arcade heyday I had a few quarters for 8-Ball Deluxe or whatever was available. Video pinball is a different animal, something impossible to replicate, you could only simulate. And most pinball games fell short… except for the three _Pro Pinball_ games released by Empire Interactive back in the late 1990s. Not only was the physics believable, the gameplay itself matched modern pinball machines in complexity and goals.
And, at the very least, the HoF should have at least _one_ pinball game. Pinball Construction Set is more of a historic selection, PP: Timeshock is a _gaming_ selection.
Available on GOG for really cheap, there are three games in the _Pro Pinball_ series, all of them excellent.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/67 "2023-01-22T04:44:22Z")
Two more:
Star Raiders! (Atari 800)
Choplifter! (Apple II)
Prince of Persia (Apple II)
OK, that was three, sorry.
Does _Mavis Beacon_ count? How about _Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego_?
ETA: You _cannot_ have a PC game hall of fame without Microsoft’s _Solitaire_. You just _cannot_.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/68 "2023-01-22T17:52:42Z")
Eh, I considered Solitaire (and FreeCell), but they just don’t really feel like computer games, to me. They’re computerized versions of games that people have been playing for centuries. There’s nothing really new, there.
Minesweeper, on the other hand, is new, and isn’t really possible without a computer. If you want a representative of the Windows Entertainment Pack, that’s a much better choice.
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### Author:  [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/69 "2023-01-23T00:03:10Z")
Rescue Raiders (1984) for the Apple IIe. Played this one hours on end.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8_XsRYTO-0)
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### Author:  [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/70 "2023-01-23T17:23:06Z")
I have not really looked at other lists in any kind of detail, but here are mine:
Civilisation 2
Doom (2016)
Portal
Minecraft
Bioshock
Mass Effect Legendary - the whole saga! Although 2 is the best of the series
Tomb Raider 2
Alien:Isolation
World of Warcraft
Elite: Dangerous
Tabletop Simulator
Stardew Valley
Dwarf Fortress
Bit of recentism, certainly - I’ve been playing games since Frogger, but there’s very few games I played on my 8bit Amstrad that I’d play today.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/71 "2023-01-23T23:04:48Z")
> [@Teuton](#):
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> Bit of recentism, certainly - I’ve been playing games since Frogger, but there’s very few games I played on my 8bit Amstrad that I’d play today.
That’s one of the reasons I nominated Snake. It’s older than I am, but teenagers today still play it. In my experience, it’s one of the top choices for high school students goofing off.
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### Author:  [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/72 "2023-01-23T23:20:53Z")
World of Warcraft
Civilization IV
Age of Empires II
Eye of the Beholder
Factorio
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
Sim City
Everquest
Ultima Online
Master of Magic
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pc-game-hall-of-fame-the-first-round/977903/73 "2023-01-25T06:57:19Z")
I will continue allowing voting until Feb 1 and then begin adding up votes.
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