Ocarina of time Red Alert .. yeah probably just those two would do me

Gothic I from '98

The Last Express - really great story

Pizza Tycoon - this was such a fantastic management sim, I spent ages playing it back in the day

Heavy Gear? Monster truck madness? Age of Empires?

Age of empires Star wars galactic battlegrounds Deus ex (I think that was pre 2000) Cossacks European wars

Killer Instinct

Might and might 3 F19 stealth jet Doom Wolfenstein Red alert Warcraft 3

Amiga:

• Sensible Soccer
• Soccer Kid
• The Chaos Engine

ZX Spectrum:

• Chaos
• Robocop
• Midnight Resistance

Quarantine

• Turrican 1-3 [Amiga]
• Command and Conquer
• Monkey Island 1 [Amiga]
• Sim City 2000 (Network edition)
• Unreal Tournament
• Super Metroid [Super Nintendo]
• Metal Slug [Neo Geo/Arcade]
• Pinball Dreams/Illusions (made by DICE before they renamed themselves)

I'm old so a lot but I always mention SSI DnD games like Pool of Radiance. I think the games would be a bit of slog for most people today. All the Ultimas besides 9.

My guy, we have the technology. You can edit that title to fix the horrible grammar lol.

"What are your favorite pre-2000 video games?"

Boy that is tough. There are a few just after 2000 but I was not doing much in the late nineties. I can't think of anything after xwing series that was not after 2k. Doom2. I honestly cannot remember what I was doing computer game wise in the late 90's.

Ganja Farmer...

Wolfenstein and Hover.

Chips Challenge for Windows, Sim City 3000, Age of Empires 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (Technically not pre-2000 because it was released in 2000.)

Lords of the Realm 2, the OG X-Com trilogy, Total Annihilation, Dark Reign, Civ II Test of Time

Squarez Deluxe (which is now Freeware!)

It's a thinking man's Tetris and about 100x more rewarding to play

Infantry. My first online multiplayer game. Somehow I made it into a squad that got 2nd place in the seasonal tournament and also had arguably the best player in the whole game. I didn't play in the matches but I was in the squad!

amiga wings of fury

atari 1040ST outrun (the audio on atari!!!)

c64 zak mckraken

Myth The Fallen Lords and Myth 2 on the Macintosh. This was my favorite multiplayer game I’ve ever played by far.

Other great Mac games from my youth: The Odyssey (1994) by David Larkin Sim City and Sim City 2000 Rogue Sim Ant Prince of Persia The Scarab of Ra Realmz Path Ways into Darkness and Marathon

And my favorites on BBS were Major Mud and Legend of the Red Dragon.

I didn't have a PC, but when I went to friend’s houses I would play the shit out of Doom.

1995ish, Starfighter 3000 - DOS Windows 95

Janky as fuck by today's standards, but that was my gateway drug into PC gaming.

Ore Truck Simulator '96

Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

SSI gold box D&D titles and Dungeon master, though both are better on Amiga

There was this older 90's (I think?) game I loved but I can't figure out the name or find it, despite some googling. You played the part of someone piloting a drone on a space station that had a viral outbreak. The virus alerted the DNA of the victims that the automated security system could no longer identify them as friendlies and so went on a killing spree. You're trying to find video clips from the inhabitants, collecting DNA samples, very point and click adventure with neat animated scenes with FMV. If this rings a bell or if anyone knows it, let me know!

Fate of Atlantis is pretty good

Right on Y2K was NFS Porsche Unleashed aka Porsche 2000. As long as you play the PC version it's an amazing game and there are a few graphics enhancing mods too.