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I'm pretty sure Doom will be the most popular (and my pick too), but I'll throw a shout-out to Epic Pinball; that Android table was the best one in the game anyway.

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[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think this question just fried my brain. I don’t even know where to start.

Most played shareware of all time though was probably Transport Tycoon.

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[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

IndyCar Racing II

Damage simulation 😍

[–] bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Quake was awesome, especially since you could play the online multiplayer from the free version.

It's a simple choice, really, considering how many hours I managed to invest as a kid:

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was always struck by the similarity to the blue robot on that table to Cyborg from Rise of the Robots and I wonder if there was some cross-pollination there.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

He's actually based on the genie from Aladdin

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago
[–] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Monster Bash! It was one of the better-playing platformers on the PC back in the day and I loved the halloween aesthetic.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

There was some bootleg Tetris game I played the hell out of, because it ran on my shitty hand-me-down 286 with dual 5 1/4" floppy drives & no hard disk.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I played a lot of 2 games that nobody I've spoken to has ever heard of: Mordor the depths of dejenol Exile escape from the pit Both were great, I think exile had been remade by the programmer with a different title too

[–] KeenSnappersDontCome@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There was a Mordor 2 shareware as well. The game never got a full release but laid the foundation for Demise: Rise of the Kutan (2000). The rights to the game were sold to Decklin and they released expansions Ascension (2016) and Revenge of the Tavern Keeper (2024). Demos for Demise and the expansions are available at https://www.decklinsdemise.com/

Found out the exile games are now distributed as freeware https://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile/winexile.html https://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/productsOld.html

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[–] Lizard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Comanche: Maximum Overkill, the very first game to use VOXELS, the FUTURE of PC GAMING!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago
[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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