For me, Microprose would probably be one of the publishes that I could trust, back in the early 90s, to deliver on great games.
My two favourite PC games as a child were published by them;
Master of Magic: An epic turn-based strategy that is a mesh of fun Civilization-esque gameplay and fantasy. It was terribly addicting, even when I installed DOSbox a couple years ago to replay it.
Gunship 2000: This game I just remembered recently. My uncle really loved playing this game and I remember liking it a lot too. Being able to fly different helicopters around on different missions... Equip it with all types of armaments and work your way on getting promoted to unlock access to even more goodies... It was just a great game. In fact, it makes me surprised at how much content they were able to produce back in those days.
Bullfrog made one of my favourite games as a kid, too, and that is Syndicate. I had a ton of fun.
Honorable mention also has to go to Electronic Arts (Even though they don't really fit into the category), even with the ire as they've earned recently. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (Yeah, I liked military sims as a kid, so what?) and Road Rash were two of my stand-bys as well.
What did everyone else like?
My two favourite PC games as a child were published by them;
Master of Magic: An epic turn-based strategy that is a mesh of fun Civilization-esque gameplay and fantasy. It was terribly addicting, even when I installed DOSbox a couple years ago to replay it.
Gunship 2000: This game I just remembered recently. My uncle really loved playing this game and I remember liking it a lot too. Being able to fly different helicopters around on different missions... Equip it with all types of armaments and work your way on getting promoted to unlock access to even more goodies... It was just a great game. In fact, it makes me surprised at how much content they were able to produce back in those days.
Bullfrog made one of my favourite games as a kid, too, and that is Syndicate. I had a ton of fun.
Honorable mention also has to go to Electronic Arts (Even though they don't really fit into the category), even with the ire as they've earned recently. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (Yeah, I liked military sims as a kid, so what?) and Road Rash were two of my stand-bys as well.
What did everyone else like?
