r/videogames • u/Mintangah17 PlayStation • 29d ago

Image / Video The speaker buzz right before your phone started ringing.

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u/Mike_S_94 29d ago

Age of Empires

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u/zer0tonine 29d ago

And Age Of Mythology. So many memories.

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u/Mountain_Lock_450 29d ago

This was mine too. The rebooted version has been great

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u/Doodiecarrier 29d ago

All hail, king of the losers!

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u/MarkahntheUnholy 29d ago

Bread plea- GIMME SOME STONE

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u/LoserCarrot Nintendo 29d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xbjut97XRr1aU

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u/auttakaanyvittu 29d ago

And I thought I was weird for thinking this

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u/FuryofHope 29d ago

😎👍

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u/OddlyGee 29d ago

Oh I love you for sharing that. I’d forgotten it completely!

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u/fuzzycuffs 29d ago

DOOM

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u/Cereal_Bandit 29d ago

Yup. Also I can smell those speakers.

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u/SupportAggressive649 29d ago

Smelling speakers through a phone is a skill, no one cam achieve through training

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u/Cereal_Bandit 29d ago

They smelled like electricity

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u/Bexil_Brave 28d ago

Those psychic speakers who knew I had a mobile call coming before my phone rang.

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u/random_topix 29d ago

That and Wolfenstein for me.

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u/R4GEQUITT3R 29d ago

Diablo 2

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u/Internet_employee 29d ago

You young whippersnappers and your Diablo 2, never feeling that terrifying horror of opening the door into The Butcher’s room on the second level.

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u/Kutekegaard 29d ago

Fresh meat! Queue the lag spike that happens when the door opens and he slaughters the player.

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u/ThatDarnRosco 29d ago

Ahhhhhhh fresh meat!

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u/Ckarles 29d ago

I was 8, with some earplugs, in the night, on the computer, without anyone knowing.

After encountering the butcher I gasped, shat down the PC, went to bed, and that was the last time I sneaked on the PC to play Diablo lol.

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u/Liarics 28d ago

Not sure if "shat down" was a typo, but intentional or not, that pretty much perfectly describes encountering the butcher for the first time.

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u/lousydungeonmaster 28d ago

Freudian typo

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u/TeaTimeKoshii 28d ago

Liquid cooling

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u/AlwaysSpeakTruth 28d ago

Diablo had such an awesome ambiance to it, going lower and lower into the dungeon. Anyone remember this?:

"I can see what you see not.
Vision milky, then eyes rot.
When you turn they will be gone,
Whispering their hidden song.
Then you see what cannot be,
Shadows move where light should be.
Out of darkness, out of mind,
Cast down into the Halls of the Blind."

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u/Zippo179 28d ago

Well, is there actually anyone that played D2 without playing the original?

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u/Kriss3d 29d ago

I was there. I was there long before Diablo 1.

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u/xSaltyDog424x 29d ago

STAY A WHILE AND LISTEN!

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u/FreeRangeEngineer 28d ago

For those wanting to listen to the Tristram village music to bring back memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnMR6SOBa9k

It's one of those pieces that will forever remind me of the long nights spent in utter bliss and that feeling of carefreeness that only a teenager can experience.

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u/datskullguy 29d ago

red alert

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u/ResponsibleStep8725 29d ago

Playing Red Alert 3 over at my friend's house was peak gaming.

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u/Sword_n_Boardz 29d ago

Can still hear hell march song in my head whenever I think of that game! Remeber secretly trying to mute my speakers whenever my nuke was ready so they didn't know! Lolol good times

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u/bmanlikeberry 29d ago

StarCraft

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u/Rowsdower888 29d ago

You must construct additional pylons.

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u/Plams_Unlimited 28d ago

WE REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS

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u/Yukorin1992 28d ago

Spawn more Overlords

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/Rampage117 29d ago

What is your major malfunction!?

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u/Mr--Joestar 29d ago

Who says that? Sci vessel?

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u/ThePython11010 29d ago

Pretty sure it's tanks, but only after you click on them a few times.

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u/Rampage117 29d ago

Yeah, siege tanks when you click them a bunch.

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u/Stabby94 29d ago

Need a light?

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u/snoop_Nogg 29d ago

Ready to roll out

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u/fjelstud 29d ago

Battlecruiser operational.

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u/astatine 28d ago

Carrier has arrived

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u/Pennywise626 28d ago

Good day, commander

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u/fjelstud 28d ago

Take it slow.

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u/Antiing 28d ago

Make it happen.

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u/TheOnlyOtherGuy88 29d ago

Go ahead, HQ.

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u/Antiing 28d ago

Target designated.

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u/dzntz00 29d ago

Locked and loaded

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u/Gonzar92 29d ago

Somethin' on yo' mind?

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u/astatine 28d ago

I hear ya... "sir".

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u/Wickedinteresting 28d ago

For years I thought the Terran Dropship said: “In the butt! Bye bye bye!”

Thirty years later I learn it’s “In the pipe! Five by five” and apparently a reference to Aliens, which I have not seen

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u/Objective-Cell5468 28d ago

The high templars say “State thy bidding”, when I was a kid I used to think they were saying “sting die bing” lol

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u/Wickedinteresting 28d ago

Haha thinking of the uber-formal protoss talking like that is really cracking me up

“En taro Adun. Wakka wakka armpit fart, executor. Sting die bing”

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u/UngluedAirplane 29d ago

Spawn more overlords…

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u/SovieticSushi 29d ago

You want a piece of me, boy?

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u/Antiing 28d ago

Are you gonna give me orders?

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u/workthrowawhey 29d ago

My life for Aiur

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u/Classic-Intention820 28d ago

Wraith awaiting launch orders

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u/Nuallaena 28d ago

Power Overwhelming! Had to add: In the event of an emergency your body may be used as a floatation device!

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u/Fearless_Roof_9177 28d ago

Who set all these lab monkeys free!?

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u/TransFemPakled 29d ago

Warcraft 3

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u/CoreyFeldmanOfficial 29d ago

"Jobs done. Jobs done. Jobs done. Jobs done. Work work."

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u/Chris91210 29d ago

Something need doing? What .. Stop it ... Me not that kinda orc.

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u/Soft-Percentage8888 29d ago

Dude this pissed my mom off so much, she made mute the game lol.

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u/BobbyTables829 28d ago

Did you reply with, "Yes my lord."?

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u/ToniDebuddicci 29d ago

What more work?

Jobs do-

NEED MORE FARMS

OUR CASTLE IS UNDER SEIG-

“What? More work!?”

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u/mithrandirtheone 29d ago

Ready to work

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u/ToniDebuddicci 29d ago

Frostmourne hungers

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u/mithrandirtheone 29d ago

At your command

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u/ToniDebuddicci 29d ago

STRIKE WITH GREAT VENGEANCE!

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u/maxman1313 29d ago

Rollercoaster Tycoon

Zoo Tycoon

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u/Silverfire12 29d ago

Yes! Man I was obsessed with Zoo Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon 2. I would blast the music of the opening lol

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u/maxman1313 29d ago

Doo do do do dooo dooo dooooo

I loved the dinosaur and aquarium expansions as well. 

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Phippsii 29d ago

I'm glad they did a remake of this!

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u/FeranosTR 29d ago

What, seriously?

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u/Phippsii 29d ago

Pharaoh: A New Era (Steam)

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u/TheShakyHandsMan 29d ago

I’m scared to get it. I don’t have the time to waste this time around

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u/SpecterOwl 29d ago

It's called Pharaoh: A New Era

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u/bodychecks 29d ago

This is the sound I hear when I see those speakers.

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u/DeepWaffleCA 29d ago

Yup, except it was this guy back in the day

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u/polloloco81 29d ago

We need this guy to do an AMA now, wherever he is. I want to know if that valve knob is still on his eye.

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u/LE0N290x 29d ago

Iirc, Valve just picked out random men on the streets to do the faces. I don't know if they're even identified.

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u/belay_that_order 29d ago

five. hundred. upvotes.

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u/g0rdon-fr33man 28d ago

I love Half-Life, i even got to cast as the main protaganist!

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u/captjust 29d ago

A game I like to call "You've got an incoming cell phone call in 3...2...1..."

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u/AbsolutelyNotAPossum 29d ago

doot doot doot

doot doot doot

doot doot doot

doooooooooot

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u/mindcontrol4dummies 29d ago edited 28d ago

OG Baldur's gate. Huddled around the computer, making sure we could hear Khaleid jump everything we clicked on him, and Jaheira's oh so snarky responses. And Minsk. Always Minsk.

Edit: I'm so glad all yall know what I'm talking about. I heard each one of those lines in my head. I remembered one of my faves: when you click on Jaheira and she goes "Yes, oh omnipresent authority figure?"

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u/AirplanesNotBurgers 28d ago

You must gather your party before venturing forth.

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u/Teranyll 28d ago

My hotel's as clean as an elven's arsh

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u/gdraper99 29d ago

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

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u/Ervael-JC 29d ago

Heroes of Might & Magic III

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u/AncientBug725 29d ago

RuneScape

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u/FishermanFuture1084 29d ago

2005 RuneScape 😎 picking flax in Camelot

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u/riuraupiupau 29d ago

Selling lobsters at varrock west bank is a core memory.

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u/PhilyMick67 29d ago

Red Alert 2

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u/Embarrassed-Mix7607 29d ago

Unreal tournament

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u/Szhaaszhreaoul 28d ago

This is undoubtedly my answer. It HAS to have been my most played game with thousands of hours. Online offline, modded, vanilla all incredible.

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u/ultrajounin 28d ago

How does this only have 10 ^

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u/Lightfire32 29d ago

Half life

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u/dowhatthouwilt 29d ago

The first piece of hardware I ever bought for myself when I got my first paycheck in highschool was a Sound Blaster card with EAX and surround sound support (and i think these were the front speakers!) so I could play Half Life with EAX and surround sound on. I remember playing TFC and you could actually hear people running up behind you.

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u/IsoKineticGuy 29d ago

Yes! My first gaming PC was in 1998. Pentium 3 933. 16MB ram, GeForce 2 GTS. First game I played was Half-Life. Quake 3 arena came out and that GTS didn't quite cut it so I upgraded to 32MB ram and a GeForce 3 Ti and man it was butter at 1280x1024. Played all the half life expansions, Blue Shift, Opposing Force. God I loved those games. Then HL2 came out and it was a slideshow on that system. Fun thing is my simple Lenovo work laptop with integrated graphics will play HL2 on ultra with everything at max and gets like 100+ frames. How technology progresses.

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u/breakConcentration 29d ago

Carmageddon

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u/ThaPhantom07 29d ago

MechWarrior 2. The old Windows 95 we had in the living room lives on forever in my head.

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u/GwerigTheTroll 29d ago

I still listen to the soundtrack when I’m grading papers

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u/Thequickandtheupset 29d ago

EverQuest

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u/CliftonStommel 29d ago

Came to say this and was pleased to find someone already said it.

There are dozens of us!

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u/Ordinary-Split8428 29d ago

Morrowind

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u/Plissken_Island 29d ago

You deserve my upvote n'wah

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u/Fkvaran 29d ago

Monkey Island 3

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u/Particular_Field_143 29d ago

Black & White

"We need food!" Offspring! We need offspring!"

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u/sexythrowaweekend 29d ago

Doom 1 and warcraft 1

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u/Odd-Frame9724 29d ago

Tie Figter

Starcraft

Duke nukem 3d and Doom 2 lan gaming

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u/Hillzkred 29d ago

One of those PC games you get out of a cereal box

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u/Sad_Meal_7342 29d ago

Tomb Raider

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u/StinkingDogsCunt420 29d ago

I just think of that noise they'd make before you got a text/call.

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u/FoulGeek420 29d ago

Command and conquer!

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u/MisterGal 29d ago

Freddie Fish

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u/nerd_entangled 29d ago

I have found a kindred spirit

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u/uselessacc97 29d ago

Age of empires

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u/Ocron145 29d ago

First thing is not a game, but WinAmp. Lol

Game? Probably Dark Forces

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u/GwerigTheTroll 29d ago

Had to scroll a long time to find Dark Forces. I think I’d add Jedi Knight to that.

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u/tonisdeltigre 29d ago

age of empires 2

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u/Pasta_Party_7 29d ago

You Don’t Know Jack!

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u/Texas_Tornader 29d ago

Wing Commander or Commander Keen

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u/Top-Waltz5244 29d ago

Roller coaster tycoon

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u/GibbeyGator102 29d ago

Oregon Trail

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u/VarenHills 29d ago

Red Alert 2

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u/fxzero666 29d ago

Morrowind!

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u/velcona0 29d ago

Incoming phone calls

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u/AndreeGT 28d ago

Medal of Honor and StarCraft

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u/-Hexinum- 29d ago

Bloons TD

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u/MiraiKishi 29d ago

Those were the exact speakers my Foster Parents had on their computer, and my Foster Dad played a lot of hunting games.

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u/John082025 29d ago

Mafia (2002)

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u/LordMirrorcoat 29d ago

Lemmings. I always got to the same level (something with fire) and then proceeded to kill everyone in different ways

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u/dooby0782 29d ago

Mechwarrior 2

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u/GrammpaSam 29d ago

Diablo 2

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u/sy_shyen 29d ago

Zoo Tycoon

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u/ittybittynuts 29d ago

Runescape

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u/1tsBag1 29d ago

Morrowind, Deus Ex, Half life 1.

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u/Bocephus-the-goat 29d ago edited 29d ago

Plants Vs Zombies, specifically the pc version that came on a CD disc. it still had Michael Jackson as disco zombie.

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