The best 90´s PC game

[prfsnl_gmr]

The, what the hell is the Wii U? Is it the only remaining console?! If so, I am going to declare Nintendo the official winner of the console wars...

[ElkinFencer10]

The, what the hell is the Wii U? Is it the only remaining console?! If so, I am going to declare Nintendo the official winner of the console wars...

It's the only one with a truly distinct personality. Same with the Wii in that generation.

[ejamer]

Disappointed that nobody has mentioned X-COM yet. Probably not the best game of the decade, but the first two made a huge impression on me in the mid-90s.

Fun to see all the great games listed so far though - very nostalgic.

[Exhuminator]

One is an official ad campaign by the company trying to differentiate itself in the common vernacular, the other is fan made.

Disregard we're talking about 90's Mac, and not 2006 Mac, which is what year that particular ad originated. Don't see the relevance personally.

Apparently you guys don't know that in 70s, 80s, and 90s, Mac did in fact refer to its computers as "personal computers". So here are a few ads to prove it...

1970s ad:

1980s ad:

1990s ad:

It wasn't until the 00s that Mac started really pushing hard to differentiate itself from being another PC by losing the terminology. So if you played a Mac game in the 1990's, you could still safely say you were playing a PC game. Just not a DOS or Windows PC game.

[ElkinFencer10]

I defer to Exhuminator-senpai's superior argument.

[fastbilly1]

Fair point Exhumniator. I was under the impression the "Get a Mac ads started in the late 90s, not 2006. Based on this, it means there question is even more unanswerable. It is like saying the Best Color or the Best Element. Since Mac's were at the time sold as Personal Computers, so was OS/2

and the Amiga 600s:


Add a couple hundred more games to the list of applicants.

Edit:
On the side I found this awesome advertisement:

[Gunstar Green]

No one in the 90's except maybe a confused grandpa was going to think you meant a Mac if you told them you played PC games.

[Exhuminator]

So what was the best 90's Mac PC game?

[Sarge]

So what was the best 90's Mac PC game?

That's the joke.

Nah, seriously, I hear a ton of love for the Marathon games.

[fastbilly1]

Marathon and Escape Velocity are the two easy choices.

I would say Lost Crystal is fairly important, since it was the first World Builder game of the 90s. World Builder was like the Adventure Construction Set for Point and Clicks on MacOS, similar to MacVenture. Lost Crystal took alot of notes from earlier titles like Radical Castles and Enchanted Scepters, aswell as MacVenture titles, and many people who worked on these titles eventually made Myst.

Edit:
Or you Pathways into Darkness. Bungie before Marathon/Halo

Edit 2:
Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete. Bungies first multiplayer game and the one that spearheaded realtime multiplayer over appletalk with "random" maps. Pretty much the birth of online multiplayer for OS7. Sure Bolo did it in 87, but Bolo was developed for BBC Micro and had fairly fixed battlefields - another PC that needs to be added to the list.