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Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter - PC Games

Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure (AGI text parser)
Developer: Sierra / Two Guys from Andromeda
Fondest Memory: the jokes, including all the funny ways Roger Wilco could die
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Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel - PC Games

Genre: Police Adventure (AGI text parser)
Developer: Sierra / Jim Walls (former cop)
Fondest Memory: you got to drive around from scene to scene! (really revolutionary at its time)
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Genre: Mature Adventure (AGI text parser)
Developer: Sierra / Al Lowe
Fondest Memory: I was a teenager when I played it for first time - so I guess fondest memory is the entire game :)
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Mixed-Up Mother Goose - PC Games

Genre: Family Adventure (AGI text parser)
Developer: Sierra / Roberta Williams
Fondest Memory: trying to re-arrange mixed-up nursery rhymes is a lot more fun (and not as gay) as it sounds
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Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge - PC Games

Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure (AGI text parser)
Developer: Sierra / Two Guys from Andromeda
Fondest Memory: one of the first Sierra adventure games I finished, and even funnier than the first SQ game
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Sid Meier's Pirates! - PC Games

Genre: Pirate Action-Simulation
Developer: MicroProse / Sid Meier
Fondest Memory: first taste of what totally open gameplay was all about; best was finally tracking down and (barely) defeating the spanish gold fleet, seizing all their galleons, and becoming an unstoppable pirate -- arrrr!!
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688 Attack Sub - PC Games

Genre: Submarine Simulator
Developer: Electronic Arts / John W. Ratcliff
Fondest Memory: made me appreciate Hunt for Red October so much, since I now had all aspects of submarine warfare etched into my brain
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Genre: Fantasy Role-Playing
Developer: Strategic Simulations (SSI)
Fondest Memory: introduced me to the wonderful (and massive) realm of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and the addictive concept of character skill development
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F-15 Strike Eagle II - PC Games

Genre: Modern Flight Simulator
Developer: MicroProse / Sid Meier
Fondest Memory: flying from waypoint to waypoint, while blasting all bogeys with a large selection of missiles; Incoming! drop flares & chaffs and dive dive dive!
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My favorite classic DOS games that I grew up playing. Ah, the golden era of PC gaming!
I couldn't pick a good order to show them in, so they are listed here in chronological order of their release, but not necessarily in the chronological order that I played them.
I couldn't pick a good order to show them in, so they are listed here in chronological order of their release, but not necessarily in the chronological order that I played them.
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