"The early days of movies were akin to video games today. They told simple-minded stories. People did not treat them as art.
[...] we can pull out of games things of great value to education."
-- Donald Norman (interview)
I'm especially fond of Role-playing games (RPGs), so these got their own page.
I have a very strong opinion about games: I LOVE THEM!!! I've been playing for 33 years now (that I can remember) so I'm bound to have forgotten some of them... And anyway, this list is extremely incomplete cos I lack the time to recall, list and describe them all.
- Games I built myself or wrote from scratch:
Monopoly, Catch, Electrostatic Football, Cat-and-mouse, Invaders, Attack, Hermes, The Path of Dr.Justice, [Mince'em,] BattleShips, [WARPe]
- Games I play[ed] (listed in order of preference, not chronologically; many of these have computer-based versions too, some are only in reality or on some computer platform):
- Active/sporty: Tag, Hide-and-Seek, Tarzan's Leaf, Bones, Soldierball, Badmington, Tennis, Water polo
- Puzzles: Rubik Cube, Scrabble, Crosswords, Clue,
- Adventure:
MM: Day of the Tentacle
| Outcast
| Beyond Good and Evil
| Heavy Metal
| Antaeus Rising
| Fable
| Shodan
| Halo 1
| Knights and Merchants
| The Dig
| Grim Fandango
| Dungeon Siege
| Etherlords 2
| Disciples 2
| Diskworld Noir
| IJ: The Fate of Atlantis
| Septerra Core
| Monkey Island 1
| Diablo 1,2
| Myst
| Tomb Raider 1, AoD
| FR: Baldur's Gate
| FR: Torment
| STV: Elite Force
| Yendor 2
| Sanity
| FR: Thunderscape
| Kohan
| Omicron
| Thief
| ST: Generations
| STTNG: A Final Unity,
- Strategy (and luck, of course; some may be considered Simulations too):
- Dice-only: Yah-zee,
- Cards-only: War, Horus, Macao, Tribbles, Twist, Poker,
- Board:
Monopoly
| Talisman
| Warcraft adventure
| ADnD
| World of Warcraft
| ST: Klingons,
- Simulations (some are also Strategy and/or Arcade, some are plain):
- Plane: Flight, FlightSimulator, F18,
- Cities: SimCity,
- Societies:
| Spore
| Starcraft
| Antaeus Rising
| Age of Empires,
| Homeworld
| Warcraft 2,3,1
| Age of Wonders
| ST: Armada 2,1
| CIV: Call to Power
| CIV: Alpha Centauri
| Dune 2,2000,Emperor
| Outforce
| Civilization
- MMOs:
Neopia
| Black Moon Chronicles
| Shayia
| RedMoon
| AnotherWorld
| EverQuest
| ElementalSaga
- Spaceship: WC: Prophecy, WingCommander, Tie Fighter, ,
- Helicopter: Tomahawk,
- Submarine,
- Tank,
- Action/Arcade: Jetpack, Lander, Invaders, Asteroids, Racing,