Arcade Games

The first games I noticed was Pac-man and Space Invaders.. Especially the last one I played on my dad's old pc (1986-ish), and I think I reached 10.000 points once!

Then followed a cargame (on my ibm-wondermachine) I can't remember the exact name of - but I still remember the music if that counts for anything.. Anyway these are great game joys:

Tetris (try Monty Python's version in 'Holy Grail'), card games (Solitaire, Napoleon, etc) , Fuji Golf, Mine Sweeper, BubbleShooter, Froggy, Vector Tower, the-one-with-the-sledge-going-over-bumpy-rocks, etc, etc... I enjoy all these casual FUN games also!

American McGee's Alice

Action/Adventure, 3d (realtime), Rogue Entertainment 2000, PC

A very nice action/adventure game! Play it! It's not too difficult, but will keep you occupied for some time. Alice in Wonderland turned into a nightmare - surreal graphics!

Want to know what it's about?

www.eagames.com/pccd/alice/ - publisher's webpage

Wide-eyed Wonder - fan site

Down the Rabbit Hole #1 - fan site

Down the Rabbit Hole #2 - fan site

fan.splodge.nu/alice - fanlisting + good links page

Amerzone

Adventure, 3d (prerender), Microids/Dreamcatcher Interactive 1999, PC

A beautiful adventure experience - although not much of a game.. I loved the fantastic sounds and images, which were very enticing. Imagine that with great game play.

The Adventure Company - publisher's site

Game Revolution - demo download

Hildesheim.co.uk/amerzone/ - fansite

Art of Magic - Magic & Mayhem

Role-Playing, Massively Multiplayer Online Game, 3d (realtime), Virgin Interactive 2001, PC

Ok gameplay, ok graphics - the story is allright too.. An overall ok game, some places the difficulty rating was too jumpy resulting in being stuck with far too difficult or easy opponents.

Art of Magic - official website

Magic and Mayhem - fan and battle site

Beyond Good and Evil

Action/Adventure, realtime 3d, Ubisoft 2003, PC

beyondgoodevil.com/ - official website

www.gamershell.com/ - download demo

Black & White

Strategy, 3d (realtime), Lionhead Studios 2001, PC

Everybody said it was fantastic, but.... I found just a wee bit tedious. The worlds were really nice, the worshipping, etc, but the actual gameplay was just too cumbersome - repetetive is the word! I was pulling my hair out in big lumps in the end!

blackandwhite.ea.com - publisher's website

Black and White - official website + for Black and White II

Planet Black and White - everything about B & W

BlackOut

Adventure, puppet 3d (prerender), Deadline Games 1997, PC

A very ambitous story-based adventure game. All done with puppets and actual scenography! Classic point-n-click adventure gameplay.

Deadline Games - developer's site

Ceremony of Innocence

Interactive Entertainment , 2d, RealWorld, 1997, PC

Not really a game, rather an interactive version of three novels consisting of actual letters and postcards.

Realworld - developer's site

Nick Bantock - writer's webpage

Cross Town - Giften

Adventure, 2d, Deadline Games, 1998, PC

A game in the style of a grahic novel a bit like Dave McKean. Very interesting story about polution, but the gameplay is like an advanced 'forward'-button - point-n-click...not dynamic.

Deadline Games - developer's webpage

Diablo II

Role Playing, Massively Multiplayer Online Game, 3d (realtime), Blizzard, 1999, PC

A nice (is that the word for it?) RPG with quests that are nicely balanced & interesting, the graphics are ok, the worlds are GREAT. Only one annoying thing: you're forced to do a whole quest at the time, since the monsters you kill, respawn each time you exit the game. So you have to play 1 hour minimum each time!!

Blizzard - developer's webpage

Diabloii - unofficial site

Drakan

Action/Adventure, 3d (realtime), Psygnosis 1999, PC

An adventure game in the same genre as Tomb Raider. The really interesting thing about it is you get to fly a dragon! The riddles are ok, gameplay ok, graphics and worlds are quite nice.

Planet Drakan - forum for fans

Arokhs Lair - fan site

Game Revolution - demo download

Eve (Realworld)

Adventure/Sound Toy, 2d, Realworld 1996, PC

Peter Gabriel's venture into the interactive cdrom-world... It's a game about picking up elements to activate music pieces - and about lovers. Beautyful, surreal 2d universes - with thoughtful words from both scientists and artists. Gameplay very simple, riddles sometimes very cumbersome.

This changed my life though - 'aah, games can be something else than wars, sports and big-boobed women'

Realworld Multimedia - developers' website

Valazza - Eve - a really nice fan site. Contains secrets, cheats, etc

Grim Fandango

Adventure, 3d (prerender), LucasArts 1998, PC

Funny, fantastic adventure game, FABOULOUS graphics, great story about death...Usual adventure point'n'click trouble - if the riddles are too difficult you're stuck. But generally a genre-defining and innovative game!

Lucasarts - developer's website

Grim Fandango Network - forum for fans

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Adventure, 3d (realtime), EA Games 2001, PC

Harry Potter at EA games - official website

Gamespy - review

Halflife

Action, 3d (realtime), Valve 1998, PC

Sierra - publisher's website

Planet Halflife - forum for fans

Myst:

Myst - Riven - Exile - Uru - Revelation

Adventure/Puzzle, 3d (prerender), Cyan 1993, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, PC

Well.. So much have been said about this series of games. They were groundbreaking and redefined what a game could be. Beautiful worlds and interesting storylines - very inspiring still although the interaction and gameplay leaves much to ask and seem old fashioned today.

Cyan - developer's website

Myst Worlds - publisher's website for Myst

Riven Unofficial homepage - fan site containing info about ALL Myst games

Neverwinter Nights

expansion packs: Shadows of Undrentide - Hordes of the Underdark

Role Playing, 3d (realtime), Bioware 2002, PC

Bioware - official website

NeverWinter Vault - forum for fans

Planet Neverwinter - forum for fans

Outcast

Adventure/Action, 3d (realtime), Infogrames 1999, PC

Outcast the Game - official website

Game Avenue - demo download

Planescape Torment

RolePlaying , 3d (realtime), Black Isle 1999, PC

The Sims

Strategy, 3d (realtime), Maxis 2002, PC

Maxis - developer's webpage

The Sims - official website

The Sims Resource- largest unofficial website

The Sims 2 - Urbz

Strategy, 3d (realtime), Maxis 2005, PS2

Urbz - official website

Syberia 2

Point'n'click Adventure, 3d, Micrïods 2004, PC

Micrïods - developer's webpage

Syberia I + II forum - community for the two Syberia games

TombRaider I

Adventure/Action, 3d (realtime), Eidos Interactive 1996, PC

TombRaider - official website

Stella's Site - Tomb Raiders - large fan site

Unreal

Unreal Tournament

Action, 3d (realtime), Epic Games 1999, PC

Unreal - official website

Planet Unreal - forum for fans

World of Warcraft

Roleplaying - 3d realtime, 3rd person Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game!

Blizzard 2004

Simply THE MMORG to play.. If you ever want to play an online Roleplaying Game - play this! Stunning graphics, faboulous characters, environments etc - only thing: a bit too much hak'n'slash to my taste.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ - developer's homepage

http://wowvault.ign.com/ - IGN's webpage for WOW

wow.allakhazam.com/ - one of many communities for WOW-gamers

Zanzarah

Adventure, 3d (realtime), Funatics 2002

http://www.zanzarah.de/ - official website

Xicat- publisher's site

3dgamers- demo download

Aillse - my Zanzarah site- very nice fan site