The 100 Best PC Games of the Early '90s ... in 10 Minutes! (1990-1992)

In the first of a series. this video examine sthe PC gaming library; in particular, the 100 best PC games of the period 1990-1992.

Titles are listed alphabetically per year.

(Note that there are some additional great games from 1992 that are NOT in this video: they will be covered in Part 2 of this series)

In this time, we saw the solidification of genres such as flight simulators. point and click adventures, and classic RPGs. We even see the first POPULAR entries of genres such as survival horror (Alone in the Dark), the first person shooter (Wolfenstein 3D) and even the Real Time Strategy (Dune 2)

(And yes, even though Thexder 2 was probably played by maybe a dozen people total, it's one of my personal favorite all-time PC games, so it makes the list. Creator's choice. Played the heck out of it on my Tandy. If you have a problem with this ... tough luck. Deal with it)

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COMPLETE GAME LIST
1990:
Bard's Tale 3, The_Thief of Fate (Interplay)
Battletech - The Crescent Hawk's Revenge (Westwood Associates)
Centurion_Defender of Rome (Bits of Magic)
Champions of Krynn (SSI)
Commander Keen In Invasion of the Voritcons (id Software)
Crimewave (Access Software)
Dragon Wars (Interplay)
D_Generation (Robert Cook)
Eye of the Beholder (Westwood)
Firehawk_Thexder_The Second Contact (Game Arts Co.)
Future Wars (Delphine)
Gunboat (Accolade)
Gunship 2000 (MPS Labs)
Immortal, The (Sandcastle)
King's Bounty (New World Computing)
Kings Quest V - Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder (Sierra On-Line 1990)
Knights of the Sky (Microprose)
Les Manley in Search for the King (Accolade)
Links_The Challenge of Golf (Access)
Loom (LucasArts)
Night Shift (Attention To Detail)
Quest for Glory 2_Trial By Fire (Sierra)
Railroad Tycoon (MPS Labs)
Red Baron (Dynamix)
Rise of the Dragon (Dynamix)
Secret of Monkey Island, The (Lucas Arts)
Secret of the Silver Blades (SSI)
Sid Meier's Covert Action (MPS Labs)
Silent Service II (MPS Labs)
Spellcasting 101_Sorcerers Get All The Girls (Legend Entertainment)
Star Control (Toys for Bob)
Stellar 7 (Dynamix)
Stunts (Distinctive)
Test Drive III_The Passion (Accolade)
Ultima VI_The False Prophet (Origin Systems)
Warlords (SSG)
Wing Commander (Origin Systems)
Wizardry VI_Bane of the Cosmic Forge (Sir-Tech))
Wolfpack (Novalogic)
Worlds of Ultima - The Savage Empire (Origin Systems)
1991
4D Sports Boxing (Distinctive Software)
A-10 Tank Killer v1.5 (Dynamix)
Adventures of Willy Beamish The (Dynamix)
Alien Breed (Team 17)
Battle Isle (Blue Byte)
Castles (Quicksilver Software)
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (Brent Iverson)
Death Knights of Krynn (SSI)
Duke Nukem (Apogee Software)
Eye of the Beholder II_The Legend of Darkmoon (Westwood Associates)
Falcon 3.0 (Sphere Inc)
Gobliiins (Coktel Vision)
Gods (Bitmap Bros - 1991) .mp4
Heart of China (Dynamix)
Jones in the Fast Lane (Sierra-On Line)
Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA (Sierra On-Line -1991).mp4
Leisure Suit Larry 5_Passionate Patti Does A Little Undercover Work (Sierra On-Line)
Lemmings (DMA Design)
Mega-Lo-Mania (Sensible Software)
Might and Magic III_Isles of Terra (New World Computing)
Monkey Island 2_LeChuck's Revenge (LucasArts)
Oh No More Lemmings (DMA Design)
Police Quest 3_The Kindred (Sierra On-Line 1991).mp4
Pools of Darkness (SSI)
Powermonger (Bullfrog)
Realms (Graftgold)
Scorched Earth (Wendell Hicken)
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (LucasArts)
Sid Meier's Civilization (MPS Labs)
SimAnt_The Electronic Ant Colony (Maxis Software)
Space Quest VGA (Sierra On-Line)
Spellcasting 201_The Sorceror's Appliance (Legend Entertainment)
Terminator, The (Bethesda Software)
Ultima_Worlds Of Adventure 2_Martian Dreams (Origin Systems)
Wing Commander II - Vengeance of the Kilrathi (Origin Systems)
1992:
Aces of the Pacific (Dynamix)
Alone In The Dark (Infogrammes)
Amazon_Guardians of Eden (Access)
Caesar (Impressions)
Comanche Maximum Overkill (Novalogic)
Darklands (MPS Labs)
Darkseed (Cyberdreams)
Dune (Cryo Interactive)
Dune II - The Building of a Dynasty (Westood Associates)
Gobliins 2_The Prince Buffoon (Coktel Vision)
Hardball III (Accolade)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (LucasArts)
Ishar - Legend of the Fortress (Silmaris)
Legend of Kyrandia, The (Westwood Associates)
Lure of the Temptress (Revolution Software)
Out of this World (Delphine Software)
Premier Manager (Realms of Fantasy)
Quest for Glory III_Wages of War (Sierra On-Line)
Realms of Arkania_Blade of Destiny (Attic Entertainment Software)
Space Quest IV_Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (Sierra On-Line)).mp4
Star Control II -The Ur-quan Masters (Toys for Bob)
Star Trek 25th Anniversary (Interplay Productions)
Ultima Underworld_The Stygian Abyss (Blue Sky Productions)
Ultima VII - The Black Gate (Origin Systems)
Wolfenstein 3D (id software)