I played a lot of Sim City 2000. Not so much the others on the list. I played the Duke Nukem demo and thought it was funny. My favorites that I had and played for hours and hours on end growing up were: 1988: [EGA Trek](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/ega-trek-1km) 1989: [Castle of the Winds](https://classicreload.com/castle-or-the-winds.html) 1989: [MILLENNIUM: RETURN TO EARTH](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/millennium-return-to-earth-pi/play-pi) 1990: [Spaceward Ho!](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/spaceward-ho-30l/play-30l) 1992: [Kiloblaster](https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Kiloblaster.html) 1992: [Star Control II](https://www.gog.com/en/game/star_control_i_ii), [Open sourced version](https://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php) 1993: [Solar Winds](https://www.playdosgames.com/online/solar-winds/) 1993: [Wing Commander: Privateer](https://www.gog.com/game/wing_commander_privateer) 1993: [Zone 66](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/zone-66-21e) 1994: [Star Reach](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/star-reach-24v) 1995: [Warcraft II](https://www.gog.com/game/warcraft_2_battlenet_edition) 1996: [Privateer 2: The Darkening](https://www.gog.com/game/privateer_2_the_darkening) 1997: [Wing Commander: Prophecy](https://www.gog.com/en/game/wing_commander_5_prophecy) 1999: [Alpha Centauri](https://www.gog.com/en/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri) 2000: [Tachyon: The Fringe](https://www.gog.com/game/tachyon_the_fringe) I also spent countless hours playing Pokémon Blue on an emulator on a Windows 95 machine. edit: I just wanted to add that if you play Alpha Centauri it's worth using "Scient's Unofficial Patch" to get rid of all the bugs in the game: https://github.com/DrazharLn/scient-unofficial-smacx-patch