Nostalgia Lane

Nostalgia Lane is an intermittent article series in which I recall some of my favorite video games — PC and console — of the past.

• Johnny Castaway
• Metal Gear Solid
• Nintendo Gamecube
• Jumping from CGA to VGA
• What do I miss about ’90s internet?
• Pitfall
• Mario Bros.
• Radar Lock
• The last games of the Atari 2600
• Super Mario All Stars
• Console demo disks of the 1990s
• Rollercoaster Tycoon
• Max Payne
• Turtles in Time
• Atari Lynx and Roadblasters
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Rogue
• Sim City 2000
• Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch
• My first three computers
• I never liked the Nintendo 64
• Arcade cabinets
• The Legend of Zelda
• Gameboy
• GeoCities
• Descent and Heretic
• 9 more Atari 2600 games I liked
• Scorched Earth
• Web rings
• The shareware revolution
• MP3 players of the past
• F-15 Strike Eagle II
• Max Payne
• After Dark and Star Trek
• Out of This World and Flashback
• Myst
• 7 favorite DOS games from the ’80s
• PC Gamer demo discs
• Starmasters and Star Raiders
• Doom
• Dungeon!
• Project Space Station
• Lemmings and Tetris
• Diablo II
• How the PlayStation 2 killed console gaming for me
• Age of Empires II
• 7 favorite tower defense games
• Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
• GCE Game Time Watch
• 4 bizarre shareware titles from the 90s
• Gaming in the early 1980s
• Windows 95
• Wolfenstein 3-D
• Media Play
• My 10 favorite PlayStation games
• My 10 favorite SNES games
• BASIC games
• The Sims
• The Burning Crusade
• X-Wing and TIE Fighter
• Magic Online
• Kohan
• Jet fighter simulators
• Alone in the Dark
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary
• The appeal of adventure games
• Master of Orion
• Starflight
• Super Mario Bros.
• IBM PC
• Pyro II
• Revisiting the SNES (20th anniversary edition)
• Tiger Electronics
• Wasteland and Fallout 2
• Command H.Q.
• Final Fantasies
• Rating BioWare’s Lineup
• Colonization
• GoldenEye 007
• The Legend of Zelda
• Secret of Monkey Island
• Silent Service II
• Space Quest 1-3
• Top 10 Favorite Atari 2600 Games
• Baldur’s Gate 2
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Silent Hill
• Kroz
• Wing Commander II
• 20 Favorite PC Games from the 90s
• The Longest Journey