I’m pretty sure Doom will be the most popular (and my pick too), but I’ll throw a shout-out to Epic Pinball; that Android table was the best one in the game anyway.

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      I loved Whacky Wheels so much but recently put it on my Steamdeck and eh, it did not age well. Very choppy gameplay. But it still has a place in my heart.

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      What is the name of this game, I played it so much as a kid but I always forget the name

      Edit: Wacky Wheels, got it though reverse image search

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    Duke Nukem 3D probably. That or Rise of The Triad.

    I eventually bought DN in the 90s and played the shit out of it.

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    Commander Keen is probably the one that I liked the most that is also well known.

    My personal favorite was Bass Class, which is weird because I’ve zero interest in real-life fishing, then or now.

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    Sky Roads, Test Drive 2, Jill of the Jungle, Halloween Harry, Jetpack, so many great games that I played the hell out of their shareware versions.

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      Was that a Dominos pizza sponsored game? I seem to remember “Avoid the noid” was a slogan of theirs.

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        Indeed it was. Despite being mediocre, I played that game extensively. This was before Domino’s Pizza existed in our region - they wouldn’t expand here until a decade later.

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    A couple of people have mentioned Raptor: Call of the shadows, which was an absolute favorite of mine. Skyforce Reloaded is pretty close in terms of gameplay. I wish there were more games out there like Raptor

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      You try Tyrian? It was like raptor but dialed up to 11 with different planes and an actual storyline :o

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    Might be pushing the limits of shareware, but the demo of Quake 1 on cd for a buck. A simple console command unlocked the full version.

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    Commander Keen!

    Jumping around with the pogo stick in Keen 6 was so much fun. I recently found the full game. Was surprised how hard that factory level was. But the music was still how I remembered it.

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    Probably Rise of the Triad.

    Pretty sure I even bought the full game and never ended up getting very far. I also remember spending a little chunk of time on Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom, but could never figure it out enough to progress very far.

    Edit: Another one I was trying to recall, the name was H.U.R.L.

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      Loved the Hugo games. The jungle one was probably my favorite up to the point where I needed to find out some trivia question about the name of some person’s dog before the time of Internet.

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        I spent more time with Police Quest, which was similar. I remember trying the Hugo Jungle Shareware multiple times and getting frustrated going back-and-forth, stuck.