1. Feeling like a total badass when you killed the Cyberdemon in Doom.
Doom, when it came out, was surely the scariest game ever made. Until Doom 2 came out.
2. All of your little green-haired buddies dying in Lemmings.
3. That time you killed Hitler in Wolfenstein 3D.
4. Destroying the Death Star in X-Wing.
If you made it that far. This was not an easy game.
5. Crushing the Rebel scum in TIE Fighter.
Possibly – just possibly – the greatest flight sim ever made.
6. Straight-up murdering a bunch of Hare Krishnas for points and a punchline in the original Grand Theft Auto.
Even back in 1997, GTA was a bit – you know – controversial.
7. The Xenon 2: Megablast soundtrack.
And, of course, playing it on the invincibility cheat so you could listen to it for ages.
8. Nicking the ball and scoring in Sensible Soccer.
Jurgen Klinsmann, still a legend.
9. Replacing Conroy Bumpus's favourite wig with an aubergine in Sam & Max Hit the Road.
Funniest computer game ever? (Or is that Day of the Tentacle?)
10. That time you got Benjamin Franklin electrocuted in Day of the Tentacle.
The LucasArts point-and-click adventures in the 1990s were works of exquisite genius. I haven't even mentioned the Monkey Island games or Grim Fandango.
11. Humiliating your friends in Star Control 2 Melee mode.
12. Flamethrowering some dudes in Syndicate.
Bullfrog made so many clever games. Syndicate was one of their best. Also, it was unbelievably brutal and violent.
13. Getting it just right with a cluster bomb in Worms.
14. Trapping someone with a bomb in Dyna Blaster.
You may know it as Super Bomberman, but those of us who played it on PC or Amiga will always remember it as Dyna Blaster.
15. Getting a "Cunning Stunt" bonus in Carmageddon.
The original version where the blood was red and you were killing actual old grannies, obviously. Not the bowdlerised "zombie-killing" green-blood one; the one that upset the Daily Mail.
16. The cutscenes in the Wing Commander series.
The actual games weren't quite up to TIE Fighter standards but they got the movie stuff just right. In Wing Commander III they even got Mark Hamill involved.
17. Defeating the Emperor in Dune 2.
Command & Conquer, Red Alert, and Warcraft may have been better games, in their way. But Dune 2 was the original. It was the genre-maker.
18. Unleashing the monster on your Sim City 2000 creation.
