Games

From Jesse Fuchs:

• Space Taxi

• Below The Root

• Castles of Dr. Creep

• Sid Meier’s Pirates!

• Paradroid

From Bennett Foddy:

• IK+

• Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Games

From Naomi Clark:

• Tass Times in Tonetown

• Sammy Lightfoot

• Odyssey: The Compleat Adventure

• Trinity (Infocom game)

• Aztec

• Montezuma's Revenge

From Bennett Foddy:

• Prince of Persia - I might speed up the emulator or instead play the Amiga or DOS version

• Ultima IV - but only with a LOT of commitment and some printed manuals, etc.

Games

From Bennett Foddy:

• Alien8 - it benefits a lot from having the emulator sped up.

• Lords of Midnight - but it does require you to read the manual

• Saboteur and Turbo Esprit - maybe a good mix of responsive and weird.

• Deus Ex Machina - horrible to play but very interesting!

From Clara Fernández-Vara:

• Knight Lore - first one that comes to mind, because it was developed by Ultimate the Game (which later became Rare software)

• Head Over Heels - I have a soft spot in my heart for Head over Heels, which had a really weird world and allowed you to play with two different characters whose abilities complemented each others'

Games

From Clara Fernández-Vara:

• Metal Gear - the original game, not the NES. It was the graphics limitations of the MSX2 that gave way to the stealth mechanics. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is also the MG game nobody's played.

• Antarctic Adventure + Penguin Adventure - A racing game with a penguin. The sequel has a variety of items/power ups, dinosaurs, and was Kojima's first commercial game. 

• Vampire Killer - Yeah, it's Castlevania but unlike any of the other Castlevania games - a lot of keys and merchants and items, advances mechanics that would appear in later games. 

• Aleste 2 - Shoot'em ups were not the MSX forte, but this one is quite spectacular - with anime intros, really fast, it was an MSX exclusive. Also features a woman pilot protagonist.

• Road Fighter - Top down driving game, not too complicated but really fun. Has aged well, I think.

From Bennett Foddy:

• Maze of Galious

• Penguin-Kun Wars

Games

From Bennett Foddy:

• Cannon Fodder - both a dead evolutionary branch but also still compelling and playable

• Syndicate - same again but in a different way

• The Settlers - this series is still going especially in Germany! But the first one is great, an econ sim

• It Came From the Desert - find out what ‘interactive movie’ used to mean

• Another World - the favorite game of nearly every famous Japanese game director

• Speedball 2

• Paradroid 90 - original C64 Paradroid is great but not very accessible

• Midwinter - very interesting open world recruit-em-up from the author of Lords of Midnight

• Damocles - paired with Mercenary on the C64, think ‘Outer Wilds with special relativity'

• Hunter - an open-world GTA-style game in 1991???

• Knights of the Crystallion - paired with Alley Cat on the Atari 800 by the same author, an extremely idiosyncratic hippie game

• Gods - see how graffiti-inspired demoscene art dominated the Amiga

• Lemmings - it’s surprisingly slow, but obviously interesting because of Rockstar’s current importance!

Games

From Bennett Foddy:

• Dark Castle

• Deja Vu

From Jesse Fuchs:

• Balance of Power

• Hidden Agenda

• The Fool’s Errand

• Inigo Gets Out

• Shufflepuck Cafe

Games

From Jesse Fuchs:

• Return of Heracles

• M.U.L.E.

• Bruce Lee

• Necromancer

• Eastern Front 1941

From Bennett Foddy:

• Alley Cat

• Ballblazer

• Archon (I like the Amiga version best, but it’s an Atari 800 game)

Games

From Alexander King:

• Hunt the Wumpus

• Tombstone City

• Alpiner

• Chisholm Trail

• Tunnels of Doom

• Wingwar