Favorite games from the late 90’s-late 2000’s?

was pretty big into command & conquer back in the day (specifically red alert 2 & yuri's revenge). that whole genre (real-time strategy games) is pretty much dead now. there's some official re-releases out there, but the games still don't play nice with modern pcs.

Wowwww command and conquer I forgot about that series, when all my family had was a shitty family computer that was one of only like 4 games on it lmao. I’m pretty sure it was red alert lol, I still remember Tim curry being on there and it’s all I could remember. Fun fun game.

I love playing the Streets of Rage series with my dad!
Also I love the first generation Pokemon games. It's my favorite generation to play competitively, the jank makes it so much fun, gotta love it. Game Freak are cowards for removing no recharge Hyper Beam.

used to really like pokemon i think i dropped off of it after emerald and i look on the new stuff and i dont really mess with it anymore doesnt appeal maybe but the old stuff is still great, Stadium i still revisit frequently. 

streets of rage is one i played like in 2019 when i got an emulator i like sega stuff so i think i liked it, was a big fatal fury guy though.

Stadium is awesome, it's a bit funny to think that a game that came out in 1999 still has better animations than its successors from more than two decades later. Gens 1, 2, and 3 are great, 100% agree with you there.  I grew up in the DS era with Google searching blocked on my tablet so I didn't even know Pokemon was anything but a card game until some kid came to school with his 3DS and copy of Moon. Funniest part was that I'd had a 3DS for about a year at that point, I'd even been on the eShop, but had no idea that Pokemon games existed. The only reason I begged my parents for a 3DS was so that I could play Mario Party... alone. I was a weird child and Mario Party compilations on YouTube Kids were a powerful thing I guess. Tangent aside, my first game was Ultra Sun, I'm pretty biased towards Gen 7 as a result. I'm mainly of the belief that post-3DS era is when the mainline Pokemon games started to go down in quality, only acceptions being that X&Y are incredibly underwhelming and that Legends Arceus was awesome. I can see why people are iffy with the 3DS games and even the DS games though. Pokemon games are very formulaic and it's definently easy to become disenchanted with them after a few playthroughs.

I play SoR on emulator too, I have an anniversary Atari console that can emulate a big chunk of retro console games if you put them on its SD. It's pretty funny playing GBA games with an Atari controller on a flat screen in 2024 to say the least. I've recently been fascinated with how CRTs cause colors to bleed across the screen and how older games use that to their advantage graphically. I saw a post showing that SoR's streetlight beams are dithered pixels, and how on CRT it makes characters under it look illuminated rather than just partially obscured like on an HD display. I've been meaning to pick up a CRT so I can play all these older games with 'authentic' graphics.

My bad for the thread derailment, I tend to go on tangents 🤦‍♂️