The Secret of Monkey Island / Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
(the 2nd and 3rd point&click adventure games I ever played
=> best sequel ever [so great that I consider them as one game] + best p&c adventure game ever + among the funniest games ever created = my all-time favourite game)
Civilization*
(some sort of "full" history game was what I had hoped for when I first played computer games; after some research I discovered that the game of my dreams [and even far more] had already been developed by a guy named Sid Meier and had been released by a company called MicroProse one year before; Civ not only became my favorite strategy franchise ever, today I even think the first Civilization is the best game ever created)
Dune II
(one of the first RTS games ever; I played it when it came out and of course I had played nothing like this before; it made RTS one of my favourite genres and despite - or should I say because of - all its legendary flaws [e.g. spice harvesters] it's still one among my most favourite RTS games today)
Dungeon Keeper*
(best of the great Bullfrog games - even better than Syndicate and Magic Carpet; most surprising, original and funny RTS ever)
SimCity 2000
(Will Wright's best game of his best creation imo; I never played the original SimCity, but I spent hundreds of hours with SimCity 2000; right behind Civilization ["re-invent the history of human mankind"], SimCity ["build your own city"] marks the best execution of the most obvious game ideas ever imo)
Formula One Grand Prix*
(the first game of Geoff Crammond's brilliant racing simulation series)
The Settlers*
(you either loved or hated Blue Byte's slow paced unique building simulation game; like several hundred thousands of my fellow countrymen I loved it to death and I still think it's unique today; it's enormous influence on Germany's gaming market can still be seen today)
Wave Race: Blue Storm
(my first console game; I had played plenty of good to great racing games on PC before, but Wave Race was completely different; the water physics were stunning and it's probably my most played console game to date)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
(my first Zelda game; when I played it, I understood why Nintendo is legendary among console gamers - even among the ones, who don't like Nintendo)
Flower
(my most surprising and most pleasant game experience of the last decade)
*Civilization II, Dungeon Keeper 2, Grand Prix 2, The Settlers II were objectively, subjectively and retrospectively the better games, but it was always the first game of these franchises that blew me away.
