If you want to start playing games from the Windows 3.x or the Windows 9x era, these games may be a good start to explore. These games are chosen either as personal recommendations or for their pop cultural impact.
Windows 3.x
Bang! Bang! (1990, puzzle)
Chomp (1991, arcade)
Combat Tanks (1994, arcade)
Cybersky (?, skywatching)
Get the girl (1993, puzzle)
Johnny Castaway (1992, screensavers)
Lander (1990, arcade)
Lemmings for Windows (1995, puzzle)
Missile Attack! (1992, arcade)
Ms. Chomp (1992, arcade)
Multimedia pool (1997, sport)
Neko (1991, desktop pal)
Sim city (1991, strategy)
Sim city 2000 (1993, strategy)
Symantec Dots (1991, puzzle)
Symantec Hang Man (1991, puzzle)
Symantec Memory Blocks (1991, puzzle)
TopCAT! / CAT! (1991, desktop pal)
wGoldie (?, desktop pal)
Microsoft Arcade (1993, arcade)
- Asteroids
- Battlezone
- Centipede
- Missile Command
- Tempest
Microsoft Entertainment Pack (various)
- Idlewild (1991)
- Klotski (1991)
- Pegged (1991)
- Pipedream (1991)
- Rattler race (1991)
- Reverski (1991)
- Rodents revenge (1991)
- SkiFree (1991)
- Taipei (1990)
- Tetravex (1991)
- Tetris (1990)
- TicTactics (1990)
- Tripeaks (1991)
Windows 9x
Blood II (1998, FPS)
Blood omen: Legacy of Kain (1996, action)
Carmageddon 2 (1998, race)
DemonStar (1998, action)
E-Sheep 2.0 (desktop pal)
Funny Furries 2 (1999, platform)
Gex (1995, platform)
Ignition (1997, race)
Interstate 76 (1997, race)
Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The secret files (1999, platform)
Monster eyes 95 (desktop pal)
Moorhuhn 2 (2000, FPS)
Moorhuhn 3 (2001, FPS)
Moorhuhn Winter edition (2001, FPS)
Moto racer (1997, race)
Moto racer 2 (1998, race)
Need for Speed (1994, race)
Need for Speed II (1997, race)
Need for Speed III: Hot pursuit (1998, race)
Original moorhuhn jagd (2000, FPS)
PC-spillet om Flåklypa grand prix (2000, puzzle)
Postal (1997, shooter)
Pretty good solitaire 97 (1997, cards)
Quake (1996, FPS)
Quake II (1997, FPS)
Return to castle Wolfenstein (2001, FPS)
Speed busters: American highways (1999, race)
StarCraft (1998, strategy)
Take no prisoners (1997, action)
Test drive 4 (1997, race)
Test drive 4x4 (1998, race)
Test drive 5 (1998, race)
Test drive 6 (1999, race)
Test drive: Le Mans (1999, race)
Tomb Raider (1996, action)
Tomb Raider II (1997, action)
Tomb Raider III (1998, action)
Trespasser (1998, FPS)
V-Rally (1997, race)
V-Rally 2 (2000, race)