We all know that computer games were not always as great as today, because even computers could not support any great graphics. With this evolution, especially games changed a lot and they continue changing daily. New stuff make us always want to keep on trying.


The best game of all times was voted Super Mario, and was launched in 1985. Now isn’t that great? There were three series, the second one was released in 1988 and the third one in 1990. So, Mario belongs to the 90’s too. I am sure we all know those images when Mario was jumping over poisoned mushrooms and roaches to save the Peach Princess. Boy, we were so glad when we found the Princess…

Sim City was another revolution (1993), the same as Wolfenstein (1992), and the one I remember about because my brother was still playing it 2 years ago, Mortal Kombat (1992).

Warcraft is a legend even now, there are public competitions going on (with newer versions), but is still a powerful game with many fans (released in 1994).

I observe that there was this tendence to just create an unusual world, a dream world to play in, people were attracted by all kind of monsters and creatures, they liked to fight and conquer, to destroy and build, to make war, not peace. But till the invention of Counter Strike (2000) people should be pleased with primitive heroes and science fiction scenario and worlds.

The 1990’s became the golden age of computer games and gave birth to a large number of games developers. We might find it funny right now to play a game from 1990’s, because we were used to different graphics, bigger speed, more real characters, more unusual situations. But at that time people were satisfied with what they could get, and the computer itself was a great invention to be part of their lives. There were few people who had their own computer at home, there were several places in town where we could play computer games and we were paying some money per hour…What lovely times, nowadays this sounds strange, because we each have our own computer (even laptops).

As a child, I was so happy to play Bomberman and Supaplex, and I got nervous every time a bomb exploded and I died.

Uff, I start wondering if evolution is a good thing, because we seem to forget the most wonderful memories from our childhood…But if we still talk about this 1990’s computer games it’s a good sign, isn’t it?