36 Retro Games That Quietly Turned Into Legends

Cartridges and discs once held entire worlds inside them. Somehow the magic still holds up today. Long before patches and updates, you either mastered it or you didn’t. That challenge is part of why they stuck around.

Prince of Persia

Jordan Mechner, 1989

King’s Bounty

New World Computing, 1990

Heroes of Might and Magic II

New World Computing, 1996

Civilization

Sid Meier for MicroProse, 1991

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Blizzard Entertainment, 1995

The Lost Vikings

Silicon & Synapse, Inc., 1992

Aladdin

Virgin Interactive, 1993

Need For Speed

Electronic Arts, 1994

Pizza Tycoon

Microprose, 1994

Lemmings

DMA Design, 1991

Seek and Destroy

Epic MegaGames, 1993

Prehistorik 2

Titus Interactive, 1993

Gobliiins

Coktel Vision, 1992

The Legend of Kyrandia

Westwood Studios, 1992

Golden

Axe Sega, 1989

Doom

id Software, 1993

Mortal Кombat

Midway Games, 1992

Fallout

Interplay, 1997

Diablo Blizzard

Entertainment, 1996