A list of games which I either really loved, that had a big impact on me or which just played for ridiculous amounts of time (like, years). The more I shifted towards MMOs, the less games are on the list, unsurprisingly. For MMOs the year I started is given, usually.
- 1992: (not my own) GameBoy: Dr. Mario, Castlevania, Tetris, Parodius
- 1993-1994: SNES: Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, Super Pang, Super Tennis, F-Zero, Street Fighter II
- 1995: First PC: King’s Quest VII, Sim City, The Lion King, Fate of Atlantis, Theme Park
- 1996: Worms, Blade of Destiny, Star Trail, Shadows over Riva
- 1997: First own PC: Ascendancy, Quake, Quake II, WarCraft II, The Settlers II, Diablo, Syndicate Wars
- 1998: StarCraft, Action Quake 2, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Age of Empires, Jedi Knight, Dungeon Keeper, MechCommander, Commandos
- 1999: Quake III (launch day), Baldur’s Gate, Dune 2000, Jagged Alliance 2, Worms 2, Anno 1602
- 2000: HoMM III, Diablo II, Planetarion, Planescape: Torment
- 2002: GBA: Golden Sun, Mario’s Picross, Dr. Mario
- 2003: Ragnarok Online, WarCraft III, Anno 1503
- 2006: WoW (May/Nov), Tantra Online Beta, KotOR
- 2007: ROSE Online
- 2008: Warhammer Online (launch day)
- 2009: LotRO
- 2010: XBox360: TBC
- 2011: SW:TOR (launch day)
- 2012: Diablo III, although the majority of my play time was 2016 after the AH reboot
- 2013: EVE Online
- 2014: WildStar (launch day), AC 2
- 2015: Marvel Heroes
- 2016: Guild Wars 2 (started 2015), Mass Effect 1+2, WoW: Legion (as a 3-monther tourist, had stopped in 2014)
- 2017: Fallout Shelter, Mass Effect 3
- 2018: SW:TOR (came back after 7 years and played a lot)
- 2019: Started with FFXIV, also came back to WoW for BfA, Borderlands 3
- 2020: Rediscovered EVE Online as my main game and played a lot, until WoW’s Shadowlands launched, some SWTOR in the summer
- 2021: WoW, Horizon: Zero Dawn, EVE, FFXIV
- 2022: Mostly FFXIV at the start, then mostly WoW, also some GW2