Reading about King's Quest and Space Quest brings back so many great memories! I think those were the first games I really played start to finish and also my introduction to "modern" fantasy. My screen back then was monochrome and the retrofitted 20MB hard drive was larger and louder than a mini PC these days. There was some part of King's Quest III at which I got stuck before climbing down the cliff, so I think I finished King's Quest IV first. Prince of Persia was also amazing. Arac and the Arachnidroid comes to my mind as well. I dropped out of our local gaming scene when everybody moved on to 286ers, so I sat out some classics, but Eye of the Beholder II & III, the Commander Keen and Indiana Jones series, and Beneath A Steel Sky were a huge thing for me back then. A friend also used to bring his PS1, so we could play Diablo together, which we already filled with head-canon and role-playing, such as never getting Griswold's name right.
