10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Are Over 20 Years Old
5. Command And Conquer
The real-time strategy genre is tied with the 90s. This isn't to say there are no great modern incarnations, but if you needed to find one point in time in which the genre experienced anything akin to a golden era, it's the 90s.
C&C was released in 1995 and developed by Westwood studios, who developed the popular Dune II, thought to be the father of modern real-time strategy games. Dune II may be the originator of many RTS tropes like unit micromanagement and resource juggling, but Command And Conquer took these ideas, made them better and never looked back.
There are a plethora of C&C sequels, ports and expansion packs each one adding to an already storied franchise. As a side note, the franchise's use of real actors for cutscenes may be seen as something of a dead fad, but nothing is better than seeing Joseph D. Kucan's Kane delivering some of the best scenery chewing dialogue in the history of acting.