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Baldur's Gate II is the sequel to the smash hit RPG Baldur's Gate, from BioWare and Interplay. The sequel is set a few months after the first game, where it was revealed that you are one of the last descendants of Bhaal, the god of murder and destruction. You and your friends have been kidnapped by a group of assassins and imprisoned in a mysterious lair, where you and your childhood friend Imoen are subject to brutal experiments at the hands of an ancient wizard intent on awakening the dark sides of your souls.

RollerCoaster Tycoon is a simulation strategy computer game that features theme park management. Developed by MicroProse and Chris Sawyer and published by Hasbro Interactive, the game was released for Microsoft Windows on March 31, 1999 in North America and in Europe on April 12, 1999. Later that year, an expansion pack titled Corkscrew Follies (Added Attractions in Europe) was released. In 2000, a second expansion pack was released titled Loopy Landscapes.

Baldur's Gate is an RPG from BioWare and Interplay, set in the Forgotten Realms universe, using Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition rules. You play as a mage's apprentice in the city of Candlekeep during an iron shortage. Steel production is halted, tools such as farming equipment and weapons are scarce. Bandits roam the coast, seeking valuable iron, often over gold and jewels.

Planescape: Torment is a top-down RPG made by Black Isle Studios (closed in 2003) and released in 1999. This game focuses more on the story telling (the 'role playing' part of RPG) than fighting. It has some really nice and funny dialogs delivered in both voice and text. You can avoid many combat situation by talking your way out of it. Which is pretty nice. The game received very high review scores but didn't sell too well. I was hoping for a sequel after I played through it the first time on my old junky computer way back when.

Fallout 2 is a computer role-playing game published by Interplay in 1998. The second game takes place in 2241, 80 years after the first Fallout. It tells the story of the original hero's descendant and his or her quest to save their primitive tribe from starvation by finding an ancient environmental restoration machine known as the "Garden of Eden Creation Kit", or GECK.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC) is the critically acclaimed science fiction 4X turn-based strategy video game sequel to the Civilization series. Sid Meier, designer of Civilization, and Brian Reynolds, designer of Civilization II, developed Alpha Centauri after they left MicroProse to join the newly-created developer Firaxis Games. Electronic Arts released both SMAC and its expansion, Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (SMAX), in 1999.

Civilization II is the second game in the legendary strategy game series by the legendary game designer Sid Meier. You must guide a small tribe to grow and become a great empire in competition with as many as seven other tribes. You must make decisions that affect exploration, war, diplomacy, city growth, and the discovery of new technologies, the results of which will ultimately define your empire and what it is capable of achieving. Civ2 was designed for Windows from the ground up, and the "original" version is designed for Windows, not DOS.

Developed by Larian Studios, Divine Divinity is an action RPG. This game employs a top-down perspective with mouse-based movement and actions. Combat is fast and geared towards experienced gamers.

The gameworld allows for nonlinear exploration and questing. Character development is a customizable class-based system.

Don't be put off by the goofy title, this game is a gem.

Developed by Maxis, The Sims is a simulator of everyday life. The brainchild of Will Wright, this game allows you to create families of virtual persons and let them run wild. The virtual persons, or Sims, can be controlled directly by the player or allowed to make decisions on their own. Different personality traits determine how each Sim behaves and interacts with their environment. Players can create and furnish environments for their Sims or download user-created content online. Create your little-thug Sim, and let him breed with and bully all the Sims he wants.

Ultima 7 is an RPG from Origin Systems. You play as the Avatar, and are once again summoned to the world of Britannia. 200 years have passed in Britannia since your previous adventures, and the land is plagued by troubles occuring all at once. A bizzarre series of ritualistic murders have been committed, magic is crumbling, mages are going insane, and a zealous cult called "The Fellowship" is becoming widely accepted to the point where it holds much political power.