thanks to ‘video ezy’ for the $1 weekly rentals; ‘PC powerplay’ (iirc) for the game demos; everyone within a 4 km radius of my home, whom I hassled to buy chocolates so I could win an n64; and friends with better computers.
Honourable game mentions: Abe’s Oddysee, BZFlag, Diablo, Lemmings, Worms, SimCity 2000, and a suite of super old PC games I cannot for the life of me remember.