Duke Nukem was a better game, and a shame the sequel never happened. That's an interesting story, too - Wired did a great writeup on it, which would be worth a read if you can find it online. Shadow Warrior was another favorite, as it also featured Duke Nukem-like humor. My all-time favorite is still the original Far Cry, with all the game play variations that were possible.
 
But Wolfenstein was my gateway drug, so I'll always have affection for it.
 
That, and DOOM, which came out shortly afterward. (BTW, the movie adaptation with Karl Urban and Dwayne Johnson - that nobody saw - is pretty good, too.) I was the office champ in deathmatch, so good at it that they'd restrict me  to the chainsaw to make it a competition. I thought I was unbeatable until I got together with a bunch of Microsoft guys, who spend an hour customizing their keyboards and then danced around me with impunity. I figured they must have been on the Windows ME team, which would explain a lot.

I used to like Hexen, about the same vintage as Doom. I have not played any games of this type for years.

I could never get into the fantasy type games as a rule, but I did play Ultima quite a bit with a friend when I was a kid. I actually met the guy who wrote it a few years ago when I had him as a client - he told me he wrote the whole series in BASIC. Richest guy I have ever met too - he made an absolute fortune out of that game. He even financed his own trip into space a few years ago.

Looks good...
 
I still prefer the DOOM games though, even though I could never complete them. Except for DOOM 2016 which I was able to finish on the easiest mode

Wolfenstien  3D I first was introduced to in 1994 when I moved to Germany and worked for a civilian contractors ATT shop. All the guys there were playing it, imagine it on a pc of that time period.
 
BUT TWO WORDS:    GOD MODE...

seroiusly now,
who has time to sit around and play video games?
 
where does the time go?

I'd love to relive the joy these games used to give me, but the newer ones just don't do it. I recently bought a highly-regarded game called Witcher 3. It was beautifully cinematic and technologically advanced, but they seemed to have forgotten that at its core it's supposed to be a game. There's no strategy anymore.
 
Or maybe I've just gotten older.

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I'd love to relive the joy these games used to give me, but the newer ones just don't do it. I recently bought a highly-regarded game called Witcher 3. It was beautifully cinematic and technologically advanced, but they seemed to have forgotten that at its core it's supposed to be a game. There's no strategy anymore.
 
Or maybe I've just gotten older.

Both? 
 
There's a new game from the creators of Myst called Obduction that's in full 4k.  I'm looking forward to getting that.  I always used to love getting lost in the worlds they created.

I kind of lost interest in video games when the cinematic element took over as well. I'm also not much of a fan of these modern console games with 20 zillion buttons and button combos to remember. For me the most playable controls are up/down/left/right on the keyboard, with my right hand controlling head movements with the mouse and one or two other keys to do things like change weapons or reload. 
 
I always tended to shy away from games that were set in dank, underground caverns or dark forests or industrial buildings with catwalks and pipes with steam coming out of them. Give me a nice outdoor environment. About the only game of the last 20 years I've really enjoyed was Battlefield 1942, which I played around 2002 or so. One of the best multiplayer games ever. It was so enjoyable to, say, be engaged in a dogfight in a plane, parachute out, land on a tank, go on a tank rampage, jump out of the tank and transfer to a jeep, drive like a maniac to some airstrip and take pot shots at all the chumps on the other team getting into their planes.  And not a magic spell to be seen anywhere. 

A little OT but not much ... who has seen the movie Pixels?  I watched it not expecting a whole lot and ended up thoroughly enjoying it.  Of course, I'm old enough to remember the original Pac Man, and even the primitive Pong that came even earlier.