Aside from one section where you ride through a winding canyon and fight various other biker gangs to get their gear, there's no real riding to do. To be fair, while I included it in this list, Full Throttle isn't really a game about motorcycles or motorcycling. At the end, he finally manages to exonerate himself and the Polecats, saves motorcycling, and then rides off into the sunset after an extremely satisfying final chapter. Along the way, he gets mixed up with a mysterious mechanic named Maureen, a plucky investigative reporter from out East, and a handful of other weirdos and fringers. The rest of the game revolves around Ben's quest to clear his name, spring the Polecats from prison, and bring Corley's real killer to justice.

After a chance meeting with Old Man Corley on a stretch of lonely highway, Ben and the Polecats get tangled up in corporate politics and, as part of a hostile takeover, are framed for the bike mogul's brutal murder. Players take on the role of Ben, the tough, laconic, gruff-voiced leader of a biker gang called the Full-Throttle Polecats. Full Throttle takes place in some undetermined, vaguely-defined, cyberpunk-cum-post-apocalyptic future where high-tech biker gangs rule the western highways and only one motorcycle manufacturer is left in the world-Corley Motors.

Now that we got the history lesson out of the way, let's talk about the actual game. They're extremely engaging, but they play slow and require a bit more thinking around corners than most modern games do. Action is largely static (or played out through animated cutscenes), and gameplay is a lot of point-and-click environment exploration and puzzle solving. Unlike more common platformers or side-scrollers popular in that era, the SCUMM games look and play almost like animated graphic novels. I'll be straight with you guys, Full Throttle isn't just my favorite game on this list, it's in my top five favorite games ever. Originally released in 1995, Full Throttle is one of LucasArts' SCUMM-based graphic adventure games. For those of you who don't know, from about 1987 to 1997, LucasArts released thirteen graphic adventure games- Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit the Road, etc.-that combined sharp, clever writing, challenging puzzles, great (for the time) graphics, and fantastic soundtracks to make some of the most memorable games of the 80s and 90s.

Rating: 5 out of 5 pre-regulation, Destroyer-class, solid-fuel recoil boosters.

Platform: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita.

Developer: LucasArts/Double Fine Productions (Remastered).

Video games from the 90s