Privateer was just utterly amazing to 12-year-old me. After years of playing Wing Commander games on rails, it felt incredible to finally be free to see the open universe and the perspective of the ordinary citizens. My only disappointment with it was that it only had some of the military and Kilrathi ships from the main games.

Such a good experience, hard to imagine replicating it these days - both because modern games are different, and because you only get to be 12 once.