This one will, I’m sure, be completely unheard of to most of you, which, again, proves that there’s no justice in the world. The author, Tom Proudfoot, earned so little money from registrations that he stopped making games. 
And yes, I did register, even though I was relatively poor at the time.
Natuk is a shareware role-playing game, of the “customizing characters, then exploring and fighting a lot” kind. Nothing new there, right? But the game had two qualities that made it take up weeks and weeks of my life.
The first was that it was, in a way, original, because you play “the bad guys” – or at least the guys who are always stereotyped as being bad. It’s a fantasy game, but you can’t create humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, etc. – instead, your characters will be orcs, goblins, trolls, giants and so on! The game has the so-called “good races”, but they’re among the many enemies you’ll face (of course, you’ll also fight enemies among your races… they’re not nice or united, after all).
The second quality was this: it was brilliantly designed. Many fights seemed impossible, yet when you managed to win, they would have been battles to remember. The combat system was great – turn-based, but with so many options, yet they all made sense. Want to try to cut one of the foe’s legs so you can run back a little and catch your breath? You can. Want to blind him? You can. Cut off an arm? You can.
Of course, so could they do the same to you. 
Unlike most other games, after a while, your battle-scarred characters were really “battle-scarred”!
After hours of playing, you’d end up really knowing your characters, optimizing them into an almost perfect fighting force, greater than the sum of its parts. And you’d also begin to care about them. Combats were so epic that, even with some losses, you’d rarely want to reload – which made you really try to keep all of your guys alive… and with all their original limbs.
Other than Spiderweb Software, nobody makes games like this anymore – and even these aren’t, IMO, as good as Natuk.
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do you know what this one games was called…it was played on the computer and you went back in time and met ben franklin with some times machine and there were three players one was a geeky looking guy and a blonde girl and each one went to another place in time???????
Day of the Tentacle. Brilliant game.