i learned english from warcraft 2. some of my earliest memories are “your soundcard works perfectly! it doesnt get any better than this!” and “lok-thar!”

commander keen. there really is no need to play 1-3, 4-6 is where it’s at. just make sure you pirate the non-buggy version (there’s a broken version of one or more of these games floating around abandonware sites where it looks like it works but the save game feature forgets to save your keys, which breaks some of the levels if you reload).