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Age of Empires, chess, checkers, risk, warlight (Basically risk with airlifts), World in Conflict(strategy game with possibly the best graphics I have seen in a strategy game, fun mods, good campaign and multiplayer, good features), Medieval Total War, various command and conquer games, Starcraft 1 and 2, and Star Wars Empire at War.

Grand Theft Auto III

(because it's one of the early sandbox-project nanostrategy game)

final fantasy