I wasn't writing games in 1995 but I suspect you are mistaken. Fortunately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_in_video_gaming tells us about the major games that year; unfortunately there are 33 of them. Descent and Mortal Kombat 3 are the ones I remember. https://github.com/drguildo/Descent/blob/master/MAIN/AUTOMAP... Descent is written in C++ (note the "//" comments) but it's a very C-styled C++, not even with classes. MK3 I don't have any idea, but it was eventually released for a lot of platforms with different CPUs, so I doubt it was written in assembly.
>Descent is written in C++ (note the "//" comments) but it's a very C-styled C++, not even with classes
That is C. Lots of C compilers supported // comments, like watcom which they used. Notice the file extension says it is C. Notice it uses absolutely no C++ features at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoaster_Tycoon
Still using ASM in 1999. Go look at quake 3 which was when id started into C++. Notice how it is barely C++. It seems odd to "suspect I am mistaken" rather than look at the evidence which lines up exactly with what I said.
Thanks for helping me look at the evidence! Maybe you're right. Do you want to pick another two or three random games from that list and figure out what language they're written in? Or figure out what MK3 was written in? I was trying but then I ran out of time while writing my comment.
I don't think RollerCoaster Tycoon is a good piece of evidence because it's famous largely for being written in assembly at a time when most games had already abandoned it.
(Sadly, I don't think it would be odd at all to ignore the evidence, but I aspire to better than that.)
