Not the answer you're looking for but there is nothing that screams "1996" more to me than vehicle FPS games like Necrodome. This genre was everywhere between 94 and 97 and peaked in 96 before disappearing almost overnight.

For me it's 1987-1997 but 1996 was a peak.

A game like Necrodome could only have come out in 1996. It couldn't have come out in 95 or 97.