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So what games were the most memorable for you? What games really pulled you in with their compelling stories, beautiful soundtracks, cool designs and awesome characters? What games could you not wait to get back to playing?

Probably the game that had the biggest impact on me as a child was Final Fantasy VII. For one thing, it was long. And it was made considerably longer by my lack of gaming skills at the time. But there was so much more than that, of course. It was the first Playstation game I bought, and one of the first RPGs (I can't remember if I played FF7 or Super Mario RPG first). It had an amazing soundtrack that I still love listening to today, an intriguing story, and characters that you became emotionally invested in. I don't want to put out any spoilers, but I'm sure you all know what event I'm referring to when I say that a certain part made me cry. I loved how customizable the materia system allowed your characters to be, and while they're nothing special by today's standards, the FMVs really blew me away back then.

Pikachu,

Some of us are OLD.  When I was a child there was no play station.  There were no home computers.  Games to me were board games.  I know, those make anyone now bored - but so it goes.

So I am going to dip way back into the way back and pick Stratego.  You needed another person to play with as there were NO computer aids...

I know OLD....


Erin

Well, I actually started out gaming back in the NES days, so I'm older than the Playstation era. But yeah, anyone is welcome to talk about any sort of games from their childhood. It doesn't necessarily have to be video/computer games.

For me it was Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic, like the 2002 one
It was also like the first RPG I ever played.

I play it all the time even now, and I am proud to say that I have not even once selected a male character, 6 yr old me was on to something :P
Its just so fun to hear the sexist drivel coming out of the mouth of some Sith captain or whatever and then just force choke him till he dies. Actually come to think of it I tend to force choke everyone till they die, I'm a total arsehole in that game XD
It really is a great way to vent anger, and so satisfying to beat all your enemies without even touching them :D

+ playing it on 'the dark side' just makes me feel so delightfully fiendish
I love it soooooo much :D

My favorite games to get all nostalgic about are: "Zelda: A Link to The Past" for the SNES, "Final Fantasy Tactics" for the Playstation, and all of the early Pokemon games on the original and advanced Gameboy (2nd gen was my favorite).

Also a bit of this:

Quote from: ErinWDK on October 21, 2014, 08:24:23 AM
Stratego

My favourite games from my childhood are definitely Donkey Kong 64 and Super Mario 64. I absolutely love those kind of games (Banjo Kazooie is another one) and it would be amazing if they created HD remakes of them or something for the current gen consoles!

It's a game that's not as old, but I would absolutely love to play Timesplitters : Future Perfect again! That was the most played game on the PS2 in my home haha, that and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4

Space Invaders, Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man.

When I was a kid, you had to go to an arcade and put a quarter in a machine.

I'm sure in another generation the kids will ask, "What's a quarter?"

Quote from: Jill F on October 22, 2014, 03:37:58 PM
When I was a kid, you had to go to an arcade and put a quarter in a machine.

Yeah, I did that too. I remember the huge arcade that was downtown for a year or two in the late 80's/early 90's. Then once the mall opened on the other side of town. That put the nail in their coffin. But now that arcade is a pathetic shell of its former self.

But we always had a home video game system of some sort. I remember my parents had Pong. Then we got an Atari 2600 when I was around 5 or 6. I was really into Combat and Pac-Man. But we had tons of other titles too.

Oh man, where to start?
Board games: Clue, connect four, Nightmare (a video-board game)
Video Games: All the way back to the NES with Tetris for an all-time favorite!!!! (I recently found my second gameboy, with Tetris still inside. New batteries and it worked like a charm!) Final Fantasy 3 (3 in the US, 5 elsewhere, I think) on the SNES, FF10 on the PS1.
Good stuff. The reminds me, I think I have a version of FF3 for the playstation somewhere....

Favorite early childhood games: (ages 5-10)
-Disney's Coaster (PC)
-Lemmings (PC)
-Super Mario Kart (SNES)
-Madden Football '93 (SNES)
-Nickelodeon GUTS (SNES)
-Number Munchers (Apple II-E) (By far my favorite computer game in school...)
-NCAA Basketball (SNES)
-Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (PC/SNES)
-Wizardry (Apple II-E) (my obsession in 3rd/4th grade.)

Favorite later childhood games: (ages 10-18)
-Roller Coaster Tycoon / Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (PC)
-NoLimits Coaster (PC)
-Pokemon Red/Blue (Game Boy)
-Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal (Game Boy Color)
-Pokemon Snap (N64)
-Pokemon Stadium (N64) (Are we seeing a theme here? :P I probably spent a good 400 hours playing Pokemon games between 7th and 11th grades, hand-leveling every single one of my pokemon up to level 100, opening my own gym, and trying to become the best Pokemon trainer in the school. That was my official childhood gaming obsession that my entire life revolved around.)
-Mario Kart 64 (N64)
-Super Smash Bros (N64)
-Marvel vs. Capcom (Arcade) (the only button-masher fighting game I was ever remotely decent at.)
-Minesweeper (PC) (Yes, I was that much of a nerd...)


And since you didn't necessarily say "video gaming," you just said "gaming...
-Magic: the Gathering. My other biggest obsession, which I played competitively all the way from 5th grade until my 2nd year of college. (Never did very well, but I spent a LOT of time building decks and playtesting them against my other decks.)
-Pokemon TCG (not that anyone ever actually played the game... the cards were more of a status symbol than anything.)
-Yu-Gi-Oh (More in late high school, but I still spent a lot of time playing it.)

I also very fondly remember my gaming nights that I had with my mom and dad, where we'd play Hearts against each-other every Tuesday night. That was always fun! And I also had great fun playing chess against my dad. (And beating him. :) )

Pokemon Red/Yellow/Blue/Gold/SIlver/Crystal
Spyro the Dragon 1/2/3
Croc: Legends of the Gobbos
Sonic the Hedgehog 1/2/3
Crash Bandicoot

What happened to kick the can and charades?  Or all those homemade games we played outside.

Quote from: ErinWDK on October 21, 2014, 08:24:23 AM
Pikachu,

Some of us are OLD. 

LOL I still have Stratego, on shelf collecting dust!

G.I. Joe dolls in boy mode . . . Barbie & Friends with 'lil sister and girl next door!!!

Quote from: LordKAT on October 22, 2014, 05:52:27 PM
What happened to kick the can . . . homemade games we played outside.

Yep yep!! "Tap tap 123 here I come" 'They' don't allow kids play outside anymore, something to do with 'danger stranger'?

Loved Statego! Also non-electronic Battleship and Barrel O' Monkeys.

I still have a half barrel of monkeys. Remember cootie?

Operation! The goofy game for goofy doctors!

I had a barrel of monkeys 40 years ago.

What was that tag line again?

Board games was something we played at other people's houses. We had rocks, sticks and pine cones to play with.

I spent my time outside as a kid doing things like riding my bike, swinging while listening to music (and singing along)... Some kid down the road had a trampoline at one point and we sometimes played on that.

Pretty much all my gaming was done electronically, though.

I wonder if there's any money in a transgender version of Operation? The patient in the original is named Cavity Sam by the way. Can you name all the ailments?

The pinball machine that was up the road from my nan and pops place
Any game involving a deck of cards.  (Game of 52 pick up anyone?)
Hide and go seek.
Tip and chase, whoever posts after me is it

Red Rover.

Outdoor games:

Street hockey (lived on roller blades growing up)
Home run derby in my acre yard
Touch football occasionally

Board games
Monopoly
Stratgeo as well!
A bit of chess
Scrabble

Video games
First one: Mario for Nintendo
Mario Kart series
Home Alone for Genesis
Utopia
One of the Command and Conquer games, used to use link cable, hook up 2 playstations and 2 tvs and play against each other
Shining Force 2 (first RPG)
SimCity
Civilization series
Perfect Dark
Golden Eye
Super Smash Brothers
Final Fantasy Tactics
Disgaea
Marvel Vs. Capcom as well
Madden series
X-com series
Tactics Ogre (i think its called)
Elder Scrolls series

hmm, I think thats most of em, tho I am sure someone will post one and i will be all, omg how'd i miss that!?!

This says all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr6AU2iaA7Q

=D

Now that brings back some memories! The theme music even more than the game. I used to love watching Ducktales. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeRx124RfHY

A bit of music from the NES game "Deja Vu"

My kids and I 'grew up' on this. Any others here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJrbsGab2k&list=PL5lJiuW_rJM-z-dmTC7t1JdsJgP7RTdTW

My toon's name has always been "Scratch" (the dog)

So many, it's hard to choose just one, or even just a few.

I guess I first have to go back to the Commodore Amiga, that's where I played some of the games I have so much fondness for. Things like Eye of the Beholder (a primitive version of something like Legend of Grimrock, set in the Forgotten Realms world), and... well, one of my favourites was little more than a bunch of blocky pixels on the screen, called Treasures Of The Savage Frontier. Another D&D game, set in the Forgotten Realms world.

Another was a game called Lords of Chaos. It was a very, very simplistic game about summoning creatures as a wizard, to do battle with the summoned creatures of an AI wizard.

Oh, and Lemmings. Who can forget Lemmings? So simple yet so insanely addictive. Were that made today, it would be an app, not a game, lol.

The original Elite. Hours and hours and hours spent in that. Amazing how it managed to create a universe you felt a part of even though it was very, very primitive, graphically.

Moving forward, I guess the game that defined my childhood was Secret of Mana, for the SNES. SO much fondness for that game. One of the best RPG's ever made, IMO. In a time where Square were lords of all they surveyed.

Oh, and the original Mortal Kombat. Only arcade game I ever beat. To this day.

It's hard to be nostalgic about games more recent than that, since they are constantly remade, or re-released, they're not hard to get a hold of. FFVII re-defined my view of what made a game great, although if I'm honest, I prefer VIII.

And Jade Cocoon. To this day I have no idea why I was obsessed with that game. But I was, and then some.

Quote from: Sephirah on October 23, 2014, 01:25:11 PM
It's hard to be nostalgic about games more recent than that, since they are constantly remade, or re-released, they're not hard to get a hold of.

Well, for I, GTA 3 qualifies as something to be nostalgic about. I was a huge fan of the first two versions of the game. But checking out GTA 3 was so awesome. I still play it to this day. (Although, I haven't played it recently since my controller is trashed and I don't have the money to replace it at this time.)

I once had an ATARI 2600 console. Pitfall and frogger wherealways  favorurites to play

I was born in 1957,the only people who had computers were NASA and the Army.Computers were the size of a battleship and cost nearly as much

I was born in 1942.

Favorite game and still is. play now computer monopoly as Janet these days.
Chess (high school champion)

Quote from: Carrie Liz on October 22, 2014, 05:26:36 PM
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-Lemmings (PC)
...

^^^ Yes, this!!!

Also, the Quest for Glory series that my family played together... Duke Nukem 3D and Quake II, both of which I sat and watched my father play through for hours as he tried to make it from beginning to end without taking any damage at all...

Before that Nova 9 and Stellar 7, which were hours of incredibly frustrating fun.  Earthsiege and Earthsiege II.  Total Annihilation... Independence War and its sequel... Starsiege:Tribes.

Most memorable storylines?  Homeworld - that damn game made me cry on mission two.

This is kind of blending a lot of adolescence with childhood, but there it is.

The first game I "properly" played and completed was Duke Nukem 3D.  I still enjoy it on occasion, it's just great when you want to switch off your brain and blow ->-bleeped-<- up.

Risk
monopoly
Trouble
Space invaders
GORF
Phoenix
Atari 2600 - Tank, asteroids, barnstormers, space raiders
pen and Paper - Dungeon and Dragons, marvel Super heroes, Star Frontiers

Alex Kidd in Miracle World, built in on the Sega Master System!

EDIT: Oops already mentioned. Anyway,

Alex Kidd! all the way

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Kingdom Hearts, for sure. Yep. And I don't know about beautiful story or compelling sound track but I played the frick out of the Sly Cooper games. And Jak and Daxter.  8)

We used to have the original lan parties with an rs232 cable and two Atari STs. Played f16 falcon and (a pirate copy of) stunt car racer for hours.

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definitely Runescape when i was a child. I met my best friends on there who still are my friends today and that I talk to regularly. It was very much an escape from depression and reality. I have no idea where I would be today if i hadn't played this game. :)

Kingdom Hearts was definitely my favorite game as a child, but I also played the ->-bleeped-<- out of Crash Bandicoot: Warped, Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, etc.

I have a soft spot for Super Mario RPG

Hours and hours of my youth were spent playing Sim City on the SNES as well as the old 486 machines in the computer lab.

I also remember enjoying the Space Quest series (1-3) and Quest for Glory 1&2.

If we want to really go back, my first actual computer game was a WWII flight simulator - Ace of Aces. It cost my parents $65 dollars in 80's money, it was on a 5 1/4" floppy and I had to learn how to use a boot disk and run it on MS-DOS shell. Not bad for a 6 year old. :laugh:

Games which are sweet memories because of story line?  Baldur's Gate I, II. Planescape: Torment. Before that... Eye of Beholder 1,2,3 but there was no story line (where there kind was - just kill all monsters, then kill the biggest monster and get out alive).
Doom II (hours on LAN deathmatch) :D

So hard to choose. For me, it was probably Fallout 2 on PC. Still the best RPG I've ever played, and I'm a sucker for post-apocalypse. I've probably bought that game three different times in my life. Highly recommended!

Also I need to mention Pokemon Red. I still remember that flu-ridden Christmas Eve when I unwrapped it beneath my grandma's 15-foot Christmas Tree. Oh the happy, happy memories.

Baldur's Gate 2 on PC. (still my favorite game ever)
Golden Sun on GBA
The Smurfs on Game Gear ( :D )

But definitely Baldur's Gate 2, Icewind Dale 2... Still today. Above most of the recent games.

I remember the christmas I got BG2. I read the manual a few times, 300 pages, as if it was a real book. Best day of my life. Even the manual and the game guide were awesome. :')

For me it's Metal Gear Solid 1 back on the PS1 which also holds a spot as my favorite game ever. It also kicked off a long standing love for the series.

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For me it's Metal Gear Solid 1 back on the PS1 which also holds a spot as my favorite game ever. It also kicked off a long standing love for the series.

It's all made with currently existing technology

Quote from: Jessica_S on February 01, 2015, 05:47:21 PM
It's all made with currently existing technology

the tech in the game or the game?..I'm not sure I understand what you mean

Quotecurrently existing technology

It's a quote from the original MGS in the expository bit at the start of the mission when they're explaining the CODEC and such.
Something that was, presumably, hard to translate from japanese.
My friends and I used to quote it when talking about mundane things like blenders :)

Sigh....

Nevermind

Should have gone with:

Snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAKE!

Quote from: Jessica_S on February 01, 2015, 06:48:40 PM
It's a quote from the original MGS in the expository bit at the start of the mission when they're explaining the CODEC and such.
Something that was, presumably, hard to translate from japanese.
My friends and I used to quote it when talking about mundane things like blenders :)

Sigh....

Nevermind

Should have gone with:

Snake? SNAKE?! SNAAAAAAAAAKE!

*cue music*

CONTINUE         E X I T

Pac-Man World 2 on the original Xbox.
It's this weird platformer from the 2000's that no one seems to remember except for my brother and me, but we played the h*ll out of it. Our Xbox bit the dust when we were still really young though and weve never been able to find it in any stores since then    :((((((


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Zelda a link to the past presented a huge swing in my wants from a game. Before then ninja gaiden and the mario games were great. After playing Zelda my wants in games drastically changed. must have a graet story with loads of things to do(I get bored quick). So rpgs take the cake.

Don't Break The Ice
Life
Monopoly
Chutes And Ladders
Checkers
And, I don't know if it's considered a game or toy, but, Rock'em Sock'em Robots

If talking about nostalgia, the paper dolls mother drew for us are the first that come to mind. I guess we were quite poor, although I didn't know it then.
Othello, Pretend, Tigers, and Doubt...
I also loved making up stories with my mother on walks with her and my sisters through the woods, and with my uncle while rowing through the archipelago near my grandparents' house.

From childhood? Hmm.... that would have been lots of different Atari 2600 games. Yar's Revenge and Warlords stand out to me. Oh, and Pitfall (1 & 2). Oh, I also used to love my Vectrex. Wish I still had it...

COOTIES

Quote from: Cassi on March 07, 2018, 01:34:06 PM
COOTIES

Lol, I had that, too!

Very surprised no-one has mentioned this:

Sonic the Hedgehog

No, not that monstrosity from 2006, the original 1,2,3 & Knuckles. I got my Mega Drive (Genesis for Americans) and Sonic 2 and played it to death. I eventually completed it, which was quite an achievement for a 6 year old. Even adults today struggle with the final zone of that game. To this day hearing the music for the game gives me nostalchills. Then they made Sonic 3.

Holy moley, it took everything great from Sonic 2 and made it better. Expanded shields, multiple special and bonus stages, mini-bosses and a story that featured mini-cutscenes. And then Sonic & Knuckles...

It just picked up where Sonic 3 left off, added Knuckles as a playable character with his own story. New routes were opened in the original zones and the final bosses featuring Super Sonic. I still consider it the best boss battle in video game history.

here goes, from zx spectrum and comodore 64

Jet set willy,  bubble bobble, comando, Elite, maniac mansion, The last ninja, Defender of the crown, Gauntlet, Bomb jack, 1942, crazy kong, frogger, donkey kong.

to name a few.

Sonja.

Quote from: Sonja on March 18, 2018, 10:10:04 PM
here goes, from zx spectrum and comodore 64

Jet set willy,  bubble bobble, comando, Elite, maniac mansion, The last ninja, Defender of the crown, Gauntlet, Bomb jack, 1942, crazy kong, frogger, donkey kong.

to name a few.

Sonja.

LOL, Donkey Kong is the only game I recognized, lol.

Quote from: Sonja on March 18, 2018, 10:10:04 PM
here goes, from zx spectrum and comodore 64

Jet set willy,  bubble bobble, comando, Elite, maniac mansion, The last ninja, Defender of the crown, Gauntlet, Bomb jack, 1942, crazy kong, frogger, donkey kong.

to name a few.

Sonja.

I played most of those on an Amstrad CPC6128..

Quote from: Sonja on March 18, 2018, 10:10:04 PM
and comodore 64

Speaking of Commodores first game ever played was Zork I (http://mentalfloss.com/article/29885/eaten-grue-brief-history-zork) on brother-in-law' Radio Shack TRS-80, via modem no less (latest thing!), connected to UNC Wilmington's mainframe. Used to play all night might still have the cheat map somewhere . . .

Written in MDL at MIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)) it was one of the first "interactive" games ever written!

Quote"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here."

Is this where my love of AI and FantasyLand comes from?? The best interactive game today is our Real Lives!

You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

Spyro year of the dragon, Spyro Riptos rage, Army Men sarges Heroes, Army men RTS, ALL of the Halo games, and pretty much every real time strategy game under the sun. Oh yeah, and I can't forget about banjo kazooie and tooie! I loved theses games when I was a kid, and I still play them frequently today.

These games are not particularly feminine I guess, as barley any Women play them, but I enjoy them quite a bit.

Spin the bottle lmao  :icon_kiss:

Civilization!!!!! I would sit up in my dad's office just playing it every night until forced to get off. Console wise I also went towards strategy games a lot, particularly Japanese SRPGs like Shining Force and Warsong/Langrisser which I have played through a number of times. Also honorable mention to old school point and clicks, particularly the original Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, and Grim Fandango (though that was a bit later).

I used to play Commodore 64 and Atari/Amiga mostly, earliest game I remember ever playing was M.U.L.E. and Stargoose on the 64, faves on the Atari were Dungeon Master, Arkanoid, Populous, Syndicate and Switchblade, Lotus Esprit Turbo/Buggy Boy and Typhoon Thompson.

From the Mega Drive era, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Sonic I guess.

PS1 era Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, FF7/8, Silent Hill

God, this thread is just a list down memory lane.

Robot Ron, Vindicator, Barbarian: Amastrad CPC464
Shadow of the Beast 2, Gauntlet, SWIV, Monkey Island : Amiga 1500+

I didn't own a console until well after the PS1 came out, but have fond memories of playing Streets of Rage, Street Fighter, Golden Axe, Probotector with friends.

Pokemon Emerald and Super Mario World (Both on GameBoy Advance)

Pokemon Emerald is my all time favorite Pokemon game. I got it when I was 10, and I still have it with the same save file from about 11 years ago now. I caught a lot of Pokemon, though I've migrated most of them to my Ultra Moon now.

Super Mario World was one of my first GBA games. I had a lot of fun with it. Though it took me about 4 years to beat :laugh: I remember even drawing my own levels on paper after playing some Super Mario World.  ;D

Quote from: PurplePelican on March 19, 2018, 04:13:34 AM
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

:laugh:  ;)

>go northeast

Grating Room
You are in a small room near the maze. There are twisty passages in the immediate vicinity.
Above you is a grating locked with a skull-and-crossbones lock.

I still love playing the first Diablo game but I do enjoy all the Diablo series.

Jas