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:



=D

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

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)
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^^^ 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

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. 

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.

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.