Your childhood-defining video games - Page 16

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Canada1550 Posts

October 31 2010 13:09 GMT

#301

Wow! So much nostalgia! Here are some that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Redline
I loved this game! I think it's really underrated. You drove around in different cars with mounted guns mauling everything and you could get out and shoot stuff FPS style (and this was way before GTA 3). Awesome single player story and had multiplayer too. Good graphics for 99' as well. I was really blown away by this game.

Deus Ex
Simply one of the best games of all time. Any true gamer should play this at least once in their life.

Delta Force 2
My first real online game along with Starcraft. Played this game competitively. I've literally spent thousands of hours playing this. Childhood defining indeed

Few more games:

Crusader: No Remorse
Fun little game I remember.
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Interstate 76
Sick Game, sick soundtrack.
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Swat
Another fun game

Frits

11782 Posts

October 31 2010 13:18 GMT

#302

definately doom

Supamang

United States2298 Posts

October 31 2010 13:22 GMT

#303

Hugely underrated games that kept me occupied for years

Starsiege Tribes

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Tribes 2

I think these 2 were the first games that really succeeded as a FPS with jetbacks. The skill cap was so much higher than standard FPS games because you cant just point at a guy and shoot him. You had to lead your shots and predict where they were going to land clean hits. The amount of teamwork in these games was also a huge plus. Setting up defenses, sensor, outposts and whatnot provided for a broader range of tactics. I loved the Tribes series and wished it didnt get fucked over by those idiots who made Tribes Vengeance.

mdma-_-

Nauru1213 Posts

October 31 2010 13:23 GMT

#304

Age of Empires 1

Pokemon Blue

Raymen M

Anstoss 2

Age of Empires 2

Holiday Island

Anstoss 3

Warcraft III

World of warcraft =)

kojinshugi

Estonia2559 Posts

October 31 2010 13:35 GMT

#305

On October 31 2010 12:37 Mortician wrote:

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How old are you? 10?

He could be 20 and played all those at 14-15.

nakam

Sweden245 Posts

October 31 2010 13:46 GMT

#306

Commander Keen

Syndicate

The Incredible Machine

Chip's Challenge, one of few games that worked in Windows 3.11

gorchiza

Bulgaria200 Posts

October 31 2010 14:12 GMT

#307

I did not see the game which swallowed my mind as a kid back in '97
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MDK!!!

Fighting !!!

miseiler

United States1389 Posts

October 31 2010 14:14 GMT

#308

Well, childhood was defined by LADDER:

A completely diabolical game I played on my dad's Kaypro II.

As a teenager, I played these:

Doom
Warcraft 1
Gemstone III

We used to play Doom and warcraft 1 on two computers hooked together via null serial cable before the advent of ethernet. It was amazing.

Gemstone is a MUD which is still played today (now Gemstone IV). I have probably spent more time on that game overall than any other dozen games I have ever played, put together. Several thousand hours, easily.

sleepingdog

Austria6145 Posts

October 31 2010 14:19 GMT

#309

wow awsome thread...I miss the good old AoE so much, the last parts were all pretty much disappointing

also: CAVELAND - the first strategy game I ever played, released in 1995 if I remember correctly

KinosJourney2

Sweden1811 Posts

October 31 2010 14:23 GMT

#310

On October 31 2010 04:22 tarian wrote:
Turok 64

Oh god i forgot to mention Turok, that game was so damn scary and hard.
It made me shake even when i had cheats on

Deleted User 108965

1096 Posts

October 31 2010 16:00 GMT

#311

definitely legend of zelda: ocarina of time

KOPF

Finland164 Posts

October 31 2010 16:18 GMT

#312

SWAT 3
I remember playing this game so much as a kid after I got it as a birthday gift from my brother. I was so long stuck on that goddamn sewer level. Oh my god it still gives me nightmares. It's a shame that SWAT 4 wasn't nowhere near as good as 3.

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Theme Hospital
Oh man. This took many hours of my life. As a kid I remember laughing at the patients all the time (because of the odd diseases and syndromes they had (like invisibility)),

salle

Sweden5554 Posts

October 31 2010 16:43 GMT

#313

Hmm I played way too many computer games as a kid for any of them to be "defining" I think... but the absolutely most memorable were these:

For the C64 (128D) which was the first gaming console/computer our family got

Summer games
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Barbarian
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GhostBusters
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Forbidden forest (first game to scare me... I was like 5 at the time so...)
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Marble Madness

Then came the SNES

Super Mario World
Super R-Type
Mario Go-Kart
Street Fighter II

Then the PC years

Diablo
Dune2
Duke Nuken 3D
Liero

s.a.y

Croatia3840 Posts

October 31 2010 16:57 GMT

#314

Unreal 1 has to be it. The game was so difficult and i spent all of the time trying to pass it or play against bots

Unreal tournament is a game i got in early 2000 and never left playing it. Got me also into competitive gaming, which lead me to WCG -> SC:BW

I remember playing amiga games like Sensible World of Soccer and a game called "little apple nicklebaum" when i was like 5. But the Unreal series where the thing for me, from the map editor to the multiplayer gaming experience

crazeman

664 Posts

October 31 2010 17:01 GMT

#315

double dragon and ninja turtle for the nintendo was bullshit. My older cousin would play co-op with me together... until he dies before I do and then he just turns on Friendly Fire and TKs the fuck out of me

red.venom

United States4651 Posts

October 31 2010 17:13 GMT

#316

On October 30 2010 21:29 Navane wrote:
Quest for Glory 1. I think it took me about 4 years to complete this. [image loading]

This is definitely a big one for me. I was transfixed ever since I saw a friend play it when he got like a 486 in 1992 or something.

Mine(Not going to include starcraft but it goes without saying ive probably spent more time playing it than anything else)

- Super Mario Brothers. Classic, first game I ever owned/played.

- Megaman 2. I played this obsessively, even though its a simple game the game as a whole is just enjoyable to play.

- Street Fighter 2. I'll never forget going to the 7-11 near my house and seeing it, I was like 9 years old. I would go regularly when Championship Edition came out, even skipping school to play.

- Street Fighter 4. The revival of fighting games, I never stopped playing them at any point really but for once I was there at the beginning of a SF games release for tournaments and able to go to the arcade constantly.

Thats about it I guess, looking back at all the time I spent on single player games in my teens(PSX/Saturn era), I don't really think of anything so fondly that I would want to still play it today. : ]

Jarvs

Australia639 Posts

October 31 2010 17:17 GMT

#317

Some of the titles that I played as a kid which got me loving video/computer games:

Dune II
Jazz Jackrabbit
Halloween Harry
Duke Nukem 1, 2, and 3D
Hugo's House of Horrors (and other titles)
Dare to Dream
CnC and Red Alert
The Incredible Machine / Sid and Al's Incredible Toons
Plethora of NES games

Below are probably my most defining games:

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On October 31 2010 22:22 Supamang wrote:
Hugely underrated games that kept me occupied for years

Starsiege Tribes

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Tribes 2

Tribes 1 is probably my most defining game. I played that game for the entirety of my high school life and on and off for years afterwards. This game was probably my first taste of online play. 7+ years of absolute joy and tears.

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I dont think Tribes: Vengeance deserves the hate that many gamers seem to send in its direction. The game is very good for its own merits. The skill required to play it at the top level was incredible and the feel was still Tribes-ey. Yes, it isn't "Tribes" but it's still a solid game that uses the same skill set. The best clan wars I've ever had was from T:V.

WarCraft 3 was my first taste at WCG quals level competition. I had no idea that you could play computer games and actually earn money/prizes/respect. I have this to thank for my love of competitive gaming today.

red_b

United States1267 Posts

October 31 2010 17:18 GMT

#318

first game I ever played, the labs at UF were the only place for hundreds of miles with computers fast enough to run a game with "graphics" lol:

later, my friends had this game and I would play it at their house (since they had an apple II)
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at school I was one of the lucky few in the gifted program and we had computers! some of the younger members may not understand how amazing it was to have a computer in rural northern florida in the very early 90s but man we were hot shit:
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at this point I could chose many, many games that Im sure have already been posted like pokemon red, goldeneye 64, etc but here is something a little different:
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skipping ahead many years, two games came out at about the time I graduate from high school that to me that were the pinnacle:
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but to me this is the greatest game of all time. the only time in my entire life that I have seen something and known, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I would witness greatness, was reading an internet article about a then little hyped japanese game titled wanda and the colossus. Seeing the concept art and the first few screenshots, I was sold.
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in fact, it is VERY interesting to me that a game that was kind of knocked back in the day for framerate issues and not being the cup of tea is now all the rage for top 10 lists. Now granted, I do think it is the best game of all time, but I remember being VERY angry at a certain techtv show that, along with others, was less than appreciative at the time. I guess hindsight is 20/20.

I think that objectively speaking, the number of great games coming out has diminished greatly. I think this has something to do with the fact that we see fewer, more expensive games that tend to be designed by committee to maximize sales.

Firereaver

India1701 Posts

October 31 2010 17:33 GMT

#319

Why the heck is noone hiding the pictures?? Its making a really nice thread VERY difficult to navigate!
Yeah and me..
1) Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - If anyone has played this then there shud be NO DOUBT
2) One Must Fall - THE MOST EPIC 1v1 FIGHTER EVAAAA...
3) C&C - Red Alert - my love-at-first-sight exposure to RTS gaming
4) Kings Quest VI - The BEST RPG I have played to date. No doubt...
5) Unreal Tournament - ahh the good old days of gibs flying around in low-grav Morpheus...

jw6282000

Canada51 Posts

October 31 2010 17:54 GMT

#320

First video game I ever played. It was the collector's edition which came with my gamecube. I remember being scared of all of the bosses :<

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I played this a lot. I remember writing down all of the right potions for each level in a notebook.

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Super sonic = win

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First FF game I played, and also my favourite. I got so hooked on this game at first, but ragequit because of Seymour >.> I came back and got all of the ultimate weapons and hidden aeons 1a2a3a gg.

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