Your childhood-defining video games - Page 19

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Brad

2754 Posts

November 02 2010 13:12 GMT

#361

This thread shows you how game development has gone backwards. We will never see games like these ever again.

KOFgokuon

United States14912 Posts

November 02 2010 13:19 GMT

#362

super metroid ftw

Drathmar

United States160 Posts

November 02 2010 15:52 GMT

#363

Yes... the original FF that came out the same year I was born (In Japan). First video game I ever played when I was like 4.

Little later, early teens I started with this, it was one of the first TBS games I played (this and HoMaM 3 which already has a lot of mentions).

DROPPINBOMBS

United States312 Posts

November 02 2010 15:54 GMT

#364

Diablo 1, introduced me to Blizzard games.

PinoyfuryZ

United States36 Posts

November 02 2010 15:57 GMT

#365

Mechcommander was my first competitive online video game.

Starcraft BW was my first online game

of course Mario Bros was my first game ever.

keeblur

United States826 Posts

November 02 2010 16:49 GMT

#366

Jazz JackRabbit :
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Cannon Fodder :

Prince of Persia :
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Mario Bros (3 especially) :

Vectorman :

Full Throttle :

Duke Nukem 3d :

Wolfenstein 3d :

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

November 02 2010 23:16 GMT

#367

This game, followed by Trog and Lolo are what got me into action puzzle games. Still probably my favorite casual genre now with games like Portal etc.

Phayze

Canada2029 Posts

November 02 2010 23:36 GMT

#368

Was doom 1 and sim city for me. But there were also some atari games thrown in there beforehand, I do not remember much of them though. My most fond memories were doom, as a baller 4 year old.

Boblion

France8043 Posts

November 02 2010 23:50 GMT

#369

Only the most important for me ... ~ chronological order...

started around 1994 or 1995

Tetris

Super mario land 2

Super mario land 1

Super mario land 3 ( Wario land )

Commander Keen 1

Raptor

Doom ( Or Final Doom, i don't really remember )

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CnC

Civ 2

Warcraft 2

Age of Empires 1 ( Yup Microsoft made one good game not called flight simulator ).

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Starcraft

need for speed II

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Rayman

Commando

Baldur's Gate 1

Rainbow Six

Dungeon Keeper

Worms 2 / Armageddon

Unreal 99

Baldur's Gate 2

Project IGI

Couple of SNES roms ( Bomber man 5 / SFII / Buster Bross / Smash TV / A link to the past / etc ... )

Settlers 3

Heroes 3

Rune

... then it was High school.

Yung

United States727 Posts

November 03 2010 00:03 GMT

#370

On October 30 2010 21:31 LunarC wrote:Roller Coaster Tycoon (1 and 2)
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Best game ever

Edited to fix the qoute tag

aeyr

United States60 Posts

November 03 2010 00:06 GMT

#371

GEMFIRE!

Me and my brother kept renting this game from our local video rental store because it wasn't for sale anywhere (and no eBay etc..) Now we both have it as an emulator on our phones. hahahaha

WarChimp

Australia943 Posts

November 04 2010 06:23 GMT

#372

On October 31 2010 08:52 chongu wrote:

Show nested quote +

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Mind_of_Dr._Brain : )

Thank you so much :D

Igakusei

United States610 Posts

November 04 2010 06:34 GMT

#373

The first game I ever played:
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The original version of Choplifter, on the Apple IIe greenscreen :D
I played this a lot as a little kid, but I wasn't coordinated enough yet to get very far.

Possibly my all-time favorite game. None of the sequels come close to capturing the magic of this game:
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And of course the first multiplayer game that I ever attempted to get really good at

Used to play this game so much in college on LAN (we were all horrible by any competitive standard, but holy crap we had a lot of fun)
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HollowLord

United States3862 Posts

November 04 2010 07:03 GMT

#374

kalimari

United States57 Posts

November 04 2010 10:19 GMT

#375

Mortimer the Flying Snail
Scratched the cd too much though =(.

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Age of Empire 1
Gotta make dem nice cities.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (best of the series)
Non-raced tied dragons were too fucking insane!

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Diablo 1
Gotta use those doorways.

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Warcraft 2

Raptor

Runescape, Ragnarok, Lineage 2 were the biggest mmo's for me.
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And the one that my dad made me fucking play everyday
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FML!

Tethyrian

33 Posts

November 04 2010 10:35 GMT

#376

Ugh. So many Diablo 1 pictures... Anyone else want to play that game again? Haha.

konadora

Singapore66366 Posts

November 04 2010 11:14 GMT

#377

On October 30 2010 21:46 DragoonPK wrote:

I love this so much <3!

was this the one on the sega genesis? i remember that game, and getting stuck in that casino level or something where u had to bounce the floating platform and squeeze in. god, i hated that part so much.

On October 30 2010 21:48 XsebT wrote:
Lemmings
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OMG i finally found what this game is called, i forgot what its name was D:

THANK YOU <3

deTwisj

Netherlands288 Posts

November 04 2010 13:23 GMT

#378

The very first game(computer) that I played on was Pong on the Philips G2000. Marking the beginning of a computer nerd

I've played many games throughout my life and there are some games that even now I could probably pick up and enjoy again. I'll try to list them in chronological order from the games I played as a wee little kiddo till the games I play right now.

MSX2 era (1986-1994)

King's Valley 2
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King's Valley 2 is a puzzle/platform game made by Konami. It was also one of the first games I've played that had its own level editor. A good creative outlet for me at the time!

Eggerland 2
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Eggerland 2 is a puzzle game by HAL laboratories. I don't know why but for some reason some of the monsters in that game creeped the fuck out of me (the Medusa and Don Medusa's).

Treasures of Usas
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Treasures of Usas is a fun platform game by Konami (like 90% of the games on the MSX were made by Konami). I never managed to actually beat the game though, always got stuck on the last act.

CDi era (1993-1995)

Space Ace
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Space Ace is a reactionary game (not sure what genre it falls in). The game will blink objects or locations which corresponds to pressing a button on the game pad (left,right,up,down,fire).

Dragon's Lair 1&2
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Like Space Ace this is also a reactionary game made by Don Bluth (or at least had Don Bluth as the artist). A lot of humor in this one, its still hilarious how Dirk the Daring (you, player) runs around in a panic, trying to survive the various lethal situations he gets into.

Early (offline) PC era (1993-2000)

Dune 2
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Dune 2 was the first real time strategy game that I played (on my brothers brand new PC!). I was blown away by the graphics and the gameplay. I always tried to Sim City my base and make it as nice as possible with walkways and walls all around.

Doom 1&2
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Who doesn't know Doom. Even though I played Wolfenstein before this was such a big improvement and at the time it had no equals. It's also the first game with multiplayer (COAX cable connecting 2 computers).

Final Fantasy VII
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Final Fantasy VII was the first RPG I played (PC version too). The games I played up till now didn't really have a vast story to them or had 20ish hours of gametime required to tell its story. It really made an impression and I've played lots of RPGs since.

Late (online) PC era (2000-now)

Quake 3 Arena
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I've played more Quake games before I got Quake 3 Arena but it was during this period that I got a stable internet connection which opened a whole new world for me. Quake 3 Arena was the first online multiplayer game I played competatively. Finding like-minded people to form a clan with and compete against other people is a whole lot different then mauling 4 computer players in a FFA all the time. Even now I still play its successor Quake Live, although not as competatively as before.

Final Fantasy XI
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FFXI was not the first MMO I played (I also played Asheron's Call 2). But it was the first MMO that I played for 5 years straight (with a small break here and there). I've made a friends there that I still occasionally talk to. It's different when you play with the same people day in and day out compared the the "anonymous" ladder play that you will find in most non MMO games. I quit about a year ago though since the game grew stale for me after 5 years and I figured I needed a change of scenery (yes, I went to WoW).

Currently I picked up an old PC version of Eggerland called Eggerland Revival! which was a nice trip to retro-lane. I also play Quake Live occasionally, though I stopped playing online since I tend to play QL when I don't have a lot of time to commit to other games like Starcraft II or WoW. Those 2 are basicly the only other PC games I play regularly.

Lucumo

6850 Posts

November 04 2010 15:17 GMT

#379

On November 03 2010 08:50 Boblion wrote:

Age of Empires 1 ( Yup Microsoft made one good game not called flight simulator ).

They just published AoE 1 and 2, don't give them too much credit. After they decided to buy Ensemble Studios the series went down the drain after all.

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

November 04 2010 15:27 GMT

#380

On November 03 2010 08:50 Boblion wrote:

Super mario land 2

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Doom ( Or Final Doom, i don't really remember )

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CnC

Warcraft 2

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Starcraft

need for speed II

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Rayman

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Unreal 99

Me, in a nutshell. By the way, when I saw Rayman, I nostalgia'd so hard it literally brought a tear to my eye. Also, Deus Ex is my favorite game ever.

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