Your childhood-defining video games - Page 4

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AyJay

1515 Posts

October 30 2010 14:23 GMT

#61

On October 30 2010 21:11 Tritanis wrote:
I played this game before I even had an Internet access:
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good old times

OH MY GOD that game...

So hard, but soooo fun :D

Aberu

United States968 Posts

October 30 2010 14:24 GMT

#62

Well here are some of the best memories of my childhood gaming. I was quite the little gamer, so this is a very very small percentage of what I loved playing. I missed quite a few in the pictures.

This is the best game I have ever played. I can still pick it up and just play, I've memorized every little inch of it, so much enjoyment I have gotten out of this. On my original save I got 87 rainbow swords, that means I did new game + 87 times.

What else can be said, Westwood were amazing competition for Blizzard back in the day, despite me liking both of the company's games. Now ever since EA killed off CnC, only Blizzard is left standing in the RTS superiority. CNC was an incredible game when it came out, mind-blowing.

I had not gotten into Tiberian Sun or Red Alert, but when this game came out, Red Alert 2, I had to play it. My best friend Daniel and I spent countless hours laddering. He achieved 5th in the US and I got 6th in the US (he's always been better than me at games). This game was the most competitive I have ever played an RTS.

When I was quite young I would always play Destiny of an Emperor. Never had beaten it, but I REALLY loved playing the first half of the game.

Dragon Warrior was the first RPG I REALLY played. I played Ultima, but barely played it at all and gave up. My grandma bought me and my brother a NES to play at her house when we waited to go to school and waited for our parents to pick us back up after school when they were off of work. My grandmother decided that she should get a game that would encourage my addiction to reading (I was reading the newspaper adequately at 4). She saw on the back of the box lots of words. So I played this game, but I complained to her that I couldn't beat any of the bosses/dungeons because I had no time to level my character. She basically learned how to power-level my characters, so I could come home from school and get to the next place. My grandma became addicted to the awesomeness of RPGs. She turned into an rpg fanatic, she has like 30 NES rpgs, about 30 SNES RPGs, about 20 PSX rpgs, about 20 PS2, RPGS, every single RPG for the DS. Yes, my Grandma plays video games, more than me, all because of this game.

My older brother and I used to play this for HOURS, and he would tease me about how bad I was at it, and I would cry and get mad lol.

When this game came out, RPGs changed forever, they became incredibly dramatic, storyline-oriented, and beautiful. I was blown away by FF7.

Final Fantasy VIII was an incredible 1-up to FF7, and blew me away even more. I know it gets a lot of hate, but that's from people that don't really appreciate the intricacies of all of the character storylines, the plot, and story elements that make it stand out. Also they didn't understand the depth of the building up that was near limitless in the game. My buddy Daniel and I, best friend for years, played this game so much, beat it so many times.

This is the best sRPG out there (strategy RPG), bar none. It was incredible playing through it the first time, and the second, and the third, and so on. Final Fantasy Tactics raised the bar, yet no game has reached it yet.

My brother and I played this since before I can remember, my Dad had an old Atari, and before the Commodore 64 and the NES at my grandmothers, we would play this at home. Good ol frogger.

Herzog Zwei was the first RTS I had ever played, and in many video game analyst's minds it was the first true RTS ever made. I consider myself lucky to have played this, it was a mind-altering experience, having to think about timings of multiple units, strategies, in such depth, and so quickly.

Lufia 2 is an incredibly simple RPG, right around the time that RPGs just started to be complicated. It was a very relaxing experience, and had very challenging puzzles in some of the dungeons. Lufia series is famous for it's dungeon puzzles. Amazing story for it's time.

Best Megaman ever made, Megaman 2, nothing else comes close. I can still play this start to finish, barely dying, or not dying at all, since I made it near routine as a child.

Phantasy Star IV was the first game that ever made me cry. I mean literally, the story is beautiful, there are very vivid, real characters, and without spoiling anything since I know most people here haven't played it, crazy things happen to so you just must play it. This is one of the best RPGs ever made, an unsung hero of the Sega Genesis RPGs.

Phantasy Star Online was the first online RPG I played. It was the first time I heavily tied into a community for a game (I was tied into Red Alert 2's community a LITTLE bit, but not quite this much). Just an amazing game, had well over 1000 hours logged in my main character in 3 months. I failed high school classes and got sent to a delinquent school for all of the absences over this game.

One of the staff members at the site PSO-World at the time, made a topic about this new game coming to America. Watashiwa made a site called RO-World, and Ragnarok Online's Alpha test began. I played this game forever with my buddy Daniel. We revolutionized Agi swordsmen, before they were good, which led into Agi Knights eventually, I made topics on how to level agi knights that were stickied, I was hot shit. Loved this game.

Shining Force. One of the first, but not the first, strategy RPGs out there. It was INCREDIBLE, so straight forward, light fantasy story. Vibrant characters and places, incredible music that I can still whistle off of the top of my head (actually I can do this with almost all games I played). It just felt so good to play over and over and over again. I miss that feeling.

This has already been here, but it was the first time I played a game over a modem/internet connection. Battle.net was awesome, so competitive back then, playing against my Buddy daniel on a dialup direct connection.

Super Mario RPG was surprisingly one of the most amazing RPGs ever made, despite it sounding like it would be a catastrophe. I remember being skeptical, then I played it and was absolutely blown away by how near-perfect it was.

Other games/game series because this shouldn't be TOO long of a post.
Master of Orion
X-Com UFO Defense
Wing Commander
Sim City
Sim Earth
Chaos Control
Firefight
Terminal Velocity
Raptor
Strikers 1945 plus
World of Warcraft (k wasn't a child here, nor for some of the others, but still amazing memories)

EatCrow

Estonia333 Posts

October 30 2010 14:29 GMT

#63

Is it only me or does AoE 2 and Heroes 3 look absolutely fantastic.

Manit0u

Poland17840 Posts

October 30 2010 14:30 GMT

#64

Lobo2me

Norway1213 Posts

October 30 2010 14:31 GMT

#65

One of the best strategy games ever, I spent so much time playing this.

Quake 2 got me into FPS games, so I've always preferred a bit more fast paced unrealistic games, never liked CS for example but Q2/Q3/UT were awesome.

Fa1nT

United States3423 Posts

October 30 2010 14:32 GMT

#66

Grandia 1 - My favorite RPG to this day, beats FFVII.

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Fire Emblem 4-5-6 on GBA, got my into sRPGS

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Age of Empires 1 + 2. In AoE1, i was basically an expert at NS (Archer Wars), where you could get 200+ Heavy Horse Archers in under 6 minutes, position on cliffs, kill your enemy workers, ect.

I am 20, so I was not into games until about age 12, when the PS2 came out. Since then, I have played countless games from NES, SNES, GBA, gamecube, PS1 using emulators, and have owned around 100 PS2 games and 30-40 PS3 games.

Grandia was the first game that I ever DESIRED though. I got it for free from my parents friends, played it for 38 hours and got to the end of disc 1..... and found out there was a SECOND DISC. I was crushed. It took 3 orders from the internet to actually get a second disc that worked.

Since then, hello ePSXe.

Ethenielle

Norway1006 Posts

October 30 2010 14:32 GMT

#67

MDK

Gene Wars

Played those games to death.. and now I can't get em to run anymore :'[

Manit0u

Poland17840 Posts

October 30 2010 14:35 GMT

#68

Right, I forgot to put this epic game on my list...

On October 30 2010 23:32 Ethenielle wrote:
Played those games to death.. and now I can't get em to run anymore :'[

Get on Linux and you'll be able to play them just fine

news

892 Posts

October 30 2010 14:37 GMT

#69

and a thousand more. Played every more or less known game that came out before 2001

MK4512

Canada938 Posts

October 30 2010 14:38 GMT

#70

Wow, well, first off the bat,

Chrono Trigger

Terranigma (A great game that was never released to NA, so I got it through an emulator)

Final Fantasy IX because it made me fall in love with all the FF games (Except X-2 and all those shitty MMO's they spawned)

Also, of course Starcraft...

ZooG

Sweden618 Posts

October 30 2010 14:38 GMT

#71

Jumpjet was the first game i ever played.god i miss the good old days...

news

892 Posts

October 30 2010 14:39 GMT

#72

On October 30 2010 23:35 Manit0u wrote:
Right, I forgot to put this epic game on my list...

This had an "axe" in its name, 100% positive.

LOL, Golden Axe!

motbob

United States12546 Posts

October 30 2010 14:43 GMT

#73

Tetris
Super Mario Land 1 + 2
Alleyway

Really, that was all I needed. I wasn't very good at video games and it took me a long time to beat all of those games completely.

Rinrun

Canada3509 Posts

October 30 2010 14:45 GMT

#74

On October 30 2010 23:24 Aberu wrote:

I played many games before it, but this was the game that I remember the most. Even though I was a child, I enjoyed it. Then many years later I returned to it, to fully understand the storyline.
It is just so beautiful - brb, replaying. <3 Rinoa.

news

892 Posts

October 30 2010 14:46 GMT

#75

If this doesn't make you go WAHHHH you are not oldschool

yoplate

United States332 Posts

October 30 2010 14:46 GMT

#76

As a child, I was in love with age of empires 2

And age of mythology

I was terrible at both games, but I had a blast killing the computer.

shieldbreak

United States406 Posts

October 30 2010 14:53 GMT

#77

Sly Cooper!
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Such a good game.

Ghad

Norway2551 Posts

October 30 2010 14:55 GMT

#78

Too many to mention, but this page has so many of them.
http://hipe.ch/_archiv/game/game.html
The rest of you guys at the 30 mark and upwards will have many nerdgasms.

Shotcoder

United States2316 Posts

October 30 2010 14:56 GMT

#79

Herzog Zwei - I still dl the rom and play every once and awhile.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/scans2/herzogzwei.jpg

Kid Chameleon
http://www.emuparadise.org/fup/up/31424-Kid_Chameleon_(USA,_Europe)-1.jpg

Zelda a Link to the past
http://pwned.com/gamecovers/supernintendo/2a91c523ba31031dffa83b8da3358916-The_Legend_of_Zelda__A_Link_to_the_Past.jpg

Megaman X
http://gamefocus.co.uk/shop/catalog/images/megamanx.jpg

Pokemon - I think I've played and beaten every one.
http://thewarpzone.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/pokemon-red-and-blue.jpeg

C&C Red Alert - Fuck yea
http://www.softsailor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/196962_41911_front.jpg

BroodWar!
http://samods.org/staff/magic/articles/bw_campaign/Brood_War.jpg

Rollercoaster Tycoon
http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Rollercoaster-Tycoon-movie.jpg

Harvest Moon 64
http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/n64/Harvest Moon 64.gif

FF7 ofc
http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/final-fantasy-vii-cast.jpg

make me want to play them again
=(

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

October 30 2010 14:59 GMT

#80

Combat Flight Sims I and II

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Zoo Tycoon

Total Annihilation

Flight Sims 2000 and 2004

If you want screenshots: www.google.fr

After that it's been Aoe3 and SC2.

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