Games

Secret of Mana on the SNES and Mario brothers 3.

Doom, wolfenstein, golden axe, warcraft 2, day of the tentacle. I am relatively old :D

Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter series, Ratcher and Clank series mostly. Most people usually associate childhood with Nintendo games but they're super rare in my country, I only ever got around to playing series like Zelda and Mario in the mid-2010s. For what it's worth the playstation 2 really was the console to have at the time, the games were amazing. Pretty sad Sony is reluctant to make good ports of them for the new generation.

Oh, and everyone I knew had House of the Dead 2 on the computer. Now that's a classic.

• Diablo 2
• Starcraft broodwar
• Warcraft 2
• Quake 2 (with a ton of mods!)
• Need for speed 2

When I was a kid I used to walk to the movie store to rent games. I would go back every time I had money and rent Chrono Trigger, but some one would always erase my save, so I would have to start over.

On my birthday I got a check from my grandma that was for 50 dollars. I walked right up to the game store and slammed my check on the counter for one copy of Chrono Trigger. I didn't know how money, checks, or sales tax worked.

Luckily, my mom bailed me out. I played that game for years. I still have such fond memories of that game.

Without a doubt Morrowind for me.

Halo and Diablo also, in different genre.

Breath of Fire: 1 + 2 - Capcom

Contra: Hard Corps - Konami

DOOM 3 - id Software

Fable - Lionhead Studios

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - Square Enix

Golden Sun: 1 + 2(The Lost Age) - Camelot Software

Oni - Bungie

Prince of Persian: Sands of Time + Warrior Within + Two Thrones - Ubisoft

Red Alert 2 - Westwood Studios

Silent Hill: The Room - Team Silent

Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis - Quest Corporation

Zeus: Master of Olympus - Impressions Games

I miss having enough time to play more games... Thanks for the nostalgia trip though OP.

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past

Super Mario Sunshine

Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Golden Sun 1 and 2

These are the games that made my childhood great!

Heh, pacman and centipede.

I had the high score at the gas station nearest my house on the pacman machine until the place closed. Nobody could even get close in the local area. I would usually be in the top three at the arcade on both games, depending on whether or not I had access to time and money. None of my scores were high enough to be some kind of record, but I was the king of those two games in two counties. I'm not saying I could never get out-scored, I could. But I never had bad games, only less good, where the other players around would have way more bad than great games.

But I fucking loved pacman. The entire sensory assault of it was so damn satisfying. I was good at centipede (largely because of the trackball being very intuitive for me), but I liked it more because I was good at it than for the game itself.

Pacman though? Fuck, I'd spend hours playing it. I even had one of those old coleco mini versions that I got for Christmas one year. Which, I was not as good at, what with the difference in controls, but I still loved playing it until it died maybe ten years ago (seriously, that fucking thing lasted decades).

I was so fucking bummed when I couldn't find any place to play the real version. Later console versions didn't have the same joy for me. I've managed to luck into some time on restored machines here and there, though.

Past that, mario cart was big in our house when it came out. My sister was better at it on average, but we'd have some killer weekends playing it with our mom and friends. I never liked consoles much. The controls just didn't work for me.

So it wasn't until this century that I got back into harmony gaming at all. Mmorpgs are my thing, when I can do it (disability makes pc gaming sporadic). The first game I found that sucked me in was shaiya. It wasn't that great of a game overall. Heavily pay to win. But the story was good, and I had a great guild.

Then it was on to war and battle of the immortals. Mid tier games, but I liked the world setting.

Then, I found neverwinter and that was my game. I haven't been happy with anything else since. I don't really play any more, but that was the perfect mmo for me. The d&d world, with an intuitive and fun control setup. The classes and races were fairly well balanced. The graphics were fucking bonkers for the era too. It just made me happy. It still kinda does, but I don't have the time or stamina these days.

Halo 1

Rollercoaster tycoon 1 and 2 (never 3)

Vigilante 8 second offense (twisted metal alternative)

Desert Strike for the Sega Genesis as wells the sequels urban strike and jungle strike. Badass attack helicopter saves the day.

Need for speed underground 2

Space cadet 3d pinball

T.H.U.G. 1 and 2

Monster Truck Madness for windows 95

Croc 1 and 2

Metal gear solid

Okay, how old am I? Lol

Freelancer

Transport Tycoon

The Guild (Europa 1400)

Empire Earth

Anno 1602 + 1503

Monkey Island

Heroes of Might and Magic 3+

Pokemon

C&C Generals

Stronghold

Star Wars Jedi Knight

Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat + Vietnam

World of Warcraft

Command and conquer.

Super Mario 3

Pokemon gold and silver + smash bros

Intellivision (Intelligang REPRESENT):

• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: cloudy Mountain
• Lock ‘N Chase
• Astrosmash

NES:

• Megaman 2
• Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo, BRING BACK WART YOU COWARDS)
• Castlevania 3

Smash Bros N64. Every day at lunchtime, we would inhale our food as fast as possible so we had a chance to play a few rounds

Also Goldeneye N64

3D Pinball Space Cadet

Pokémon Blue

Maniac mansion

NES Spider-Man.

NES TMNT 2

Arcade Simpsons

Sim City and Sim City 2000, on the school’s Apple Macintosh computers.

Morrowind

StarCraft

Super Mario world

Body harvest

Super smash brothers

Halo

Pokémon Colosseum, Super Mario Sunshine, Ratchet and Clank, Mass Effect

PC: Dune 2, Prince of Persia, Doom

Amiga 500: Turrican, Turrican II, Lemmings, Lemmings II

Arcade: R-Type, R-Type 2, Street fighter 2

One that never really took off for the N64 almost surely because the controls were so fucked - Jetforce Gemini.

Those who took the time to tolerate and master the janky controls were rewarded with a shooter that was otherwise second to none. AND YES THAT INCLUDES 007!

Hearing the music cranks the nostalgia up to 10 immediately.

On PC I must've spent thousands of hours playing The Sims, the first and second ones. They had fantastic soundtracks and were very chill experiences where you couldn't really lose and didn't rely on reflexes or strategy. Above all else I've always enjoyed being able to build cool houses. I would barely even play with the Sims themselves, I was mostly just creating families to not leave my houses empty. I had entire neighbourhoods made from scratch, all with wildly different houses with wildly different people living in them. I lost all my data a couple of times but I always kept the CD around with the key code written on it so I'd just reinstall and start rebuilding from scratch (that disc is probably still in my bedroom somewhere). Just selecting an empty lot and spending an entire afternoon building a cool house on it, then making a family to live there and putting all the furniture in place. Rinse and repeat, life was good.

I'd later go on to play other games that allowed me to build stuff trying to scratch that same creative itch. Mostly other Maxis games such as SimCity 3000 and Spore (never got into Sims 3 as it didn't run well on my PC) but also Minecraft, which was all the rage and would go on to consume countless hours of my life. A few years later I also tried Sims 4, which did run well (on a newer computer tbf), but also felt so limited with the small fixed-view non-customizable neighbourhoods. It's baffling to me that 4 couldn't have the same features 2 had a decade earlier. Oh well, at least the building tools are much better than 2's, so there was that.

Tl;dr: I like The Sims. The first couple ones, not the last couple ones.

Jak and Daxter, Crash, and the Lego Star Wars games for sure.

I also loved Wii Sports, Pokemon, and Mario Kart.

Edit: Also admittedly Call of Duty was a big one for me. Stopped playing after MW3.

• Age of Empires I
• Stronghold
• Dune 2000
• RollerCoaster Tycoon
• Warcraft 3
• World of Warcraft

Since WoW, I didn't play much strategy games I used to play, but it changed this year when I started play a lot of TFT.

Tetris, backyard baseball & football, Pokemon yellow, age of empires II, and command & conquer red alert II.

Diablo 2, Black & White, Star Craft, Lords of the Realm 2, Twisted Metal, Tony Hawk Pro Skater....many I've forgotten.

Duke Nukem 3D, Morrowind, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Age of Mythology, the Sims 2. Diablo 2

• Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, still the single best computer gaming representation of an epic D&D campaign, edging out even Baldur's Gate 1-3 in my opinion.

• Ultima 7: an RPG built around the goal of immersing the player completely into the game world, eschewing any straightforward gameplay loops. If only the Ultima series had continued going strong, like the Elder Scrolls, rather than fizzling out with 8 and 9...

We grew up poor but my parents managed to get us an nes. We had a half a dozen games we'd trade back and forth with friends.

Megaman 3, Jackal, fist of the north star, Batman, street fighter 2010, TMNT, are some of the great games I grew up on

Well, in early 90s it was NES games: Darkwing Duck, Super Contra 6, Robocop 4, Battle city. Then, in lately 90s it was PC games: Half-Life, Warcraft 2.

Anyone said Worms 2 yet?

Fuckin hell, that was hilarious while stoned as fuck.

Don't think they ever surpassed that one

Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Time Splitters

Megadrive - Gain Ground, Sonic 1&2, World of Illusion

PS1 - Toy Story 2, Rayman 1&2, FFVII, Rugrats, Tony Hawks 1-4

Gameboy/Color - Pokemon Blue, Tetris, Rayman, Tweety - Around the World in 80 days

PS2 - Kingdom Hearts 1&2, GTA 3,VC&SA, Need for Speed Undeground 1&2, Tony Hawks Underground & American Wasteland, Jak 1-3, Sims Bustin Out

GBA - Pokemom Fire Red

Xbox - Halo 2, Need for Speed Most Wanted, KOTOR 1&2, Fable, Prince of Persia Warrior Within, *Fahrenheit

Gamecube - Wind Waker, Sonic Adventure 2, Mario Sunshine, Luigis Mansion (I didnt have a gamecube as a kid but was enamroed by these at a friends house)

DS - Mario 64 DS, Pokemon Diamond. New Super Mario Bros, Worms Open Warfare, Sims 2

PSP - FFVII Crisis Core, FF1, Cars, Daxter, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Puzzle Quest

Wii - Smash Bros Brawl, Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports, Guitar Hero 3

360 - Rockband 1-3, Guitar Hero World Tour & 5, Halo 3, Battlefield Bad Company, Mass Effect, Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, Far Cry 2, Assassins Creed 1-3, GTA IV

PC - Rome Total War, Empires Dawn of the Modern World, Black & White 2, The Movies, Sims 1-2 (I liked 3 too but I was older than a kid then), Spore

Lines are a bit blurred at a certain point for 360 and PSP to when I wouldve no longer been a kid and more of a late teenager or whatever.

Super Metroid (SNES)
Final Fantasy VI (aka III in US on SNES)
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
Eternal Darkness (GameCube)

Warcraft 3, Age Series (AoE, AoE2, AoM, AoE3), Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005)

I played the first age of empires when I was 6 or 7 y/o and I've played all of the games besides AoE4 (including Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds).

As a kid we had few crappy dell computers connected to just a hub (LAN without internet) and would play a lot of Age of Empires 2 and C&C Red Alert 1 & 2 multiplayer.

Age of Empires and Red Alert were also games I would frequently play at small LAN parties (although everyone was really bad)

I played a bit of online AoE2 when AoE2 HD came out on steam but it was pretty bad so I stopped playing it. When DE came out I started watching AoE2 content but I'll never play it because I've come to greatly dislike Microsoft over the years.

I've replayed Need for Speed Most Wanted (and also Carbon) tens of times over the years, and I still play it every now and then (with mods now)

But the game I've played the most is probably Warcraft 3. I've played a ton of custom games on Battle.net (RIP) and it's what got me a bit into programming since I liked making custom maps and making triggers eventually led me to learn JASS (Just Another Scripting Language)

If Blizzard didn't completely ruin Warcraft 3 with WC3 ~~Reforged~~ Refunded I'd probably still be playing it and making custom maps every so often.

I have played a bit on private servers but it's just not the same anymore.

There's a pretty cool Warcraft 3 open source project called Warsmash though so maybe one day I'll start playing again.

Super Mario 3. Street fighter. Mario Kart. GoldenEye. Warcraft 2. Diablo 2. Ocarina of time.

Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge are my favorite games of all time. I sunk so much time as a kid beating the campaign and then making custom maps and levels for fun. The installer and the cut scenes were so memorable. It also had an amazing sound track. It was also one of the few RTS I tried at the time where the game didn't feel like it took forever. For contrast I remember playing some C&C and also Dune 2000 as a kid and I remember each campaign easily taking over an hour to complete. I also remember it got kind of boring fast.

Aside from those some other honorable mentions:

• SimCity 3000: My first sim city game. It was fantastic with an amazing sound track.
• Pokemon Red: My first pokemon game.
• Runescape: First MMO I've ever played.

• Transport Tycoon - I recently found a notebook of mine in which I wrote detailed lists of routes and vehicles. This is maybe the first game I fully embraced and played for hours.
• Dune 2 - The first RTS game I played although I had no idea what it was all about (hadn't seen the movie yet read the book at that time).
• Red Alert - The OST is still great, the FMV hasn't aged well, but gameplay is still great. The remaster is very good (alternatively use OpenRA).
• Anno 1602 (1602 A.D.) - I played the demo for hours carefully avoiding upgrading my citizens as this would end the demo. Maybe the first game I bought myself and I still have the box.
• Dungeon Keeper 2 - My first hype game. I upgraded my system for this (it was worth it).
• Gothic 2 - Maybe the first Action RPG I played and it still holds up to current titles. In some aspects it even is better than Witcher 3 which released years later.
• World of Warcraft - I played the open beta and was immediately hooked. I played until the second expansion came out.
• Banished - Still my goto game for cold winter nights. It is incredible difficult and hard to find the perfect balance. You have to force yourself to play slowly which is wonderful.
• Oxygen not included - I can play this for hours and hours. It has the same need for balance as Banished but a unique art style and endless mods on the workshop.

I've got a really fond spot in my heart for The Neverhood. It really opened my young eyes to the possibility that video games could be weird and artistic. They didn't have to be an action packed generic mainstream capitalization of whatever is popular at the moment. As a kid, I could still tell it was a unique piece of work that required a lot of passion and creativity. I consider it the first indie game I ever played and it absolutely set the tone for what I chose to play to this day.

I still listen to the soundtrack nearly three decades later.