Games

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat

The Remembrance speaks to us on the evil of man's will, of the reasons for Exodus, and the Rites of the Traveler. Arcadia is our destiny and our right. Enlightenment is our gift. By the Bloodnames of the founders we must return, return and protect that which is unique among the stars. Terra awaits us as it was written. We are the last of the Wardens, the sole hope for the Earth.

Wolves still prowl

The original Spyro was my absolute favorite as a kid, also enjoyed crash bandicoot, ratchet and clank, and the jak and daxter series. The don’t make adventure games like they used to imo so now I do a lot of strategy and sim games as I’m obviously old now

Super Mario 64. I have the best memories from. I got an N64 and Mario 64 on Christmas the year it came out.

Pitfall, Advdnture and Defender on the Atari 2600.

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

FPS by age: Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Blood, Duke3D, Shadow Warrior, Quake, Tribes 2, Counter-Strike.

RTS by age: Dune 2, C&C, Tiberium Sun, Red Alert, Red Alert 2, WarCraft 2, StarCraft, Warcraft 3

Sim by age: Conway's Game of Life, SimCity, SimCity 2000, The Sims, The Sims 2

Strategy by age: Civilization, Civilization 2, Masters of Orion

RPG by age: Final Fantasy 2 (4), Chrono Trigger, Pools of Radiance, Eye of the Beholder, Ultima Online, EverQuest, Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, Planescape: Torment, Fallout, Fallout 2, Neverwinter Nights, Morrowind

Adventure by age: Pitfall, Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Sam & Max, King's Quest, Space Quest, Tomb Raider, Grim Fandango

Honorable mentions: Microsurgeon, E.T., AD&D Minotaur's Labyrinth, Golden Axe, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Ecco the Dolphin, Eternal Champions, Android Pinball, Solar Winds, Detroit (not Become Human; it was a car making sim on DOS), Crusader: No Remorse

Gridder for C64

Sonic, streets of rage, tekken 2 and 3. Original gta, WWF attitude. Crash bandicoot.

GoldenEye , Diddy Kong racing and Mario kart.

GTA 3 , Vice city and San Andreas. Halo 1-3, Kotor 1-2, mass effect trilogy. Wipeout games. Skate 3, OG tony hawk games. Original modern warfare 2, morrowind, oblivion and skyrim. Final fantasy 7,8,9 and 10, also the splinter cell series.

Thats all that comes to mind but I would have spent a good amount of time on them throughout the years.

Mega Man 2 Earthworm Jim Sonic 3 & Knuckles Smash Melee NBA Jam: TE

One game that I loved and never see too many people commenting on was Tomba!, specifically Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return.

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.

Battletoads (NES) I have a few but I want to call out this as it gets memed for it's difficulty - and it was difficult - but not "can't pass level 3 speeder bikes" difficult!

The game looked great, had extremely tight controls and had an insane amount of level variety! Each of the 12 levels was unique, from platforming, rappelling, biking, surfing, flying, racing, swimming, and even weird ass wall clingers! And they all played well - It also had the most banging pause music ever haha!

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth

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.

Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, Metroid prime, Unreal tournament, Minecraft, most of the 3d Zeldas, warcraft 3, smash bros melee

Mega Man X on the snes was my favorite for the console, the day I got to play the first time I managed to beat Chill Penguin, Spark Mandrill and Armored Armadillo. I couldn't for the life of me, for the next 5 or so hours, beat any other boss. That I played that long without any progress probably shows my dedication.

Donkey Kong Country 2 was my second fave. Never managed to "legally" get all 75 kremcoins, or beat all the 5 special stages back then. Hell, even getting to the final world was a challenge back then.

On the ps1, Mega Man Legends 1 and X5. I'm only counting the games I played when I was "a kid" (< 12yo). I still love most Mega Man games.

Sid Meier's pirates for c64

Tomb raider, AOE, command and conquer. Those kinda games

Pretty sure my first major video game was Colin McRae Rally 2.0 and it started my fascination for cars.

My favorite game from my childhood would probably be Mafia 1 though, I still replay it like once a year. Halo CE is a close second.

Mario kart Street fighter 2. Super Mario world Tetris Dr Mario AND Dr ronitniks mean bean machine. Sonic 1+2

Now playing sf6 and buying son Mario kart and switch for Xmas.

Bubble bobble

Castlevania

Metroid prime

Also as a kid remember playing some old school ghostbusters game that consisted of mashing a button over and over as quickly as possible.

The original Genesis Sonic trilogy was a constant replay for me as a kid and even on occasion now as an adult. I loved the visuals, the music, learning how to master every level, playing as the different characters. It was all so good to me.

As someone who only got into retro RPGs like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger as an adult, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was the first game to show me how games could tell an epic story. There is a reason it was held up as one of the greatest games ever made during its heyday and even holds up well now. It had huge varied environments for its time, memorable scenes and characters, and IMO a perfect difficulty curve to its dungeons and puzzles. Even after playing many of the later Zelda games, it remained my favorite Zelda game until Breath of the Wild.

And of course, the original Smash Bros 64 started off the ultimate fun party game series, my siblings and I spent hundreds or even thousands of hours playing Smash 64 and Melee growing up.

Ps2: GTA sanandreas, gauntlet dark legacy, onimusha2( mostly watched my older brother play), need for speed underground2, midnight club2, resident evil 4(also just watched my brother play), On WII: redsteell, super samsh bros brawl, mario galaxy, mario kart, On pc: world of warcraft online, club penguin and flash games in general

Star wars Jedi knights games for sure. Asheron's Call also got a lot of playtime as my first MMORPG. Tony hawk pro skater 2.

Now you've got me longing for my old Atari back. My top 3 games by a country mile were:

Supercars 2 - must have played it through a thousand times.

Ellie Frontier - sank many hours in to it despite never being very good at combat.

Sensible soccer - one of the most fun games I've ever played. Would often play with my step dad. Some epic matches.

Suprised no one has mentioned Minecraft yet. That's probably it for me.

Crash Bandicoot Warped and Toy Story 2 for PS1, I come back to the latter multiple times per year yet.

• Battlefront & battlefront 2 first and foremost for sure. Classic battles for socializing, space battles for crash fun, single player galactic conquest

• Battle for Middle Earth 2. Big improvement over 1 and you could play as anyone, although Men was outrageously overpowered

• Unreal Tournament 1999

• Starcraft: Broodwar. We were shitty turtle players, but so much fun

• Warcraft 3 (mostly dota, twilight's eve, and TD)

• CS 1.6 and CS:S

• Mario kart double dash

• super smash Bros melee

• Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones

• Pokemon Emerald

They don't make games like that anymore, but then again, it is definitely 75% nostalgia and the good times with friends that I had during those years instead of the actual games.

Now we are stuck playing CS2 online getting rolled by kids on shitty comp servers with 100+ ping 1 day per month or so because there is a 7 hour time difference now. Because online games without sweaty, toxic communities are pretty far in between. Miss the days when video games were fun lol

Lasting impression top 5:

Great Gianna Sisters, Last Ninja 2, Castles, Loom, Moraff's World

• Wings of Fury
• Populous
• F/A18 Interceptor
• Pool of Radiance
• International Karate+
• Jetset Willy (also Blagger, Monty Mole series and other similar games)

Pong.

• Prince of Persia
• Contra III
• Blackthorne (by blizzard)
• Freelancer

Rollercoaster Tycoon 1, 2, and 3 when I was quite young. In my teens it was Minecraft.