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It's 1996. What are you playing?
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(Soon comes in 1997)
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Hugo games anyone?
I don't know when they came out but since it was Shareware I didn't catch on until late.
And the Cosmic Osmo/Myst thing blew me away even on a B&W Classic with an external CD (CADDY LOADING!) drive.
Not at all, but it's considerably old. 1996 was the year of the Playstation, right? Come on, how many people were actually paying attention to Sonic when Tomb Raider was around.
1996. Lets see now. Year 8 in high school... Had a Macintosh LC 575 with a fuckawesome CD-ROM drive.
My gaming fix came from various Magazine cover CDs such as MacWorld, MacFormat and the now extinct Mac Action. I played the shit out of Ambrosia shareware such as Maelstrom and Apeiron. I fucking loved Maniac - a Pacman meets hangman game with incredible music.
I also played the absolute shit out of demos of Marathon 1, 2 and Infinity. Eventually I had money for the box set and then would proceed to mod the ever-loving shit out of those games with extra levels based on my house/school (omg school shooting!) and "physics models" (cool weapons that shot exploding Bobs, basically). Thanks, Bungie!
I was pissed off that none of my friends had Macs and no one seemed to like them, I became a nutcase Apple fanperson (thankfully now more moderate). I wished I had a PowerMac so I could play PPC-only games like Quake and Descent.
Consoles were too fucking expensive for us, and we had sold our Amiga with buckets of "blank" (arr, me hearties!) floppy disks the previous year. My only previous experience with consoles was with a "Sega" rented from Civic video once a year with Sonic 1, 2 and 3. And don't be stupid - Sony only make CD players and such. Nintendo was the other console - the one that had that 3D Monkey Country game where you roll around collecting bananas, right?
and what the fuck is the Internet? Is that like Cyberdog?
...Wow, compared to you people I was pretty behind the times. Blizzard games seem pretty popular, but I was just too mentally challenged by "a strategy game where the CPU doesn't wait for you to make your turn? Stuff this, I'm playing Civilization!".
I haven't yet delved into this bold "PC" world much...
On the PC? I'm still playing MoM and MOO. I've just gotten into the ASTOUNDING 12x12 cap the flag maps for Quake; I suspect an FPS revolution to build on this quality.
On consoles? I've just gotten a PSX (actually, my little brother got it for Christmas.) While I haven't really found a PSX game to ignite me yet, I find it strangely addictive to keep getting better and better lap times on the first map of the recent Ridge Racer
I still play my SNES; mostly for Killer Instinct though having beaten it I still fuck around in Final Fantasy 3, US version of course.
First Sonic I ever played, and I still love it more than the original (and the third one, but Sonic 2 still can't be beat).
Also Duke Nukem 3d -- I had many a fun modem deathmatches with this gem. Heck, a true sequel can't be far off, right? I mean, they INVENTED laser tripmines! And the shrink ray! That's gold, pure gold! I expect a proper sequel in 1998 at the very latest.
About a year prior (1995), with no knowledge of the game, I decided that "Diablo" would be a pretty bad-ass nickname. For a kid in eighth-grade.
Then I saw a crappy, CRAPPY low rez trailer for Diablo and decided (without no prior knowledge of the game) that I MUST HAVE IT.
With almost no knowledge of the internet, I bugged the poor clerks at Best Buy for probably 3 months - daily call, "Is Diablo out yet?" "No...."
When it finally was released, I played it to the point of obsession. Nearly blew my HS freshman finals because of it.
Mario 64
Wave Race 64
1080 Avalanche
Cruisen USA
Couldn't sleep at night because I was really looking forward to StarFox 64
Also was all about Rush 64
Oh and Sim City 3000 on mac
By November in 1996 I had already beaten Mario 64, and had gone through most of my friend's copy of Pilotwings. I recall that Wave Race 64 was pretty awesome at the time, with the water effects being particularly cool for the day.
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey was also a pretty kickass multiplayer game, brought out at "parties" I had when I was in 5th grade.
yes. that's the cd that came with my first cd rom drive....amazing....im still kicking myself for never installing ultima though....
If I had a Playstation by that time, probably Crash Bandicoot
Of course, this is all in between playing Threewave CTF until my eyes bleed.
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(I only had an SNES in 1996)
I was also busy playing the Donkey Kong Country series backwards and Yoshi's Island. I rented Final Fantasy II and III way to many times to be healthy.
Are you crazy?! IV is better than III! I can't wait for V, imagine what they will do next after FMVs.
Also, Kirby Super Star. I mean, come on people, blood and gore may be the only games my friends are craving, but this is freaking Kirby we're talking about!
It was my favorite sega anything ever.
Well, IV just isn't as revolutionary as III. And it needs more Kilrathi.
I still predict all major games will have FMV in the future. Games with 5+ CDs will be the standard. Wing Commander and The Pandora Directive really show that the lines between games and movies are now blurring.
Otherwise, I think I was 11 at the time (which is kind of surreal to imagine), so I wasn't as hardcore.
Edit: I'm a fucking moron!
The 64 didn't come out in australia until 1997 see,
Satans..... hints.....
The game store had also recently purchased computers people could rent, so we could play Duke 3d without having to bring our own rigs in.
:^: Pretty much covers 1996 for me.
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