I remember you have a blaster with limited shots, or you could find a blaster - can't remember which.
Well, now you just reminded me of Dangerous Dave. I never did beat that game.
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PunkBoyThank you! And thank you again!Registered Userregular
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This game right here got me into gaming:
I remember, I was like, 7. And I rode Star Tours at Disney World. And I was like, "That was so cool!" And my dad told me that there was a movie the ride is based on. So we then watched Star Wars. I got hooked. Watched the rest of the trilogy. Some Christmas soon afterwards, my mother got this game for my dad. He never got into it, so I was basically the only one playing it. I was horrible, but I loved it so much.
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Getting a free copy of Dragon Warrior in the mail made me an RPG fanatic, but before long, I became obsessed with the Lunar series when I got a Sega CD.
Underworld is probably my most-anticipated game of the year*. I've been a fan of the series throughout...even the ones I knew deep down were shitty, I still enjoyed the hell out of.
*Not counting Mirror's Edge.
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
edited September 2008
Xenon.and Simant.
I had an x86 with greenscreen monocrome. What can I say.
When we got a proper pc my first game was red alert and I played it a shitton.
When I got my first personal computer to call my very owwwwwwn it was half life but we are talking 18 now.
I got a psx and mgs on a wim with the proceeds of my first part time jobs paycheck. That was great.
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(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
Wolfenstein 3d, DOOM, The Oregon Trail. Duck Hunt. Pokemon (Red, duh). But what really got me hooked, was a little game called
Master of Orion II
I spent so much time on this game, and got into trouble so many times staying up past midnight. I was so hooked, I would read the manual to fall asleep. (To be fair, this was a nice-size manual, about the size of your average comic trade paperback. But still.) The pleasure of Stellar Converting your ally's homeworld and annihilating him with a fleet of Death Stars has never been equaled.
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
edited September 2008
I totally missed the whole emerging 3d games thing because we didn't upgrade our computer for so looooooooooooong, my only real memory of non shareware doom 1 is an awesome custom coop map for doom 2 I played at a friends house for a while. Man that was great. So yeah the first 3d game I ever went through the single player for was half life. I went back and played the previous games after this.
Oh shit how could I forget, during most of my high school I played chuck yeager's air combat since it was small so you could quickly dump it on any pc you could find and play it on the sly.
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(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
I had way too many favorites. By that I mean, games I obsessed over enough to become absolutely Godlike at them. In chronological order...
-Super Mario Bros. My brother and I didn't leave the basement for two weeks.
-Super Mario World. Many late nights with early 90s pop-rap and half a box of icecream each.
-Killer Instinct. I will kick your ass with this game.
-DOOM - episode 1: Knee Deep in the Dead. I got so good at this game when I was 13, it stopped being a game and became a meditation. If I was feelin' moody or just needed to relax I could whip through the entire campaign, never get hit, 100% on every level, all the while in some freakish zen state. It was weird. I could do it without thinkin'.
After that, no game really sunk its teeth into me until I was technically an adult. Virtua Fighter 4 - Shaolin style, baby. My kung fu is strongest.
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'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
To be quite honest, my favorite game for my Genesis way back when was ...
Shaq-Fu
I had so much fun with that, and it was really only later that I found out it was generally considered to be quite horrible.
For PC though: Worms 2. I had sooooo much fun with that thing. I would only get 1 hour per night online, and I'd train the whole day so I could beat people in that one hour. I pretty much did nothing but roping.
I had way too many favorites. By that I mean, games I obsessed over enough to become absolutely Godlike at them. In chronological order...
-Super Mario Bros. My brother and I didn't leave the basement for two weeks.
-Super Mario World. Many late nights with early 90s pop-rap and half a box of icecream each.
-Killer Instinct. I will kick your ass with this game.
-DOOM - episode 1: Knee Deep in the Dead. I got so good at this game when I was 13, it stopped being a game and became a meditation. If I was feelin' moody or just needed to relax I could whip through the entire campaign, never get hit, 100% on every level, all the while in some freakish zen state. It was weird. I could do it without thinkin'.
After that, no game really sunk its teeth into me until I was technically an adult. Virtua Fighter 4 - Shaolin style, baby. My kung fu is strongest.
And I loved Tink Tonk in the Land of the Buddy Bots.
So what about you?
Also, does anyone else remember the above game?
HOLY CRAP. HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP.
I have been thinking of this game for YEARS without knowing the title. Literally about 20 years or so. I posted some info about it in the "Name that game" thread, hoping someone would catch on.
It's as though you've cured some incurable disease for me. I am so grateful!
Just saw this now - no problem, I'm glad. I know how that can be.
Nah, it had way worse graphics than Goldenaxe. Though it really is a perfect description.
I dunno, it's been nearly twenty years since I've played it. Maybe my mind is just playing tricks on me or something. I'm gonna have to go look at tons of NES screenshots now.
Edit: So after looking through a shitload of games, I think it may have been Legacy of the Wizard. Huh.
Super Mario RPG is the only RPG I've played through twice. Still to this day I regard it as the best game every made so far.
Super Mario World is shear brilliance as well. Probably one of my most played games of all time.
As a young lad of around 6-8 I loved Guevara, also known as
the only commercially released game based on the exploits of a Marxist revolutionary
I'm serious.
Man, reading the wiki, I would NEVER want to play as player 1.
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It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
I have no idea where to find even a picture of it, but it was basically a roguelike with decent black-and-white graphics. My dad and I played it a ton while listening to The Who.
You mean Taskmaker, right? It was in color but ran in B&W too. Only one of the finest games ever! If you want the full version I think you can still buy it from the dude who designed it here. There's also a sequel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-2iIq8AyQc
I played the shit out of Dune 2. Even going so far as to cobble together my own version of Super Dune 2 by editing the game using dosedit.
Protip: Editing the starport to allow you to buy death hand missiles seems like a good idea at first, but you can't actually aim them. So as soon as they're delivered they shoot out of the starport and spiral wildly out of control. Usually blowing up a chunk of your own base.
Also my favourite multiplayer game as a kid? Warlords 2. That game is godlike. We could spend an entire day on one game, and often would. Just thinking about it now I can hear the WAR! fanfare in my head.
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
I remember playing a Dune game for the Sega CD, and it being ridiculously indepth.
When I was a kid I played Crystalis literally non-stop. I would beat it and less then a week later I would pick it up again. I loved that game so, so much.
I've always leaned more towards PCs. I absolutely adored adventure games. Maniac Mansion, Hugo's House of Horrors, anything by Lucasarts. Especially Monkey Island and Loom. Those are still probably my two favorite games.
We never had an NES, so up until the SNES, this is the console game I played the most.
Outlaw. Hell yeah. My brother and I became fucking gods at that game.
But maybe my favorite was Legend of the Mystical Ninja on the SNES. It was great co-op action, and balls-out hard, and you got to be a ninja. We only beat it a few times, but seeing the ending to that game is still one of my favorite memories.
edit: Fuck no, my favorite was Darklands on the PC. That's still the best RPG ever made.
This game got my brother and I hooked in so many fiendish ways AND pioneered emergent gameplay in 1992!
We both played through hundreds of times, doing whatever we wanted, anywhere in the world we wanted to with no pressures of experience grinding or locked areas to earn. There were a few houses that I would murder the occupants of and then decorate the shit out of with stolen goods from my global travels. I made it a point to steal every single potted plant in the world to make a hedge-wall around my estate.
Later I got the ultima 1-6 collection for xmas but I couldn't handle them. Then I got nearly as into Pagan, which I still think is highly underrated. Granted it isn't as sand-box as 7 was, but Pagan has a killer atmosphere and dark story. Plus i was able to repeat the glories of thief tourism.
I had so many conversations when I was 11 of how amazing this game was. How the individual NPCs have lives and go about routines, the freedom of exploration, the ability to murder anyone i wanted to.
Due to the amount of fist-fights we got into, these games also inspired our hour on, hour off rule which held until we moved out of our parents house. Lots of hovering with our finger on the power button telling the other brother "save now! my turn! i'm turning off the power!" Then sometimes getting into fights because someone either didn't get off soon enough or the other turned off the power.
Hmm. I'd probably have to say Super Mario Kart. I think I was the only kid on the block who had it, so it saw a lot of play. Even a few years back I busted out the ol' SNES and played some friends of mine.
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Well, now you just reminded me of Dangerous Dave. I never did beat that game.
I remember, I was like, 7. And I rode Star Tours at Disney World. And I was like, "That was so cool!" And my dad told me that there was a movie the ride is based on. So we then watched Star Wars. I got hooked. Watched the rest of the trilogy. Some Christmas soon afterwards, my mother got this game for my dad. He never got into it, so I was basically the only one playing it. I was horrible, but I loved it so much.
http://www.nwlwrestling.com/
Underworld is probably my most-anticipated game of the year*. I've been a fan of the series throughout...even the ones I knew deep down were shitty, I still enjoyed the hell out of.
*Not counting Mirror's Edge.
I had an x86 with greenscreen monocrome. What can I say.
When we got a proper pc my first game was red alert and I played it a shitton.
When I got my first personal computer to call my very owwwwwwn it was half life but we are talking 18 now.
I got a psx and mgs on a wim with the proceeds of my first part time jobs paycheck. That was great.
Turtles In Time
Little Nemo
Pokemon (Blue)...bitches
Master of Orion II
I spent so much time on this game, and got into trouble so many times staying up past midnight. I was so hooked, I would read the manual to fall asleep. (To be fair, this was a nice-size manual, about the size of your average comic trade paperback. But still.) The pleasure of Stellar Converting your ally's homeworld and annihilating him with a fleet of Death Stars has never been equaled.
Oh shit how could I forget, during most of my high school I played chuck yeager's air combat since it was small so you could quickly dump it on any pc you could find and play it on the sly.
-Super Mario Bros. My brother and I didn't leave the basement for two weeks.
-Super Mario World. Many late nights with early 90s pop-rap and half a box of icecream each.
-Killer Instinct. I will kick your ass with this game.
-DOOM - episode 1: Knee Deep in the Dead. I got so good at this game when I was 13, it stopped being a game and became a meditation. If I was feelin' moody or just needed to relax I could whip through the entire campaign, never get hit, 100% on every level, all the while in some freakish zen state. It was weird. I could do it without thinkin'.
After that, no game really sunk its teeth into me until I was technically an adult. Virtua Fighter 4 - Shaolin style, baby. My kung fu is strongest.
Shaq-Fu
I had so much fun with that, and it was really only later that I found out it was generally considered to be quite horrible.
For PC though: Worms 2. I had sooooo much fun with that thing. I would only get 1 hour per night online, and I'd train the whole day so I could beat people in that one hour. I pretty much did nothing but roping.
I accept your challenge.
Just saw this now - no problem, I'm glad. I know how that can be.
And all you people can keep your Secret of Mana, in my home if we wanted co-op fun we played:
Nah, it had way worse graphics than Goldenaxe. Though it really is a perfect description.
I dunno, it's been nearly twenty years since I've played it. Maybe my mind is just playing tricks on me or something. I'm gonna have to go look at tons of NES screenshots now.
Edit: So after looking through a shitload of games, I think it may have been Legacy of the Wizard. Huh.
I was an ID gaming fan growing up with games such as Doom, Heretic and Quake.
Then I got into friends N64 and ps1. Damn that was a good console gaming gen.
Super Mario 64, Doom, Pokemon (Red, Blue and Yellow) and Heretic.
I loved that crossbow so much!
Super Mario RPG is the only RPG I've played through twice. Still to this day I regard it as the best game every made so far.
Super Mario World is shear brilliance as well. Probably one of my most played games of all time.
Pissed that there's a remake coming to DS but the original is not headed for VC.
Oh yes!
Seriously, that villain is shit character design.
Shut yo mouth fool!
I'm serious.
GT: Tanky the Tank
Black: 1377 6749 7425
Man, reading the wiki, I would NEVER want to play as player 1.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
Fucking commies.
That sounds awesome.
You mean Taskmaker, right? It was in color but ran in B&W too. Only one of the finest games ever! If you want the full version I think you can still buy it from the dude who designed it here. There's also a sequel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-2iIq8AyQc
I played the shit out of Dune 2. Even going so far as to cobble together my own version of Super Dune 2 by editing the game using dosedit.
Protip: Editing the starport to allow you to buy death hand missiles seems like a good idea at first, but you can't actually aim them. So as soon as they're delivered they shoot out of the starport and spiral wildly out of control. Usually blowing up a chunk of your own base.
Also my favourite multiplayer game as a kid? Warlords 2. That game is godlike. We could spend an entire day on one game, and often would. Just thinking about it now I can hear the WAR! fanfare in my head.
XENON 2
Seriously so much fun. On my first computer no less (Atari 1040 STe)
Also soundtrack was wicked....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKM3TSLXh4g&feature=related
We never had an NES, so up until the SNES, this is the console game I played the most.
Outlaw. Hell yeah. My brother and I became fucking gods at that game.
But maybe my favorite was Legend of the Mystical Ninja on the SNES. It was great co-op action, and balls-out hard, and you got to be a ninja. We only beat it a few times, but seeing the ending to that game is still one of my favorite memories.
edit: Fuck no, my favorite was Darklands on the PC. That's still the best RPG ever made.
I installed that recently, but it almost never registered when I clicked something.
This game got my brother and I hooked in so many fiendish ways AND pioneered emergent gameplay in 1992!
We both played through hundreds of times, doing whatever we wanted, anywhere in the world we wanted to with no pressures of experience grinding or locked areas to earn. There were a few houses that I would murder the occupants of and then decorate the shit out of with stolen goods from my global travels. I made it a point to steal every single potted plant in the world to make a hedge-wall around my estate.
Later I got the ultima 1-6 collection for xmas but I couldn't handle them. Then I got nearly as into Pagan, which I still think is highly underrated. Granted it isn't as sand-box as 7 was, but Pagan has a killer atmosphere and dark story. Plus i was able to repeat the glories of thief tourism.
I had so many conversations when I was 11 of how amazing this game was. How the individual NPCs have lives and go about routines, the freedom of exploration, the ability to murder anyone i wanted to.
Due to the amount of fist-fights we got into, these games also inspired our hour on, hour off rule which held until we moved out of our parents house. Lots of hovering with our finger on the power button telling the other brother "save now! my turn! i'm turning off the power!" Then sometimes getting into fights because someone either didn't get off soon enough or the other turned off the power.
GLEE!
And beat them all mercilessly. Yoshi 4 lyfe.
Secret of Mana on the super nintendo
Gainground for the master system
Alex the kid for the master system